MSU Presents: Decolonizing the Global Imaginary Talk Series

BRAZIL’S DECOLONIAL MODERNISM, TROPICALIA, AND THE CARIB REVOLUTION: Variations on a Tupi-Indigenous Theme
Thursday, March 26th (11:30 am) – Dickson Hall 179
Speaker: Robert Stam (University Professor, Dept. of Cinema Studies, NYU)
This lecture-video presentation will place in relation representations of “first contact,” in Brazil, the Brazilian Modernist Movement of the 1920s, and its relation to the “Indian,” along with Tropicalia’s musical relation to the same theme in the 1960s, with emphasis on the representation and self-representation of the “cunha,” the indigenous Tupi woman, including as present-day activists.

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UNRULY VISIONS
Thursday, April 30th (2:30 pm) – SBUS 101
Speaker: Gayatri Gopinath (Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, and Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU)
This lecture will be based on her 2019 book, “Unruly Visions: Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora,” where she will be speaking on Queer Diaspora. In 1991, Gayatri Gopinath received her Bachelor’s Degree in Latin American Studies from Wesleyan University, and later received her Ph.D in English and Comparative Literature in 1998, from Columbia University. Her areas of interest include: Transnational queer and feminist studies; postcolonial studies; Asian diaspora studies; visual art; performance.