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