Brazil LAB

"Thrilled to say that our graduate seminar, 'Insurgent Writings in Brazil,' co-taught by Princeton Visiting Professor Luís Augusto Fischer and myself, had the incredible privilege of hosting the trailblazing Brazilian writer Verenilde Pereira for an inspiring online session!

Brazilian Afro-Indigenous Writer Verenilde Pereira Visits Princeton Seminar on Insurgent Writings in Brazil On November 20, 2023, the trailblazing Brazilian Afro-Indigenous writer Verenilde Pereira visited the Brazil LAB-sponsored graduate seminar Insurgent Writings in Brazil, taught by Princeton Visiting Professor Luís Augusto Fischer and PIIRS/HMEI Postdoctoral Fellow Rodrigo Simon de Moraes. Joining v...

Insurgent Archivings : Sensing the Spirit of Nature and Reckoning with Traces of Our Dead | Current Anthropology: Vol 63, No S25 While studying immigrant worlding in Brazil’s nineteenth-century southern settler frontier, I stumbled across multiple ways of archiving, from poor farmers’ viva voce prayers and reminiscences to the nurturing of herbal gardens and usage of forest medicinal products to communal vital registries ...

World Cup 2022
Watch Party
Brazil Society

Brazil vs. Cameroon
Friday, Dec. 2 at 2pm in Forbes Game Room

Lost Writings | Escritos Perdidos
Friday, Dec. 2 at 12pm in 144 Louis A. Simpson Building

A Brazil LAB book forum on the cosmopolitanism and transcendences of the poor and their silenced insurgencies in Brazil’s southern borderlands, with authors João Biehl and Miqueias Mugge.

Discussants:

Hendrik Lorenz, Professor, Department of Philosophy
Lilia M. Schwarcz, Professor, University of São Paulo; Visiting Professor, Princeton University
Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez, Librarian for Latin American Studies, Latino Studies

Today at 12PM!

São Paulo: Governing the Brazilian Megacity
Benjamin Bradlow, Associate Research Scholar, Department of Sociology
November 4 | 12PM | 144 Louis A. Simpson

A Brazil LAB lunch talk with Benjamin Bradlow (Princeton). Discussant: José Lira.

Benjamin Bradlow is an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University and a Lecturer in Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs. Before arriving at Princeton, Bradlow was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at Harvard University. In award-winning academic and public-facing publications, he connects urban inequality, climate change, and the political challenges for democracy that confront societies across the globe. Bradlow’s first book, Urban Power (under contract with Princeton University Press), compares the divergent politics of distributing urban public goods — housing, sanitation, and transportation — in two mega-cities after transitions to democracy: Johannesburg, South Africa, and São Paulo, Brazil.

José Lira is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo, where he also directs the Maria Antonia Cultural Center. In his research, Lira explores housing debates, urban culture, and architectural and planning discourses, with a focus on Recife, Brazil. Lira has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris - Malaquais.

Open to the public. Lunch will be served.

Co-sponsored by the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, the Princeton Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, the Program in Latin American Studies, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Happening Now!

Brazil on Edge: The Future of a Fractured Democracy
A Post-Election Forum

Watch Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjy2ZPpxWZs

More info here: https://brazillab.princeton.edu/events/brazil-edge-future-fractured-democracy

Today we remember the centennial of the passing of Lima Barreto (1881-1922), one of Brazil’s most important writers ever. Brilliant and visionary, Lima Barreto was always concerned with the dilemmas of his time – racism, social exclusion, democracy, and the political – and his ouvre resonates deeply today.

Throughout 2022, the Brazil LAB and the publishing house Companhia das Letras have launched the project Espalhe Lima, revisiting the author’s life and work. Black artists, writers and scholars read excerpts of Lima’s writings, giving body and voice to a modernist who has long been excluded and silenced.

Our platform seeks to share Lima Barreto’s legacy through video, image and text in a publicly accessible, bilingual format.

Read, share and spread Lima too: espalhelima.com.br

Brazil on Edge: The Future of a Fractured Democracy
A Post-Election Forum
Tomorrow at 4:30PM!

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjy2ZPpxWZs

A Brazil LAB event with Ilona Szabó, Patrícia Campos Mello, and Brian Winter. Moderator: João Biehl.

Ilona Szabó is a human rights and international studies scholar. A globally recognized civic entrepreneur, Szabó is the co-founder and executive-director of Igarapé, a leading think-and-do-tank on security, climate, and development issues in the Global South. Szabó is a member of the High-Level Advisory Board of the United Nations Secretary-General. She is the author of A Defesa do Espaço Cívico (In Defense of Civic Space) and Dr**as: As Histórias que Não te Contam (Drugs: The Untold Stories), among other books.

Patrícia Campos Mello is an award-winning investigative journalist and columnist at Folha de São Paulo, Brazil premier daily newspaper. She is widely known for her fierce reporting on fake news and the illegal use of mass messaging to influence public opinion. Campos Mello is the author of the book A Máquina de Ódio (The Hate Machine). She is currently a research fellow at Columbia University.

Brian Winter is the editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly and one of Latin America’s most influential political analysts. He lived in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico as a correspondent for Reuters before taking on his current role in New York, where he is also the vice president of policy for the Americas Society and Council of the Americas. He is the author of several books, including The Accidental President of Brazil (with Fernando Henrique Cardoso).

João Biehl is Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology, Chair of the Anthropology Department, and Director of the Brazil LAB at Princeton University.

Co-organized with the School of Public and International Affairs.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Program in Latin American Studies, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

São Paulo: Governing the Brazilian Megacity
Benjamin Bradlow, Associate Research Scholar, Department of Sociology
November 4 | 12PM | 144 Louis A. Simpson

A Brazil LAB lunch talk with Benjamin Bradlow (Princeton). Discussant: José Lira.

Benjamin Bradlow is an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University and a Lecturer in Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs. Before arriving at Princeton, Bradlow was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at Harvard University. In award-winning academic and public-facing publications, he connects urban inequality, climate change, and the political challenges for democracy that confront societies across the globe. Bradlow’s first book, Urban Power (under contract with Princeton University Press), compares the divergent politics of distributing urban public goods — housing, sanitation, and transportation — in two mega-cities after transitions to democracy: Johannesburg, South Africa, and São Paulo, Brazil.

José Lira is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo, where he also directs the Maria Antonia Cultural Center. In his research, Lira explores housing debates, urban culture, and architectural and planning discourses, with a focus on Recife, Brazil. Lira has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris - Malaquais.

Open to the public. Lunch will be served.

Co-sponsored by the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, the Princeton Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, the Program in Latin American Studies, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

On Wednesday, September 28th, the Brazil LAB organized a conversation with award-winning Brazilian author and public intellectual Lilia M. Schwarcz on her timely book Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and Present, recently published by Princeton University Press (English translation by Eric Becker). Brigitta van Rheinberg, Jeremy Adelman, and Rafael Cesar served as discussants on the panel. Professor of Anthropology João Biehl, the Director of the Brazil LAB, moderated the discussion.

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Lilia M. Schwarcz on Brazilian Authoritarianism On Wednesday, September 28th, the Brazil LAB organized a conversation with award-winning Brazilian author and public intellectual Lilia M. Schwarcz on her timely book Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and Present, recently published by Princeton University Press (English translation by Eric Becker).....

Brazil Society
Presidential Elections 2022
Watch Party

October 30th at 5PM
Whitman Game Room (Lauritzen Basement)