DRCLAS-Brazil-list October 2006

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1 participants
4 discussions

11/01: Brazilian and American Narratives of Slavery, Liberty, and Infanticide

by Erin Goodman

The Mother Instinct: Brazilian and American Narratives of Slavery, Liberty, and Infanticide Jessica Callaway (Harvard University) Date: Wednesday, November 1, 2006 Time: 4:00 6:00 p.m. Location: Barker Center, Room 114 Chairs: Tom Conley and William Granara Humanities Center, Cross-Cultural Poetics and Rhetoric Kathleen A. Coviello Romance Languages and Literatures Harvard University, 404 Boylston Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-2546 617-496-4682 (fax)

17 years, 5 months

Reminder: Violence in Rio de Janeiro

by Erin Goodman

The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program @ DRCLAS presents */Conversa/: *Violence in Rio de Janeiro with Robert Gay (Connecticut College) and Irene Rizzini (Pontifícia Universidade Católica - Rio de Janeiro) moderated by *Felton Earls *(Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health) Thursday, October 26th, 2006, 12-2 pm CGIS S-050, 1730 Cambridge St. A light lunch is provided. Irene Rizzini and Robert Gay discuss the causes and manifestations of urban violence in Rio de Janeiro, including the drug and gang cultures, juvenile delinquency, and the connections between citizenship, poverty and violence. *Irene Rizzini *is Visiting Chair in the Study of Brazilian Culture at the University of Notre Dame, and is a Professor and a researcher at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is also Director of The International Center for Research on Childhood (CIESPI) and President of Childwatch International Research Network. She is the author of several books, among which are: /Globalization and children; The art of governing children: the history of social policies, legislation and child welfare in Brazil/; and /Disinherited from society: street children in Latin America//./ *Robert Gay* is Director of the Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts (CISLA) at Connecticut College and a sociologist whose research focuses on clientelism, democracy and civil society in Brazil and other countries of Latin America. He is the author of /Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman /and /Popular Organization & Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: A Tale of Two Favelas /and has published numerous articles on Latin American political change. For more information, please see http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/brazil

17 years, 6 months

Today: The ecology and carbon dynamics of Amazonian forests

by Erin Goodman

Monday, October 23, 2006 4pm, Haller Hall "*The ecology and carbon dynamics of Amazonian forests: new insights from a pan-Amazonian forest plot network*" *Yadvinder Malhi, *Oxford University http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/ymalhi.php <http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/ymalhi.php> Refreshments will follow on the fourth floor of Hoffman Lab. /************************************************************* /*A. Maryorie Grande *Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences 20 Oxford Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA, 02138 Tel.:(617) 496-8069 Fax :(617) 495-8839 grande(a)eps.harvard.edu http://www.eps.harvard.edu/

17 years, 6 months

Brazil Studies Program Announcements 10/18

by Erin Goodman

-- Harvard Brazil Studies Program Fall 2006 Events Calendar -- Directory of Scholars in Brazilian Studies -- 10/26 @ 12 pm: /Conversa/: *Violence in Rio de Janeiro*, with Robert Gay (Connecticut College) and Irene Rizzini (Pontifícia Universidade Católica - Rio de Janeiro); moderated by Felton Earls (Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health) ***************************************************************************** The fall events calendar for the Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) is now online at: http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/brazil ***************************************************************************** The Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS is pleased to announce a recent updating of the/ Directory of Scholars in Brazilian Studies/. Anyone can search the directory. Specialized researchers may find the directory useful to identify colleagues who work on related subjects. Newcomers to the study of Brazil can use it to become familiar with the field by browsing members' research interests and publications. For those outside the academic world, it can serve as a reference tool to specialists in particular areas of Brazilian Studies. Please update your information at http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/directories/brazil/. ******************************************************************************* The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program @ DRCLAS presents */Conversa/: *Violence in Rio de Janeiro with Robert Gay (Connecticut College) and Irene Rizzini (Pontifícia Universidade Católica - Rio de Janeiro) moderated by *Felton Earls *(Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health) Thursday, October 26th, 2006, 12-2 pm CGIS S-050, 1730 Cambridge St. A light lunch is provided. Irene Rizzini and Robert Gay discuss the causes and manifestations of urban violence in Rio de Janeiro, including the drug and gang cultures, juvenile delinquency, and the connections between citizenship, poverty and violence. *Irene Rizzini *is Visiting Chair in the Study of Brazilian Culture at the University of Notre Dame, and is a Professor and a researcher at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is also Director of The International Center for Research on Childhood (CIESPI) and President of Childwatch International Research Network. She is the author of several books, among which are: /Globalization and children; The art of governing children: the history of social policies, legislation and child welfare in Brazil/; and /Disinherited from society: street children in Latin America//./ *Robert Gay* is Director of the Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts (CISLA) at Connecticut College and a sociologist whose research focuses on clientelism, democracy and civil society in Brazil and other countries of Latin America. He is the author of /Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman /and /Popular Organization & Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: A Tale of Two Favelas /and has published numerous articles on Latin American political change.

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DRCLAS-Brazil-list October 2006