The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for
Latin American Studies presents
Living with Retroviral Infections: Lessons from Brazil
Speakers:
Maria Amelia Veras, Assistant Professor, Department of Social
Medicine, Faculty of Medical Science, Santa Casa de São Paulo, Brazil
Vera Paiva, Associate Professor, Department of Social
Psychology, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Aluisio Segurado, Associate Professor, Department of Infectious
Diseases, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Brazil
The speakers will discuss the following topics: AIDS in Brazil:
Overview of the epidemic and the country's response; Psychosocial
aspects of the Brazilian response to HIV/AIDS; HTLV infection in
Brazil: challenges for prevention and care
Date: Tuesday, March 16 - TOMORROW
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Location: Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge 502, 677 Huntington
Avenue, Boston
Website:
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events/retroviral_infections_03-2010
This event was made possible thanks to support from the Banco Santander
Faculty Grant Fund and the Coolidge First-step Fund at Harvard’s David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Harvard Initiative
for Global Health and the Program on International Health and Human
Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Brazilian Film Series
Hour of the Star (1985)
Directed by Suzana Amaral
After the death of her aunt, Macabéa moves from the Brazilian
countryside to the big city in hopes of escaping economic and social
poverty. Once there she finds a job, but soon loses it due to her lack
of education and hygiene, and has to live in a small room in a boarding
house with other women in the same condition. A fortune teller promises
that Macabéa will meet a tall, blond and rich man who will fall in love
with her and take her away from poverty. But once again, reality is
crueler than Macabéa had imagined.
Date: Tuesday, March 23
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Location: TSAI Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi@fas.harvard.edu
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Scientific Expeditions to Brazil
A Conversa with
David Grann, Staff writer for The New Yorker. Author of The Lost
City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Neil Safier, Professor of History, University of British
Columbia. Author of Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and
South America
Date: Thursday, March 25
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Location: CGIS South Building S-050
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi@fas.harvard.edu
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