Brazilian Studies Seminar
Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC)
York University
Presents:
1) Joel Outtes on January 21st 2009
Title of proposed talk: “Cities Representing the Nation: Planning and Nation Building in Brazil and Argentina (1894-1945)”
This presentation investigates the genesis of a discourse on urbanismo (city planning) in Brazil and Argentina between 1894 and 1945 using the ideas of Michel Foucault on discipline and his concept of bio-power. The demographic pattern of the major cities in both countries from 1890 onwards and the renewals of the centres of these cities are also discussed. The research looks at the use of planning as an element of nation building and ideas defining eugenics (race betterment) as an important aspect of city planning.
Other sections are dedicated to the plans proposed for the same cities in the 1920s and to urban representations, such as ideas about social reform, the role of hygiene as a point of departure for planning, and the relationship of ideas on Taylorism (scientific management) and the city. In addition, the paper discusses the planners opposition to elections, when they claimed that they were the only ones qualified to deal with urban problems and therefore they should be employed in the state apparatus. This discipline would affect the freedom of movement of human bodies, and is therefore approached through Foucault’s concepts of bio-power and discipline.
About Joel Outtes:
Prof. Joel Outtes is a Planner, Geographer, Architect and Historian with two Masters (Urban and Regional Development, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil & Urban Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) and a Doctorate from the University of Oxford. He won several prizes and awards (Brazilian Ministry of Culture, Association of American Geographers, British Society for Latin American Studies, Latin American Studies Association) and has been a professor in several countries and institutions. Prof. Outtes is developing research projects on the so-called "Urban International" (The Critical Comparative Historical Geography of International Planning and Housing Institutions since the Late 19th Century), Crime and Illegal Territories in Brazil as well as comparative urban issues broadly speaking. He is currently a tenured Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil, where he is the Head of GEST- The Group for the Study of Societies and Territories. He is also a Visiting Faculty in several universities and a PhD Tutor in various disciplines in the Social Sciences at Warnborough University in the United Kingdom.
Location of the seminar:
Room 280 York Lanes
4700 Keele St.
Canada M3J 1P3
Toronto ON
Canada
time: 12:30 to 2:30pm
Contact
Coordinator Brigitte Grossmann Cairus
2) Sandro Miranda on February 04th 2009
Title of proposed talk: “Celebrating and reflecting on the first anniversary of Pan TV”
Created in 2008 by a group of professionals from various areas, including journalism, photography, music, radio and television, the PanTV team approaches daily issues in a different and innovative way of education and entertainment. PanTV’s mission is to promote the integration between the English and Portuguese-speaking population in Canada through an online video/TV channel. For the Portuguese speakers, it presents Canada in a way many viewers have never seen, while bringing information about Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries to our English-speaking public.
Director and host of PanTv’s Panzine, Sandro Miranda will be sharing his thoughts and insights about the challenges he and his team faced throughout its first year of production. Furthermore, he will elaborate on the content and the style of PanTV’s webcast programs based on researchers and experts' statements that deal with relevant topics involving Canada and Brazil. We encourage participants to visit PanTV’s website prior to Sandro’s talk, to stimulate discussion and feedback: www.pantv.ca .
About Sandro Miranda:
In Toronto, Brazilian born Sandro Miranda has been deeply involved with the Brazilian community and has been working as a journalist, musician, photographer and interpreter. Back in Brazil, he worked as a journalist and photographer reporter. He graduated in Social Communication and Journalism at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC) and started his carrier in Sumare, Sao Paulo, in 1995. He worked as freelancer in many different publishers in Campinas region and contributed for many local journalistic articles for magazines and tabloids.
Singer and author of lyrics for the Torontonian bands Samba Porrada and Monstro, Sandro has been showing his talent in many cultural events in the city, including the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) and Brazil Fest. Member of the Canadian Association of Journalists, he currently works as a freelance photojournalist for many newspapers and magazines and as an event photographer for the Torontonian private companies and the midia: www.tupiphoto.com and for the last year he has also been the director of the video webcast program Panzine –Pantv: www.pantv.ca/panzine_en.html
Location of the seminar:
