Education in Brazil: The Challenges to Excellence and Equity
A Presentation and Conversation with Denis Mizne, Executive Director of the
Lemann Foundation, a leading non-profit education organization in Brazil
Thursday, February 6, at 6:30 pm
Gutman Conference Center A1, Harvard Graduate School of Education
The Lemann Foundation is an organization created by Jorge Paulo Lemann to
improve the quality of public education in Brazil. Before joining the
Foundation, Denis Mizne founded and led Instituto Sou da Paz, one of the
best known Brazilian NGOs focused on crime prevention. Mizne has a law
degree from the University of Sao Paulo, was a visiting scholar at Columbia
University Center for the Study on Human Rights and a 2007 Yale World
Fellow. He has received numerous awards recognizing his contributions to
Brazilian civil society.
Judicial Activism in Brazil: A Talk by Assistant Professor Joana de Souza
Machado
Professor Mark Tushnet and the Brazilian Studies Association will host
Assistant Professor Joana de Souza Machado of Brazil’s Federal University
of Juiz de Fora Law School. She will speak on “Judicial Activism in Brazil:
Law and Politics between Openness and Closure.”
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Milstein West B
*Event title:*
Data usage by Big Government: What we are doing, what can be done and the
privacy concerns for the next few years.
*Event description:*
We are going to discuss one major point here: what are the limits between
the data gathering by the governments to develop public policies and the
privacy of the citizens. To illustrate the discussions, we are going to
briefly describe two big data project in Brazil: the Supremo em Números
(Supreme Court in Numbers) and the Big Data Team - PENSA of the Rio de
Janeiro City Hall.
The first one is a typical civic hacking project, developed in the
academia, to capture and analyze more than 1.2 million cases from the
Brazilian Supreme Court website. We are going to see how those data were
used to improve the quality of the public services and the consequent
results already achieved, like a proposal of amendment of the Brazilian
Constitution. The second case we are going to present is the Big Data Team
- PENSA, of the Rio de Janeiro City Hall, and the public policies which are
being developed with the gathering and the analysis of large data sets,
like Waze reports, buses' GPSs and Call Detail Records - CDRs from mobile
phones, among others.
Finally, considering what the governments are already doing and what can be
done in the next few years, we are going to discuss what would be the ideal
regulatory framework to, at the same same, allow a responsible data usage
by the governments and how it could be done without affect the privacy of
the citizens.
*Speaker:*
Pablo Cerdeira
*Law professor at FGV DIREITO RIO. Chief Data Officer at Rio de Janeiro
City Hall. *
*Time and location:*
Harvard Law School
Hauser 102
Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014
12pm-1pm
*Sponsor:*
HLS Brazilian Studies Association
*Lunch will be served.*
The Brazilian Studies Association and Human Rights Program invite you for
the event
Contemporary Challenges in Defending and Promoting Human Rights in Brazil
Please join us to listen to Ms. Valdênia Paulino - who is a Human rights
activist in Brazil, holds a Master's degree in social welfare law and is a
former Police Ombudsman - talk about human rights activism in São Paulo,
Brazil and her fight against injustice (The lecture will be held in
Portuguese with informal simultaneous translation into English).
Pizza and drinks will be served.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Harvard Law School
1585 Massachusetts Avenue
Lewis International Law Center, Room 102
Harvard Law School Brazilian Studies Association invites for the talk
Transitional Justice in Brazil
Raquel Dodge, Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Federal Public
Prosecutor's Office in Brazil, will speak about her experience in
prosecuting former dictatorship officials following the Inter-American
Court of Human Rights.
January 13, 12pm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, room 5050
1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA
Please bring your own lunch.