The first lecture of Afro-Brazilian Arts and Activism: A Lecture Series sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies will be with Carla Melo this Friday, January 22, 2021.
Carla Melo (Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto) is a researcher, director, performer and activist, invested in creating and thinking critically about the intersections of performance, social engagement and activism. Both her scholarly and artistic research explore theatre and performance practices that place corporeality, public space, and the tensions between memory and history, center-stage. Through a decolonial and hemispheric lens, she has paid particular attention to performances from across the Americas, with a focus on Latin American, Afro-diasporic, immigrant and indigenous populations. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, she taught in several Canadian universities and served as assistant Professor at Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute, working primarily in the “Theatre and Performance of the Americas” program (2007-2013). Her solo and ensemble-based works have been seen in Brazil, U.S. and Canada and her research has been published in volumes and journals such as Canadian Theatre Review, The Drama Review, Latin American Theatre Review, Latin American Cultural Studies, Theatre Journal and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics’ E-misferica, among others. She is currently working on a monograph titled Rites to Remember: Performance and Collective Memory in Contemporary Brazil.
This event is free and open to the public. The Zoom information can be found below.
Zoom Link: go.osu.edu/CLASAfroBrazil
Meeting ID: 940 5025 4422
Zoom Password: 183273
