sérgio buarque de holanda and the americas

SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA AND THE AMERICAS
A Celebration of His Visit to Stony Brook University
Friday, February 20, 1:30 - 5 PM
STONY BROOK MANHATTAN – 387 Park Avenue South, 3rd Floor, Room 312
PROGRAM
1:30 PM – Paul Firbas and Javier Uriarte: Welcoming Remarks
1:50 - 3:15 – Comparative Approaches to Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
Paulo Moreira (Yale University) – “Botanic Tropes in Latin American Imagination, or
Inserting Roots of Brazil into a Continental Perspective”
Robert Newcomb (University of California Davis) – “The Idea of Sobranceria in Sérgio Buarque de
Holanda”
Thiago Nicodemo (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) – “Displacements of past and future
in Sérgio’s and Chico Buarque’s visions of Brazil”
3:15 – 3:30 – Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:30 – Raízes do Brazil: Re-editions and Translations
Pedro Meira Monteiro (Princeton University) and Lilia Schwarcz (Universidade de São Paulo) –
“The long-awaited critical edition of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Raízes do Brasil: The Historian
Reads Himself”
Respondent: Álvaro Fernández Bravo (CONICET) – On Translating Sérgio Buarque
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Co-Organized by:
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
– Stony Brook University
The Race and Citizenship in the Americas Network
– Princeton University
Co-Sponsored by:
Department of History
The Humanities Institute
– Stony Brook University