Informativo - 11 March to 11 April 2008

From April 7th to 11th, Brazil Week 2008 brought a team composed of the most prominent scholars on Japanese immigration from Brazil, Japan, Mexico, and the United States to Harvard. These specialists came from a variety of research areas such as anthropology, sociology, literature, history, and the arts. Among Brazil Week events were an exhibition of rare original photos of Japanese-Brazilian couples from the early 20th century, a screening of acclaimed director Tizuka Yamasaki’s “Gaijin II,” and a presentation by world-famous cartoonist Maurício de Sousa on the creation of mascots for the centenary of Japanese immigration to Brazil.
On Tuesday, April 8, 2008, Robert Gay, Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Professor of Sociology at Connecticut College, presented his work on Democracy and Uncivil Society in Contemporary Rio de Janeiro as part of the DRCLAS Tuesday Seminar Series. As the Lemann Visiting Scholar, Gay is in residence during the Spring 2008 semester to work on his latest project Drugs, Corruption and Everyday Violence in Rio de Janeiro: A Soldier's Story.
On Thursday, March 13, 2008, the Brazil Studies Program hosted a Conversa with Robert Stam, Professor of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and author of Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture. The event was moderated by Haden Guest, Director of the Harvard Film Archive.
On March 13, 2008, Harvard Medical School’s Scholars in Clinical Science Program (SCSP) launched a course on clinical research in partnership with the University of São Paulo (USP) Medical School in Brazil. The course includes a distance-learning component and an onsite component. It was developed and organized by Drs. Ajay Singh (Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School), Felipe Fregni (Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and a recipient of a Jorge Paulo Lemann Fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health), Lauren Dewey-Platt (Executive Director, Scholars in Clinical Science Program, Harvard Medical School), Wu Tu Hsing (Director of the Acupuncture, Orthopedics and Trauma Institute of the USP), and Marta Imamura (Chair, ISPRM Education Committee at the USP).
The Brazil Office of the DRCLAS recently hosted two Harvard faculty working sessions in São Paulo. On April 10, Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), discussed research interests in Brazil with HGSE alumni (including Ana Gabriela Pessoa, Rafael Martinez, Paula Louzano, and Valeria Rocha) and with leaders from local organizations focused on primary education in Brazil (including Fundação Lemann, Compromisso Todos Pela Educação, and Instituto Fernand Braudel). On April 1, James Cavallaro, Clinical Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School (HLS) Human Rights Program, held the second meeting of a local advisory group to discuss ongoing research on organized crime, police violence, and the prison system in São Paulo.
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