Soda Center Saturday, November 11, 2006
PROGRAM SCHEDULE 8:00 am - 8:30 am Breakfast and Registration
8:30am - 9:15 am Welcome Ronald Ahnen, Saint Mary’s College of California
Keynote Address: “Brazil’s Economic Outlook” Ambassador Mauricio Costa, General Consulate of Brazil in San Francisco
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9:15 am - 11:00 am NATIONAL, SUBNATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL INTERPRETATIONS OF BRAZILIAN IDENTIY Chair: Jennifer Heung, Saint Mary’s College of California
“Politics, Doctors, and Public Health: The Battle for Brazilian National Identity, 1930-1945.” Melissa Gormley, University of California, Davis
“Ethnic Identity and Political Representation: Descendents of Syrians and Lebanese in the Brazilian Parliament, 1946-1999” Sergio Lamarão, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro
“Bambas e Malandras: Gender in Brazilian Capoeira” Katya Wesolowski, Columbia University
“Perpetual Fall: Mario Vargas Llosa and the War of Canudos” José Luiz Passos, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Myrna Santiago, Saint Mary’s College of California
COFFEE BREAK (11:00 - 11:10 am)
11:10 am – 12:40 pm INTERPRETATIONS OF DEATH AS STRATEGY IN POLITICAL STRUGGLE Chair: Br. Mark McVann, Saint Mary’s College of California
"Who was Apulco de Castro, and Why Haven't We Heard About Him?" Tom Holloway, University of California, Davis
“Neste Luto começa a Luta: Death, Memory and Political Struggle among University Students, 1964-1979” Victoria Langland, University of California, Davis
“The Role of Police Massacres in Brazilian Public Safety Reforms” Ronald Ahnen, Saint Mary’s College of California
Discussant: David Sweet, University of California, Santa Cruz
LUNCH (12:50 pm - 1:45 pm)
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1:45 pm – 3:15 pm BRAZIL AND THE NEW ECONOMY: ARE THE NEW STRATEGIES WORKING? Chair: Ravi Bhandari, Saint Mary’s College of California
“Technology and Identity in Brazilian Software Industry” Yuri Takhteyev, University of California, Berkeley
“Brazilian economic growth in the long-term perspective: why Brazil fell behind?” Marcio Holland, Getulio Vargas Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil
“Fuscões e Golaços: Volkswagen in Brazil” (download here) Aaron Brick, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Clark Reynolds, Stanford University
3:25 pm – 5:00 pm DEMOCRACY AND CITIZENSHIP IN POST-AUTHORITARIAN BRAZIL Chair: Gustavo Demoner, Visiting Researcher, Saint Mary’s College of California
“From Good Government to Politics As Usual: How the Worker's Party (PT) Lost its Way” Ben Goldfrank, University of New Mexico and Brian Wampler, Boise State University
“The Compelling Politics of Compulsory Voting in Brazil” Nancy Lapp, California State University at Sacramento
“Education and the Landless Workers Movement: Brazil” Sherry Keith, University of San Francisco
Discussant: Robert Girling, Sonoma State University
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Wrap-up Discussion and Plan for Next Conference
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This conference is free and open to the public.
Breakfast and Lunch are included with pre-registration via this conference website: http://galileo.stmarys-ca.edu/rahnen/Brazil2006/prereg
Hosted by Saint Mary’s College of California: the School of Liberal Arts, the Politics Department, the History Department, and the Program for International Area Studies.
Co-sponsored by the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA).
For further information, contact conference coordinator, Ronald Ahnen, at rahnen@stmarys-ca.edu or (925) 631-4584.
For directions to the SMC campus, click this link. http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/about/visit/directions/moraga.html
For a map of the campus, click this link. The Soda Center is building #45.
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