[Brazil@Harvard] Brazil Studies Program - Conversa on Afro-Brazilian Religion - TODAY

The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller presents: Contemporary Challenges to Afro-Brazilian Religions A Conversa with J. Lorand Matory, Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Author of Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble. & Vagner Gonçalves da Silva, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and fellow at Harvard's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. He is the author of Metropolitan Orixás. Moderator: Harvey Cox, Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard. His books include When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Decisions Today and The Secular City. Date: TODAY Thursday, February 12, 2009 Time: 12:15 – 1:45pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, CGIS South Room S-050 ________________ FOR A FULL LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM SPRING 2009 CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events/harvard -- Marcio Siwi Fellow / Program Officer Brazil Studies Program Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies 1730 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA 02138 tel (617) 495-5435 http://drclas.harvard.edu/brazil