Podcasts about brazilian studies

Erika Robb Larkins is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Behner Stiefel Chair of Brazilian Studies and the Director of the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at California State University, San Diego. Her first book, The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil (University of California Press, 2015), explores the political economy of spectacular violence in one of Rio's most famous favelas. Her second book, The Sensation of Security: Private Guards and the Social Order in Brazil, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. She has also published on issues of race, gender, and politics in Brazil, with recent articles appearing in American Ethnologist, City and Society, and the Journal for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, and in public outlets including El País and O Estado de São Paulo. In addition to all of her activities, Erika is the President of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Brazil Office.Brazil is going through challenging times. There's never been a more important moment to understand Brazil's politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren't easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Social media platform X goes dark in Brazil. It failed to comply with a court order to block accounts linked to disinformation. Owner Elon Musk says it's a crackdown on free speech. How much politics is involved? And could other countries follow suit? In this episode: Flora Rebello Arduini, Senior Adviser, Technology and Human rights. Chris Stokel-Walker, Technology and Digital Culture Journalist.  Vinicius De Carvalho, Lecturer, Brazilian Studies, King's College London.    Host: Dareen Abughaida Connect with us:@AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

Fabio Sá e Silva is an associate professor of International Studies and the Wick Cary professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is also affiliated as a fellow at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession. He studies the social organization and the political impact of law and justice in Brazil and comparatively. As an institution builder, Fabio codirects the Oklahoma University Center for Brazilian Studies, is a member of the executive committee of the Brazilian Studies Association and a trustee of the Law and Society Association - Class of 2013. In 2018, he was recognized as the outstanding faculty in his department. Brazil is going through challenging times. There's never been a more important moment to understand Brazil's politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren't easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil. Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Today we talk with Françoise Vergès and Jamille Pinheiro Dias about the difficulty of "decolonizing" the museum, and engaging passionately with another project--creating a "post-museum" dedicated to a poetics of a common world. Leaving behind the pretensions of a "universal museum," filled with dead objects, Vergès and Dias work toward a living, mobile, and heterogenous space of art production in unlikely places.Françoise Vergès is a writer and decolonial antiracist feminist activist. A Reunionnese, she received an education that ran counter to the French hegemonic school  from her anticolonial communist and feminist parents and the members of their organisations. She left Reunion for Algeria to obtain her high school diploma and then stayed. She moved to Paris, France, and was an activist in antiracist, anti imperialist and feminist movements. She became a professional journalist for a feminist magazine and traveled for the publishing house des femmes to collect testimonies of women fighting in the Global South.  She received her Ph.D in Political Theory from Berkeley University in 1995. She has never held a teaching position in France but created the Chair Global South(s) at Collège d'études mondiales where she held workshops on different topics (2014-2018). She is the convener and curator of L'Atelier a collective and collaborative seminar/public performance with activist and artists of color. Recent publications include: Programme de désordre absolu. Décoloniser le musée (2023), A Feminist Theory of Violence (2021), De la violence coloniale dans l'espace public (2021), The Wombs of Women. Capital, Race, Feminism (2021), A Decolonial Feminism (2020).Jamille Pinheiro Dias is currently the director of the Centre of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at University of London's School of Advanced Study, where she also works as a Lecturer. In addition, she is a von der Heyden Fellow at the Franklin Humanities Institute's Amazon Lab at Duke University. Prior to joining the University of London, she worked as a Research Associate at the University of Manchester as part of the project Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America, funded by the United Kingdom's Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her studies involve environmental issues, Amazonian cultural production, Indigenous arts, and translation studies in Latin America, with a focus on Brazil. Prior to working in the UK, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of São Paulo, where she also received a Ph.D. in Modern Languages. In addition, she was a visiting researcher in Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University, and a teaching assistant at the Institute of Brazilian Studies at the University of São Paulo.

