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The Harvard Law School Brazilian Studies Association is thrilled to invite you to the V Brazil Legal Symposium at Harvard Law School, scheduled for April 13 and 14, with a kickoff event on April 5. Renowned practitioners, policymakers, and scholars will gather at Harvard Law School to discuss...

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How can research contribute to the reduction of state violence and to the promotion of human rights and justice? This full day workshop will feature presentations from academic and community researchers about innovative participatory research projects on state violence in Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico. Panels and discussions will identify the distinctive challenges that state violence poses for the...

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The largest conference about Brazil organized by Brazilian Students, researchers, and professors. The mission is to create a diverse space for debate, the development of ideas about the future of Brazil, and the promotion of transformative actions.

Presented in collaboration with the Harvard Undergraduate Brazilian Association.

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The largest conference about Brazil organized by Brazilian Students, researchers, and professors. The mission is to create a diverse space for debate, the development of ideas about the future of Brazil, and the promotion of transformative actions.

Presented in collaboration with the Harvard Undergraduate Brazilian Association.

This event will be held in Portuguese.

This event will explore the role of literature as a “source” for historical and sociological interpretation of race in post-abolition Brazil. A central question arises when considering the analysis of this crucial phase in the formation of Brazilian society, which grapples with the scarcity of oral narratives or written testimonies produced by free or enslaved Black individuals who experienced the end of slavery. This paper aims to address this gap by examining how two Afro-Brazilian writers, Astolfo Marques (1876-1918) and...

The journey towards justice and reparations in the wake of the tailings dam failures in Brumadinho and Mariana has been arduous and protracted, marked by legal battles, environmental concerns, and demands for accountability. The legal process has been complex and international, with lawsuits filed against the companies for negligence, environmental violations, and human rights abuses in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Efforts to secure reparations for victims, including compensation for loss of life, livelihoods, and environmental remediation, have been met with challenges,...

Since the Fundão and Córrego do Feijão dams collapsed in 2015 and 2019, respectively, local communities and the mining companies responsible for the catastrophes have battled over the causes of the failures as well as the control of impacted territories. Brazilian journalism professor André Luís Carvalho will share his experiences working with citizen journalists in affected communities to co-create and maintain media platforms to preserve memory and denounce violations. 

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In 2015, the Samarco-operated Fundão dam collapsed in the municipality of Mariana, Brazil, unleashing a tsunami of nearly two billion cubic feet of mineral waste onto downstream communities. Over the course of 20 days, the waste traveled over 370 miles downriver, contaminating waterways and destroying almost 1,600 acres of vegetation. Nineteen people died and more than 600 families lost their homes. Brazilian economist Mônica Viegas will share the results of her 2021 study to estimate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) losses among affected communities. 

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This seminar is part of the Thursday Brown Bag Series, at the Department of Global Health and Population at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The series features current research of members and affiliates of GHP. The intent is to educate and raise the awareness of our community and beyond, about the research activities presently being conducted by faculty, students, researchers, and special guests of the department.

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This is a hybrid event. If you wish to join virtually, please register on Zoom

Latin America has been at the forefront of judicialization of a right to a healthy environment. Courts in different countries have curbed burning and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, as well as the expansion of wind farms in Mexico; they have ordered the clean-up of river basins in Argentina and ordered the protection of...

This workshop, open to scholars of any disciplinary background and geographic area, will focus on the challenges of historical work (broadly defined) in police archives. Based on research experiences with documentary collections of different police forces in South America and Southern Europe, it will attempt to discuss the connections between methodological strategies and historiographical problems. Police archives have been used extensively in the history of crime, marginality, state surveillance practices, political policing, and the repression of the labor movement...

At the turn of the twentieth century, several financial crises resulted in extreme illiquidity and retraction of bank credit. Such a situation created opportunities for the activities of counterfeiters and the formation of criminal networks that circulated across the Atlantic as part of larger circuits of migration connecting Europe with the Americas. National agencies sought to limit the action of local authorities – who were often suspected of negligence and even complicity with counterfeiters – and built collaborations with police from other countries.

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Data, infographics, and technical reports cannot communicate the trauma suffered by communities impacted by tailings dam collapses. Though the failures of the Samarco-operated Fundão dam in 2015 and Vale´s Córrego do Feijão dam in 2019 are years in the past, local communities in Brazil are still reeling. Many continue to suffer from post-traumatic stress, the loss of loved ones, contaminated drinking water, and the impunity of those responsible for the dam failures. Join us to learn what justice, reconciliation, and reparations looks like for impacted communities.  

Join us for a screening of "Ironland" (Brazil, 2021, 99'), a film by Lucas Bambozzi about how extractivism – and massive mining catastrophes – have shaped the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais and its inhabitants. The screening will...