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.