João Roberto Martins Filho is professor emeritus of Political Science at the Federal University of São Carlos with a doctorate in Social Science from the State University of Campinas. He is the author of many classical works, including an English translation of "The Student movement and the military dictatorship" (1987), "The Palace and the Barracks"(1995; 2nd edition, 2019), "The Brazilian Navy in the Age of Battleships - 1895-1910" (2010) and "State Secrets: the British Government and Torture in Brazil" (2018; 2nd edition 2020). He was the president of the Brazilian Defense Studies Association from 2006 to 2008 and has had postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) and the Centre for Brazilian Studies at the University of Oxford, among many other places. He has also held the Rio Branco chair of International Relations at King's College, London, and twice the Rui Barbosa chair in Brazilian Studies at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. Brazil is going through challenging times.There's never been a more important moment to understand Brazil's politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren't easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. It is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha.https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Just two years ago, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was in prison. It's a fairytale-like comeback story. But his life is also a food story. From a hungry childhood raised by sharecropper parents, Lula made ending hunger a major part of his first two highly popular terms as president. Now, as he settles into the Presidential Palace once again – he has big plans for strengthening Brazil's democracy and positioning the country as a diplomatic powerhouse. Those plans will depend on reaching people through their stomachs. GUESTS: Cassia Bechara, International Relations Committee Spokesperson, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra/Landless Workers' Movement; Michael Fox, Independent Journalist; Fabio de Sa e Silva, Assistant Professor of International Studies and Wick Cary Professor of Brazilian Studies, University of Oklahoma; Fabiane Ziolla Menezes, Business and Technology Journalist, Brazilian Report Thank you to Larissa Packer, Rafael Soares Gonzales, and James MacDonald. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: “Lurching From Food Crisis to Food Crisis,” GRAIN “The Rise of Congress Will Have Consequences for Brazil's Victor,” Lucas de Aragão, Americas Quarterly Check out the Brazilian Report's newsletters here.

Soon after Jair Bolsonaro's election as president of Brazil in 2018, he began making it a lot easier for people in the country to buy guns. In this episode, we speak to two experts about Brazil's boom in private gun ownership and why it's exacerbating fears about political violence ahead of a run-off presidential election on October 30. Featuring Erika Robb Larkins, associate professor of anthropology and director of the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University in the US and Juliano Cortinhas, professor of international relations at the University of Brasilia in Brazil. This episode was produced by Gemma Ware and Mend Mariwany, with sound design by Eloise Stevens. Gemma Ware is the executive producer. Our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. Full credits for this episode are available here. A transcript will be available soon. Sign up here for a free daily newsletter from The Conversation.Further reading and listening:Brazil: inside Jair Bolsonaro's militarised democracy – podcast Bolsonaro's first-round election bounce back reminds us why populist leaders are so popularAnother stress test for democracy: The imminent election crisis in BrazilBrazil election: how the political violence of the country's history has re-emerged Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Karam talked about his work on Arab cultural studies in Brazil at Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies at University of Urbana-Champaign.John Tofik Karam was born and raised in upstate New York, hearing stories that his maternal grandmother recounted of her birthplace, a town she called “trinta e três,” literally thirty-three. He heard fewer stories about his paternal grandparents who departed Kartaba in Ottoman Lebanon for Veracruz in Mexico and after a decade or so permanently moved to upstate New York. There, his paternal grandmother sang Mexican lullabies to his father and his paternal grandfather was affectionally called “el mexicani” (the Mexican, in colloquial Arabic), and his father, “ibn el-mexicani (the son of the Mexican, also in colloquial Arabic).Created & hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikra Edited by: Ramzi RammanTheme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/About the afikra Conversations:Our long-form interview series features academics, arts, ‎and media experts who are helping document and/or shape the history and culture of the Arab world through their ‎work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community still walks away with newfound curiosity - and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into headfirst. ‎Following the interview, there is a moderated town-hall-style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience ‎on Zoom.‎ Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp   FollowYoutube - Instagram (@afikra_) - Facebook - Twitter Support www.afikra.com/supportAbout afikra:‎afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on  afikra.com

