DRCLAS-Brazil-list February 2009

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by Marcio Siwi

The Boston Area Latin American History Workshop and the Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS present *Brazilian Abolitionism, Its Historiography, and the Uses of Political History* Speaker: Jeffrey D. Needell, Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Author of /The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871./ Date:Thursday, February 26, 2009 Time: 6:00 -- 7:30pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, CGIS South, Room S-030

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Harvard University Brazil Studies Program - events this week

by Marcio Siwi

The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller presents: *Tuesday Seminar* Occupational Choices: Economic Determinants of Land Occupations in Brazil Speaker: Suresh Naidu, Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Time: 12:00-2:00pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS CGIS South, Room S-250 The Tuesday Seminar Series is co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. ___________________ *Du Bois Institute Spring Colloquium Series* "Afro-Brazilian Religions and National Culture -- An Ethnography in Hypermedia" Speaker Vagner Gonçalves da Silva, Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow Date: February 25, 2009 Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Location: Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA contact: Diane E. Williams at dianeew(a)post.harvard.edu _______________ *History Workshop* Brazilian Abolitionism, Its Historiography, and the Uses of Political History Speaker: Jeffrey D. Needell, Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Author of The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871. Date:Thursday, February 26, 2009 Time: 6:00 -- 7:30pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, CGIS South, Room S-030 This event is co-sponsored by Boston Area Latin American History Workshop and Brazil Studies Program __________________ *Bate-Papo* Members of the Harvard Community can practice their Portuguese language skills and discuss Luso-Brazilian cultures in a round-table setting. Date: Friday, February 27, 2009 Time: 4:30 - 5:30 pm Location: DRCLAS, CGIS Resource Room, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge Contact: Dr. Clémence Jouët-Pastré, cpastre(a)fas.harvard.edu Co-sponsored by the Portuguese section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures ________________ FOR A FULL LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM SPRING 2009 CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events/harvard -- 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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Harvard University Brazil Studies Program - upcoming events

by Marcio Siwi

The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller presents: *Tuesday Seminar* Occupational Choices: Economic Determinants of Land Occupations in Brazil Speaker: Suresh Naidu, Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Time: 12:00-2:00pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS CGIS South, Room S-250 The Tuesday Seminar Series is co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. ___________________ *History Workshop* Brazilian Abolitionism, Its Historiography, and the Uses of Political History Speaker: Jeffrey D. Needell, Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Author of The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871. Date:Thursday, February 26, 2009 Time: 6:00 -- 7:30pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, CGIS South, Room S-030 This event is co-sponsored by Boston Area Latin American History Workshop and Brazil Studies Program __________________ *Bate-Papo* Members of the Harvard Community can practice their Portuguese language skills and discuss Luso-Brazilian cultures in a round-table setting. Date: Friday, February 27, 2009 Time: 4:30 - 5:30 pm Location: DRCLAS, CGIS Resource Room, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge Contact: Dr. Clémence Jouët-Pastré, cpastre(a)fas.harvard.edu Co-sponsored by the Portuguese section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures ________________ FOR A FULL LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM SPRING 2009 CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events/harvard -- 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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Reminder Public Policy Immersion Program in Brazil - Summer 2009 - Applications due Friday, February 20, 2009

by Marcio Siwi

The DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program would like to remind students that applications for the Brazil Public Policy Immersion Program (PPIP) are due on* Friday, February 20, 2009.* Between June and August of 2009, ten Harvard students will be selected to participate in a 9-week intensive program targeted at providing an opportunity to gain hands on experience in a policy-focused internship with some of Brazil's leading institutions in São Paulo. For complete details about the PPIP and the application, please see: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/student/ppip. As this is a new program, we have also created a more detailed program brochure that can also be accessed via the program's page or at: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/files/2009-PPIP.pdf. Potential policy-focused internship project topics with leading Brazilian NGOs including: *Improving library access and literacy in the Amazon for children * Working for greater racial equity in public school systems * Reducing the vulnerability of children to diseases limiting physical and mental development * Improving municipal education policies in the State of São Paulo * Increasing employment in the formal sector of the economy * Providing health care for the Bolivian immigrant population in the city of São Paulo * Promoting sustainable development in the Vale do Ribeira -- 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 Film Series - O Que É Isso, Companheiro? - TODAY at 6pm

by Marcio Siwi

The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller presents: *O Que É Isso, Companheiro?* (Four Days in September) Directed by Bruno Barreto (1997) Adapted from the memoirs of a former revolutionary turned journalist and politician, this film focuses on a small band of militants seeking retribution for the atrocities of Brazil's military junta that came to power by way of a coup in 1964. In a counterattack to the dictatorship's freezing of civil liberties, censorship of the press, and oppression of the political opposition, the militants kidnapped the United States Ambassador in their attempt to grab international headlines and win the release of imprisoned left-wing sympathizers. Free and open to the public. Film is in Portuguese with English subtitles. Date: TODAY Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Time: 6:00 - 8:00pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, Tsai Auditorium This film screening is co-sponsored with The Harvard Brazilian Organization -- 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

