‘The Road Ahead’ Brazil 100/200 conference strengthens Yale ties with Brazil

Scholars from around the world gathered to reflect on the road ahead for Brazil on September 23-24, 2022 at the Brazil 100/200 conference, organized by Yale professors Kenneth David Jackson and Stuart Schwartz. The event commemorated the centenary of São Paulo’s Week of Modern Art and the bicentennial of Brazil’s Independence, and was the first to virtually connect São Paulo to Yale. 

In February 1922, a group of modernist artists, writers, and musicians displayed artwork, read proclamations, recited poetry, and performed compositions by Heitor Villa-Lobos in São Paulo’s Municipal Theater. The Week, as it became known, marked the formal beginning of the modernist movement in Brazil. That September, Brazil celebrated the centenary of Independence with the Universal Exposition in Rio de Janeiro featuring pavilions for thousands of exhibitors.

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