Events

    2023 Nov 07

    Gender and climate change: an intersectional approach from Latin America and the Caribbean

    4:30pm to 6:45pm

    Location: 

    Tsai Auditorium

    Registration is not required. 

    Join us for a two-part event that aims to create a space for an overview of the intersection between climate change and gender—emphasizing the need for a nuanced understanding of its impacts in Latin America & the Caribbean—and to share efforts on how addressing gender disparities can enhance climate resilience, mitigation, and adaptation efforts.

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    2023 Oct 05

    Protecting the World’s Penguins. Pablo Borboroglu Lecture 2023 Winner of the Indianapolis Prize, the world's leading award for animal conservation

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    Zoom or Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

     

    Free Hybrid Lecture

    Speaker: Pablo (Popi) Garcia Borboroglu, Founder and President of the Global Penguin Society and Winner of the 2023 Indianapolis Prize.

    Advance registration required for both in-person and online

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    Join Dr. Pablo Borboroglu, the 2023 Indianapolis Prize Winner for animal conservation, as he recounts his lifelong...

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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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    2020 Oct 07

    Amazon 4.0 – Defining a Third Way for the Amazon

    4:00pm to 5:00pm


    This event is virtual, to join click here.

    Speaker: Carlos Nobre, Senior Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo; Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute
    Discussant: Vinicius Furuie, Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center on the Environment
    Moderated by: Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Co-Chair Brazil...

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    2020 Oct 05

    ReVista Launch: The Future of the Amazon, Lessons From the Past

    4:00pm to 5:00pm


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    Speakers: Felipe Milanez, Associate Professor at the Institute for Humanities, Arts and Sciences, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil; Bret Gustafson, Professor, Washington University in Saint Louis; Isabelle Foster, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Paraguay; Douglas Southgate, Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University; Patricia Vieira, Professor, Department of Spanish and...

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    2019 May 07

    Amazonia and Our Planetary Futures: A Conference on Climate Change

    Tue - Wed, May 7 to May 8, 9:30am - 12:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street

    Climate change is one of the most important long-term threats for the future of our societies. Solutions are complex, depending not only on engineering and policy, but also on imagination and public will towards alternative forms of inhabiting the planet. Latin America, home to the largest rainforest areas in the world, is both at risk of environmental catastrophe and a key region in which models for thriving bioeconomies based on rainforests can evolve. This symposium will bring together experts and leaders from the US and Latin America to discuss the past, present and future of...

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    2017 Sep 27

    VASI: Amazonian Vision for an Integrated Sustainability: Building Long Term Opportunities for Collaborative, Community-Based Research in the Amazon

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

    Speakers: Edgardo Gomez Pisco, VASI's Local Facilitator; Nancy M. Dammann, PhD, VASI's International Facilitator

    Moderator: Ned Strong, Executive Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

    ...

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