In this second episode in the series, we explore in more detail the Robert Pring-Mill collection of sound recordings, posters, albums and ephemera related to politically committed poetry and 'songs of struggle and hope' from Latin America. Pring-Mil was a university lecturer in Spanish at the University of Oxford and a fellow and tutor in Spanish and Latin American literature at St Catherine's College, Oxford. His collection was donated to the Institute of Popular Music (IPM) at the University of Liverpool on his death in 2005. We hear from Lisa Shaw of the University of Liverpool's Department of Languages, Cultures and Film and Sara Cohen, Director of the IPM, who discuss the collection and their plans to bring this to the attention of wider audiences and engage with Liverpool's Chilean community. We also hear from Robert Pring-Mill himself on the songs and their political context, via extracts from recorded lectures in the archive, and from his daughter, Monica Fisher, about her father's interest in Latin American songs of resistance and hope. Also featured are excerpts of songs by Chilean artists such as Víctor Jara and Violeta Parra who were important in the Nueva Canción folk music movement in the 1960s and 70s, and whose songs were so important to the anti-Pinochet resistance between 1973 and 1990 and in more recent protests. Click here to listen to our Spotify Playlist of music associated with this podcast episode, in which the full versions of songs can be heard. Contributors to this episode were: Monica Fisher, daughter of Robert Pring-Mill Professor Sara Cohen, James and Constance Alsop Chair in Music and Director of the Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool Lisa Shaw, Professor of Brazilian Studies, Department of Languages, Cultures and Film, University of Liverpool Richard Smith, postgraduate researcher in Chilean History and Politics in the Department of History, University of Liverpool Original Music composed, recorded and produced by Francisco Carrasco and Esteban Perez Podcast editing: Richard Anderson The next podcast in the series will focus on the work of Jan Fairley, a scholar, journalist and broadcaster, and a long-standing Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Popular. The podcast will cover Jan's passion for music and politics, her devotion to Latin American music, and her particular expertise in Chilean music. We are very grateful for a grant from the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research which has enabled the development of the podcast series. Extracts from songs are used for the educational purpose of quotation as set out in Section 30 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (As amended 2014)

How does foreign policy interact with health? And how is power intertwined with health policy?In this episode, Maria Berta Ecija Salgado, PhD alumnus, discusses her research on soft and hard power in Brazil foreign affairs. This included conducting field work in Mozambique to explore the role of Brazil in establishing a factory for antiretroviral drugs.Hear Maria Berta discuss her research with Anthony Pereira, Professor of Brazilian Studies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Chile in/en Liverpool: Music & Memories - Música & Memorias podcast series explores the power of musical reminiscences to promote well-being. This episode is being launched on 28/09/2021 - what would have been the 89th birthday of Victor Jara - the eminent Chilean poet, teacher and singer-songwriter of the Nueva Canción Chilena (New Chilean Song) movement. Jara was murdered by the Pinochet regime following the coup in 1973. In this first episode, we'll hear from Lisa Shaw of the University of Liverpool's Department of Languages, Cultures and Film who has led a project in Brazil and the UK on the power of cinema and film music to improve the emotional health of older people and those living with dementia through reminiscing. She is joined by Sara Cohen, Director of the Institute of Popular Music (IPM), and Jacky Waldock, who is a researcher on sound and place-making. We'll be introduced to the late Robert Pring-Mill, whose collection of sound recordings, posters, albums and ephemera inspired this podcast series. Pring-Mill was a University of Oxford professor who taught and studied Spanish and Latin American literature. His interest in politically committed songs and poems dated from a visit to Chile in 1948. We'll hear quotations of songs by artists such as Víctor Jara, Quilapayún, Inti-Illimani, Los Prisioneros, Violeta Parra and others who were important to the anti-Pinochet resistance between 1973 and 1990. These remain significant in today's Plaza de la Dignidad campaigns for constitutional, political and economic reforms in Chile. Future episodes will include a series of 'Inheritance Tracks' interviews, where members of the local Chilean community in Merseyside talk about music they have inherited, and music they cherish. One of the project's aims is to encourage people with ties to Chile and their families and friends to share music-related reminiscences. The podcast episodes will explore different aspects of memory and well-being, such as IPM musicologist Jan Fairley's work and activism, music and the Merseyside Chile Solidarity Campaign, the Cultural Resistance to Pinochet in Santiago. Click here to listen to our Spotify Playlist of music associated with this podcast episode. We are very grateful for a grant from the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research which has enabled the development of the podcast series. Contributors to this episode were: Alex Blair, Languages student, University of Liverpool; Professor Sara Cohen, James and Constance Alsop Chair in Music, University of Liverpool; Poppy Poole, Languages Student, University of Liverpool; Lisa Shaw, Professor of Brazilian Studies, Department of Languages, Cultures and Film, University of Liverpool; Dr Jacqueline Waldock, Faculty Impact Fellow Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Liverpool Original Music composed, recorded and produced by Francisco Carrasco and Esteban Perez

Luana Reis, born and raised in Bahia, Brazil, is a poet, educator, and scholar. In this episode, she explores the importance of Portuguese in the African diaspora. As founder and president of the ADDverse Poetry Collective, she brings writers and audiences together across the hemisphere to share the power of poetry as a vehicle for engaging a range of expressions –particularly race and gender, freedom and refuge, and language and identity.

