The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard’s David Rockefeller
Center for Latin American Studies would like to inform you of the
following upcoming Brazil related events at Harvard
Inequality and Poverty in Brazil:
Public Policies of
Inclusion or Structured Exclusion?
A Conversa with Sedi Hirano, Professor of Sociology and
Co-director of the
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Racism at the Universidade de São
Paulo (USP)
Professor Hirano will address the mechanisms around the production and
persistence of poverty and inequality in Brazil, particularly the
capitalist market logic that imposes formal requirements on potential
workers which in turn creates a large unemployable population in Brazil
who are destined for poverty and social exclusion. This population of
informal workers lack job security and are therefore deeply vulnerable
and highly dependent on state sponsored cash transfer programs, such as
Bolsa Família. Professor Hirano will analyze whether Bolsa Família is
an effective policy of social inclusion or yet another mechanism that
reproduces preexisting structures of exclusion.
Date: Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Time: 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: DRCLAS Resource Room S 216 - 1730 Cambridge Street
Free and open to the public
Consecutive translation will be provided
A light Brazilian lunch will be offered
This event is co-sponsored with The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard’s
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Department
of Romance Languages and Literatures
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Why This World: The Life and Times of Clarice Lispector
A Presentation by Benjamin Moser, a writer, editor, critic, and
translator who
was born in Houston in 1976 and currently lives in the Netherlands. He
is the New Books columnist for Harper's Magazine and a regular
contributor to The New York Review of Books. His work has appeared in
many publications in the United States and abroad, including Condé Nast
Traveler, Newsweek, and The American Scholar. His first book, Why This
World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, will be published in August
2009 by Oxford University Press (USA), Haus Publishing (UK), and Cosac
Naify (Brazil).
Moderated by Verena Conley, Long Term Visiting Professor of Comparative
Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard
University
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Location: TSAI Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi@fas.harvard.edu
Brazilian Salgadinhos will be provided
Free and open to the public
This event is co-sponsored by The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard’s
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Department
of Romance Languages and Literatures
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Brazil Film Series
Santiago
Directed by João Moreira Salles
In 1992, filmmaker João Moreira Salles began making a film about
Santiago, the family butler who worked for Salles’s parents since his
childhood. Years later, after the death of the flamboyant servant,
Salles returns to the unused footage and crafts a moving portrait of an
enigmatic man who, aside from running the household, is a talented
pianist, a poet and an amateur historian interested in the lives of
aristocrats. The film is an evocative reflection on the components of a
person's identity and those traits that make us memorable to others.
Through his personal voice-over, Salles sheds light on his family and
childhood as well as universal topics such as memory, identity, and
documentary filmmaking.
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Location: TSAI Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street
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
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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