Brittani Sterling (Libraries) was accepted into a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: at the University of California San Diego. Over three weeks, this institute will foster the creation of an interdisciplinary intellectual community focused on learning and sharing ideas about contemporary Brazil — to include racial, political, and economic divisions and challenges. Through group discussion of scholarship, cinema, art and other forms of expression, participants will work towards tangible outcomes — a syllabus or draft research project. It will answer the questions: How can we understand Brazil’s historical and contemporary inequalities and their relation to geographical, social, racial, and gender divides? How does this inform Brazil’s quest to be a global superpower? How do Brazil's challenges as a BRIC country mirror and differ from the U.S.'s challenges as world superpower and how can we hold them both accountable for forward movement and growth? Sterling is the social sciences and interdisciplinary studies librarian.
