A conference organized by the Brazil LAB and the Lewis Center for the Arts. Live-streamed to the Brazil LAB YouTube Channel

Everything in the world began with a yes.
One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. 
– The Hour of the Star

Friday . November 13 . 2020 . WATCH HERE

2:00 pm – Paulo Gurgel Valente (Clarice Lispector’s son and literary executor) in conversation with Marília Librandi (Princeton)

2:30 pm – Clarice Lispector’s translators Idra Novey (Princeton), Johnny Lorenz (Montclair) and Katrina Dodson (Columbia) in conversation with João Biehl (Princeton)

3:15 pm – Keynote address by Jhumpa Lahiri (Princeton) with Jimin Kang, Ashley Roundtree & Sergio De Iudicibus (Princeton)

Followed by the online concert Now/Agora Clarice with Beatriz Azevedo & Moreno Veloso on November 25, 2020 (accompanied by Jaques Morelenbaum (cello) and Marcelo Costa (percussion).

Co-sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Humanities Council, and the Department of Anthropology,