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The University of Miami is proud to announce Documenting Diversity and Democracy in Brazil, a symposium established to highlight the unique and richly-textured Leila Míccolis Brazilian Alternative Press Collection.

The symposium will begin on the evening of Monday, March 30, and will continue all day on Tuesday, March 31, 2020, featuring a keynote presentation by prominent Brazilian activist, journalist, and novelist, João Silvério Trevisan, 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, 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.

We invite all potential contributors to this dialogue, including graduate students and Ph.D. candidates, to submit abstracts of 200–300 words and a short bio of no longer than 300 words to createbrazil2020@gmail.com by December 8, 2019. Submissions and presentations are welcome in Portuguese and English. The event has no registration fee.
 



A University of Miami tem orgulho de anunciar Documenting Diversity and Democracy in Brazil, um simpósio criado para chamar atenção para o tesouro único e diversificado encontrado na coleção Leila Míccolis Brazilian Alternative Press.

O evento ocorrerá na tarde de segunda-feira, 30 de março e durante a terça-feira, 31 de março de 2020, contando com a palestra de abertura do proeminente ativista, jornalista e romancista brasileiro, João Silvério Trevisan, juntamente com apresentações de pesquisadores convidados que trabalham com a Coleção abordando interseccionalidades e (des)conexões entre crescentes movimentos políticos e sociais no Brasil, do período da ditadura militar (1964–1985) até os dias atuais, enfocando direitos humanos, justiça social e convergências de trajetórias históricas e sociopolíticas que elucidam a recuperação de vozes brasileiras marginalizadas.

Convidamos todos os contribuintes em potencial, incluindo alunos de pós-graduação (Mestrado e Doutorado), para participar desse diálogo enviando resumos de 200–300 palavras e uma breve biografia (máximo de 300 palavras) para createbrazil2020@gmail.com até 8 de dezembro de 2019. Submissões de trabalhos e apresentações são bem-vindas em português e inglês. O evento será gratuito.

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About the Leila Míccolis Brazilian Alternative Press Collection

The Leila Míccolis Brazilian Alternative Press Collection, housed in Special Collections at University of Miami Libraries, consists primarily of political and countercultural pamphlets and periodicals, concrete and neo-concrete poetry, as well as other vanguard/avant-garde artistic experimentation, fanzines, film reviews, university publications, theater, and musical pieces.

As opposed to the commercial and widely-circulated press of "official" Brazilian governmental venues, the publications contained in the Collection especially treat stigmatized and/or marginalized groups, such as Afro-Brazilians, women, and sexual minorities. It accomplishes this goal by utilizing various mediums, including literary pieces, editorial cartoons, political comics, sociopolitical critiques of "Brazilianness," humor, and the promotion of ecological and environmental awareness. The Collection also holds a large variety of materials from the 1970s Marginália movement, a term used to describe a series of underground publications distributed during the military dictatorship. The archive was painstakingly accumulated over the course of 45 years by Míccolis, who decided to place it in a North American university to assure its preservation, as well as to prevent its censorship.
 



Sobre a Coleção Leila Míccolis Brazilian Alternative Press

A Coleção Leila Míccolis Brazilian Alternative Press, hospedada no setor de Coleções Especiais da biblioteca da Universidade de Miami, consiste, principalmente, de periódicos e panfletos contraculturais e políticos, poesia neo-concreta, bem como outras experimentações artísticas de vanguarda, fanzines, resenhas de filmes, publicações universitárias, teatro e expressões musicais.

Contrapondo a imprensa comercial e amplamente difundida pelos órgãos “oficiais” brasileiros, as publicações contidas na Coleção lidam, especialmente, com grupos marginalizados e/ou estigmatizados, como afro-brasileiros, mulheres e minorias sexuais. O acervo cumpre esse objetivo ao utilizar diversos meios, incluindo obras literárias, cartuns editoriais, quadrinhos políticos, críticas sociopolíticas da brasilidade, humor e promoção de conscientização ecológica e do meio ambiente. A Coleção também reúne uma grande variedade de materiais do movimento Marginália dos anos 70, termo utilizado para descrever uma série de publicações alternativas distribuídas durante a ditadura militar. O arquivo foi meticulosamente coletado, ao longo de 45 anos, por Míccolis, cuja decisão de alocar o acervo em uma universidade norte-americana foi pensada para assegurar a preservação do material, bem como prevenir sua censura.
About the Sponsors and Co-sponsors

The symposium, Documenting Diversity and Democracy in Brazil, is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Miami Libraries CREATE grant, and our generous co-sponsors, including the University of Miami's 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 the Advanced Study of the Americas, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, American Studies Program, Department of English, Department of Political Science, and the Miami Network for Democracy.
About CREATE

CREATE is an interdisciplinary, cross-curricular grant designed to encourage and oversee the integration of the University of Miami Libraries and Lowe Art Museum's "UMLLAM" cultural resource collections into teaching, learning, and research by facilitating close collaboration and resource-sharing among UM faculty, students, and external constituencies.

Questions?

Please contact the symposium organizing committee at createbrazil2020@gmail.com.
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