2006-2007 Speakers Bureau Catalog
BRYAN KENNEDY
Bryan Kennedy is a specialist in Brazilian culture and is assistant
professor of Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
He has lived extensively in Brazil and has been fascinated with Brazil's
poor for more than a decade. Kennedy was the Democratic candidate for the
U.S. House of Representatives in the Wisconsin 5th District in 2004 and is running again in 2006.
Address: 5669 N. Bethmaur Lane, Glendale, WI 53209
Phone: 414-431-4236 (home), 414-229-2970 (work), 262-364-2057 (fax)
E-mail: bryank@uwm.edu
Life in the Brazilian Favelas
With almost a decade of experience researching the
favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro, Kennedy will present a personal narrative of the people he has met, the lives he has encountered, and what he has learned by living in Rio's hillside communities, to give a comprehensive examination of life in the
favela. Many aspects of favela life will be explored, including: housing, work, religion, political power, social controls, social ethics, drugs and drug lords, music, samba schools, funk, literature, charitable and non-governmental organizations (both religious and non-religious) that work in the
favelas, education, daycare, street children, and class relations.
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