Lopes de Barros to Give Keynote Address at Diálogos
Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, Assistant Professor of Portuguese & Spanish, will be one of three keynote speakers at this year’s Diálogos XIX conference, to be held at Indiana University in March.
Lopes de Barros plans to give a talk titled “Vagabondage, Sports, Protest: Photography & Video in Brazil (2013-2016).” From his abstract:
“This lecture analyzes the work of a collective of Brazilian photographers called Selva/SP who engaged alongside youth protesters in the mass demonstrations of June 2013 in São Paulo. Drago (the pseudonym of Victor Dragonetti) registered with his camera the street battles from the perspective of the protesters, having taken the most iconic pictures of the events. Considerations about his photographs will be connected with the aesthetic claims of Selva/SP members: They seek to be contemporary flâneurs in the tradition of João do Rio and Baudelaire. A parallel will be traced with more recent films and videos as, for example, those that deal with the urban reforms undertaken in Rio de Janeiro in preparation for the 2016 Summer Olympics.”