The Documenting Diversity and Democracy in Brazil collection consists video recordings from sessions at the Documenting Diversity and Democracy in Brazil symposium, held virtually at University of Miami from April 12-13, 2021.
This symposium was created thanks to a grant sponsored by University of Miami Libraries as part of the CREATE Grant Fall 2019 grant Cycle Awards. The symposium was established to highlight the unique and richly-textured Leila Míccolis Brazilian Alternative Press collection. The event 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 had 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.
Dr. Darién J. Davis (Middlebury College), “The Oblique Gaze in the Land Of Mirrors: Afro-Brazilian Transnational Performance and Struggle For Recognition in the Post-World War II Era” (English)
Lidiana de Moraes (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Miami), “Erasing Intersectionality: Inconsistencies in Brazilian Governmental Data Collection” (English)
Travis Knoll (Ph.D. Candidate, Duke University), “Celebrating Black Revolt in the Name of God: The 1981 Quilombo Mass As a Liberationist Performance” (English)
Caio Fernandes Barbosa (Ph.D. Student, Federal University of Bahia), O Verão das “calças curtas”: Masculinidades e contestação juvenil na ditadura civil-militar brasileira (1968) (Portuguese)
Matheus Magalhães Simões (M.A. Student, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), “The Bodies Are the Borders” (Portuguese)
Mariana Petersen (Ph.D. Student, University of Miami), “Recreating Lota and Elizabeth: The South American Reactionary and the American Democrat in Bruno Barreto’s Reaching for the Moon” (English)
Dr. Cristina Mehrtens (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth), “Gendered Metaphors: Historicizing Female Professionals in Twentieth-Century Brazil” (English)
