-- 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)
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The Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS is pleased to announce a recent
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Anyone can search the directory. Specialized researchers may find the
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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
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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.