Barnard Celebrates Brazil

Learn more about Brazil, the location of Barnard’s Fifth Annual Global Symposium, at these campus events.

Upcoming Events

Roundtable discussion with Brazilian feminists on activism, scholarship and art in Brazil
With Margareth Rago, Matilde Ribeiro, and Luana Saturnino Tvardovskas
Thursday, April 11, 4:00-6:00pm
Barnard Hall 101
Sponsored by BCRW

A Kiss for Gabriela: Documentary screening and discussion
Thursday, April 18, 6-7:30 pm
504 Diana
Sponsored by The Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality; The University Seminar on Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights; and BCRW

Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Conversation Series
A discussion of issues of race and gender raised at the Symposium, facilitated by Global Symposium Student Fellows
Monday, April 22, 5-6:30pm
Judith Shapiro Faculty Dining Room, 2nd Floor Diana

Waste Land: Dinner, a Movie, and a Discussion
Followed by a discussion with visual artist (and focus of the film) Vik Muniz
Tuesday, April 23, 5:30-8pm
Diana Event Oval

Past events

Tuesday, February 5 - 4pm
A conversation with Brazil expert Julia Sweig from the Council on Foreign Relations
328 Milbank

Wednesday, February 6 - 6pm
Portuguese Immigration in Brazil
A lecture by Herbert Klein
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall

February 7-9 - various times and locations on campus
Thinking Music and Sound in Latin America and the Caribbean
Sponsored by The Center for Ethnomusicology and the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University.

Tuesday, February 12 - 6pm
How Arabs Became Jews in Brazil
A lecture by Jeffrey Lesser
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall

Tuesday, March 26 – 6pm
Africa in Brazil
A lecture by João J. Reis
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall