Brazil and Cultural Diversity: History Poetry and Performance
- Dates
- Friday 19 November 2021 (15:00-17:00)
The Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham and the Brazilian Leitorado programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with support of the Embassy of Brazil in London and the Birmingham Brazil Forum, are delighted to present a series of events and discussions on Brazil and Cultural Diversity. For this virtual event, interpretation from Portuguese to English will be available.
1922, annus mirabilis: How did we get to it?
Dr. Adriano Duarte, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC)
This presentation adopts the perspective of a historian, and as such, it examines historical phenomena as part of a process and a context. Thus, the Modern Art Week in 1922 will be considered in the context of the transformations of Brazilian society in the First Republic and taken as part of the process in which this oligarchic regime loses strength and is overcome by a new form of social conflict management, of the State and of politics, with the so-called 1930 movement.
Semana de Arte Moderna and invisibilities
The centenary of the Semana de Arte Moderna allows us, among other things, to understand the plurality of agents involved in Modernism. We know today that Mario and Oswald de Andrade stand out as significant characters in this endeavor. Both are linked to anthropophagy as a kind of cultural representation that seeks a renewed understanding of Brazil. In this, the ideal of a matriarchal culture plays an important role. This is the visible part of Modernism. Its invisible part, however, is produced much earlier, between 1918 and 1919, in the pages of the diary called O perfeito cozinheiro das almas d’este mundo. The manuscript allows the perception of the strength of the patriarchal culture for the agents who will participate in the February 1922 event.
After the academic presentations, the closing of the event will have a cultural and artistic presentation. The musician (composer and performer) Dr Tereza Virgínia de Almeida will present an artistic-musical performance of poetic singing, with the poem Flores Horizontais, by Oswald de Andrade, from his work Santeiro do Mangue. Her presentation will be accompanied by the musician Julio Córdoba Pires Ferreira.