Events

    2024 Mar 07

    Blindada: Poemas de Protección

    6:30pm

    Location: 

    Barker Center Thompson Room

    Join us to experience this multidisciplinary performance, honoring Afro-diasporic spirituality and collective healing through verse, percussion, and movement. Featuring Yaissa Jimenez, Prince Angel Jah Rose, & J. Blak.

    Doors open at 6:30 pm, show starts at 7 pm. 

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    2023 Sep 21

    Open House Celebration

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium & Concourse

    To register for this event, click here.

    Learn all about DRCLAS programs, events, and student opportunities at the Open House Celebration!

    The evening starts with a panel of students asking our Faculty Director, Steve Levitsky about all things DRCLAS, Latin America, politics, new books, and more.

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    2023 Jul 19

    Cruzando las Américas Arte e ideas en movimiento (1500-1800)

    Wed Jul 19 (All day) to Fri Jul 21 (All day)


    This event is virtual and will be held in Spanish. To register, click here.

    In an attempt to move our discipline beyond Eurocentric perspectives, this conference explores connections that artworks express from within the American territories: from California to Aracuaní (North/South), from Acapulco to Río de Janiero (West/East), and from Potosí to Buenos Aires (High/Low). We propose the concept of “crossing” as the analytical framework, aiming to demonstrate not only intra-American hybridity, but also the...

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    2022 Mar 09

    DRCLAS Film Series: Sand Dollars by Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas

    5:00pm to 6:00pm


    For a recording of this event, please click here.

    Speakers: Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas, filmmakers
    Moderated by: Laura Pérez Muñoz & Adri Rodríguez Ríos, PhD Candidates in Romance Languages and Literatures (Latinx & Spanish Track), Harvard University

    A conversation with filmmakers Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas on the film Sand Dollars (2014). The...

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    2021 Oct 21

    DRCLAS Film Series | Brincando el charco by Frances Negrón-Muntaner

    5:00pm to 6:15pm


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    Speaker: Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Filmmaker and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
    Moderated by: Laura Pérez Muñoz, PhD Candidate Romance Languages and Literatures, Latinx and Spanish Track, Harvard University

    A conversation with filmmaker Frances Negrón-Muntaner on the film Brincando el Charco (1994). The movie will be offered...

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    2020 Oct 01

    In-House Open House

    6:00pm


    This event is virtual, to register click here.

    Join us as we welcome our new faculty director, Steven Levitsky!

    Professor Levitsky will be joined by Marcia Castro, co-chair of the Brazil Studies Program and Alejandro de la Fuente, chair of the Cuba Studies Program to discuss ongoing and upcoming initiatives in three priority areas for 2020-21: challenges to democracy, the impact...

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    2019 Oct 16

    A PROVOCATION: Joyelle McSweeney, Urayoán Noel + Ronaldo V. Wilson

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    Forum Room, Lamont Library, 11 Quincy Street

    Speakers: Joyelle McSweeney, author of TOXICON
    Urayoán Noel, author of BUZZING HEMISPHERE/RUMOR HEMISFÉRICO
    Ronald V. Wilson, author of POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT

    A reading by three of the most dynamic and provocative performers in the genre: Joyelle McSweeney (author of TOXICON), Urayoán Noel (author of BUZZING HEMISPHERE/RUMOR HEMISFÉRICO), and Ronald V. Wilson (author of POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT). 

    Presented in collaboration with ...

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    2019 Apr 19

    Central America and the Caribbean Film Series presents: Puerto Rico: Trouble in Paradise

    5:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street

    Trouble in Paradise: Puerto Rico After Maria

    A look at 21st century Puerto Rico, especially in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the preexisting crisis. Conversation about the status quo and communities standing up when faced with social abandonment.


    Presented in collaboration with Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (IBA), Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico School of Law, Consulado General de México en Boston, Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF) and The Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard

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    2019 Mar 11

    Panel Discussion: Central American Migration and Cultural Exchanges

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street

    The proposed panel discussion is part of the supporting programing for the exhibition Arquitectura del vaivén: Diasporic Building(s) in Central America’s Northern Triangle, organized by DRCLAS Arts and the Central America and the Caribbean’s programs during the academic year 2018-2019, and curated by Gabriela Poma, Harvard University Doctoral student in Romance Languages and Literatures. The panel responds to interest in the study of...

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    2019 Mar 11

    Central America & the Caribbean Film Series: Cárcel de árboles / Prison of Trees (Guatemala, 2015)

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street

    Carcel ImageA film by Guillermo Escalón y Rodrigo Rey Rosa

    Chained and tortured, dozens of youths from the United States and from prominent Guatemalan families were held captive in the depths of the Guatemalan jungle in the 1970s and 1980s. With the complicity of the military high command that...

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    2018 Oct 15

    Exhibition Opening and Panel Discussion: Arquitectura del vaivén: Diasporic Building(s) in Central America’s Northern Triangle

    5:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street

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    Speakers: Gabriela Poma, Harvard University Doctoral student in Romance Languages and Literatures; Fred Ritchin, Dean Emeritus of the School at the International Center of Photography (ICP) ; Susan Meiselas, Photographer, 2018-2019 Radcliffe Institute Fellow

    The event will include a...

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