LusoGlobe
Program of Events
2006 – 2007
November 7, 2006Dorothy Noyes, Center for Folklore Studies, Ohio State University and Lesley Ferris, Theatre, Ohio State University: "Cultural Warming? Brazilian Carnival Goes North"
January 5, 2007
Kate Brucher, Musicology, Bowling Green State University: "Viva Rhode Island, Viva Portugal! Performance, Tourism, and Transnationalism in Portuguese-American Bands"
February 2, 2007
Kazadi wa Mukukna, School of Music, Kent State University: "The Enigma of Bumba-meu-Boi"
February 23, 2007
Richard A. Gordon, Spanish & Portuguese, Ohio State University: "The Performance of Late-Eighteenth-Century Portugal and Brazil in ‘Novo entremez Os Malaquecos, ou Os costumes brazileiros’ [ca. 1787]"
March 9, 2007
Russell Hamilton, Emeritus, Spanish and Portuguese, Vanderbilt University: "The Lusophone World: Eight Countries Joined and Divided by the Same Language"
March 13, 2007
Pedro Pereira, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Romance Languages, University of Chicago: "Tropics of Losing: Orientalism and Literature in Álvaro de Campos and Eça de Queirós."
April 13, 2007
Christopher Dunn, Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University; "Mr. Citizen and Defective Android: Tom Zé, Music, and Citizenship in Brazil"
2007 - 2008
September 28, 2007Luciano Tosta, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "Representing and Misrepresenting Brazil: Violence and Social Criticism in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema"
November 9, 2007
Randal Johnson, Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA: "Satin Slippers, Vain Glories, and Talking Pictures: Manoel de Oliveira and Questions of Empire"
February 8, 2008
Pedro Costa, Filmmaker, Portugal (visit co-sponsored by Lusoglobe)
February 21-23, 2008
Urban Party Mix: Performing the Americas in the Metropole (an OSU colloquium co-sponsored by Lusoglobe)
April 11, 2008
Benjamin Schmidt, History, University of Washington, Seattle "Exoticism, Globalism, and the (European) World at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century"
April 25, 2008
Ondjaki, Writer and filmmaker, Angola: "Filmmaking and Society in Contemporary Angola"
May 2, 2008
Robert Stam, Cinema Studies, New York University: "From Revolution to Resistance: Aesthetics of Resistance in Brazilian Film/Media/Music Video from the 1960s to the Present."
May 9, 2008
Onésimo Almeida, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University: "Lusofonia: What Language Can and Cannot Do"
