The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Cordially Invites You to Celebrate
The Official Inauguration of
The Brazilian Studies Program
Monday, May 1, 2006
6:00 PM
Featuring a lecture by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz:
"Harvard, 1876: The Poet, the Emperor, and the Scientist"
Followed by a reception with
Brazilian food & live music!
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In June, 1876, Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, visited Harvard. He strolled
across the Yard and had dinner with Henry Longfellow. Other guests
included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
and Alexander Agassiz (the son of his old friend, the late
Louis Agassiz. Afterwards, Longfellow wrote:
"Dom Pedro is the modern Haroun al Raschid, and is wandering about
to see the great world we live in, as simple traveler, not as king. He is
a hearty, genial, noble personage, and very liberal in his views."
Professor Lilia Moritz Schwarcz will discuss the longstanding relationship
between these New England Eminent Victorians and the Emperor.
Professor Schwarcz teaches at the University of Sao Paulo and is the author
of Spectacle of Races (Hill and Wang, 1999) and The Emperor's
Beard (Hill and Wang, 2004), for which she received the Jabuti Prize,
Brazil's major book award.
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David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Tsai Auditorium
CGIS Building Concourse Level S-010
1730 Cambridge Street
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/brazil
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Cordially Invites You to Celebrate
The Official Inauguration of
The Brazilian Studies Program
Monday, May 1, 2006
6:00 PM
Featuring a lecture by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz:
"Harvard, 1876: The Poet, the Emperor, and the Scientist"
Followed by a reception with
Brazilian food & live music!
In June, 1876, Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, visited Harvard. He strolled
across the Yard and had dinner with Henry Longfellow. Other guests
included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Alexander
Agassiz (the son of his old friend, the late Louis Agassiz). Afterwards,
Longfellow wrote:
"Dom Pedro is the modern Haroun al Raschid, and is wondering about
to see the great world we live in, as simple traveler, not as king. He is
a hearty, genial, noble personage, and very liberal in his views."
Professor Lilia Moritz Schwarcz will discuss the long standing relationship
between these New England "Eminent Victorians" and the Emperor.
Professor Schwarcz teaches at the University of São Paulo and is the author
of "Spectacle of Races" (Hill and Wang, 1999) and "The Emperor's Beard"
(Hill and Wang, 2004), for which she received the Jabuti Prize,
Brazil's major book award.
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*David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies*
*Tsai** Auditorium*
*CGIS Building** Concourse Level S-010*
*1730 Cambridge Street***
* *
*FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC*
Brazil Week at Harvard
April 19 - 23
The Music From Brazil
April 19 Wednesday From 6 to 8 pm
Documentary
Aboio (Cattle Callers). 2003. Brazil. Directed by Marilia Rocha. In Portuguese,
English subtitles. 73 min.
In the Brazilian outback, cowboys preserve their age-old customs, communicating
with their cattle in a form of plaintive singing known as aboio. Their voices
resound with an improvised, ancient form that dates from the Moors of Iberia.
Location: Lecture Hall (S010) Concourse Level - CGIS BUILDING, 1730 Cambridge
Street
April 20 Thursday From 6 to 8 pm
Anita Coelho Brazilian Jazz Ensemble
Anita Coelho, whose roots combine both Belém do Pará, Brazil and New England,
will bring her vocal talent to Harvard backed by a dynamic and talented quartet
to perform contemporary arrangements of lesser-known Bossa Nova tunes by many of
Brazil's most celebrated composers, including Vinicius de Moraes, Toninho Horta,
Chico Buarque, Joyce, Milton Nascimento, Carlos Lyra and Antonio Carlos Jobim
among others. Coelho sings in Bossa Nova and Chorinho styles of Brazilian music
and is backed by a sensational line-up to include Sergio Brandao on Guitar,
Alexei Tsiganov on Piano, Gilad Barkan on Bass and Renato Malavasi on Drums.
Location: Lecture Hall (S010) Concourse Level - CGIS BUILDING, 1730 Cambridge
Street
April 21 Friday From 12 to 2 pm
Conversations about Tropicalism
Christopher Dunn, Tulane University, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish
and Portuguese and African and African Diaspora Studies Program
Nicolau Sevcenko - Visiting Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Harvard University
Location: Lecture Hall (S010) Concourse Level - CGIS BUILDING, 1730 Cambridge
Street
Please note: This presentation will be in Portuguese.
April 23 Sunday From 3 to 5 pm
An Afternoon of Brazilian Classical Music
Music by Solati Trio
Ludmilla Lifson, Piano
SophiaHerman, Violin
Hrant Tatian, Cello
Works by Villa-Lobos, Camargo Guarnieri, Lorenzo Fernandez, Oswaldo Lacerda, and
Henrique Oswald Location: Paine Hall Music Department Harvard University
ALL ACTIVITIES ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Purposes
The purpose of the Fourth Brazil Week at Harvard is to bring together scholars,
leaders, members of the local community, and Harvards students to discuss the
richness and variety of Brazilian music. In addition to showcasing, examining,
and celebrating the international character and appeal of Brazil 's song and
dance music, we will explore lesser-known genres such as Brazilian classical
music, aboio (Brazilian cowboys plaintive singing), and Brazilian Tropicalism.
Another important purpose of this event is to strengthen relations among the
Brazil program at DRCLAS, the Harvard Brazilian Students Organization, and
DRCLAS Student Advisory Board. To accomplish this goal, we are involving these
different organizations in the conceptualization, planning, and implementation
of Brazil Week.
Pessoal,
This event tomorrow might interest some of you:
Wed., April 5-*"Theory and Practice in the Black Atlantic: The Dynamic of the
African Diaspora from Angola to Brazil." *(David Rockefeller Center for Latin
American Studies, Harvard) Roquinaldo A. Ferreira, DRCLAS, Du Bois Institute,
University of Virginia. DRCLAS, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., 6 p.m.
Paper available at:
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/index.pl/events/historyworkshop.
Light dinner and refreshments will be served.
