Antônio Callado – A Centenary Symposium
A symposium to mark the centenary of the birth of iconic Brazilian novelist and journalist Antônio Callado (1917-1997)
N.B. All presentations will be in Portuguese
10:00am: À procura da utopia americana: Antônio Callado e Alejo Carpentier
Albert Von Brunn (Zentralbibliothek Zürich)
10:30am: A Arte Modernista como instrumento de ‘Soft Power’ brasileiro na Segunda Guerra
Hayle Gadelha (Brazilian Embassy in London)
11:00am: Antônio Callado na BBC
Thomas Pappon (BBC Brasil)
11.30am-11.50pm Coffee Break
11:50pm: Testemunho, uma conversa com Ana Arruda Callado
Ana Arruda Callado (journalist, writer, biographer and Callado’s widow)
12:20pm: Pisando numa ilha desconhecida: os radio-dramas inéditos de Antônio Callado
Daniel Mandur Thomaz (St Peter’s College, Oxford)
12:35pm: Cavalcade Carioca
Live reading of one of Callado’s original radio scripts from 1940s by students and tutors from the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese, University of Oxford
More details can be found on the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages: http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/events/2017/01/30/brazil-week-2017
This event is free and open to all, but please register attendance for the Simone Spoladore and Callado Symposium with:
sandra.beaumont@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk.
The organisers are grateful for the support of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, St Peter’s College and the Instituto Camões.
Contacts: claire.williams@spc.ox.ac.uk, gui.perdigao@stcatz.ox.ac.uk, daniel.mandurthomaz@spc.ox.ac.uk, rachel.randall@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk