Bruno Beidacki
Session One
Speech Bio:
Personal Bio:
Bruno Beidacki is a Brazilian journalist, writer, and storyteller based in the United States. He has worked for the CBS News’ true-crime show 48 Hours, the CBS News Investigative Unit and most recently been a Pulitzer Center crisis reporting fellow in Macau, where he reported on the dangers of the extinction of Portuguese culture and language in the region. Bruno is devoted to the process of language learning and has done extensive traveling in order to explore cultural preservation efforts; he visited more than two dozen countries in the process, and plans on continuing to do so.
The overall theme of Bruno's idea is the importance of preserving cultures and traditions in ever-changing societies. Thousands of languages and cultures have disappeared throughout history due to aspects such as colonization, change in power, and population decrease. In a world that is changing faster than it ever did, culture-extinction becomes even more of a real issue. Without a region's culture and tradition, its population can face identity crisis, and that's what Bruno has found in his research and reporting over the last few months.