Brazil Studies Program Welcome Reception
Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Time: 5:00 - 7:00pm
Location: CGIS Concourse S030 & Rock Garden, Cambridge, MA
The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller
Center for Latin American invites students, faculty, staff, and
community friends to join us in celebrating the start of the 2008 Fall
Semester and another active year of Brazil events at Harvard.
Featuring music by Choro Democrático, starting at 6pm
Free and open to the public.
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Brazil Studies Conversa
1968 Revisited: Brazilian Social Movements Under the Military Dictatorship
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
Time: 12:15 - 1:45pm
Location: CGIS South , S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Victoria Langland, Assistant Professor in History, University of
California at Davis
and
Christopher Dunn, Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Tulane University.
Moderated by
June Carolyn Erlick, DRCLAS Publications Director and Editor of ReVista.
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Brazil Film Series: Presented by The Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS
and The Harvard Brazilian
Jongos, Calangos e Folias: Música Negra, Memória e Poesia
Directed by Hebe Mattos and Martha Abreu, 2005
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Location: Tsai Auditorium (CGIS South), 1730 Cambridge Street
This documentary explores the largely forgotten history of Jongos,
Calangos and Folias de Reis - afro-Brazilian musical and verbal
expressions - as well as the social groups associated with them. The
film highlights the role of afro-Brazilian poetry in these three
afro-Brazilian cultural expressions and how poetry provides political
legitimacy for the remaining inhabitants of former slave based societies
(Quilombos) in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The film documents the
lives of residents of the coastal region of the state of Rio; the
inhabitants of Vale do Paraíba, a prominent coffee producing region in
the1800s; and individuals from the old mining towns along the Baixada
Fluminense. By focusing on these three different regions, the film
depicts the relationship between Jongos, Calangos and Folias de Reis,
and the challenges associated with these unique Afro-Brazilian cultural
patrimony.
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These events are made possible by the generous support of the Lemann
Family Endowment.
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