BRAZIL IN BOLD



BRAZIL IN BOLD: DIALOGUES ACROSS DISCIPLINES

February 13-14, 2004

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Friday, February 13th

UMass Student Union, Cape Cod Lounge

Keynote Session: Brazil on the World Stage

4:00 Keynote Speaker

Minister-Counselor Evandro Didonet, Deputy for Economic and Trade Affairs, Brazilian Embassy, Washington, D.C.-Brazil's Role and Objectives in the WTO and FTAA Negotiations

Commentator: Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute, UMass Amherst

5:30 Reception

Saturday, February 14th

Registration 8:15 – 11:30

UMass Campus Center , 1st Floor, Arcon Desk

Session I 9:00-10:45 Radiating Outwards: Transnational Connections In and Beyond Brazil Campus Center 163

Chair: Tom Skidmore (History, Brown University)

Alan Marcus (Geosciences, UMass)—Brazil and Brazilians in Massachusetts: The Undercounted and Overlooked Non-Spanish-speaking Latin Americans

Frank Mangan, Tânia Martuscelli, and Maria Moreira (Plant & Soil Sciences and Spanish & Portuguese, UMass)—Production and Marketing of Agricultural Products for the Growing Brazilian Population in Massachusetts

Kemi George (Political Science, UMass)—International Negotiations on the Brazilian Amazon

Patricia Pinho (Black Studies, Amherst College)—Transnational Black Connections and African-American Tourism in the ‘World City’ of Bahia, Brazil

Session II 11:00 – 12:30 Reclaiming the Land: Rural Strategies for Social Reform Campus Center 163

Chair: Millie Thayer (Sociology, UMass)

Nina Gerassi-Navarro (Spanish, Mt. Holyoke College)—Political Crimes, Literary Strategies: The Bandits of the Sertão

Sarah Sarzynski (History, University of Maryland)—Transnational Perspectives on Rural Social Activism in Northeastern Brazil

Jeff Rubin (Political Science, Boston University)— In the Streets or in the Institutions? Competing Visions of Activism and Democracy in the Movement of Rural Women Workers of Rio Grande do Sul

Merrilee Mardon (Economics, UMass)—Land Rights, Collective Action and Household Gender Relations in the Brazilian Agrarian Reform

Session III 2:00 – 3:30 Conceiving Urban Citizenship: Issues of Belonging in Brazilian Cities Campus Center 163

Chair: Daphne Patai (Spanish & Portuguese, UMass)

Janice Perlman (Comparative Urban Studies, Trinity College)—Marginality From Myth to Reality: The Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1969-2003

Malcolm McNee (Spanish & Portuguese, Smith College)—Aesthetics or Cosmetics? Narrative Structures of Violence in Cidade de Deus (Film) and Cidade de Deus (Novel)

Ben Penglase (Anthropology, Harvard University)—A New Generation of Murderers: Crime, Disorder, and Political Subjectivities in Rio de Janeiro

Gianpaolo Baiocchi (Sociology, UMass)—Cities as the New Spaces for Citizenship Claims

Session IV 2:00 – 3:30 Plotting the Future: Politics and Policies toward Social Change Campus Center 162

Chair: José Ornelas (Spanish & Portuguese, UMass)

K. David Jackson (Spanish & Portuguese, Yale University)—A Denunciada Denuncia: Pagu and Politics, 1931-1954

Tia Malkin-Fontecchio (History & Political Science, Lebanon Valley College)—Literacy for Development: The Politics of Education in Northeast Brazil during the Alliance for Progress Era

Lêda Leitão Martins (Anthropology, Harvard University)—Political Organization as Cultural Identity: The Macuxi Movement for Land and (Other) Rights

Francisco Barone (Fundação Getulio Vargas)—Microcredit as a Tool of Social Inclusion in Brazil

Session V 3:45-5:30 Embodying Brazil: Diversity and the Politics of Identity Campus Center 163

Chair: Charles Cutler (Spanish & Portuguese, Smith College)

Fernanda Conrado (Spanish & Portuguese, UMass)—Black Mother: How She Figures in Lyrics and Visual Arts

John Michael Norvell (Anthropology, Harvard University)—Brazilian Racial Categories as Performance

Margara Russotto (Spanish & Portuguese, UMass)—'Namoros' with Brazil: Brazil in Latin American Cultural Discourse

Nelson H. Vieira (Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, Brown University)- Humor and Melancholy: The Hybrid Image of the Centaur in Ethnic Fiction from Brazil

Eugene Williams (Education, UMass)—Stigmatized Bodies and the Body Politic: The Disability Rights Movement in Brazil Broadens its Scope

Brazil in Bold: Dialogue Across Disciplines is partially funded by a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to the Latin American Studies Consortium of New England (Brown University, the University of Connecticut, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Yale University). The symposium is co-sponsored by the Five College Latin American Studies Council (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges and the University of Massachusetts), Five Colleges Afro-Luso-Brazilian Faculty Seminar, and the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies (CLACLS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The Program Committee for the Symposium consisted of Carmen Diana Deere (Economics and CLACLS, UMass Amherst), Marguerite Itamar Harrison (Spanish & Portuguese, Smith College), Millie Thayer (Sociology, UMass Amherst), with Gloria Bernabe-Ramos (CLACLS, UMass Amherst), and Camille Martínez (CLACLS, UMass Amherst).

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