Brazil Studies

2023 Apr 26

The Brazilian Domestic Workers' Movement: Past and Present Struggles for Racial, Gender, and Economic Justice

12:00pm to 1:30pm


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Speakers: Joaze Bernardino-Costa, Professor of Sociology, Universidade de Brasília; Creuza Maria de Oliveira, President, Sindoméstico, the domestic workers' union of Bahia, Former Coordinator, FENATRAD; Luiza Batista Pereira, Coordinator, Federação Nacional das Trabalhadoras Domésticas (FENATRAD); Meg Weeks, PhD candidate in History, Harvard
Moderated by:...

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2023 Apr 18

Haddad Distinguished Lecture: Arminio Fraga

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium

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Speaker: Arminio Fraga, Founding Partner, Gavea Investimentos

The Haddad Distinguished Lecture was established in honor of Claudio Haddad, Chair of the DRCLAS Brazil Office Advisory Group since 2006, and President and founder of Insper, a leading not-for-profit business and economics school in Brazil. The inaugural Haddad Distinguished Lecture will be delivered by renowned Brazilian economist Arminio Fraga....

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2022 Nov 30
2022 Nov 14

Film Screening: "Out of Breath" & Discussion with Director, Helena Lemos Petta

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

S216, CGIS South

Speaker: Helena Lemos Petta, Lemann Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS
Moderated by: Erin Goodman, Director of the Weatherhead Scholars Program, Harvard University

Join us for this in-person film screening of "Out of Breath" (Brazil, 2022, 81'), about public health workers in marginalized areas of Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic, awarded the Best Documentary in the Brazilian Competition of the 2022 It's All True International Documentary Film Festival. "Out of Breath" is also running for the OSCARS in the Best Documentary...

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2022 Oct 20

Indigenous diplomacy: participation and the agenda of the Indigenous Peoples at the UN

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, Belfer (S-020)

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Speaker: Diego Tituaña, Kichwa Otavalo diplomat from Ecuador who served at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations from 2014 to 2019 and was in charge of human rights, disarmament, and international security agendas
Commentators:...

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2022 Sep 30

Seminar Series on Afro-Latin American Studies with Poliana da Silva Ferreira

12:00pm to 2:00pm


This event will be hybrid and will take place in Portuguese. To register for virtual click here. For in-person, go to 104 Mount Auburn Street 3R.

Speaker: Poliana da Silva Ferreira, Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School

Moderator: Yanilda González, Assistant Professor of...

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