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Inês Thomas Almeida, “Invisible Legacies throughout History: How Women Shaped Music in Portugal and Brazil”

Inês Thomas Almeida holds a PhD in Historical Musicology. Her research aims to foster an understanding of Lusophone musical heritage in which women are not peripheral figures but agents in the creation, preservation, and transformation of music. The lecture will reclaim these invisible legacies, from Arabic-Andalusian female singers in southern Portugal and mixed-race Brazilian prima donnas to 19th-century singing nuns, the first female conductors in Portugal and Brazil, and more.

Inês Beleza Barreiros: Challenging the Colonial Complex: Thinking Visually in Contemporary Portugal

Inês Beleza Barreiros (Universidade Nova de Lisboa/Brown University) is an art historian, cultural critic, and curator. Her research delves into how art an images become knowledge producing objects and she has published on the visual cultural, public memory, and afterlives of colonialism in the Portuguese-speaking worlds. She is presently preparing the monograph Thinking Virtually: The Afterlives of Portuguese Imperialism. Wednesday, December 4th, 5:30pm Marketplace

Richard Zenith, “The Lyric Camões, Sensual and Diverse”

Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture/Tagus Press, Department of Portuguese and the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives present Richard Zenith, “The Lyric Camões, Sensual and Diverse” Wednesday, October 9, 5:30 pm Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives (Library)

Simon Park (University of Oxford), “When Does the Empire Begin? Camões’s Os Lusíadas (1572)”

Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture/Tagus Press, Department of Portuguese and the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives present Simon Park (University of Oxford), “When Does the Empire Begin? Camões’s Os Lusíadas (1572)” Wednesday, October 9, 5:30 pm Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives (Library)