[Brazil@Harvard] This week's events at DRCLAS and beyond

Please find below details on this week's Brazil-related events at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) and elsewhere at Harvard and in Cambridge. See also the Harvard Gazette article on the talk by Minister Luiz Dulci and our "Brazil Semester at Harvard (Spring 2005)", available at: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/04.07/19-lula.html Forte abraço, Tomas Amorim ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Week of April 11, 2005 ** (see full details on speakers, locations, etc below) WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13: 12:00-2:00pm - A Conversation on Gender & Sexuality in Brazil with Mala Htun and James Green (DRCLAS) 5:30pm - Screening of "Lygia Clark: Structuring of the Self" with intro by Guy Brett (Carpenter Center) THURSDAY, APRIL 14: 5:00-6:45pm - Brazilian Graduate Studies Workshop (DRCLAS) 7:00pm - A Conversation on Brazilian Art with Jane de Almeida, Guy Brett, Elio Gaspari & Nicolau Sevcenko (DRCLAS) FRIDAY, APRIL 15: 8:00pm - Brazz Dance Theater presents a fusion of Afro- Brazilian and modern dance (Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed., April 13: "A Conversation on Gender & Sexuality in Brazil with Mala Htun and James Green" A discussion on the pace of change -- or lack thereof -- of Brazilian public attitudes toward women, gender roles, abortion, homosexuality, and their impact on state policy, especially compared to neighboring Latin American countries. The conversation will also touch on Carnival, the gay pride parade and social movement in Brazil, the globalization of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) movement, and its effect on Brazilian society. JAMES GREEN, Associate Professor of History at Brown University. He is a former president of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) and is currently chair of BRASA's Committee on the Future of Brazilian Studies in the United States. Green is the author of Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil, and he is currently finishing the manuscript "We Cannot Remain Silent": Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States, 1964-85. MALA HTUN, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce, and the Family Under Latin American Dictatorships and Democracies. Htun's current work focuses on the initiatives and responses that states take with regard to gender, race, and ethnicity. She is finishing the manuscript Sex, Race, and Representation: Getting Women, Blacks, and Indians into Political Power in Latin America. Htun received a PhD in political science from Harvard University. This will be the final Spring 2005 session of the seminar series on BRAZILIAN HISTORICAL & CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES: REFLECTIONS FROM HARVARD. http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/brazil Wednesday, April 13 (12:00-2:00pm) DRCLAS - 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge - Conference Room (2nd floor) Brazilian lunch served at noon; presentation starts at 12:30pm. -------------------- Wed., April 13: Screening of "Lygia Clark: Structuring of the Self" "Memória do Corpo" (dir. Mário Carneiro, 1984). A short film on the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark (1920-1988) which explores the unique psychotherapeutic process which Lygia invented with her 'Relational Objects in a Therapeutic Context.' In Portuguese with English subtitles. The film will be introduced by GUY BRETT, a writer, independent curator, and currently the Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). (See below under April 14 event for additional biographical details on Guy Brett). Wednesday April 13 (5:30pm) Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Room B-04) 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge Sponsored by the students of Harvard's Department of Art History and Architecture. -------------------- Thurs., April 14: Brazilian Graduate Studies Workshop A forum for doctoral or masters students engaged in substantive research on Brazil-related topics to circulate and discuss works-in-progress as well as to meet with experts on Brazil. Presentations by PAMELA J. SURKAN, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard School of Public Health, and CAROL DESHANO DA SILVA, Candidate, Ed.D. in International Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Thursday, April 14 (5:00-6:45pm) DRCLAS - 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge - Conference Room (2nd floor) -------------------- Thurs., April 14: "A Conversation on Brazilian Art" JANE DE ALMEIDA, Visiting Fellow, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. Almeida's post-doctoral research focuses on the artist Arthur Bispo do Rosario, who for fifty years lived in a psychiatric asylum in Rio de Janeiro. She has taught at the Catholic University of São Paulo, Mackenzie University, FAAP, and Boston College. Almeida has curated exhibitions at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil and is the author of Metacinemas; Ordering and Vertigo; Image's Strategy; Aesthesis: Aesthetics and Cinema; and Witty Found: Witz and Psychoanalysis in José Simão's Writings. GUY BRETT, Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar for Spring Term 2005. Internationally recognized as one of the most influential writers and thinkers on contemporary art, Brett occupies a distinctive position as an independent curator and critical historian of the visual arts. During his stay at Harvard, he will develop a project investigating the notion of the "void" in the work of Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Mira Schendel and other Brazilian and Latin American artists. His research will also explore the role played by the box-format and book-format in Brazilian avant-garde art. ELIO GASPARI, Lemann Visiting Scholar at DRCLAS for Spring Term 2005. Gaspari is one of today's most influential Brazilian columnists, writing for Folha de São Paulo, O Globo and ten other newspapers. He has been widely acclaimed for his four-volume history of the Brazilian military dictatorship and its transition to democracy, based on extensive interviewing and special access to military archives: The Ashamed Dictatorship, The Dictatorship Unmasked, The Dictatorship Defeated, and The Dictatorship Cornered (just released). For the forthcoming fifth volume, tentatively titled The Dictatorship Dismantled and covering the 1978-1979 period, he is currently engaged in archival research at the Harvard libraries. NICOLAU SEVCENKO, Visiting Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, Spring 2005. Sevcenko is currently teaching the courses "Popular Tradition as the Muse of Modern Brazilian Culture" and "Literature and the Plea for Compassionate Modernization in 20th-century Brazil." He is on the faculty of the University of São Paulo (USP) and has published widely on Brazilian history, literature, and culture, including: Pindorama Revisitada: Cultura e Sociedade em Tempos de Virada; Orfeu Extático na Metrópole: São Paulo,Sociedade e Cultura nos Frementes Anos 20; and Literatura como Missão: Tensões Sociais e Criação Cultural na Primeira República. Moderator CECILE FROMONT, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, working on colonial Afro-Brazilian art in Bahia. Thursday, April 14 (7:00-8:30pm) DRCLAS - 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge - Conference Room (2nd floor) Co-sponsored by DRCLAS's Art Forum & Brazilian Studies Program. -------------------- Fri., April 15: Brazz Dance Theater presents a fusion of Afro- Brazilian and modern dance. At the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge. Brazz Dance Theater has been thrilling audiences throughout the Northeast with dynamic and inventive performances for over five years. The program presents Artistic Director Augusto Soledade’s new and recent work, including The Diaries of an Outlaw (2004), a work inspired by the life of the legendary outlaw Maria Bonita of Brazil. A native of Bahia, Soledade began his dance training at the Federal University of Bahia and later received his Master of Fine Arts in Dance from the State University of New York . Friday, April 15 (8:00pm) (Brazz performs for one night only). Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center (CMAC) - 41 Second Street - Cambridge, MA (Just one block from the Lechmere T Station and Cambridgeside Galleria Mall) Tickets are $20 or $15 for CMAC and TDA members, students (with valid ID) and seniors -------------------- Except for the CMAC event above, all of these events are free and open to the public. No RSVPs required. For the full schedule of the "Brazil Semester at Harvard," taking place this Spring, please see: http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/uploads/images/211/BrazilSemesterHarvard.pdf Tomás Amorim Brazilian Studies Program Coordinator & Research Associate David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) Harvard University