Online Lecture: Machado de Assis, 20 September 2022
Dr Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva will be delivering the inaugural lecture for the Department of Modern Languages, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), on the 20th of September 2022, at 18:00 (GMT +1).
Online Lecture: Machado de Assis, 20 September 2022
20 Sep 2022, 18:00 – 19:00
The lecture will focus on the short stories by Brazilian author Machado de Assis and will be delivered in Portuguese. The event will take place online and will be broadcast on the YouTube channel of the Department of Anglo-Germanic Letters at UFRJ, and can be joined via the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TuO-6VWiG8
Dr Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva is Associate Professor in Brazilian Studies, at the School of European Languages, Culture and Society, at University College London (UCL). This lecture will discuss her most recent work and research on Machadian fiction. Dr Suriani da Silva is also the coordinator of the SELCS Brazilian Translation Club, a series of translation workshops aimed at disseminating Brazilian literature, in the English-speaking world.
Promoted by the Department of Anglo-Germanic Letters in partnership with the Graduate Program in Science of Literature, this cycle of lectures welcomes Brazilian and foreign researchers to discuss theoretical, comparative, compositional and historical issues of the novel, in a continuous exercise of reflection and scrutiny of the procedures of apprehension, analysis and interpretation of the novelistic genre. For further information, please visit their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TuO-6VWiG8
Further information
Ticketing
Open
Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes