Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Associate Professor, History and Portuguese
langland@umich.eduOffice Information:
Weiser Hall, Suite 506
500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1042
phone: 734.763.4624
hours: Mondays, 12:30-2:30
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; LACS Faculty; LACS Staff; II Center & Program Directors; International Institute
Education/Degree:
Ph.D. Yale University, 2004
Selected Publications:
Articles:
“Transnational connections of the global sixties as seen by a historian of Brazil,” in The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties: Between Protest and Nation Building, eds. Chen Jian, Martin Klimke, Masha Kirasirova, Mary Nolan, Marilyn Young, Joanna Waley-Cohen, eds., Routledge Press: Abingdon, UK, 2018, 15-26.
“Coming Home to Praia de Flamengo: The Once and Future National Student Union Headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.” In Telling Ruins in Latin America, eds. Michael J. Lazzara and Vicky Unruh. Palgrave Macmillan (2009): 219-228.
“Birth Control Pills and Molotov Cocktails: Reading Sex and Revolution in 1968 Brazil.” In In from the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War, eds. Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spenser. Durham: Duke University Press (2008): 308-349.
“Il est Interdite d’Interdire: The Transnational Experience of 1968 in Brazil.” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, Vol 17, N°1 (2006).
“Where the Past Seeks the Future: Sculpture, Memory and ‘Never Again.’” Sculpture Review IV:4 (2006).
Books:
The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Victoria Langland, co-edited with James N. Green and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. Duke University Press, 2019, 2nd Edition.
From the first encounters between the Portuguese and indigenous peoples in 1500 to the current political turmoil, the history of Brazil is much more complex and dynamic than the usual representations of it as the home of Carnival, soccer, the Amazon, and samba would suggest. This extensively revised and expanded second edition of the best-selling Brazil Reader dives deep into the past and present of a country marked by its geographical vastness and cultural, ethnic, and environmental diversity. Containing over one hundred selections—many of which appear in English for the first...
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Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil
Victoria Langland. Duke University Press, 2013
Speaking of Flowers is an innovative study of student activism during Brazil's military dictatorship (1964–85) and an examination of the very notion of student activism, which changed dramatically in response to the student protests of 1968. Looking into what made students engage in national political affairs as students, rather than through other means, Victoria Langland traces a gradual, uneven shift in how they constructed, defended, and redefined their right to political participation, from emphasizing class, race, and gender privileges to organizing around other institutional and symbolic...
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Monumentos, Memoriales y Marcas Territoriales
Victoria Langland co-edited with Elizabeth Jelin. Siglo XXI, 2003
Este libro elige tomar las marcas territoriales, los espacios físicos y los lugares públicos como puntos de entrada para analizar las luchas por las memorias y los sentidos sociales del pasado reciente de represión política e terrorismo de Estado en el Cono Sur de América Latina, y desde esos casos contribuir a la reflexión más general sobre las memorias territorializadas.
