About The Speaker
Professor Helena Theodoro
speaker/advisory board
Helena Theodoro receives the honors of the meeting for being a reference in research on black culture, carnival, samba and art, African and Afro-Brazilian religious experiences and racial relations. She was the first woman to treat samba as science and philosophy within the university and opened the way for those who came later. Currently, she is a professor at the Graduate Program in Comparative History, teaches in a History Undergraduate class, and is part of the Coordination of African Traditional Religious Experiences, Afro-Brazilian, Racism and Religious Intolerances, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In addition, she is a Councilor of the ELAS Fund, the only Brazilian fund that invests in the promotion of women's protagonism.