Events

    2024 Mar 19

    The Greener Gender: Women Politicians and Deforestation in Brazil

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216, Hybrid

    This event is hybrid, to attend remotely register here.

    This paper examines the impact of women’s political representation on deforestation rates in Brazil. Using close election regression discontinuity design, we show that women, when elected to office, are more likely to drive improved environmental outcomes due to factors such as reduced access to corrupt networks that influence the enforcement of environmental laws at the local level. Altogether, our findings demonstrate...

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    2023 Oct 17

    The Impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

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

    Speaker: Fernando Limongi, Professor of Political Science, São Paulo University; Fundação Getulio Vargas
    Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...

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    2023 Sep 26

    Street Politics in Brazil (2003-2013)

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

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

    Speaker: Angela Alonso, Professor of Sociology, University of São Paulo, Visiting Fellow at ALARI
    Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

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    2022 Nov 30
    2022 Nov 15

    After Clientelism: How the Breakdown of Political Representation Led to a Crisis of Democracy in Brazil and Beyond

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216

    This event will be hybrid. To register for virtual, click here; to register for in-person, click here.

    Speaker: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government...

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    2022 Nov 08

    Civil Society is Not an Unalloyed Good: The Organizational Foundations of Bolsonarismo

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216

    This event will be hybrid. To register for virtual, click here; to register for in-person, click here.

    Speaker: Liz McKenna, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
    Moderated by: Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David...

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    2020 Apr 14

    O que o coronavírus revela sobre as cidades brasileiras? Favelas e assentamentos informais, até quando?

    11:30am to 12:45pm

    Location: 

    Zoom Webinar

    Speaker: Washington Fajardo, Arquiteto e Urbanista; Harvard DRCLAS Visiting Researcher

    Moderator: Philip Yang, Fundador do Urbem – Instituto de Urbanismo e Estudos para a Metrópole; Membro do Conselho Consultivo do Harvard-Brazil Office

    Washington Fajardo é arquiteto e urbanista pela FAU-UFRJ ’96, e dedica-se ao desenvolvimento urbano. Autor de projetos de reabilitação, habitação social, urban design e espaços culturais. Ex-presidente do Instituto Rio Patrimônio da Humanidade (2009-2016) implementou...

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    2020 Apr 08

    Transparência e resposta à COVID-19 no Brasil

    6:00pm to 7:15pm

    Location: 

    Zoom Webinar

    This event is virtual. To register for this event, please click here

    Speakers: Fernanda Campagnucci, Executive Director of Open Knowledge Brasil;  Manoel Galdino, Executive Director of Transparência Brasil

    O Brazil Caucus, uma organização de estudantes da Harvard Kennedy School, com o apoio do David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), convida para o debate com Fernanda Campagnucci, Diretora Executiva da...

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