*DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program Seminar Series – Spring 2012* *All seminars will be held on Thursdays 12-2 p.m. at CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S-050. Seminars are free and open to the public, and registration is not required. Lunch will be provided. Presentations will begin at 12:15 p.m.* *February 2* *Save Our Savannas (SOS!): North-South-South Cooperation to Maintain Ecosystem Functions and Promote Sustainable Livelihoods in the Brazilian Cerrado and Similar Ecosystems in South America and Africa* Donald Sawyer, Professor, Center for Sustainable Development, Universidade de Brasília; Associate Researcher, Institute for Society, Population and Nature; Lemann Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS *February 9* *Feeding the World Sustainably: Challenges for Brazilian Agribusiness* Kátia Abreu, Brazilian Senator, Tocantins; President, Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA) *This seminar is co-sponsored by the Harvard-MIT Workshop on the Political Economy of Development in Brazil.* * February 16* *Forms of Disbelonging: Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin America* Florencia Garramuño, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Brazilian Culture Program, Universidad de San Andrés; de Fortabat Scholar, DRCLAS *February 23* *Neighborhood Violence and School Achievement: Evidence from Rio de Janeiro’s Drug Battles* Joana Monteiro, Visiting Research Fellow, Center for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School *March 1* *A Cartography of the Nation-State: Euclides da Cunha and his Amazonian Essays* Cinthya Torres, Lemann Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University *This seminar is part of the DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program’s Lemann Fellow Seminar Series.* *March 8* *Living in the Crossfire: Favela Residents, Drug Dealers, and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro* Maria Helena Moreira Alves, Former Professor of Political and Economic Studies, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Philip Evanson, Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Temple University *March 22* *The Imaginary of Brazilian Popular Music* Ruben Oliven, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Cogut Visiting Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Brown University *March 29* *Social Mobility among Slaves in Bahia, Brazil: The Case of Manoel Ricardo* João José Reis, Professor of History, Universidade Federal da Bahia; Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American History, Harvard University *April 5* *Science and Technology Policy in Brazil: A Model for Latin America?* Luiz Guilherme de Oliveira, Professor, Department of Public Administration, Universidade de Brasília; Ruth Cardoso Visiting Professor, Columbia University *April 12* *The Expansion of Higher Education in Brazil and the Challenge of Affirmative Action Programs* Marcia Lima, Professor of Sociology, Universidade de São Paulo; Lemann Visiting Scholar, Columbia University *April 19* *The Expulsion of Drug Gangs from Rio Slums: The View of the Electric Utility* Jerson Kelman, President, Light Group *This seminar is co-sponsored by the Harvard-MIT Workshop on the Political Economy of Development in Brazil and the Harvard Electricity Policy Group.* *April 26* *Repensando a Literatura Comparada do ponto de vista da América Latina*(seminar in Portuguese) Eduardo de Faria Coutinho, Professor of Comparative Literature, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Brazilian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * All seminars will be held on Thursdays 12-2 p.m. at CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S-050. Seminars are free and open to the public, and registration is not required. Lunch will be provided. Presentations will begin at 12:15 p.m.* --- Aaron Litvin Program Manager, Harvard Brazil Studies Program David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138