LusoGlobe
Abstracts
Below please find abstracts of papers delivered here through the working group, as well as abstract of related work done by those affiliated with the project through the group's listserv. It is our hope that this interdisciplinary clearinghouse of abstracts, along with the comments shared on the listserv, will promote dialogue on the topic of the transnational dimensions of the popular cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world.
To subscribe to the ListServe please send an email to one of the co-organizers, Richard Gordon (gordon.397@osu.edu) or Daniel Avorgbedor (avorgbedor.1@osu.edu).
To post an abstract of a work-in-progress, an unpublished paper, or a published paper, please send it to one of the co-leaders. Please send also [1] your specialization, [2] your institutional affiliation, [3] the status of the paper (e.g., work-in-progress, forthcoming in…, published) and bibliographic information, if applicable, and [4] your email address. This information will be included with the abstract so that interested parties can contact you to learn more about your project. As stated above, comments posted to the listserv on abstracts or points of contact between posted projects and other current research are also welcome.
O mouro in the Imagination of Rural Communities in Northern Portugal: A Study of Dance Dramas in Religious Contexts
(Dissertation)Barbara Alge
Etnomusicologia, antropologia de dança
Universidade de Viena, Arquivo Sonoro da Academia das Ciências da Áustria, Instituto de Etnomusicologia-Centro de Música e Dança de Lisboa
balge@gmx.at
Os Pauliteiros de Miranda:
From Local Symbol to Intangible Cultural Heritage?
("Os Pauliteiros de Miranda: from local symbol to intangible cultural heritage?" Etnográfica 11.2. CEAS-ISCTE, Lisbon.
Available online: http://www.scielo.oces.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0873-65612007000200003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en).)
Barbara Alge
Etnomusicologia, antropologia de dança
Universidade de Viena, Arquivo Sonoro da Academia das Ciências da Áustria, Instituto de Etnomusicologia-Centro de Música e Dança de Lisboa
balge@gmx.at
Reproducing Portugal in Brazilian Dance Dramas
(Work in progress)Barbara Alge
Etnomusicologia, antropologia de dança
Universidade de Viena, Arquivo Sonoro da Academia das Ciências da Áustria, Instituto de Etnomusicologia-Centro de Música e Dança de Lisboa
balge@gmx.at
A estética negra na literatura e nas artes visuais afro-brasileiras
(Work in progress)Maria Cândida Ferreira de Almeida
Estudos Literários
mcandida74@hotmail.com
Notas sobre a lusofonia
(Presentation excerpt)Onésimo Almeida
Portuguese Studies
Brown University
Onesimo_Almeida@Brown.edu
Globalization, Technology, and Brazilian Music
(Ongoing research project)Gustavo S. Azenha
Anthropology
Barnard College
gazenha@barnard.edu
Stirring the Melting Pot: Food and the Performance of Inclusion in Newark's Ironbound Community
(Dissertation in progress)Lori Barcliff Baptista
Performance Studies
Northwestern University
l-baptista@northwestern.edu
Desafios do Terceiro Milênio: Agravamento Das Ações Terroristas
(Forthcoming in: Revista De Informação Legislativa Do Senado Federal, Brasília, D.F.)Leila Maria Da'Juda Bijos
Sociology
Universidade Católica de Brasília
lbijos@ucb.br
Gender, Power, Financial Access, and Development in Latin America: Comparing Brazilian and Bolivian Cases
Leila Maria Da'Juda BijosSociology
Universidade Católica de Brasília
lbijos@ucb.br
Pobreza, exclusión social y discriminación étnico-racial en América Latina
(Paper presented at: 52º Congresso Internacional De Americanistas)Leila Maria Da'Juda Bijos
Sociology
Universidade Católica de Brasília
lbijos@ucb.br
Poverty, Social Exclusion and Ethnic-Racial Discrimination in Brazil
(Forthcoming in: Feminist Africa Diaspora Feminisms and the Meaning of Africa University of Cape Town, South Africa)Leila Maria Da'Juda Bijos
Sociology
Universidade Católica de Brasília
