The Language, Literacy, and Culture (LLC) Program, in collaboration with the Abdias do Nascimento Grant, invites you to the third session in our Public Research Presentation Series for the 2025–2026 academic year.
This series offers LLC students a space to share ongoing research, exchange ideas, and build community in collaboration with the Visiting Scholars from the Abdias do Nasciemento Grant through critical and creative dialogue.
This Wednesday, December 3, 2025 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the LLC Conference Room (SHER 202A), we will hold the third session in our Public Research Presentation series.
This session's featured participants:
Maria Julia Petronilho Peixoto Soares: "Race, crime and community: The tensions between black music and culture in North and South America"
Abstract: The research aims to investigate and understand the tensions within Black social networks permeated by music in North and South America. It is important to emphasize that each relationship established in these contexts is also influenced by elements such as race and class and, therefore, impacted by social institutions such as notions of crime and legality. The focus is to understand how all these factors contribute to the political—as well as cultural—perspective of Black music communities in the diaspora.
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Marian Silva Viola: "Aesthetic formulations of the black Brazilian author Miriam Alves to understand how her formal choices illuminate contemporary racial relations in Brazil and challenge existing sociological perspectives on Black Literature"
Abstract: The research seeks to analyze the aesthetic formulations present in the works of the Black Brazilian author Miriam Alves, in order to ascertain whether such formulations could contribute to the understanding of contemporary racial relations in Brazil. It investigates, based on a sociological analysis of Literature combined with an analysis of the writer's trajectory, the possible connections between her literary practice (and the formal choices made by the author, going beyond a simple thematic analysis of her works) and the social environment in which this art breathes and gains corporeality. The study intends to test the limits of this hypothesis and explore the ways these correlations might be established, offering relevant contributions to the fields of Sociology of Culture and Racial Relations. To this end, it establishes a dialogue with the main works of intellectuals from both Sociology and Literary Criticism to observe the position that aesthetic dispositions in literary works—commonly classified as belonging to the milieu of 'Black Literature'—occupied in their analyses. It expects to find, at the end of the research, contingencies that may both converge with and challenge these positions, thereby contributing to the consideration of other factors within a literary work in the analysis of productions by Black writers in Brazil.
This event is open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.