About the Brazil Center

The Brazil Center's mission is to support Brazilian studies across academic disciplines at the University of Texas, to promote collaborative research and exchange between Texas and Brazil, and to raise awareness of Brazil and its culture through community outreach.

The University of Texas at Austin is widely recognized as home to the top academic program in Latin American Studies and one of the most comprehensive Brazilian Studies programs in the United States.

Approximately one-third of LLILAS-affiliated faculty dedicate all or part of their research and/or instruction to Brazil-related content in diverse disciplines, such as: Afro-Brazilian studies, Anthropology, Architecture, Communications, Geography, Geosciences, Government, History, Human Ecology, Law, Language and Literature, Music, and Public Policy.

In pursuit of our mission, the Brazil Center has established several broad goals to:

• Create an interdisciplinary network of Brazilianists;
• Support the teaching, study, and research agendas of students, faculty, and visitors at the university; and
• Strengthen the university's institutional relations with academic, nonprofit, and government agencies in Brazil.

Outreach

Brazil Center events on the university campus are free and open to the public. The center promotes Brazilian culture in the Central Texas community through collaboration with ArtesAméricas of Texas Performing Arts, the Brazilian Studies Student Association (BRASSA) of UT, and local groups dedicated to music, film, and the arts.

Background

The Brazil Center was inaugurated in fall 1995 as an autonomous unit under the umbrella of the then Institute of Latin American Studies, following twenty-five years of work by the institute’s Brazilian Studies Committee to diversify and expand interdisciplinary studies of Brazil on the Austin campus and to increase the number of faculty specializing in Brazil.

To subscribe or unsubscribe to the bimonthly Brazil Center e-newsletter on Brazil-related events at UT and around Austin, e-mail the Brazil Center.