Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller
Center for Latin American Studies presents
Brazil Film Series
Casa de Areia. House of Sand
Andrucha Waddington, 2005
In 1910, Vasco de Sa moves with his mother-in-law and pregnant wife to
an inhospitable wilderness near a lagoon surrounded by shifting sand
dunes in the middle of untamed Brazil. Following Vasco de Sa's death,
they must care for themselves with the support of friendly strangers
like Massu, the local son of a former slave, and Lieutenant Luiz, a
young guide for a group of astronomical researchers. Aurea, Vasco's
wife, spends decades hoping to move back to the city, while her anguish
and despair slowly turn into acceptance of her fate.
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Location: CGIS South,Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi@fas.harvard.edu
Free and open to the public. Screened with subtitles in English.
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How Machado de Assis Became a Universal Writer
A Conversa with:
Speaker:
John Gledson, Emeritus Professor and Research Fellow, the Institute of
Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool, England and
author of The Deceptive Realism of Machado De Assis: A Dissenting
Interpretation of Dom Casmurro.
Commentators:
Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Language
and Literature of Portugal and Professor of Comparative Literature and
Director of Graduate Studies in Portuguese. Author of Manuel Bandeira
Pre-modernista.
Nicolau Sevcenko, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures,
Harvard University. Author of A corrida para o século XXI: no loop da
montanha-russa.
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009
Time: 12:45 - 1:45 pm
Location: CGIS South S - 050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Contact: Marcio Siwi,
msiwi@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:msiwi@fas.harvard.edu>
For more information click on:
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events/conversamachado
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Bate-Papo
Members of the Harvard Community can practice their Portuguese language
skills and discuss Luso-Brazilian cultures in a round-table setting.
Date: Friday, April 17, 2009
Time: 4:30 - 5:30 pm
Location: CGIS South, Resource Room, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Contact: Dr. Clémence Jouët-Pastré, cpastre@fas.harvard.edu
Co-sponsored by the Portuguese section of the Department of Romance
Languages and Literatures
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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