DRCLAS-Brazil-list February 2008

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João Moreira Salles and Oswaldo de Setti de Almeida in Boston - Today

by Marcio Siwi

February 27th, Wednesday, 7:00PM New England Premiere Balagan Film Series, the Film Study Center at Harvard University and The Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS Presents: Santiago (2006) 80 minutes By João Moreira Salles (Brazil) Discussion with Director Coolidge Corner Theatre 290 Harvard St. Brookline, MA Tickets: $9 general admission João Moreira Salles is one of Brazil’s foremost documentary filmmakers. In 1992 he began shooting a film about Santiago, the butler in his childhood home who left an indelible mark upon the family. Santiago was an educated man who, in addition to his work, produced some 60,000 pages of stories documenting his surroundings as well as tales of aristocratic lifestyles, including that of the house in which he himself served. Through his personal voice-over, Salles sheds light on his family and childhood, and on the reasons why the film took so long to complete. The result is an elegant mosaic with two parallel narratives, dealing with universal topics such as memory, identity, and documentary filmmaking. Santiago has been screened at some of the most important documentary film festivals and recently took the Grand Prize at Cinéma du Réel in Paris. Director Biography João Moreira Salles is a documentary filmmaker. In 1985 he wrote the screenplay for the documentary series ‘Japan, a Journey in Time’. In 1987 he directed ‘China, The Empire of the Center’ and wrote the screenplay for ‘Krajberg, the Poet of the Remains’. Two years later he directed the television series ‘America’ and the documentary ‘Poetry is one or two lines and behind it a huge landscape’ about poet Ana Cristina César. In 1990 he directed Blues. For cable channel GNT, he directed the documentary ‘Jorge Amado’, about race relation in Brazil and the series ‘Football’, co-directed with Arthur Fontes. Together with Katia Lund, he directed ‘News of a Personal War’, about urban violence in Brazil. In 2000 he directed ‘The Valley’, a documentary about the environmental devastation of the Paraíba Valley and ‘Santa Cruz: Holy Cross’ about the growth of an evangelical church in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. Both these films were made with journalist Marcos Sá Corrêa. In 2002, João Salles directed ‘Nelson Freire’, his first documentary for cinema. In 2004, he launched “Intermissions” a behind-the-scenes look at the election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian president. This documentary reveals Lula’s private life in the brink of a historic moment in Brazilian politics. For more information please to go http://www.balaganfilms.com _____ Wednesday February 27, 2008 4-5.30 ADR, Taubman 5th floor Community Development featuring Oswaldo de Setti de Almeida, Dhana Khatiwada and Maria Quezada. Moderated by Timothy Prestero, CEO of Design that Matters Oswaldo Setti de Almeida Filho, Brazil Oswaldo is the founder of Acão Moradia (Action Housing) an NGO that has engaged engineers and other technical professionals to develop technologies for the poor in Uberlandia, Minas Gerais state. Acão Moradia operates a factory that uses a mixture of earth and cement to create environmentally sound bricks for new homes. The project uses a simple manual-mold and time-dry process that eliminates the need for ovens, wood burning, and oil. Families who reside in the outskirts of Uberlândia use the ecological bricks to build low-cost homes with technical assistance, taking 25% off the final cost of a house. Ação Moradia has assisted more than 500 families in Uberlandia. Oswaldo is now working together with the community in other initiatives to generate income for the neediest families and to provide professional training for the unemployed. He has also established a partnership with a Brazilian federal bank to provide loans with no collateral for single mothers (without credit history) build their houses. For more information please contact Danyela Moron at danyela_moron(a)ksg08.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 Events at Harvard University

