Considered today one of the most important cultural historians in the world, Lithuania-born Englishman  Simon Schama will present a lecture in the next Braskem Frontiers of Thought meeting on November 11, Tuesday, at 8 PM in Porão das Artes at Fundação Bienal de São Paulo. Schama will talk about "Race, Religion and Politics in the American Republic".

History and Art History Professor at Columbia University in the United States - a country where he has lived for over 20 years - Schama is famous for works like Rembrandt’s Eyes, a biography of the famous Dutch painter, and Simon Schama’s Power of Art, a book and TV series set produced by BBC. Former Professor for renowned institutions such as Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard, he talks in both his books and TV shows about the relationship between Art and History. A famous art critic, he writes for newspapers such as England’s The Guardian and the North-American magazine The New Yorker.

His books, which have been translated into 15 languages, include: Patriots and Liberators: Revolution and Government in the Netherlands 1780-1813 (1977), Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel (1979), The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (1987), Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989), Landscape and Memory (1995), The History of Britain Trilogy (2000-2002), Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (2006) and The Power of Art (2007). In Brazil Companhia das Letras has published his Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989), The Embarrassment of Riches: an Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (1992) and Landscape and Memory (1996).

His work won for Schama the Wolfson Award for History, the W.H Smith Prize for Literature, the National Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature and, more recently, the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Non-Fiction from Rough Crossings in 2007. Currently he is developing a TV series for BBC and PBS called The American Future: a History. At Columbia teaches subjects on John Ruskin, Rembrandt and British visual culture since 1945.

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