Caros -
A quick reminder about today's showing of the final two documentaries of
our Brazilian Film Series, which will be screened this afternoon at
Boylston Hall and will each be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.
(See details below -- feel free to come to either or both of the screenings).
Also, a reminder about the seminar on Monday on DRCLAS-funded pioneering
research being done at the Harvard School of Public Health on child
nutrition in Brazil, with an emphasis on socio-cultural, behavioral and
environmental influences on the development of overweight in childhood and
obesity later in life. (See full details below -- this will be the last of
the Brazil Semester's Brazilian lunches at 61 Kirkland....)
Um bom fim de semana primaveril para todos! - Tomas
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"Brazilian Journeys: The Documentaries of Dorrit Harazim"
A series of films depicting different touching facets of Brazilian life.
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/programs/brazil/films
4:30pm: "Travessia do Escuro" (Journey through Darkness), 2002, 28 min.
Chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the illiterate in Brazil. The film
tells the story of three elderly Brazilians, all of whom have led
productive lives and retired yet have now returned to school to learn how
to read and write, hoping to fulfill the gap illiteracy has carved in their
lives.
5:00pm: Post-film discussion with the filmmaker.
5:30pm: "Passageiros" (Passengers), 2000, 57 min.
At the age of 17, Marcelo left the ranch and mine where he worked with his
father in Piauí and made his way to São Paulo in search of employment. The
film accompanies Marcelo in a three-day bus journey as he returns home for
the first time. Through the personal stories of Marcelo and the other
passengers who are part of this constant migration movement within Brazil,
the film depicts the aspirations and obstacles of the contemporary migrant.
6:30pm: Post-film discussion with the filmmaker.
Documentaries in Portuguese with English subtitles.
FRIDAY, APRIL 22
4:30 - 7:30 PM, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall (next to Widener Library)
http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F7&quadrant=C&s…
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"Brazilian Mothers' Feeding Practices and Child Overweight"
MONDAY, APRIL 25
12:00 - 2:00 PM, DRCLAS Conference Room (2nd Floor), 61 Kirkland Street,
Cambridge
Brazilian lunch served at noon; the presentation will begin at 12:30pm.
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/about/directions
A presentation on an on-going research project examining Brazilian mother's
feeding practices, perceptions of infant weight status, and the factors
that may influence a child's dietary intake and the development of
overweight in pre-school years.
Speakers: ANA CRISTINA LINDSAY, DDS, MPH, DrPH, Research Scientist, Public
Health Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health.
KATARINA MUCHA, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of
Arts & Sciences, Harvard University.
* * * * * * * *
For a full schedule of DRCLAS's Brazil Semester at Harvard,
please see: http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/brazil
For location details of Harvard buildings,
please see: http://map.harvard.edu
BRAZIL WEEK: "Brazilian Women's Movements"
Monday, April 18 - Monday, April 25
Recent scholarship has argued that Brazil has Latin America's largest, most
vibrant and most diverse feminist movement, having pioneered a number of
policy changes advancing women's rights. The Third Annual Brazil Week at
Harvard will bring together scholars, leaders, members of the local
community, and students to examine these critical issues and celebrate the
multiple ways in which Brazilian women have organized, including a focus on
the role of women's organizations in the new immigrant communities.
Brazil Week Founder & Chair: CLÉMENCE JOUËT-PASTRÉ - Senior Preceptor in
Portuguese, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, Harvard University.
Sponsored by Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin
American Studies (DRCLAS) and the Department of Romance Languages &
Literatures.
All events are free and open to the public. No RSVPs required.
* * * * * * * *
Events:
"Brazilian Women in Popular Music"
MONDAY, APRIL 18
6:00 - 8:00 PM, Yenching Auditorium (Yenching Library), 2 Divinity Avenue
(off of Kirkland Street), Cambridge
http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvard-yenching/directions.html
Music by VALDISA MOURA & BAND
Vocals: Valdisa Moura, bass: Tal Shalom-Kobi, guitar: Deborah Rocha, flute:
Tina Jacas, percussion: Steve Sanford & Marcos Santos.
Lecture by DÁRIO BORIM, JR. - Associate Professor of Portuguese and
Brazilian Studies, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Author of
Perplexidades: Raça, Sexo e Outras Questões Sociopolíticas no Discurso
Cultural Brasileiro and Borders and Selves: Contemporary Autobiography of
Brazil and the Americas. Borim is host and producer of Brazilliance, a
weekly live radio program dedicated to the music of Brazil and other
lusophone countries.
