Brazil Studies

2022 Mar 30

Mapping the Megacity: Understanding Urban Change in São Paulo through Historical GIS

12:00pm to 1:00pm


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Speaker: Dan McDonald, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humanities Center at the University of Rochester
Respondent: Alyssa Huberts, PhD candidate in the Government at Harvard University

HMUI Urban Conversations aim to pair visiting scholars with Harvard faculty or graduate students as...

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2022 Apr 14

Gender Nonconforming Activism in Brazil Today

12:00pm to 1:20pm


This event is virtual and will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation to Portuguese. To register click here.

Speakers: Alvaro Jarrín, Lisa Goldberg Fellow, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross; Moises Lino e Silva, Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Federal University of Bahia
Moderated by:...

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2022 Apr 05

Health Justice in the Americas: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

12:30pm


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Introduction: Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center; Laura Clérico, Independent Researcher, Argentine National Scientific and Technical Council (CONICET), Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Buenos Aires, and Honorary...

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2021 Oct 29

Why Biodiversity Matters: Plants and Animals Across Natural Systems in Brazil

10:00am to 11:30am


Speakers: Christine Bacon, Associated Professor, Gothenburg University; Alex Antonelli, Professor, Gothenburg University & Director of Science, Kew Gardens; Gregory Thom, Postdoctoral Fellow, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH); Fernanda Werneck, Associate Researcher & Curator at INPA; Diego Vaz, Postdoctoral Reseacher, MCZ & OEB
Moderated by: Naomi E Pierce, OEB & Curator of Lepidoptera, MCZ; Scott V Edwards, OEB &...

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2021 Oct 15

Why Biodiversity Matters: Science and Society in Brazil

3:00pm to 5:00pm


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Introduction and Moderation: Scott V. Edwards, Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Curator of Ornithology, Museum of Comparative Zoology

Speakers: Naomi E. Pierce, Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Lepidoptera, Museum of Comparative Zoology...

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2021 Oct 08

Why Biodiversity Matters: Discovering and Describing Novel Species in Brazil

3:00pm to 4:30pm


Speakers: Gonzalo Giribet, Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; João Tonini, Postdoctoral Fellow, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; Cristina Miyaki, Professor of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, University of São Paulo; Tiago Simões, Postdoctoral Fellow, Museum of...

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2021 Oct 15

ALARI Seminar Series with Nohora Arrieta: Poéticas amargas: estéticas y políticas de la plantación de azúcar en Brasil y el Caribe (1990-2018)

12:00pm to 2:00pm


This event is virtual and will be held in Spanish.  This event is virtual, to register click here.

Speaker: Nohora Arrieta Fernandez, 2020-2021 ALARI Research Associate; PhD Candidate in Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Georgetown University; CLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion fellow (2020-2021)

La plantación de azúcar ha sido una...

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2021 Oct 05

Disruptions to Educational Opportunity in Latin America: Primary and Secondary Education During Covid-19

9:00am to 10:15am


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Speakers: Cristián Bellei, Associate Researcher, Center for Advanced Research in Education, and Professor of Sociology, University of Chile; Sergio Cárdenas, Professor of Public Administration, CIDE; Antonio Madero-Fundación México en Harvard Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS, Harvard University; Claudia Costin, Founder and Director, Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education...

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2021 Dec 01

Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas

4:00pm to 5:30pm


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Speaker: Stephen Kaplan, Associate Professor of Political Science and Economic Affairs, George Washington University

This book explores how China’s state-led capitalism affects national level governance. China, as the world’s largest saver, has more than doubled its overseas banking presence since the 2008 global financial crisis...

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2021 Oct 13

Language Endangerment And Language Vitality In The Brazilian Amazon: The Experience Of The Tuparí And Other Native Peoples Of The Rio Branco Indigenous Territory

6:00pm to 7:30pm


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Speaker: Adam Roth Singerman, Harvard University

Adam Singerman received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 2018. His dissertation and subsequent research have focused on the grammar of Tuparí, an Indigenous language spoken by between 350 and 400 people in the Brazilian...

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2021 Sep 28

Rethinking Malaria in the Context of COVID–19: Malaria Governance, Integrated Service Delivery, Training & Capacity Building for Malaria

Repeats every day until Wed Sep 29 2021 .
9:00am to 11:30am

9:00am to 11:30am


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In keeping with a longstanding academic tradition, multidisciplinary perspectives from diverse stakeholders and discussants will be offered in a neutral and inclusive learning environment during this 2-day, public webinar. Q&A will be available during portions of the proceedings for broader engagement. Together, we will identify and discuss actions—including some of...

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