*
The Angola and Mina Waves: A New Look at the Slave Trade to Brazil*
Conversa with:
John Thornton, Professor of History at Boston University
Linda Heywood, Professor of History at Boston University
Moderated by Kenneth Maxwell, Director, Brazil Studies Program
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2007
Time: 12:15-1:45 pm
Location: CGIS S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Contact: Marcio Siwi
This event is made possible by the generous support of the Jorge Paulo
Lemann Fund.
--
Marcio Siwi
Fellow / Program Officer
Brazil Studies Program
Harvard University
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel (617) 495-5435
http://drclas.harvard.edu/brazil
10/24
*Decentralization, Spillovers & Water Quality: Evidence from Brazil*
Seminar in Environmental Economics & Policy
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Room L-382, 3rd floor of the Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street
Featuring: A. Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University
Contact: jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu
Other Information: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k19826
10/25
*The Angola and Mina Waves: A New Look at the Slave Trade to Brazil*
Conversa with:
John Thornton, Professor of History at Boston University
Linda Heywood, Professor of History at Boston University
Moderated by Kenneth Maxwell, Director, Brazil Studies Program
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2007
Time: 12:15-1:45 pm
Location: CGIS S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Contact: Marcio Siwi (brazil(a)fas.harvard.edu)
This event is made possible by the generous support of the Jorge Paulo
Lemann Fund.
10/30
*Slavery and the Politics of Public Healing in Dahomey and Brazil,
1727-1744*
Harvard Africa Seminar with:
James Sweet, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Time: 4:15-6:00pm
Location: Room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Contact: cafrica(a)fas.harvard.edu
--
Marcio Siwi
Fellow / Program Officer
Brazil Studies Program
Harvard University
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel (617) 495-5435
http://drclas.harvard.edu/brazil
The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller
Center for Latin American Studies presents
*Brazil and Latin America in Global Context*
Conversa with:
Richard Lapper, Latin America Editor of the Financial Times
&
Fernando Rodrigues, Nieman Fellow and columnist for Folha de São Paulo
Moderated by
Kenneth Maxwell, Director of the Brazil Studies Program at Harvard
University
*Date: Thursday, October 4, 2007
Time: 12:15-1:45 pm
Location: CGIS S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street
*
This event is made possible by the generous support of the Jorge Paulo
Lemann Fund.
For more information please contact Marcio Siwi at msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu
<mailto:msiwi@fas.harvard.edu>
or visit http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil
--
Marcio Siwi
Research Associate / Program Officer
Harvard University
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel (617) 495-5435
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu
HSPH Winter Session in Brazil - Information Session
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
12:30 - 1:20 pm
Kresge 213, HSPH
Contact: Simone Pinheiro <spinheir(a)hsph.harvard.edu>
Come learn about this exciting new opportunity to participate in a
for-credit WinterSession course in Brazil. Dr. Felipe Fregni, Assistant
Professor at the Harvard Medical School and course co-instructor, will
speak about this unique opportunity to study infectious diseases in the
field. He will be joined by Jason Dyett, Program Director of the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies’ Brazil Office.
Lunch will be provided
For more information and site location photos, please see:
http://drclas.harvard.edu/courses/brazil/infectious_diseaseshttp://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k17719
*****
Novacap and the Making of the Brasilia
October 02, 2007
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Gund Hall Piper Auditorium
Fares el-DahDah
Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Rice University,
Houston, Texas
For more information, please visit
Click here for more information on Fares el-Dahdah and his work_
http://cohesion.rice.edu/administration/fis/report/FacultyDetail.cfm?DivID=…>
Sponsored by Department of Urban Planning and Design
*****
Research and Development Strategies in the Brazilian STD/AIDS Program
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
12:30 – 1:30pm
Contact:Jessica Schneider (jschneid(a)hsph.harvard.edu)
Location:FXB G – 3651 Huntington Avenue
Population and International Health Ecology / Modeling Seminar Series
Presents:
Dr. Cristina Posas
Head of Research and Development Unit Ministry of Health, Brazilian
National STD/AIDS Program
Sponsored by the Department of Population & International Health -
Harvard School of Public Health
*****
The Harvard International History Seminar
"The Abolition of Slavery: Panel Discussion"
Featuring Emmanuel Akyeampong, Vincent Brown, Maya Jasanoff, and
Kenneth Maxwell
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
4-6pm
CGIS S-250
1730 Cambridge Street
Refreshments will be served
Panelists:
Emmanuel Akyeampong - Harvard College Professor & Professor of
History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard
Vincent Brown - Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History,
Harvard
Maya Jasanoff - Assistant Professor of British History,
University of Virginia
Kenneth Maxwell - Director, Brazil Studies Program & Visiting
Professor of History, Harvard
*****
HARVARD UNIVERSITY BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM, at the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
"Brazil and Latin America in Global Context"
Thursday, October 4
12:15-1:45 PM
DRCLAS, CGIS S-050
Conversa with
Richard Lapper (Latin America Editor, Financial Times)
and
Fernando Rodrigues (Nieman Fellow and Folha de São Paulo).
Moderated by
Kenneth Maxwell (Director of the Brazil Studies Program, Harvard
University).
--
Marcio Siwi
Research Associate / Program Officer
Harvard University
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel (617) 495-5435
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu