The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies presents


Brazilian Film Series

Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2005)
Directed by Marcelo Gomes

To distance himself from Adolf Hitler and a war he philosophically opposes, a young German moves halfway around the world to Brazil, where he meets a hitchhiker with his own motivations to keep moving. Together, they drive across the country making pit stops in various villages to sell the locals a "miracle" drug. Marcelo Gomes directs this multilingual Cannes Film Festival selection.

Tuesday, March 2
6:00-8:00pm
TSAI Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi@fas.harvard.edu

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Brazil’s Report Card on Education: Overcoming inertia?

Presentation by

Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Director of the International Education Policy Program

Paula Louzano, Lemann Foundation


The report cards on education are an initiative of PREAL (Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas) and have been published in nine countries of Latin and Central America. Lemann Foundation was Preal’s partner on this initiative and has just released the 1st Brazilian document: Brazil’s Report Card on Education: overcoming inertia? released in December 2009.  The report cards monitor the evolution of educational indicators and the implementation of public policies considered crucial to the development of education.  Out of the nine aspects covered by the Report Card on Education: Overcoming Inertia? (enrollment, frequency, performance, equity, educational standards, evaluation systems, among others) Brazil scored “regular” or “unsatisfactory” in seven of them. The Report Card has also shown that there is no consensus about the question asked in the document’s title: “Overcoming inertia?” For most topics, although specialists recognize recent progresses, they don’t see clear evidences that Brazil is moving forward.

Wednesday, March 3
12:00-2:00pm
CGIS South Building S-030
1730 Cambridge Street
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi@fas.harvard.edu

This event is co-sponsored with the Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS, the International Education Policy Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and LACE (Latin American and Caribbean Education Network in GSE)

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Promises and Challenges of Development and Conservation in the Amazon

Presentation and Commentary by

Arnóbio “Binho” Marques, Governor of the State of Acre, Brazil

Jorge Viana, Former Governor of the State of Acre, Brazil

Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School and former Minister of Strategic Affairs for the Brazilian government

John Briscoe, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering at Harvard University and former World Bank Country Director for Brazil


Wednesday, March 10
5:00-7:00pm
Science Center, Lecture Hall D
1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
Harvard University
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi@fas.harvard.edu

This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS and The Harvard University Center for the Environment


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