Events

    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 Sep 11

    The Battle of Chile, Part Three: The Power of the People (La Batalla de Chile: El poder popular)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Patricio Guzmán
    Chile/Cuba/France, 1978, DCP, black & white, 79 min
    Spanish with English subtitles
    DCP source: Icarus Films

    Completed a couple of years after the first and second parts, The Power of the People offers an important coda to Guzmán’s epic documentary by turning away from the forces who opposed Allende and instead examining the loose coalition of workers and citizens who attempted to save Allende’s visionary politics. A stirring testimony to the grassroots power of Allende’s movement and its singular appeal to the working class,...

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    2023 Sep 10

    The Battle of Chile, Part Two: The Coup d’État (La Batalla de Chile: El golpe de estado)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Patricio Guzmán
    Chile/Cuba/France, 1976, DCP, black & white, 88 min
    Spanish with English subtitles
    DCP source: Icarus Films

    The second part of The Battle of Chile begins with the Chilean military’s first attempted coup in June 1973 and tracks the steady deterioration of Allende’s position across the months leading up to September 11. Focusing on Allende’s attempts to stave off the splintering of his party from within, The Coup d’État captures the frightening escalation of violence that began in the streets and climaxed in the fatal...

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    2023 Sep 09

    The Battle of Chile, Part One: The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie (La Batalla de Chile: La Insurrección de la Burguesía)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Patricio Guzmán 
    Chile/Cuba/France, 1975, DCP, black & white, 96 min
    Spanish with English subtitles
    DCP source: Icarus FIlms

    The Battle of Chile began as a boldly spontaneous attempt to comprehensively document Allende’s truly revolutionary experiment in social justice in its formative stages. Using film stock provided by Chris Marker, a thirty-one-year-old Guzmán, fresh out of film school in Madrid, led a team of cameramen into the streets of Santiago and outlying towns to capture the different sides forming staunchly for and...

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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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    2023 Mar 06

    The Day After a Mega Event: How to Adapt Infrastructures for a more Equal, Adaptable, and Participatory City”

    6:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-030

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speakers: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Harvard University; Joaquin Tomé, Master in Urban Planning Candidate, Harvard University; Lindsay Mayer, Master in Urban Planning Candidate, Harvard University; Shrinkhala Khatiwlada,...

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    2022 Dec 14

    Cóctel, Proyección y Conversación: El Charles Bronson Chileno

    8:00pm to 11:00pm

    Location: 

    Centre de Cine y Creación (CCC) Raulí 581, Santiago, Chile

    Para registrarse a este evento, click acá.

    Speakers: Carlos Flores, Director de Cine; Dominga Sotomayor, Directora CCC y Profesora Visitante de Art Film and Visual studies, Harvard University; Haden Guest, Director, Harvard Film Archive

    Proyección especial de la película El...

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    2022 Oct 11

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Breve historia del antipopulismo: A conversation with Ernesto Semán

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216

    To register for this event, please click here.

    Speaker: Ernesto Semán, Associate Professor of Latin American History, University of Bergen
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    For this session, we will read and discuss the Introduction and Chapter 7 of  Breve historia del antipopulismo. PDFs available below...

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    2022 Feb 17

    Conversatorio sobre al libro Pantalla partida de Natalí Schejtman

    4:00pm to 6:00pm


    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speakers: Natalí Schejtman, Writer and Journalist; Gonzalo Aguilar, Professor of Brazilian and Portuguese Literatures, Universidad de Buenos Aires; Ignacio Azcueta, PhD student in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Doris Sommer, Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and African and African...

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    2021 Dec 01

    DRCLAS Film Series | A Fantastic Woman by Sebastián Lelio

    5:00pm to 6:00pm


    For a recording of this event, please click here.

    Speaker: Sebastián Lelio, Filmmaker
    Moderated by: Jorge Sánchez Cruz,  Visiting Assistant Professor, Harvard University and Adri Rodríguez Ríos, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    A conversation with filmmaker Sebastián Lelio on the film A Fantastic Woman. The movie will be offered for free through...

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    2021 Nov 11

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Perder su mundo y perder el mundo: la poesía y la crisis migratoria venezolana

    5:00pm to 7:00pm


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

    Speakers: Gustavo Guerrero, Professor of Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture, CY Cergy Paris Université; Adalber Salas Hernández, Poet, Essayist, and Translator; Santiago Acosta, Scholar and Poet; Natasha Tiniacos...

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    2021 Sep 22

    “Revistas culturales latinoamericanas, recorte y globalización de la cultura en la primera mitad del siglo XX”

    5:30pm to 7:00pm

    This event is part of Harvard-UAI Collaborative Research Discoveries in Chile Series and will be held in Spanish. This event is virtual and will be held at 6:30pm Santiago de Chile time. To register, click here

    Speaker: Antonia Viu, Directora Departamento de Literatura, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind...

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    2021 May 04

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Poeta Chileno: A Conversation with Alejandro Zambra

    5:30pm to 6:30pm


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

    Speaker: Alejandro Zambra, Poet and Novelist
    Moderated by: Nicole Inostroza, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University and Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    ---Alejandro Zambra vuelve en grande a la novela con este magnífico libro sobre familias...

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    2021 Apr 15

    Justicia Restaurativa en Colombia y las Humanidades / Restorative Justice in Colombia and the Humanities

    2:00pm


    This event is virtual and will be held in Spanish with simultaneous English translation. To view the Spanish recording, click here. To view the English recording, click here

    Speakers: Roberto Carlos Vidal López, Magistrado del Tribunal para la Paz y Profesor investigador-Pontificia...

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