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.
For more information, please see
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/brazil