Events

    2024 Apr 09

    Book Launch | Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Women, Memory , and Public Space

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216

    Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscape—the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this book stands at the forefront of contemporary discussion. More than a mere compilation, Breaking the Bronze Ceiling epitomizes a movement. The book comprehensively assesses the portrayal of women...

    Read more about Book Launch | Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Women, Memory , and Public Space
    2024 Apr 04

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: The magic gloves and Doli Goes Home by Martin Rejtman

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    The Magic Gloves (Los Guantes mágicos). Directed by Martin Rejtman. With Gabriel Fernandez Capello, Valeria Bertucelli, Fabian Arenillas. Argentina, 2003, 35mm, color, 90 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

    A rich satire of midlife crisis and free market capitalism, The Magic Gloves is a wonderful chamber piece played between two dysfunctional couples who establish an oddly symbiotic relationship, exchanging advice and services in a roundabout economy of friendship and entrepreneurship. The Magic Gloves offers a more tightly controlled variation of Rejtman’s...

    Read more about Harvard Film Archive Screening: The magic gloves and Doli Goes Home by Martin Rejtman
    2024 Apr 03

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: Rapados and Elementary Training for Actors by Martin Rejtman

    7:00pm to 9:20pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Rapado. Directed by Martin Rejtman. With Ezequiel Cavia, Damian Dreizik, Mirta Busnelli. Argentina, 1992, 35mm, color, 75 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

    Rejtman’s legendary feature debut became an instant cult sensation, immediately recognized as an authentic, iconic harbinger of a new sensibility in Argentine and Latin American filmmaking. Rapado boldly announced Rejtman’s signature laconic style with its restrained camera work, zero-degree performance style, crisply distilled dialogue and its careful structure of repetitions that both abstract and...

    Read more about Harvard Film Archive Screening: Rapados and Elementary Training for Actors by Martin Rejtman
    2024 Apr 02

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: Silvia Prieto and Copacabana by Martin Rejtman

    7:00pm to 9:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Silvia Prieto. Directed by Martin Rejtman. With Rosario Bléfari, Valeria Bertuccelii, Susana Pampin. Argentina, 1999, 35mm, color, 92 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

    Rejtman’s effervescent masterpiece is a glittering screwball-inspired comedy of shifting identities that centers around the ardent efforts of its strong-willed heroine to suddenly lead her life in a radically new direction. Buoyed by its fanciful, rapid-fire dialogue and an at times hilariously absurd story, Silvia Prieto is saturated in a pop sensibility that belies a fascination with bright...

    Read more about Harvard Film Archive Screening: Silvia Prieto and Copacabana by Martin Rejtman
    2024 Mar 28

    Dos X: On the Crip Ethics of the "Misrecognitive" in Latinx and Filipinx American Culture

    4:00pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216

    To attend, please register through Eventbrite using this link.

    This presentation will explore the theoretical and historiographic contributions of ethnic studies in problematizing the in/capacitations and disablements central to the project of colonial racial capitalism. This will be accomplished through an analysis of the philosophical and affective dynamics of racial misrecognition as a precondition for...

    Read more about Dos X: On the Crip Ethics of the "Misrecognitive" in Latinx and Filipinx American Culture
    2024 Mar 27

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216

    Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature (2023, Northwestern University Press, FlashPoints Series) takes us to the edges, surfaces, and turns of the literary artifact when it crosses cultural boundaries. As Rosario Hubert demonstrates, in the absence of specialized programs of study, abstract discussions of China in Latin America took shape in contingent critical infrastructures built at the crossroads of the literary market, cultural diplomacy, and commerce.

    Disoriented Disciplines understands translation as a material act of transfer,...

    Read more about Arts and Humanities Workshop | Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature
    2024 Mar 25

    Roots of Resilience: Art and Heritage as Drivers of Socio-economic Development in the Iron Quadrangle - Brazil

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216

    Minas Gerais’ Quadrilátero Ferrífero, or Iron Quadrangle, is one of Brazil’s richest cultural, environmental and historical regions, home to two UNESCO World Heritage towns and Brazil’s largest iron ore reserves. The Quadrilátero Ferrífero region offers centuries of history through its architecture, monuments, archaeological sites, culinary, rituals, handicrafts, religious festivals and natural resources. Yet its local communities, natural environment and rich cultural heritage are at imminent risk from catastrophic natural and humanitarian disasters resulting from industrial mining. The...

    Read more about Roots of Resilience: Art and Heritage as Drivers of Socio-economic Development in the Iron Quadrangle - Brazil
    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. 

    Register to attend this event...

    Read more about Blindada: Poemas de Protección
    2024 Feb 05

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: It is night in America (É Noite na América)

    7:00pm to 8:05pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    In the opening shot of Ana Vaz’s feature debut, an intense blue descends upon the sprawling, modernist metropolis of Brasília, which starts spinning out of control as a symphony of wild animal sounds crescendos. It is night in America. A recognition, an alarm, an investigation, a lament…Vaz’s film sounds every one of these notes and then some, within rather subtle boundaries, such as the limited exposure and contrast range of an expired 16mm film stock, along with “day for night” shooting techniques that fabricate a permanent twilight. Through patient and attentive observation, Vaz...

