Conference Agenda
The Road Ahead, Brazil 100 / 200:
Reflections on the Legacies of the Week of Modern Art & the Bicentennial of Independence
On the occasion of Brazil’s bicentenary, Brazil at 100 / 200 will explore how memory and culture shape the meaning of independence today. By integrating a reflection on the twin centenaries of independence and the São Paulo Modern Art Week, this conference will reflect on the meaning of independence in the light of ideas about Brazilian identity that inspired the modernists one hundred years ago and continue to provoke us today.
Hybrid Conference: In-Person at Yale and Braudel Institute and via Zoom
Confirmed Reservations at Yale University: Luce Hall, Room 203; Luce Auditorium
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
*Times listed in ET
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Welcome Remarks
Roberto Mesquita Ribeiro, Executive Director, Fernand Braudel Institute of World Economics
Claudia Valeggia, Professor of Anthropology; Chair of the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies, Yale University
Kenneth David Jackson, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Portuguese, Yale University
Stuart Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History, Yale University
1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Opening Keynote
Rubens Ricupero, José Bonifácio Chair of Ibero-American Studies, University of São Paulo; Former Ambassador to U.S. and Italy and Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Introductions:
Steven Wilkinson, Vice Provost for Global Strategy; Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies, Yale University
Sergio Guerra, Dean, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro
2:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Brazil in Year Zero: The Meanings of Independence in 1822 and for the Next 100 Years
Júnia Furtado, Fall 2022 Fulbright Brazil Distinguished Scholar, Yale University
Yuko Miki, Associate Professor of History; Associate Director of Latin American and Latinx Studies, Fordham University
Hendrik Kraay, Professor of History, University of Calgary
Moderated by Stuart Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History, Yale University
4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Break
4:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Modernisms 1922-2022: Defining National Culture 100 Years after Independence
Gênese Andrade, Professor of Literature, Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP), São Paulo
Adriana Armony, Author & Professor of Portuguese Language & Literature, Colégio Pedro II, Rio de Janeiro
Michele Greet, Professor of Art History, George Mason University
Ricardo Averbach, Professor of Music, Director of Orchestral Studies, Miami University
Moderated by Inês Forjaz de Lacerda, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Yale University
6:15 p.m. Reception & Books Presentation
7:00 p.m. Dinner (Invitees Only)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
9:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Brazil in 2022: Reflections on the Meanings of Independence 200 Years Later
Barbara Weinstein, Silver Professor of History, New York University
Bryan McCann, Professor and Chair of History, Georgetown University
Sidney Chalhoub, David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Lilia Schwarcz, Professor of Anthropology, University of São Paulo
Moderated by João Reis, Visiting Fellow, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University; Professor, Federal University of Bahia
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Anthropophagic Brazil: Reflections on the Legacy of Antropofagia in 2022
Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira, Assistant Professor, University of Zürich
Luís Madureira, Professor of African Cultural Studies; Director of the African Studies Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Carlos Jáuregui, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature, University of Notre Dame
Melanie Strasser, Center for Translation Studies, University of Vienna
Moderated by Brunno Douat, Yale School of Architecture
3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Closing Remarks
Stuart Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History, Yale University
Kenneth David Jackson, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Portuguese, Yale University
3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Concert: Musical Modernism. Rogério Souza and Stephen Guerra (Afro- Brazilian compositions by Pixinguinha). Luce Hall Auditorium, Room 101
5:30 p.m. Reception
7:30 p.m. Dinner (Invitees Only)