Room 280 York Lanes
4700 Keele St.
Canada M3J 1P3
Toronto ON
Canada
time: 12:30 to 2:30pm
3) Frederico Fernandes on February 11th 2009
Title of proposed talk: “Making the Cartography of Oral Poetics in Brazil: Studies and Perspectives on Poetics of voice”
Poetics of voice are understood as every oral expression belonging to an oral culture and depicting a written literature and/or performance such as: plays, polypoetry, video poetry, cyberpoetry, etc. In Brazil, we can
say that the interest in the poetics of voice has developed in the 16th century, when the travelers collected and wrote some myths, legends and others oral stories from the New World. Since then, the textual approaches of oral circulation have changed drastically. The oral narrative analysis of Sílvio Romero (1851-1914), Camara Cascudo (1898-1986), Oswaldo Elias Xidieh (b.1918), and Antonio Candido (b.1918), the most important Brazilian theorists on traditional and oral narratives, reveals different
relationships between scholars and storytellers, as well as diverse approaches to oral texts. They were highlighting social aspects in their criticisms when their thinking became saturated with the influence of
oral narratives during the formation of Brazilian miscegenation.
Since the last decade, the research on poetics of voice has increased in Brazilian graduate courses, mainly in Literature Studies. In this way, the seminar aims to discuss some issues of the project “Cartography of Oral Poetics in Brazil”, undertaken by a network of 15 universities. We use the term “cartography” not as a geographic (spatial) treatment on which we draw the criticisms and illustrate the criticized objects, but as a
description of a set of different views and thoughts in a determined space/time relationship. It is a metacriticism on the art/craft of connecting and analyzing oral poetic texts. Cartography intends to place
the oral poetry researcher in front of different chains of thought and to provoke dialogue among them. Finally, it allows him/her to have a critical view on his own research and to think of concepts and forms of
relationships with his/her research subject.
About Frederico Fernandes:
Frederico Fernandes is a professor of Theory of Literature at Universidade Estadual de Londrina (Paraná - Brasil) and a Visiting International Scholar at Brock University (St. Catharines- ON - Canada). He has been publishing articles in international academic journals, as well as book chapters in refereed academic books. Some of his most recent book publication include: Entre histórias e tererés (2002), Oralidade e Literatura
(2003); Cultura afro-brasileira, expressões religiosas e questões escolares (2006); Oralidade e Literatura 2 (2007); Oralidade e Literatura 3 (2007); A voz e o sentindo (2007).
Location of the seminar:
Room 305 York Lanes
4700 Keele St.
Canada M3J 1P3
Toronto ON
Canada
time: 12:30 to 2:30pm
4) May Bletz on February 18th 2009
Title of proposed talk: “Female poverty in Memórias de Marta, by Júlia Lopes de Almeida”
Around twenty years ago feminist scholars rediscovered the work of the writer and intellectual Júlia Lopes de Almeida (1863-1934), principally through reprinting her novels by Editorial de Mulheres in Florianópolis. This past summer Lopes de Almeida’s first novel Memórias de Marta (1889) was reprinted.
Nicolau Sevcenko, in “A inserção compulsória do Brasil na Belle Époque” has intensitvely studied the so-called “aburguesamento intensivo” of the urban landscape in Rio de Janeiro (33). Urban reforms requested by the mayor Pereira Passos (1903-06), inspired by the works of Baron Haussman in Paris, signalled a growing repression and expulsion of the urban poor.
All of these themes are elaborated in this extraordinary novel, which in great detail destribes the life of a cortiço, where washerwomen, single mothers schoolteachers and prostititures try to survive.
About May Bletz:
May E. Bletz received her BA in Latin American Studies from the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, and her PhD from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. She is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Modern languages, Literatures and Cultures at Brock University.
Location of the seminar:
Room 305 York Lanes
4700 Keele St.
Canada M3J 1P3
Toronto ON
Canada
time: 12:30 to 2:30pm
5) Maria Amelia Rodriguez da Silva Enriquez on March 04th 2009
Title of proposed talk: "Curse or blessing? The mineral rent used by the larger mining cities in Brazil"
One of the rare consensus among the different development of resources-base economy’s analytical perspectives concerns to the strategic role of the rent from the mineral extraction, as a decisive tool to assure that the temporary wealth generated in the present can turn into permanent income in the future. For this reason, the evaluation, distribution and use of the mining rent plays a central importance for the perspective of the sustainable development of mining cities. The Brazilian legislation assures to the municipal districts participation in the financial results of the mineral extraction that it is accomplished in their territories, through the Financial Compensation for the Mineral Exploration (CFEM), a type of royalty ad valorem, whose taxes reach up to 3% of the liquid revenue of the mineral production. However, the legislation doesn't determine how those resources should be spent. In that way, the use of that income presents wide variation among the mining Brazilian cities. Starting the study from a sample of the 15 larger mining cities in eight Brazilian states was possible to identify two patterns of use of CFEM that we denominated "sustained use" and " the pitfall of the single treasure." In that sense, the article discusses which the pressure factors that are from behind of those patterns, as well as the institutional arrangements that are more favorable to the sustained use.
About Maria Amelia R. das S. Enriquez:
Maria Amelia R. das S. Enriquez received her doctorate in sustainable development from CDS/UnB (2007), Masters in Geosciences from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1993), specialization in economic theory from CESEP/PA (1987) and BA in Economy from Universidade Federal do Pará (1986). Currently she is a professor at Universidade da Amazônia and at Universidade Federal do Pará and the president of the Sociedade Brasileira de Economia Ecológica (ECOECO). Her areas of expertise include mining, regional development, strategic planning and her studies encompasses the analysis of sustainable development, mineral industry and regional impacts on municipalities that serve as base for mining in Brazil. Since May 2008, she works as a consultant for the Secretaria de Geologia, Mineração e Transformacão Mineral (SGM) from Ministério das Minas e Energia (MME).
Location of the seminar:
Room 280 York Lanes
4700 Keele St.
Canada M3J 1P3
Toronto ON
Canada
time: 12:30 to 2:30pm
6) Laurentino Gomes on March 18th
Title of proposed talk: “1808: how a mad queen, a fearful prince and a corrupt court deceived Napoleon and changed the History of Portugal and Brazil forever”
Discovered by the Portuguese in 1500, Brazil was truly invented as a country only in 1808, the year the Portuguese royal family arrived at Rio de Janeiro running away from the troops of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Until then, Brazil not yet existed.
At least, not as it is today: an integrated country, of continental dimensions, borders and culture well defined, and inhabitants who identify themselves as Brazilians. Up to 1807, it was only one great farm, from where Portugal took off primary products, such as sugar, timber and tobacco, as well as gold and diamonds. That is, one extrativist colony, without any notion of national identity.
The coming of the prince regent D. João’s royal court would radically transform this scenario. In only thirteen years, between the arrival, in 1808, and the departure, in 1821, of the Portuguese court, Brazil would change from an isolated, forbidden and ignorant colony to an independent nation. None other period of Brazilian history would witness so deep and decisive changes - in so little time. The result was the Independence, in 1822.
The preservation of the territorial integrity was the great achievement of D. João. Without the arrival of the Portuguese court, the Brazilian regional conflicts would have gone deep, to such a point that the separation between the provinces would be almost inevitable. Brazil would not be this continental country of today, but a territory divided in different nations. Thanks to D. João, Brazil was kept as the country of continental dimensions of today.
This was also an event without precedents in the history of the humanity. Never before had one European court crossed an ocean to live and run an empire in the other side of the world. D. João was the only European sovereign to set the feet in American lands in four centuries of domination.
About Laurentino Gomes:
Journalist with a MBA degree at Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Laurentino Gomes, 53, is the author of 1808: how a mad queen, a fearful prince and a corrupt court deceived Napoleon and changed the History of Portugal and Brazil forever, the last year’s best selling non-fiction book in Portuguese language and winner of the Jabuti literary prize. With over 400 000 copies sold in Brazil and Portugal, the book describes the Portuguese royal family move to Brazil two hundred years ago, fleeing the Napoleon’s army invasion of Portugal. Prior to writing this book, Laurentino worked 28 years as an editor for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo and VEJA, the leading newsweekly magazine in Brazil. He lives in São Paulo with his wife and four children.
