São Paulo – The lecture Immigrant Women: Presence and Concealment, by professor Maria Izilda Matos, will take place on Saturday, October 6 from 11am to 1 pm at Casa Museu Ema Klabin, in Jardim Europa, São Paulo. Registrations are open on the museum’s website. The price of admission is BRL 40 and 30 seats are available. Pictured above, Portuguese immigrants in front of an Immigrant Lodge in São Paulo, 1912.
Matos will discuss female immigrants to the state of São Paulo in the 19th and 20th centuries, contextualizing the presence of women in rural and urban settings and dealing with different aspects of their experiences, day-to-day actions, work activities, memories and influences.
The speaker will also go over the possibility of new studies on displacements, questioning the universally male portrayal of immigrants and stressing the need to look at the migration experience from new gazes, especially that of women.
The event will be part of the lecture cycle Mulheres e seus Saberes (Women and their Knowledges), whose goal is to elicit discussions and historical and contemporary reflections on female pioneers in a bevy of fields in art and knowledge.
Maria Izilda Matos holds graduate and doctorate degrees and is a professor in History at the University of São Paulo (USP), with a PhD from Université Lumière (Lyon, France). She is a full professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC) in São Paulo, and her main subjects are immigration, music, the city, gender and female history.
Quick facts
Immigrant Women: Presence and Concealment – ‘Women and their Knowledges’ Lecture cycle
lecturer: Maria Izilda Matos
October 6, Saturday, 11 am to 1 pm
Casa-Museu Ema Klabin
Rua Portugal, 43, Jardim Europa – São Paulo – SP
BRL 40.00
Register here
Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