The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies presents the following events: Film Series O Que É Isso, Companheiro? (1997) Directed by Bruno Barreto Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Time: 6:00 - 8:00pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, Tsai Auditorium _________________ Tuesday Seminar Occupational Choices: Economic Determinants of Land Occupations in Brazil Speaker: Suresh Naidu, Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Time: 12:00-2:00pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS CGIS South, Room S-250 Tuesday Seminar Series is co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. ___________________ History Workshop Brazilian Abolitionism, Its Historiography, and the Uses of Political History Speaker: Jeffrey D. Needell, Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Author of The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871. Date:Thursday, February 26, 2009 Time: 6:00 – 7:30pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, CGIS South, Room S-030 This event is co-sponsored by Boston Area Latin American History Workshop and Brazil Studies Program __________________ Bate-Papo Members of the Harvard Community can practice their Portuguese language skills and discuss Luso-Brazilian cultures in a round-table setting. Date: Friday, February 27, 2009 Time: 4:30 - 5:30 p, Location: DRCLAS, CGIS Resource Room, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge Contact: Dr. Clémence Jouët-Pastré, cpastre(a)fas.harvard.edu Co-sponsored by the Portuguese section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures ________________ FOR A FULL LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM SPRING 2009 CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events/harvard

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Brazil Studies Program - Special Seminar - The Favelas of Rio de Janeiro - TODAY

by Marcio Siwi

The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller presents: *The Favelas of Rio de Janeiro Yesterday and Today: Poverty, Urban Reform and Music* A Special Seminar with: Licia Valladares, Professor of Sociology at the University of Lille, France. Author of A Invenção da Favela (Editora da Fundaçao Getulio Vargas, 2005) & Bruno Carvalho, Teaching Fellow in Portuguese and Graduate Student in Romance Languages, Harvard University. He is working a dissertation titled New City in a New World: literary spaces of an afro-jewish Brazilian neighborhood. Moderator: Clemence Jouet-Pastre, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures and Undergraduate Adviser in Portuguese. Author of Becoming Brazuca: Brazilian Immigration to the United States Date: Friday, February 13, 2009 Time: 1:00 - 3:00pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, CGIS South Room S-250 This event is co-sponsored with the Harvard University Department of Romance Languages and Literatures ____ FOR A FULL LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM SPRING 2009 CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events/harvard -- 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 - Conversa on Afro-Brazilian Religion - TODAY

by Marcio Siwi

The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller presents: Contemporary Challenges to Afro-Brazilian Religions A Conversa with J. Lorand Matory, Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Author of Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble. & Vagner Gonçalves da Silva, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and fellow at Harvard's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. He is the author of Metropolitan Orixás. Moderator: Harvey Cox, Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard. His books include When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Decisions Today and The Secular City. Date: TODAY Thursday, February 12, 2009 Time: 12:15 – 1:45pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, CGIS South Room S-050 ________________ FOR A FULL LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM SPRING 2009 CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events/harvard -- 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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TODAY - Come learn about available opportunities this Summer in Latin America!!

by Marcio Siwi

*Come learn about available opportunities this Summer in Latin America!!!!* *Wednesday, February 11^th , 6:30pm in the JCR at Eliot House* */Light food will be served/* / / *For more information, contact Yadira Rivera at <yrivera(a)fas.harvard.edu> <mailto:yrivera@fas.harvard.edu>*

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Harvard University Brazil Studies Program - upcoming events

by Marcio Siwi

Conversa Contemporary Challenges to Afro-Brazilian Religions Speakers: J. Lorand Matory, Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Author of Black /Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble/. Vagner Gonçalves da Silva, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and fellow at Harvard's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. He is the author of /Metropolitan Orixás./ Moderator: Harvey Cox, Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard. His books include /When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Decisions Today and The Secular City./ Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009 Time: 12:15 -- 1:45pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, CGIS South Room S-050 ________________ Special Seminar The Favelas of Rio de Janeiro Yesterday and Today: Poverty, Urban Reform and Music Speakers: Licia Valladares, Professor of Sociology at the University of Lille, France. Author of A /Invenção da Favela/ (Editora da Fundaçao Getulio Vargas, 2005) Bruno Carvalho, Teaching Fellow in Portuguese and Graduate Student in Romance Languages, Harvard University. He is working a dissertation titled /New City in a New World: literary spaces of an afro-jewish Brazilian neighborhood./ Moderator: Clemence Jouet-Pastre, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures and Undergraduate Adviser in Portuguese. Author of /Becoming Brazuca: Brazilian Immigration to the United States/ Date: Friday, February 13, 2009 Time: 1:00 - 3:00pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, CGIS South Room S-250 This event is co-sponsored with the Harvard University Department of Romance Languages and Literatures ________________ Film Series O Que É Isso, Companheiro? (1997) Directed by Bruno Barreto Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Time: 6:00 - 8:00pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, Tsai Auditorium _________________ Tuesday Seminar Candidate Identity and Political Institutions: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Brazil Speaker: Suresh Naidu, Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies The Tuesday Seminar Series is co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Time: 12:00-2:00pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS CGIS South, Room S-250 ___________________ History Workshop Brazilian Abolitionism, Its Historiography, and the Uses of Political History Speaker: Jeffrey D. Needell, Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Author of /The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871./ Date:Thursday, February 26, 2009 Time: 6:00 -- 7:30pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, CGIS South, Room S-030 This event is co-sponsored by Boston Area Latin American History Workshop and Brazil Studies Program __________________ Bate-Papo Members of the Harvard Community can practice their Portuguese language skills and discuss Luso-Brazilian cultures in a round-table setting. Date: Friday, February 27, 2009 Time: 4:30 - 5:30 p, Location: DRCLAS, CGIS Resource Room, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge Contact: Dr. Clémence Jouët-Pastré, cpastre(a)fas.harvard.edu Co-sponsored by the Portuguese section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures ________________ FOR A FULL LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM SPRING 2009 CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events/harvard -- 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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