REBRAC 10th Anniversary Conference: Remapping Brazilian Cultural Studies +10

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REBRAC (European Network of Brazilianists Working in Cultural Analysis) is a dynamic international research network connecting scholars, post-graduate students, and practitioners across disciplines, foregrounding cultural perspectives on Brazil.

The 7^th International Conference of REBRAC will take place on 15-17 January 2026 at King’s College London (UK), in association with our Bridging Worlds project at the University of Leeds.

We are very grateful to the Instituto Guimaraes Rosa/British Council for sponsoring our Keynote speaker Lilia Schwarcz who will present on Images of Whiteness: the Presence of Absence.

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz is an art and political historian, and anthropologist, a full and senior professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (USP), and a global scholar/visiting professor at Princeton University. She is the author of Spectacle of races (1997), Emperors Beards (2001), Brazil: a biography (2009), Black enciclopedia (2021), Images of whiteness: the presence of absence (2024), among other books. She was a cocurator at MASP from 2015 until 2023, and has curated a series of exhibitions, including " Afro-Atlantic histories" and "Democracy”.  She wrote several art catalogues and books of art such as: Imperfect Pearl: the histories of Adriana Varejão (2014), and Dalton Paula: the kidnapper of souls.  She is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL), of the Humans Right Watch, and of the Brazilian Presidential Council (2023-2026).