Brazil Related Events at Harvard and MIT
by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program - Brazil-related events, conferences, research, classes and cultural activities.
*The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for
Latin American Studies would like to inform you of the following
upcoming Brazil related events*
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Brazilian Film Series*
*Brazilians Like Myself*
Directed by Susana Rossberg
After noticing that Brazilians were leaving their country in increasing
numbers, filmmaker Susana Rossberg made the documentary "Brazilians Like
Myself", in an attempt to understand the phenomenon of migration.
Brazil had always been a country to which one emigrates; she wanted to
know why, all of a sudden it became a country one tries to flee.
"Brazilians Like Myself" addresses issues that are universal, and to
which we are confronted every day. The encounter with a growing, and
mostly undocumented, Brazilian community allows us to bear witness to
its energy, its vivacity, and its diversity. This film attempts to work
for a larger acceptance of foreigners in their land of exile.
Director by *Susana Rossberg* will be taking questions from the audience
after the screening.
Co-sponsored with Grupo Mulher Brasileira.
Date: *Wednesday, February 10 - TONIGHT*
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Location: TSAI Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu
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*Harvard-MIT Workshop on the Political Economy of Development in Brazil*
*Innovation Policy in Brazil: New Approaches in the Lula Government*
A presentation by Professor *Glauco Arbix*, University of São Paulo (USP)
Glauco Arbix is Professor of Sociology at the University of São Paulo, a
member of the Brazilian National Council of Science and Technology, and
heads the Observatory for Innovation, at the Institute of Advanced
Studies (University of São Paulo). He has been a Visiting Scholar at the
University of California - Berkeley (2008), Columbia University (2007
and 2009), the London School of Economics (2001, UK), and at the Sloan
School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999).
Date: *Thursday, February 11*
Time: 4:00-6:00pm
Location: MIT E40-464
Contact: Karina Xavier, kxavier(a)mit.edu
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*Brazilian Film Series*
*From Brazil to Japan* (2009)
Directed by Aaron Litvin and Ana Paula Hirano Litvin
Since 1990 more than 300,000 Brazilians have gone from Brazil to Japan
to work, forming a wave of migration that has had a profound social and
economic impact on both countries. The transnational documentary "From
Brazil to Japan" closely follows five families of Brazilian migrants
over the course of three years, from their preparation for departure in
Brazil to their adaptation to life and work in Japan.
Directors *Aaron Litvin* and *Ana Paula Hirano Litvin* will be taking
questions from the audience after the screening.
Co-sponsored with the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
at Harvard University and Grupo Mulher Brasileira.
Date: *Tuesday, February 16*
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Location: TSAI Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu
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*Brazil Studies Program Conversa*
*The Struggle for Democracy in Brazil
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A Conversa with *James Green*, Professor of History as well as Brazilian
and Portuguese Studies at Brown University. Professor Green works on
the political, social and cultural history of nineteenth and
twentieth-century Brazil. His books include: /We Cannot Remain Silent:
Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States/
(Duke University Press, 2010) and /Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality
in Twentieth-century Brazil /(University of Chicago, 1999).
Moderated by Alan McPherson, Visiting Scholar at DRCLAS, Associate
Professor of International and Area Studies and ConocoPhillips Petroleum
Chair in Latin American Studies, School of International and Area
Studies, University of Oklahoma. Professor McPherson is the author of
Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations.
Date: *Wednesday, February 17*
Time: 12:00-2:00pm
Location: CGIS South, S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu
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FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO
TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events
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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
