Labor History: Views from Brazil

Hybird event:
In-person: Warren Center Conference Room (B21), Robinson Hall
Zoom: To register, click here. 

Program:

3:00 - 4:30 pm
Panel 1: Labor, Race, and Dictatorship
Moderator: Sidney Chalhoub (History and AAAS/Harvard)

Alexandre Fortes (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro): “The Second World War and the Rise of Mass Nationalism in Brazil: Class, Race and Citizenship.”

Paulo Fontes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Fellow, Harvard Radcliffe Institute): “‘Racial Democracy’ and ‘Syndicalist Republic’: The Experiences of Brazilian Black Labor Leaders (1940s-1960s).”

Larissa Corrêa (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro/Visiting Scholar, History Department, Harvard University): “‘The Gospel as the Leaven of Collective Action’: Working-Class Communities and the Worker Priests Missionary Movement during the Dictatorship (1962-1976).”

4:30 - 5:00 pm
Coffee Break

5:00 to 6:00 pm
Panel 2: Labor and Gender
Moderator: Paulina Alberto (History and AAAS/Harvard)

Fabiane Popinigis (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro/Visiting Scholar, University of Pittsburgh): “Living under the Same Roof: Disputes over Gendered Definitions of Work in a Slave Society (Brazil, 19th Century).”

Cristiana Schettini (Universidad Nacional de General San Martín-Argentina and CONICET): “Girls under Contract: The Work of Entertaining Men in Pos-Abolition Rio de Janeiro.”