Sheila Jasanoff, Founding Director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Program on Science, Technology and Society and the Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, will be in Brazil this August, for the first time, sponsored by the Harvard/DRCLAS Brazil Office. A leading scholar on the interactions of law, science, and politics in democratic societies, her areas of work range from comparative politics of environmental regulation and risk management to biotechnology and bioethics.

In São Paulo, on Tuesday, August 5, at USP's IEA, Prof. Jasanoff will lecture on "The Politics of Science and Technology Policy: U.S. and European Comparisons."

In Rio de Janeiro, on Monday, August 10, at IUPERJ in Botafogo, she will talk on on "Imaginaries of Progress: Modernity, Science and Technology."

Tamara Kay, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of Harvard’s Transnational Studies Initiative, will be a speaker at the August 7-8 conference sponsored by USP’s Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) on “A Política dos Direitos Humanos no Brasil e no Mundo: Dilemas e Conquistas”, along with Stanley Gacek, co-teacher with Prof. Kay of a new Harvard College course this past Spring on "Politics of Law, Labor and Globalization in the Americas".

Samantha Power, the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, based at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, will be in São Paulo and Rio to launch O Homem que Queria Salvar o Mundo, the Brazilian Portuguese edition published by Companhia das Letras of her biography of Sérgio Viera de Mello. August 19 marks the fifth anniversary of his death in the Iraq bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad.

In São Paulo, on Monday, August 18, the presentation and book launch will take place at Livraria Cultura-Conjunto Nacional.

In Rio de Janeiro, on Wednesday, August 20, the presentation will include an Homenagem to Sérgio Vieira de Mello at the Memorial Getúlio Vargas, sponsored by CEBRI and the United Nations Information Center for Brazil.

Ricardo Hausmann, Director of Harvard's Center for International Development and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the Harvard Kennedy School, will present his new “Brazil Growth Diagnosis”, an original paper diagnosing Brazil’s present economic situation and the obstacles to sustainable growth, at IBMEC-São Paulo on Friday, August 22. The former Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will debate his findings with a panel of politicians, journalists, and academics. The event is sponsored by the new Brazilian Centro de Liderança Pública, founded by a recent Kennedy School graduate.

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