The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller
presents:
Contemporary Challenges to Afro-Brazilian Religions
A Conversa with
J. Lorand Matory, Professor of Anthropology and of African and African
American Studies at Harvard University. Author of Black Atlantic
Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the
Afro-Brazilian Candomble.
&
Vagner Gonçalves da Silva, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the
Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and fellow at Harvard's W. E. B. Du
Bois Institute for African and African American Research. He is the
author of Metropolitan Orixás.
Moderator:
Harvey Cox, Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard. His books include
When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Decisions Today and The Secular
City.
Date: TODAY Thursday, February 12, 2009
Time: 12:15 – 1:45pm
Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, DRCLAS, CGIS South Room S-050
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EVENTS GO TO:
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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