Lemann Institute

Resources

Every year the Lemann Institute receives Brazilian and Brazilianist scholars that come to the University of Illinois to conduct research, to give lectures, to participate in conferences sponsored by the Institute, and to collaborate in different research projects across campus.

The Institute produces working papers and subsidizes publications about Brazil.

Lemann Institute Resources

Lemann Institute Working Papers Series

The Lemann Institute initiated in 2011 a Working Papers Series to disseminate current issues on Brazilian studies. Please click on the links below to access the publications. Authors interested in producing a working paper should contact David Fleischer, Institute Coordinator.

Brazil as an Emerging Economy: a new economic miracle?

Edmund Amann, Werner Baer. Working Paper # 01. May 2011

The Brazilian Federal State in the Old Republic (1889-1930)

Joseph L. Love. Working Paper # 02. June 2011

Money for Results

Marcos C. Holanda. Working Paper # 03. November 2011

 

Distinguished Visiting Brazilian Scholar Program

Every year, the Lemann Institute of Brazilian Studies brings prominent Brazilian researchers to spend a semester or an academic year at UIUC.

2011-2012 Visiting Scholar
Eduardo Coutinho

Dr. Eduardo Coutinho has a BA in Portuguese Language and Literature from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1968), an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1973) and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley (1983). He is currently Professor of Comparative Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has experience in the Arts with emphasis in Comparative Literature, acting on the following topics: comparative literature, Latin America, literary theory, literature, Brazilian writer Guimarães Rosa. Dr. Eduardo Coutinho will teach the graduate seminar "Poetic Constructions and the Formation of the Cultural Imaginary in Brazil" (PORT 410/510) during the Fall 2011 semester.

2010-2011 Visiting Scholar
Roberto DaMatta

Dr. Roberto DaMatta has a B.A degree in History from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF); a specialization course in Social Anthropology from the National Museum (UFRJ); and a M.A. and Ph.D. degree from the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. He was Head of Anthropology Department and Coordinator the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the National Museum (UFRJ). He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, where he held the Chair Rev. Edmund Joyce of Anthropology from 1987 to 2004. He is currently Full Professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He conducted ethnological research among the Apinayé and Gaviões Indigenous groups in Brazil. He was a pioneer in studies of ritual and festivals in industrial societies, having investigated Brazil as a society and as a cultural system through the analysis of carnival, football, music, food, citizenship, women, death, and the numbers game categories of time and space. Dr.Roberto da Matta gave a series of lectures and workshops during his residence here at UIUC in 2010.

 

Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)

Since July 2011, the Lemann Institute is the host institution for BRASA, an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who support and promote Brazilian studies in all fields, especially in the humanities and social sciences. BRASA currently has 700 members worldwide. BRASA organizes an international congress on Brazilian studies every other year and the 2012 Conference will be held here at UIUC.