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ACADEMIC YEAR 2012-2013
SPRING 2013
May 2: Book Panel: Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil
An interdisciplinary panel discussion of Marc Hertzman's new book, Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil.
6:00 PM, Book Culture, 536 West 112th Street
April 22: Is Brazil Starting Over?
Talk with Albert Fishlow, Professor Emeritus at Columbia University.This session is part of the Brazil Seminar.
6:00 PM, International Affairs Building Room 802, 420 West 118th St.
Workshop on April 18th and public lecture on April 19th with Jens Baumgarten.
11:30 AM, Casa Hispanica, 612 W 116th Street, Room 201
April 17: Anthropology of Brazilian Cinema
Considering that, from an anthropological approach, movies contain interesting elements for studying a society - values, beliefs, ideology - this talk focuses on the questions laid out by the Brazilian cinema: identity issues, History and memory depiction as well as symbolic landscapes - such as the sertao and slums - that put into perspective the social exclusion issue. April 16: "Racial and Health Stigma: Messages from a Forerunner of Brazilian Sociology (Oracy Nogueira, 1917-1996)"
4:00 PM, International Affairs Building Room 802, 420 West 118th St.
Talk with Maria Laura Cavalcanti, who is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her most recent book is Reconhecimentos: Antropologia, folclore e cultura popular (Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Aeroplano, 2012). She also wrote Carnaval carioca: Dos bastidores ao desfile (Rio de Janeiro: Ed. UFRJ, 2006) and O rito e o tempo: Ensaios sobre o carnaval (Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1999). Her current research focus on the history of anthropology and folklore studies in Brazil, and on Brazil's contemporary popular festivities.
12:00 PM, International Affairs Building Room 802, 420 West 118th St.
April 11 – 18: Images of the Favela in Brazilian Cinema
Series of movies showing the Favelas in Brazil. See attached flyer for more details!! All screenings are open to the public.
7:00 PM, 612 W 116th Street, 201 Casa Hispanica
April 10: Deindustrialization of Brazil
The Economic and Political Development concentration, the Center for Brazilian Studies and the Institute of Latin American Studies invite you to a talk and discussion with Germano Mendes de Paula, Professor of Economics at Federal University of Uberlandia. Jose Antonio Ocampo will be the moderator.
6:10 PM, International Affairs Building, Room 404
April 8: Ahead of the Soccer World Cup and the Olympics - Infrastructure Challenges
Session of the Brazil Seminar with Tom Trebat, Director of the Columbia Global Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
6:00 PM, International Affairs Building Room 802, 420 West 118th St.
April 4: Capital Controls in Brazil: Effective?
Did inward capital controls work for Brazil? This talk with Marcio G. P. Garcia assesses the evidence, concluding that capital controls are desirable if they help avoid excessive debt and asset price bubbles, a risk given the appetite of foreign investors towards Brazilian assets. That said, policymakers need to complement capital controls with foreign savings in order to enable an investment rate compatible with sustaining GDP growth.
5:30 PM, International Affairs Building Room 802, 420 West 118th St.
April 4: Is the Foreign Policy of Brazil Keeping Up with its Role on the Global Stage?
Brazil has been called a country that "punches below its weight" in foreign affairs. It has the world's fifth largest population and seventh largest economy, yet it struggles to match its size with relevance on the international stage. Why isn't Brazil's foreign policy more activist, commensurate with its economic and political aspirations? Do Brazilian citizens even want a more activist foreign policy, do they care? Is Brazil, large and self-sufficient, an inherently inward-looking country for whom foreign policy does not come naturally? Do its leaders seek to educate citizens to the value of foreign policy in their lives? This event explores the relationship between the Brazilian public, its political elites, and its national ambitions as expressed in its foreign policy.
10:30 AM, International Affairs Building Room 1501, 420 West 118th St.
March 26: Africa in Brazil
Barnard Forum on Migration and the Center for Brazilian Studies present a lecture by João J. Reis, Professor of History, Universidade Federal da Bahia.
6:00P.M. Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall, Broadway at West 117th Street, NY, NY
March 25: Brazil and International Relations
Talk with Ambassador Corrêa, the Consul General of Brazil in New York. Ambassador Corrêa served twice in the President’s Office in Brasilia, as Special Advisor to the Minister Chief of the Civilian Household, and later as the Chief Foreign Affairs Advisor to the President of the Republic.
