Ligia Bezerra

Selected invited talks

2022, Apr.        “Consumo e comida em Que horas ela volta, de Anna Muylaert.” CineSal Meetings, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, via Youtube.

2020, Nov.       “Consumo e cultura no Brasil: Da neoliberalização ao Bolsonarismo.” Guest Talk via Zoom, Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania.

2020, May        “Cultura e globalização: Identidades ou cosmopolitismo?” Guest Live Talk in a series by DIPRACS – Universidade Federal do Ceará. Facebook Live and YouTube: 

2019, May        “The Book Industry in Claudia Piñeiro’s Betibú.” CCLAS Colloquium. Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

2019, Apr.        “Consuming Brazil: Twenty-First Century Narratives.” Lusophone Studies Keynote Presentation. 75th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, Kentucky.

2017, Dec.       “República Federativa do Consumo: Imagens do Brasil em O Brasil é bom, de André Sant’Anna.” VIII Simpósio Internacional sobre Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea: Escritas – Leituras – Resistências. Brasília, Brazil.

2017, May        “Português como língua estrangeira: O contexto acadêmico dos EUA.” Panel: Português Língua Estrangeira. Centro de Humanidades/Humanities Center, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.

2017, May        “Tropicalismos na Música Popular Brasileira dos anos 1990: Lenine, Chico César e Zeca Baleiro.” Ouvindo Letras. Department of Linguistics, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.

2017, Mar.       “The Academic Job Market.” 6th Annual Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Linguistics Conference. Graduate Student Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

Selected conference presentations

2022, Mar.       “Crescer consumindo na periferia: Um olhar sobre o consumo em No país da infância, de Cris Lira.” XVI International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association. Held virtually.

2022, Jan.         “When the MLA Went Global.” Roundtable at the 2022 Modern Language Association Convention. Held virtually.

2022, Jan.         “A linguagem do amor e do protesto em canções de Chico César.” 2022 Modern Language Association Convention. Held virtually.

2021, Jan.         “The City and the Jungle: Lessons on Consumption in Daniel Munduruku’s Todas as coisas são pequenas.” 2021 Modern Language Association Convention. Held virtually.

2020, Dec.       “Música Popular Brasileira e protesto no século XXI.” II Dipracs Colloquium. Virtual conference hosted by Universidade Federal do Ceará.

2019, Jan.         “‘Golpe não!’ Brazilian Songs of Protest of the Twenty-First Century.” 2019 Modern Language Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois.

2019, Oct.        “Alice no país das rachaduras: Consumo em Quarenta Dias, de Maria Valéria Rezende.” 91st South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Atlanta, GA. (Read in absentia).

2019, May        “Del Internet a la calle: Activist Journalism in the Age of Information Bubbles in Claudia Piñeiro’s Betibú.” XXXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Boston, Massachusetts.

2018, Oct.        “Bursting the Bubble: The Consumption of Information in Bernardo Carvalho’s Reprodução.” International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association. Ann Arbor, Michigan.

2018, May        “Consuming Relationships in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction.” XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Barcelona, Spain.

2017, Oct.       “Que país é esse? Fernando Bonassi’s Consuming Brazil in Luxúria.” New Cartographies Conference, Washington University. St. Louis, Missouri. October 2017.

2017, Apr.       “The Battle for Goods: Consumption and Citizenship in Anna Muylaert’s The Second Mother.” Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference. San Diego, California.

2016, Oct.       “Consumer Culture’s ‘Collateral Damage’ in Ana Paula Maia’s De gados e homens.” American Portuguese Studies Association Conference. Palo Alto, California.

2016, Oct.       “Desenvolvimento de um curso de nível intermediário: Relato de uma parceria através da Georgia Portuguese Program Association (GAPPA).” American Portuguese Studies Association Conference. Palo Alto, California.