by Marcio Siwi

* TODAY - Monday, February 25, 2008* Brazil Studies Program and Harvard Brazilian Organization Film Series Edificio Master Directed by Eduardo Coutinho. 2002 Time: 6:00-8:00 pm Location: Tsai Auditorium, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge Street Free and open to the public *March - Monday, March 3, 2008* Bus 174 Film Screening and Discussion Time: 6:00 p.m. Location: Wiener Auditorium, basement of the Taubman Building, Kennedy School of Government Free and open to the public Light refreshments will be served Followed by commentary and discussion with: Luiz Eduardo Soares Visiting Scholar, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Kennedy School of Government and Sponsored by the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Kennedy School of Government and the Brazil Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies *March - Thursday, March 6, 2008* How well is Brazil Weathering the Global Economic Crisis? Time: 12:15 - 1:45pm Location: DRCLAS, CGIS S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street Conversa with: Albert Fishlow, Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. and Paulo Vieira da Cunha, former Deputy Governor for International Affairs, Central Bank of Brazil. Moderated by Filipe Campante, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. *March -- Friday 7th and Saturday 8th 2008* Jorge Furtado at the Harvard Film Archive Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts 24 Quincy Street Special Event Tickets $10 Friday March 7 at 7pm The Man Who Copied (O Homem Que Copiava) Directed by Jorge Furtado, Appearing in Person With Lázaro Ramos, Leandra Leal Brazil 2003, 35mm, color, 123 min. Portuguese with English subtitles Special Event Tickets $10 Saturday March 8 at 3pm Shorts by Jorge Furtado Special Event Tickets $10 Saturday March 8 at 7pm Rummikub Directed by Jorge Furtado, Appearing in Person With Alicia Braga Brazil 2007, video, color, 12 min. Portuguese with English subtitles Two Summers (Houve Uma Vez Dois Verões) Directed by Jorge Furtado, Appearing in Person With André Arteche, Ana Maria Mainieri Brazil 2002, 35mm, color, 75 min. Portuguese with English subtitles For more information: http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2008marchapril/furtado.html#man -- 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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Summer Internship Program in BRAZIL

by Marcio Siwi

------------------------------------------------------------------------ *SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM IN * *BRAZIL*** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ See program details at: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/student_resources/sip *The application deadline is on **February 19*** For more information please contact: **Marina de Moura** David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) Harvard University Tel. + 55 11 3549 9590 Fax. + 55 11 3549 9595 Av. Paulista, 1337 17º andar cj. 171 São Paulo - SP - Brasil demoura(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:demoura@fas.harvard.edu> www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil <http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil>

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Ambassador Antonio Patriota at Harvard - TODAY

by Marcio Siwi

The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS presents: "Brazil - U.S. Relations: The Bilateral, Regional and Global Agendas" Special Event with: Ambassador Antonio Patriota, Brazilian Ambassador to the United States. Chaired by Kenneth Maxwell, Director, Brazil Studies Program, Harvard University. Wednesday, February 13 - 12:30 to 2:00 PM - DRCLAS, CGIS S-050 -- 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 Related Events at Harvard

by Marcio Siwi

TONIGHT *02.11.08* Brazil Studies Program / Harvard Brazilian Organization Film Series O Caminho das Nuvens (2003) Directed by Vicente Amorim Synopsis: Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of seven journeys 2,000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles. Along the way, the story explores the inner dynamics of a family facing a great challenge with the courage to pursue dreams Monday, February 11 -- 6:00 to 9:00 PM - Tsai Auditorium (CGIS) FEBRUARY *02.13.08* "Brazil - U.S. Relations: The Bilateral, Regional and Global Agendas" Special Event with: Ambassador Antonio Patriota, Brazilian Ambassador to the United States. Chaired by Kenneth Maxwell, Director, Brazil Studies Program, Harvard University. Wednesday, February 13 - 12:30 to 2:00 PM - DRCLAS, CGIS S-050 *02.25.08* Brazil Studies Program / Harvard Brazilian Organization Film Series Edifício Master (2002) Directed by Eduardo Coutinho Monday, February 25 -- 6:00 to 9:00 PM - Tsai Auditorium (CGIS) Synopsis: For one week, Eduardo Coutinho and his team talked to 27 residents in an enormous building in Copacabana. Amongst these are a middle-aged couple who met through the classified ads in a newspaper, a call-girl who keeps her daughter and her sister, a retired actor, an ex-football player, and a janitor who suspects that his adopted father, whom he dreams about every night, is his real father. The subject of this documentary is private life in the big city, apartments as a last stronghold of individuality, in addition to emphasizing the fact that to live together in one and the same place does not ensure that a community will be formed. * *MARCH *03.10.08* Brazil Studies Program / Harvard Brazilian Organization Film Series Favela Rising (2005) Directed by Matt Mochary and Jeff Zimbalist Monday, March 10 -- 6:00 to 9:00 PM - Tsai Auditorium (CGIS) Synopsis: Favela Rising documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro's most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. At the dawn of liberation, just as collective mobility is overcoming all odds and Anderson's grassroots Afro Reggae movement is at the height of its success, a tragic accident threatens to silence the movement forever. -- 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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Conversa - Today