lbijos@ucb.br
Violência de Gênero: Crimes Contra a Mulher
(Contexto Educação, Revista De Educación En América Latina Y El Caribe Editora Unijuí Universidade de Ijuí/AELAC, 19(71/72) Jan./Dez. 2004 (Revista Publicada em 2006).)Leila Maria Da'Juda Bijos
Sociology
Universidade Católica de Brasília
lbijos@ucb.br
Viva Rhode Island, Viva Portugal! Performance, Tourism, and Transnationalism in Portuguese-American Bands
(Lusophone Globalicities Working Group Presentation: January 5, 2007)Kate Brucher
Musicology
Bowling Green State University
kbruche@bgsu.edu
Plumed Identities and Feathered Cultures: Tupinambá Interculture in Early-Modern Brazil and Europe
(Dissertation abstract)Amy J. Buono
History of Art & Architecture
PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara
amybuono@umail.ucsb.edu
Performing Positively or Performing Positivism? A Critical Assessment of the First Decade of the Brazilian International Press Award (BIPA)
(Work in progress)Steven F. Butterman
Portuguese
University of Miami
butterman@miami.edu
Model Citizens and Defective Androids: Tom Zé and the Idea of Citizenship in Brazil
(Work in progress)Christopher Dunn
Spanish and Portuguese
Tulane University
cjdunn@tulane.edu
A crítica literária de Harold Bloom: apontamentos & notas
(Work in progress)Sandra S.F. Erickson
Brazilian and Comparative Literature
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University
Professor Adjunto IV, Departamento de Letras, UFRN
ericksons@ufrnet.br
Agon & poesis: as vias do sublime na poética de Augusto dos Anjos
(Work in progress)Sandra S.F. Erickson
Brazilian and Comparative Literature
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University
Professor Adjunto IV, Departamento de Letras, UFRN
ericksons@ufrnet.br
"Asa de Corvo" de Augusto dos Anjos e "O Corvo" de Edgar Allan Poe: Um Estudo Tropológico
(Work in progress)Sandra S.F. Erickson
Brazilian and Comparative Literature
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University
Professor Adjunto IV, Departamento de Letras, UFRN
ericksons@ufrnet.br
Cânone agonistes: exercícios de poética & desleitura (2007-)
(Ongoing research project)Sandra S.F. Erickson
Brazilian and Comparative Literature
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University
Professor Adjunto IV, Departamento de Letras, UFRN
ericksons@ufrnet.br
Canudos: uma Tróia, dois Homeros: o romance familiar de Os sertões & suas relações interpoéticas (2008-)
(Work in progress)Sandra S.F. Erickson
Brazilian and Comparative Literature
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University
Professor Adjunto IV, Departamento de Letras, UFRN
ericksons@ufrnet.br
idéia&mimesis
(forthcoming book)Sandra S.F. Erickson
Brazilian and Comparative Literature
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University
Professor Adjunto IV, Departamento de Letras, UFRN
ericksons@ufrnet.br
Os sertões de Euclides da Cunha: books, critics & the school of time
(Work in progress)Sandra S.F. Erickson
Brazilian and Comparative Literature
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University
Professor Adjunto IV, Departamento de Letras, UFRN
ericksons@ufrnet.br
Wanderlore: um jornal para os leitores de Inglês da comunidade de Natal (2002-)
(Journal)Sandra S.F. Erickson
Brazilian and Comparative Literature
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University
Professor Adjunto IV, Departamento de Letras, UFRN
ericksons@ufrnet.br
Performing Brazil in London
(Work in progress) - an early version of this paper was delivered on November 7, 2006 as part of the Lusophone Globalicities Working Group at Ohio State UniversityLesley Ferris, Professor
Theatre
The Ohio State University
ferris.36@osu.edu
A Representação Literária do Mestiço no Brasil e em Goa Nos Séculos XVI E XIX
(Ongoing research project)Hélder Garmes
Comparative Studies of Portuguese-Language Literatures
Universidade de São Paulo
helder@usp.edu
The Performance of Late Eighteenth-Century Portugal and Brazil in Novo entremez Os Malaquecos, ou Os costumes brazileiros 1787
