WCFIA: Cultural Politics Seminar: Imminent Times: Culture and Politics in the Latin American Sixties

Date: Monday, May 5 2008
Location: CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room, S-020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Diana Sorensen, Dean for the Humanities, James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

 

Elite Squad

Date: Monday, May 5 2008
Location: Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Time: 7:00 pm

The film is an adaptation of a book by the same name written by anthropologist Luiz Eduardo Soares, former National Secretary of Public Security in Brazil, and two police officers: André Batista and Rodrigo Pimentel. Both the film and the book show police brutality and corruption, as well as the violence of drug traffickers, through the eyes and the voice of a policeman involved in a world where the war on crime itself becomes criminal.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with director José Padilha and scholars José Gatti and James Cavallaro

Presented with the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at HKS, and the Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

Fore More Information go to: http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2008mayjune/elite.html