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Speaker: Helena Lemos Petta, Lemann Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS
Moderated by: Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Chair,...

Speaker: Sandra Kogut, Filmmaker and Radcliffe-Film Study Center Fellow, Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Moderated by: Joana Pimenta, Filmmaker and Interim Director, Film Study Center, Harvard University

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Speaker: João Paulo Cuenca, Writer and Filmmaker
Moderated by: Lucas Mertehikian, PhD Candidate, Harvard University

Argentine-Brazilian writer and filmmaker João Paulo Cuenca will read segments from his latest book "I Found Out I Was Dead" as well as discuss the creative process for his next book.

João Paulo Cuenca is a Argentine-Brazilian writer and filmmaker born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the author of six books and some of his novels have been translated into eight languages. “I found out I...

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Speakers: Josemeire Alves Pereira, Professor, FLACSO- Brasil; Maria Cristina Cabral, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Sol Camacho, Architect and former Director of Instituto Bardi (2017-2021) ; Sabrina Fontenele, Cultural Director, Brazilian Institute of Architects; José Lira, Professor of...

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Speakers: Marília Gallmeister, Scenic Architect and member of Teatro Oficina since 2011; Lucas Weglinski, Actor and Filmmaker, one of the two directors of “Desire Machine”; Patricio del Real, Associate Professor at...

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Speaker: Maria Marighella, City Council member of Salvador, Bahia; Carlos Marighella's grandaughter
Moderated by: Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History and African and African-American Studies, Harvard University
Discussants: Cristiane Soares, Senior Preceptor in Portuguese, Harvard University and Eduarda Araujo, P.h.D. candidate...

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Speakers: Claudia Mattos Avolese, Associate Professor, UNICAMP; Naine Terena, Artist, Art-educator, and Professor, Catholic University in Mato Grosso

Moderated by: Ana Laura Malmaceda, PhD student in Romance Languages, Harvard University

One of the most exciting developments in Brazilian art and art history today is...

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Speakers: Renée Nader Messora, Filmmaker; and João Salaviza, Filmmaker
Moderated by: Ana Laura Malmaceda, PhD student in Romance Languages, Harvard University

A conversation with filmmaker Renée Nader Messora and João Salaviza on their latest feature-length film, The Dead and the Others (Chuva é Cantoria na Aldeia dos Mortos). The movie will be offered for free through streaming two days before the event to pre-registered participants. This event is part of the DRCLAS Film Series The Present of Yesterday, curated by...

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DRCLAS staff will be holding office hours the day after our In-House Open House to discuss...

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Join us as we welcome our new faculty director, Steven Levitsky!

Professor Levitsky will be joined by Marcia Castro, co-chair of the Brazil Studies Program and Alejandro de la Fuente, chair of the Cuba Studies Program to discuss ongoing and upcoming initiatives in three priority areas for 2020-21: challenges to democracy, the impact...

Speaker: Petra Costa, Filmmaker and Director of "The Edge of Democracy"

Description: A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis, the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic...

Speaker: Anna More, Professor, Universidade de Brasília

Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

The sixteenth- and seventeenth-century slave trade was predominantly Iberian, with the Portuguese controlling much of...

Angélica Freitas (Pelotas, Brazil, 1973) is the author of two books of poetry, Rilke shake (Phoneme Press), translated by Hilary Kaplan and winner of the Best Translated Book Award and of the National Translation Award in 2016, and Um útero é do tamanho de um punho...

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Presented in collaboration with the Harvard Film Archive and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Film screening of Vazante (2017) with director Daniela Thomas. A critically acclaimed tragedy set in early 19th century colonial Brazil.