Events

    2023 Sep 28

    Paraguay Ante Viejos y Nuevos Desafíos

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be held in Spanish.

    Speaker: Benjamin Fernández Bogado, Doctor en derecho, periodista y profesor universitario
    Moderated by: Beatriz Orostiaga, MBA Candidate, Harvard Business School; David Riveros García, Founder & Executive Director reAcción Paraguay, Harvard Kennedy School

    Presented by: Rob Watson, Deputy Director EdRedesign Lab, Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

    Desde el 15 de agosto pasado Paraguay tiene un nuevo...

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    2023 Apr 07

    Who Gives Us Our Names?

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), 14 Story Street (4th floor)

    This in-person guided community dialogue is intended to follow up on topics raised during the virtual panel for Who Gives Us Our Names?

    Moderated by students from COATL (Colectivo Olin Ancestral: Languages and Traditions)

    Who Gives Us Our Names? Is a two-day event and provocation for the Harvard Community on the topics of Indigeneity, Latinidad, and Identity in Abya Yala (the Americas). On Tuesday April 4th at 6pm EST we will host a...

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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 27

    A conversation with Dr. Diego García-Sayán, former Peruvian Minister of Justice, Former President of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights

    5:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-250

    This event will be held in Spanish.

    Speaker: Diego García-Sayán Larrabure, Peruvian lawyer and former Foreign Affairs Minister of Perú. He sat as judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and was president of the Court between 2010 and 2012
    Moderated by: Harvard Association of Peruvian Students

    Board and members of the Harvard Association of Peruvian Students will meet Peruvian lawyer and former Foreign Affairs Minister of Perú, Diego García-Sayán to talk about his career and the current situation of...

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    2022 Jun 09

    Historias compartidas en el norte del Perú: tres espacios vistos a través de tres disciplinas

    9:00am to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Tozzer Building, Room 203, Harvard University

    This event is hybrid, to join click here. (Password: 758456)

    La historia precolombina del Perú se (re)construye día a día gracias al trabajo de investigadores peruanos y extranjeros apelando a varias disciplinas científicas. Cada año, descubrimientos singulares permiten concebir con más claridad la complejidad y la riqueza de los desarrollos culturales de un pasado a veces no tan remoto...

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    2022 Apr 18

    Crisis política en Perú: en la búsqueda del consenso

    9:00pm to 10:15pm


    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Oradora principal: Mirtha Vásquez, Abogada y ex Primera Ministra y Presidenta del Congreso
    Panelistas: Carlos Anderson, Economista y Congresista de la República; Salvador del Solar, Abogado, director cinematográfico y ex Primer Ministro y Ministro de Cultura; Martín Tanaka, Doctor en Ciencias Políticas por la Facultad...

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    2021 Apr 08

    Colombian Conference 2021

    Thu Apr 8 (All day) to Sat Apr 10 (All day)


    This event is virtual, to register click here.

    In a broader sense, disruption is an interruption to the current state of things. It can also mean creating solutions for problems that have been historically overlooked, ignored, or have affected neglected populations. By focusing on unattended or previously non-existing problems, disruption leads to questioning conventional thinking and practices. In Colombia, both the pre-pandemic...

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    2021 Feb 17

    La minería y su impacto social en el Perú: Reflexiones alrededor del documental "Máxima"

    5:00pm

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    Speakers: Claudia Sparrow, Productora del documental "Máxima"; Dr. Mirtha Vasquez, Presidenta del Congreso abogada; Doña Maxima Acuña Activista y protagonista del documental; Luis Novais, periodista y especialista en el tema minero
    Moderated by: Mayra Delgado, Estudiante de Maestría en Administración Pública en Desarrollo Internacional, Harvard...

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    2020 Apr 24

    Taller de racismo y antirracismo en contextos de mestizaje

    Repeats every week every Friday until Fri May 01 2020 .
    1:30pm to 3:00pm

    1:30pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Zoom Webinar

    Registration is closed. 

    Conferencista: Dra. Gisela Carlos Fregoso

    Gisela Carlos Fregoso es Doctora en Investigación Educativa; Maestra en Promoción y Desarrollo Cultural y Licenciada en Letras Hispánicas. Su trabajo se enfoca en el estudio del racismo en contextos de mestizaje, blanqueamiento, el antirracismo y el racismo en la educación superior. Trabajó en el proyecto “Antirracismo Latinoamericano en tiempos post-raciales” en la Universidad de Cambridge y forma parte de la Red sobre Identidades, Racismos y...

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    2020 Apr 21

    COVID y Equidad de Género: Cuidado, Violencias y Participación

    6:30pm

    Location: 

    Zoom Webinar

    Conferencista: Juliana Hernández, fundadora de Nosotras Ahora, una iniciativa que busca incrementar la participación de las mujeres en política

    Moderadora: Valentina Montoya, Harvard SJD candidate and expert on gender and domestic work

    El Coronavirus, como todas las pandemias, afecta de forma diferencial a las mujeres por varias razones: las mujeres asumen una carga desproporcionada en labores de cuidado; la violencia machista aumenta en cuarentena; más mujeres están en la economía informal; las trabajadoras domésticas son casi...

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    2018 Mar 21

    HAPS Speaker Series: A Conversation with Beatriz Merino, Peru’s first female prime minister and the first female prime minister in Latin America

    5:30pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    L-332 Deland, 3rd Floor of Littauer Building of Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy Street

    Speaker: Beatriz Merinoformer Prime Minister of Peru

    Beatriz Merino was the first female Prime Minister of Peru and the first female prime minister in Latin America. She held office between June 2003 and December 2003. She also served as Peru’s national ombudsman from September 2005 until March 2011. Before serving as Prime Minister, Ms. Merino served as Senator from 1990-1992 and Congresswoman from 1995-2000. During that time, she served as President of the Environmental Committee and the Women's Rights Committee....

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    2017 Dec 04

    Harvard Association of Peruvian Students presents Electronic Money Microcredit and Ultra Microcredit in Latin America - What Works and What Doesn't?

    4:00pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    Weil Town Hall 1st Floor of Belfer Building of Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy Street , Cambridge

    Speaker: Daniel Schydlowsky, Former Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS (2009-2010)

    Daniel Schydlowsky will discuss financial inclusion initiatives being implemented around the world with a particular focus on Latin America. The conversation will focus on describing the products that have been launched and analyzing why the same products have done well in some countries and failed in others. Mr. Schydlowsky most recently served as Steering Committee Chair of Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) a network of 120+ policymaking and regulatory...

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