The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Cordially Invites You to Celebrate
The Official Inauguration of
The Brazilian Studies Program
Monday, May 1, 2006
6:00 PM
Featuring a lecture by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz:
"Harvard, 1876: The Poet, the Emperor, and the Scientist"
Followed by a reception with
Brazilian food & live music!
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In June, 1876, Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, visited Harvard. He strolled
across the Yard and had dinner with Henry Longfellow. Other guests
included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
and Alexander Agassiz (the son of his old friend, the late
Louis Agassiz. Afterwards, Longfellow wrote:
"Dom Pedro is the modern Haroun al Raschid, and is wandering about
to see the great world we live in, as simple traveler, not as king. He is
a hearty, genial, noble personage, and very liberal in his views."
Professor Lilia Moritz Schwarcz will discuss the longstanding relationship
between these New England “Eminent Victorians” and the Emperor.
Professor Schwarcz teaches at the University of Sao Paulo and is the author
of Spectacle of Races (Hill and Wang, 1999) and The Emperor's
Beard (Hill and Wang, 2004), for which she received the Jabuti Prize,
Brazil's major book award.
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David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Tsai Auditorium
CGIS Building Concourse Level S-010
1730 Cambridge Street
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/brazil