The Making of Modern Brazil: a Transnational Perspective

Harvard FAS

Through transnational, comparative, and theoretical lenses, this seminar analyzes the crucial historical and cultural processes that shaped Brazil's emergence as a modern nation. It examines how global circulations of people, capital, ideas, and cultural forms have influenced Brazilian modernity from the nineteenth century to the present. Key dimensions will be analyzed, including images and self-representations, race and diaspora, regionalism and the revival of tradition, urbanization and…