Beyond Anthropophagy: Cultural Modernities between Brazil and France
When:
Thursday, October 19, 2017
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM CT
Where: John Evans Center, 1800 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Cintia Vezzani
Group: French and the Global Humanities (Buffett Institute)
Co-Sponsor:
Department of French and Italian
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
French Interdisciplinary Group
Category: Academic
Description:
Broadly inspired by an upcoming Tarsila do Amaral exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, Beyond Anthropophagy: Cultural Modernities Between Brazil and France will explore Brazilian/French literary, artistic, and intellectual interactions between the wars in terms of recent debates about “world literature,” “world art,” and “global modernity.”
Keynote: “Brazilian Modernism: Nocturnes,” Flora Süssekind (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Co-sponsored by: Department of Art History, Department of French and Italian, Global Avant-Garde and Modernist Studies (TGS), Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, and the Vernon Jackson Fund