Conversa
Contemporary Challenges to Afro-Brazilian Religions
Speakers:
J. Lorand Matory, Professor of Anthropology and of African and African
American Studies at Harvard University. Author of Black Atlantic
Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the
Afro-Brazilian Candomble. Vagner Gonçalves da Silva, Assistant
Professor of Anthropology at the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil
and fellow at Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and
African American Research. He is the author of Metropolitan Orixás.
Moderator:
Harvey Cox, Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard. His books include
When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Decisions Today and The
Secular City.
Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009
Time: 12:15 – 1:45pm
Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, CGIS South Room S-050
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Special Seminar
The Favelas of Rio de Janeiro Yesterday and Today: Poverty, Urban
Reform and Music
Speakers:
Licia Valladares, Professor of Sociology at the University of Lille,
France. Author of A Invenção da Favela (Editora da Fundaçao
Getulio Vargas, 2005)
Bruno Carvalho, Teaching Fellow in Portuguese and Graduate Student in
Romance Languages, Harvard University. He is working a dissertation
titled New City in a New World: literary spaces of an afro-jewish
Brazilian neighborhood.
Moderator:
Clemence Jouet-Pastre, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and
Literatures and Undergraduate Adviser in Portuguese. Author of Becoming
Brazuca: Brazilian Immigration to the United States
Date: Friday, February 13, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 3:00pm
Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, CGIS South Room S-250
This event is co-sponsored with the Harvard University Department of
Romance Languages and Literatures
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Film Series
O Que É Isso, Companheiro? (1997)
Directed by Bruno Barreto
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Time: 6:00 - 8:00pm
Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, Tsai Auditorium
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Tuesday Seminar
Candidate Identity and Political Institutions: Quasi-Experimental
Evidence from Brazil
Speaker:
Suresh Naidu, Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and
Area Studies
The Tuesday Seminar Series is co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center
for International Affairs.
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Time: 12:00-2:00pm
Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS CGIS South, Room S-250
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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 p,
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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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