Fulbright Visiting Scholar from Brazil, Rodrigo Xavier, PhD, to present a lecture on Lusophone Identity: A lecture on José Saramago’s Journals
When: Friday,
April 29, 2016
10:00 AM
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11:30 AM
Cost: This event is free and open to the public and the lecture will be in English.
Description: The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture along with Brown University welcome Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Rodrigo Xavier, PhD for a lecture on: Lusophone Identity: A lecture on Jose Saramago's Journals
Date: Friday, April 29, 2016
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Location: Foster Administration Building- room 333
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road
Parking: Please park in lot 7
Rodrigo Xavier is an Associate Professor of Lusophone Studies (Linguistics and Literature) at Technologic Federal University of Parana (Brazil), and is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago (USA). His research is in the Department of German Studies under the guidance of Professor David E. Wellbery. His experience in the areas of Lusophone Literature and Comparative Literature investigates the relationship between literature, philosophy and other arts.
This lecture aims to present some questions that involve Jose Saramago's political stance and make it possible to grant him the denomination of Intellectual. Either in their field of action, the Literature, or in his public life as a Portuguese citizen, the production and the political posture of the writer deal with the national social concerns and confer to him an extremely important role in the scenario of the literature in the second half of the 20th Century.
Any questions, please contact Lisa Tavares at 508-999-8255 or ltavares4@umassd.edu
Date: Friday, April 29, 2016
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Location: Foster Administration Building- room 333
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road
Parking: Please park in lot 7
Rodrigo Xavier is an Associate Professor of Lusophone Studies (Linguistics and Literature) at Technologic Federal University of Parana (Brazil), and is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago (USA). His research is in the Department of German Studies under the guidance of Professor David E. Wellbery. His experience in the areas of Lusophone Literature and Comparative Literature investigates the relationship between literature, philosophy and other arts.
This lecture aims to present some questions that involve Jose Saramago's political stance and make it possible to grant him the denomination of Intellectual. Either in their field of action, the Literature, or in his public life as a Portuguese citizen, the production and the political posture of the writer deal with the national social concerns and confer to him an extremely important role in the scenario of the literature in the second half of the 20th Century.
Any questions, please contact Lisa Tavares at 508-999-8255 or ltavares4@umassd.edu
Contact:
Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture 508.999.8255 https://www.umassd.edu/portuguese-studies-center/
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