(Forthcoming in Dieciocho)Richard A. Gordon
Spanish and Portuguese
The Ohio State University
gordon.397@osu.edu
The Slave as National Symbol in Cuban and Brazilian Cinema: Representing Resistance and Promoting National Unity in La última cena and Chico Rei
(Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 15.3 (Dec. 2006): 301-320.)Richard A. Gordon
Spanish and Portuguese
The Ohio State University
gordon.397@osu.edu
Working Filmography on the Colonial Americas
(In-progress webpage. Available online: http://sppo.osu.edu/portuguese/lusoglobe/abstracts/WorkingFilmographyColonialAmericas.cfm)Richard A. Gordon
Spanish and Portuguese
The Ohio State University
gordon.397@osu.edu
The Lusophone World: Eight Countries Joined and Divided by the Same Language
(Unpublished paper)Russell G. Hamilton
Spanish and Portuguese
Emeritus, Vanderbilt University
russell.hamilton@vanderbilt.edu
Language Attitudes in a Primary School: A Bottom-Up Approach to Language in Education Policy in Mozambique
(Dissertation in progress)Sarita Monjane Henriksen
Política Linguística
Roskilde University (Denmark)
jsarita70@yahoo.com.br
Mobilizing the Authentic: the Angolares and the Politics of Identity Formation in São Tomé and Príncipe in historical perspective
(Dissertation abstract)Rafaela Jobbitt
History
PhD candidate, York University
jobbitt@yorku.ca
Satin Slippers, Vain Glories, and Talking Pictures: Manoel de Oliveira and Questions of Empire
(Lecture)Randal Johnson
Brazilian Literature and Culture
UCLA
randalj@humnet.ucla.edu
Espaços sociais colaborativos na Internet: Interações, conflitos e auto-organização no contexto wiki
(Dissertation in progress)Telma Sueli Pinto Johnson
Communications Studies
PhD candidate, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
tjohnson@globo.com
Brazilian Pentecostalism in Mozambique: Exploring the Transnational Dimensions of Pentecostal Conversion in Maputo
(Ongoing PhD research project)Linda van de Kamp
Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam and African Studies Centre Leiden, The Netherlands
http://hollenwegercenter.net/visual/
LvandeKamp@ascleiden.nl
Tunnel Vision: Urban Renewal and the Transformation of Space in Rio de Janeiro, 1960-1975.
(Book manuscript in progress)Mark E. Kehren
Contemporary Brazilian and Comparative Urban History; Contemporary Afro-Lusophone World; Historical Geography
Department of History, Loras College (Dubuque, Iowa, USA)
mark.kehren@loras.edu
Border Crossings: Transnationalism and Sexuality in Gombrowicz's Trans-Atlantyk and Eça de Queirós's A Cidade e as Serras
(Paper presented at the conference Intra Muros, Ante Portas: Iberian and Slavonic Cultures in Contact and Comparison, University of Lisbon, May 2008. Klobucka-Border Crossings paper available online in htm or pdf)Anna Klobucka
Portuguese and Lusophone African literatures, Women's Studies
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
aklobucka@umassd.edu
Lusotropical Romance: Camões, Gilberto Freyre, and the Isle of Love
(Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 9 (Fall 2002), 121-38.)Anna Klobucka
Portuguese and Lusophone African literatures, Women's Studies
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
aklobucka@umassd.edu
Studies in Brown: The Poetics and Politics of Hybridity in Richard Burton and Gilberto Freyre
(Paper presented at the conference Europe in Black and White, University of Lisbon, May 2008. Klobucka-Studies in Brown paper available online in htm or pdf)Anna Klobucka
Portuguese and Lusophone African literatures, Women's Studies
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
aklobucka@umassd.edu
La mort dans la pièce Dom João e Julieta de la poétesse portugaise Natália Correia
(in: Pierre Brunel (dir.), Don Juans insolites, Paris, Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2008, pp. 147-156.)Everton V. Machado
Comparative Literature PhD candidate
Université de Paris IV – Sorbonne
evermachado@gmail.com
