| Brazil Studies at The Graduate Center |
Upcoming Lectures and Events:
"Ethanol: An Alternative Fuel for the Western Hemisphere?"
Location: 9204- 9205
Date: November 2, 2007
Time: 4 PM
"Lula's Second Term (2007-2010): Achievements and Prospects"
Location: C204- C205 (Concourse Level)
Date: November 29, 2007
Time: 4 PM
Past Lectures/ Events:
Learned Societies in Portuguese America: Cosmopolitan Enlightenment
Prof. Iris Kantor, University of São Paulo
- USP (Brazil)
(Included in the Seminar - Special Topics in Brazilian Literature I:
“Cosmopolitan Discourse in Brazilian and Latin American Literatures”)
WHEN: Thursday, March 1, 2007 - 4:15 pm
WHERE: Room 4422
Ancien Régime in the Tropics? A Debate concerning the Political Model of the Iberian Empires
Prof. Antônio Manuel Hespanha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
(Included in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Ph. D. Program Lecture Series and the Brazil Project of the Bildner Center)
WHEN: Thursday, March 15, 7:00 pm
WHERE: Room C202
“Madame Satã”, a film by Karim Ainouz
(Included in the Latino and Latin American Students Association - AELLA Movie Nights)
WHEN: Thursday, March 15, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
WHERE: Room 5414 (DSC Lounge)
Relecturas letradas de lo popular:
La música en la obra de Alejo Carpentier (Cuba) y Mário
de Andrade (Brasil)
Prof. Mareia Quintero Rivera, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río
Piedras
(Included in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Ph. D. Program Lecture
Series.)
WHEN: March 16, 2007 - 6:00 pm
WHERE: Room 4102
Twelfth Annual Graduate Student's Conference (March 23-24)
The Ph. D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages
------Friday, March 23, 10:00 A.M. - 10:00 P.M.
------Keynote Speech - "Brazil under Women's Gaze: Contemporary Fiction."
------6:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. - Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
------Prof. Lidia Santos (Graduate Center, CUNY)
------Saturday, March 24, 1:30 P.M. - 4.40 P.M.
Registering Samba-de-Roda. Music and Politics on Intangible Heritage in Brazil
Prof. Carlos Sandroni, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (Brazil) and Visiting Tinker Professor at University of Texas, Austin (Spring 2007)
(Included in the Music Forum of the Music Ph.D. Program. Co-Sponsored by the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature and Language Ph.D. Program)
WHEN: Friday, March 30, 4:00 P.M.
WHERE: Room 3491
Round Table
Writers Vladimir Sorokin (Russia), Abela Farhoud (Lebanon / Québec), Dorota Maslowska (Poland) and José Luís Peixoto (Portugal).
(Included in the PEN World Voices Festival [table I])
WHEN: Thursday, April 26, 1:00 – 2:30 pm
WHERE: Martin E. Segal Theater Center
Round Table
Writers Michel Vinaver (France) and Patrícia Melo (Brasil).
(Included in the PEN World Voices Festival [table II])
WHEN: Thursday, April 26, 3:00 – 5:00 pm
WHERE: Martin E. Segal Theater Center
“Apocalyptic Imagination and Dynamics of Abjection in Contemporary Brazilian Literature: the André Sant'anna's Work.”
Prof. Ângela Dias, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil) and Fulbright Fellow in Brown University.
(Included in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages Ph.D. Programs Seminar Special Topics in Brazilian Literature I)
WHEN: Thursday, April 26, 5:15 pm
WHERE: Room 4422
“Gilberto Freyre in the Globalized Brazil.”
Prof. Ângela Dias, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil) and Fulbright Fellow in Brown University.
(Included in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Ph. D. Program Lecture Series)
WHEN: Friday, April 27, 6:00 pm
WHERE: Room 4102
Round Table
Prof. Desmond Arias, Associate Professor of Government, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY.
“The Convergence of Social Policy and Security in Brazilian Shanty Towns”
Prof. Mauricio Font, Director of the Bildner Center and Professor of Sociology, The Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY.
“Social Development in Brazil: A Long-Term Perspective”
Included in the events of The Brazil Project of the Bildner Center.
WHEN: Tuesday, May 8, 4:00 pm
WHERE: Room 9206