6:00 PM, International Affairs Building Room 802, 420 West 118th St
March 11: Brazil Speaker Series: The Roots of Brazilian Impunity
Brazil has a world-class problem with political corruption and impunity -- politicians who engage in many types of malfeasance from economic corruption to slave-holding. However, in recent years many of these politicians have been re-elected to office after their crimes became public knowledge. Why? This event explores the relationship between the Brazilian public and its politicians in the post-dictatorship era.
Speakers: Dr. Albert Fishlow, Columbia University Professor Emeritus of Economics; Luiz Felipe D'Ávila, Presdient of CLP; Indio da Costa, Secretary of Sports, Rio de Janeiro; Lucia Guimarães, Journalist.
9:00A.M - 11:30A.M., IAB Room 1501
March 4: Dancing Chairs: Elections and Perspectives for 2014
This talk is part of the Political, Social, and Economic Development of Brazil course which has been designed to discuss major economic, political, and social problems of contemporary Brazil with expert analysts, activists, business leaders, and public figures. Please find link to video here.
Speaker: Chris Garman, Head of Emerging Market Strategy and lead analyst on Brazil, Eurasia Group
6:00P.M. IAB Room 802
Class Summary (by Brittany Jenkins, student)
February 28: Japanese-Brazilian Music & Ethnic Identity in the Post-Dekasegi Era
Barnard Forum on Migration and the Center for Brazilian Studies present a lecture by Shanna Lorenz, Professor of music and Latino/a and Latin American Studies, Occidental College.
6:00P.M. Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall, Broadway at West 117th Street, NY, NY
February 25: Perceptions of the Foreign Media about Brazil as an Emerging Political and Economic Power
This talk is part of the Political, Social, and Economic Development of Brazil course which has been designed to discuss major economic, political, and social problems of contemporary Brazil with expert analysts, activists, business leaders, and public figures.
Speaker: Jorge Pontual, Globo TV.
6:00P.M. IAB Room 802
Class Summary (by Thomas Maffai, student)
February 12: How Arabs Became Jews in Brazil
Barnard Forum on Migration and the Center for Brazilian Studies present a lecture by Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Profesor of History and Chair of the Department of History, Emory Univeristy.
6:00P.M. Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall, Broadway at West 117th Street, NY, NY
February 11: Beyond Banana Republic? Exports and Competitiveness in Brazil
This talk is part of the Political, Social, and Economic Development of Brazil course which has been designed to discuss major economic, political, and social problems of contemporary Brazil with expert analysts, activists, business leaders, and public figures. Please find link to video here.
Speaker: José Guilherme Reis, Lead Economist with the International Trade Department of the World Bank
6:00P.M. IAB Room 802
Class Summary (by Thalia Smith, student)
February 6: Portuguese Immigration in Brazil
Barnard Forum on Migration and the Center for Brazilian Studies present a lecture by Herbert Klein, Professor at Stanford University.
6:00P.M. Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall, Broadway at West 117th Street, NY, NY
Fall 2012
December 7: Brazilian Cultural Hour
History, Music, Dance, Capoeira, Documentaries and Brazlian Food
9 P.M. International House
November 27: Affirmative Action in Brazil: From the 1990s to the Supreme Court Decision in 2012
Talk with Dr. Joan Dassin, Dr. Jorge Balan, and graduate student Brittany M. Jenkins.
4 P.M. IAB Room 802
November 13: Brown Bag: "The Results of Brazil’s 2012 Municipal Elections and the Prospects for 2013-2014"
Talk with Professor David Fleischer.
12 P.M. IAB Room 802
November 12: Summer Internship Panel in Brazil
Panel with graduate students that interned in Brazil in the summer of 2012.
12 P.M. IAB room 802
November 02: Erasing or Erecting Boundaries?: A Conversation about Brazilian and Latin American Studies
A conversation about Brazilian and Latin American Studies
3:30 PM, 201 Casa Hispánica, 612 W 116th St
September 28: Brazil World Music Day: Whose Music Is It, Anyway?
