Echoes of David William Foster’s São Paulo in Contemporary Film

You are invited to the 2025 David William Foster Memorial Lecture, “Echoes of David William Foster’s São Paulo in the Films of Lina Chamie, Juliana Rojas and Viviane Ferreira,” by Andrew C. Rajca, the associate professor of Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American Cultural Studies, from the University of South Carolina. 

Inspired by David William Foster’s 2011 publication, “São Paulo: Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production,” Rajca will explore how the filmmakers Lina Chamie, Juliana Rojas and Viviane Ferreira offer new perspectives and cultural critiques on contemporary experiences in São Paulo, Brazil.

Biography:

Andrew C. Rajca, PhD, specializes in Latin American Cultural Studies and teaches courses in Portuguese, Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. His book, “Dissensual Subjects: Memory, Human Rights, and Postdictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay” (Northwestern University Press, 2018), critically examines the relationship between memory and human rights in postdictatorial culture through the analysis of visual art installations in former detention and torture centers. His current research is on cinematic aesthetics and urban space in São Paulo, Brazil.