Expert trainer and Certified Interpreter Eliana Lobo discusses how to raise the bar for interpretation during the global pandemic. Eliana is a CoreCHI™ Certified Healthcare Interpreter and a Washington state authorized Medical Interpreter. She's also a certified Trainer of Trainers of medical interpreters. Eliana holds two M.A.s from Brown University in Bilingual Education, and Portuguese & Brazilian Studies. She started out as a Spanish/Portuguese medical interpreter at Rhode Island Hospital in 1980.

The "American Project" at Pepperdine's School of Public Policy is a unique "pracademic" initiative that is exploring a variety of cultural factors impacting our politics and policymaking. One of the issues they're focused on is the growing crisis of loneliness. Long before the pandemic, economists, social psychologists and healthcare experts were raising serious concerns about the increasing levels of disconnection and alienation across almost all demographic categories. As human beings created for community, how should policy makers and leaders of faith respond to these challenges? Hear from one of the nation's leading researchers in this field and the dean of Pepperdine's School of Public Policy in this timely conversation.Recommendations from Dean Pete Peterson for further reading on the topic:"Death by Loneliness" by Dr. Broghammer - RealClear Policy (American Project series)"We are suffering from a social recession, too." by Michael Hendrix (Manhattan Institute) - RealClear Policy (American Project series)"All the Lonely Americans?" Report by Joint Economic Committee (Sen. Mike Lee's Office)Francie Broghammer, MD, is the Chief Psychiatry Resident at the University of California, Irvine. Her academic interests lie in medical ethics, education, spirituality, and human flourishing. She is a Leonine Fellow, an American Psychiatric Association Leadership Fellow, and is a board member for Pepperdine University’s American Project. Additionally, she holds the distinction of sitting on the UC Irvine Medical Ethics Committee. Dr. Broghammer played Division I Women’s Lacrosse at the University of Notre Dame, and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Science Pre-Professional Studies and Portuguese Language & Brazilian Studies. She attended the University of California, Irvine for medical school and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society. Dr. Broghammer has published several peer reviewed articles and is currently researching suicide and social isolation. She resides in Long Beach, California with her husband and their two children.Pete Peterson was the first executive director of the bi-partisan organization Common Sense California (CSC). In 2010, CSC became the Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership at Pepperdine University. Currently, Peterson serves as dean of Pepperdine's School of Public Policy. Along with teaching a class on the subject at Pepperdine, Peterson co-developed the Davenport Institute's training seminars which have been offered to more than 1,000 public sector leaders. He's also consulted on many participatory governance projects throughout California on issues ranging from budgets to water policy. Pete serves on the advisory boards of California's Institute for Local Government, and the Public Policy Institute of California, as well as the DaVinci Charter Schools in Hawthorne, CA. Pete earned his BA in History from George Washington University, and his Masters in Public Policy from Pepperdine's School of Public Policy. He was the 2014 Republican nominee for California Secretary of State.Support the show (http://www.faithandlaw.org/donate)

Professor Leslie Bethell of the University of Oxford traces the life and internationalist thought of Joaquim Nabuco. In the third episode of the Global Thinkers of the International Discussion Series, Professor Leslie Bethell, a leading expert on 19th and 20th century Latin America, Emeritus Fellow of St Anthony's College and founder of the Centre for Brazilian Studies, Oxford, will trace the life and internationalist thought of Brazil's Joaquim Nabuco (1849–1910). Nabuco was a Brazilian writer, statesman, and a leading voice in the abolitionist movement of his country. One of his most significant works in this regard is the book "O Abolicionismo" that was published in 1883. He later became the first Brazilian ambassador to the United States from 1905–1910 marking a significant shift in Brazil's role in the world arena.

Leila Lehnen is the Chair of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. Her work uses literature to explore Brazilian society, culture, and history. As she she sees it, literature doesn’t just reflect a country's culture and politics -- it shapes it, too. On this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, Jim and Leila discuss what her work has taught her about contemporary Brazil, and how literature can help us expand our imagination of the politically possible. They also discuss politics in Brazil today, and the changing attitudes towards President Bolsonaro. To learn more about Leila Lehnen's book 'Citizenship and Crisis in Contmeporary Brazil', follow this link: [https://www.amazon.com/Citizenship-Crisis-Contemporary-Brazilian-Literature/dp/1349447218/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=]

Sam Smith, a Humanities House resident minoring in Brazilian Studies and majoring in applied mathematics, openly discusses the value of his humanities education, the roadblocks he’s encountered during his time at the U and his goals for the future.

