Madonna in Lisbon: Diaspora Upside Down

April 5, 2021

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Zoom

Add to Calendar 2021-04-05 14:00:00 2021-04-05 16:00:00 Madonna in Lisbon: Diaspora Upside Down Dr. Daniel da Silva and Carla Fernandes will be featured as guest speakers on Monday, April 5, 2021 for the virtual event, Madonna in Lisbon: Diaspora Upside Down. Dr. Daniel da Silva is Assistant Professor of Portuguese at Rutgers University – New Brunswick, with a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University, New York. He teaches Portuguese language and lusophone cultures, and seminars on race, feminist studies, and queer theory with a focus on Portuguese-speaking histories and communities. He researches queer performance and popular music in lusophone cultures, has published on queer fado and transgressive voices in Brazilian popular music. His forthcoming book is Trans Tessituras: Queer Repertoires and Black Diaspora in Lusophone Popular Music. These interests were nurtured growing up in Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood, a lusophone enclave of New Jersey, and performing on dimly lit stages in New York dive bars. Carla Fernandes was born in Angola and grew up in Portugal. After studying Translation, she moved to Germany to work for Deutsche Welle’s Portuguese language editorial team for Africa, where she worked in production of news reports and radio soap operas. Presently she works as a journalist and free-lance radio producer, podcaster and cultural agent. She created “Rádio Afrolis” in 2014, a program where she covers issues of importance to Lisbon’s Afrodescendant communities, and she presides to a non-profit association animated with the same goals. She is the organizer and a co-author in the Djidiu a herança do ouvido poetry anthology. She is a PhD student in the Media and Society in the Context of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. Monday, April 5th, 3:00-5:00 PM Zoom Link: https://osu.zoom.us/.../register/WN_A8j-UnD5R4qaTHuKeFT2pQ This initiative counts with the financial support of the Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua (Portugal) and the collaboration of the AFROPORT Research Project- Afrodescendencia em Portugal: sociabilidades, representações e dinâmicas sociopoliticas e culturais. Um estudo na área metropolitana de Lisboa. FCT/PTDC/SOC-ANT/30651/2017, This event has been organized by Dr. Pedro Pereira and is sponsored by the OSU Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Zoom OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

2021-04-05 14:00:00 2021-04-05 16:00:00 Madonna in Lisbon: Diaspora Upside Down Dr. Daniel da Silva and Carla Fernandes will be featured as guest speakers on Monday, April 5, 2021 for the virtual event, Madonna in Lisbon: Diaspora Upside Down.  Dr. Daniel da Silva is Assistant Professor of Portuguese at Rutgers University – New Brunswick, with a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University, New York. He teaches Portuguese language and lusophone cultures, and seminars on race, feminist studies, and queer theory with a focus on Portuguese-speaking histories and communities. He researches queer performance and popular music in lusophone cultures, has published on queer fado and transgressive voices in Brazilian popular music. His forthcoming book is Trans Tessituras: Queer Repertoires and Black Diaspora in Lusophone Popular Music. These interests were nurtured growing up in Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood, a lusophone enclave of New Jersey, and performing on dimly lit stages in New York dive bars. Carla Fernandes was born in Angola and grew up in Portugal. After studying Translation, she moved to Germany to work for Deutsche Welle’s Portuguese language editorial team for Africa, where she worked in production of news reports and radio soap operas. Presently she works as a journalist and free-lance radio producer, podcaster and cultural agent. She created “Rádio Afrolis” in 2014, a program where she covers issues of importance to Lisbon’s Afrodescendant communities, and she presides to a non-profit association animated with the same goals. She is the organizer and a co-author in the Djidiu a herança do ouvido poetry anthology. She is a PhD student in the Media and Society in the Context of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. Monday, April 5th, 3:00-5:00 PM Zoom Link: https://osu.zoom.us/.../register/WN_A8j-UnD5R4qaTHuKeFT2pQ This initiative counts with the financial support of the Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua (Portugal) and the collaboration of the AFROPORT Research Project- Afrodescendencia em Portugal: sociabilidades, representações e dinâmicas sociopoliticas e culturais. Um estudo na área metropolitana de Lisboa. FCT/PTDC/SOC-ANT/30651/2017, This event has been organized by Dr. Pedro Pereira and is sponsored by the OSU Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Zoom America/New_York public

Dr. Daniel da Silva and Carla Fernandes will be featured as guest speakers on Monday, April 5, 2021 for the virtual event, Madonna in Lisbon: Diaspora Upside Down.

Dr. Daniel da Silva is Assistant Professor of Portuguese at Rutgers University – New Brunswick, with a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University, New York. He teaches Portuguese language and lusophone cultures, and seminars on race, feminist studies, and queer theory with a focus on Portuguese-speaking histories and communities. He researches queer performance and popular music in lusophone cultures, has published on queer fado and transgressive voices in Brazilian popular music. His forthcoming book is Trans Tessituras: Queer Repertoires and Black Diaspora in Lusophone Popular Music. These interests were nurtured growing up in Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood, a lusophone enclave of New Jersey, and performing on dimly lit stages in New York dive bars.

Carla Fernandes was born in Angola and grew up in Portugal. After studying Translation, she moved to Germany to work for Deutsche Welle’s Portuguese language editorial team for Africa, where she worked in production of news reports and radio soap operas. Presently she works as a journalist and free-lance radio producer, podcaster and cultural agent. She created “Rádio Afrolis” in 2014, a program where she covers issues of importance to Lisbon’s Afrodescendant communities, and she presides to a non-profit association animated with the same goals. She is the organizer and a co-author in the Djidiu a herança do ouvido poetry anthology. She is a PhD student in the Media and Society in the Context of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa.

Monday, April 5th, 3:00-5:00 PM

Zoom Link: https://osu.zoom.us/.../register/WN_A8j-UnD5R4qaTHuKeFT2pQ

This initiative counts with the financial support of the Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua (Portugal) and the collaboration of the AFROPORT Research Project- Afrodescendencia em Portugal: sociabilidades, representações e dinâmicas sociopoliticas e culturais. Um estudo na área metropolitana de Lisboa. FCT/PTDC/SOC-ANT/30651/2017, This event has been organized by Dr. Pedro Pereira and is sponsored by the OSU Department of Spanish and Portuguese.