03/15/2023
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The Lourdes Casal Project, the Center for Latin American Studies - Brazil Working Group, the Chancellor’s Office, and Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice invites you to a lecture by:
Prof. Gustavo Fortes Said: At the Edge of Language, we are all "Carcamanos:" Syrian-Lebanese Immigrant Identification in Piauí, Brazil.
Humanitarian Aid donations accepted for Earthquake victims in Syria and Turkey, 100% to be donated to UK-based not-for-profit, Action for Humanity.
Facing repression in the aftermath of the First World War, many Syrian and Lebanese minorities (in 1914, an estimated 300,000) left their homelands within the former Turkish Ottoman Empire in search of a 'new world'. This lecture reflects on the immigration of Syrian and Lebanese to Piauí, Brazil, in the first decades of the 20th century, by highlighting the difficult process whereby Arabic-speakers inserted themselves into a New World cultural context.
Gustavo Fortes Said (PhD in Communication Sciences from University of Vale of Rio dos Sinos) (2006) is Professor - at the undergraduate and graduate levels - at the Federal University of Piauí and sub-coordinator of the Master's Program in Media Processes. Said was general coordinator of postgraduate studies at UFPI and the Interinstitutional Doctorate in Communication Sciences (UFPI/Unisinos). He has experience in the field of Communications and Media Studies, working mainly on the following subjects: imaginary, subjectivity, psychoanalysis, journalism, cultural studies, Arabic immigration to Brazil, media studies, and history of media in Piaui.
