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Portugués Nós, integrantes do Global Brazil Humanities Lab da Duke University, como estudiosos do Brasil e da América Latina, nos posicionamos contra o golpe que se implanta em terras brasileiras, as ações antiéticas perpetradas pelo judiciário e a manipulação de informações pela mídia nacional e internacional, que têm levado o país a um cenário de […]

Follow Global Brazil Humanities Lab Co-Director, Dr. Christine Folch (@christinefolch; https://cfolch.blogspot.com/), at the Paris Climate Conference (COP21), as she attends to “how creative voices of the margins speak to larger issues of climate, nature, and environment.” An Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural, Prof. Folch works on environmental ethics and how groups conceptualize and politicize their […]

We have you covered. Learn more about opportunities for the 2015-16 academic year, including research projects and language training, by viewing our informational presentation. 

A collection of videos, including invited talks and interviews, from the Global Brazil Lab’s 2015 conference is now available online. Consult the schedule for the March conference to select a video (identified by a video icon) or head over to the Global Brazil Lab channel in the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute’s video collection.

Last day of class brings the happy news that the Global Brazil Lab‘s web exhibit Pop Art in the Americas: 1965-1975 is now live. The exhibit is the work of students in the “Pop Art in the Americas,” a “curatorial seminar” taught by Lab Co-director Esther Gabara and PhD assistant/Bass Teaching Fellow Camila Maroja. You can see a full list of the […]

What is capoeira? As new students to this ambiguous art form, we still struggle to succinctly answer this question. In biweekly workshops and weekly seminars in Global Brazil Lab course Capoeira: Culture and Practice, we deconstruct both the physical movements and historical context behind capoeira. We have learned that capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art […]

Ava LaVonne Vinesett​, Director of Undergraduate Studies & Associate Professor of the Practice of Dance and Faculty Director of the Baldwin Scholars Program, writes about being in Brazil not for the World Cup. It’s Friday, June 20th. Due to severe weather my flight from Raleigh-Durham to Miami was delayed, and as a result I’m standing in line with about […]

Read what our students and faculty members are currently writing about Brazil in our new blog portion of the GBL website.   The copa ends but the work continues Katya Wesolowski   It has been several months now since Brazil’s inglorious exit from the World Cup.   I watched the Germany game along with twenty thousand […]