The Center for Latin American Studies is excited to announce "Afro-Brazilian Arts and Activism: A Lecture Series"! This virtual series will take place throughout the Spring 2021 semester. You can look forward to a variety of guest speakers, with presentations on the topic of Afro-Brazilian activism. All lectures will be free and open to the public!

Series Schedule:

• Friday, January 22 (11:10-12:30pm) - Cartographies of Racism: Black Artivism and "Re-existence" in Brazil by Carla Melo (University of Toronto)
• Friday, January 29 (11:10-12:30pm) - The Language of Antiracism by Antonio José Bacelar da Silva (University of Arizona)  
• Friday, February 5 (11:10-12:30pm) - Afro-Performance from Benin to Bahia: Unexpected Encounters by Zeca Ligiéro (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
• Friday, February 12 (11:10-12:30pm) - The Poetics of Afro-Minas by Edimilson de Almeida Pereira (Federal University of Juiz de Fora)
• Friday, February 19 (11:10-12:30pm) - University Quota Students and the Quest for Racial Justice in Brazil by Vânia Penha-Lopes (Bloomfield College)
• Friday, February 26 (11:10-12:30pm) - Do YOU Accept it? A Conversation with Visual Artist by Moisés Patrício
• Friday, March 5 (11:10-12:30pm) - Thinking the Visible and Contemplating the Invisible: Conversations About the Audiovisual Production by Black Women by Ana Paula Alves Ribeiro (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
• Wednesday, March 10 (11:10-12:30pm) - Between the Marimba Thumb Piano and the Grand Piano: Musicians and Black Musicalities in 19th-century Brazil by Rafael Galante (University of São Paulo)
• Friday, March 12 (11:10-12:30pm) - Aleijadinho (ca. 1738-1814): Life, Work, Myth by Guiomar de Grammont (Federal University of Ouro Preto)
• Wednesday, March 17 (11:10-12:30pm) - The Impact of Afro-Brazilian Organizations in Bahia on Local Population by Javier Escudero (Brazil Cultural director) and guests
• Friday, March 19 (2:20-3:40pm) - Global Comics Lecture Series: The Making of Angola Janga and Run for It by Marcelo D'Salete
• Wednesday, March 24 (11:10-12:30pm) - Explorando a memória coletiva através do arquivo musical afro-brasileiro by Alberto Ikeda
• Friday, March 26 (11:10-12:30pm) - The Images I Lack by Bárbara Copque
• Friday, April 2 (11:10-12:30pm) - Audiovisual Collectives and Forms of Epistemological Resignification of the Border Center/Periphery in São Paulo by Guilhermo Aderaldo
• Wednesday, April 7 (11:10-12:30pm) - From "O Black Power de Akin" to "Akin's Afro": A Multicultural Journey by Kiusam de Oliveira
• Friday, April 9 (2:20-3:40pm) - Global Comics Lecture Series: The Making of Tales of the Orishas by Hugo Canuto
• Friday, April 16 (2:20-3:40pm) - The Right to the (Real and Imagined) City: Afro-Brazilians in Motion, Assemblage, and Metafiction in Paulo Dutra's Aversão Oficial by Emanuelle Oliveira-Monte and Paulo Dutra

This lecture series is in partnership with the University Libraries Area Studies Department Global Comics Lecture Series, with the support of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.