*DRCLAS Open House Celebration*
*The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies cordially invites
you to its Open House Celebration.*
This annual celebration will also serve as the inaugural event of the
Democracy & Memory collaborative.
*Wednesday, September 11th, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: CGIS South Building, 2nd Floor, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge*
*Note: This event will be preceded at 5:15 p.m. by the opening of the
related Memory and Democracy in Latin American Poetry exhibition.*
These events are open to the public, and registration is not required.
*For additional information, please visit the following webpages*:
DRCLAS Open House: www.drclas.harvard.edu/open_house2013
Democracy & Memory collaborative:
www.drclas.harvard.edu/democracy_and_memory
Memory and Democracy in Latin American Poetry exhibition:
www.drclas.harvard.edu/democracy_memory_poetry
*Information about opportunities in Brazil for Harvard students*
Harvard students: Interested in study abroad, travel, or mentoring
opportunities in Brazil?
Come learn more at one of the events below! Representatives from the
DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program will be present to answer any of your
questions regarding the following programs:
* Mentoring and Language Acquisition in Brazil (MLAB)
* PUCRS – Portuguese and Community Service Program
* DRCLAS Study Abroad Program in Brazil
*Student Activities Fair*
Friday, September 6th, 4:00-7:00 p.m.
Location: Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH) & Radcliffe Quad
*Find the DRCLAS table!*
*DRCLAS Term-Time Study Abroad Programs Information Session*
Tuesday, September 10th, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location: Office of International Education (OIE), 77 Dunster Street
*Bate-Papo (Portuguese conversation practice)*
Practice your Portuguese and discuss Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking
countries and cultures at this informal roundtable. Everyone is welcome!
Guaraná and salgadinhos will be served.
*Fall 2013 Schedule:*
Friday, September 13th, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Friday, October 18th, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Friday, November 15th, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Location: CGIS South Building, *Room S-216*, 1730 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge
*Co-sponsored by the DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program and the Portuguese
section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard.*
*DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program Seminar Series – Fall 2013*
*
All seminars are held on Thursdays 12-2 p.m. in CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge
Street, Room S-050.
Seminars are free and open to the public, and registration is not required.
Lunch is provided. Presentations begin at 12:15 p.m.**
September 12*
How Much Can Brazil Grow? The Case of Pre-Salt Oil
Aloísio Pessoa de Araújo, Professor of Economics, FGV-RJ; Researcher,
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada; CAPES/Harvard Senior
Visiting Professor, Harvard University
*September 26*
Enslaved Women, Motherhood, and Labor in the Hinterlands of Northeast
Brazil, Ceará, 1813-1884
Martha S. Santos, Associate Professor of History, University of Akron;
Santander Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS, Harvard University
*October 10*
Electoral Rules and Fragmented Party Systems in Brazil: A
Quasi-Experimental Design to Test Duverger’s Law
Daniel J. Epstein, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Colgate
University
*October 24*
Samba as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Brazilian History and Literature
Tiago de Oliveira Pinto, Professor and Chair of Transcultural Music
Studies, The Liszt School of Music Weimar and Friedrich Schiller University
Jena; Visiting Scholar, Department of Music, Harvard University
*November 14*
Interactions between Global Supply Chains, Land Use, and Governance: The
Case of Soybean Production in South America
Rachael Garrett, Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellow,
Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School
* This seminar is co-sponsored by the Sustainability Science Program of
Harvard Kennedy School.*
*All seminars are held on Thursdays 12-2 p.m. in CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge
Street, Room S-050.
Seminars are free and open to the public, and registration is not required.
Lunch is provided. Presentations begin at 12:15 p.m.*