[Brazil@Harvard] Harvard University Brazil related Events

THIS WEEK Sixth Annual Brazil Week: Brazil and Japan: A Century of Journeys Across Borders and Generations _Monday, April 7th _ 6:00pm Opening and welcome Clémence Jouët-Pastré and Wesley Jacobsen, Harvard University. Japanese in Brazil but Brazilian in Japan: The Transnational Ethnic Experiences of the Japanese Brazilians Keynote Speaker:Takeyuki (ou Gaku) Tsuda, Arizona State University Exhibit Opening 20 photos of picture-bride arranged marriages from the 40s to the 70s, and old objects. Comments: Naomi Moniz, Georgetown University Reception to follow presentation. Location: Tsai Auditorium: All activities are free and open to the public. _Tuesday, April 8th _ 6:00pm 100 Years of Japanese Immigration in Brazil: From Yellow Peril to Model Citizen Speaker: Naomi Moniz, Georgetown University Moderator: Kasumi Yamashita Location: Belfer Case Study Room. Open to the public. _Wednesday, April 9th_ 6:00pm Second-generation and First-and-a-half Generation Brazilian-Japanese youth in Japan. Speaker: Angelo Ishi, Musashi University, Japan Moderator: Leticia Braga, Harvard University Location: Tsai Auditorium. Open to the public. _Thursday, April 10th_ 6:00pm Screening of Gaijin II Followed by a conversation with filmmaker, Tizuka Yamazaki In collaboration with Grupo Mulher Brasileira, Brazilian Women's Group. Moderator: Heloísa Galvao Location: Tsai Auditorium. Open to the public. _Friday, April 11th_ 12pm Haiku in the Coffee Plantations: the Japanese Immigrants in Brazil Speaker: Juan Ryusuke Ishikawa, California State University, Fullerton Location: Tsai Auditorium. Open to the public. _Friday, April 11th_ 6:00pm Tikara and Keika: Mascots of the Brazil-Japan Centenary Special Guest Maurício de Sousa Location: Belfer Case Study Room. Open to the public. Sponsored by the Jorge Paulo Lemann Fund of the Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. ______________________________________________________________________ NEXT WEEK Brazil Studies Program and Harvard Brazilian Organization Film Series: O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias (2006) Directed by Cao Hamburger Date: Monday, April 14, 2008 Time: 6:00-9:00 pm Location: Tsai Auditorium (CGIS) free and open to the public This event is made possible by the generous support of the Jorge Paulo Lemann Fund. ______________________________________________________________________ Brazil Studies Program Conversa: Slavery, Abolition and Race in Brazil Conversa with: Zephyr Frank, Assistant Professor of Latin American History, Stanford University. Author of Dutra's World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro. and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Professor of Anthropology, Universidade de São Paulo, and Spring 2008 Tinker Visiting Professor, Columbia University. Author of The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930. Moderator: Vincent Brown, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History, Harvard University. Author of The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008 Time: 12:15 - 1:45 pm Location: CGIS S-050 free and open to the public This event is made possible by the generous support of the Jorge Paulo Lemann Fund. -- 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