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Do you want to volunteer, study or research in Brazil? *
*Please come to this informative panel featuring students sharing their
experiences and insights!
Followed by a capoeira presentation and Brazilian food and refreshments.*
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*Brazil** Studies Student Panel and Opening Reception*
*Wednesday, October 4^th *
*Location: CGIS S-010 Tsai Auditorium*
*1730 Cambridge St**.*
*6-7 p.m.*
*Introduction on Brazil Studies Program*
Professor Kenneth Maxwell, Director, Brazil Studies Program
*Presentation on Portuguese Language Courses and Harvard Summer School
in Rio *
Professor Clémence Jouët-Pastré, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages
and Literatures (Undergraduate Adviser in Portuguese)
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*Student Panel*
Moderated by Lorena Barberia, Program Associate, Brazil Office São Paulo
*Megan Grannan'09 *is studying Applied Mathematics but is pursuing
citations in Spanish and Portuguese. Earlier this year, she attended
Harvard's summer program at the Pontifica Universidade Católica in Rio
de Janeiro.
*Felipe Fregni* completed his MD and PhD at University of São Paulo (São
Paulo, Brazil) and then went to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for
a post-doctoral fellowship in neurology. Subsequently he attended the
Scholars in Clinical Science Program - a two-year post-graduate program
from Harvard Medical School. He was recently awarded the Jorge Paulo
Lemann fellowship for a MPH (master in public health) at the Harvard
School of Public Health. His main area of research interest is on
international clinical trials in Neurology. He currently is performing
clinical trials in collaboration with some universities in São Paulo.**
*James Pautz '06* studied Romance Languages and Literatures, Brazilian
studies track, and earned a Certificate in Latin American Studies.
After a summer in Middlebury College's Portuguese immersion program, he
spent the fall of his junior year at the Pontifícia Universidade
Católica in Rio de Janeiro. At Harvard, his coursework focused on
women's writing, translation studies, and contemporary Brazilian
poetry. In preparation for his senior thesis, "Translating the Sonnets
of Paulo Henriques Britto and Glauco Mattoso," James returned to Rio de
Janeiro and interviewed local translators and authors.
*Elissa Poorman* *'06* was a History and Science and premedical
concentrator at Harvard. She spent spring semester of her junior year at
Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro. As a History and
Science concentrator, she focused on how science was used by European
powers to promote cultural imperialism. During her semester abroad and
the summer that followed, she worked with a lepers' rights organization
to determine the origin of and justification for the large network of
leper colonies in Brazil. Her thesis "'The Hope of Redemption': Science,
Coercion, and the Leper Colonies of Brazil," won the Kenneth Maxwell
Thesis Prize for best undergraduate thesis on Brazil. She plans to
continue to work with leprosy patients in Brazil in the spring.
*Gabriel Rocha '08* is a Literature Concentrator specializing in
Portuguese. As a freshman, he was an intern in the Brazil Studies
Program, where he assisted with the Brazil Semester at DRCLAS. He spent
a summer at the Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, in Rio de Janeiro,
researching Rui Barbosa's role at the International Hague Conference of
1907. Gabriel is a member of the Harvard Brazilian Organization.
Currently, he is a Mellon/Mays Scholar, and works as a Research
Assistant for the Brazil Program.
--
Erin Goodman
Brazil Studies Program/Student and Area Programs
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel. (617) 495-5435
fax (617) 496-2802
egoodman(a)fas.harvard.edu
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies cordially
invites you to its
*Open House Celebration*
Thursday, September 28
6:00- 8:00 pm
Featuring the opening of the Latin American Art Forum's exhibit,
"Caminhos", with a gallery talk by the artist, Chiara Banfi, winner of
the 2004 Chamex Prize for recent Brazilian fine arts graduates.
Join us for live Brazilian music by Valdisa Moura,
refreshments and light hors d'oeuvres.
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge Street (2nd Floor)
For more information call (617) 495-3366
/These exhibitions are made possible by generous support from the
Gustavo Brillembourg Memorial Fund and the Jorge Paulo Lemann Fund./
--
Erin Goodman
Brazil Studies Program/Student and Area Programs
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel. (617) 495-5435
fax (617) 496-2802
egoodman(a)fas.harvard.edu
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu