Brazil Portal’s Weekend Reading Series: The Brazilian Economy

This week’s “Weekend Reading Series” is about the Brazilian Economy, Brazil-US Economic relations, and the Global Financial Crisis.
The series includes articles from a Brazilian academic journal, Brazilian Economy by the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, released in September in English and also provides articles that will be presented in a conference by the Center for Integration and [...]

Reading Series: Brazil in the Latin American Politics and Society

For all of you wishing to read and stay updated with scholarly work about Brazil, the Brazil Portal will post “Reading Series,” informing our readers about different jounal articles about the country and region. Today we took our selections from the journal, Latin American Politics and Society:
Fall 2009 Issue:

“Campaign Strategies of Afro-Brazilian Politicians: A [...]

New Book: “Joaquim Nabuco, British abolitionists and the end of slavery in Brazil: Correspondence 1880-1905″

“A little studied aspect of the struggle to abolish slavery in Brazil in the 1880s is the relationship established and maintained between Joaquim Nabuco, the leading Brazilian abolitionist, and the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in London. The correspondence between Nabuco and Charles Harris Allen, Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society, and other British abolitionists throughout [...]

New book: “The Cambridge History of Latin America Volume IX: Brazil since 1930″

The Cambridge History of Latin America Volume IX: Brazil since 1930—the final volume of the 12-volume History edited by Leslie Bethell, currently a Public Policy Scholar with the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center—has been published by Cambridge University Press. [The volume can also be found at Amazon.com]
The Cambridge History of Latin America, the [...]

Announcing Brazil Institute Public Policy Scholar

Renowned historian of Latin America and especially Brazil, Leslie Bethell joined the Brazil Institute on December 3rd as a Public Policy Scholar-in-residence to conduct research on “Brazil in the New Global Order.” A professor emeritus at the University of London, Bethell was previously director of the Center of Brazilian Studies at Oxford University. He presented [...]

Must Read List – End of the Year

The latest edition of Estudos Avançados and of Revista Dados are now available. The new journal of politics in Brazil, Interesse Nacional, launched their latest edition in late October. At the end of this post, a list of recent journal articles on Brazil.
The Dossiê of Estudos Avançados is on Public Health in Brazil. It features [...]

Must Read List – November

Below is the updated November “Must Read List” of recent articles published by influential government officials and representatives and experts on Brazil, the G-20 and global governance.
The first five articles are published by the G-20 Information Centre of the University of Toronto in the recently released 150-page book, “Growth, Innovation, Inclusion: The G20 at Ten.”
The [...]

Democratic Brazil revisited (book)

Brazil presents a compelling example of twenty-first century democracy in action.
In this sequel to their landmark study Democratic Brazil, editors Peter Kingstone and Timothy J. Power have assembled a distinguished group of U.S.- and Brazilian-based scholars to assess the impact of competitive politics on Brazilian government, institutions, economics, and society.
The 2002 election of [...]

Brasilianistas na Europa

A rede de estudiosos do Brasil na Europa, criada sob os auspícios da Fundação Cultural Hispano-Brasileira, em outubro de 2007, apresenta o Congresso O Brasil em debate: contradições da modernidade.
A ser realizado nos dias 19-21 de novembro de 2008, o Congresso contará com mesas temáticas sobre língua, literatura e artes; política e sociologia; história e [...]

Conferences: LASA 2009 and ISA-ABRI Int’l Meeting

Next year you will have two excellent opportunities to present an academic paper in Brazil and one opportunity to watch others present:
XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association
Theme: Rethinking Inequalities
Where? Rio de Janeiro – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
When? June 11-14, 2009
ISA-ABRI Joint International Meeting
Theme: Diversity and Inequality in World Politics
Where? [...]