Brazil Studies

Speaker: Ambassador Clifford Sobel, former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil from 2006-2009, will discuss the recent elections in Brazil with Professor Nicholas Burns. RSVP required. Open to Harvard faculty, fellows, staff, and students. Coffee and cookies will...

The Future of Diplomacy Project is hosting a seminar with Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, Ambassador Thomas Shannon, Jr. who will speak about his experience from inside the State Department in the...

Speaker: Anthony Pereira, Director, King's Brazil Institute, King's College London The Brazilian state in the 21st century appears to be a curious combination of high and low capacity. For example, it collects roughly 35 percent of GDP in tax revenue and...

Speaker: Jorge Kalil, 2018-2019 CAPES Distinguished Visiting Professor, Harvard University; Professor and Head of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of Sao Paulo There are over 300 million cases of dengue worldwide per year. Some are serious and...

Speaker: Monica D. Dantas, Ruth Cardoso Visiting Associate Professor, Columbia University; Associate Professor, Brazilian Studies Institute and Social History Graduate Program, University of São Paulo Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior...

Speaker: Benito Bisso Schmidt, PhD in History, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP); Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University The talk...

Presenters: Douglas Dockery, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Research Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Rick Rogers, Principal Research Scientist, Department of...

Speakers: Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazil Studies, Faculty Co-chair of the Harvard Brazil Studies Program; Fernando Bizzarro, Graduate Student Affiliate, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University Moderator: Steve...

Speakers: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University; Tariq Thachil, Associate Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University; Evan Lieberman, Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa...

Speaker: Beatriz Bracher, writer Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University In 2018, Brazil finds itself torn to pieces, and inundated by the deafening roar of militancies and their drones. Under...