Coffee & Science - All events
Coffee and Science is a project run by Oxford Brazilian Society and Brazilian Studies Program. We aim to bring renowned Brazilian researchers to a round table to discuss their research. Coffee and biscuits are on us!
#20 Coffee and Science with Consuelo Dieguez - The press during unstable times – 17/06/20
Consuelo Dieguez has a degree in journalism from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ). She has been a journalist at Piauí magazine since 2007, where she writes long pieces with an investigative and literary narrative approach. Dieguez is the author of the collection of profiles Bilhões e Lágrimas (Billions and Tears), from Companhia das Letras. She worked for the newspaper O Globo, Jornal do Brasil, TV Globo and magazines Veja and Exame.
#19 Coffee and Science with Eduardo Stranz - City challenges in combating the pandemic – 10/06/20
Eduardo Stranz is an economist and consultant at the National Confederation of Municipalities. He acts on the planning of municipal actions in Brazil and focuses on the answer of local governments to the COVID-19 crisis.
#18 Coffee and Science with Dr. Eliana Sousa Silva - The impact of the pandemic in Brazil's slums and peripheries– 03/06/20
Eliana Sousa Silva is the director of the NGO Redes da Maré, researcher in public policies, visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies - USP and coordinator of the campaign "Maré says 'no' to coronavirus".
#17 Coffee and Science with Dr. Jaqueline Goes - Import and early local transmission of COVID-19 in Brazil in 2020 – 27/05/20
Dra Jaqueline Goes de Jesus has a degree in Biomedicine from Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, a masters in Biotechnology in Health and Investigative Medicine from the Instituto de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (IGM-FIOCRUZ) and a doctoral degree in Human and Experimental Pathologies from the Bahia Federal University in association with IGM-FIOCRUZ. She researches on the area of ZIKV, DENV, CHIKV, YFV, ORV and MAYV emerging arboviruses. She is currently a FAPESP funded postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo - Universidade de São Paulo (IMT-USP), based at the CADDE - Brazil-UK Centre for Arbovirus Discovery, Diagnosis, Genomics and Epidemiology. She is one of those responsible for the genetic sequencing of the new coronavirus in the first cases of COVID-19 in Latin America.
#16 Coffee and Science with Rodrigo Ferreira Figueiredo - Reflections of Covid-19 in the Brazilian Legal System – 20/05/20
Rodrigo Ferreira Figueiredo is the resident partner of Mattos Filho’s London office, practicing as a Brazilian lawyer. Rodrigo provides legal counsel to companies on a wide range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings and divestitures. For over 20 years, Rodrigo has been advising foreign clients that wish to invest in the domestic market – especially those from Europe and Asia as well as their Brazilian subsidiaries – with strategic legal issues for their business in the country. He is an Officer (Conference Coordinator for South America) of the Corporate and M&A Law Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA), Member of the Board of the Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain and also Member of the Legal Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Brazil in France. Rodrigo is routinely invited to speak on mergers and acquisitions topics.
#15 Coffee and Science with Dr. Nuno Faria – 13/05/20
Nuno Faria studied medical biology and computational biology in the Netherlands and Belgium before becoming a Research Lecturer at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK. In 2017, he became a Sir Henry Dale Fellow of the Wellcome Trust and Royal Society, UK.
His research focusses on investigating the evolutionary dynamics of viral pathogens by integrating real-time genomic, ecological, surveillance and mobility data. He is particularly interested in understanding what drives the ignition and sustained spread of emergent infectious diseases, such as zika, yellow fever, chikungunya, ebola, influenza, HIV, and COVID-19.
#14 Coffee and Science with professor Rodrigo Constante Martins - Inequality and difference in the Brazilian water governance – 06/05/20
Rodrigo Constante Martins is Professor at Department of Sociology of the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar, São Paulo - Brazil) and productivity researcher at The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He was postdoctoral fellow of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris. Currently, he is visiting professor at Université Paris Nanterre (Paris X) and scholar fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD, French). His work focuses on rural and environmental sociology, looking mainly at ruralities and environment, inequality environmental; water governance and new ruralities. He is the author of the book “Ruralidades, trabalho e meio ambiente: diálogos sobre sociabilidades rurais contemporâneas (EdUFSCar, 2015). He has published in different journals, such as Theory, Culture & Society, Autrepart: Revuedes Sciences Sociales au Sud, Sociologia (Lisbon), Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais, Sociologias, Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural, Sociedade & Estado e Ambiente & Sociedade. His current research is about the political performance of São Paulo agriculture in the decentralized and participatory system of water governance.
#13 Coffee and Science with Dr. Miguel Conde - Blood and memory in the brazilian 'Sertão': the dystopian future and redemptive pasts of 'Bacurau' – 29/04/20
Miguel Conde is a journalist and critic with a PhD in Literature and Contemporary Culture from PUC-Rio university. He is the book review editor of Words Without Borders magazine and a former curator of FLIP, Brazil’s biggest international literary festival. Miguel is currently writing a biography of Brazilian poet Ferreira Gullar and is an Academic Visitor at Oxford's Latin American Centre.
#12 Coffee and Science special panel: Political agenda for women’s rights, gender-based violence and sexual rights – 10/03/20
This additional Coffee and Science had a different format, with a panel discussion between Dr Flávia Biroli and Amanda Sadalla (MPP student at the Blavatnik School of Government) moderated by Isabela Gomes (Advocate for domestic violence survivors). The panel opened with introductory remarks by Amanda and Flávia, debating their experiences with gender violence in the São Paulo school system (the former) and gender policies and issues in Brazil (the latter). Following their introductory remarks, Isabela mediated a debate with a set of questions to further the discussion on current gender issues in Brazil and future possibilities.
