Brazil Week: The Dusk of Writing

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Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 5:15pm

Taylor Institute, St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3NA, Room 2

The Taylor Lecture 2016 with speaker Professor Pedro Meira Monteiro (Princeton University) will be on The Dusk of Writing: Machado de Assis’s Last Pages and the Unfulfilled Promise of Brazil at the Taylor Institute, Room 2, University of Oxford, Thursday 3 March 2016, at 5.15pm

Pedro Meira Monteiro is Professor and Chair in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. He works at the intersection of intellectual history and literature and has published on iconic cultural figures such as Mário de Andrade, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Machado de Assis.

All welcome.

For further details please contact Phillip Rothwell.

This event is part of Brazil Week 2016. The organizers are grateful for the support and assistance of St Peter’s College JCR, the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese and the Faculty of Modern Languages, and the TORCH Global Brazil Network (Humanities Division). Contacts: Claire Williams,  Gui Perdigao and Daniel Mandur Thomaz.

 

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Audience: Open to all