Talks

SELECTED PAST TALKS AND EVENTS

“La Esclava Isaura Meets Fidel Castro: How a Brazilian Telenovela Shaped Debates of Race and Religion in Cuba,” TV & Gender in a Changing Context, into the Track: Mass Media and Popular Culture,International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). San Francisco, California. May 26, 2025.

“Building Myths on Prime Time: Brazilian Telenovelas in Cuba,” Seminário Permanente Dictaduras en Iberoamérica. Universidad de Chile. December, 2024.

“Fast and Furious at the Opera: The Art of Flamenco Meets the Legacy of Lorca,” Metropolitan Opera. Moderator of Talk with Ainadamar’s composer Osvaldo Golijov and director Deborah Colker. Judson Memorial Church, New York. October, 2024.

“Isso é Brasil: Cinema According to L.C. Barreto Productions – Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands / Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos,” Film at Lincoln Center. Moderator of talk with Lucy Barreto and Bruno Barreto. Walter Reade Theater, New York. September, 2024.

“Book Launch and Conversation about Dona Ivone Lara’s Sorriso Negro.” With singer and composer Aline Frazão. Livraria da Travessa, Lisboa, Portugal. August, 2024.

“Building Myths on Prime Time: Brazilian telenovelas in Cuba,” TV & Gender in a Changing Context, into the Track: Mass Media and Popular Culture, International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Bogotá, Colombia. June, 2024.

“Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War,” Auditório Fernand Braudel, University of São Paulo (USP). June, 2024.

“The Future of Writing,” Consulate of Brazil in New York, Focus Brazil New York. October, 2023.

“Paquito D’Rivera: Concert and Conversation” (moderator). The Graduate Center, New York, October, 2023.

“Clube da Esquina,” launch of Márcio Borges and Chris Fuscaldo’s book (moderator). The Graduate Center, New York, September 2023.

“Roberta Campos: A Musical Conversation” (moderator). Elebash Recital Hall, The CUNY Graduate Center, New York, September 2023.

“O autoritarismo e a política externa do regime militar no Brasil.” 9º Encontro da Associação Brasileira de Relações Internacionais. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Brazil, July 2023.

 “Money Talks: The IPES, Brazilian Elites, and the 1973 Coup in Chile.” Poderes fácticos, corrupción, empresarios y feminismo into the Track: ¿Quién manda en América Latina y el Caribe? De los poderes fácticos a la gobernanza criminal, International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Vancouver, Canada, May 2023.

“Teaching and Learning with Transformative Texts,” CUNY Teaching Matters Peer-to-Peer Monthly Workshop. Online, May 2023.

“Annual Celebration of Faculty Excellence: Fostering Scholarly Community Awareness,” was the one annual faculty selected to represent the School of Arts and Humanities scholarship excellence. Lehman College, New York, May 2023.

“The Publication of Expresso 2222 and Impacts on Interdisciplinary Thinking,” Annual Celebration of Faculty Excellence: Fostering Scholarly Community Awareness Panel Presentation. Lehman College, New York, May 2023.

“Live @ 365: Gilberto Gil’s Expresso 2222 Turns 50.” Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, New York, April 2023.

“Vista Chinesa,” launch of Tatiana Salem Levy’s book, The Graduate Center, New York, April 2023.

“Nurturing Interdisciplinary Thinking,” TEDx CUNY. Gerald W Lynch Theater, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, March 2023.

“Democracia Agora ou Nunca: os desafios do novo governo brasileiro” (moderator). Roudtable about the challenges of the new Brazilian government. Skylight Room, The Graduate Center, New York, March 2023.

“Everyday Acts of Design,” Roundtable for the launch of Zoy Anastassakis and Marcos Martins’s book. Bloomsbury Academic, Online, December 2022.

Opening Remarks “Violão: A Concert Celebrating Sergio Assad and the Brazilian Guitar,” The Graduate Center, New York. November 2022.

Opening Remarks “Documentary Film Screening and Discussion – Sementes: Mulheres Pretas no Poder,” The Graduate Center, New York, September 2022.

“The World That Latin America Created,” Roundtable for the launch of Margarita Fajardo’s book. Harvard University Press and Word Up Books, New York. September 2022.

“Film and Literature” (moderator), Consulate of Brazil in New York, Focus Brazil New York. August, 2022.

Book Launch Dona Ivone Lara: Sorriso Negro (Editora Cobogó). Museu Histórico da Cidade, Rio de Janeiro, April 2022.

“Book talk: Sorriso Negro,” Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Online, March 2022.

“Além do Cânone (Beyond the Canon),” Roundtable for the launch of Celso Castro’s book. Online event, Editora Fundação Getulio Vargas. March 2022.

“Women and Trade in the Americas,” World Trade Organization in partnership with University of West Indies, Cave Hill Campus (Barbados), the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) and the University of Chile. December, 2021.

“Readings: Sorriso Negro,” a Reading series sponsored by Group.BR and Consulate of Brazil in New York. October, 2021.

“Career Diversity and the Post-COVID-19 Job Market.” Crisis global, desigualdades y centralidad de la vida, International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA),Virtual Congress, May, 2021.

