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)