See below for details on two talks on Brazil this Wednesday evening by
two outstanding DRCLAS visiting scholars (both, regrettably, will take
place at 6pm.)
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DRCLAS's Boston Area Workshop for Latin American History
presents:
"Brazil, 1978: The Dictatorship Dismantled"
A work-in-progress portrait of the last months of the political
opening under the presidency of General Ernesto Geisel, from the October
1977 firing of Army Minister Silvio Frota to General João Figueiredo's
March 1979 presidential inauguration. 1978 was the year in which two
words reappeared in the Brazilian political vocabulary: strike and
amnesty. Along with them emerged a new figure: Lula.
ELIO GASPARI is the Lemann Visiting Scholar for Spring 2005 at
Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Gaspari is one of Brazil's most respected journalists and historians,
currently writing weekly columns for the leading newspapers Folha de
São Paulo and O Globo (and syndicated in ten other
newspapers). He has been widely acclaimed for his four-volume history of
the Brazilian military dictatorship and its transition to democracy,
based on extensive interviews and special access to military archives:
The Dictatorship Ashamed, The Dictatorship Unmasked, The
Dictatorship Defeated, and The Dictatorship Cornered. The
first and second volumes were awarded the Brazilian Academy of Letter's
award in the essay category in 2003. For the forthcoming fifth and final
volume--tentatively titled The Dictatorship Dismantled and
covering the 1978-1979 period--he is currently engaged in archival
research at the Harvard libraries. This talk will feature a sneak-preview
into this eagerly awaited book.
Wednesday, May 4
6:00 - 7:30pm
DRCLAS - 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge - Conference Room (2nd
floor)
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/about/directions
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The Sackler Museum's M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series presents:
"Ancient Symbols, Modern Visions: Latin American Visual
Languages"
"Infinite Space and Today's News"
(formerly entitled "Carnival of Perception")
With certain digressions, Guy Brett's lecture will explore the
combination of a cosmic longing with social consciousness in mid-20th
century Brazilian avant-garde art.
GUY BRETT is the Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar for Spring
Term 2005 at Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin
American Studies. Internationally recognized as one of the most
influential writers and thinkers on contemporary art, Brett occupies a
distinctive position as an independent curator and critical historian of
the visual arts. He has championed artists regularly left out of the
“international surveys,” particularly artists from Latin America, whose
importance within the history of modern art is now being fully
acknowledged. During his stay at Harvard, he will develop a project
investigating the notion of the "void" in the work of Lygia
Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Mira Schendel and other Brazilian and Latin
American artists. His research will also explore the role played by the
box-format and book-format in Brazilian avant-garde art from 1960, and
the differences in the origins of conceptual art in Latin America, the
United States, and Europe in response to formal and socio-political
concerns.
Wednesday, May 4
6:00pm
Sackler Museum Auditorium
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/information/directions.html
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