Events

    2023 Sep 20

    El Descenso de Nicaragua a la dictadura: Perspectivas de exiliados políticos

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be hybrid and will be held in Spanish. To register for the online session, click here.

    Este evento sera hibrido y en idioma Espanol. Para registrarse a la session en linea, click here.

    Panelistas: Dora María Téllez, Nicaraguan historian, politician, and social rights activist; Marcela Castillo Mejia, Harvard University, ALB’ 24;...

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    2023 Sep 19

    Guatemala’s 2023 Elections

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event is hybrid. To register for the online session, click here.

    Speakers: Rachel A. Schwartz, Assistant Professor of International and Area Studies, University of Oklahoma; Carlos Mendoza, Academic Coordinator of Diálogos; Claudia Méndez Arriaza, Journalist
    Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David...

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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 Apr 04

    Who Gives Us Our Names?

    6:00pm to 7:30pm


    This event is virtual, to join click here. COATL and Fuerza will organize a viewing party in CGIS S030 for those interested in joining in-person.

    Speakers: Kuitlahuak A. Martinez, Speak Nahuatl Language Teacher (Nahua); Odilia Romero, Co-founder and Executive Director of Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo (CIELO) (Zapotec); Dr. Marcelo...

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    2023 Mar 07

    Migration on the Rise: The Roles of Work, Violence, and Climate Change

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speakers: Abby Córdova, Associate Professor of Global Affairs, Faculty Fellow of the Keough School’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame; Sarah Bermeo, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, co-director of the Duke Program on Climate-Related Migration, Duke University; David Scott FitzGerald, Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican...

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    2022 Dec 05

    The Nun and the Volcano: Revolutionary Histories and the ‘Memory of Possibility’ in Guatemala

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    S450, CGIS South

    This event will be hybrid. To join for the virtual session, click here.

    Speaker: Betsy Konefal, Associate Professor of History, William & Mary; DRCLAS Central American Visiting Scholar
    Moderated by: Erin Goodman, Director of the Weatherhead Scholars Program, Harvard University

    ...

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    2022 Apr 05

    Health Justice in the Americas: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

    12:30pm


    This event is virtual, to register click here.

    Introduction: Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center; Laura Clérico, Independent Researcher, Argentine National Scientific and Technical Council (CONICET), Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Buenos Aires, and Honorary...

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    2022 Mar 29

    What Bitcoin Means for El Salvador

    5:30pm to 7:00pm


    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speakers: Christian Catalini, Founder of the MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab, Research Scientist at MIT; Nelson Rauda Zablah, Salvadoran journalist at El Faro
    Moderated by: Laura Alfaro, Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration

    Christian Catalini is a co-creator of Diem (formerly Libra), and the Chief Economist of the Diem...

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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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    2022 Mar 02

    The New Neoliberal Experiment in Latin America: Honduran ZEDEs or Private Cities

    5:00pm to 6:30pm


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

    Speakers: Venessa Cardenas Woods, Vice President of the Crawfish Rock Governing Council; Member of the Coordinating Board for Territorial Defense of the Bay Islands in Honduras; Lucía Vijil Saybe, researcher and analyst at Centre for the Study of...

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    2021 Dec 01

    Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas

    4:00pm to 5:30pm


    This event is virtual, to register click here.

    Speaker: Stephen Kaplan, Associate Professor of Political Science and Economic Affairs, George Washington University

    This book explores how China’s state-led capitalism affects national level governance. China, as the world’s largest saver, has more than doubled its overseas banking presence since the 2008 global financial crisis...

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    2021 Oct 22

    Conversatorio: Migraciones Haitianas Contemporáneas: Fronteras, detenciones y violencias raciales

    12:00pm to 2:00pm


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

    Speakers: Jean Eddy Saint, Professor of Sociology, former Founding Director of the CUNY Haitian Studies Institute; Elisa Ortega-Velázquez, Investigadora Titular, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM; Juan Arturo Gómez Tóbon,...

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    2021 Oct 15

    ALARI Seminar Series with Nohora Arrieta: Poéticas amargas: estéticas y políticas de la plantación de azúcar en Brasil y el Caribe (1990-2018)

    12:00pm to 2:00pm


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

    Speaker: Nohora Arrieta Fernandez, 2020-2021 ALARI Research Associate; PhD Candidate in Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Georgetown University; CLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion fellow (2020-2021)

    La plantación de azúcar ha sido una...

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    2021 Oct 12

    Abortion Politics In Latin America

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


    For a recording of this event, please click here.

    Argentina’s legalization of abortion on demand in 2020 was closely followed across Latin America. The role of religion in politics has changed dramatically in the region. On the one hand, societies gave grown more secular and the influence of the Catholic Church has waned; on the other hand, growing evangelical movements have given new life to social conservatism. How are the politics of abortion...

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