Join us on Thursday, March 18 at 6 pm for the second part of Emma Young's conversation with distinguished scholars from Brazil. This part will include a pre-recorded lecture with scholar Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro followed by a live Q&A. The lecture will be in Portuguese with English subtitles.

How can cross-cultural conversations about migration from Eastern Europe throughout the Americas better inform us about the importance of art in constructing identity and forging community? How did the experience of migration impact these artists' careers; and conversely, how did art impact their experiences of migration or displacement?

Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro will delve into the questions above as well as discuss 20th century migration from Eastern Europe to South America and the particular lessons and challenges faced. The event is free, but donations are greatly appreciated. Registration is required. We look forward to your participation in the third installment of our Artists and Immigrants series.

In celebration of the centennial of Chaim Gross's immigration to the United States, the Foundation is focusing our 2021 programming on illuminating the stories of artists and immigrants in the collection. Our winter and spring programming is centered around Eastern European emigrants.

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Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro is a Historian and Senior Professor in the Department of History at the University of São Paulo’s College of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences. Her recent publications include Impressos Subversivos: Arte, Cultura e Política no Brasil (Editora Intermeios, 2020) and Ten Myths About the Jews (Sussex Academic Press 2020). She is the coordinator of LEER - Laboratory for the Study of Ethnicity, Racism, and Discrimination, where she is developing Travessias, A Brazilian Historical-Biographical Dictionary: The Legacy of Intellectuals, and Scientists Rooted in Brazil, which includes both international and Brazilian researchers.

Emma Young is a sixth year Ph.D. candidate in the department of History at NYU. Her research and writing center closely on the intersections of technology, ecology, and social conflict related to urbanization in Brazil. Her research seeks ways to dismantle historical patterns of socio-environmental inequality and exclusion. She is also a professional translator, most often in the Latin American arts. She is the 2020-21 Mellon Foundation Public Humanities Fellow at the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation.

Image: Lasar Segall (Vilna Lituânia, 1889 - São Paulo, SP, 1957)

Emigrantes III, 1936, sand and oil on canvas, 86 x 197.7 cm

Collection of Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Purchased by Governo do Estado de São Paulo, 2012.

Photo: Isabella Matheus. © Museu Lasar Segall