#  Lima Barreto - A sad visionary in Brazil at the beginning of the XX century 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 16, 2017** 

 12:00PM - 02:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street**  



 

 



 

 **Speaker**: Lilia Schwarcz, Full Professor of Anthropology, the University of São Paulo (USP); Visiting Professor, Princeton University

 **Moderator**: Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

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 The main goal of this lecture is to analyze the life and work of Lima Barreto: a black writer in Rio de Janeiro who fought against discrimination and racism in Brazil.

 **Lilia Moritz Schwarcz** is a Full Professor in Anthropology at the University of São Paulo and she has been a Global Scholar and Visiting Professor at Princeton since 2011. Lilia was a fellow at the Guggenheim Foundation (2006/ 2007), a visiting professor at Oxford, and the Leiden Brown and Tinker Professor at Columbia University (2008). She published several books, such as *Retrato em branco e negro* (1987), *A longa viagem da biblioteca dos reis* (2002) , *O sol do Brasil* (2008); *Lima Barreto triste visionário* (2017); among them three in English: *Spectacle of Races* (1999); *The Emperors beard: D. Pedro II a tropical king*, (Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2004), and *Brazil: a biography – with Heloisa Starling* (Penguin, Spain; Farrar Strauss and Giroux and Penguin UK, to be published in 2018). She was chief editor of *História do Brasil Nação: 1808-2010* (Fundação Mapfre/ Objetiva) in six volumes. She has also curated exhibits, including *Nicolas-Antoine Taunay: a French translation of the tropics* (2008, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), *A history of Brazil an interpretation by photographs*, (with Boris Kossoy, 2013, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte), and *Mestizo Histories* (with Adriano Pedrosa, 2014, São Paulo). She was a Member of the Advisor Group for the Harvard Brazilian Office, from 2006 to 2012. She holds a Commend of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit presented by the Presidency of the Republic (2010). She has a column at Nexo magazine. Since 2015, she is also a co-curator at MASP (Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo).



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Cambridge ](/locations/cambridge-office)
- [ Brazil Studies ](/programs-initiatives/brazil-studies)
 
 

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