Cristianismo, castas e colonialismo em Os Brahamanes (1866) do goês Francisco Luís Gomes (1829-1869)
(Dissertation in progress)Everton V. Machado
Comparative Literature
PhD candidate, Université de Paris IV – Sorbonne
evermachado@gmail.com
A literatura goesa de língua portuguesa
(Article available online: http://www.cronopios.com.br/site/artigos.asp?id=2577)Everton V. Machado
Comparative Literature
PhD candidate, Université de Paris IV – Sorbonne
evermachado@gmail.com
Echoes of Reggae in Brazil: The Shared and Contested Meanings of Rastafari in Pernambuco
(MA Thesis [2006], Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the University of Chicago)Shana Melnysyn
Anthropology and History
PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
shanamel@umich.edu
The Enigma of Bumba-meu-Boi
(Presentation)Kazadi wa Mukuna
School of Music
Kent State University
wcary@kent.edu
João Cabral de Melo Neto and the Poetics of Bullfighting
(Forthcoming in Romance Notes)Robert Newcomb
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
PhD candidate, Brown University
Robert_Newcomb@brown.edu
José de Alencar's Critical Writing: Narrating national history in the Romantic era
(Forthcoming in Luso-Brazilian Review)Robert Newcomb
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
PhD candidate, Brown University
Robert_Newcomb@brown.edu
Antero de Quental o iberista: Patriotism, Iberianism, and Revolution in 19th century Portugal and Spain
(Submitted to journal)Robert Newcomb
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
PhD candidate, Brown University
Robert_Newcomb@brown.edu
Candomblé: Introduction to an Afro-Brazilian Religion
(In press. To appear in African American Professors Program Monograph Series. Columbia, SC: Wentworth Printing.)Rex Nobles
Higher Education Administration Ph.D. Candidate
University of South Carolina
noblesr@mailbox.sc.edu
La Bildungsroman o narrativa de formación en Brasil y Chile durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX y principios del XXI: jóvenes, subjetividad y ciudad.
(Collaborative research project)Principal investigator: Horst Nitschack
Co-investigator: Grinor Rojo
Literary and Cultural Studies
Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Centro de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos
horst.nitschack@gmail.com
Brazil in Berlin: Cultural Warming and the Future of the Global South
(Work in progress)Dorothy Noyes
English, Comparative Studies, and Anthropology
The Ohio State University
noyes.10@osu.edu
Hip Hop nao pode parar: Socio-linguistics and Migration stories in Brazilian and Portuguese Hip Hop Communities
(Work in progress)Derek Pardue
Anthropology
Washington University in Saint Louis
dpardue@artsci.wustl.edu
The World Crisis, Crisis and catastrophe in the seventeeth century
(Forthcoming book)Geoffrey Parker
History
The Ohio State University
parker.277@osu.edu
Bibliographic Access to Periodical Publications of India Portuguese: 1821-1921. Construction National Identity in Goa.
(Ongoing research project)Liladhar R. Pendse
Librarian for Slavic/Eastern European Studies & South Asian Studies
Young Research Library, UCLA
lpendse@library.ucla.edu
Tropics of Losing: Orientalism and Literature in Álvaro de Campos and Eça de Queirós
(Work in progress)Pedro Pereira
Portuguese
The University of Chicago
pedrosp@sbcglobal.net
African-American Roots Tourism in Brazil: Examining Transnational Black Connections
(Book project)Patricia de Santana Pinho
Afro-Brazilian Culture; Blackness in Latin America; Cultural Studies; Globalization; Tourism; Identities
University at Albany
ppinho@albany.edu
Renaissance in the Tropics: Brazilian Culture from the Week of Modern Art (1922) to the Inauguration of Brasília (1960)
(Book manuscript in preparation for publication 2008)Edward Riedinger
History, Spanish & Portuguese, and librarian in charge of the Latin American Collection
The Ohio State University
riedinger.4@osu.edu
The Development of Brazilian Studies in France.
