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Virtual Event

This screening includes A Conversation on Memórias Afro-Atlânticas (Afro-Atlantic Legacies)

Still image from A Conversation on Memórias Afro-Atlânticas (Afro-Atlantic Legacies).

Date and time:: Fri, Nov 20, 2020, From 7–8:16 pm
Runtime:: 1 hr 16 min
Cost:: Free, no ticket required

Director Gabriela Barreto, Executive Producer Cassio Nobre, and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia Xavier Vatin are scheduled to be present for a virtual conversation and interactive Q&A with the IU Institute for Advanced Study. This event is the Institute's Fall 2020 Branigin Lecture.

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We encourage you to watch the film Memórias Afro-Atlânticas before joining us for this event. Only those registered for the November 20 event via Zoom will have access to the film.

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In Brazil, November 20 is celebrated annually as Dia da Consciência Negra, Black Consciousness Day. The day celebrates Afro-Brazilians and their contributions to Brazilian society while reflecting on the injustices of slavery. Learn more about Brazil's Black Consciousness Day.

Participating in this panel are:

Gabriela Barreto, Director, Memórias Afro-Atlânticas
Suzanne Godby Ingalsbe, Associate Director, Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University
Maria Hamilton Abegunde, Founding Director of the Graduate Mentoring Center, Indiana University
Cassio Nobre, Director, Couraça Criações Culturais; musician; musicologist; music producer; Executive Producer, Memórias Afro-Atlânticas
Solimar Otero, Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University; Editor, Journal of Folklore Research
Xavier Vatin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Brazil

This program is sponsored by IU Cinema, IU Institute for Advanced Study, Archives of Traditional Music, Black Film Center/Archive, Center for Documentary Research and Practice, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society, Center for the Study of Global Change, IU Arts & Humanities Council, IU Libraries, and the departments of African Studies, Anthropology, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, and Religious Studies.

Series: Additional Films and Guests, IU Cinema Virtual Screening Room

Rating:: Not rated
Year Released:: 2019
Format:: Virtual
Genres:: Documentary
Metadata:: Directed by Gabriela Barreto

In 1940, a Black American linguist, Lorenzo Dow Turner, came to Brazil to study the African languages still spoken and sung in the Candomblés of Bahia. Over the course of seven months of intensive research, Turner found and recorded the most emblematic religious figures of the time: Martiniano do Bonfim, Menininha do Gantois, Joãozinho da Goméia, Manoel Falefá, among other distinguished representatives of Afro-Brazilian religions. The recordings and photographs by Turner in Bahia—whose aim was to show the linguistic relationship with Gullah, a language he had studied in the 1930s and which is still spoken today in the south of the United States, along the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina, by descendants of slaves in a situation of cultural and geographical isolation—serve as a pioneering and unique witness to the presence and preservation of African languages in Brazil and the Americas. Presenting rare images and sounds, the feature-length documentary Memórias Afro-Atlânticas follows the footsteps of Lorenzo Turner and revisits the Candomblé terreiros recorded by him almost 80 years later in search of memories and remnants still alive. In Portuguese with English subtitles.