Please join us for a lecture by Professor Maria Berbara (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro), a leading scholar of the Early Modern and Colonial periods with deep expertise in Brazil and its long-term historical trajectories. Professor Berbara's presentation will address key questions related to resource exploitation in Amazonia and its cultural, political, and environmental dimensions. The talk will be of interest to graduate students and researchers working across a range of historical periods and thematic fields.
Maria Berbara holds a PhD from the University of Hamburg and has taught Art History at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro since 2005. She specialized in Italian and Iberian art produced between the 15th and 17th centuries, as well as in cultural history, globalism in the First Modern Period and intellectual exchanges around the Atlantic world. She is currently researching the history of Antarctic France, the global image of the Tupinambá and the relationship between art, diseases and conversion processes in the Atlantic world during the first modernity. Her individual and collective research projects have been funded by the Getty Foundation, Villa I Tatti, DAAD/Germany, INHA/Paris, Fapesp, Faperj, CNPq and Capes. Source: UERJ
