[Brazil@Harvard] Brazil Studies Program - Special Seminar - The Favelas of Rio de Janeiro - TODAY

The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller presents: *The Favelas of Rio de Janeiro Yesterday and Today: Poverty, Urban Reform and Music* A Special Seminar with: Licia Valladares, Professor of Sociology at the University of Lille, France. Author of A Invenção da Favela (Editora da Fundaçao Getulio Vargas, 2005) & Bruno Carvalho, Teaching Fellow in Portuguese and Graduate Student in Romance Languages, Harvard University. He is working a dissertation titled New City in a New World: literary spaces of an afro-jewish Brazilian neighborhood. Moderator: Clemence Jouet-Pastre, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures and Undergraduate Adviser in Portuguese. Author of Becoming Brazuca: Brazilian Immigration to the United States Date: Friday, February 13, 2009 Time: 1:00 - 3:00pm Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, CGIS South Room S-250 This event is co-sponsored with the Harvard University Department of Romance Languages and Literatures ____ 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