Updated May 3, 2012
The Program Committee has announced a Preliminary schedule
The BRASA committee, once again, would like to extend its thanks to all of the participants in the BRASA XI Congress. This is the schedule for the 6th-8th of September. We would like to point out that it is a tentative schedule and is subject to change. Participants can search for their name or panel title by pressing the button labeled “ctrl” and the one labeled “F” simultaneously, and typing your desired information in the “search box”.
Those who submitted individual proposals may find their panel information in the document below:
BRASA XI Panels from Individual Submissions
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Get ready for the BRASA XI conference in Champaign-Urbana, IL Sept. 6 to 8, 2012.
Travel information may be found at this link:
http://www.brasa.org/congresses/BRASA_XI_Conference_Information.html
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Tolman Award
Note for graduate students:
BRASA sponsors the Jon M. Tolman Award, which will provide up to 4 awards of $500 for students who will be presenting at BRASA XI. This Award is designed to cover travel expenses. The deadline for submission is May 15, 2012.
Applications should be submitted by email to brasa-illinois@illinois.edu IN PDF FORMAT and must include the following items:
1. Curriculum Vita
2. Abstract of paper being presented at BRASA XI
3. A short description of no more than 2 single-spaced pages of how the paper fits into the applicant’s thesis or dissertation.
4. One recommendation, preferably from the applicant’s advisor
NOTE: put all these files together and submit ONE PDF FILE.
Recipients will be notified by June 15 and will be recognized at the plenary session at BRASA XI.
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BRASA election results
The BRASA election ended March 23, and the results are in. The Directorate would like to congratulate the new Vice President and Executive Committee members.
Vice President: Anthony Pereira
Executive Committee Members: Steven Butterman, Brodwyn Fischer, Rebecca Atencio, John Burdick, and Gladys Mitchell-Walthour
Thank you to everyone who agreed to serve as a candidate in the election.
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Richard Graham to receive Brazilian Studies Association Award
Richard Graham, the F.H. Nalle Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, has been named the 2012 recipient of the Brazilian Studies Association’s Lifetime Contribution Award, BRASA announced on March 9, 2012. BRASA’s Lifetime Achievement Award (LCA) recognizes Professor Graham as a leader in the field of Brazilian studies with both a record of outstanding scholarly achievement and significant contributions to the promotion of Brazilian studies in the United States. BRASA especially wishes to emphasize Professor Graham’s lifetime contributions to our field.
Richard Graham will be recognized in an awards ceremony at BRASA’s 11th International Congress at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 8, 2012 at 7 p.m. BRASA will present Professor Graham with a plaque expressing the organization’s deep appreciation for his lifelong commitment to Brazilian studies and Professor Graham will address the congress. A group of prominent Brazilianists, former students of Professor Graham, will introduce him at the ceremony and comment on his many achievements discuss the enormous influence his work has had on the field of Brazilian history.
Professor Graham’s stellar career merits such an honor for his scholarship, teaching, publishing, mentoring, and institutional development. Professor Graham is recognized internationally for his contributions to deepening our understanding of Brazilian history. He has acted as a scholarly ambassador between Brazil and the United States, fostering the exchange of ideas, skills, scholarship, and cultural understanding and has inspired countless students and colleagues to pursue the study of Brazil.
Professor Graham’s first book, Britain and the Onset of Modernization in Brazil, 1850-1914 (1968), is a landmark study of British influence in Brazil. It won the prestigious Bolton Prize from the Conference on Latin American History in 1969. A rare honor for a North American, in 1971 Professor Graham was one of the first North Americans to be asked to publish a chapter in Brazil’s preeminent multi-volume historical opus, the História Geral da Civilização Brasileira, edited by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda. In 1978, he published The Jesuit Antonio Vieira and his Plans for the Economic Rehabilitation of Seventeenth-Century Portugal, an important contribution to colonial Brazilian and Portuguese imperial history. The following year, Escravidão, reforma e imperialismo (1979) brought together some of his article-length work on Brazilian slavery and profoundly shaped the emerging Brazilian scholarship on the country’s slave society. His pioneering work on slave families appeared in Portuguese in this volume, and laid out an agenda for future research on slave families in Brazil.