(História, ciências, saúde—Manguinhos (July-August 2001): 439-453)Edward Riedinger
History, Spanish & Portuguese, and librarian in charge of the Latin American Collection
The Ohio State University
riedinger.4@osu.edu
An English Teacher in Porto: In Search of Joanne Rowling
(Lingua Franca (Brussels), Vol. 6, No. 1, 2003, pp. 4-8. Available on-line with photos.)Christopher Rollason
Indian Writing in English; Portuguese Studies; Latin American literature; translation studies; literary and cultural theory
Independent scholar cooperating with various universities, including Córdoba (Spain) and JNU (Delhi)
rollason@9online.fr
How totalitarianism begins at home: Saramago and George Orwell
(Book chapter, in: In Dialogue with Saramago: Essays in Comparative Literature, eds. Mark Sabine and Adriana Alves de Paula Martins, Manchester: University of Manchester, 2006, pp. 105-120)Christopher Rollason
Indian Writing in English; Portuguese Studies; Latin American literature; translation studies; literary and cultural theory
Independent scholar cooperating with various universities, including Córdoba (Spain) and JNU (Delhi)
rollason@9online.fr
"Made in Brazil": Bob Dylan's 1991 Brazilian Tour
(The Bridge (Gateshead, UK), No. 29, Winter 2007, pp. 17-27. Available on-line at:www.geocities.com/christopherrollason/BDBrazilrev.pdf [PDF])
Christopher Rollason
Indian Writing in English; Portuguese Studies; Latin American literature; translation studies; literary and cultural theory
Independent scholar cooperating with various universities, including Córdoba (Spain) and JNU (Delhi)
rollason@9online.fr
On the Stone Raft: Harold Bloom in Catalonia and Portugal
(Book chapter, in: The Salt Companion to Harold Bloom, eds. Roy Sellars and Graham Allen, Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2007, pp. 149-169)Christopher Rollason
Indian Writing in English; Portuguese Studies; Latin American literature; translation studies; literary and cultural theory
Independent scholar cooperating with various universities, including Córdoba (Spain) and JNU (Delhi)
rollason@9online.fr
Cabelo, Barba e Bigode: Memória dos Barbeiros em Sergipe (1960-2007)
(Research project)Antônio Fernando de Araújo Sá
History
Líder do Grupo de Pesquisa História Popular do Nordeste - Universidade Federal de Sergipe/CNPq; http://hpopnet.sites.uol.com.br/; Editor da Revista Eletrônica Ponta de Lança: História, Memória & Cultura
hpopnet@uol.com.br
O Sertão de Pierre Verger
(Research project)Antônio Fernando de Araújo Sá
History
Líder do Grupo de Pesquisa História Popular do Nordeste - Universidade Federal de Sergipe/CNPq; http://hpopnet.sites.uol.com.br/; Editor da Revista Eletrônica Ponta de Lança: História, Memória & Cultura
hpopnet@uol.com.br
Álbum Cartográfico de Cabo Verde. Comissão de Cartografia (1883-1936)
(Forthcoming book)Maria Emília Madeira Santos
History
Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical
emadeirasantos@gmail.com
Negation: What Lies Beneath
(Lecture delivered at the CASBS Seminar, February 5, 2007)Scott Schwenter
Stanford University
schwenter.1@osu.edu
Bandidos de Cristo: Representations of the Power of Criminal Factions in Rio's Proibidão Funk
(Forthcoming in: Latin American Music Review, Vol. 28:1 Austin: University of Texas (2007))Paul Sneed
Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies
San Diego State University
psneed@mail.sdsu.edu
Favela Utopias: The Bailes Funk in Rio's Crisis of Social Exclusion and Violence
(Forthcoming in Latin American Research review, June 2008)Paul Sneed
Spanish and Portuguese
University of Kansas
psneed@ku.edu
A diplomacia cultural como esteio de aproximação entre Brasil e Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa (PALOP) no governo Lula (2002-2008)
(Trabalho conclusivo de graduação e proposta de palestra para a reunião da International Studies Association no Brasil em 2009)Manoela L. A. de M. Souza
Política Externa Brasileira; Estudos Africanos
Graduanda em Relações Internacionais (PUC-Rio)
Graduanda em Direito (UERJ)
Assistente de pesquisa (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico/CNPq)
manoelaassayag@gmail.com
Representing and Misrepresenting Brazil: Violence and Social Criticism in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
(Work in progress)Antônio Luciano Tosta
Brazilian Literature and Culture
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
lutosta@uiuc.edu
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