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
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FOR A FULL LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM SPRING 2009 CALENDAR OF
EVENTS GO TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events/harvard
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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