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Speakers: Thiago Amparo, Professor of Human Rights and International Law, FGV Law School in SP and Lemann Public Policy Fellow, Columbia University; Maria Homem, DRCLAS Associate Fall 2022; Jefferson Tenório, Visiting Professor of Literature, Brown University
Moderated by: Gabrielle Oliveira, Associate Professor of Education and of Brazil Studies in Harvard University
This event will discuss the role of the justice system in judging cases of racism in Brazil. With an interdisciplinary analysis, connecting law and psychoanalysis, exhibitors will address the sadistic superego, jurisprudence on racial insult, and the trivialization of insult as pillars of racism.
Thiago Amparo is a human rights and international law professor at FGV Law School in SP. Amparo writes for Brazil’s main newspaper on politics and equality. He’s currently a Lemann public policy fellow at the ILAS-Columbia University.
Maria Homem, Psychoanalyst and essayist, with a postgraduate degree from the University of Paris 8 and FFLCH/USP. Visiting School at DRCLAS and author of "Lupa da Alma" and "Coisa de Menina?", among others.
Jefferson Tenório holds a doctorate in literary theory from PUC-RS. He is a columnist for the newspapers Zero Hora and Uol / Folha de São Paulo. He is currently a visiting professor of literature at Brown University, USA. He is the author of O Averso da Pele (2020), which won the Jabuti award and had its rights sold to Portugal, Italy, England, France, Sweden, China, Belgium and the United States.
Gabrielle Oliveira, Associate Professor of Education and of Brazil Studies in Harvard University. M.A. and Ph.D from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City. She is the author of Motherhood Across Borders: Immigrants and their Children in Mexico and in New York City (NYU Press). Oliveira is also part of a group called "Colectiva Infancias".