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Lemann Lecture Series - Silvia Hunold Lara

Feb 21, 2023   12:00 pm  
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Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies LEMANN LECTURE SERIES - SPRING 2023 Tuesday, February 21st 12:00 PM - 13:30 PM ONLINE - Click here to register Silvia Hunold Lara Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) Palmares: Sources, History and Politics Palmares was the longest lasting and most extensive community of fugitives in the history of slavery in Brazil. The people who settled in the woods of southern Pernambuco resisted for more than a century (ca.1602/12-1714), occupied an extensive territory and were even recognized as a political unit by colonial authorities. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Palmares became an important symbol for the Black movement in Brazil and for those fighting for rights and against racism. This presentation discusses the documentary, historiographical and political aspects of the research that the renowned historian Silvia Lara published in the book Palmares & Cucaú (Edusp, 2021) and on the website Documenta Palmares. The site illustrates a rich and diverse collection of sources, which, examined in the light of Africanist historiography, reveal dimensions of the political culture of the inhabitants of the mocambos that allow a reassessment of the meaning of events such as the peace agreement established in 1678 with the government of Pernambuco. The presentation also deals with some of the historiographical and political developments that emerge from this new interpretation of the history of Palmares. Silvia Hunold Lara is a professor of history at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. Her research focuses on the history of slavery in Brazil in the 17th and 18th centuries. She has published Campos da violência. Escravos e senhores na capitania do Rio de Janeiro, 1750-1808 (1988); Fragmentos setecentistas. Escravidão, cultura e poder na América portuguesa, and has edited, among others, Direitos e Justiças no Brasil. Ensaios de história social (2006, with Joseli M. Nunes Mendonça), and Guerra contra Palmares: O Manuscrito de 1678 (2021, with Phablo Roberto Marchis Fachin). Her last book, Palmares & Cucaú. O aprendizado da dominação (2021) was a finalist for the 2022 Jabuti Prize (often called the Brazilian Pulitzer) and received the 2022 Brazilian National Library Literary Prize.
Sponsor
The Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Speaker
Silvia Hunold Lara, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
Contact
Lemann Center
E-Mail
lemann@illinois.edu
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February 21 – ONLINE EVENT – 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Silvia Hunold Lara; State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) 
Palmares: Sources, History and Politics

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