David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS)
BRAZIL SEMESTER AT HARVARD (Spring 2005)
presents the following three events on Brazil this week:
Tuesday, March 22 (noon-2pm, at DRCLAS):
"Does Brazilian Education aim at Racial Democracy?"
Roseli Fischmann
Wednesday, March 23 (noon-2pm, at DRCLAS):
"A Conversation on Brazilian History and the Role of Harvard and
Foreign Scholars in the Study of Brazil"
Thomas Skidmore & Kenneth Maxwell
Wednesday, March 23 (4-6pm, at the Barker Center):
"Memory, Mistrust, and an American Anthropologist's Suicide in
Brazil"
Jessica Callaway
See full details on these events & speakers below. Free & open to the public.
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Also please note, as you may have noticed, that dissemination of
Harvard/DRCLAS Brazil-related events, conferences, research & cultural
activities is now taking place via this new moderated list-serve, generally
using the easy-to-remember email: brazil(a)fas.harvard.edu (which should
appear in your inbox as "DRCLAS Brazil Program").
If you would prefer not to receive these emails --- which will be kept to a
minimum, for informational purposes only --- you may unsubscribe at:
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/programs/brazil/listserv
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"Does Brazilian Education aim at Racial Democracy?"
An analysis of racial and cultural issues in Brazilian educational policy,
matters historically difficult to tackle in Brazil---especially with
regards to the Afro-Brazilian and indigenous populations. This research
focuses on how the Brazilian school system, in all its levels, reflects and
simultaneously produces the racism and discrimination evident in Brazilian
society. The presentation will also examine the policies that have been
proposed and implemented recently, with special focus on their impact in
overcoming racism and discrimination.
ROSELI FISCHMANN, Visiting Scholar of Political Psychology, Department of
Psychology, Harvard University; Professor of Graduated Studies, Department
of Educational Administration and Economics of Education, University of São
Paulo (USP). Author of numerous books and articles, Professor Fischmann was
responsible for proposing and writing the document Cultural Plurality, a
part of the National Curriculum Parameters of the Brazilian Ministry of
Education, applied throughout the country since 1997. She is a regular
contributor to the Brazilian newspaper Correio Braziliense.
Tuesday, March 22 (12:00-2:00PM)
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies - DRCLAS - Conference
Room (2nd floor) - 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
For directions, see:
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/index.pl/about/directions
Light lunch served at noon; presentation starts at 12:30pm.
Sponsored by DRCLAS's weekly Tuesday Seminar Series.
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BRAZILIAN HISTORICAL & CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES: REFLECTIONS FROM HARVARD
"A Conversation on Brazilian History and the Role of Harvard and Foreign
Scholars in the Study of Brazil"
THOMAS SKIDMORE, 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, Visiting Professor, History Department, and Senior Fellow
at DRCLAS, Harvard University. This semester he is teaching the courses
"Turning Points in Brazilian History" and "Brazil Between Revolutions,
1776-1789." His latest book is a 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.
Wednesday, March 23 (12:00-2:00PM)
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies - DRCLAS - Conference
Room (2nd floor) - 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge
For directions, see:
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/index.pl/about/directions
Brazilian lunch served at noon; presentation starts at 12:30pm.
Sponsored by DRCLAS's Brazilian Studies Program.
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"Memory, Mistrust, and an American Anthropologist's Suicide in Brazil"
An analysis of the problems of fiction and memory through a reading of the
Brazilian writer Bernardo Carvalho's 2002 novel, Nove Noites, which
explores the enigma surrounding the suicide of an American anthropologist
in Brazil. Told in the voices of several narrators---and excerpting texts
related to the actual case---the novel ends up eliding the problems of
fictional and ethnographic representation.
JESSICA CALLAWAY, Doctoral Student, Comparative Literature; and Resident
Tutor, Cabot House, Harvard University.
Wednesday, March 23 (4:00-6:00PM)
Barker Center, Room 133
For directions, see
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/generalinfo.html
Sponsored by the Humanities Center's Cross-Cultural Poetics & Rhetoric
Seminar Series.
Um abraço, Tomas
Tomás Amorim
Brazilian Studies Program Coordinator & Research Associate
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS)
Harvard University
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/brazil