The Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism is pleased to
present:
Professor Zephyr Frank of Stanford University presenting a paper titled
“Property and Power in Rio de Janeiro, 1840s-1880s.”
Paper Presentation
Professor Frank's paper is available for download from the workshop's
website,
www.fas.harvard.edu/~polecon/papers.shtml
Date: Monday, April 14, 2008
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Location: Lower Library of Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street
Contact: polecon(a)fas.harvard.edu
Refreshments will be served.
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Brazil Studies Program and Harvard Brazilian Organization Film Series
O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias
Cao Hamburger, 2006.
Date: Monday, April 14, 2008
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm
Location: CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu
Synopsis:
In 1970, near the World Cup, Daniel Stern and his wife Miriam leave Belo
Horizonte in a hurry and scared with their ten years old son Mauro in
their Volkswagen. While traveling to São Paulo, the couple explain to
Mauro that they will go on vacation and will leave him with his
grandfather, Mótel. Daniel promises to return before the first game of
the Brazilian National Soccer Team in the Cup. The boy is left in Bom
Retiro, a Jewish and Italian neighborhood, and waits for Mótel in front
of his apartment. When the next door neighbor Shlomo arrives, he tells
the boy that Mótel had just had a heart attack and died. Alone and
without knowing where his parents are, the boy is lodged by Shlomo and
the Jewish community. Through the young neighbor Hanna, Mauro makes new
friends, cheers for the Brazilian team and sees the movement of the
police and militaries on the streets while waiting for his parents.
This event is made possible by the generous support of the Jorge Paulo
Lemann Fund.
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Brazil Studies Program Conversa:
Slavery, Abolition and Race in Brazil
Conversa with:
Zephyr Frank, Assistant Professor of Latin American History, Stanford
University. Author of Dutra's World: Wealth and Family in
Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro.
and
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Professor of Anthropology, Universidade de São
Paulo, and Spring 2008 Tinker Visiting Professor, Columbia University.
Author of The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the
Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930.
Moderator:
Vincent Brown, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History, Harvard
University. Author of The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World
of Atlantic Slavery.
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008
Time: 12:15 - 1:45 pm
Location: CGIS S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu
This event is made possible by the generous support of the Jorge Paulo
Lemann Fund.
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Bate-Papo
Date: Friday, April 18, 2008
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Location: DRCLAS, CGIS S-216, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Contact: Dr. Clémence Jouët-Pastré, cpastre(a)fas.harvard.edu
Members of the Harvard Community can practice their Portuguese language
skills and discuss Luso-Brazilian cultures in a round-table setting.
Co-sponsored by the Portuguese section of the Department of Romance
Languages and Literatures.
--
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