Brazil Studies Program Conversa

Brazilian Music and Social Action

with:
Jason Stanyek, Visiting Professor of Music, Harvard University; Assistant Professor of Music, New York University; Author, Around the World Goes Around: Performing Brazilian Music and Dance in the United States (forthcoming).

Bryan McCann, Associate Professor of History and Director, Brazilian Studies Program, Georgetown University; Author, Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil.

Moderator:
Alma Guillermoprieto, Visiting Lecturer of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Author, Samba and The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now.

Date: Thursday, May 1, 2008
Time: 12:15 - 1:45 pm
Location: CGIS South, S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

This event is made possible by the generous support of the Jorge Paulo Lemann Fund.

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Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite)

Film screening will be followed by a panel discussion with director José Padilha and scholars José Gatti and James Cavallaro

Date: Monday, May 5, 2008
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Presented with the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at HKS, The Harvard Film Archive and the Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

Fore More Information: http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2008mayjune/elite.html

Synopsis:
Elite Squad has been a media event in Brazil since the first pirated copies of the workprint started circulating. It was an instant success upon its Brazilian release last fall and burst onto the international scene by winning top prize at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. The film is an adaptation of a book by the same name written by anthropologist Luiz Eduardo Soares (the former national secretary of public security in Brazil) and two police officers, André Batista and Rodrigo Pimentel. The book recounts the experiences of Batista and Pimentel as officers in the Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais, the Special Police Operations Battalion of the Rio de Janeiro Military Police. Soares is the former national secretary of public security in Brazil. Both the film and the book show police brutality and corruption, as well as the violence of drug traffickers, through the eyes and the voice of a policeman involved in a world where the war on crime itself becomes criminal.

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Reminder – DRCLAS Thesis Prize in Brazilian Studies

The Kenneth Maxwell Thesis Prize in Brazilian Studies was awarded for the first time in the Spring of 2005, and was established to recognize the best Harvard College senior thesis on a subject related to Brazil. Candidates may be nominated by their department/concentration/instructional committee, or candidates may nominate their own theses.  This annual prize is funded by a gift to DRCLAS from Professor Kenneth Maxwell.  The winner is determined in late May and announced at the DRCLAS Certificate Ceremony during Commencement Week. The prize carries a monetary award of $500.

For more information please to go:
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/fellowships_grants/km_prize
 
Deadline for submissions: Friday, May 2, 2008 by 5pm


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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