8th Brazil Week at Harvard


"The Backlands of Rio: Social Spaces in Brazilian Cinema"


Saturday, May 1st, from 10:00am - 3:00pm
Viajando em Terra Estrangeira: Cinema e Ensino de Língua Portuguesa
Clémence Jouët-Pastré, Harvard University and Patricia Sobral, Brown University

RSVP: to confirm attendance, contact Maria Regan, Outreach Manager, David Rockefeller Center
for Latin American Studies, Tel: (617) 496-0202; email: regan@fas.harvard.edu
Conducted in Portuguese


Monday, May 3rd, Belfer from 6:30pm - 8:00pm
"The Sertão in the Brazilian Imaginary"
Vilvaldo Santos, Georgetown University
Conducted in English


Tuesday, May 4th, Tsai from 5:00pm-  6:10pm
"It's (mostly) all true: Orson Welles, Samba, and Cinema in Brazil"
Bruno Carvalho, Princeton University
Conducted in English


Wednesday, May 5th, Belfer from 6:00pm - 8:00pm
"A subjetividade no documentário brasileiro"
Paulo Paranaguá, Independent Researcher
Conducted in Portuguese and English
Reception to follow


Co-Chairs: Clémence Jouët-Pastré and Nicolau Sevcenko
Coordinator: Christopher Lewis
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures - Harvard University

All activities are free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required only for the Saturday Workshop

Events will be held at 1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South.

Sponsored by the Jorge Paulo Lemann Family Fund of the Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, U.S. Department of Education, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University