Brazil LAB

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 ...

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).....

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Presidential Elections 2022
Watch Party

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