    Read more about Harvard Film Archive Screening: It is night in America (É Noite na América)
    2024 Feb 04

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: Ana Vaz Short Films

    7:00pm to 8:15pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    The screenings are part of the Harvard Film Archive Film Series EXCAVATING SUBTERRANEA. THE FILM POEMS OF ANA VAZ

    Apiyemiyekî? Directed by Ana Vaz. Brazil/France/Portugal/Netherlands, 2019, DCP, color and b&w, 27 min. DCP source: Lightcone

    Amazing Fantasy. Directed by Ana Vaz. France/Japan, 2018, DCP, color, 3 min. DCP source: Lightcone

    There Is Land! (Há terra!). Directed by Ana Vaz. Brazil/France, 2016, DCP, color, 13 min. Portuguese with English subtitles. DCP source: Lightcone

    Atomic Garden. Directed by Ana Vaz. Brazil/Portugal, 2018,...

    Read more about Harvard Film Archive Screening: Ana Vaz Short Films
    2023 Oct 25

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Afectos metafísicos: Borges, modernidad urbana y duelo

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This workshop will be held in Spanish.

    Speaker Juan Torbidoni, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA)

    Moderated by Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

    En este workshop vamos a conversar sobre el proyecto de investigación del Prof. Juan Torbidoni sobre los modos en que Jorge Luis Borges, Macedonio Fernández y Leopoldo Marechal procesan la experiencia de la modernidad...

    Read more about Arts and Humanities Workshop | Afectos metafísicos: Borges, modernidad urbana y duelo
    2023 Oct 18

    Harvard Art Museums Program: Bosco Sodi in Dialogue

    6:00pm to 7:15pm

    Location: 

    Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums

    Speaker: Bosco Sodi, Artist
    Moderated by: Mary Schneider Enriquez, former Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums

    Discussion with Bosco Sodi about his sculpture installation Origen, which marks the first outdoor public art display for the Harvard Art Museums. Mary Schneider Enriquez, former Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museums, will talk with Bosco Sodi about his practice,...

    Read more about Harvard Art Museums Program: Bosco Sodi in Dialogue
    2023 Oct 17

    Energies and Imaginations: Hypotheses for a Present in Transition

    2:30pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    HAA Lower Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA, 02138

    Speakers: Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Head of the PhD Program in Architecture and Urban Studies, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Cara Daggett, Associate Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech; Jota Mombaça, Artist based in Brazil, Germany, and Portugal; Marina Otero Verzier, Head of the Social Design Masters Program, Design Academy Eindhoven; Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Artist based in Guatemala; Elizabeth...

    Read more about Energies and Imaginations: Hypotheses for a Present in Transition
    2023 Sep 25

    The Chinese Shoe (El zapato chino)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Cristián Sánchez
    With Felisa González, Andrés Quintana, Fernando Andía
    Chile, 1979, DCP, black & white, 72 min
    Spanish with English subtitles
    DCP source: Cineteca Nacional de Chile

    Shot clandestinely on a shoestring budget, the second feature by prolific filmmaker and theorist Cristián Sánchez bears an uncanny, yet ultimately only vague, resemblance to Taxi Driver (1976) with its story of a cabbie who spontaneously rescues a young woman from a brothel only to develop an obsessive yet platonic love for her. By keeping all violence and...

    Read more about The Chinese Shoe (El zapato chino)
    2023 Sep 25

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | A conversation with Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and Martín Kohan

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be held in Spanish.

    Speakers: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Writer; Martín Kohan, Writer
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

    Gabriela Cabezón Cámara y Martín Kohan escribieron algunas de las novelas, cuentos y ensayos más notables de la literatura argentina contemporánea. Sus textos reescriben y dislocan la historia política y la tradición literaria argentinas, y las reinscriben y...

    Read more about Arts and Humanities Workshop | A conversation with Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and Martín Kohan
    2023 Sep 22

    One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (Cien niños esperando un tren)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Speaker: Ignacio Agüero, Filmmaker
    Moderated by: Haden Guest, Director, Harvard film Archive

    Director in Person
    $15 Special Event Tickets
    Directed by Ignacio Agüero
    Chile/UK, 1988, DCP, color and b&w, 55 min
    Spanish with English subtitles 
    DCP source: Filmmaker

    Agüero’s remarkable documentary begins as a tender portrait of influential film historian, educator and activist Alicia Vega (b.1931) teaching a workshop on early film history to impoverished youth living on the outskirts of Santiago....

    Read more about One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (Cien niños esperando un tren)
    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.

    ...

    Read more about Open House Celebration
    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,...

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

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

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

Pages