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



Gay Men's Health & Brazilian Immigrants Conversations on Outreach, Education, and Community

Date: Wednesday, December 2
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Harvard College Women's Center (Canaday B Basement)
Map to the Women's Center in Canaday basement, Entryway B:
http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F7&quadrant=B&series=NW

Refreshments and salgadinhos provided

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Presentation by HIV/AIDS outreach workers and volunteers from the Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS) followed by informal conversation to explore intersections of public health, immigrant and gay experiences.

Co-sponsored by the Harvard College Queer Students and Allies (QSA) and the Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS)

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Summer Opportunities, Study Abroad Programs, Grants, and the DRCLAS Certificate on Latin American Studies

Date: Friday, December 4
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: CGIS South, S-216, Resource Room, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

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Schools in Brazil
Preventions by Harvard Students and Documentary Film

Presentation by

Jessica Acosta, A.B. in Romance Langugages and Literatures ('10). In the Sumer of 2009 Jessica participated in the Brazil Studies Program Public Policy Immersion Program (PPIP).  She developed an on site research project for Fundação Lemann on the social and economic development of public education in low income areas of São Paulo.

Jessica Villegas, A.B. in Social Anthropology ('11). In the Sumer of 2009 Jessica participated in the Brazil Studies Program Public Policy Immersion Program (PPIP).  She developed an on site research project for Associação Vaga Lume, a non-profit that develops projects on education in the Amazon.

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Screening of the documentary  Pro Dia Nascer Feliz

Directed by  João Jardim, this emotional documentary follows a group of teenagers in Brazil from different socio-economic backgrounds as they confront the challenges of being in school. In a series of very intimate interviews, rich and poor 14-17 year-old students from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco open their hearts revealing contradictory emotions concerning prejudice, violence, anxiety, hope and love.  More than the sum of its parts, Pro Dia Nascer Feliz is an in depth analysis of the challenges to education in Brazil.  As the focal point in the film, the school brings together students, parents, teachers as well as representatives of the state who are trying to make a name for themselves.  But the persistence of social inequality in Brazil and ineffective public administration paints a very grim picture of the country’s future.

Date: Tuesday, December 8
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Location: BELFER Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi@fas.harvard.edu

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Harvard-MIT Workshop on the Political Economy of Development in Brazil

Privatized Subsoil Rights in Brazil

A presentation by Professor Gail Triner (Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University). Prof. Triner is author of Banking and Economic Development: Brazil, 1889-1930 (Palgrave Press, 2000). Her research interests include the economic history of Brazil, emphasizing finance, property rights and the environment, as well as the comparative history of Latin American banking.

Date: Friday, December 11
Time: 4:00-6:00pm
Location: DRCLAS Resouvce Room S216 - CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi@fas.harvard.edu

Led by Professors Aldo Musacchio (Associate Professor and Marvin Bower Fellow, Harvard Business School) and Ben Ross Schneider (Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the new Harvard-MIT Workshop seeks to promote an ongoing interdisciplinary academic exchange among professors, students, and practitioners in the Cambridge-Boston area with speakers who are experts on the political economy of development in Brazil.

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FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events