Professor Otavio Leonídio, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, addresses the role that the construction of Brasília in the late 1950s played in the atavistic ideal of a fully integrated Brazil. Leonídio presents an overview of the Brazilian Modernist movement of the 1920s and an outline of Brazil's "desenvolvimentista" or developmentalist, ideology of the 1950s. Visit http://www.facebook.com/events/258285600950122 for more information.