Brazil: Culture, Race, and Politics

2013 Latin American Studies Spring Speaker Series

May 6: “Black Women Against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil” Keisha-Khan Perry (Brown University) 3:30 p.m., Browsing Room, Knight Library

May 9: “Democracy, Development, and the Puzzling Success of Brazil” Peter Kingstone (King’s College London) 4:00 p.m., 112 Lillis

May 16: “Speaking of Flowers: Commemorating 1968 Military Brazil” Victoria Langland (UC Davis) 3:30 p.m., Browsing Room, Knight Library

May 23: “Beyond the Punishment Paradigm: Mapping Africa and Brazil During Samba’s ‘Golden Age’ (1920s-1940s)” Marc Hertzman (Columbia University) 3:30 p.m., 240C McKenzie

The contents of this Speaker Series were developed under a grant from the Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) Program, International Studies Division, U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. Additional support was provided by: Global Oregon, the Office of International Affairs, the Lundquist College of Business, and the Department of Political Science, and the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.