Machado de Assis International Seminar 2025

The International Seminar 2025 - Machado de Assis: A Life in Literature will convene at the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies at the Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut from 10 to 11 October 2025. The Yale Seminar will bring together students, researchers, writers, and translators from universities on three or more continents to address questions of theme, philosophy, style, narratology and translation in Machado’s diverse writings in narrative prose, poetry, theater, criticism, journalism, and correspondence. The principal objective of the seminar is to stimulate and further the reception of the literary works of Machado de Assis in international comparative literature and world literature through study of his literary language, the aesthetic texture of his portraits of Brazilian society, his unrelenting irony, and his assimilation of a world of literature into texts that, beginning in 1880, surprise the reader with their experimental, open modernity.

The Yale International Seminar on Machado de Assis: A Life in Literature will convene in person on Yale campus. Please submit proposals for the Seminar by June 15, 2025.

Receipt of proposals, with title and abstract (300 words max) and a brief professional bio by 15 June 2025. Abstracts may be presented in Portuguese or English.

Confirmation and acceptance of proposals by 15 July 2025.

João Almino, Academia Brasileira de Letras

Sidney Chalhoub, Harvard University

Paul Dixon, Purdue University

Earl E. Fitz, Vanderbilt University

Hélio de Seixas Guimarães, Universidade de São Paulo

José Luís Jobim, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University

João Cezar Castro Rocha, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Sonia Netto Salomão, Universitàs Degli Studi Di Roma La Sapienza

The Conference Committee will select conference presentations for a future publication.

Tim Stumph

Paola Martell