Location of the seminar:
Room 280 York Lanes
4700 Keele St.
Canada M3J 1P3
Toronto ON
Canada
time: 12:30 to 2:30pm
7) Hendrik Kraay at 280 York Lanes on April 01st
Title of proposed talk: “Celebrating September 7th: Official and Popular Celebrations of Brazilian Independence in Rio de Janeiro, 1823-1889”
This presentation examines how Brazilian independence was commemorated in the capital of Rio de Janeiro during the imperial regime (1822-1889). It focuses on three key elements: (1) the press debate about the nature of independence and the political institutions of the constitutional monarchy established in 1822; (2) the evolution of official commemorations of 7 September, constructed as Brazil’s independence day in the first years after 1822; (3) the two periods during which popular celebrations assumed significant proportions, the late 1850s (dominated by the Sociedade Ipiranga) and 1870-1885 (dominated by the Sociedade Comemorativa da Independência do Império). These popular celebrations, particularly those of the Sociedade Comemorativa, reveal an important level of popular patriotism and engagement with the state. Parallels between these civic celebrations and the other popular festivals of these years (carnival and the Holy Spirit festival) indicate a need to conceptualize popular culture more broadly. The upper-class and government reaction to the Sociedade Comemorativa – the society was taken over and completely transformed before 1887’s independence celebrations – came in the context of the ending of slavery (1888) and the popular abolitionist movement, both of which threatened Brazilian social hierarchies.
About Hendrik Kraay:
After completing obtaining his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Toronto, Hendrik Kraay received his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995. He subsequently held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and honorary Killam postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia. Since 1997, he has taught at the University of Calgary, where he is now an associate professor of history. His principal publications include Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s (2001); Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s-1990s (edited, 1998); Nova História Militar Brasileira (co-edited with Celso Castro and Vitor Izecksohn, 2004); I Die with My Country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan War, 1864-1870 (co-edited with Thomas L. Whigham, 2004); and Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America (edited, 2007). His is currently completing a book-length study of civic rituals in imperial Brazil, which examines the celebration on the so-called “days of national festivity” commemorated by the imperial regime, 1822-1889. This research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada and the Brazilian Coordenação do Aperfeiçoamento do Pessoal Superior (through a foreign visiting professor fellowship held at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro).
Location of the seminar:
Room 280 York Lanes
4700 Keele St.
Canada M3J 1P3
Toronto ON
Canada
time: 12:30 to 2:30pm
8) Ivani Vassoler on April 15th
Title of proposed talk: “The Quest for Urban Sustainability in the South: Drawing Lessons from the Governance Process in Curitiba, Brazil”
Many urban areas around the world, and particularly in the developing countries, suffer from similar problems: heavily congested traffic, lack of effective public transportation insufficient housing, overwhelming pollution and the decay of urban spaces. Ineffective government exacerbates these problems.
Going against this trend, the city of Curitiba, capital of the Paraná State in the south of Brazil, found creative ways to transform a small and chaotic town into a thriving metropolis. Exactly how did Curitiba achieve this success? Which policies and programs were effective and which ones weren't? What roles did the public play in the transformation process?
Using interviews with urban planners, politicians, scholars, and residents, and analyzing hundreds of policy documents, pieces of legislation and scholarly studies, this my study on the Curitiba governance process offers an analytical model based on the idea that public entrepreneurs are powerful catalysts for change in the urban arena. The chronicles of Curitiba's journey provide a guide for urban planners and administrators worldwide.
About Ivani Vassoler:
Ivani Vassoler, a U.S.-Brazilian born scholar, is currently an assistant professor of international politics at the State University of New York, Fredonia, where she is also the coordinator of an interdisciplinary academic program in International Studies. Her book Urban Brazil: Visions, Afflictions and Governance Lessons was published in the United States in 2008. She has also published articles on democratization and urbanization, and has made editorial contributions to newspapers and to the Encyclopedia of U.S.-Latin American Relations to be published by the CQ Press of Washington DC. She is involved in international education projects, with the planning, organization and coordination of study abroad programs for undergraduates in Brazil and Mexico. She received a Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, and a Master's Degree in International Relations from the University of San Diego, California. Previous to her life in the academia, professor Vassoler held a successful career in journalism, with work assignments in Brazil, Latin America and the United States. She grew up in São Paulo, where she graduated with a B.A. in Journalism from the Faculdade Cásper Líbero.
Location of the seminar:
Room 280 York Lanes
4700 Keele St.
Canada M3J 1P3
Toronto ON
Canada
time: 12:30 to 2:30pm
Contact
Coordinator Brigitte Grossmann Cairus
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