Center for Brazil Studies

The Center for Brazil Studies hosts events on the University of Oklahoma's campus that gather members of the community who are passionate about topics related to Brazil.

Check back with us soon for upcoming events!

Past Events

Lunch & Speaker: Black Theopolitics in Brazil, A talk by Ronilso Pacheco, Baptist pastor, Theologian, Human Rights Activist and Director at the Institute of Religious Studies (ISER) (September 26, 2025)
The Rich and the Poor: Inequality in Brazil (March 5, 2024)
Vaccine Hesitancy Across the Americas (February 27, 2024)
Brazil Night (November 30, 2023)
Photography as Indigenous Resistance (October 11, 2023)
Images of Environmental Justice in the Americas: An Indigenous Cultural Dialogue (October 10, 2023)
Expanding the "Street" in Brazilian Hip Hop: LGBTQI+ Artivism and Progressive Black Aesthetics (April 26, 2023)
Affirmative Action in Graduate Studies in Brazil (December 5, 2022)
Brazil's Presidential Elections: What's at Stake? (October 6, 2022)
Family Made Strange: The Impact of Social Media on Family Dynamics, as a Classe Popular Family from Recife Contemplates the 2018 Presidential Elections (PDF) (February 17, 2022)
Protecting the Human Rights in the Americas (October 21, 2021)
Human Rights, Culture, and Cultural Policy in Brazil (PDF) (October 7, 2021)
International Advocacy: Reporting to the United Nations Human Rights Council (PDF) (September 21, 2021)
Medical Doctors and COVID-19: A Brazil/U.S. Research Workshop (PDF) (September 2, 2021)
Travels, Translations, and the Literary Imagination of Brazil in the Americas (April 30, 2021)
IAS Symposium: Burning Issues: The Environment, Human Rights, and Democracy in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (February-March 2021)
Coronavirus and Inequalities in the US and Brazil (PDF) (September 29, 2020)
Politics and Society in Brazil Today (February 12, 2020)
Structural Racism, Neoliberalism, and Necropolitics in Brazil (Dec 4, 2019)
Study Abroad Informational Session (Nov 25, 2019)
Center Launch Ceremony (November 22, 2019)

OU Big Idea Challenge Funds SIS Faculty Research Project Focused on Latin America

Two SIS faculty members are among the recipients of OU's "Big Idea Challenge 2.0," a program facilitated by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships and designed to foster cross-disciplinary research projects.

OU Researcher’s Study on the Transnational Policy Process Receives Top Honors

A study co-authored by Michelle Morais, Ph.D., an associate professor in the David L. Boren School of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma, has been awarded the best article of 2023 by the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice.

Center for Brazil Studies Co-Director Fabio de Sa e Silva Co-Edits New Book

Fabio de Sa e Silva, Associate Professor of International Studies, Wick Cary Professor of Brazilian Studies and Co-Director of the Center for Brazil Studies, has co-edited a new book published with FGV Press in Brazil, titled Rule of Law and Authoritarian Populism

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Behner Steel Center for Brazilian Studies, San Diego State University, California