A colloquium sponsored by the Luso-Brazilian Review, Latin American Caribbean and Iberian Studies, and the

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

MACHADO DE ASSISYesterday and Today

Friday, April 6 and Saturday, April 7, 2018University of Wisconsin-Madison

Friday, April 6, 2018— University Club, 803 State Street, Room 313—

5:00pm — Welcome Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Co-Editor to the Luso-Brazilian Review Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University, Co-Editor to the Luso-Brazilian Review

5:15pm — Keynote, “Machado de Assis, modos de consagração” Hélio de Seixas Guimarães, Universidade de São Paulo, Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Introduction by Severino Albuquerque, University of Wisconsin-Madison

6:15pm — Reception Reading Room (main floor)

Saturday, April 7, 2018— Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Room 212—

9:00am-10:45am — Session 1 Moderator: Falina Enriquez, University of Wisconsin-Madison K. David Jackson, Yale University, “A Literary Life: The World Library of Machado de Assis” Sidney Chalhoub, Harvard University, “Worlds of Gender in Machado de Assis’s Short Stories” Luciana Namorato, Indiana University, “Genius or Craftsman? Machado de Assis and the Lusophone Tradition”

10:45am-11:00am — Coffee break

11:00am-12:30pm — Session 2 Moderator: Ellen Sapega, University of Wisconsin-Madison Rex Nielson, Brigham Young University, “Vulnerability, Resistance, and the Street: Some Thoughts on Agency in the Work of Machado de Assis”

Saturday, April 7, 2018, cont’d Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University, “Machado dissimulado: entre a compostura e a expressão” Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Seeking Urban Grace: Machado de Assis and his Work at the Intersection of Science and Normalcy”

12:30pm-2:00pm — Lunch (main dining room)

2:00pm-3:15pm — Session 3 Moderator: Israel Pechstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Managing Editor to the Luso-Brazilian Review António Marcos Vieira Sanseverino, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande do Sul and Brown University, “A representação do feminino no conto de Machado de Assis” Ingrid Brioso Rieumont, Princeton University, “Brás Cubas em tradução”

3:15pm-3:30pm — Coffee break

3:30pm-5:30pm — Session 4, “Teaching Machado de Assis: A Roundtable” Moderators: Hélio de Seixas Guimarães and Pedro Meira Monteiro Cintia Vezzani, Northwestern University, “Capitu Cheated. So What? Reading Dom Casmurro in the Tradition of the Adultery Novel” Rex Nielson, Brigham Young University, “Helping students to develop cultural competence by creating “digital curiosity cabinets” through web 2.0 platforms like Pinterest” Open discussion

The organizers would like to thank Israel Pechstein (Managing Editor) and Mariana Oliveira and Carolina Ferreira (Assistants to the editors) for their help with this colloquium. This event would not be possible without the support of the Luso-Brazilian Review, Latin American Caribbean and Iberian Studies, and the

Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

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