Dear friends and colleagues:
Please find below a listing of Brazil-related events taking place at
DRCLAS and elsewhere at Harvard during the month of April.
The highlight of this week is a "Conversation on U.S.-Brazil
Relations" seminar which will take place over lunch this Thursday,
April 7, between renowned journalist/author Elio Gaspari and Lincoln
Gordon, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil during the coup of 1964. This
promises to be a historic debate. (See full details below).
Also, as an attachment, please find appended the updated full calendar of
the "Brazil Semester at Harvard (Spring 2005)" activities.
Grande abraço,
Tomás Amorim
Brazilian Studies Program Coordinator & Research Associate
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), Harvard
University
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/brazil
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APRIL EVENTS ON BRAZIL
April 6:
“Religious Education in Schools and State laicité: The Role
of Public Finances in the Question for National Identity in Brazil”
This presentation is part of a long range work-in-progress on
“Discrimination, Prejudice, Stigma: Religious and Ethnic Minorities,
Culture and Education,” conducted at the University of São Paulo (USP)
since the early 1990s. It aims to reflect on the relation between state
and religion in Brazil, with special emphasis on publicly-financed school
systems, including higher education, as well as an analysis of the
sources and repercussions on the question for national
identity.
ROSELI FISCHMANN, Visiting Scholar of Political Psychology, Department of
Psychology, Harvard University; Professor of Graduate Studies, Department
of Educational Administration and Economics of Education, University of
São Paulo (USP). Fischmann was a member of the State Commission on
Religious Teaching in Public Schools in 1995 and 1996.
Wednesday, April 6 (12:30-2:00pm)
Science Center, Room 252
Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Project
on Religion, Political Economy and Society (PRPES).
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April 7:
Brazilian Historical & Contemporary Challenges: Reflections from
Harvard
“A Conversation on U.S.-Brazil Relations”
LINCOLN GORDON, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil from 1961 to 1966 and
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1966 to
1967. Prior to that he helped develop and negotiate President Kennedy's
proposal for a generous program of economic and technical assistance
under the rubric “Alliance for Progress.” Previously he had
numerous years of government service in the UN Atomic Energy Commission,
the Marshall Plan, and NATO. Harvard Class of 1933 and a former
Harvard professor at the Business School, Ambassador Gordon is currently
a guest scholar at Brookings Institution. He is the author of
Brazil’s Second Chance, En Route toward the First World and is now
working on a book of memoirs.
ELIO GASPARI, Lemann Visiting Scholar at DRCLAS for Spring Term
2005. Gaspari is one of today’s most influential Brazilian
columnists, writing for Folha de São Paulo, O Globo and ten
other newspapers. Since the publication of his first volume on
Brazil’s military regime, A Ditadura Envergonhada, he has been
widely recognized as one of Brazil’s leading historians and
journalists. He has published four volumes on the history of
Brazil’s dictatorial military regime including A Ditadura
Escancarada, A Ditadura Derrotada, and A Ditadura
Encurralada. During his stay at Harvard, Gaspari is working on the
fifth volume of this series, A Ditadura Desmontada, which covers
the period of 1978-1979.
Thursday, April 7 (12:00-2:00pm)
DRCLAS – Conference Room (2nd floor) – 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
Brazilian lunch served at noon; presentation starts at 12:30pm.
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April 8:
Bate-papo @ DRCLAS, a roundtable discussion in Portuguese
where faculty, students, and all other members of the Harvard Community
can practice their Portuguese language skills and discuss Luso-Brazilian
cultures. Brazilian music, food, poetry, and much more.
Friday, April 8 (4:00-6:00pm)
DRCLAS – Seminar Room (2nd floor) – 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
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April 13:
Brazilian Historical & Contemporary Challenges: Reflections from
Harvard
“A Conversation on Gender & Sexuality in Brazil”
JAMES GREEN, Associate Professor of History at Brown University. He is a
former president of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) and is
currently chair of BRASA’s Committee on the Future of Brazilian Studies
in the United States. Green is the author of Beyond Carnival:
Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil, and he is currently
finishing the manuscript “We Cannot Remain Silent”: Opposition to the
Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States, 1964-85.
MALA HTUN, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the New School for
Social Research. She is the author of Sex and the State:
Abortion, Divorce, and the Family Under Latin American Dictatorships and
Democracies. Htun’s current work focuses on the initiatives and
responses that states take with regard to gender, race, and
ethnicity. She is finishing the manuscript Sex, Race, and
Representation: Getting Women, Blacks, and Indians into Political Power
in Latin America. Htun received a PhD in political science from
Harvard.
Wednesday, April 13 (12:00-2:00pm)
DRCLAS – Conference Room (2nd floor) – 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
Brazilian lunch served at noon; presentation starts at 12:30pm.
