Victoria Langland
Victoria Langland (PhD, Yale University), assistant professor of history at the University of California at Davis, is a fall visiting fellow. At Kellogg, Langland will prepare her manuscript, “Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and Memories of 1968 in Military Brazil,” for publication by Duke University Press. Her book considers the significance of the 1968 student movement in Brazil in different historical moments, including 1968 itself, the increasingly violent years thereafter, and the transition to democracy in 1985. She investigates the inter-generational transmission of memory and the deep ties that connect successive generations of university students with the protesters of 1968, showing how memories are transmitted, transformed, and used for different political purposes over time. She hopes to contribute to growing scholarship on memory, as well as to a new understanding of the role of culture in challenging authoritarian regimes.
Langland coedited Monumentos, memoriales y marcas territoriales (Siglo XXI, 2003), part of the series Memorias de la represión.
