Lecture and Film Screening Event

“Homem com H” (“Latin Blood: The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso”)

Film directed by Esmir Filho

“Eu não levanto a bandeira, eu sou a bandeira”: Performing Beyond Performative Activism in the Work of Ney Matogrosso”

Lecture by Steven Butterman:

Steven Butterman is Professor of Modern Languages & Literatures & Director, Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies at the University of Miami. He is a leading scholar of Brazilian literature and culture, renowned especially for his research on Queer literature, performance, and media. He is the author of Perversions on Parade: Brazilian Literature of Transgression and Postmodern Anti-Aesthetics in Glauco Mattoso, (In)visibilidade Vigilante: Representações midiáticas da maior parada gay do planeta, and Queering and Querying the Paradise of Paradox: LGBT Language, New Media and Visual Cultures in Modern Day Brazil.