Brazil: Culture, Society and Politics


Fall 2001

Panel Discussion
"Writing the Amazon: A Conversation on Contemporary Literature by Amazonians"


- Márcio Souza, Amazonian writer and President of FUNARTE
- Professor Nicomedes Suarez Araúz, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Smith College
- Professor Lúcia de Sá, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University

Moderated by Professor Candace Slater, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley

Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities

Monday, October 15, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall (map)

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Alcida Ramos
"Old Ethics Die Hard: The Yanomami and
Scientific Writing"


Alcida Ramos is Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Brasilia and author of Indigenism: Ethnic Politics in Brazil (1998), Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crisis (1995), and Indian Rights and Indian Policy in Brazil Today (1979).

Respondents:
- Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
- Candace Slater, Department Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley

Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities

Monday, October 22, 3:00 p.m.
220 Stephens Hall

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Maria Filomena Gregori
"Street Children and Circulation: A Case Study in Săo Paulo, Brazil"

CLAS visiting scholar María Gregori is a professor of anthropology at the University of Campinas, Brazil. Her past research has focused on violence against women, street children, citizenship, and social policy. While at Berkeley, she will be focusing on her current research project--articulating subjects as new forms of erotism and gender violence.

Thursday, November 29, 4:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street

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