Seminars and Symposia

 

The Graduate Center
City University of New York

The Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies

Colloquium

Brazil Futures:
Past and Present

April 7, 2006
9 A.M. – 6 P.M.

Program:

REGISTRATION
8:30 a.m. – 9:00-p.m. - Skylight Conference Room, 9th Floor

PANEL I: Brazil Futures in Historical Perspectives
9 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Room 9204/9205, 9th Floor

• The Vargas Era: Vision and Legacy
  Professor Jordan Young, Professor Emeritus Pace University
• Reassessing Brazil’s ISI Era
  Professor Albert Fishlow, Columbia University
• Modernizing Brazil: From Kubitschek to the Military Regime
  Professor Ronald Schneider, Queens College
• State Reform in Brazil: Authoritarians, Democrats
  Professor João Paulo Peixoto, University of Brasilia UnB

  MODERATOR:
  Professor Mauricio Font, Director Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies and The Graduate Center, Queens College CUNY

PANEL II. Reform Agenda: Social Policy
11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Room 9206- 9207, 9th Floor

• Local Government and Public Health
  Vanessa Elias de Oliveira, Columbia University
• Primary Health Care Reforms Since 1990
  James Macinko Assistant Professor, New York University
• Citizenship and Modernization
  John Guidry, Associate Director for Research, Division of Public Health, New York Academy of Medicine
• Can Educational Reform Alone Change Educational Outcomes?
  Laura Randall, Professor Emerita of Hunter College, and Co-Chair of the University Seminar on Brazil of Columbia University

  MODERATOR:
  Amy Chazkel, The Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY

1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. LUNCH- Skylight Conference Room, 9th Floor

PANEL III. New Democracy after 1985: Players, Policy and Prospects
2:00p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Room 9204-9205, 9th Floor

• Immigrants: New Actors in Brazil
  Professor Maxine Margolis, University of Florida
• The Brazilian Grassroots Movement: Agenda
  Professor Jeffrey Rubin, Boston University
• The MST and Rural Social Movements in Brazil
  Professor Jack L. Hammond, The Graduate Center and Hunter College, CUNY
• Afro-Brazilian Activism and Affirmative Action in Brazil
  Professor Ollie Johnson, Wayne State University
• Reworking Memory in Brazil: Bahia's New Ethnographic Histories and the 'Restoration' of Salvador's Pelourinho Historical Center
  Professor John Collins, The Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY

  MODERATOR:
  Desmond Arias, The Graduate Center and John Jay College of Criminal Justice CUNY

PANEL IV. Reform Agenda: The FHC and Lula Years
4:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Room 9206- 9207, 9th Floor

• Business and Economic Reform since the early 1990’s
  Professor Renato Boschi, IUPERJ
• Brazilian Economic Growth
  Professor Thomas Trebat, Executive Director Institute of Latin American Studies and Center for Brazilian Studies, Columbia University
• Political Reform in Brazil: Agenda
  Professor José Antônio Cheibub, Yale University
• The Brazilian Constitution of 1988: And it’s Impact on Governance
  Claudio Gonçalves Couto, PUC-SP Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Corruption as a Tool for Social Reform
  Professor Ted Goertzel, Rutgers University

  MODERATOR: Kenneth Erickson, The Graduate Center and Hunter College, CUNY

CLOSING REMARKS AND RECEPTION
5:45- 6:00 pm Skylight Conference Room, 9th Floor

• Professor Mauricio Font, Director Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies and The Graduate Center, Queens College CUNY

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