No podcast GEN Jurídico desse mês, recebemos Flávia Piovesan, membro da Comissão Interamericana de Direitos Humanos. Com um currículo extenso na área de Direitos Humanos, Flávia comenta sobre a criação e história da Convenção Americana sobre Direitos Humanos, os direitos que ela estabelece, como funcionam seus mecanismos de monitoramento e os principais casos envolvendo o Brasil, além de apontar os principais reflexos no direito brasileiro. No aniversário de 50 anos da Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos, a professora explica como a Convenção Americana foi visionária a seu tempo e é um instrumento vivo; a partir de novas demandas e temas que atiçam a agenda contemporânea, a convenção torna-se cada vez mais didática e bem estruturada. Ouça já! ========= INDICAÇÕES NO PROGRAMA: Comentários à Convenção Americana sobre Direitos Humanos, Flávia Piovesan, Melina Girardi Fachin e Valerio de Oliveira Mazzuoli https://bit.ly/2LYodX4 ========= FALE CONOSCO . Email: genjuridico@genjuridico.com.br . Blog: www.genjuridico.com.br . Youtube: www.youtube.com/genjuridico . Facebook: www.facebook.com/GEN.Juridico . Instagram: www.instagram.com/genjuridico ========= Flávia Piovesan é membro da Comissão Interamericana de Direitos Humanos. Professora de Direito Constitucional e Direitos Humanos da PUC-SP. Foi visiting scholar no David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) na Harvard University (2018) e no Max Planck Institute (2008-2018); Humboldt Foundation Georg Forster Research Fellow no Max Planck Institute (2009-2014); human rights fellow no Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford (2005); e visiting fellow no Programa de Direitos Humanos da Harvard Law School (1995). Foi membro da UN High-Level Task Force on the implementation of the right to development e do OAS Working Group working on the monitoring of the Protocol of San Salvador on social, economic and cultural rights.

No episódio 4 do Urbanidades, Guilherme Amorim, João Freitas e Marcelo Vinturini recebem o Prof. Derek Pardue, que organizou com Lucas Amaral de Oliveira o dossiê “Teoria Social Urbana e Direito à Cidade: um debate interdisciplinar”, publicado pela revista Plural no último dezembro. Derek narra um pouco da sua chegada ao Brasil nos meados da década de 1990 e dá detalhes sobre como se aproximou de um de seus objetos de pesquisa: o Rap. Derek Pardue é Doutor em Antropologia e, atualmente, coordena o curso “Brazilian Studies” na Aarhus University, Dinamarca. Suas pesquisas têm interface clara com a música e já desenvolveu pesquisas no Brasil, Portugal e Cabo Verde.

In Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2013), Marc Hertzman revisits the history of Brazil’s quintessential music and dance genre to explore the links between popular music, intellectual property, law, racial democracy and nation formation. Charting more than a century of samba’s development, Hertzman challenges simplistic narratives of the all too often romanticized form, focusing instead on the material conditions under which this cultural powerhouse came to be produced. So doing, he highlights the complex social, cultural and political processes at the heart of making samba, and indeed, making Brazil. Mark Hertzman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois. His first book, Making Samba, was awarded Honorable mention by the Latin American Studies Association for the Bryce Wood Book Prize. He is currently working on his next book project, titled The Death of Zumbi: Suicide, Slavery and Martyrdom in Brazil and the Black Atlantic. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies as Wesleyan University, and then Assistant Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Brazilian Studies at Columbia University. Sitara Thobani is Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, Michigan State University. Her research focuses on the performance arts in colonial and postcolonial South Asia and its diasporas, especially as these relate to formations of nation, gender, sexuality and religion. She received her DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology form Oxford University, and is the author of Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities: Dancing on Empire’s Stage (Routledge 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2013), Marc Hertzman revisits the history of Brazil’s quintessential music and dance genre to explore the links between popular music, intellectual property, law, racial democracy and nation formation. Charting more than a century of samba’s development, Hertzman challenges simplistic narratives of the all too often romanticized form, focusing instead on the material conditions under which this cultural powerhouse came to be produced. So doing, he highlights the complex social, cultural and political processes at the heart of making samba, and indeed, making Brazil. Mark Hertzman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois. His first book, Making Samba, was awarded Honorable mention by the Latin American Studies Association for the Bryce Wood Book Prize. He is currently working on his next book project, titled The Death of Zumbi: Suicide, Slavery and Martyrdom in Brazil and the Black Atlantic. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies as Wesleyan University, and then Assistant Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Brazilian Studies at Columbia University. Sitara Thobani is Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, Michigan State University. Her research focuses on the performance arts in colonial and postcolonial South Asia and its diasporas, especially as these relate to formations of nation, gender, sexuality and religion. She received her DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology form Oxford University, and is the author of Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities: Dancing on Empire’s Stage (Routledge 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2013), Marc Hertzman revisits the history of Brazil’s quintessential music and dance genre to explore the links between popular music, intellectual property, law, racial democracy and nation formation. Charting more than a century of samba’s development, Hertzman challenges simplistic narratives of the all too often romanticized form, focusing instead on the material conditions under which this cultural powerhouse came to be produced. So doing, he highlights the complex social, cultural and political processes at the heart of making samba, and indeed, making Brazil. Mark Hertzman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois. His first book, Making Samba, was awarded Honorable mention by the Latin American Studies Association for the Bryce Wood Book Prize. He is currently working on his next book project, titled The Death of Zumbi: Suicide, Slavery and Martyrdom in Brazil and the Black Atlantic. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies as Wesleyan University, and then Assistant Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Brazilian Studies at Columbia University. Sitara Thobani is Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, Michigan State University. Her research focuses on the performance arts in colonial and postcolonial South Asia and its diasporas, especially as these relate to formations of nation, gender, sexuality and religion. She received her DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology form Oxford University, and is the author of Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities: Dancing on Empire’s Stage (Routledge 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2013), Marc Hertzman revisits the history of Brazil’s quintessential music and dance genre to explore the links between popular music, intellectual property, law, racial democracy and nation formation. Charting more than a century of samba’s development, Hertzman challenges simplistic narratives of the all too often romanticized form, focusing instead on the material conditions under which this cultural powerhouse came to be produced. So doing, he highlights the complex social, cultural and political processes at the heart of making samba, and indeed, making Brazil. Mark Hertzman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois. His first book, Making Samba, was awarded Honorable mention by the Latin American Studies Association for the Bryce Wood Book Prize. He is currently working on his next book project, titled The Death of Zumbi: Suicide, Slavery and Martyrdom in Brazil and the Black Atlantic. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies as Wesleyan University, and then Assistant Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Brazilian Studies at Columbia University. Sitara Thobani is Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, Michigan State University. Her research focuses on the performance arts in colonial and postcolonial South Asia and its diasporas, especially as these relate to formations of nation, gender, sexuality and religion. She received her DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology form Oxford University, and is the author of Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities: Dancing on Empire’s Stage (Routledge 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2013), Marc Hertzman revisits the history of Brazil’s quintessential music and dance genre to explore the links between popular music, intellectual property, law, racial democracy and nation formation. Charting more than a century of samba’s development, Hertzman challenges simplistic narratives of the all too often romanticized form, focusing instead on the material conditions under which this cultural powerhouse came to be produced. So doing, he highlights the complex social, cultural and political processes at the heart of making samba, and indeed, making Brazil. Mark Hertzman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois. His first book, Making Samba, was awarded Honorable mention by the Latin American Studies Association for the Bryce Wood Book Prize. He is currently working on his next book project, titled The Death of Zumbi: Suicide, Slavery and Martyrdom in Brazil and the Black Atlantic. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies as Wesleyan University, and then Assistant Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Brazilian Studies at Columbia University. Sitara Thobani is Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, Michigan State University. Her research focuses on the performance arts in colonial and postcolonial South Asia and its diasporas, especially as these relate to formations of nation, gender, sexuality and religion. She received her DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology form Oxford University, and is the author of Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities: Dancing on Empire’s Stage (Routledge 2017). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lindsay Turchan and Andy Blackadar of the Choices Program talk to Jim Green, professor of Modern Latin American History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. He is also the director of the Brazil Initiative at Brown. In this episode, Jim offers his insights and perspective on the role of personal stories in creating historical narratives. Opening and closing theme music - "New Kids" by Novi Split (CC BY-NC)

How Laclos’ Les Liaisons dangereuses has been taken up by other cultures. Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, in conversation with: Ritchie Robertson, Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature; and Cláudia Pazos-Alonso, Associate Professor in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies; on how Laclos’ Les Liaisons dangereuses has been taken up by other cultures.

Dr. Stephanie Dennison, Reader in Brazilian Studies, Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies from the University of Leeds, speaks on Joaquim Nabuco's promotion of Brazil in U.S. Universities.