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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FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF THE BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM CALENDAR OF EVENTS GO
TO: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events