THIS WEEK
Sixth Annual Brazil Week:
Brazil and Japan: A Century of Journeys Across Borders and Generations
_Monday, April 7th _
6:00pm
Opening and welcome
Clémence Jouët-Pastré and Wesley Jacobsen, Harvard University.
Japanese in Brazil but Brazilian in Japan: The Transnational Ethnic
Experiences of the Japanese Brazilians
Keynote Speaker:Takeyuki (ou Gaku) Tsuda, Arizona State University
Exhibit Opening
20 photos of picture-bride arranged marriages from the 40s to the 70s,
and old objects.
Comments: Naomi Moniz, Georgetown University
Reception to follow presentation.
Location: Tsai Auditorium: All activities are free and open to the public.
_Tuesday, April 8th _
6:00pm
100 Years of Japanese Immigration in Brazil: From Yellow Peril to Model
Citizen
Speaker: Naomi Moniz, Georgetown University
Moderator: Kasumi Yamashita
Location: Belfer Case Study Room. Open to the public.
_Wednesday, April 9th_
6:00pm
Second-generation and First-and-a-half Generation Brazilian-Japanese
youth in Japan.
Speaker: Angelo Ishi, Musashi University, Japan
Moderator: Leticia Braga, Harvard University
Location: Tsai Auditorium. Open to the public.
_Thursday, April 10th_
6:00pm
Screening of Gaijin II
Followed by a conversation with filmmaker, Tizuka Yamazaki
In collaboration with Grupo Mulher Brasileira, Brazilian Women's Group.
Moderator: Heloísa Galvao
Location: Tsai Auditorium. Open to the public.
_Friday, April 11th_
12pm
Haiku in the Coffee Plantations: the Japanese Immigrants in Brazil
Speaker: Juan Ryusuke Ishikawa, California State University, Fullerton
Location: Tsai Auditorium. Open to the public.
_Friday, April 11th_
6:00pm
Tikara and Keika: Mascots of the Brazil-Japan Centenary
Special Guest
Maurício de Sousa
Location: Belfer Case Study Room. Open to the public.
Sponsored by the Jorge Paulo Lemann Fund of the Brazil Studies Program
at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the
Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the Department of Romance
Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
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NEXT WEEK
Brazil Studies Program and Harvard Brazilian Organization Film Series:
O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias (2006)
Directed by Cao Hamburger
Date: Monday, April 14, 2008
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm
Location: Tsai Auditorium (CGIS)
free and open to the public
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
free and open to the public
This event is made possible by the generous support of the Jorge Paulo
Lemann Fund.
--
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