Indication: Professor Rômulo Monte Alto – Faculty of Letters of UFMG
Period: August 03 to 30, 2015
Doctor Martin Lienhard. Basel (Switzerland), 1946. Literary scholar, historian, anthropologist. Professor Emeritus at the University of Zurich. He received his doctorate from the University of Geneva with a thesis on the Peruvian writer and anthropologist J. M. Arguedas (1981). Main Research Areas: History of Indigenous Resistance and Slave Rebellion in the Americas; history of the penetration of slaves by the Portuguese in central Africa. Oral history. Visual anthropology. Modern colonial and intercultural literature (Latin America, Caribbean, Africa); oral literatures; Literature in Quechua. Latin American cinema; testimonial cinema. Main books: The voice and your huella (1990/1991/1992/2003/2012), Testimonios, carta y manifiestos indigenous (1992), The sea and the bush – Stories of slavery (1998/2001/2005), Disidents, rebels , insurgents. Indigenous and black resistance in Latin America. Testimonial history essays (2008). Lienhard organized and edited six interdisciplinary symposiums in Monte Verità (Ascona, Switzerland) on the impact of modernization-globalization processes on traditional communities and other subaltern sectors in Latin America and Africa. Lienhard is the author of the documentary Todos me llaman martoma (Mexico/Switzerland/Portugal 2014).