The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies would like to inform you of the following Brazil related events at Harvard



Brazilian Film Series

From Brazil to Japan (2009)
Directed by Aaron Litvin and Ana Paula Hirano Litvin

Since 1990 more than 300,000 Brazilians have gone from Brazil to Japan to work, forming a wave of migration that has had a profound social and economic impact on both countries. The transnational documentary "From Brazil to Japan" closely follows five families of Brazilian migrants over the course of three years, from their preparation for departure in Brazil to their adaptation to life and work in Japan.

Directors Aaron Litvin and Ana Paula Hirano Litvin will be taking questions from the audience after the screening.

Co-sponsored with the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University and Grupo Mulher Brasileira.

Date: Tuesday, February 16 - TODAY
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Location: TSAI Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi@fas.harvard.edu

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Brazil Studies Program Conversa

The Struggle for Democracy in Brazil

A Conversa with James Green, Professor of History as well as Brazilian and Portuguese Studies at Brown University.  Professor Green works on the political, social and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Brazil.  His books include: We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States (Duke University Press, 2010) and Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-century Brazil (University of Chicago, 1999).

Moderated by Alan McPherson, Visiting Scholar at DRCLAS, Associate Professor of International and Area Studies and ConocoPhillips Petroleum Chair in Latin American Studies, School of International and Area Studies, University of Oklahoma.  Professor McPherson is the author of Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations (Harvard University Press, 2003).

Date: Wednesday, February 17 - TOMORROW
Time: 12:00-2:00pm
Location: CGIS South, S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi@fas.harvard.edu

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