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#11 Coffee and Science with professor Flávia Biroli – 03/03/20
Dr Flávia Biroli, professor at the University of Brasilia and visiting fellow at the LAC, presented an overview of her recent research on gender and democracy in Brazil and the evolution of the gender debate and policy making in Brazil and in other geographies. Her research shows how different actors, like NGOs, collectives, political parties, politicians and caucuses, and religious groups used different pathways to advance or hold back core gender issues (i.e.: abortion, equal representation in management positions, representation quotas in elective bodies, and violence against woman). She discussed how society has shifted to a new norm for gender issues, with further advances facing new hurdles and potential setbacks.
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#10 Coffee and Science with Daniela Pinheiro – 25/02/20
Daniela Pinheiro, visiting journalist at the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford, presented her experience as a journalist and chief editor of a weekly news-magazine in Brazil. She presented her views as the first woman appointed to that position in Brazil, on how she sees the role of journalism in society and democracy, highlighting the importance of dedicating time and resources to deliver well researched and well written news.
#9 Coffee and Science with Dr. Érika Berenguer – 18/02/20
Dr Érika Berenguer, senior researcher at the Environmental Change Institute/University of Oxford, presented her research on fire and drought monitoring in the Brazilian Amazon. Based on these results she discussed how fires are not natural to the Biome and pose a significant threat to its biodiversity and overall stability. Furthermore, her results show how the abnormal 2019 fire season points to a hike in deforestation rates for the 2019/2020 monitoring period.
#8 Coffee and Science with Dr. Chico Camargo – 10/02/20
Dr Chico Camargo, researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, presented his preliminary results on measuring volatility in public opinion. His research builds on his PhD experience with tools to organize and understand complexity in biological evolution to map themes and topics in media outlets such as Der Spiegel and The Times, and opinion polls, and extrapolate results to measure public opinion volatility.
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#7 Coffee and Science with professor Ana Medeiros – 28/01/20
Dr Ana Medeiros, professor at the University of Brasilia and visiting fellow at the LAC, presented the results of her visit in Oxford, when she expanded her focus on architecture to understand how societal participation and different polities interact with the urban environment and the protection of heritage, notably on how specialists (architects) react and engage with non-specialists.
#6 Coffee and Science with former Minister of Finance Joaquim Levy – 20/11/19
During the last “Coffee and Science”, Joaquim Levy, former Minister of Finance, said that “carbon neutrality for 2050 is feasible, and Brazil has many levers to smooth this transition: stopping deforestation and expanding forest regeneration/restoration are essential to curbing emissions and creating a CO2 sink with many benefits; agriculture and beef industry can grow without deforestation and help store carbon in the soil; renewable energy sources open enormous opportunities”.
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#5 Coffee and Science with Dr. Sérgio Seabra – 29/10/19
Dr. Sérgio Seabra, federal auditor officer of the Controller General of Brazil (CGU) and Visiting Fellow of Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government (BSG) talked about progresses and challenges in combating corruption in Brazil.
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#4 Coffee and Science with Dr. Ary Oswaldo Mattos Filho – 17/10/19
The Brazilian Studies Program and the Oxford Brazilian Society are pleased to have hosted the “Coffee and Science” with Dr. Ary Oswaldo Mattos Filho. The event was about “Brazil under reform: labour, tax and pension”. The Professor also spoke about the history and origin of judicial review – institution established by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Marbury v. Madison (1803) and later on “imported” by the Brazilian Law. In the end, there was a discussion about the judicialization of politics and the risk of a backlash against the courts. Dr. Ary finished the talk drawing our attention to our responsibility as a group of students who is having access to a comparative knowledge that most of the Brazilians do not have access to. He pointed out that we should have a proactive attitude when going back home to bring change to Brazil.
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#3 Coffee and Science with Professor Tiago Pereira – 11/09/19
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Professor Tiago, who has a Newton Advanced Fellowship and was selected for the Instituto Serrapilheira Award, encouraged us to reflect on why does the order emerges spontaneously in nature, for instance when the fireflies flash in synchrony or cells in the heart beat together. The Professor explained how mathematics can describe these phenomena and predict when the order will appear. The meeting was mediated by our Treasurer Lício Romão, graduate reading for DPhil in Engineering Science.
#2 Coffee and Science with Jeferson Scabio – 26/06/19
On 26th June, the Brazilian Studies Programme (BSP) and the Oxford Brazilian Society (OBS) hosted the first edition of Coffee & Science. In the occasion, the academic visitor and PhD Candidate, Jeferson Scabio, presented his research named Governmental margins: the favela from the eyes of the State. The meeting was mediated by our Senior Member, Andreza dos Santos, and the attendees had opportunities to ask questions and provide feedback to his presentation.
#1 Coffee and Science with Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Luís Roberto Barroso – 19/05/19
On 19th May, during the Brazil Forum UK, members of the Oxford Brazilian Society (OBS) had the honour to meet the Judge of the Brazilian Supreme Court Luís Roberto Barroso for a coffee. In the occasion, we had a productive talk on matters related to Brazil, such as politics, education and human rights. We are grateful for such enriching experience and expect the OBS may serve as a platform for similar remarkable moments in the future.
