361) Um brasilianista exemplar: Tom Skidmore e a história do Brasil moderno

A Universidade Brown prepara uma homenagem ao maior brasilianista conhecido: Tom Skidmore. Trata-se, sem dúvida alguma, do maior brasilianista conhecido, herdeiro legítimo de Robert Southey e de vários outros estrangeiros que se dedicaram a conhecer, entender e explicar a nossa história, para os estrangeiros e para nós mesmos. Seus livros permanecem como referência básica, na ausência de equivalentes nacionais a uma história isenta, objetiva e solidamente ancorada na documentação e em entrevistas com os principais personagens políticos do momento.

Confira a programação e depois veja, em post subsequente, a minha homenagem a ele.

Politics, Culture, and Race in Brazil:
A Conference Honoring Thomas E. Skidmore

Thursday, April 20
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St.

Brown Undergraduate History Forum:
Life, Politics, and Culture during the Brazilian Dictatorship

10:30-11:50 “The 1964 Brazilian Military Coup and its Aftermath”

Chair and Opening Presentation: Natan Zeichner
Abigail Jones, “The Changing Discourse of Ambassador Lincoln Gordon”
Cara Goodman, “The U.S. War on Latin American Labor”
Eli Marienthal, “Indian Policy in Brazil: Genocide and Myth-making”
Comments: Evelyn Duran

7:00-9:00 pm Center for Latin American Film Series
Black v. White [Preto contra branco] (Brazil, 2004)

Friday, April 21
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute

10:00-11:30 “Voices of Opposition”
Chair and Opening Presentation: Natan Zeichner
Cecilia Fletcher, “Artists against the Dictatorship: The X Bienal of São Paulo”
Emma Tai, “An Exemplar of Integrity: The Life and Work of Brady Tyson”
Ben Brown, “Carter and Geisel: The Politics of Shared Liberalization”
Comments: Ashley Morse

12:00-1:00 Box Lunch for Colloquium Participants
Watson Library, 3rd floor
International Colloquium on Race and Ethnicity in Brazil
1:00-4:45
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Chaired by:
James N. Green, Brown University
Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University
Jerry Dávila, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Reid Andrews, University of Pittsburgh
“Workers and Soldiers: Comparing Black Political Mobilization in Brazil and Spanish America, 1800-2000.”
Anani Dzidzienyo, Brown University
“‘Afrodescendentes"and Brazilian Race Relations: The Rise of Afros and the Decline of Brazilian Exceptionalism”
Antônio Sérgio Guimarães, Universidade de São Paulo
“Africanism and Racial Democracy: The Correspondence between Melville Herskovits e Arthur Ramos (1935 -1949)”
Thomas Holloway, University of California, Davis
“Negro Teimoso, marcado para morrer: The Defiant Life and Forgotten Death of Apulco de Castro.”
Mary Karasch, Oakland University
“Quality, Nation, and Color: Constructing Race and Ethnicity in Central Brazil, 1775-1835.”
Marcos Chor Maio, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
“Rethinking the UNESCO Race Relations Project in Brazil in the 1950s.”
Edward Telles, University of California, Los Angeles
“Thomas E. Skidmore and Evolving Understandings of Race in Brazil and the United States”
Barbara Weinstein, University of Maryland
“The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Whitening of Brazilian (Regional) History.”
Daryle Williams, University of Maryland
“The Redemption of Ham: The Visuality of Blackness and Beauty in Brazilian Fine Arts.”

Conference Opening Ceremony
5:00-6:30
John Hay Library, Brown University

Distinguished Guests

James N. Green
An Academic Biography of Thomas E. Skidmore
With the participation of Patricia Figueroa, Abigail Jones, Jennifer Lambe,
Ana Loso, Orville Carey Turnquest, Yi Liu, and Natan Zeichner

6:30-7:30 Reception
John Hay Library
(Informal dinner arrangements)

Thomas E. Skidmore: An Historian and His Legacy
Saturday, April 22
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St.

8:30 - 9:30 Coffee

9:30- 11:45 Latin American History: An International Gaze
Chair: Todd Diacon, University of Tennessee
• John Coatsworth, Harvard University
• Mary Kay Vaughn, University of Maryland
• Kenneth Maxwell, Harvard University
Commentators: Joel Wolfe, Rice University
Herbert Braun, University of Virginia

11:45 - 1:00 Lunch, Watson Institute, first floor lobby

1:00 - 3:00 Skidmore on Culture
Chair: Onésimo Almeida
• Luiz F. Valente, Brown University
• Nelson Vieira, Brown University
• Christopher Dunn, Tulane University

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee break

3:30 - 5:30 The Next Generation: Thomas Skidmore’s Legacy
Chair and Comments: Jerry Dávila, University of North Carolina
• Roger Kittleson, Williams College
• Tia Malkin, Lebanon Valley College
• Chris Frazer, St. Francis Xavier University
• Zachary Morgan, Boston College
• Brian Bockelman, Dickinson College

5:30 - 6:00 Closing Remarks
• Barbara Weinstein, University of Maryland
• Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University

7:00 - 9:30 Conference Dinner at Brown Faculty Club
1 Magee Street
Special thanks to: Kate Farrell, Patricia Figueroa, Fred Fullerton, Susan Hirsch, Abigail Jones, Adriana Marques, President’s Office of Brown University
Jorge Caê Rodrigues, the Skidmore Family, Samuel Streit, and Natan Zeichner
For more information, contact: James_Green@brown.edu

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