[Brazil@Harvard] Reminder: Violence in Rio de Janeiro

The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program @ DRCLAS presents */Conversa/: *Violence in Rio de Janeiro with Robert Gay (Connecticut College) and Irene Rizzini (Pontifícia Universidade Católica - Rio de Janeiro) moderated by *Felton Earls *(Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health) Thursday, October 26th, 2006, 12-2 pm CGIS S-050, 1730 Cambridge St. A light lunch is provided. Irene Rizzini and Robert Gay discuss the causes and manifestations of urban violence in Rio de Janeiro, including the drug and gang cultures, juvenile delinquency, and the connections between citizenship, poverty and violence. *Irene Rizzini *is Visiting Chair in the Study of Brazilian Culture at the University of Notre Dame, and is a Professor and a researcher at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is also Director of The International Center for Research on Childhood (CIESPI) and President of Childwatch International Research Network. She is the author of several books, among which are: /Globalization and children; The art of governing children: the history of social policies, legislation and child welfare in Brazil/; and /Disinherited from society: street children in Latin America//./ *Robert Gay* is Director of the Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts (CISLA) at Connecticut College and a sociologist whose research focuses on clientelism, democracy and civil society in Brazil and other countries of Latin America. He is the author of /Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman /and /Popular Organization & Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: A Tale of Two Favelas /and has published numerous articles on Latin American political change. For more information, please see http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/brazil