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Brazil Studies Program and Harvard Brazilian Organization Film Series
Favela Rising. 2005
Directed by Matt Mochary and Jeff Zimbalist
Date: Monday, March 10, 2008
Time: 6:00- 8:00 pm
Location: Tsai Auditorium, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge Street
Synopsis:
Favela Rising documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a
favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of
his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá turns social
revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro’s most feared slum. Through hip-hop
music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies
his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage
drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. At the dawn of liberation,
just as collective mobility is overcoming all odds and Anderson’s
grassroots Afro Reggae movement is at the height of its success, a
tragic accident threatens to silence the movement forever.
This event is made possible by the generous support of the Jorge Paulo
Lemann Fund.
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Public Health in Latin America: Student and Faculty Reflections from
Brazil and Chile Field Courses
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Location: CGIS South, Room: S 030 - Basement Level - 1730 Cambridge
Street, Cambridge
The Brazil Studies Program, DRCLAS Regional Office in Chile and the
School of Public Health at Harvard are pleased to invite you to this
event that will highlight the experiences of students and faculty in
recent public health field courses in Chile and Brazil.
The event includes informal presentations from: Mary Wilson, Harvard
School of Public Health; Felipe Fregni, Harvard Medical School; Maria
Amélia Veras, Santa Casa Medical School, São Paulo; as well as Harvard
School of Public Health students who participated in the Harvard-Brazil
Collaborative Course on Infectious Diseases in Brazil. Also
participating will be Diana Bowser and students from Professor Thomas
Bossert's Winter Course on Health Reform and Community Medicine in
Chile. This is a great opportunity to learn more about Harvard's and
DRCLAS's involvement in public health in Latin America.
For more information on the Harvard-Brazil Collaborative Course on
Infectious Diseases in Brazil, please go to:
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/courses/brazil/infectious_diseases
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Brazil Studies Program Conversa:
Brazilian Film: From Revolution to Resistance
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008
Time: 12:15-1:45 pm
Location: CGIS S-050, DRCLAS, 1730 Cambridge Street
Conversa with Robert Stam, Professor of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of
the Arts, New York University. Author of Tropical Multiculturalism: A
Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture.
Moderated by Haden Guest, Director of the Harvard Film Archive, Harvard
University
This event is made possible by the generous support of the Jorge Paulo
Lemann Fund.
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Bate-Papo
Date: Friday, March 14, 2008
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Location: DRCLAS, CGIS S-216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Members of the Harvard Community can practice their Portuguese language
skills and discuss Luso-Brazilian cultures in a round-table setting.
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