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April 14:
Brazilian Graduate Studies Workshop
A forum for doctoral or masters students engaged in substantive
research on Brazil-related topics to circulate and discuss
works-in-progress as well as to meet with experts on Brazil.
Presentations by PAMELA J. SURKAN, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard
School of Public Health, and CAROL DESHANO DA SILVA, Candidate, Ed.D. in
International Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Thursday, April 14 (5:00-7:00pm)
DRCLAS – Conference Room (2nd floor) – 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
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April 14:
“A Conversation on Brazilian Art”
JANE DE ALMEIDA, Visiting Fellow, Department of History of Art and
Architecture, Harvard University. Almeida’s post-doctoral research
focuses on the artist Arthur Bispo do Rosario, who for fifty years lived
in a psychiatric asylum in Rio de Janeiro. She has taught at the Catholic
University of São Paulo, Mackenzie University, FAAP, and Boston College.
Almeida has curated exhibitions at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil
and is the author of Metacinemas; Ordering and Vertigo;
Image’s Strategie; Aesthesis: Aesthetics and Cinema; and
Witty Found: Witz and Psychoanalysis in José Simão’s
Writings.
GUY BRETT, Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar for Spring Term 2005.
Internationally recognized as one of the most influential writers and
thinkers on contemporary art, Brett occupies a distinctive position as an
independent curator and critical historian of the visual arts. During his
stay at Harvard, he will develop a project investigating the notion of
the “void” in the work of Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Mira Schendel and
other Brazilian and Latin American artists. His research will also
explore the role played by the box-format and book-format in Brazilian
avant-garde art.
ELIO GASPARI, Lemann Visiting Scholar at DRCLAS for Spring Term
2005. Gaspari is one of today’s most influential Brazilian
columnists, writing for Folha de São Paulo, O Globo and ten
other newspapers. Since the publication of his first volume on Brazil’s
military regime, A Ditadura Envergonhada, he has been widely
recognized as one of Brazil’s leading historians and journalists.
He has published four volumes on the history of Brazil’s dictatorial
military regime including A Ditadura Escancarada, A Ditadura
Derrotada, and A Ditadura Encurralada. During his stay
at Harvard, Gaspari is working on the fifth volume of this series, A
Ditadura Desmontada, which covers the period of 1978-1979.
NICOLAU SEVCENKO, Visiting Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
at Harvard University, Spring 2005. Sevcenko is currently teaching the
courses “Popular Tradition as the Muse of Modern Brazilian Culture” and
“Literature and the Plea for Compassionate Modernization in 20th-century
Brazil.” He is on the faculty of the University of São Paulo (USP) and
has published widely on Brazilian history, literature, and culture,
including: Pindorama Revisitada: Cultura e Sociedade em Tempos de
Virada; Orfeu Extático na Metrópole: São Paulo,Sociedade e Cultura
nos Frementes Anos 20; and Literatura como Missão: Tensões Sociais
e Criação Cultural na Primeira República.
Moderator CECILE FROMONT, Doctoral Candidate, Department of
History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, working on colonial
Afro-Brazilian art in Bahia.
Thursday, April 14 (7:00-8:30pm)
DRCLAS – Conference Room (2nd floor) – 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
Co-sponsored with DRCLAS’s Art Forum.
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BRAZIL WEEK (April 18-22):
Brazilian Women’s Movements
Recent scholarship has argued that Brazil has Latin America’s
largest, most vibrant and most diverse feminist movement, having
pioneered a number of policy changes advancing women’s rights. The
Third Annual Brazil Week at Harvard will bring together scholars,
leaders, members of the local community, and students to examine these
critical issues and the multiple ways in which Brazilian women have
organized, including a focus on the role of women’s organizations in the
new immigrant communities.
Brazil Week Founder & Chair: CLÉMENCE JOUËT-PASTRÉ, Senior
Preceptor in Portuguese, Department of Romance Languages &
Literatures, Harvard University.
April 18 (Official Brazil Week Opening):
“Brazilian Women in Popular Music”
Music by VALDISA MOURA & BAND
Vocals: Valdisa Moura, bass: Tal Shalom-Kobi, guitar: Deborah Rocha,
flute: Tina Jacas, percussion: Steve Sanford & Marcos
Santos.
Lecture by DÁRIO BORIM, JR.
Associate Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, University of
Massachusetts–Dartmouth. Author of Perplexidades: Raça, Sexo e Outras
Questões Sociopolíticas no Discurso Cultural Brasileiro and
Borders and Selves: Contemporary Autobiography of Brazil and the
Americas. Borim is host and producer of Brazilliance, a weekly
live radio program dedicated to the music of Brazil and other lusophone
countries.
Monday, April 18 (6:00-8:00pm)
Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue (Yenching Library),
Cambridge
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April 20:
“Brazilian Women’s Movements: A Historical Perspective”
A historical overview of women’s movements in Brazil and an analysis
of the movement’s triumphs and challenges in the twentieth century,
focusing particularly on education and society. Unlike the U.S. model,
Brazilian education was marked by a strong Jesuit presence and hundreds
of years of influence from the Catholic Church. The Constitution of 1891,
which established Brazil as a secular, federal and democratic state, led
to changes in the educational system which had profound repercussions for
the education of women.
ROSELI FISCHMANN, Visiting Scholar of Political Psychology, Department of
Psychology, Harvard University, and Professor of Graduate Studies,
Department of Educational Administration and Economics of Education,
University of São Paulo (USP); Author of numerous books and articles,
Fischmann is a regular contributor to the Brazilian newspaper Correio
Braziliense. She is a former member of the São Paulo State Council
for Women’s Affairs (1999-2002).
Wednesday, April 20 (12:00-2:00pm)
DRCLAS – Conference Room (2nd floor) – 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
Brazilian lunch served at noon; presentation starts at 12:30pm.
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April 21:
“Boston’s Brazilian Women’s Group”
10th Anniversary Celebration & Book Launch
What is it like to be a Brazilian, a woman, and an immigrant? How does it
change one’s life? These are some of the questions that Heloisa Galvão’s
book, As Viajantes do Século Vinte: Uma História Oral de Mulheres
Brasileiras na Área de Boston, tries to answer. The project is an
oral history of the saga of Brazilian women immigrants narrated in their
own voice, featuring interviews with eleven Brazilian women who
immigrated to the United States in the 1980s. They are young and old,
married, mothers, grandmothers, workers from all areas, and homemakers.
They speak for themselves on why they decided to come, what happened when
they came, and how it changed their lives.
HELOISA MARIA GALVÃO, co-founder, Brazilian Women’s Group, and bilingual
community field coordinator, Boston Public Schools.
GRUPO MULHER BRASILEIRA, founded in 1995 by a group of Brazilian
immigrant women in Boston, this organization developed strong roots by
participating actively in the organization and growth of the local
Brazilian community.
Thursday, April 21
6:00-7:30pm: Presentation (Conference Room – 2nd floor)
7:30-8:30pm: Reception & book launch (Resource Room – ground
floor)
DRCLAS – 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
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April 22:
BRAZILIAN JOURNEYS: The Documentaries of Dorrit Harazim
A series of films depicting different touching facets of Brazilian
life.
Third & Final Documentaries:
4:30pm: “Travessia do Escuro” (Journey through Darkness),
2002, 28 min.
Chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the illiterate in Brazil. The
film tells the story of three elderly Brazilians, all of whom have led
productive lives and retired yet have now returned to school to learn how
to read and write, hoping to fulfill the gap illiteracy has carved in
their lives.
5:30pm: “Passageiros” (Passengers), 2000, 57 min.
At the age of 17, Marcelo left the ranch and mine where he worked with
his father in Piauí and made his way to São Paulo in search of
employment. The film accompanies Marcelo in a three-day bus journey
as he returns home for the first time. Through the personal stories
of Marcelo and the other passengers who are part of this constant
migration movement within Brazil, the film depicts the aspirations and
obstacles of the contemporary migrant.
Discussion with the filmmaker to follow the screening.
Documentary in Portuguese with English subtitles.
Friday, April 22 (4:30-7:00pm)
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall (next to Widener Library)
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April 25:
“Brazilian Mothers’ Feeding Practices and Child Overweight”
A presentation on an on-going research project examining Brazilian
mother’s feeding practices, perceptions of infant weight status, and the
factors that may influence a child’s dietary intake and the development
of overweight in pre-school years.
ANA CRISTINA LINDSAY, DDS, MPH, DrPH, Research Scientist, Public Health
Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
KATARINA MUCHA, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Faculty
of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University.
Monday, April 25 (12:00-2:00pm)
DRCLAS – Conference Room (2nd floor) – 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
Brazilian lunch served at noon; the presentation starts at 12:30pm.
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April 29:
Bate-papo @ DRCLAS, a roundtable discussion in Portuguese
where faculty, students, and all other members of the Harvard Community
can practice their Portuguese language skills and discuss Luso-Brazilian
cultures. Brazilian music, food, poetry, and much more.
Friday, April 29 (4:00-6:00pm)
DRCLAS – Seminar Room (2nd floor) – 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
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For events to be held in May, please see appended PDF file with full
calendar of DRCLAS's "Brazil Semester at Harvard."