The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies presents


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

Moderated by

Jean-Philippe Belleau, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humanities Center at Harvard.


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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