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Youth and Sounds of Liberation: Exploring Socio-political Dynamics through the 80's Rock

The 1980s in Brazil marks the end of the military dictatorship and the dawn of re-democracy. This presentation will focus on the interplay between the prominent musical movement of the time known as National Rock or Brock and the economic and socio-political complexities of the period. More specifically, we will discuss how the 8o's music serves as a unique window into this historical period reflecting on the youth's hopes, dreams and challenges…


SLAVE NARRATIVES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

Lecture by Antonele Luciano (in English) This lecture will present an overview of the narratives of enslaved people in Brazil and the United States addressing specifically the letters of Esperança Garcia (1770) and Anne Davies (1861). These documents show the writing of Black women, who suffered the most during slavery, as an instrument of resistance and memory of Black people across the Atlantic.  


Dr. Luis González of Wake Forest U. visits UGA for talk and corpus workshop

People from all departments are welcome at this event. Please, feel free to share this info and the flyer with your students.  1. TALK on Wednesday, November 9, 4:00-5:00 pm, Gilbert Hall 113 "Rules that work: a verber/verbed fragment of a grammar of Spanish" This talk, meant for language students and instructors as well as linguists, will show that rules of language are easier to state, understand, retain, and apply if…


Fashioning Nobility: The Portraits of Indigenous Elites at Sutatusa

Distinguished Lecturer, supported by Willson Center for Humanities & Arts and the Department of Romance Languages. Open to the public. All are invited to attend.


"In What World Do You Live?"

Join us for a conversation with Brazilian writer José Falero as part of the Contemporary Brazilian Literature Speaker Series. The event will be on Zoom.  Register here. 


Screening of Trouble Sleep (2020) with director Alain Kassanda

Spoken-word artist, musician, and filmmaker Alain Kassanda was born in Democratic Republic of Congo and has lived in France since the age of 11. Trouble Sleep, its title drawn from the great Fela Kuti, follows two young taxi drivers as they navigate the crowded streets of Ibadan, Nigeria. An innovative city symphony that reveals the rules governing seeming chaos, Kassanda’s new  documentary has been featured at Visions du Réel, DOK Leipzig…


Writing Literatures with the Body

Contemporary Brazilian Literature Speaker Series with Brazilian writer and editor Karine Bassi.  Register in advance for this meeting here.  After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.


Knowledge of Nothing: On Apocalyptic Ekphrasis in The Flowers of Evil

Nathan Brown, Associate Professor of French and Canada Research Chair in Poetics of Concordia University, Montreal will give a guest lecture on Baudelaire. In one of the key sonnets of Les Fleurs du mal, "Obsession," Baudelaire's speaker declares a resolute orientation toward the void: How you would please me, o night! without these stars Whose light speaks a language we know! For I seek the void, and the black, and the bare! …


Ancestralidade, cultura e identidade: Um mergulho no Rio Amazonas

Brazilian indigenous writer Márcia Kambeba will give a lecture on "Ancestralidade, cultura e identidade: um mergulho no Rio Amazonas". Her talk will be on Zoom. Please, register here.


Lecture by Professor José Antonio Rodríguez Garrido, Univ. Católica del Perú

Satiricón moralizado: Petronio en la obra de Juan de Espinosa Medrano (¿1629?-1688).  Professor Rodríguez Garrido is a noted scholar of the literature of colonial Perú. He will offer new critical perspectives for examining how Juan de Espinosa Medrano (circa 1629 - 1688) adapted classic works. Espinosa Medrano rendered the Baroque poetics of Luis de Góngora into a distinctly American literary style and also adapted European…
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