DRCLAS-Brazil-list February 2014

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THURSDAY 12PM - Counting and Measuring in Brazilian Indigenous Communities

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program

*DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program Seminar* *Counting and Measuring in Brazilian Indigenous Communities Suzi Oliveira de Lima* Post-Doctoral Fellow, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Thursday, March 6, 12:00 p.m. CGIS South Building, Room S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge This event is free and open to the public, and registration is not required. A Brazilian lunch will be served.

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TOMORROW 5PM @ MIT-Brazil - Literary Reading by Jacques Fux from his novel Antiterapias in Portuguese, with the English translation read by Ernest Hartwell

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program

THURSDAY 5PM @ MIT-Brazil - Literary Reading by Jacques Fux from his novel Antiterapias in Portuguese, with the English translation read by Ernest Hartwell Literary Reading by Jacques Fux from his novel Antiterapias (in Portuguese, with the English translation read by Ernest Hartwell) February 27, 2014 at 5:00pm MISTI/ MIT-Brazil - 1 Amherst Street, E40-496, Pye Conference Room Jacques Fux, is the winner of the 2013 São Paulo Prize for Literature (the Brazilian equivalent of the Man Booker Prize). Fux was born in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He received degrees in mathematics and computer science, and later earned two Doctorates, one in Comparative Literature from UFMG and another in French Language, Literature and Civilization from Université Lille. He had previously published Literatura e Matemática: Jorge Luis Borges, Georges Perec e o OULIPO (2001). More information here:* http://misti.mit.edu/literary-reading-jacques-fux-his-novel-antiterapias <http://misti.mit.edu/literary-reading-jacques-fux-his-novel-antiterapias>*

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WEDNESDAY 7PM @ Barker Center 133 - Music and Performance of African Identity in Brazilian Quilombos (Maroon Communities)

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program

*Music and Performance of African Identity in Brazilian Quilombos (Maroon Communities)* *Tiago de Oliveira Pinto* LISZT School of Music, Weimar & Friedrich Schiller University, Jena Wednesday, February 26th, 7:00 p.m. Location: Barker Center, Room 133 *This event is a Musics Abroad seminar of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University.* For additional information, please visit: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/music-and-performance-afr…

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TUESDAY 2PM @ Brandeis University - Global Protests, Local Realities: Understanding the Massive Brazilian Street Protests of 2013

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program

*Latin America Initiative: Brazil SymposiumGlobal Protests, Local Realities: Understanding the Massive Brazilian Street Protests of 2013Tuesday, March 4, 20142:00 - 5:00 p.m.* International Lounge, Usdan Student Center Brandeis University The symposium will provide a unique opportunity to discuss and analyze the recent popular uprisings in Brazil from a multidisciplinary lens: social, political, economic, environmental, human rights, etc. There will be a discussion of the large-scale issues being faced by Brazilians as they prepare to host the Soccer World Cup in June, 2014, and elect a new President in October, 2014. The Symposium is free and open to the public. Questions: 781-736-8399

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TOMORROW 3PM - Bate-Papo (Portuguese conversation practice)

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program

*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. *Friday, February 21, 3:00-4:30 p.m.* 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.*

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TOMORROW 12PM - Racial Spatiality and Political Underrepresentation of Afro-Brazilians

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program

*DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program Seminar* *Racial Spatiality and Political Underrepresentation of Afro-Brazilians* *Gladys Mittchell-Walthour * Visiting Scholar in the Department of Government at University of Texas at Austin; DRCLAS Lemann Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Thursday, February 20th, 12:00 p.m. CGIS South Building, *Room S-050*, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge This event is free and open to the public, and registration is not required. A Brazilian lunch will be served. ___________________ DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program at Harvard University http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil <http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil> <http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil>

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THURSDAY 12PM - Racial Spatiality and Political Underrepresentation of Afro-Brazilians

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program

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FRIDAY 3PM - Bate-Papo (Portuguese conversation practice)

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program

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FRIDAY 7PM @ Brazilian Women's Group - Jango

by DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program

Popcorn Show: "Jango" Friday, February 14, 2014, 7 PM 697 Cambridge St. #106, Brighton "Jango" A 1984 documentary by Silvio Tendler, it traces the life of João Goulart, 24th President of Brazil, who was deposed by a military-led coup on March 31, 1964 after he proposed a broad program of reforms in areas such as land, education and elections. Archive footage and interviews with important political icons such as Afonso Arinos, Leonel Brizola, Celso Furtado, Frei Betto and Magalhães Pinto, among others. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Free and open to the public.

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