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"Brazilian Women's Movements: A Historical Perspective"
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20
12:00 - 2:00 PM, DRCLAS Conference Room (2nd Floor), 61 Kirkland Street,
Cambridge
Brazilian lunch served at noon; the presentation will began at 12:30 pm.
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/about/directions
A historical overview of women's movements in Brazil and an analysis of the
movement's triumphs and challenges in the twentieth century, focusing
particularly on education and society. Unlike the U.S. model, Brazilian
education was marked by a strong Jesuit presence and hundreds of years of
influence from the Catholic Church. The Constitution of 1891, which
established Brazil as a secular, federal and democratic state, led to
changes in the educational system which had profound repercussions for the
education of women.
Speaker: ROSELI FISCHMANN, Visiting Scholar of Political Psychology,
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, and Professor of Graduate
Studies, Department of Educational Administration and Economics of
Education, University of São Paulo (USP); Author of numerous books and
articles, Fischmann is a regular contributor to the Brazilian newspaper
Correio Braziliense. She is a former member of the São Paulo State Council
for Women's Affairs (1999-2002).
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"Boston's Brazilian Women's Group"
THURSDAY, APRIL 21
6:00 - 7:30PM: Presentation (Conference Room - 2nd floor)
7:30 - 8:30PM: Reception & book launch (Resource Room - ground floor)
DRCLAS - 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/about/directions
What is it like to be a Brazilian, a woman, and an immigrant? How does it
change one's life? These are some of the questions that Heloisa Galvão's
book, As Viajantes do Século Vinte: Uma História Oral de Mulheres
Brasileiras na Área de Boston, tries to answer. The project is an oral
history of the saga of Brazilian women immigrants narrated in their own
voice, featuring interviews with eleven Brazilian women who immigrated to
the United States in the 1980s. They are young and old, married, mothers,
grandmothers, workers from all areas, and homemakers. They speak for
themselves on why they decided to come, what happened when they came, and
how it changed their lives.
Speakers: HELOISA MARIA GALVÃO, co-founder, Brazilian Women's Group, and
bilingual community field coordinator, Boston Public Schools.
GRUPO MULHER BRASILEIRA, founded in 1995 by a group of Brazilian immigrant
women in Boston, this organization developed strong roots by participating
actively in the organization and growth of the local Brazilian community.
http://www.verdeamarelo.org/
* * * * * * * *
"Brazilian Journeys: The Documentaries of Dorrit Harazim"
A series of films depicting different touching facets of Brazilian life.
FRIDAY, APRIL 22
4:30 - 7:30 PM, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall (next to Widener Library)
http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F7&quadrant=C&s…
4:30pm: "Travessia do Escuro" (Journey through Darkness), 2002, 28 min.
Chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the illiterate in Brazil. The film
tells the story of three elderly Brazilians, two of them women, all of whom
have led productive lives and retired yet have now returned to school to
learn how to read and write, hoping to fulfill the gap illiteracy has
carved in their lives.
5:00pm: Post-film discussion with the filmmaker.
5:30pm: "Passageiros" (Passengers), 2000, 57 min.
At the age of 17, Marcelo left the ranch and mine where he worked with his
father in Piauí and made his way to São Paulo in search of employment. The
film accompanies Marcelo in a three-day bus journey as he returns home for
the first time. Through the personal stories of Marcelo and the other
passengers who are part of this constant migration movement within Brazil,
the film depicts the aspirations and obstacles of the contemporary migrant.
6:30pm: Post-film discussion with the filmmaker.
Documentaries in Portuguese with English subtitles. For full series, see:
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/programs/brazil/films
* * * * * * *
*
"Brazilian Mothers' Feeding Practices and Child Overweight"
MONDAY, APRIL 25
12:00 - 2:00 PM, DRCLAS Conference Room (2nd Floor), 61 Kirkland Street,
Cambridge
Brazilian lunch served at noon; the presentation will begin at 12:30pm.
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/about/directions
A presentation on an on-going research project examining Brazilian mother's
feeding practices, perceptions of infant weight status, and the factors
that may influence a child's dietary intake and the development of
overweight in pre-school years.
Speakers: ANA CRISTINA LINDSAY, DDS, MPH, DrPH, Research Scientist, Public
Health Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health.
KATARINA MUCHA, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of
Arts & Sciences, Harvard University.
* * * * * * *
*
For a full schedule of DRCLAS's Brazil Semester at Harvard, please see:
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/brazil
For location details of Harvard buildings, please see: http://map.harvard.edu
Um abraço, Tomas Amorim
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu
Please find below details on this week's Brazil-related events at the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) and elsewhere at
Harvard and in Cambridge.
See also the Harvard Gazette article on the talk by Minister Luiz Dulci and
our "Brazil Semester at Harvard (Spring 2005)", available at:
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/04.07/19-lula.html
Forte abraço, Tomas Amorim
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** Week of April 11, 2005 ** (see full details on speakers, locations, etc
below)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13:
12:00-2:00pm - A Conversation on Gender & Sexuality in Brazil with Mala
Htun and James Green (DRCLAS)
5:30pm - Screening of "Lygia Clark: Structuring of the Self" with intro by
Guy Brett (Carpenter Center)
THURSDAY, APRIL 14:
5:00-6:45pm - Brazilian Graduate Studies Workshop (DRCLAS)
7:00pm - A Conversation on Brazilian Art with Jane de Almeida, Guy Brett,
Elio Gaspari & Nicolau Sevcenko (DRCLAS)
FRIDAY, APRIL 15:
8:00pm - Brazz Dance Theater presents a fusion of Afro- Brazilian and
modern dance (Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center)
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Wed., April 13:
"A Conversation on Gender & Sexuality in Brazil with Mala Htun and James Green"
A discussion on the pace of change -- or lack thereof -- of Brazilian
public attitudes toward women, gender roles, abortion, homosexuality, and
their impact on state policy, especially compared to neighboring Latin
American countries. The conversation will also touch on Carnival, the gay
pride parade and social movement in Brazil, the globalization of the LGBT
(lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) movement, and its effect on
Brazilian society.
JAMES GREEN, Associate Professor of History at Brown University. He is a
former president of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) and is
currently chair of BRASA's Committee on the Future of Brazilian Studies in
the United States. Green is the author of Beyond Carnival: Male
Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil, and he is currently finishing
the manuscript "We Cannot Remain Silent": Opposition to the Brazilian
Military Dictatorship in the United States, 1964-85.
MALA HTUN, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the New School for
Social Research. She is the author of Sex and the State: Abortion,
Divorce, and the Family Under Latin American Dictatorships and
Democracies. Htun's current work focuses on the initiatives and responses
that states take with regard to gender, race, and ethnicity. She is
finishing the manuscript Sex, Race, and Representation: Getting Women,
Blacks, and Indians into Political Power in Latin America. Htun received a
PhD in political science from Harvard University.
This will be the final Spring 2005 session of the seminar series on
BRAZILIAN HISTORICAL & CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES: REFLECTIONS FROM
HARVARD. http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/brazil
Wednesday, April 13 (12:00-2:00pm)
DRCLAS - 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge - Conference Room (2nd floor)
Brazilian lunch served at noon; presentation starts at 12:30pm.
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Wed., April 13:
Screening of "Lygia Clark: Structuring of the Self"
"Memória do Corpo" (dir. Mário Carneiro, 1984).
A short film on the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark (1920-1988) which explores
the unique psychotherapeutic process which Lygia invented with her
'Relational Objects in a Therapeutic Context.' In Portuguese with English
subtitles.
The film will be introduced by GUY BRETT, a writer, independent curator,
and currently the Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar at the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). (See below under
April 14 event for additional biographical details on Guy Brett).
Wednesday April 13 (5:30pm)
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Room B-04)
24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Sponsored by the students of Harvard's Department of Art History and
Architecture.
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Thurs., April 14:
Brazilian Graduate Studies Workshop
A forum for doctoral or masters students engaged in substantive research on
Brazil-related topics to circulate and discuss works-in-progress as well as
to meet with experts on Brazil. Presentations by PAMELA J. SURKAN, Doctoral
Candidate, Harvard School of Public Health, and CAROL DESHANO DA SILVA,
Candidate, Ed.D. in International Education, Harvard Graduate School of
Education.
Thursday, April 14 (5:00-6:45pm)
DRCLAS - 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge - Conference Room (2nd floor)
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Thurs., April 14:
"A Conversation on Brazilian Art"
JANE DE ALMEIDA, Visiting Fellow, Department of History of Art and
Architecture, Harvard University. Almeida's post-doctoral research focuses
on the artist Arthur Bispo do Rosario, who for fifty years lived in a
psychiatric asylum in Rio de Janeiro. She has taught at the Catholic
University of São Paulo, Mackenzie University, FAAP, and Boston College.