Professor Graham’s 1990 Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth- Century Brazil quickly became a canonical work on Brazilian state formation in the nineteenth century. Perhaps his greatest contribution to Latin American history more broadly is the invaluable, The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940 (1990); it remains in wide use as an introduction to the field. Professor Graham has published well over seventy articles and book chapters. Many are considered classics in the field, such as “Slave Families on a Rural Estate in Colonial Brazil,” Journal of Social History 9 (1976) or “Slavery and Economic Development: Brazil and the U.S. South,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 23 (1981). In his retirement, Professor continues to research and write major contributions to Brazilian history. Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860, a study of the production and marketing of food in Salvador, Bahia, from the end of the eighteenth century through independence and the time of liberal reforms to the mid- nineteenth century was published in 2010. This book won the Bolton-Johnson Prize awarded by the Council on Latin American History in early 2011.
Born in 1934 in the interior of Brazil to an American Presbyterian missionary father and a Brazilian mother, Richard Graham studied with Lewis Hanke at the University of Texas at Austin in the 1950s, receiving his doctorate in 1961, upon which he began his long and distinguished teaching career at Cornell University. In 1970, Professor Graham moved to the University of Texas and taught both undergraduates and graduate students there until his retirement in 1999. During that time, he supervised twenty-one PhD dissertations and was instrumental in establishing a graduate program at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, today ranked one of the top three history programs in Brazil. Professor Graham’s enduring legacy lies as much in the students and colleagues he has nurtured, taught, and advised. They have found their work profoundly influenced by him.
BRASA’s Lifetime Achievement Award Committee, consisting of BRASA Vice President Jan Hoffman French and Executive Committee members Bryan McCann, Cristina Ferreira-Pinto Bailey, and Vânia Penha-Lopes, received numerous nominations for this prestigious award. The committee selected Professor Graham for his enduring scholarship, outstanding contribution to the field of Brazilian history, and his advancement of Brazilian studies. The BRASA Executive Committee ratified the nomination.
BRASA X - Brasília - DF
July 22-24, 2010 - Brasília, DF
The Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) held its Tenth International Conference July 22-24, 2010. In conjunction with the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration of Brazil’s modernist capital, the conference program included panel presentations, special guest lectures, workshops, plenary meetings, and cultural activities. We honored the distinguished economist Werner Baer (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) with the BRASA Lifetime Contribution Award. Our partner in Brasília was the Centro de Pesquisa e Pos-graduação sobre as Américas (CEPPAC) of the Universidade de Brasília (UnB). The conference was held at the Centro de Convenções e Eventos Brasil 21.
The conference program is available in MSWord and pdf formats click here.
For copies of papers from the congress click here.
BRASA X is sponsored with the generous assistance of http://www.petrobras.com.br/pt/
Roberto Reis Book Prizes and Jon M. Tolman Travel Awards
The Roberto Reis BRASA Book Award recognizes the two best books in Brazilian Studies published in English that contribute significantly to promoting an understanding of
The 2010 committee has voted to award the Reis Book Prizes to (in alphabetical order)
Fischer, Brodwyn. A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro (Stanford, 2008)
and
Holston, James. Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil (Princeton, 2008)
The committee has also voted to award the Reis Book Prize Honorable Mention to (in alphabetical order)
French, Jan Hoffman. Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast (North Carolina, 2009)
Lesser, Jeffrey. A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960-80 (Duke, 2007)
Prize Committee:
Jeffrey Needell (History) University of Florida
John Karam (Anthropology) DePaul University
Rebecca Atencio (Portuguese) Tulane University
A BRASA, Brazilian Studies Association, tem o prazer de anunciar os recipientes dos Prêmios Jon M. Tolman para Alunos de
Pós-Graduação que vão participar da BRASA X em Brasília. O Prêmio Tolman confere a um número máximo de quatro alunos de pós US$500 a cada um, visando cobrir parte das despesas de viagem e hospedagem em Brasília.
Stephen Bocskay,
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Brown University
Montie Bryan Pitts, Jr.
Ph.D. candidate
Department of History
Duke University
Débora Racy Soares
Doutorado em andamento em Teoria e História Literária
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Fábio Borges
Doutorando em Sociologia.
Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
Comitê:
Jan Hoffman French (Richmond University)
Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey (Washington & Lee University)
Kathy Hochstetler (University of Waterloo)
Elizabeth Kiddy (Albright College)