The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for
Latin American Studies presents
Brazilian Film Series
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2005)
Directed by Marcelo Gomes
To distance himself from Adolf Hitler and a war he philosophically
opposes, a young German moves halfway around the world to Brazil, where
he meets a hitchhiker with his own motivations to keep moving.
Together, they drive across the country making pit stops in various
villages to sell the locals a "miracle" drug. Marcelo Gomes directs
this multilingual Cannes Film Festival selection.
Tuesday, March 2
6:00-8:00pm
TSAI Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi@fas.harvard.edu
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Brazil’s Report Card on Education: Overcoming inertia?
Presentation by
Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International
Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Director of
the International Education Policy Program
Paula Louzano, Lemann Foundation
The report cards on education are an initiative of PREAL (Partnership
for Educational Revitalization in the Americas) and have been published
in nine countries of Latin and Central America. Lemann Foundation was
Preal’s partner on this initiative and has just released the 1st
Brazilian document: Brazil’s Report Card on Education: overcoming
inertia? released in December 2009. The report cards monitor the
evolution of educational indicators and the implementation of public
policies considered crucial to the development of education. Out of
the nine aspects covered by the Report Card on Education: Overcoming
Inertia? (enrollment, frequency, performance, equity, educational
standards, evaluation systems, among others) Brazil scored “regular” or
“unsatisfactory” in seven of them. The Report Card has also shown that
there is no consensus about the question asked in the document’s title:
“Overcoming inertia?” For most topics, although specialists recognize
recent progresses, they don’t see clear evidences that Brazil is moving
forward.
Wednesday, March 3
12:00-2:00pm
CGIS South Building S-030
1730 Cambridge Street
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi@fas.harvard.edu
This event is co-sponsored with the Harvard University Brazil Studies
Program at DRCLAS, the International Education Policy Program at the
Harvard Graduate School of Education and LACE (Latin American and
Caribbean Education Network in GSE)
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Promises and Challenges of Development and Conservation in the Amazon
Presentation and Commentary by
Arnóbio “Binho” Marques, Governor of the State of Acre, Brazil
Jorge Viana, Former Governor of the State of Acre, Brazil
Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law at the
Harvard Law School and former Minister of Strategic Affairs for the
Brazilian government
John Briscoe, Professor of the Practice of Environmental
Engineering at Harvard University and former World Bank Country
Director for Brazil
Wednesday, March 10
5:00-7:00pm
Science Center, Lecture Hall D
1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
Harvard University
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi@fas.harvard.edu
This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Brazil Studies
Program at DRCLAS and The Harvard University Center for the Environment
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