2019 Jan 31
Gallery talk with artist Clarissa Tossin: Future Fossil
2:00pm
Location: 
8 Garden Street, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall
Speaker: Clarissa Tossin, Radcliffe fellow in 2017–2018
Clarissa Tossin expands upon her fellowship project with a newly commissioned exhibition that considers the ecology of an uncertain future. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s science fiction trilogy Xenogenesis (1989), in which the Amazon becomes the site for a new civilization of alien-human hybrids, Tossin speculates upon a postapocalyptic world following ecological collapse. Pairing DIY plastic recycling techniques with the materials and practices of Amazonian aesthetic...
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2019 Jan 31
Lecture by Marcia Lima: "Narratives on race and gender in the Brazilian elections"
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
104 Mt. Auburn Street 3R, Seminar Room
The purpose of this lecture is to present - from the perspective on race and gender studies - how the representations of these social markers were mobilized in the 2018 elections, especially the presidential election. The dispute between leading candidates demonstrated that the public debate around...
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2018 Nov 29
Between the Dam and the Text - An Eco-critical Reading of Brazil's Belo Monte Dam
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Leila Lehnen, Associate Professor and Chair, Brown University
Moderator: Bruno Carvalho, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Leila Lehnen is Associate professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. She specializes in contemporary Brazilian literature. Her thematic areas of research include the representation of citizenship, human rights, social justice in literary and cultural production. Her book Citizenship and Crisis in Contemporary...
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2018 Nov 29
LGBTQ+ Rights in the Americas: Local and Transnational Challenges
12:00pm
Location: 
Pound Hall 101, 1563 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138

