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NOVEMBER
Boston Area Latin American History Workshop and Brazil Studies Workshop: Rethinking Migration
from the Brazilian Northeast to the Amazon: Historical Trends from World War II
Seth Garfield, Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas, Austin.
Author of Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante
Indians, 1937-1988.
Date: Wednesday, November 5
Conversa: Challenges to the access of Education in Brazil
Date: Thursday, November 13
Conversa with Claudio de Moura Castro, President of the Advisory Council of Faculdade Pitágoras and
Rafael Martinez, Vice-secretary of Education for the State of Rio de Janeiro. Moderated by Fernando
Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education and Director of Global Education and of
International Education Policy at Harvard University.
Special Seminar: Political Outlook in Brazil
Speaker: David Fleischer, Professor, Institute of Political Science at the Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
Date: Monday, November 17, 2008
Film Series: The Sound of Brazil: Brasileirinho (2005)
Directed by Mika Kaurismäki
Date: Tuesday, November 18
Presented by the Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS and the Harvard Brazilian Organization
DECEMBER
Film Series: Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business (1995)
Directed by Helena Solberg
Date: Tuesday, December 2
Presented by the Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS and the Harvard Brazilian Organization
Book Presentation: Becoming Brazuca
David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies, Harvard University Press, 2008.
Date: Friday, December 5, 2008
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Migration
Immigrant Incorporation Workshop and is generously supported by the Jorge Paulo Lemann Fund.
Special Seminar: Strategies to Combat Deforestation in the Amazon: What Have Twenty Years of
Experience Taught Us?
Speaker: Joao Paulo Capobianco, Visiting Scholar, Columbia University; Assistant Secretary for Forestry
and Conservation, Brazil.
Date: Monday, December 8, 2008
This event is co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard University
Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Conversa: Art and Politics in Brazil from the 1940s to the 1970s
Date: Thursday, December 11
Conversa with Claudia Calirman, Lemann Visiting scholar at DRCLAS and lecturer at both MoMA and
the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Marcio Siwi, Fellow for the Brazil Studies Program at
DRCLAS. Moderated by Jose Luis Falconi, Art Forum Curator, David Rockefeller Center for Latin
American Studies.
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