York/CERLAC Brazilian Studies Seminar
About the York/CERLAC Brazilian Studies Seminar
The York/CERLAC Brazilian Studies Seminar is an informal, wide-ranging and friendly opportunity to share and discuss current work related to Brazilwith others at York.
The seminar usually meets on alternate Wednesdays, 12:30 - 2:30p.m. in room 280 York Lanes (exceptions are posted below).Presentationsare in English, over a brown-bag lunch. All topics and perspectivesarewelcome.
If you would like to share your work with this friendly group, please email Ellie Perkins at esperk@yorku.ca or Debora Lima dos Santos at deborals@yorku.ca.
Weekly Schedule
WINTER 2007
FALL 2006
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006- NO SEMINAR
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Presenters & Topics
WINTER 2007
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Alexis Glazer, BES Student, York University and York International Intern: “Youth Activism in Environmental Issues in São Paulo”
12:30 - 2:30 p.m., Room 280 York Lanes
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Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Fred Yurichuck, MES Student, York University: “Between Food and Other Things.” Video Documentary.
12:30 - 2:30 p.m., Room 280 York Lanes
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Katherine Brasch, PhD Student, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education / University of Toronto: The Toronto Brazilian “Community”: Bringing Brazilian Class into Canadian Context”
12:30 - 2:30 p.m., Room 280 York Lanes
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Fabiane Bastos, Master’s Student, Faculty of Education, York University: "Multicultural Education in North-South Context: The Comparatives Impacts of Official Multicultural Legislation in Canada and Brazil."
12:30 - 2:30 p.m., Room 280 York Lanes
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Jessica Franklin, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science, McMaster University: "The Transnational Dimensions of Afro-Brazilian Women's Identities and Activism"
12:30 - 2:30 p.m., Room 280 York Lanes
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FALL 2006
Jeff Packman, “We work hard at entertainment: Popular music as profession” and Katia Canil, “Natural disasters in Brazil”
12:30 - 2:30 p.m., Room 280 York Lanes
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Laura Antoniazzi, “Public participation in water management in Piracicaba”
*Please note early end time
12:30 - 2:00 p.m., Room 280 York Lanes
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Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Aneela Bisram, “Exploring the possibilities for an emancipatory approach to formal environmental education in Taboão da Serra, Brazil” and Julia Leite, “Landscape ecology and planning in the Poá Creek watershed”
12:30 - 2:30 p.m., Room 280 York Lanes
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Dr. Livio Sansone (University of Bahia, Anthropology), "Bahia, Brazil: Sugar, Oil & Atlantic Identities"
*Please note special time and location
10:30 a.m. , Founders College, Senior Common Room, Room 305. Brown bag lunch with Professor Sansone will follow.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Arlita McNamee, “Participation + Corporate Social Responsibility in Local Agenda 21: A Case Study from São Paulo, Brazil”
*Please note special location
12:30 - 2:30 p.m., Room 353B York Lanes
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Frank Luce, "Cacao Workers in Bahia"
12:30 - 2:30 p.m., Room 280 York Lanes
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Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
There will be no seminar this week.
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Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Danielle Robinson, “Sambas, rodas and raizes”
12:30 - 2:30 p.m., Room 280 York Lanes
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Marcio Mendes, "Capoeira in Brazil"
*Please note special location
12:30 - 2:30 p.m., Room 353B York Lanes
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Alex Arnall (Oxford University), “Community Participation in Brazil and Mozambique"
12:30 - 2:30 p.m., Room 280 York Lanes
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Simone Bohn, "Gender, Representation and Elections: the Female Presence in the Brazilian Senate"
12:30 - 2:30 p.m., Room 280 York Lanes
For more information about Professor Simone Bohn and this seminar, please visit http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac/news_events.htm#Simone_Bohn
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Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Carlos Liberato, “African Slaves in Northern Brazil, 1755-1777” and Julia Leite, “Analysis of a Brazilian Urban Landscape: the Poá Creek Watershed””
12:30 - 2:30 p.m., Room 280 York Lanes
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