DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program events next week

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Panel Discussion

Brazil Panel: the Future is Now!

David Trubek, Voss-Bascom Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin
Daniel Vargas, Former Brazilian Secretary for Long-Term Strategic Planning (interim); SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School
Filipe Campante, Associate Professor, Harvard Kennedy School

Discussant: David Kennedy, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy

Monday, April 4th, 3:30 p.m.
CGIS South, Room S-020 (Belfer Case Study Room), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Co-sponsored by the DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program and the HLS Brazilian Student Association.

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Brazil Studies Program Seminar

The Expulsion of Drug Gangs from Rio Slums: The View of the Electric Utility

Jerson Kelman

President, Light Group; President, Administrative Council of AD-Rio (Economic and Social Development Agency of the State of Rio de Janeiro)

Moderated by John Briscoe, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, and Harvard Kennedy School


Tuesday, April 5th, 4:30 p.m.
CGIS South, Room S-020 (Belfer Case Study Room), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

A Brazilian dinner will be served following the seminar.


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Lemann Fellow Seminar

Impacting Education Policy and Outcomes: An HKS Graduate’s Experience Inside and Outside the Government in Brazil

Eduardo Queiroz
, HKS '09
Director-President, Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal (FMCSV); former Special Adviser to the Education Secretary of São Paulo State

Tuesday, April 5th, 6:30 p.m.
CGIS South, Room S-216, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

A Brazilian dinner will be served at the beginning of the seminar.

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Bate-Papo: Portuguese conversation practice

Practice your Portuguese and discuss Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries and cultures at this informal roundtable.  Everyone is welcome!

Friday, April 8th, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
CGIS South, Room S-216, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Co-sponsored by the DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program and the Portuguese section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard.

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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
brazil@fas.harvard.edu