[Brazil@Harvard] Fall 2013 DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program Seminar Series schedule

*DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program Seminar Series – Fall 2013* * All seminars are held on Thursdays 12-2 p.m. in CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S-050. Seminars are free and open to the public, and registration is not required. Lunch is provided. Presentations begin at 12:15 p.m.** September 12* How Much Can Brazil Grow? The Case of Pre-Salt Oil Aloísio Pessoa de Araújo, Professor of Economics, FGV-RJ; Researcher, Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada; CAPES/Harvard Senior Visiting Professor, Harvard University *September 26* Enslaved Women, Motherhood, and Labor in the Hinterlands of Northeast Brazil, Ceará, 1813-1884 Martha S. Santos, Associate Professor of History, University of Akron; Santander Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS, Harvard University *October 10* Electoral Rules and Fragmented Party Systems in Brazil: A Quasi-Experimental Design to Test Duverger’s Law Daniel J. Epstein, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Colgate University *October 24* Samba as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Brazilian History and Literature Tiago de Oliveira Pinto, Professor and Chair of Transcultural Music Studies, The Liszt School of Music Weimar and Friedrich Schiller University Jena; Visiting Scholar, Department of Music, Harvard University *November 14* Interactions between Global Supply Chains, Land Use, and Governance: The Case of Soybean Production in South America Rachael Garrett, Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School * This seminar is co-sponsored by the Sustainability Science Program of Harvard Kennedy School.* *All seminars are held on Thursdays 12-2 p.m. in CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S-050. Seminars are free and open to the public, and registration is not required. Lunch is provided. Presentations begin at 12:15 p.m.*