*Brazil Studies Program Seminar*
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**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
Thursday, February 2nd, 12:00 p.m.
CGIS South, Room S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
A Brazilian lunch will be served.
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*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.*
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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
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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.*
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Aaron Litvin
Program Manager, Harvard Brazil Studies Program
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
*Deans’ Roundtable on Global Legal Education: Views from Brazil, Canada,
China & France*
Convened by the Harvard Law School SJD Association
With introductory remarks by Dean Martha Minow, Harvard Law School
Dean Joaquim Falcão, FGV Law School, Brazil
Dean Christophe Jamin, Sciences Po Law School, France
Dean Daniel Jutras, McGill University, Faculty of Law, Canada
Dean Zhenmin Wang, Tsinghua Law School, China (video statement)
Assistant Dean Chenying Zhang, Tsinghua Law School, China
Moderated by Duncan Kennedy, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence,
Harvard Law School
*Friday, January 27th, 12-2 p.m.
Wasserstein 2009**, Harvard Law School* (Please note the new location.
Wasserstein 2009 is located on the 2nd floor of the new HLS building)
Lunch will be served.
This is the second event in a seminar series (“Mapping the Globalization of
Legal Education”) leading up to the Global Legal Education Forum (March
23-25, 2012).
*RSVP: http://bit.ly/Ah9fZK*
*Co-sponsored by: the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies'
Brazil Studies Program; the Institute for Global Law and Policy; the
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; the East Asian Legal Studies Program *
*Deans’ Roundtable on Global Legal Education: Views from Brazil, Canada,
China & France*
Convened by the Harvard Law School SJD Association
With introductory remarks by Dean Martha Minow, Harvard Law School
Dean Joaquim Falcão, FGV Law School, Brazil
Dean Christophe Jamin, Sciences Po Law School, France
Dean Daniel Jutras, McGill University, Faculty of Law, Canada
Dean Zhenmin Wang, Tsinghua Law School, China (video statement)
Assistant Dean Chenying Zhang, Tsinghua Law School, China
Moderated by Duncan Kennedy, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence,
Harvard Law School
*Friday, January 27th, 12-2 p.m.
Hauser Hall 104, Harvard Law School*
Lunch will be served.
This is the second event in a seminar series (“Mapping the Globalization of
Legal Education”) leading up to the Global Legal Education Forum (March
23-25, 2012).
*RSVP: http://bit.ly/Ah9fZK*
*Co-sponsored by: the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies'
Brazil Studies Program; the Institute for Global Law and Policy; the
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; the East Asian Legal Studies Program *
The HLS Brazilian Studies Association proudly invites you to the
debate "*Ending
Corporate Limited Liability?*" on *Wednesday, Jan 25th at **Hauser 102,
from 12:00 to 1:00 pm*.
Professor Bruno Salama will talk about his ongoing research project tracing
the movements of limited liability and veil-piercing in Brazil, and will
debate with Harvard Law School Professors Reinier Kraakman and Mark Roe, on
a comparative perspective.
Professor Salama is a law professor at the Fundaçao Getulio Vargas Law
School (FGV) in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He earned a J.S.D (Juris Science Doctor)
and an LL.M (Master of Laws) from UC Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law,
and an LL.B (Bachelor of Laws) from the University of São Paulo School of
Law. Before entering academia, he practiced law with the firm Sullivan &
Cromwell LLP in New York, and prior to that with Pinheiro Neto Advogados in
São Paulo.
Lunch will be served.
For more information, please contact guribeiro(a)sjd.law.harvard.edu.