Year of Portuguese Speaking World

Closing Reflections: Alternatives and Continuities in the Portuguese Past, Brazilian Present, and African Future Robert Simon, Ken Williamson and Brandon Lundy

Doing Business in Brazil Roundtable Facilitated by Dick Teters and Alvin Miles, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship

Recasting Transnationalism through Performance: Theatre Festivals in Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Brazil Christina S. McMahon, Associate Professor of Theatre, UC Santa Barbara

CDC/RPCV Panel on Health Issues along the Zambesi River Amy L. Boore, Associate Director for Science, CDC Mozambique, Elizabeth A. Downes, Associate Clinical Professor of Nursing, Emory University, and Heather Jordan, Field Operations Officer, Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health

Contemporary Literatures Panel “Brazilian Literature,” Lígia Bezerra, Assistant Professor of Portuguese, Spelman College and “Lusophone African literature,” Dr. Ana Catarina Teixeira, Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Emory University

Brazil’s Industrialization: Its Successes and Failures Werner Baer, Professor of Economics, University of Illinois

The Role of Macau in China’s Relationships with the Portuguese Speaking World Paul Spooner, Yale University Visiting Fellow in East Asian Studies, Macau University of Science & Technology

Portuguese Fado and Brazilian Choro Featuring: Fadista Catarina Avelar and Quarteto Viagem Bailey Performance Center, 8pm

CHSS Dean's Lecture Series: Language, Love, and A Nação: The Portuguese Language and Angolan National Identity through the Poetry of Agostinho Neto, Ana Paula Tavares, and Luís Kandjimbo Robert Simon, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Kennesaw State University (Time: 3:30 pm, Location: SO 5074)

"Choro and Fado as National Musics in Brazil and Portugal" Presenters: Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, Rutgers University; and Andrew Connell, Associate Professor of Music, James Madison University. Moderator: Tamara E. Livingston, Executive Director, Museums, Archives & Rare Books, Kennesaw State University

“Transnational Ties that Bind? The Making and Unmaking of Lusophone West Africa” Presenter: Brandon D. Lundy, Ph.D., Associate Director, INCM Ph.D. Program and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Geography & Anthropology, Kennesaw State University “Cabo Verde at Forty: Growing Unequal?” Presenter: João M. Monteiro, Associate Professor of Sociology, Eastern University, St. Davids, Pennsylvania

“The Maafa, Yoruba Medicinal Practices and Brazil: Exploring the 'ethnobotonical puzzle' of the Atlantic Slave Trade” Presenter: Farryn Valderramos, Clark Atlanta University, PhD Humanities Student

“Luso-Brazilian Republicanism, 1910 - 1922” Presenter: Max Pendergraph, Doctoral Student, Department of History, Vanderbuilt University “A Sad and Old Question: Transatlantic Ties in a Time of Independence” Presenter: Luciana Namorato, Associate Professor, Director of Portuguese, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University

Susanna Hecht, Professor of Urban Planning,UCLA

Peter Rorabaugh, Assistant Professor of Digital Writing and Media Arts, Kennesaw State University

Dorothy Fragaszy, Professor of Psychology, Director of Primate Behavior Laboratory, University of Georgia

Featuring the following panel presentations: Sex Tourism in Bahia, Ambiguous Entanglements by Erica Williams, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Spelman College Brazilian Women’s Filmmaking by Leslie Marsh, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgia State University Intersectionality in the Lives of Black Women Activists in Salvador by Ken Williamson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, KSU