The roundtable, lectures, and workshops were very well attended and strongly contributed to fostering the public's engagement with Brazilian literature and arts at the IU Bloomington campus.

The two-day symposium opened with a roundtable on the topic of "Art and Politics," followed by a lecture by Brazilian novelist Martha Batalha, in which she discussed the 2019 filmic adaptation of her novel A vida invisível de Eurídice Gusmão by director Karim Aïnouz (the movie, titled Invisible Life, is now available on Amazon Prime). In the morning of the second day of events, Leonardo Tonus gave a lecture on the museologization of the migrant subject, in which he examined the works of Brazilian contemporary visual artist Ícaro Lira and its reception and exhibition in museums. In the afternoon, Débora Thomé discussed her current project, the book LGBTQ+ Incríveis, geared towards the youth. The symposium closed with a workshop, offered by Tonus, on the topic of "Nautical Images and Brazilian Arts and Literature," in which he discussed his own poetry in conjunction with the works of Portuguese and Brazilian canonical poets. The guests also participated in class visits to three Portuguese language courses.

TheBrazilian Literary Spring is part of a research and educational initiative that aims to promote Brazilian literature around the world. Since its inception in 2014, when it started in France, the Printemps Littéraire Brésilien has become an important space for debates on Brazilian literature in Europe, Canada, and the United States. The 2019 event included more than fifty Brazilian artists and took place in nine institutions of higher education in the US. The 2020 event was scheduled to be even larger, but, because of Covid-19, it only took place face-to-face at Indiana University and the University of Chicago.

To find out more about the initiative, follow this link: https://www.printempslitterairebresilien.com/