The following seminars on Portuguese and Brazilian topics are open to 
all and you are very welcome to attend.

Dear Colleague,

Please find below details of the 2004-05 programme of Research 
seminars in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies. This 
programme can also be viewed at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/pobrst/sem.htm

RESEARCH SEMINARS 2004-2005 

All seminars take place in Room 8C in the Chesham Building, King's 
College, Strand between 5.00 and 6.30 pm.

Please notify Fernando Nonohay, the departmental administrator (at 
<[log in to unmask]>, if you wish to attend.

PROGRAMME

2004 

Dec 1 Bruno Reis (King's College London) The Portuguese colonial wars 
in comparative perspective.


Dec 8 Dr Mark Sabine (University of Nottingham) Saramago and Gabriel 
Garcia Marques (title to be confirmed)


2005

Jan 26 Prof Trevor Dadson (Queen Mary College) Camões (title to be 
confirmed).


Feb 2 Maite Conde (U. of California LA) Spectacular Scenes: Film and 
the Project of Modernity in Rio's Belle Epoque.


Feb 9 Geoffrey Chacaro (King's College London) 'Ghosts in the 
Machine' - the early years of recorded sound in Brazil 1889-1909.


Feb 23 Aquiles Alencar-Brayner (King's College London) Caught in the 
present: temporal perspective in the work of João Gilberto Noll.

Mar 2 Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (King's College London) The Congo 
Question: ecclesiastical and political rivalries and the 
internationalisation of African affairs (1865-1890).


Mar 9. Maria Lucia Pallares-Burke (Universidade de S.Paulo) The 
roundabout path to the Great House: Freyre and the making of Casa 
Grande e Senzala.


Mar 16 Dr Ester Scarpa (King's College London) title to be announced.



David H. Treece
Professor of Brazilian Studies
Head of Department
Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Director
Centre for the Study of Brazilian Culture and Society
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
UK
Tel. (020) 7848 1825 (direct line)
Fax. (020) 7848 2787
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/humanities/pobrst/index.html

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Dr Robert Howes
Visiting Research Associate
Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies
King's College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS
UK / Inglaterra
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