Informativo - August and September 2008

See what Harvard students from the College, Law School, Kennedy School, and School of Public Health have to say about their experiences in Brazil. The DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program has added brief videos and other forms of student feedback that offer peer perspectives on studying, living, researching, working, and engaging in day-to-day life in Brazil and at Harvard. If you are a Harvard student or recent alumus/a and would like to share your experience as a Brazilian at the University or as a Harvard student in Brazil, please contact us at hbrazil@fas.harvard.edu.
The DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program is happy to welcome the third class of Lemann Fellows. Recipients of Lemann Fellowhips in 2008-09 are: Eduardo de Campos Queiroz, Fabio Tran, Francisco Almendra, Frederico Meinberg, Gisela Gasparian, Maurilio Santana Junior, and Ridalva Dias Martins Felzemburgh. Lemann Fellowships afford Brazilians who work or aspire to work as professionals in public health, public policy, or education the opportunity for advanced study at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), or Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). The aim of the fellowship program is to help build a stronger, more effective public sector in Brazil.
On October 7th, the Brazil Studies Program will host a welcome reception for Lemann Fellows and Harvard students, faculty, and staff from across the University to celebrate the start of the 2008-09 academic year. During the fall semester, the Program will host four Converas - lunchtime seminars featuring academics and policymakers. Fall speakers include Professors Victoria Langland (UC Davis); Christopher Dunn (Tulane University); Riordan Roett (Johns Hopkins University); Claudio de Moura Castro (Faculdade Pitágoras); Rafael Martinez (Vice-secretary of Education for the State of Rio de Janeiro); Claudia Calirman (Lemann Visiting Scholar at DRCLAS); and Seth Garfield (University of Texas, Austin). Together with the student-run Harvard Brazilian Organization, the Brazil Studies Program is also co-sponsoring the Brazilian film series.
Harvard Law School recently welcomed the first two students to benefit from its exchange program with Brazil’s Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV). Gustavo Akkerman (Direito GV) and João Sa (Direito Rio) arrived in Cambridge in August 2008, where they will spend the fall semester. “Studying at Harvard has already exceeded my expectations,” said João, who is currently taking Corporations A1, with Professor Kraakman, Antitrust Law, with Judge Michael Boudin, and Law and Development, with Professor David Kennedy. “We are encouraged to understand what a Judge’s intent is in making a particular decision, to identify the values that are in conflict, to understand the economic incentives generated by a ruling, and to evaluate the public policies that are being implemented and their social impact.” Gustavo, who is studying Mergers, Acquisitions & Split-Ups with Professor Robert Clark and Vice-Chancellor Leo Strine observes, “It is a privilege to take a class jointly taught by the former Dean of HLS and by a judge from the Delaware Chancery Court, unanimously considered the world's best courts on corporate law issues. Clark focuses on reasons, foundations and technical issues surrounding the topic, while Strine is, little by little, turning us into specialists on Delaware case law on mergers and acquisitions, and on the fiduciary duties of companies’ directors.”
From August 14-16, eleven Harvard faculty members from across disciplines and schools gathered with twenty Brazilian environmental and scientific leaders for the Harvard-Brazil Symposium on the Environment and Sciences, held in Salvador, Bahia. This annual symposium is designed to explore concrete areas of near-term collaboration between Harvard faculty and their Brazilian counterparts to advance research and teaching opportunities. Among the explicit commitments that came from the meeting, many participants agreed to collaborate in planning the January 2010 Brazil field course, organized by SEAS and DRCLAS, for engineering undergraduates.
With the support of the DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program, the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Fiocruz's Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz will hold the second Harvard-Brazil collaborative public health course from January 6 to January 22, 2009 in Salvador, Bahia. The course will include faculty and students from HSPH, Fiocruz, Santa Casa Medical School (which hosted the 2008 edition of this course) and numerous other leading public health institutions in Brazil. There will be a course information session for interested HSPH students at Harvard on September 30, 2008. Brazilians interested in participating in the course should consult the online application system set up by Fiocruz.
 
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