Conference Schedule
Date and Location: Friday 20 April 2019 in Duke Divinity School Basement Room 0014W. The conference will be recorded and live streamed here. See the write-up and summary of the conference here.
8:30AM: Coffee and Bagels
9:00AM: John French (History, Duke)
“In Defense of the Right to Higher Education: The Nova Iquacu Letter of March 1, 2018”
9:10AM: Travis Knoll (Duke History ABD)
“The Brazilian Higher Education Expansion: Achievements and Threats”
9:30AM: Dr. Marcia Pletsch (Pedagogy, Multidisciplinary Institute of the UFRRJ)
“The Challenges Facing K-12 Education in the Baixada Fluminense (Rio Lowlands)”
10:15AM: Challenging Mobility: Calculating the Cost of Opportunity for Students in the Baixada Fluminense (team presentation)
10:30AM: Eduardo Ângelo da Silva (History Doctoral Candidate, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro)
“Leveling the Playing Field: The ENEM Exam as a Democratic Conquest”
10:50AM: Coffee
11:00AM: Revolutionizing Public Higher Education in Brazil since 2004
(team presentation)
11:25AM: Cesar Santos (EducAfro, Funai, Brazil)
“Democratizing Higher Education in Brazil: The Experience of EducAfro”
12:00PM: Film: “Cost of Opportunity” by Dudu de Morro Agudo & Stephanie Reist
12:30PM: Lunch
1:00PM: Andrew Guinn (City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina)
“Dead End or Promising Beginning? PRONATEC and the Work of Training institutions in the PT Era”
Respondent: Tito Matias (Fulbright Scholar from Brazil)
1:20PM: Round Table: Paths to Higher Ed for Brazilians: Personal Experiences
Dr. Gustavo Silva (Biology, Duke), Eduardo Ângelo da Silva (UFRRJ), Matheus Dias (Duke), Luiza Perez (Duke).
Commentator: Cesar Santos
2:00PM: The World Bank is Wrong. The Future of Brazilian Higher Education
(team presentation)
2:30PM: Father Clarence Williams, CPPS, PhD. (Columbus Ohio)
“Globalizing Racial Sobriety: Black Christianity and Solidarity in the Americas”
3:15PM: Coffee
3:30PM: Children of the Revolution: What do they Study? What do they need? What is the impact on them? (team presentation)
4:00PM: Chloe Ricks (International Comparative Studies, Duke),
“Poverty, Anti-Blackness, and University Education in the Mississippi Delta and the Baixada Fluminense”
4:25PM: Dr. Michele K. Lewis (Psychology, Winston Salem State University),
“Examining Race, Identity, and Culture in Bahia with Winston-Salem State University Students: Using Photovoice to Educate During Study Abroad”
5:10PM: Dr. John D. French
“Making Equity Number One: Using Brazil to Critique US Higher Education Disparities”
5:30-6:00PM: Dinner reception
Sponsors: Bass Connections Education and Human Development; Duke Brazil Initiative; Global Brazil Humanities and Social Movement labs of the John Hope Franklin Institute; Forum for Scholars and Publics; Kenan Institute for Ethics; Duke History Department.
For more information, contact conference coordinator Travis Knoll @ cell phone: 512 954-5624 , Email: travis.knoll@duke.edu
