 | Joaquim Nabuco led a crusade to abolish slavery in Brazil and was his country's first ambassador to the United States. |
A two-day conference commemorating the centenary of two lectures delivered at Yale by Brazil’s first ambassador
to the United States, Joaquim Nabuco (1849-1910), will take place Friday and
Saturday, April 4 and 5, in Sterling Memorial Library lecture hall, 128 Wall
St.
T H I S
Conference pays tribute to Brazilian
statesman and author Joaquim Nabuco
Titled “Joaquim Nabuco at Yale: Statesman, Author, Ambassador,” the
conference will begin at 2 p.m. on Friday and resume on Saturday at 10 a.m.
It is free and open to the public.
Considered one of the most distinguished political and intellectual figures
of his age, Nabuco is revered in Brazil for his crusade for the abolition of
slavery. His formative years were divided between the plantation in Pernambuco
where he spent his early childhood, and an elite school on the European model
in Rio de Janeiro. Nabuco was one of the founding members of the Brazilian
Academy of Letters and served as Brazilian ambassador in London before coming
to Washington, D.C., in 1905. His tenure as Brazil’s ambassador to the
United States, during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, belongs to a period
of the first pan-American conferences.
Nabuco was a prolific writer in Portuguese, French and English. A biography
by his daughter Carolina Nabuco was translated to English and published by
Stanford University Press in 1950. His writings on abolitionism were translated
and published by University of Illinois Press in 1977.
Nabuco’s lectures at Yale were the first of a series that he delivered
at six U.S. universities in 1908-1909. Three were studies of the Portuguese
poet Camões, and three were on Brazilian and American civilization.
Nabuco sought to put Brazil and the United States on a comparative and equal
footing as leading nations of the Americas. In 1906, he arranged for Elihu
Root to visit Brazil — the first visit by a U.S. Secretary of State to
Latin America.
Specialists on Nabuco and Latin American history and political thought will
participate in the conference. These include professors Leslie Bethell, Oxford
University, editor and author of the “Cambridge History of Latin America”;
Stephanie Dennison, University of Leeds, author of a 2006 book published by
Oxford University Press on Nabuco’s pan-Americanism; and Jeffrey Needell,
University of Florida, a specialist on late 19th-century Brazilian politics
and culture. Among other conference participants are the Brazilian consul general
to Chicago, Ambassador João Almino and John Schulz, author of “The
Financial Crisis of Abolition” (Yale University Press, 2008). Almino,
author of the recently published novel “The Five Seasons of Love,” will
discuss Nabuco’s view of the “two Americas.” Schulz will
address the failure of social reform.
Nabuco’s 1908 visit to Yale represents the first important contact between
the University and Brazil. Members of the Nabuco family, Brazilian diplomatic
corps and officials of the Brazilian government are expected to attend. The
conference was organized by Professor K. David Jackson in the Department of
Spanish & Portuguese, a scholar of Brazilian literature.
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