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2020 May 22

Lynchings in Brazil: Race, Social Control and Justice (1850-1930)

12:00pm to 1:15pm

This event is virtual. To register, please click here. 

Speaker: Ricardo Pirola, Professor, UNICAMP, Brazil; Visiting Fellow, ALARI

Ricardo Pirola is professor of Brazilian History at UNICAMP – Brazil. He is author of Escravos e rebeldes no tribunais do Império (2015 – Winner of National Archive Prize - Brazil) and Senzala Insurgente (...

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2020 May 18

The Amazon and COVID-19: The Present and Future of the Crisis in the Forest

11:00am to 12:15pm

This event is virtual. To register, please click here. 

Speakers: Natalie Unterstell. Especialista em política socioambiental. Diretora, Talanoa Think Tank; Louis Bacon Environmental Leadership Fellow no Centro para Liderança Pública, Universidade Harvard (2016); Fabiano Maisonnave. Jornalista. Correspondente para Amazônia, Folha de São Paulo; Fellow, Fundação Nieman para Jornalismo,...

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Public Health Considerations for a Rapidly Changing World: An Interview with Professor Marcia Castro

June 26, 2018

By Ashley Collins—São Paulo.

Marcia Castro is a professor of demography in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. She was recently promoted to the role of full professor and is the first Brazilian woman to receive tenure at Harvard. Professor Castro’s research focuses on the relationship between urbanization and health, as well as the social and environmental factors that contribute to the spread of vector-borne diseases.

Congratulations on your recent promotion to the role of tenured...

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DRCLAS announces Clémence Jouët-Pastré Brazil Travel Fellowship

January 19, 2020

The Clémence Jouët-Pastré Brazil Travel Fellowship is intended to enable undergraduates or graduating seniors to pursue a transformational experience in Brazil. Inspired by the memory of Clémence Jouët-Pastré, who as Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures opened the doors for hundreds of Harvard students to study and experience Brazil, the Fellowship award can be utilized to support research, language study, volunteer work and/or independent projects spanning any field or topic. Preference will be given to candidates who demonstrate a deep understanding of Brazilian...

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2020 Apr 14

Brazil's Education Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

2:00pm to 3:30pm

Location: 

Zoom Webinar

This event is virtual. To register for this event, please click here.

Speakers: Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education; Director, Global Education Innovation Initiatve, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Claudia Costin, Director, Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education Policies (FGV) Global Commission on the...

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2020 Apr 14

O que o coronavírus revela sobre as cidades brasileiras? Favelas e assentamentos informais, até quando?

11:30am to 12:45pm

Location: 

Zoom Webinar

Speaker: Washington Fajardo, Arquiteto e Urbanista; Harvard DRCLAS Visiting Researcher

Moderator: Philip Yang, Fundador do Urbem – Instituto de Urbanismo e Estudos para a Metrópole; Membro do Conselho Consultivo do Harvard-Brazil Office

Washington Fajardo é arquiteto e urbanista pela FAU-UFRJ ’96, e dedica-se ao desenvolvimento urbano. Autor de projetos de reabilitação, habitação social, urban design e espaços culturais. Ex-presidente do Instituto Rio Patrimônio da Humanidade (2009-2016) implementou...

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2017 Sep 25

Harvard-Brazil Dialogues: Policy Roundtable: Making Education Relevant

2:30pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Instituto Singularidades - R. Dep. Lacerda Franco, 88 - Pinheiros, São Paulo - SP

At the time of his book launching, One Student at a Time. Leading the Global Education Movement, Professor Fernando Reimers will facilitate a discussion of the role of education leaders in enhancing the relevance of education and the challenges of collective leadership.

The conversation will be divided in two parts and participants are welcome to attend one or both sessions.  Professor Manuel Palacios, from the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora and Teca Pontual, Director of Curriculum at the Ministry of Education...

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