2023 Stanley J. Stein Lecture: Gender, Slavery and Race in 19th-Century Brazilian Literature

The Brazil LAB and the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University presents the 2023 Stanley J. Stein Lecture, featuring historian Sidney Chalhoub with discussant Rafael Cesar (Princeton University)

This lecture honors the life and work of the Princeton Professor Stanley J. Stein (1920-2019), a historian of Brazil and Latin America.

Sidney Chalhoub is David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and of African and African American Studies and chair of the history department at Harvard University. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. His research and writing focus mainly on the social history of Brazil in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with emphasis on the history of slavery, race, public health, and the literature of Machado de Assis, a writer of African descent widely regarded as the most important Brazilian novelist of all times.

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies

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