Talk: The Novel as Counter-Archive: Black Literature in Post-Abolition Brazil.
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to announce a lecture by Matheus Gato, Professor of Sociology at the University of Campinas (Unicamp) and Coordinator of the Afro-Cebrap Research Group. The talk, The Novel as Counter-Archive: Black Literature in Post-Abolition Brazil, explores how two novels by Black intellectuals—Nascimento Moraes’ Vencidos e Degenerados and Astolfo Marques’ A Nova Aurora—reframe the history of the post-abolition period in Brazil.
Professor Gato is an award-winning scholar whose research examines racism, racial classification and violence, Black intellectual traditions, and the post-abolition period in Brazil. He is the author of O Massacre dos Libertos (2020), recognized by Brazil's National Association of Research in the Social Sciences (ANPOCS) and a finalist for the Jabuti Prize, Brazil’s most prestigious literary award.
Date & Time: Monday, April 27, 2026 | 4:30–6:00 PM
Location: Dartmouth Hall 105
Admission: Free and open to the public
This lecture is sponsored by the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life, the Leslie Center for the Humanities, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.