The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller
presents:
Tuesday Seminar
Occupational Choices: Economic Determinants of Land Occupations in
Brazil
Speaker:
Suresh Naidu, Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and
Area Studies
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Time: 12:00-2:00pm
Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS CGIS South, Room S-250
The Tuesday Seminar Series is co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center
for International Affairs.
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Du Bois Institute Spring Colloquium Series
"Afro-Brazilian Religions and National Culture – An Ethnography in
Hypermedia"
Speaker
Vagner Gonçalves da Silva, Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow
Date: February 25, 2009
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
contact: Diane E. Williams at dianeew@post.harvard.edu
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History Workshop
Brazilian Abolitionism, Its Historiography, and the Uses of Political
History
Speaker:
Jeffrey D. Needell, Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of
Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Author of The
Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the
Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871.
Date:Thursday, February 26, 2009
Time: 6:00 – 7:30pm
Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, CGIS South, Room S-030
This event is co-sponsored by Boston Area Latin American History
Workshop and Brazil Studies Program
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Bate-Papo
Members of the Harvard Community can practice their Portuguese language
skills and discuss Luso-Brazilian cultures in a round-table setting.
Date: Friday, February 27, 2009
Time: 4:30 - 5:30 pm
Location: DRCLAS, CGIS Resource Room, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Contact: Dr. Clémence Jouët-Pastré, cpastre@fas.harvard.edu
Co-sponsored by the Portuguese section of the Department of Romance
Languages and Literatures
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FOR A FULL LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM SPRING 2009 CALENDAR OF
EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events/harvard
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Marcio Siwi
Fellow / Program Officer
Brazil Studies Program
Harvard University
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel (617) 495-5435
http://drclas.harvard.edu/brazil