Conversation about Property, Theft, and Archives in Brazil and the Americas, with the aim of exploring the relationship among musicauthors, ownership, and the construction of archival collections.
3:00 PM, 201 Casa Hispánica, 612 W 116th St
PAST EVENTS
The First Lemann Dialogue on Brazil in the United States presented an exciting two-day conference on November 17th & 18th, 2011, hosted by The Center for Brazilian Studies at Columbia University and in collaboration with the Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies at the University of Illinois. Brazil has made remarkable social and economic progress in the last decade following a long period of relative stagnation. It has attracted the attention of the world as it lays plans to reach the goal of developed country status, a once distant dream for Brazil that now seems increasingly within reach of the next generation. In this context of rapid social advance in Brazil, conference organizers have chosen to focus on the role of higher education broadly understood, but including research universities, in the transformation of Brazil. The conference calls together the leading experts on Brazilian and American higher education, as well as promising junior scholars, in order to assess the current state and future directions of the research universities in Brazil.
Ruth Cardoso: A Tribute, April 9-10, 2009
The academic and public policy work of Dr. Ruth Cardoso, former First Lady of Brazil, touched the lives of many. In addition to her academic contributions as a researcher and teacher in anthropology and sociology, Ruth Cardoso inspired many in Brazil to put her ideas into practice. Major policy innovations in Brazil can be traced back to Ruth Cardoso: the rising role of women in Brazilian society is an example, as well as the development of modern forms of public spending, including Comunidade Solidaria, a precursor of Brazil’s now renowned Bolsa Familia Program. This is the first in a series of three conferences which will honor and cary forward the work of Dona Ruth.
Organized in collaboration with: FACULDADES DE CIENCIAS SOCIAS, UNIVERSIDADE DE SAO PAULO; FUNDACAO GETULIO VARGAS (SAO PAULO), AND
INSTITUTO FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO.
Please click here to download a program.
September 3: Energy Policy in Brazil: A Corporate Viewpoint
Introductory remarks by: Thomas J. Trebat
Special Guest Speaker: Francisco Gros, Vice-Chairman of OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacões, an exploration and production company. Dr. Gros is also the former president of Petrobras and has been the president of both the BNDES and the Central Bank of Brazil.
6:00 P.M., IAB Room 802
September 10: Educational Policy in Brazil: Recent Developments and the Outlook
Speaker: Professor Naercio Meneses, Universidade de Sao Paulo
6:00 P.M., IAB Room 802
September 24: "An Introduction to the Brazil Seminar: Key Issues in Brazil in 2008"
Speaker: Thomas J. Trebat
6:00 P.M., IAB Room 802
September 24: Arminio Fraga, President Gavéa Investimentos and Former President of the Central Bank of Brazil (1999-2002)
“Has Brazil Found the Way to Sustained Economic Growth”. Arminio Fraga was the former president of the Central Bank of Brazil, from 1999-2002. He is also a former associate of George Soros and his Quantum Fund. Since 2001 he has been a member of the influential Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty. In 2003, he founded the Rio de Janeiro based investment company, Gávea Investimentos. Dr. Fraga has been called the Alan Greenspan of Latin America for his skillful handling of Brazilian monetary policy during his tenure as CBB president. He worked for both Fernando Collor de Mello and Fernando Henrique Cardoso governments
6:00 P.M., IAB Room 802
October 8: Key Challenges Facing the Brazilian Economy
Speaker: Dr. Edmar Bacha, Banco ITAU, and principal architect of the Real Plan.
6:00 P.M., IAB Room 802
October 29: Long-term Perspectives on the Lula Government: Success or Failure?
Speaker: Dr. Werner Baer, Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (and author of the textbook used for this class.)
6:00 P.M., IAB Room 802
November 12: Brazilian Perspectives on the U.S. Elections: What Is at Stake?
Speaker: Merval Pereira, Political Columnist, O Globo newspaper (RJ)
6:00 P.M., IAB Room 802
November 19: Brazil's International Diplomatic Agenda
Speaker: Ambassador Jose Alfredo Graça Lima, Consul General of Brazil in New York
6:00 P.M., IAB Room 802
December 3: Health Policy in Brazil: Problems and Progress
Speaker: Professor Richard Parker, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
6:00 P.M., IAB Room 802