Almeida has curated exhibitions at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil and
is the author of Metacinemas; Ordering and Vertigo; Image's Strategy;
Aesthesis: Aesthetics and Cinema; and Witty Found: Witz and Psychoanalysis
in José Simão's Writings.
GUY BRETT, Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar for Spring Term 2005.
Internationally recognized as one of the most influential writers and
thinkers on contemporary art, Brett occupies a distinctive position as an
independent curator and critical historian of the visual arts. During his
stay at Harvard, he will develop a project investigating the notion of the
"void" in the work of Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Mira Schendel and other
Brazilian and Latin American artists. His research will also explore the
role played by the box-format and book-format in Brazilian avant-garde art.
ELIO GASPARI, Lemann Visiting Scholar at DRCLAS for Spring Term
2005. Gaspari is one of today's most influential Brazilian columnists,
writing for Folha de São Paulo, O Globo and ten other newspapers. He has
been widely acclaimed for his four-volume history of the Brazilian military
dictatorship and its transition to democracy, based on extensive
interviewing and special access to military archives: The Ashamed
Dictatorship, The Dictatorship Unmasked, The Dictatorship Defeated, and The
Dictatorship Cornered (just released). For the forthcoming fifth volume,
tentatively titled The Dictatorship Dismantled and covering the 1978-1979
period, he is currently engaged in archival research at the Harvard libraries.
NICOLAU SEVCENKO, Visiting Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
at Harvard University, Spring 2005. Sevcenko is currently teaching the
courses "Popular Tradition as the Muse of Modern Brazilian Culture" and
"Literature and the Plea for Compassionate Modernization in 20th-century
Brazil." He is on the faculty of the University of São Paulo (USP) and has
published widely on Brazilian history, literature, and culture, including:
Pindorama Revisitada: Cultura e Sociedade em Tempos de Virada; Orfeu
Extático na Metrópole: São Paulo,Sociedade e Cultura nos Frementes Anos 20;
and Literatura como Missão: Tensões Sociais e Criação Cultural na Primeira
República.
Moderator CECILE FROMONT, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History of Art
and Architecture, Harvard University, working on colonial Afro-Brazilian
art in Bahia.
Thursday, April 14 (7:00-8:30pm)
DRCLAS - 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge - Conference Room (2nd floor)
Co-sponsored by DRCLAS's Art Forum & Brazilian Studies Program.
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Fri., April 15:
Brazz Dance Theater presents a fusion of Afro- Brazilian and modern dance.
At the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge.
Brazz Dance Theater has been thrilling audiences throughout the Northeast
with dynamic and inventive performances for over five years. The program
presents Artistic Director Augusto Soledades new and recent work,
including The Diaries of an Outlaw (2004), a work inspired by the life of
the legendary outlaw Maria Bonita of Brazil. A native of Bahia, Soledade
began his dance training at the Federal University of Bahia and later
received his Master of Fine Arts in Dance from the State University of New
York .
Friday, April 15 (8:00pm) (Brazz performs for one night only).
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center (CMAC) - 41 Second Street - Cambridge, MA
(Just one block from the Lechmere T Station and Cambridgeside Galleria Mall)
Tickets are $20 or $15 for CMAC and TDA members, students (with valid ID)
and seniors
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Except for the CMAC event above, all of these events are free and open to
the public. No RSVPs required.
For the full schedule of the "Brazil Semester at Harvard," taking place
this Spring, please see:
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/uploads/images/211/BrazilSemesterHarvard.pdf
Tomás Amorim
Brazilian Studies Program Coordinator & Research Associate
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS)
Harvard University
Dear friends and colleagues:
Please find below a listing of Brazil-related events taking place at DRCLAS
and elsewhere at Harvard during the month of April.
The highlight of this week is a "Conversation on U.S.-Brazil Relations"
seminar which will take place over lunch this Thursday, April 7, between
renowned journalist/author Elio Gaspari and Lincoln Gordon, U.S. Ambassador
to Brazil during the coup of 1964. This promises to be a historic
debate. (See full details below).
Also, as an attachment, please find appended the updated full calendar of
the "Brazil Semester at Harvard (Spring 2005)" activities.
