QDFCT Lecture | “Feminists and indigenous struggles in Brazil and artistic contexts”

With the support of Frauen- und Gleichstellungsbeauftragte of JLU, the Research Network in Queer Studies, Decolonial Feminisms and Cultural Transformations (QDFCT) starts the Summer Semester 2019 with a lecture by Flavia Meireles (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). The lecture “Feminists and indigenous struggles in Brazil and artistic contexts” will begin at 16:00 in R.202, Alten Steinbacher Weg 44, on May 7th and it will be followed by a discussion with Bojana Kunst, professor at the Department of Applied Theatre Studies, JLU.

The lecture addresses some contemporary relationships between grassroots social movements in Brazil and artistic contexts. What can be the connections between artistic activity and social transformation? What are the challenges of the work of the artist facing neoliberal production of subjectivity? Is there a way out of not being trapped in patriarchal, racial and colonial late capitalism? What are the new forms of exploitation and abuse of work?

Focusing on the urban indigenous struggle and the contemporary feminists claims in Rio de Janeiro (BR) Flavia Meireles will point out some issues of claiming social justice in Latin American context and how art has an ambivalent position when it deals with its social dimensions.

Flavia Meireles (lecturer) is Full Dance Professor at CEFET-RJ (Brazil) and Ph.D. Candidate in Communication and Culture at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is visiting researcher of the Angewandte Theaterwissenchaft (ATW) at Justus-Liebeg Universität (Giessen) with a scholarship from CAPES - Brasil. The present work was realized with the support of "Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior" - Brasil (CAPES).