Global Encounter: Brazil

Framing MSU's Engagement in Brazil for the 21st Century

Tuesday, November 7, 2006

9:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. (Check-in and coffee at 9:00 am)

International Center

Delia Koo International Academic Center, Third Floor

Global Encounter: Brazil is designed as a highly participatory and interactive, Brazil-focused discussion intended to engage all interested members of the MSU community--faculty, staff, students, administrators, alumni, visiting international scholars and professionals--and the local Brazilian community. The event will help to shape MSU's strategic engagements in Brazil through identifying partners and collaborators, programmatic themes, and research and instructional opportunities where MSU can have transformational impacts in the decades ahead and can benefit from reciprocal relationships.

Part of the program will be structured around several broad themes designed to encompass the vast array of interests at MSU, such as environment, technology, and people; political economy, commerce, and global relations; cultural hybridizations: interdisciplinary approaches to ethnicity, race, class, gender, age, language, literature and nation in Brazil; bioeconomy and development; and health and educational disparities. Participants will also focus on issues related to various stakeholders, e.g., Brazilian alumni, MSU students, students from Brazil, and the MSU/area community.

Please come--whether you can spend an hour or stay for the entire event. We need your input in charting MSU's new directions in a crucial part of the world. We look forward to seeing you at this agenda-setting event!