Upcoming Brazil Related Events at Harvard
11/13 - Today
Tuesday Seminar: Lula’s Politics of Cunning: From Trade Unionism to the
Brazilian Presidency
With: John D. French, Associate Professor, Duke University
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: CGIS South S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Contact: Monica Tesoriero, smtesor@fas.harvard.edu
11/13 - Today
"Education in Brazil: can proprietary schools succeed where the public
sector failed?"
A Conversation with Claudio de Moura Castro
When: Tuesday, November 13th 2-4pm
Where: Gutman Library - Room 302, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Claudio de Moura Castro is a Brazilian economist. He studied Economics
at the University of Minas Gerais, has a Master Degree from Yale
Universtiy, did one year doctoral work at the University of California
(Berkeley) and has a Ph.D. in Economics from Vanderbilt University. He
taught at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, the Vargas
Foundation, the University of Chicago, the University of Brasilia, the
University of Geneva and the University of Burgundy (Dijon). He was
Technical Coordinator of the ECIEL research project on education
(comprising ten Latin American countries), was the director of CAPES
(Brazilian Agency for Post-Graduate Education) and was the Executive
Secretary of CNRH (the Brazilian social policy institute of the
Planning Secretariat). Chief of the Training Policies Branch of the
International Labour Office (Geneva) between 1986 and 1992. He also
worked in a Technical Division of the World Bank as Senior Human
Resource Economist, was Division Chief of the Social Programs Division
of the Interamerican Development Bank and then the Chief Educational
Advisor of the same Bank. Presently he is the President of the Advisory
Council of Faculdade Pitágoras. Castro has published over thirty five
books and around three hundred scholarly articles. His main fields of
research are labor markets, social and economic aspects of education,
vocational training and science and technology policies. This event is
sponsored by The International Education Policy Program at the Harvard
Graduate School of Education and the Latin American and Caribbean
Education Network (LACE) student organization.
11/14
History/Brazil Studies Workshop: The Revolt of the Whip: Brazil's Black
Potemkin
With: Joseph Love, Professor of History at University of Illinois.
Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Time: 6:00- 7:30 pm
Location: CGIS S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street
This event is made possible by the generous support of the Jorge Paulo
Lemann Fund. For further information, please contact Marcio Siwi, at
msiwi@fas.harvard.edu.
11/15
Conversa: Lula I and II: A Political and Economic Assessment
With Werner Baer ‘58, Jorge Lemann Professor of Economics at the
University of Illinois
and Joe Love ‘61, Professor of History Emeritus at University of
Illinois.
Moderated by Kenneth Maxwell, Director, Brazil Studies Program
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2007
Time: 12:15-1:45 pm
Location: CGIS S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street
This event is made possible by the generous support of the Jorge Paulo
Lemann Fund. For further information, please contact Marcio Siwi, at
msiwi@fas.harvard.edu.
11/16
Bate-Papo
Date: Friday, November 16, 2007
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Location: DRCLAS, CGIS S-216
Members of the Harvard Community can practice their Portuguese language
skills and discuss Luso-Brazilian cultures in a round-table setting.
Co-sponsored by the Portuguese section of the Department of Romance
Languages and Literatures.
Upcoming Brazil related events in the Boston Area
11/16
The Brazilian Women’s Group presents:
Popcorn show - “Grandma has a video camera”
Friday, November 16, 2007 | 7 pm
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center’s Seton Auditorium (736 Cambridge
Street, Brighton 02135)
A 1-hour documentary by Tânia Cypriano about the use of home video by a
family of Brazilian immigrants, which portrays their lives in the
United States for over twenty years. From enchantment to
disillusionment, from idealization to conformity, first-hand images and
voices depict how newly arriving immigrants see their new world, and
struggle to establish their final home. Premiered at the Latinbeat 2007
Festival, September, New York.
For more information: http://grandmahasavideocamera.blogspot.com/
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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