[Brazil@Harvard] Brazil Studies Program Announcements 10/18

-- Harvard Brazil Studies Program Fall 2006 Events Calendar -- Directory of Scholars in Brazilian Studies -- 10/26 @ 12 pm: /Conversa/: *Violence in Rio de Janeiro*, with Robert Gay (Connecticut College) and Irene Rizzini (Pontifícia Universidade Católica - Rio de Janeiro); moderated by Felton Earls (Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health) ***************************************************************************** The fall events calendar for the Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) is now online at: http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/brazil ***************************************************************************** The Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS is pleased to announce a recent updating of the/ Directory of Scholars in Brazilian Studies/. Anyone can search the directory. Specialized researchers may find the directory useful to identify colleagues who work on related subjects. Newcomers to the study of Brazil can use it to become familiar with the field by browsing members' research interests and publications. For those outside the academic world, it can serve as a reference tool to specialists in particular areas of Brazilian Studies. Please update your information at http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/directories/brazil/. ******************************************************************************* The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program @ DRCLAS presents */Conversa/: *Violence in Rio de Janeiro with Robert Gay (Connecticut College) and Irene Rizzini (Pontifícia Universidade Católica - Rio de Janeiro) moderated by *Felton Earls *(Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health) Thursday, October 26th, 2006, 12-2 pm CGIS S-050, 1730 Cambridge St. A light lunch is provided. Irene Rizzini and Robert Gay discuss the causes and manifestations of urban violence in Rio de Janeiro, including the drug and gang cultures, juvenile delinquency, and the connections between citizenship, poverty and violence. *Irene Rizzini *is Visiting Chair in the Study of Brazilian Culture at the University of Notre Dame, and is a Professor and a researcher at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is also Director of The International Center for Research on Childhood (CIESPI) and President of Childwatch International Research Network. She is the author of several books, among which are: /Globalization and children; The art of governing children: the history of social policies, legislation and child welfare in Brazil/; and /Disinherited from society: street children in Latin America//./ *Robert Gay* is Director of the Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts (CISLA) at Connecticut College and a sociologist whose research focuses on clientelism, democracy and civil society in Brazil and other countries of Latin America. He is the author of /Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman /and /Popular Organization & Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: A Tale of Two Favelas /and has published numerous articles on Latin American political change.