2020 Dec 01
Right Wing Populism in Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To register, click here.
Speakers: Kenneth Roberts, Binenkorb Director of the Latin American Studies Program and Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government, Cornell University; Cristobal Rovira, Professor of Political Science, Universidad Diego Portales in Chile; Amy Erica Smith, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professor and...
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2020 Nov 19
Machado de Assis: Perspectives on a recurrent Brazil
5:00pm to 6:30pm

This event is virtual, the link is forthcoming.
Speaker: Flora Thompson-Deveaux, PhD, translator and research director at Radio Novelo
Moderated by: Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History and African and African-American Studies at Harvard University
The conversation will cover the current debate on the relevance of the work of Machado de Assis to understand contemporary Brazil with particular attention to its political and social struggles. It will particularly explore new takes on the reading of "Memórias Póstumas...
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2020 Nov 17
Federalism and COVID Responses
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To register, click here.
Speaker: Agustina Giraudy, Associate Professor of Political Science, American University
Discussant: Kent Eaton, Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Moderated by: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University...
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2020 Nov 12
DRCLAS Film Series: ZURITA, VERÁS NO VER by Alejandra Carmona
6:00pm to 7:00pm

This event is virtual and will be held in Spanish.  To register click here.
Speakers: Raúl Zurita, Poet, DRCLAS RFK Visiting Scholar 2015-2016; Alejandra Carmona Cannobbio, Filmmaker
Moderated by: Rodrigo del Río, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures
A conversation with poet Raul Zurita and filmmaker Alejandra Carmona on the...
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2020 Nov 12
Transnational Perspectives: COVID-19 in South America
12:00pm to 1:30pm

This event is virtual, to register click here.
Speakers: Marcos Cueto, Professor of the History of Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Brazil; Lucía Dammert, Professor of International Relations at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile; María Inés Pacecca, Professor in the Department of Anthropological Sciences and researcher at the Institute of Anthropological Sciences at the...
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2020 Nov 10
The Uneven Racial and Ethnic Impacts of COVID in Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To register, click here.
Speakers: Veronica Figueroa, Profesora Asociada del Instituto de Asuntos Públicos, Universidad de Chile; Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy Development and Rule of Law, Stanford University; Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair, Department of Global Health and...
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2020 Nov 03
Police Legitimacy in Chile
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To register, click here.
Speaker: Lucia Dammert, Executive Director, Global Consortium on Security Transformation, Universidad de Chile
Discussants: Jessie Bullock, PhD Candidate in Government, Harvard University; Kaitlyn Chriswell, PhD Candidate in Comparative Politics, Harvard University
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2020 Oct 30
The Resurgence Of The Right: Evaluating The Impact Of The Trump Policies On The Opinion Towards Cuba And Its Government Within The Cuban Diaspora Of South Florida
12:00pm to 2:00pm

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Speakers: Guillermo J. Grenier, Professor of Sociology and Chair in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University; Qing Lai, Associate Professor Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University
Moderated by: Alejandro...
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2020 Oct 29
Èṣù's Three-way Crossroads: The Future of Ancestrality in Uncertain Times
6:00pm to 7:30pm

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Speakers: Luiz Rufino, PhD and scholar at UERJ; Sidnei Nogueira, Professor of and Coordinator of the Ilê Ará Institute; Rodney William, PhD, Anthropologist, and babalorixá
Moderated by: Joaquín Terrones, PhD and Lecturer of Literature at MIT
In recent times, a segment of academia has come to the realization that its institutions and disciplines currently produce...
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2020 Oct 29
Bolivia: elección y gobernabilidad / Bolivia: Elections and Governability
4:00pm to 5:00pm

This event is virtual, to register click here. 
Speakers: Erika Brockmann, Former Senator, political scientist and political analyst; Armando Ortuño, Former Vice Minister of Planning and Ambassador, economist and social researcher
Moderated by: Victoria Murillo, Professor of Political Science, Columbia; Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University and...
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2020 Oct 28
Water Challenges on the U.S.- Mexico Border
6:00pm to 7:15pm

This virtual event is part of the Food Security in the Americas Series. To register, click here.  
 
