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Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies

Interdisciplinary and international program intended to expand knowledge of Brazil among faculty and students at SDSU as well as the greater community.

The Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University recently launched the Digital Brazil Project a multimedia amplifier of Brazilian culture, thought, and social action. Through exclusive virtual content featuring scholars, activists, and cultural producers, the Digital Brazil Project seeks to expand accessibility to Brazilian Studies for the SDSU community and beyond.Check it out here: https://www.digitalbrazilproject.com/

09/05/2026

🇧🇷 BRAZILIAN ELECTIONS 2026 | A ROUNDTABLE
As Brazil heads toward the 2026 elections, three leading scholars will come together for a conversation on the major political issues shaping this year’s race.
🎙️ Featuring:
Gladys Mitchell-Walthour — Dan T. Blue Endowed Chair and Professor of Political Science at North Carolina Central University. She is the author of The Politics of Survival (2023), winner of the Anna Julia Cooper Publication Award, and served as President of the Brazil Studies Association (2018–2020).
Guilherme Casarões — Associate Professor of Brazil Studies at Florida International University, specializing in Brazilian foreign policy, Brazil–Middle East relations, Latin American politics, and transnational far-right networks. He is a leading researcher and frequent commentator on Brazilian and international politics.
Fabio de Sá e Silva — Associate Professor of International Studies, Wick Cary Professor of Brazilian Studies, and Co-Director of the Center for Brazil Studies at the University of Oklahoma. His research focuses on law, democracy, and Brazilian politics.
📅 Thursday, October 1, 2026
⏰ 3:30 PM
📍 Storm Hall 123
Join us for an insightful discussion on the forces, debates, and challenges shaping Brazilian Elections 2026.
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08/30/2026

📍 The Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University (SDSU) is present at the 17th edition of the Brazilian Festival San Diego! 🇧🇷🇺🇸

Today, we celebrate the richness of Brazilian culture, strengthening connections, sharing knowledge, and bringing Brazil closer to San Diego.

🎶 Music • Culture • Community • Celebration

🇧🇷 Brazil is present in San Diego! 💚💛

08/24/2026

✨ ODU — An Online Exhibition

📅 August 26, 2026
🕑 2 PM San Diego | 6 PM Brazil

An online exhibition exploring art, ancestry, memory, territory, and resistance through Afro-diasporic perspectives.

🎨 Featuring Sheyla Ayo, Myra Gomes, Rafael Segatto & Luciano Oliveira
🖋️ Curated by Marina Oliveira Barbosa

💻 Join via Zoom:
https://sdsu.zoom.us/j/86412555966

🌐 Learn more:
https://www.digitalbrazilproject.com/odu

08/20/2026

✨ ODU — An Online Exhibition

What can art reveal about memory, territory, ancestry, and resistance?

The Digital Brazil Project at San Diego State University invites you to experience ODU, an online exhibition that brings together theater, performance, embroidery, lace, painting, and installation in dialogue with Afro-diasporic cultures, African-origin religions, cosmologies, and ancestral knowledge.

The exhibition explores the intersections between art, ancestry, displacement, territory, and Black radical imagination — creating new ways of connecting past, present, and possible futures.

🎨 Featured artists: Sheyla Ayo, Myra Gomes, Rafael Segatto, and Luciano Oliveira
🖋️ Curated by: Marina Oliveira Barbosa

🌐 Explore the online exhibition:
https://www.digitalbrazilproject.com/odu

💻 Join the online event via Zoom:
https://sdsu.zoom.us/j/86412555966

Come experience ODU and follow its paths of art, memory, ancestry, and resistance.

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08/10/2026

🇧🇷🦫 Did you know Brazil is home to one of the largest capybara populations in the world?
These fascinating animals have adapted to life in both natural and urban environments, often seen relaxing in parks, rivers, and lakes across the country. The combination of abundant water resources, wetlands, and green spaces makes Brazil one of the most important habitats for this unique species.
✨ Capybaras are not only the largest rodents on Earth, but also highly social animals that live in groups and play a key role in the balance of local ecosystems.
🌊 From wildlife to city life, they have become an unexpected symbol of Brazil’s rich biodiversity.

08/03/2026

Canavieiras, on Brazil’s southern coast, is a living territory where mangroves, rivers, and the ocean sustain fishing communities and traditional ways of life. Inside the RESEX, conservation means protecting both nature and the people who depend on it.
But this territory is also under pressure from shrimp farming, tourism, and land speculation. In response, local communities organize and resist, defending their rights and their future.
A different Brazil is being built from the mangroves up.
Learn more: https://emergentecologies.net

07/31/2026

Behind every fish, crab, and shrimp is a story that often goes unnoticed.
In Canavieiras, women play a vital role in processing seafood—cleaning, preparing, and preserving the catch that sustains families and local economies. Their work carries generations of traditional knowledge, yet it remains one of the least visible and least valued parts of the artisanal fishing economy.
Supporting these communities means recognizing the people behind the food, investing in fair working conditions, and protecting the coastal ecosystems they have cared for for generations.
Discover another side of Brazil through the voices and knowledge of its traditional fishing communities.
Learn more at emergentecologies.net

07/30/2026

Proposta de legenda:
Living from the mangrove is about much more than fishing. It means understanding the tides, respecting nature's cycles, and carrying forward knowledge passed down through generations.
In Canavieiras, artisanal fishers and shellfish gatherers have built a way of life rooted in the mangrove, where work, culture, and environmental stewardship are deeply connected. Their communities show that protecting nature also means protecting people, knowledge, and tradition.
Discover this story and explore another side of Brazil at: EmergentEcologies.net

07/25/2026

On July 25, we celebrate the strength, history, and leadership of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean women.
✊🏿 Wherever Black women resist, a better future is being built.

07/24/2026

Have you ever heard of cumulative environmental impacts?
This concept helps explain how multiple developments operating in the same territory can create environmental and social effects that are much greater than their individual impacts.
In Iguape Bay, Brazil, research shows how changes in water flow, mangrove ecosystems, and the spread of invasive species are affecting artisanal fishing and traditional ways of life.
Learn more: http://www.emergentecologies.net/pesca-artesanal
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Monday	9am - 3pm
Tuesday	9am - 3pm
Wednesday	9am - 3pm
Thursday	9am - 3pm
Friday	9am - 3pm

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http://brazil.sdsu.edu/

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