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...
Speaker: Kacey Carter, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government at Harvard University and the Faculty Chair of the Brazil Studies Program
Speakers: Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Affiliated Professor in African and African American Studies; Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the GSD; Rafael Marengoni, Architect and Urbanist; Masters Candidate in Architecture of Urban...
Speaker: Eduardo Viola, Professor of International Relations, University of Brasilia; Senior Researcher of the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government...
Speaker: Rodrigo R. Soares, Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs, Affiliated Professor of Economics, Columbia University - PhD University of Chicago, MA PUC-Rio, BA UFMG
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann...
Speakers: Mariana Cavalcanti, Urban Anthropologist and Professor in the Institute of Social and Political Studies at the State University of Rio de Janeiro; Geri Augusto, Gerard Visiting Associate Professor of International & Public Affairs and Africana Studies and Watson Institute Faculty Fellow at Brown University
Speaker: Monica Martinez-Bravo, Associate Professor at CEMFI; Associate Visiting Professor MIT
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government at Harvard University and the Faculty Chair of the Brazil Studies Program
This paper studies the effects of local political concentration on long-run economic development in Brazil. Contrary to what is observed in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Speaker: Kacey Carter, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Speakers: Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Affiliated Professor in African and African American Studies; Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the GSD; Rafael Marengoni, Architect and Urbanist; Masters Candidate in Architecture of Urban...
Speaker: Felix Lopez, Researcher, Brazilian Institute of Applied Economic Research
Speaker: Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Senior Advisor, World Bank; Institute of Labor Economics
Speaker: Eduardo Viola, Professor of International Relations, University of Brasilia; Senior Researcher of the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development
Speaker: Guadalupe Tuñón, Academy Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Speaker: Rodrigo R. Soares, Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs, Affiliated Professor of Economics, Columbia University - PhD University of Chicago, MA PUC-Rio, BA UFMG
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...