Water Traveling Incognito. US-Mexico Transboundary Hydro-Policy and Virtual Water in...
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2020 Oct 27
Democratic Backsliding in Contemporary Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm

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Speakers: Manuel Melendez-Sanchez, PhD candidate in Political Science, Harvard University; Santiago Anria, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, Dickinson College; Calla Hummel, Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Miami; Carmen Aída Lazo, Dean of the School...
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2020 Oct 23
Constitutional Democracy and the Role of High Courts in Times of Crisis: The Case of Mexico
12:00pm

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Introduction: Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
Speakers: Justice Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena, Supreme Court Justice, Mexican Supreme Court...
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2020 Oct 22
Harvard-Brazil Dialogue with Fernando Haddad
10:00am to 11:30am

This event is virtual and will be in Portuguese. To register, click here.
Speaker: Fernando Haddad, Professor, University of São Paulo and Insper; Former Minister of Education; Former Mayor of São Paulo
Moderator: Hussein Kalout, Research Scholar, Harvard University; Former Secretary of Strategic Affairs of Brazil (2017-2018)
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2020 Oct 19
Challenges to Contain COVID-19 in Latin America: Lessons from Chile & Peru
12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Speakers: Maria Antonieta Alva, Minister of Economy & Finance, Peru; Eduardo Engel, Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Chile
Moderated by: Gordon Hanson, Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Latin America has become an epicenter of COVID-19...
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2020 Oct 15
The Fall 2020 Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture: Juan Villoro, "The Obsidian Mirror: Literature and Archaeology in Mexico"
6:00pm to 7:30pm

This event will be virtual, to register click here.
Speaker: Juan Villoro, Author and Journalist, El Colegio Nacional (Mexico)
Mexican authors Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, José Emilio Pacheco, Salvador Novo, Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, and Rosario Castellanos, among others, have sought to use language to explore and recover the links between Mexico’s Indigenous peoples and its contemporary society. Focusing on Mexico’s pre-Hispanic past, Juan Villoro will explore the...
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2020 Oct 15
The Mariel Effect: Social and Racial Tensions in South Florida in the Wake of the Boatlift
11:00am

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Speakers: Julio Capó, Jr., PhD, Associate Professor, Department of History and Deputy Director, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, Florida International University; Antonio López, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of English, George Washington...
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2020 Oct 13
The Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America: Causes and Consequences of Lava Jato
12:00pm to 1:20pm
This event is part of a virtual series. To register, click here.
Speakers: Ezequiel González Ocantos, Associate Professor in the Qualitative Study of Comparative Political Institutions, University of Oxford; Paula Muñoz, Profesora del Departamento Académico de Ciencias Sociales y Políticas, Universidad del Pacifico en Perú
Discussant: Alisha Holland,...
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2020 Oct 08
Resisting Police Violence in the Americas: Mothers on the Front Lines
4:00pm to 5:30pm

This event is virtual, to register click here. 
Speakers: Dorothy Holmes, Ronnieman Foundation and Justice for Families, Chicago, US; Débora Maria da Silva, Mothers of May, Brazil; Rute Fiuza, Mothers of May of the Northeast, Brazil; Jacqueline Castillo, Mothers of False Positives of Soacha and Bogotá, Colombia; Cristina Bautista Salvador, Mothers and...
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2020 Oct 07
Channeling Anzaldúa: Navigating the Borders of Gender, Culture, Language, and Sexuality in Sports and Beyond
7:30pm to 8:30pm
This event is virtual, to register click here.
Speaker: Janelly Farías, professional soccer player for Chivas Femenil and the Mexican Women's National Team
Farías is openly gay and was born and raised in Southern California. Soccer was her passion, but when she came out, she felt isolated and...
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