[Brazil@Harvard] Brown University festival: Poetry in Portuguese

THE DEPARTMENT OF PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN STUDIES AT BROWN UNIVERSITY Presents A MOVEABLE FEAST: POETRY IN PORTUGUESE May 4-5, 2007 PROGRAM FRIDAY, MAY 4 McCormack Family Theater Department of English and Program in Literary Arts Brown Street 3:00pm -- 4:30pm Opening Remarks Prof. Luiz F. Valente Chair, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Introductions and Bilingual Readings Presenters: Prof. Luiz F. Valente, Ms. Ana Catarina Teixeira and Ms. Sophia F. Beal Readings by Chacal, Ricardo Aleixo, Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, Salgado Maranhão (Brazil), Ana Paula Tavares (Angola) and Paco Sininho (Mozambique) 4:30pm -- 4:45pm Break 4:45pm -- 5:30pm Introductions and Bilingual Readings Presenters: Prof. Leonor Simas-Almeida, Dr. Ana Luisa Amaral, and Prof. Onésimo T. Almeida Readings by Vera Duarte (Cape Verde), Ana Luisa Amaral, Gastão Cruz (Portugal), Eduardo Bettencourt Pinto (Vancouver) and José Francisco Costa (Providence) 5:30pm -- 6:00pm Coffee Break 6:00pm -- 7:00pm "Poemas Americanos" A Performance by Chacal (Brazil) SATURDAY, MAY 5 Conference Facilities Vartan Gregorian Quad Thayer Street 9:00am -- 10:00am Coffee 10:00am -- 11:00am Readings by Rodrigo Garcia Lopes (Brazil), Vera Duarte (Cape Verde) and Gastão Cruz (Portugal) 11:00am -- 11:15am Break 11:15am -- 12:15pm Readings by Salgado Maranhão (Brazil), Ana Paula Tavares (Angola) and Eduardo Bettencourt Pinto (Vancouver) 12:15pm -- 1:30pm Lunch 1:30pm -- 2:30pm Readings by Ana Luísa Amaral (Portugal), Paco Sininho (Mozambique) and José Francisco Costa (Providence) 2:30 -- 2:45pm Break 2:45pm -- 4:00pm A Roundtable with the Poets Moderated by Prof. Nelson H. Vieira 4:00pm -- 4:15pm Coffee Break 4:15pm -- 5:00pm Roundtable Discussion: Translating Poetry from the Portuguese Discussion Leaders: Prof. Alexis Levitin (SUNY-Plattsburgh) and Ms. Patricia Soldati 7:00pm -- 8:00pm McCormack Family Theater Department of English and Program in Literary Arts Brown Street "Um ano entre os humanos" A Performance by Ricardo Aleixo (Brazil) Closing Remarks Professor Luiz F. Valente SPONSORS Anonymous Fund in Brazilian Studies Camões Institute Center for Latin American Studies Cogut Humanities Center C. V. Starr Foundation Lectureship Fund Department of Comparative Literature Heimark Fund in Africana Studies Karina Lago Memorial Fund in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) Mr. and Mrs. Rexford T. Parker'74 Portuguese Consulate, Boston Program in Literary Arts Wayland Collegium for Liberal Learning ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mr. Luiz C. (Luca) Prazeres Mr. Guilherme T. Ribeiro Prof. Leonor Simas-Almeida Prof. Luiz F. Valente SPECIAL THANKS Dr. Manuela Bairros Prof. Forrest Gander Ms. Tatiana G. Gottlieb Ms. Candida Hutter Ms. Armanda Silva -- Erin Goodman Program Officer Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies 1730 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA 02138 tel (617) 495-5435 http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu