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The Portuguese & Lusophone-World Lecture Series, Kenneth David Jackson
The New Bedford Whaling Museum is honored to present Professor Kenneth David Jackson on Wednesday, October 30, 2024, at 6:00 PM. This Portuguese Lusophone Lecture Series program will occur in the Cook Memorial Theater at 6:00 PM, followed by a light reception from 7:00 to 8:00 PM.
Professor JacJackson'scture will focus on the descendants of the Portuguese on the East Coast of Sri Lanka called "Por"uguese.
Burghers" i" Sri Lanka has lived in mixed communities near forts at Batticaloa and Trincomalee since the early 1600s. We will hear some of his field recordings of performances of music and folk verse in Creole Portuguese with illustrations of the community.
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ABOUT PROFESSOR JACKSON
Kenneth David Jackson is a professor of Luso-Brazilian literature and cultures at Yale University.
His books range from South Asia -- Sing Without Shame (1990) on Portuguese creole folklore in Sri Lanka and India – to Portugal, with Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa (2010), to Brazil, with Machado de Assis: A Literary Life (2015) and Cannibal Angels: Transatlantic Modernism and the Brazilian Avant-Garde (2022). His three CDs in “Jo"rney of Sounds” w" re featured at EXPO ’98'98 Lisbon. In November 2023, he was invited to the International Literary Festival of Paraty dedicated to Pagu with his new anthology of her journalism, “Pa" auras em Rebeldia.” O" her conferences he has organized include “Go": A post-colonial society between cultures” ("013), “Po" Portuguese World Music” ("007), “Po" try Criticism Translation: Homage to 90 Years of Haroldo de Campos” ("019), and “Br"zil 100/200” ("022). In 2024, he was invited to the Literary Festival of Macau on the 500 years of Camões. From 2024-27, he will again chair Yale's Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies. He is a graduate of U. Wisconsin-Madison and a cellist.
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