Events

    2024 Apr 19

    Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries. The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform our...

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    2024 Apr 05

    Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries. The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform our...

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    2024 Mar 29

    The Role of Courts in Advancing the Right to a Healthy Environment: Lessons from Latin America

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Austin Hall; 111 Classroom – West. Harvard Law School

    Latin America has been at the forefront of judicialization of a right to a healthy environment. Courts in different countries have curbed burning and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, as well as the expansion of wind farms in Mexico; they have ordered the clean-up of river basins in Argentina and ordered the protection of important ecosystems in Colombia. Some high courts have embraced ‘rights of nature’ and have fashioned innovative structural remedies, which have included the creation of new institutions. Nonetheless, there is a very mixed record on implementation of the judgments...

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    2024 Mar 22

    Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries.

    The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform...

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    2024 Feb 23

    Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries.

    The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform...

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    2024 Feb 15

    Desinformación en América Latina: Retos para la democracia liberal

    4:30pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States (2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor), Hybrid

    Speaker: Juan Luis Manfredi, Príncipe de Asturías Distinguished Visiting Professor, Georgetown University.

    Moderated by Javier Lafuente Preciados, Harvard Nieman Fellow.

    Welcoming remarks by Alisha Holland, Professor of Government at Harvard University.

    This event is hybrid, to attend register here.

    For more information, click...

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    2024 Feb 02

    Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries.

    The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform...

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    2023 Dec 08

    Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries.

    The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform...

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    2023 Nov 17

    Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries.

    The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform...

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    2023 Nov 16

    Decentralization and Outcomes: Has Decentralization Improved Health in Latin America?

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Inspired by the DRCLAS Seminar “Was Decentralization a Mistake for Latin America” in November 2022, this seminar is designed to present some recent focused empirical research on how to define types of decentralization and to assess how decentralization contributes to specific outcomes in the health sector. The panelists have experience in specifying characteristics of decentralization in different countries and will present some recent research in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Honduras using sophisticated methodologies to evaluate outputs and outcomes of different...

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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 Apr 20

    Green Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Inter-American Development Bank's Vision

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S216 Room, CGIS South

    This event is hybrid. To register for this in-person event, click here. To register for the virtual session, click here.

    Speakers: Ricardo Hausmann, Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy, Director of the Harvard Growth Lab, Harvard Kennedy School; Lenin H. Balza,...

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    2023 Apr 19

    Migration Cluster Seminar: "Majority Minority: The Pursuit of a Diverse Democracy" with Justin Gest

    3:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-050

    Speaker: Justin Gest, Associate Professor of Policy and Government, George Mason University

    How do societies respond to great demographic change? This question lingers over the contemporary politics of many countries where persistent immigration has altered populations and may soon produce a majority minority milestone, where the original ethnic or religious majority loses its numerical advantage to one or more foreign-origin minority groups. Until now, most of our knowledge about large-scale responses to demographic change has been based on studies of...

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    2023 Feb 22

    Relevance on Indigeneity

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-030

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speakers: Selene Manga, Takemi Fellow in International Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Emil’ Keme, Humanities Fellow in Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University; Julie Fiveash, Librarian for American Indigenous Studies at Tozzer Library, Harvard University;...

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    2022 Oct 20

    Indigenous diplomacy: participation and the agenda of the Indigenous Peoples at the UN

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Belfer (S-020)

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speaker: Diego Tituaña, Kichwa Otavalo diplomat from Ecuador who served at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations from 2014 to 2019 and was in charge of human rights, disarmament, and international security agendas
    Commentators:...

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    2019 Nov 19

    Security Matters: Evidence from Brazil, Colombia and Mexico

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216

    Speakers: Graham Denyer Willis, Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge; Annette Idler, Visiting Scholar WCFIA, Harvard University; Director of Studies of the Changing Character of War Centre, University of Oxford

    Moderator: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Graduate School of Design

    Graham Denyer Willis is University Senior Lecturer in Development and Latin American Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University, and Fellow of...

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    2019 May 03

    Frontiers of Clientelism: Linking the Micro and the Macro

    9:00am to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S030, 1730 Cambridge Street

    Panels will discuss: Clientelism, Linkages and Party Organization, Political Competition, Linkage Strategies, Political Economy

    Please note: this event is by invitation only. Please contact Horacio Larreguy (hlarreguy@fas.harvard.edu) if interested.

    Presented in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

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    2018 Oct 22

    Environmental Health Capacity Building In Latin America

    1:00pm to 2:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Building 1, Room 1302, Boston

    Presenters:

    Douglas Dockery, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Research Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
    Rick Rogers, Principal Research Scientist, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
    Ramon Sanchez, Director, Sustainable Technologies and Health Program, Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE), Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan...

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