Anthropologist and art curator at Centro Cultural São Paulo reading two poems by Conceição Evaristo bringing Clarice Lispector and Carolina Maria de Jesus together, “Clarice no quarto de despejo” e “Carolina na hora da estrela”, in Portuguese.
Pedro Meira Monteiro (Brazil/United States)
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University reading his reflections on the works of Clarice Lispector, Hélène Cixous and Paula Rego, in Portuguese.
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (Brazil)
Professor of Anthropology at the Universidade de São Paulo and Visiting Professor at Princeton University Visiting reading excerpts from A Hora da Estrela (The Hour of the Star) and commenting on A Paixão segundo G.H. (The Passion According to G.H.), in Portuguese.
Ernesto Mané Jr. (Brazil)
Brazilian Diplomat and physicist reading excerpts from the crônica “Mineirinho”, in Portuguese.
Benedito Machava (Mozambique/United States)
Assistant Professor of African History at Yale University reading excerpts from A Paixão segundo G.H (The Passion According to G.H), in Portuguese.
Anaís Martinez Jimenez (Mexico/United States)
Doctoral student in Comparative Literature at Princeton University reading her text inspired by Água Viva, in English.
Marcelo Medeiros (Brazil/United States)
Economic sociologist at the Brazilian Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) and Research Associate at Princeton University’s Brazil LAB reading excerpts from the short-story “Uma esperança” [“A Hope”] from Felicidade Clandestina [Covert Joy], in Portuguese.
Sergio Medeiros (Brazil/United Kingdom)
Poet and visual artist reading excerpts from the short-story “O ovo e a galinha” (“The Egg and the Chicken”), in Portuguese.
Carlos Mendes de Sousa (Portugal)
Professor of Brazilian Literature at the Universidade de Minho reading his reflections on Clarice Lispector´s work, in Portuguese.
Mariela Méndez (United States/Argentina)
Professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies at the University of Richmond reading the short-story “Amor” (“Love”) from Laços de Família (Lazos de familia), in Spanish.