 “Dictatorship, Resistance, and Feminisms in Dona Ivone Lara’s Sorriso Negro,” Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies, University of Illinois. February, 2021.

“A Reading a Discussion: Dona Ivone Lara’s Sorriso Negro.” Leonard Lief Library, Lehman College, CUNY. February, 2021.

 “Brazil and United States Relations in the End of The Trump Era and the Continuity of Bolsonaro,” Instituto Federal de Educação do Maranhão, Brazil. January, 2021.

“Dona Ivone Lara’s Sorriso Negro: the Soundtrack of Black and Feminist Movements.” Women and Gender Studies Fall Lecture Series, Lehman College, CUNY. November, 2020.

“Dona Ivone Lara’s Sorriso Negro in the Context of the Brazilian Dictatorship.” Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series, Queens College. October, 2020.

“Book Talk: Dona Ivone Lara’s Sorriso Negro.” Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series, Lehman College. September, 2020 (invited speaker).

“Latinx in the US Elections”. Focus Brazil Orlando. September, 2020 (invited speaker)

“Book Talk: Dona Ivone Lara’s Sorriso Negro.” Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series, Lehman College. September, 2020 (invited speaker).

 “Dona Ivone Lara’s Sorriso Negro: the Soundtrack of Black and Feminist Movements.” Brazil Research Seminar, Columbia University. March, 2020.

“Dona Ivone Lara’s Sorriso Negro: the Soundtrack of Black and Feminist Movements in the Last Years of Brazilian Dictatorship.” Global Brazil Conference, Duke University. February, 2020 (invited speaker).

“Women, Immigration and Entrepreneurship,” Consulate of Brazil in New York. November, 2019. (invited panel moderator).

“The Works of Machado de Assis.” The Players Club, New York. November, 2019 (invited panel moderator).

“Book Talk about Sorriso Negro.” Focus Brasil Orlando, Florida. October, 2019 (invited speaker).

“Dona Ivone Lara’s Sorriso Negro: the Soundtrack of Black and Feminist Movements in the Last Years of Brazilian Dictatorship.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, New York University. October, 2019 (invited speaker).

“A conversation with Brazilian author Silvio de Abreu,” Brazilian Consulate in New York, October, 2019 (invited moderator).

“Graduate School in the United States,” FDV (Faculdade de Direito de Vitória), September, 2019 (invited class) 

“Dona Ivone Lara’s Sorriso Negro: The Soundtrack of Black and Feminist Movements in the Post Dictatorship Brazil.” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), Oaxaca, Mexico, March, 2019.

“Making Sense of the Crisis and of the Threat to Democracy in Brazil.” New York University, November, 2018 (moderator).

“Between Coups: Brazil and Chile Relations Before Allende and After 1964.” Transnational Counterrevolutions: Ideas and Practices of the Right in Latin America’s Cold War, Columbia University, November, 2018. (invited speaker)

Journalism in the Age of Disaster: Puerto Rico: La Tormenta, The Truth and Making Sense One Year After Hurricane Maria. Lehman College, October, 2018. (co-organizer)

Latinx Media in the Trump Era Lecture Series. Lehman College, March-April, 2018. (organizer)

“Onze de Setembro: Brazilian Narratives of the 1973 Coup in Chile.” Congresso Internacional de Americanistas (ICA), University of Salamanca, July, 2018. (presenter and panel coordinator)

Dona Ivone Lara’s Sorriso Negro: The Soundtrack of Black and Feminist Movements in the Post-Dictatorship Brazil, XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Barcelona, May, 2018.

“Onze de Setembro: Brazilian Narratives of the 1973 Coup in Chile.” New York City Latin American History Workshop, New York University, April, 2018. (invited speaker)

“So Near and Yet So Far: Nationalism and Identity among Brazilian Exiles in Chile.” Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), Brown University, April, 2016.

“The Political Situation in Brazil.” Brown University, November, 2015. (invited speaker)

“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?: The impact of Fidel Castro’s 1971 visit to Santiago, Chile.” Simposio Internacional la Revolución Cubana: Génesis y Desarrollo Histórico, Havana, October, 2015.

“So Near and Yet So Far: Nationalism and Identity among Brazilian Exiles in Chile.” XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, May, 2015.

“So Near and Yet So Far: Nationalism and Identity among Brazilian Exiles in Chile.” Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), Tucson, Arizona, May, 2015.

 “Dictatorship across Borders: The Brazilian influence on the overthrow of Salvador Allende” XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Chicago, May, 2014.

“Dictatorship across Borders: Diplomatic Relations Between Brazil and Chile, and the overthrow of Salvador Allende.” Colloque Penser les Droites en Amérique Latine au XXe Siècle. Institut des Hautes Etudes sur l’Amérique Latine, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France, January, 2014.

“El Modelo Brasileño y la Política Chilena.” Política y História de lo Político at Archivo Nacional de Chile, Santiago, Chile, October 2013.

“Dictatorship across Borders: The Brazilian influence on the overthrow of Salvador Allende.” Center for the United States and the Cold War Seminar Series, New York University, September 19, 2013.