Júlio Rocha, Ascom CCHLA
Next Wednesday, the 10th, there will be the last lecture of the 200 Years of Brazilian Independence Conference Cycle, promoted by the Center for Human Sciences, Letters and Arts (CCHLA), through the Social History Experimentation Laboratory (LEHS), which will be given by the illustrious historian and anthropologist Lilia Schwarcz (USP), addressing the theme “The kidnapping of Independence”, starting at 7pm in the Auditorium of the Rectory of UFRN.
The event is open to the general public and registration is now open through Sigaa. Lilia Schwarcz will reflect on the historical construction of Sete de Setembro as a landmark of Independence based on an in-depth study of the visual culture surrounding the theme.
Brazilian political emancipation resulted from a long and conflictive process, developed in various regions of the country and involving different actors. These episodes were hidden in favor of an official history that was still very European, peaceful, masculine and unifying, which found its founding myth in Sete de Setembro.
PROFILE
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz is a full professor in the Department of Anthropology at USP. She was Visiting Professor at Oxford, Leiden, Brown, Columbia and Princeton, where she has been Global and Visiting Professor since 2010. In 2007 she was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. And in 2010 he received the Commendation of the Order of National Scientific Merit. She is the author, among others, of Portrait in white and black (1987. APCA award), The spectacle of races (Companhia das Letras, 1993 and Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 1999), Racism in Brazil (Publifolha 2001), As barbas do Imperador (1998, Jabuti Award/Book of the Year and New York, Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 2004), The long journey of the library of kings (2002), O sol do Brasil (2008, Jabuti Prize in the biography category 2009), Brazil: a biography (with Heloisa Murgel Starling; Companhia das Letras, 2015, nominated among the ten best books in the Jabuti Social Sciences prize) and Lima Barreto sad visionary (São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2017). He coordinated, among others, volume 4 of the History of Private Life in Brazil (1998, Jabuti Prize in the Human Sciences category 1999) and the History of the Brazilian Nation. Mapfre/ Objetiva in 6 volumes (APCA Award, 2011).