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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