Grande abraço,
Tomás Amorim
Brazilian Studies Program Coordinator & Research Associate
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), Harvard
University
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/brazil
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APRIL EVENTS ON BRAZIL
April 6:
Religious Education in Schools and State laicité: The Role of Public
Finances in the Question for National Identity in Brazil
This presentation is part of a long range work-in-progress on
Discrimination, Prejudice, Stigma: Religious and Ethnic Minorities,
Culture and Education, conducted at the University of São Paulo (USP)
since the early 1990s. It aims to reflect on the relation between state and
religion in Brazil, with special emphasis on publicly-financed school
systems, including higher education, as well as an analysis of the sources
and repercussions on the question for national identity.
ROSELI FISCHMANN, Visiting Scholar of Political Psychology, Department of
Psychology, Harvard University; Professor of Graduate Studies, Department
of Educational Administration and Economics of Education, University of São
Paulo (USP). Fischmann was a member of the State Commission on Religious
Teaching in Public Schools in 1995 and 1996.
Wednesday, April 6 (12:30-2:00pm)
Science Center, Room 252
Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Project on
Religion, Political Economy and Society (PRPES).
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April 7:
Brazilian Historical & Contemporary Challenges: Reflections from Harvard
A Conversation on U.S.-Brazil Relations
LINCOLN GORDON, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil from 1961 to 1966 and Assistant
Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1966 to 1967. Prior to
that he helped develop and negotiate President Kennedy's proposal for a
generous program of economic and technical assistance under the rubric
Alliance for Progress. Previously he had numerous years of government
service in the UN Atomic Energy Commission, the Marshall Plan, and
NATO. Harvard Class of 1933 and a former Harvard professor at the Business
School, Ambassador Gordon is currently a guest scholar at Brookings
Institution. He is the author of Brazils Second Chance, En Route toward
the First World and is now working on a book of memoirs.
ELIO GASPARI, Lemann Visiting Scholar at DRCLAS for Spring Term
2005. Gaspari is one of todays most influential Brazilian columnists,
writing for Folha de São Paulo, O Globo and ten other newspapers. Since
the publication of his first volume on Brazils military regime, A Ditadura
Envergonhada, he has been widely recognized as one of Brazils leading
historians and journalists. He has published four volumes on the history
of Brazils dictatorial military regime including A Ditadura Escancarada, A
Ditadura Derrotada, and A Ditadura Encurralada. During his stay at Harvard,
Gaspari is working on the fifth volume of this series, A Ditadura
Desmontada, which covers the period of 1978-1979.
Thursday, April 7 (12:00-2:00pm)
DRCLAS Conference Room (2nd floor) 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
Brazilian lunch served at noon; presentation starts at 12:30pm.
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April 8:
Bate-papo @ DRCLAS, a roundtable discussion in Portuguese where faculty,
students, and all other members of the Harvard Community can practice their
Portuguese language skills and discuss Luso-Brazilian cultures. Brazilian
music, food, poetry, and much more.
Friday, April 8 (4:00-6:00pm)
DRCLAS Seminar Room (2nd floor) 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
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April 13:
Brazilian Historical & Contemporary Challenges: Reflections from Harvard
A Conversation on Gender & Sexuality in Brazil
JAMES GREEN, Associate Professor of History at Brown University. He is a
former president of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) and is
currently chair of BRASAs Committee on the Future of Brazilian Studies in
the United States. Green is the author of Beyond Carnival: Male
Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil, and he is currently finishing
the manuscript We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian
Military Dictatorship in the United States, 1964-85.
MALA HTUN, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the New School for
Social Research. She is the author of Sex and the State: Abortion,
Divorce, and the Family Under Latin American Dictatorships and
Democracies. Htuns current work focuses on the initiatives and responses
that states take with regard to gender, race, and ethnicity. She is
finishing the manuscript Sex, Race, and Representation: Getting Women,
Blacks, and Indians into Political Power in Latin America. Htun received a
PhD in political science from Harvard.
Wednesday, April 13 (12:00-2:00pm)
DRCLAS Conference Room (2nd floor) 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
Brazilian lunch served at noon; presentation starts at 12:30pm.
--------------------
April 14:
Brazilian Graduate Studies Workshop
A forum for doctoral or masters students engaged in substantive research on
Brazil-related topics to circulate and discuss works-in-progress as well as
to meet with experts on Brazil. Presentations by PAMELA J. SURKAN, Doctoral
Candidate, Harvard School of Public Health, and CAROL DESHANO DA SILVA,
Candidate, Ed.D. in International Education, Harvard Graduate School of
Education.
