DRCLAS-Brazil-list November 2008

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by Marcio Siwi

LECTURE BY CANDOMBLE PRIEST SENHOR AMILTON COSTA Senhor Amilton Costa, Bahian Humbondo (Senior Priests of the Jeje Nation) will lecture about Brazilian Candomblé, drawing on his extensive knowledge and personal experiences. At the end of his lecture, Senhor Costa will take questions from the audience. Organized by Prof. J. Lorand Matory for his course, Afro-Atlantic Religions, and sponsored by the Department of African and African American Studies, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Committee on African Studies at Harvard University. Date and Time: Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008 at 4PM Location: William James Hall, Rm. 1 (in the basement) - Corner of Kirkland Ave. and Divinity Ave., Harvard University, Cambridge For more information please contact: Adam M. McGee at amcgee(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

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Brazil Studies Program - upcoming events

by Marcio Siwi

Boston Area Latin American History Workshop and Brazil Studies Workshop Rethinking Migration from the Brazilian Northeast to the Amazon: Historical Trends from World War II A presentation by: Seth Garfield, Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas, Austin. Author of Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988. Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Time: 6:00 - 7:30pm Location: DRCLAS, CGIS S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street __________________________________________________ Brazil Studies Program Conversa Challenges to the access of Education in Brazil Speakers: Claudio de Moura Castro, President of the Advisory Council of Faculdade Pitágoras and Rafael Martinez, Deputy-secretary of Education for the State of Rio de Janeiro. Moderated by Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education and Director of Global Education and of International Education Policy at Harvard University. Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008 Time: 12:15 - 1:45pm Location: DRCLAS CGIS – S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street __________________________________________________ Brazil Film Series: Presented by The Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS and The Harvard Brazilian Organization The Sound of Brazil: Brasileirinho Directed by Mika Kaurismäki, 2005 Mika Kaurismäki's toe-tapping, finger-snapping documentary reveals the vibrant sounds of Brazil's old-style Choro music, a blend of native Indian, European and African styles that forms the foundation of modern musical styles including Bossa Nova and Samba. This musical documentary shows the history and the vitality of Choro, one of the first genuinely Brazilian urban musical style. Choro was created around 1870 when new music groups in Rio de Janeiro started mixing European music with Afro-Brazilian rhythms and melancholic music of Brazilian Indians. After being overshadowed by the Samba in the 1920s and later by the Bossa Nova, Choro is now livelier than ever before in the bars and concert halls. Brasileirinho focuses on the musicians from "Trio Madeira Brasil". Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm Location: Tsai Auditorium (CGIS South), 1730 Cambridge Street __________________________________________________ These events are free and open to the public and are made possible by the generous support of the Lemann Family Endowment. -- 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

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DRCLAS-Brazil-list November 2008