2018 Nov 19
Bolsonaro's Brazil: What Happened and What Will Happen?
4:15pm to 5:45pm
Location: 
John F. Kennedy School of Government - Littauer Building, Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor
Speaker: Ambassador Clifford Sobel, former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil from 2006-2009, will discuss the recent elections in Brazil with Professor Nicholas Burns.
RSVP required. Open to Harvard faculty, fellows, staff, and students. Coffee and cookies will be served.
Ambassador Clifford Sobel, former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil from 2006-2009, will discuss the recent elections in Brazil and what this means for the future of the country with Professor Nicholas Burns.
Ambassador Clifford Sobel is a currently a Senior Partner at...
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2018 Nov 14
Present at the Creation… Again: The President, American Foreign Policy, and the World to Be
4:15pm to 5:45pm
Location: 
Taubman Building, Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor
The Future of Diplomacy Project is hosting a seminar with Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, Ambassador Thomas Shannon, Jr. who will speak about his experience from inside the State Department in the first year of President Trump's presidency and about current American foreign policy. Ambassador Shannon was U.S. Ambassador to Brazil from 2010-2013 and was also Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs from 2005 to 2009.
This event is open to the public. Coffee and cookies will be served.
For more...
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2018 Nov 13
Lawyers, Guns, and Money: Brazilian State Formation in Comparative Perspective
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Anthony Pereira, Director, King's Brazil Institute, King's College London 
The Brazilian state in the 21st century appears to be a curious combination of high and low capacity. For example, it collects roughly 35 percent of GDP in tax revenue and coordinates the commanding heights of the economy in the service of domestic industry and export promotion. It also has sophisticated agencies at the central level to administer social policy, and robust accountability institutions. But it appears to be a low capacity state when it comes to the...
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2018 Nov 08
Developing and Testing an Attenuated Tetravalent Vaccine Against Dengue
1:05pm to 1:50pm
Location: 
GHP Building 1 Room 1208, Harvard School of Public Health
Speaker: Jorge Kalil, 2018-2019 CAPES Distinguished Visiting Professor, Harvard University; Professor and Head of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of Sao Paulo
There are over 300 million cases of dengue worldwide per year. Some are serious and even fatal. The disease burden occurs in tropical and subtropical areas, including Florida. There is no treatment and the licensed vaccine does not provide the proper protection. NIH, in collaboration with Brazilian institutions, has been developing a tetravalent attenuated dengue vaccine. Brazil is...
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2018 Nov 08
Popular Revolts, Citizenship and State Building in 19th Century Brazil
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Monica D. Dantas, Ruth Cardoso Visiting Associate Professor, Columbia University; Associate Professor, Brazilian Studies Institute and Social History Graduate Program, University of São Paulo
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
Contrary to what has been repeated for the past decades, Brazil’s Second Reign was not an age of peace and tranquility. If historians have duly recorded the great number of rebellions and upheavals that rattled the country...
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2018 Nov 01
What was Dangerous About it? The Formation and Subversion of a Brazilian Androgynous Group (1972-1975)
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S030, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Benito Bisso Schmidt, PhD in History, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP); Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
The talk discusses the career of the Brazilian androgynous group called Dzi Croquettes and the threat they posed to the Brazilian dictatorship.
Benito Bisso Schmidt was born in Cruz Alta, in southern Brazil, in 1970. He has been a professor at the...
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2018 Oct 22
Environmental Health Capacity Building In Latin America
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Building 1, Room 1302, Boston
Presenters:
Douglas Dockery, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Research Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Rick Rogers, Principal Research Scientist, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Ramon Sanchez, Director, Sustainable Technologies and Health Program, Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE), Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan...
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2018 Oct 16
The 2018 Elections in Brazil
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S020, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speakers: Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazil Studies, Faculty Co-chair of the Harvard Brazil Studies Program; Fernando Bizzarro, Graduate Student Affiliate, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University
Moderator: Steve Levitsky,  Professor of Government at Harvard University.  
After experiencing the world's largest corruption scandal and the country's worst economic crisis, Brazilians voted in what many have called "the most important elections since...
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2018 Oct 04
Panel: "Challenges to Democracy in Big Middle Income Countries: Brazil, India, South Africa"
4:30pm to 6:15pm
Location: 
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Lower Level Conference Room
Speakers: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University; Tariq Thachil, Associate Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University; Evan Lieberman, Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa, MIT
Over the last decade, developments in Russia, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, Thailand, Venezuela and elsewhere have raised concerns about a global democratic recession. Although the number of democracies in the world has remained stable, the crisis of Western liberal democracies and the rise of...
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2018 Oct 04
The Necessity of Fiction in Today's Brazil
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Beatriz Bracher, writer
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
In 2018, Brazil finds itself torn to pieces, and inundated by the deafening roar of militancies and their drones. Under these conditions, it is necessary to reconstruct and protect a space for silence and doubt. A space where certainties might be betrayed: fiction.
Beatriz Bracher (São Paulo, 1961), graduated in Literature and Writing, was the editor of the...
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2018 Sep 27
Political Appointments in Brazil
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Felix Lopez, Researcher, Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea)
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
The lecture presents general results from different research questions about political appointments -- the appointee’s yearly turnover and survival, the role of the President and the role of the political parties in filling the top-level positions -- and connects these results with a discussion about the prospects for a more efficient...
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2018 Sep 21
Ash Community Speaker Series: What to Watch for in Brazil's Upcoming Election Date
12:00pm
Location: 
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Join Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor for Brazil Studies at Harvard Kennedy School; Mariana Batista, Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco in the Department of Political Science; and Fernando Bizzarro, Graduate Student at Harvard University, Government Department; for a discussion about the upcoming October elections in Brazil. 
Lunch will be served. 
The Ash Community Speaker Series features discussions with students,...
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2018 Sep 20
Roberto Burle Marx, Landscape and Chromatic Relationships
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Gareth Doherty, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Program, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
"It is not sufficient to plan for appropriate green areas; it is necessary to understand them in relation to the urban landscape." —Roberto Burle Marx
Gareth Doherty is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at...
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2018 Sep 13
Brazil Studies Program Seminar Series: Power-Sharing, Presidential Style: Brazilian Coalition Politics in Comparative Perspective
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Mariana Batista, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Federal University of Pernambuco; Visiting Fellow, Harvard University
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
How presidents coalesce in multiparty systems? This talk explores the role of issue salience in presidential power-sharing strategies, showing how they keep control over policy while coalition partners get control over particularistic expenditures.
Mariana Batista...
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2018 Sep 06
2018 Welcome and Welcome Back
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street

Junte-se a toda a comunidade brasileira de Harvard – incluindo alunos, pesquisadores e professores – na nossa confraternização de boas-vindas! Este encontro informal será uma ótima oportunidade para nos aproximarmos e integrarmos nossos...
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2018 May 18

Lown Scholars Program: Seminar with Dr. Paulo Lotufo : Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard School of Public Health, Building 1, 12th floor, Room 1208, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston

Speaker: Dr. Paulo Lotufo, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical and Epidemiologic Research at the University of São Paulo and a Lown Scholar at HSPH 

ELSA-Brasil study's analyses of noncommunicable diseases in a racially admixed population, covering racial distribution of nutritional pattern, cardiometabolic profile, renal dysfunction, mental health disorders, and less-studied conditions.

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