Thursday, April 14 (5:00-7:00pm)
DRCLAS Conference Room (2nd floor) 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
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April 14:
A Conversation on Brazilian Art
JANE DE ALMEIDA, Visiting Fellow, Department of History of Art and
Architecture, Harvard University. Almeidas post-doctoral research focuses
on the artist Arthur Bispo do Rosario, who for fifty years lived in a
psychiatric asylum in Rio de Janeiro. She has taught at the Catholic
University of São Paulo, Mackenzie University, FAAP, and Boston College.
Almeida has curated exhibitions at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil and
is the author of Metacinemas; Ordering and Vertigo; Images Strategie;
Aesthesis: Aesthetics and Cinema; and Witty Found: Witz and Psychoanalysis
in José Simãos Writings.
GUY BRETT, Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar for Spring Term 2005.
Internationally recognized as one of the most influential writers and
thinkers on contemporary art, Brett occupies a distinctive position as an
independent curator and critical historian of the visual arts. During his
stay at Harvard, he will develop a project investigating the notion of the
void in the work of Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Mira Schendel and other
Brazilian and Latin American artists. His research will also explore the
role played by the box-format and book-format in Brazilian avant-garde art.
ELIO GASPARI, Lemann Visiting Scholar at DRCLAS for Spring Term
2005. Gaspari is one of todays most influential Brazilian columnists,
writing for Folha de São Paulo, O Globo and ten other newspapers. Since the
publication of his first volume on Brazils military regime, A Ditadura
Envergonhada, he has been widely recognized as one of Brazils leading
historians and journalists. He has published four volumes on the history
of Brazils dictatorial military regime including A Ditadura Escancarada, A
Ditadura Derrotada, and A Ditadura Encurralada. During his stay at Harvard,
Gaspari is working on the fifth volume of this series, A Ditadura
Desmontada, which covers the period of 1978-1979.
NICOLAU SEVCENKO, Visiting Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
at Harvard University, Spring 2005. Sevcenko is currently teaching the
courses Popular Tradition as the Muse of Modern Brazilian Culture and
Literature and the Plea for Compassionate Modernization in 20th-century
Brazil. He is on the faculty of the University of São Paulo (USP) and has
published widely on Brazilian history, literature, and culture, including:
Pindorama Revisitada: Cultura e Sociedade em Tempos de Virada; Orfeu
Extático na Metrópole: São Paulo,Sociedade e Cultura nos Frementes Anos 20;
and Literatura como Missão: Tensões Sociais e Criação Cultural na Primeira
República.
Moderator CECILE FROMONT, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History of Art
and Architecture, Harvard University, working on colonial Afro-Brazilian
art in Bahia.
Thursday, April 14 (7:00-8:30pm)
DRCLAS Conference Room (2nd floor) 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
Co-sponsored with DRCLASs Art Forum.
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BRAZIL WEEK (April 18-22):
Brazilian Womens Movements
Recent scholarship has argued that Brazil has Latin Americas largest, most
vibrant and most diverse feminist movement, having pioneered a number of
policy changes advancing womens rights. The Third Annual Brazil Week at
Harvard will bring together scholars, leaders, members of the local
community, and students to examine these critical issues and the multiple
ways in which Brazilian women have organized, including a focus on the role
of womens organizations in the new immigrant communities.
Brazil Week Founder & Chair: CLÉMENCE JOUËT-PASTRÉ, Senior Preceptor in
Portuguese, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, Harvard University.
April 18 (Official Brazil Week Opening):
Brazilian Women in Popular Music
Music by VALDISA MOURA & BAND
Vocals: Valdisa Moura, bass: Tal Shalom-Kobi, guitar: Deborah Rocha, flute:
Tina Jacas, percussion: Steve Sanford & Marcos Santos.
Lecture by DÁRIO BORIM, JR.
Associate Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, University of
MassachusettsDartmouth. Author of Perplexidades: Raça, Sexo e Outras
Questões Sociopolíticas no Discurso Cultural Brasileiro and Borders and
Selves: Contemporary Autobiography of Brazil and the Americas. Borim is
host and producer of Brazilliance, a weekly live radio program dedicated to
the music of Brazil and other lusophone countries.
Monday, April 18 (6:00-8:00pm)
Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue (Yenching Library), Cambridge
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April 20:
Brazilian Womens Movements: A Historical Perspective
A historical overview of womens movements in Brazil and an analysis of the
movements triumphs and challenges in the twentieth century, focusing
particularly on education and society. Unlike the U.S. model, Brazilian
education was marked by a strong Jesuit presence and hundreds of years of
influence from the Catholic Church. The Constitution of 1891, which
established Brazil as a secular, federal and democratic state, led to
changes in the educational system which had profound repercussions for the
education of women.
ROSELI FISCHMANN, Visiting Scholar of Political Psychology, Department of
Psychology, Harvard University, and Professor of Graduate Studies,
Department of Educational Administration and Economics of Education,
University of São Paulo (USP); Author of numerous books and articles,
Fischmann is a regular contributor to the Brazilian newspaper Correio
Braziliense. She is a former member of the São Paulo State Council for
Womens Affairs (1999-2002).
Wednesday, April 20 (12:00-2:00pm)
DRCLAS Conference Room (2nd floor) 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
Brazilian lunch served at noon; presentation starts at 12:30pm.
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April 21:
Bostons Brazilian Womens Group
10th Anniversary Celebration & Book Launch
What is it like to be a Brazilian, a woman, and an immigrant? How does it
change ones life? These are some of the questions that Heloisa Galvãos
book, As Viajantes do Século Vinte: Uma História Oral de Mulheres
Brasileiras na Área de Boston, tries to answer. The project is an oral
history of the saga of Brazilian women immigrants narrated in their own
voice, featuring interviews with eleven Brazilian women who immigrated to
the United States in the 1980s. They are young and old, married, mothers,
grandmothers, workers from all areas, and homemakers. They speak for
themselves on why they decided to come, what happened when they came, and
how it changed their lives.
HELOISA MARIA GALVÃO, co-founder, Brazilian Womens Group, and bilingual
community field coordinator, Boston Public Schools.
GRUPO MULHER BRASILEIRA, founded in 1995 by a group of Brazilian immigrant
women in Boston, this organization developed strong roots by participating
actively in the organization and growth of the local Brazilian community.
Thursday, April 21
6:00-7:30pm: Presentation (Conference Room 2nd floor)
7:30-8:30pm: Reception & book launch (Resource Room ground floor)
DRCLAS 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
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April 22:
BRAZILIAN JOURNEYS: The Documentaries of Dorrit Harazim
A series of films depicting different touching facets of Brazilian life.
Third & Final Documentaries:
4:30pm: Travessia do Escuro (Journey through Darkness), 2002, 28 min.
Chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the illiterate in Brazil. The film
tells the story of three elderly Brazilians, all of whom have led
productive lives and retired yet have now returned to school to learn how
to read and write, hoping to fulfill the gap illiteracy has carved in their
lives.
5:30pm: Passageiros (Passengers), 2000, 57 min.
At the age of 17, Marcelo left the ranch and mine where he worked with his
father in Piauí and made his way to São Paulo in search of employment. The
film accompanies Marcelo in a three-day bus journey as he returns home for
the first time. Through the personal stories of Marcelo and the other
passengers who are part of this constant migration movement within Brazil,
the film depicts the aspirations and obstacles of the contemporary migrant.
Discussion with the filmmaker to follow the screening.
Documentary in Portuguese with English subtitles.
Friday, April 22 (4:30-7:00pm)
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall (next to Widener Library)
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April 25:
Brazilian Mothers Feeding Practices and Child Overweight
A presentation on an on-going research project examining Brazilian mothers
feeding practices, perceptions of infant weight status, and the factors
that may influence a childs dietary intake and the development of
overweight in pre-school years.
ANA CRISTINA LINDSAY, DDS, MPH, DrPH, Research Scientist, Public Health
Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
KATARINA MUCHA, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of
Arts & Sciences, Harvard University.
Monday, April 25 (12:00-2:00pm)
DRCLAS Conference Room (2nd floor) 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
Brazilian lunch served at noon; the presentation starts at 12:30pm.
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April 29:
Bate-papo @ DRCLAS, a roundtable discussion in Portuguese where faculty,
students, and all other members of the Harvard Community can practice their
Portuguese language skills and discuss Luso-Brazilian cultures. Brazilian
music, food, poetry, and much more.
Friday, April 29 (4:00-6:00pm)
DRCLAS Seminar Room (2nd floor) 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
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For events to be held in May, please see appended PDF file with full
calendar of DRCLAS's "Brazil Semester at Harvard."
