Brazil Studies at The Graduate Center

Brazil Project Lectures and Events

2008:

"Zezo Ribeiro: Sounds from Brazil"

Location: Elebash Recital Hall

Date: October 6, 2008

Time: 4:45 PM

"Sao Paulo: Brazil's Global Megalopolis"

Location: Segal Theatre

Date: September 2, 2008

Time: 4:00 PM

"Brazil and the Geopolitics of Energy in the Americas"

Location: Room 9204/9205

Date: June 24, 2008

Time: 4:00 PM

"Affirmative Action in the Land of Racial Democracy: Analysis and Comparison"

Location: President's Conference Room (Room 8201)

Date: April 28 , 2008

Time: 3:00 PM

2007:

"Ethanol: An Alternative Fuel for the Western Hemisphere?"

Location: 9204-9205

Date: November 2, 2007

Time: 4:00 PM

"Lula's Second Term (2007-2010): Achievements and Prospects"

Location: C204- C205 (Concourse Level)

Date: November 29, 2007

Time: 4:00 PM

Brazil Project: "New Directions in Brazilian Social Development"
Location: Rooms 9206-9207
Date: May 8, 2007
Time: 4:00-6:00 P.M.

"Civil Society and Equitable Development in Brazil:

Conselho de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social"

Location: President's Office

Date: September 26, 2007

Time: 4 P.M.

"Decentralization and Good Governance in Brazil:
Challenges and Opportunities"
H.E. Luiz Henrique da Silveira, Governor of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Location: Room 9207
Date: April 26, 2007
Time: 4:00-6:00 P.M.

Fighting Poverty in Brazil
"Bolsa Família: The New Income Transfer Program in Brazil"
Location: Rooms 9204-9205
Date: February 14, 2007
Time: 5:00-7:00 P.M.

CONFERENCE: Energy Issues and Strategies in the Western Hemisphere
Location: The Graduate Center

Date: January 12, 2007

 

Previous Graduate Center 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, New Directions in Brazilian Social Development
“The Convergence of Social Policy and Security in Brazilian ShantyTowns”
Prof. Desmond Arias, Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
“Social Development in Brazil: A Long-Term Perspective”
Prof. Mauricio Font, Director and Professor, the Bildner Center and The Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY.

Included in the events of The Brazil Project of the Bildner Center.
WHEN: Tuesday, May 8, 2007, 4:00 pm
WHERE: Room 9206

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