[Brazil@Harvard] Brazil related events at Harvard and MIT

*The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies presents* *Unexpected Successes, Unanticipated Failures: Social Policy from Cardoso to Lula* Presentation by *Marcus André Melo*, Yale University and Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). He is the author of Reformas Constitucionais no Brasil Instituições Políticas e Processo Decisório, Revan. He has recently co-authored The Political Economy of Fiscal Reforms in Brazil, IADB, WP 117, 2009; and chapters in Mark Hallerberg et al eds. Who decides the budget the political economy analysis of the budget process in Latin America, DRCLAS-Harvard University Press, 2009; and E Stein and M Tommasi eds., Policy-making in Latin America: how policy shapes policy, DRCLAS-Harvard University Press, 2008. Date: *Tuesday, December 8* Time: 4 p.m. Location: Lucian Pye Conference Room, E40-496 - MIT Contact: Karina Xavier, kxavier(a)MIT.EDU This event is part of the Harvard-MIT Workshop on the Political Economy of Development in Brazil which is 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. ___________________ *Schools in Brazil* 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. & 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 - HARVARD Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu _________________ *Privatized Subsoil Rights in Brazil* 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 Resource Room S216 - CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street - HARVARD Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu This event is part of the Harvard-MIT Workshop on the Political Economy of Development in Brazil which is 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.