On Friday, March 12, Guiomar de Grammont will present her lecture, "Aleijadinho (ca. 1738-1814): Life, Work, Myth". This lecture is the ninth installment of the Afro-Brazilian Arts and Activism Lecture Series by CLAS. The event is FREE and open to the public!
Guiomar de Grammont is a writer, playwright, professor at the Federal University of Ouro Preto, and a curator of literary events. With a PhD in Brazilian Literature from the University of São Paulo, she has published, among others: the historical research piece Aleijadinho e o aeroplano (2008), the collections of short stories Sudário (2006) and O fruto do vosso ventre (1994) which won the Casa de Las Americas award, and the novel Palavras cruzadas (2015), which won the Prêmio Nacional de Narrativa do Pen-Clube in 2017. In her psychological and polyphonic novels, she wrestles with the impact of environmental tragedies like the one in Mariana, Minas Gerais and the disappearance of political prisoners. She was the executive editor for Record (2012-2013) and curator of the space recognizing Brazil at the Salon du Livre in Paris (2015). She created and has coordinated, since 2005, the Forum of Letters of Ouro Preto, now in its 15th edition. Since 2015, she is also the curator of the FLINKSAMPA (Festival of Black Literature of São Paulo).
Friday, March 12, 2021
11:10 AM - 12:30 PM (horário Brasília 13:10-14:30)
Zoom Link: go.osu.edu/CLASAfroBrazil
Meeting ID: 940 5025 4422
Password: 183273
*If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Isis Barra Costa at barracosta.1@osu.edu. Requests made one week in advance of the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.*
