DRCLAS' Brazilian Studies Program is proud to present a new seminar series:
BRAZILIAN HISTORICAL & CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES: REFLECTIONS FROM HARVARD
Part of the "Brazil Semester at Harvard" (Spring 2005), the first event of this
series will be:
"A Conversation on Brazilian Culture & Literature with Professors
Joaquim-Francisco Coelho and Nicolau Sevcenko"
Friday, March 11
12:00-2:00pm
A light Brazilian lunch will be served at noon; the presentation with start at
12:30pm.
David Rockefeller Center (DRCLAS) - 61 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/index.pl/about/directions
JOAQUIM-FRANCISCO COELHO is the Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Languages and
Literature of Portugal & Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department
of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He is the author of
numerous books including: Os meus Orfeus; Microleituras de Alvaro de Campos e
outras investigações pessoanas; Manuel Bandeira pré-modernista; Minerações:
ensaios de crítica e vida literária; and Terra e família na poesia de Carlos
Drummond de Andrade. Professor Coelho is currently teaching the courses "The
Short Stories of Machado de Assis" and "Introduction to the Literature of
Brazil II," among others.
NICOLAU SEVCENKO is a Visiting Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at
Harvard University this Spring, teaching the courses "Popular Tradition as the
Muse of Modern Brazilian Culture" and "Literature and the Plea for
Compassionate Modernization in 20th-Century Brazil." He is on the faculty of
the University of São Paulo (USP) and has published widely on Brazilian
history, literature, and culture, including: Pindorama revisitada: cultura e
sociedade em tempos de virada; Orfeu extático na metrópole: São Paulo,
sociedade e cultura nos frementes anos 20; and Literatura como missão: tensões
sociais e criação cultural na Primeira República.
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Other seminars in this series:
[All events are from noon-2pm at DRCLAS, 61 Kirkland Street, and are free and
open to the public.]
Wednesday, March 23: "A Conversation on Brazilian History"
THOMAS SKIDMORE is the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Modern Latin
American History and Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Emeritus at
Brown University and one of the best known interpreters of Brazil in the United
States. He is the author of numerous works including: Politics in Brazil
1930-1964: An Experiment in Democracy; Black Into White: Race and Nationality
in Brazilian Thought; and The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil: 1964-1985,
which are considered classics in the field of modern Brazilian history. After
obtaining his PhD at Harvard in 1960, Professor Skidmore taught here for
several years.
KENNETH MAXWELL is Visiting Professor at Harvard's History Department and a
Senior Fellow at DRCLAS. This Spring semester he is teaching the courses
"Turning Points in Brazilian History" and "Brazil Between Revolutions,
1776-1789." His latest book is a recent new edition of the classic: Conflicts
and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal 1750-1808, widely known in Brazil in
translation as: A Devassa da Devassa. Other books include: Naked Tropics,
Essays on Empire and Other Rogues; Mais Malandros; Chocolate, Piratas e Outros
Malandros; The Making of Portuguese Democracy; and Pombal: Paradox of the
Enlightenment.
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Thursday, April 7: "A Conversation on U.S.-Brazil Relations"
LINCOLN GORDON was U.S. Ambassador to Brazil from 1961 to 1966 and Assistant
Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1966 to 1967. Prior to that
he helped develop and negotiate President Kennedy's proposal for a generous
program of economic and technical assistance under the rubric "Alliance for
Progress." Previously he had numerous years of government service in the UN
Atomic Energy Commission, the Marshall Plan, and NATO. Harvard Class of 1933
and a former Harvard professor at the Business School, Ambassador Gordon is
currently a guest scholar at Brookings Institution. He is the author of
Brazil's Second Chance, En Route toward the First World, and he is now working
on a book of memoirs.
ELIO GASPARI is the Lemann Visiting Scholar at DRCLAS for Spring Term 2005.
Gaspari is one of today's most influential Brazilian columnists, writing for
Folha de São Paulo, O Globo and ten other newspapers. Since the publication of
his first volume on Brazil's military regime, A Ditadura Envergonhada, he has
been widely recognized as one of Brazil's leading historians and journalists.
He has published four volumes on the history of Brazil's dictatorial military
regime including: A Ditadura Escancarada, A Ditadura Derrotada, and A Ditadura
Encurralada. During his stay at Harvard, Gaspari is working on the fifth volume
of this series: A Ditadura Desmontada, which covers the period of 1978-79.
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Wednesday: April 13: "A Conversation on Gender & Sexuality in Brazil"
JAMES GREEN is Associate Professor of History at Brown University. He is a
former president of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) and is now chair
of the Committee on the Future of Brazilian Studies in the United States.
Professor Green is the author of Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in
Twentieth-Century Brazil. He is currently finishing the manuscript, 'We Cannot
Remain Silent': Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United
States, 1964-85.
MALA HTUN is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the New School for
Social Research. She is the author of Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce,
and the Family Under Latin American Dictatorships and Democracies. Professor
Htun's current work focuses on the initiatives and responses that states take
with regard to gender, race, and ethnicity. She is currently finishing the
manuscript, Sex, Race, and Representation: Getting Women, Blacks, and Indians
into Political Power in Latin America. Professor Htun received a PhD in
political science from Harvard University.
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For more information on DRCLAS and its Brazil Program, including details on
other "Brazil Semester" events such as our documentary film series, the
national conference on Brazilian immigration to the United States, an upcoming
talk with one of President Lula's top advisors, and other activities, see:
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/
To subscribe or unsubscribe to the Brazil Program's moderated e-mail
distribution list, see:
http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/drclas-brazil-list
Um abraço do
Tomás Amorim
Brazilian Studies Program Coordinator & Research Associate
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS)
Harvard University
61 Kirkland St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: (617) 495-5435
Fax: (617) 496-2802
Email: amorim(a)fas.harvard.edu
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu