Virtual Symposium: April 12 - 13, 2021
About the Symposium
The University of Miami hosted the virtual symposium “Documenting Diversity and Democracy in Brazil,” established to highlight the unique and richly-textured Leila Míccolis Brazilian Alternative Press Collection in Special Collections at the University of Miami. The two-day event attended by more than 120 people per day featured keynote presentations by João Silvério Trevisan (Brazilian LGBT activist, journalist, and novelist), Dr. Leila Míccolis (Lawyer, activist, and writer) and Sonia Guajajara (Brazilian environmental and indigenous activist and politician), alongside invited papers of scholars who have worked with the Collection to showcase intersectionalities and (dis)connections between burgeoning social and political movements in Brazil from the military dictatorship (1964–1985) to the present day, as well as works focusing on human rights, social justice, and cross-fertilization of historical and sociopolitical trajectories that shed more light on recovering the voices of marginalized Brazilians.
Acknowledgments
The symposium, “Documenting Diversity and Democracy in Brazil,” was made possible due to a grant funded by the CREATE Grants Program, a joint Lowe Art Museum and University of Miami Libraries initiative supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional support has been provided by our co-sponsors, including the University of Miami's Office of the Provost, College of Arts and Sciences, the Joseph Carter Fund of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Latin American Studies Program, Department of History, Department of Anthropology, Office of Hemispheric and Global Affairs, Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, American Studies Program, Department of English, Department of Political Science, Native American and Global Indigenous Studies (NAGIS), U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil (USNDB), and the Miami Network for Democracy.
For more information, please see the symposium’s website: “Documenting Diversity and Democracy in Brazil.”