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.

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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.
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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