Seminars and Symposia

Cultural Patrimony and Citizenship in Brazil, 1933-Present:
National Identity and World Heritage Projects

Speakers:

Daryle Williams
University of Maryland

Daryle Williams (Ph.D. Stanford University, 1995) is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland. He is author of Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945 (Duke University Press, 2001), 2001 winner of the American Historical Association's John Edwin Fagg prize. He has also authored several articles and book chapters on twentieth-century Brazilian cultural history. Recent research has examined the cultural politics of World Heritage in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay; humanities computing; and blackness in nineteenth-century Brazilian fine arts. In 1998, he co-directed the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College Teachers "Crossroads of Atlantic Cultures: Brazil at 500." Williams is currently Associate Editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review and Associate Director of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora.

John Collins
Queens College

John Collins (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2003) is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Queens College-CUNY. He is completing a manuscript entitled The Revolt of the Saints: Popular Memory and National Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian "Racial Democracy." His recent research addresses racial politics, urban form, and historical consciousness in Brazilian World Heritage projects, 19th C. debates over slavery and citizenship in Salvador, Bahia, and the cultural politics of class as they relate to deer hunting in the northeastern United States. John has received grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Program, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Brazilian PIBIC Program, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. In 2004-2005 he will be a Fellow at the CUNY Center for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Seminar.

Discussants:

Desmond Arias
John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY

Amy Chazkel
Queens College-CUNY

When: Friday, May 14, 5:00-7:00 P.M.
Where: Room 9206
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
(between 34th and 35th Street)

To reserve, please send email to brazilproject@gc.cuny.edu.