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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