Mini Seminar on Brazilian Culture

Prof. Thiago Lima Nicodemo (Univ Federal do Rio de Janeiro and SBU)

Feb 10th: on Sérgio Buarque e Holanda’s Raízes do Brasil

Feb 17th: on Gilberto Freyre's Casa Grande e Senzala

Feb 24th: (to be confirmed) on Chico Buarque’ novel Leite derramado

Tuesdays from 1.00 to 2:30 pm in the Dept seminar room (Meville Library N3060)

The course will be in Portuguese but the discussion will be in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

For any questions, please contact Prof. Javier Uriate (javier.uriarte@stonybrook.edu)

Dr. Thiago Nicodemo is Professor of Brazilian History at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and Visiting Scholar at Stony Brook this

spring 2015. He is a specialist in the work of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, one of Latin America’s finest essayist and intellectuals, who came to Stony

Brook as visiting professor in 1966 (Sergio Buarque is also father of the very famous musician Chico Buarque). Prof. Nicodemo is author of two books:

Urdidura do Vivido. Visão do Paraíso e a Obra de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda nos Anos 1950 (2008) and Alegoria Moderna. Crítica literária e história

da literatura na obra de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (2014).

Mini Seminar on Brazilian Culture

Prof. Thiago Lima Nicodemo

Feb 10th: on Sérgio Buarque de Holanda’s Raízes do Brasil Feb 17th: on Gilberto Freyre’s Casa Grande e Senzala Feb 24th: on Chico Buarque’s novel Leite derramado

Tuesdays from 1.00 pm to 2:30 pm Department seminar room (Meville Library N3060)

Dr. Thiago Nicodemo is Professor of Brazilian History at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and Visiting Scholar at Stony Brook this spring 2015. He is a specialist in the work of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, one of Latin America’s finest essayist and intellectuals, who came to Stony Brook as visiting professor in 1966. Prof. Nicodemo is author of two books: Urdidura do Vivido. Visão do Paraíso e a Obra de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda nos Anos 1950 (2008); and Alegoria Moderna. Crítica literária e história da literatura na obra de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (2014).

The course will be taught in Portuguese. Discussion will be in English, Spanish or Portuguese For any questions, please contact Prof. Javier Uriate (javier.uriarte@stonybrook.edu)

Department of

Hispanic Languages and Literature

Foto by Francisco Emolo/Jornal da USP

Spring 2015