Round Table | Resistance and Transition

Resistance and Transition | Culture, Memory, and the Military Dictatorship in Brazil

Thursday, May 8th
9:30 am–1 pm

As Brazil commemorates the 50 years of the military coup of 1964, it looks back not only to the marks left by two decades of military repression but also to the peculiarities of its transition process. The logic of controlled transition that the military successfully imposed resulted in 27 years between the end of the regime and the establishment of a full National Truth Commission. This seminar brings together artists, curators, academics and legal scholars to explore the crucial role the arts have played both in the resistance to the dictatorship and in the building of collective narratives capable of accounting for the delayed temporalities of this past.

LIVESTREAMING at 10 am (EST). Click here to view the live video feed.

9:30am | Opening

10:00am |  Roundtable: The Art of Resistance

      James Green | Brown University
      Silvio Tendler | Brazilian Documentary Filmmaker
      Estrellita Brodsky | Curator
      Marcial Godoy-Anativia (Moderator) | NYU / Hemispheric Institute

11:30am | Roundtable: The Art of Transition

      Paulo Abrão | President of the Brazilian Amnesty Commission
      Rebecca Atencio | Tulane University
      Marcos Steuernagel | NYU / Hemispheric Institute
      Dylon Robbins (Moderator) | NYU

Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003

This event is free and open to the public, and is co-organized with the Amnesty Commission of the Ministry of Justice of Brazil, and co-sponsored by the Amnesty Commission of the Ministry of Justice of Brazil, the Consulate General of Brazil in New York, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU. A photo ID is required to enter NYU buildings.

Photo: Paulo Pinto / Fotos Públicas