| List of Activities |
| Amazing Amazonians and Beautiful Boats 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday – Friday Aug. 30 through Sept. 24, 2010 MSSU Spiva Art Gallery Admission: free |
Peoples and Cultures of the Amazon |
| Anthropology of the Amazon:
Partible Paternity and Promiscuous Mating 11:00 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010 Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall Admission: free |
| Present-Day Brazil 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall Admission: free |
| Brazilian Independence Day Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 4:30-7:00 p.m.: Brazilian dinner, sponsored by Sodexho (Admission: $6) 7:00-8:00 p.m. Soccer game: students vs. faculty 8:00-9:00 p.m. Contests with prizes awarded |
| Brazilian Film Festival: Blindness 9:00 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 Courtyard at Student Residence Halls Admission: free |
| Soybean Production in the Amazon: Are We Eating the Rainforest? 10:00 a.m., Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall Admission: free |
| Decentralization of Development in the Brazilian Amazon 12:00 p.m., Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall Admission: free |
| Southern Theatre presents: The
Rogues' Trial* 7:30 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday, Sept. 14-18, 2010 Bud Walton Theatre Admission: free to students, faculty, staff; $3 for adults; $1 for senior citizens and high school students |
| After Independence: Writings of the 19th Century 1:00 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010 Phelps Theater in Beimdick Recreation Center Admission: free |
| Brazil
Film Festival: Black Orpheus 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010 Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall Admission: free |
Gockel International Symposium |
| Gockel International Symposium The Adventures of the Amazon Queen and The Adventure of Making the Amazon Queen 7:00 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010 Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall Admission: free |
| Gockel International Symposium The Search for The Lost City of Z (repeat of morning session) 8:00 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010 Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall Admission: free |
| Brazilian Film Festival: Entranced Earth (Terra Em Transe) 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall Admission: free |
| Bossa Nova Jazz Collective 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010 Taylor Performing Arts Center Admission: free |
| Grupo Axé Capoeira 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010 (capoeira instructional class to follow performance) Taylor Performing Arts Center Admission: free |
| Samba and Brazilian National Identity 9:00 a.m., Monday, Oct. 4, 2010 Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall Admission: free |
| African Rhythms in Brazilian Popular Music 11:00 a.m., Monday, Oct. 4, 2010 Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall Admission: free |
| Performance of
Brazilian Choro, Samba and Baião 1:00 p.m., Monday, Oct. 4, 2010 Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall Admission: free |
| Brazilian Film Festival: Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall Admission: free |
| New Directions: Earlier 20th Century Literature 8:00 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010 Phelps Theater in Beimdick Recreation Center Admission: free |
| Brazilian Film Festival: Bye Bye Brazil 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall Admission: free |
| The Colossus of Rio 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall Admission: free |
| Rio de Janeiro — Cidade
Maravilhosa! 1:00 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall Admission: free |
| Taming ‘Savage Capitalism’: Brazil’s
Struggle against Poverty and Inequality 9:00 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall Admission: free |
| Brazil on the World Stage: Foreign Policies of an Emerging
Power 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall Admission: free |
| Doing Business in Brazil - Surviving Bureaucracy and Bridging
Cultures 10:00 a.m., Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall Admission: free |
| The Future is Now - Brazil, 21st Century Superpower 12:00 p.m., Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall Admission: free |
| Brasil Brazil 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010 Taylor Performing Arts Center Admission: free |
| A Night in the Tropics: President's 3rd Annual Gala Concert 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010 Taylor Performing Arts Center $10 General Admission, $5 Students & Sr. Citizens |
| How to Turn a Poem into a Film: T-Shirt Cantata 1:00 p.m., Monday, Nov. 1, 2010 Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall Admission: free |
| The Hammock Variations 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall Admission: free |
| On the Impossibility of Translating Poetry and Why We Do
It Anyway 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall Admission: free |
| Brazilian Film Festival: Central Station 7:00 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall Admission: free |
| Rio Carnaval! A Concert of Brazilian Music by Southern Symphony Orchestra 7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 Taylor Performing Arts Center Admission: free |
| Brazilian Film Festival: City of God 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall Admission: free |
| Brazilian Film Festival: Two Sons of Francisco (Dos Filhos
de Francisco) 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall Admission: free |
| New Directions: Later 20th Century Literature 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 Phelps Theater in Beimdick Recreation Center Admission: free |
| Two for Brazil 7:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 6, 2010 Taylor Performing Arts Center Admission: free |
| Learn One Endeavor for One New Culture: Impressions of the Brazilian Culture from an MSSU Student On request Please call 515-971-7060 or email kelsey.jensen@yahoo.com to schedule |
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Institute of International Studies |