The Brazil Semester

 

Why Brazil?
Brazil Resource Center
An Orientation to Brazil
Brazil Semester Extra Credit Form
Brazil Semester Extra Credit Form (longer version)


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
9:30 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall
Admission: free


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
The Search for The Lost City of Z

9:30 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010
Taylor Performing Arts Center
Admission: free


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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