American author, thinker, trainer and activist Angela Davis, recognized worldwide for her combat for the rights of the black inhabitants and girls, might be in Salvador in July. The reason being the 18th worldwide convention “Comparative Literature and the Invention of a Frequent World”.
One other essential identify on the occasion is the Minas Gerais author Conceição Evaristo, one of the influential writers of the postmodernist motion in Brazil. Matters corresponding to race, gender, ancestry and intersectionality and their connections with literature might be mentioned.
The congress might be hosted by the Federal College of Bahia (Ufba), between the tenth and 14th of July, and promoted by the Brazilian Affiliation of Comparative Literature (Abralic).
Angela Davis, immediately from the College of California, will come to Desk 4, which can happen on the eleventh, at 10:30 am, in an auditorium to be outlined in one of many class pavilions on the Federation Campus.
She might be alongside Gina Dent, additionally from the College of California, and Denise Carrascosa, a researcher at Ufba. The desk is entitled “Abolitionism. Feminism. Already?”.
Conceição Evaristo is on the opening desk of the congress, which is scheduled to happen within the Auditorium of the Rectory of Ufba, at 5 pm, on July tenth. She might be accompanied by the Minister of Racial Equality Anielle Franco, sister of councilwoman Marielle Franco, who died in 2018.
The theme of the opening ceremony might be “Black ladies’s radical aesthetic, political and moral mission for the invention of a typical world”.
The UFBA will even obtain researchers from international locations like Nigeria, Italy and Chile. Different outstanding Brazilian names are historian Mauro Iasi and researcher Beatriz Resende.
Enrollment for the occasion, which permits for the issuance of a certificates, closed in March, however the College’s areas are freely accessible. See the Abralic web site right here. Verify right here the entire schedule.
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