Lectures @ King’s College – MAY 2013
30 Apr, 2013
TAKE A LOOK ‘BRAZILIAN THEMES’ARE DISCUSSED AT KING’S COLLEGE.
03/05
TALKING 5.30pm Sérgio Fausto ‘Brazil’s economic and political prospects, one year before the presidential election’ @ king’s College K6.63 (6th floor, King’s Building, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS) +info: jacqueline.armit@kcl.ac.uk) FREE BOOKING ESSENTIAL
07/05
TALKING 5.30PM ‘”Quotas”: the Movement for Affirmative Action in Brazilian Higher’ by Join David Lehmann @King’s K2.41 (second floor King’s Building, Strand Campus) FREE
13/05
TALKING 5.30pm Andre Cicalo ‘Urban Encounters: Affirmative Action and Black Identities in Brazil’ @ King’s College (Ground floor, King’s Building, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS) jacqueline.armit@kcl.ac.uk FREE
16/05
SEMINER 5.30pm ‘Brazil’s Image in the Eyes of the Media’ @ Edmond J Safra Memorial Lecture Theatre (Strand Campus, ) maria.williams@ajasolutions.co.uk FREE/ BOOKING ESSENTIAL
As it prepares for the 2014 World Cup, followed by 2016 Olympic Games, all eyes will be turned to Brazil.
But before the big kick off in June 2014, how does the rest of the world view Brazil, Brazilian culture and people?
This seminar, organized by AJA Media Solutions and hosted by the King’s Brazil Institute, will bring together renowned journalists Silio Boccanera of Globo News, Richard Lapper of Financial Times and Greg Williams, Head of Media at the City of London Corporation, to address the main issues surrounding Brazil’s image:
Silio Boccanera – From Repression to Ascension
Richard Lapper – The Brazilian Paradox: Why Views about the Country are so Mixed
Greg Williams – The Distorting Mirrors of 2014 & 2016
20/05
TALKING 6.30pm John Hemming & Colin Thuron “Brazil’s indigenous peoples” @ Stamford St Lecture Theatre (127 Stamford Street, SE1 9NQ) + info: jacqueline.armit@kcl.ac.uk FREE
Brazil’s indigenous peoples reached a nadir in the mid-twentieth century, reduced by centuries of disease and oppression. Since then, Indians have fought for and achieved remarkable successes, in land tenure (for forest tribes), population growth, and constitutional rights. Now they struggle to retain their rich cultural and language heritages in a booming dynamic nation. They grapple with new problems in education, health, environmental protection of sometimes vast protected areas, threats from loggers, miners and land-grabbers, legal status, and a need for income in often-remote reserves. This event is FREE but booking is essential
