{"id":10393,"date":"2022-12-03T20:05:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T20:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=10393"},"modified":"2023-03-08T23:05:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T23:05:53","slug":"plus-minas-profiles-in-brazils-beautiful-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/plus-minas-profiles-in-brazils-beautiful-game\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Plus Minas: Profiles in Brazil&#8217;s Beautiful Game&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>David Faflik &#8211; Department of English<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the speaker\u2019s recent Fulbright residence in Brazil, this talk will focus on his book project titled <em>Plus Minas: Profiles in Brazil\u2019s Beautiful Game<\/em>. <em>Plus Minas<\/em> is not \u201cabout\u201d <em>futebol<\/em>, the sport that Brazilians call <em>jogo bonito<\/em>, \u201cthe beautiful game.\u201d Rather, the presenter is offering a sports-inflected meditation on life, death, work, and play in contemporary Brazil amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As sweeping as these topics sound, it would be an exaggeration to say that Faflik\u2019s book advances a grand theory of Latin American affect. What he promises instead is a micro-history of the emotions, as he interrogates how <em>play<\/em> feels at a cultural moment when so many people around the world are working, dying, or both. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Plus Minas <\/em>accordingly chronicles the emotions that football inspires among a given people at a particular time in a specific place. Here, the focus is with the professional footballers who have recently and historically plied their trades with the Belo Horizonte side Clube Atl\u00e9tico Mineiro (CAM), two-time champions of Brazil\u2019s national domestic football league, or Brasileir\u00e3o. This research is funded in part by a Center for Humanities Humanities Faculty Research Grant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch a recording of the event below.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"oembed oembed-youtube-com\" style=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9RxLdLdUZv0&#038;ab_channel=URICenterfortheHumanities\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Plus Minas&quot; Profiles in Brazil&#039;s Beautiful Game&quot;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9RxLdLdUZv0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>David Faflik &#8211; Department of English<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bb-past-fall"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10688,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393\/revisions\/10688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}