DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program Seminar Series – Spring 2012
All seminars will be held on Thursdays 12-2 p.m. at CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S-050.
Seminars are free and open to the public, and registration is not required. Lunch will be provided. Presentations will begin at 12:15 p.m.
February 2
Save Our Savannas (SOS!): North-South-South Cooperation to Maintain Ecosystem Functions and Promote Sustainable Livelihoods in the Brazilian Cerrado and Similar Ecosystems in South America and Africa
Donald Sawyer, Professor, Center for Sustainable Development, Universidade de Brasília; Associate Researcher, Institute for Society, Population and Nature; Lemann Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS
February 9
Feeding the World Sustainably: Challenges for Brazilian Agribusiness
Kátia Abreu, Brazilian Senator, Tocantins; President, Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA)
This seminar is co-sponsored by the Harvard-MIT Workshop on the Political Economy of Development in Brazil.
February 16
Forms of Disbelonging: Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin America
Florencia Garramuño, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Brazilian Culture Program, Universidad de San Andrés; de Fortabat Scholar, DRCLAS
February 23
Neighborhood Violence and School Achievement: Evidence from Rio de Janeiro’s Drug Battles
Joana Monteiro, Visiting Research Fellow, Center for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
March 1
A Cartography of the Nation-State: Euclides da Cunha and his Amazonian Essays
Cinthya Torres, Lemann Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
This seminar is part of the DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program’s Lemann Fellow Seminar Series.
March 8
Living in the Crossfire: Favela Residents, Drug Dealers, and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro
Maria Helena Moreira Alves, Former Professor of Political and Economic Studies, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Philip Evanson, Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Temple University
March 22
The Imaginary of Brazilian Popular Music
Ruben Oliven, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Cogut Visiting Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Brown University
March 29
Social Mobility among Slaves in Bahia, Brazil: The Case of Manoel Ricardo
João José Reis, Professor of History, Universidade Federal da Bahia; Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American History, Harvard University
April 5
Science and Technology Policy in Brazil: A Model for Latin America?
Luiz Guilherme de Oliveira, Professor, Department of Public Administration, Universidade de Brasília; Ruth Cardoso Visiting Professor, Columbia University
April 12
The Expansion of Higher Education in Brazil and the Challenge of Affirmative Action Programs
Marcia Lima, Professor of Sociology, Universidade de São Paulo; Lemann Visiting Scholar, Columbia University
April 19
The Expulsion of Drug Gangs from Rio Slums: The View of the Electric Utility
Jerson Kelman, President, Light Group
This seminar is co-sponsored by the Harvard-MIT Workshop on the Political Economy of Development in Brazil and the Harvard Electricity Policy Group.
April 26
Repensando a Literatura Comparada do ponto de vista da América Latina (seminar in Portuguese)
Eduardo de Faria Coutinho, Professor of Comparative Literature, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Brazilian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
All seminars will be held on Thursdays 12-2 p.m. at CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S-050.
Seminars are free and open to the public, and registration is not required. Lunch will be provided. Presentations will begin at 12:15 p.m.
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Aaron Litvin
Program Manager, Harvard Brazil Studies Program
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138