by Marcio Siwi

The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS presents: "Urban Violence and Human Rights in Brazil" Conversa with Luiz Eduardo Soares, Secretary for the Prevention of Violence in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro. Co-author of Elite da Tropa and author of Meu Casaco de General: 500 dias no front da Segurança Pública do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. and James Cavallaro, Clinical Professor of Law and Executive Director, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School. Editor of Front Line Brazil: Murders, Death Threats and Other Intimidation of Human Rights Defenders, 1997-2001. Moderator: Robert Gay, Lemann Visiting Scholar at DRCLAS, working on Drugs, Corruption and Everyday Violence in Rio de Janeiro: A Soldier's Story. Professor of Sociology, Connecticut College. Author of Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman. Today - Thursday, February 7 - 12:15 to 1:45 PM - DRCLAS, CGIS S-050

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Tonight - Harvard Capoeira Regional

by Marcio Siwi

_Reminder_: Tonight is *Harvard Capoeira Regional's * Free Introductory Class and Meeting! We'll have a short and FUN beginner's class, watch some clips, and talk logistics. *TONIGHT*! Wednesday February *6*th (not the 4th!) * 8:00pm - 9:00pm Lowell House Grille* (In the basement of O entryway. Walk in the front entrance, take a left at the end of the courtyard, O is a few doors down on your right) *Capoeira* is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, music, and acrobatics. It's crazy and awesome. If you're not convinced yet, check out this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnjbvo4EGIU -- 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 _______________________________________________ Drclasundergrad-list mailing list Drclasundergrad-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/drclasundergrad-list

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Brazil Related Events at Harvard University

by Marcio Siwi

*February* *02.06.08* "Why Do Americans Drink Coffee: The Boston Tea Party or Brazilian Slavery?" With Steven Topik, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine. Author of /Trade and Gunboats, the United States and Brazil in the Age of Empire/. Sponsored by the Boston Area Latin American History Workshop and Brazil Studies Workshop Wednesday, February 6 - 6:00 to 7:30 PM - DRCLAS, CGIS S-250 *02.07.08* "Urban Violence and Human Rights in Brazil" /Conversa/ with Luiz Eduardo Soares, Secretary for the Prevention of Violence in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro. Co-author of /Elite da Tropa/ and author of/ Meu Casaco de General: 500 dias no front da Segurança Pública do Estado do Rio de Janeiro/. and James Cavallaro, Clinical Professor of Law and Executive Director, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School. Editor of /Front Line Brazil: Murders, Death Threats and Other Intimidation of Human Rights Defenders, 1997-2001/. Moderator: Robert Gay, Lemann Visiting Scholar at DRCLAS, working on Drugs, Corruption and Everyday Violence in Rio de Janeiro: A Soldier's Story. Professor of Sociology, Connecticut College. Author of /Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman./ Thursday, February 7 - 12:15 to 1:45 PM - DRCLAS, CGIS S-050 *02.11.08* Brazil Studies Program / Harvard Brazilian Organization Film Series /O Caminho das Nuvens/ (2003) Directed by Vicente Amorim Monday, February 11 -- 6:00 to 9:00 PM - Tsai Auditorium (CGIS) *02.13.08* "Brazil - U.S. Relations: The Bilateral, Regional and Global Agendas" /Special Event /with: Ambassador Antonio Patriota, Brazilian Ambassador to the United States. Chaired by Kenneth Maxwell, Director, Brazil Studies Program, Harvard University. Wednesday, February 13 - 12:30 to 2:00 PM - DRCLAS, CGIS S-050 *02.25.08* Brazil Studies Program / Harvard Brazilian Organization Film Series /Edifício Master /(2002) Directed by Eduardo Coutinho Monday, February 25 -- 6:00 to 9:00 PM - Tsai Auditorium (CGIS) -- 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 February 2008