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    2024 Apr 19

    Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-216

    The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries. The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform our...

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    2024 Apr 19

    The Right to Research: Engaging Participatory Methods in Contexts of State Violence

    (All day)

    Location: 

    Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Room 225

    Register to attend this event here. 

    How can research contribute to the reduction of state violence and to the promotion of human rights and justice? This full day workshop will feature presentations from academic and community researchers about innovative participatory research projects on state violence in Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico. Panels and discussions will identify the distinctive challenges that state violence poses for the...

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    2024 Apr 12

    Predatory Extractivism Panel Series- The Long Road to (In)Justice and Reparations

    3:00pm to 4:45pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South- Tsai Auditorium

    The journey towards justice and reparations in the wake of the tailings dam failures in Brumadinho and Mariana has been arduous and protracted, marked by legal battles, environmental concerns, and demands for accountability. The legal process has been complex and international, with lawsuits filed against the companies for negligence, environmental violations, and human rights abuses in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Efforts to secure reparations for victims, including compensation for loss of life, livelihoods, and environmental remediation, have been met with challenges,...

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    2024 Apr 12

    Predatory Extractivism Panel Series- Contested Spaces: Controlling Narratives and Territories

    1:30pm to 2:45pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South- Tsai Auditorium

    Since the Fundão and Córrego do Feijão dams collapsed in 2015 and 2019, respectively, local communities and the mining companies responsible for the catastrophes have battled over the causes of the failures as well as the control of impacted territories. Brazilian journalism professor André Luís Carvalho will share his experiences working with citizen journalists in affected communities to co-create and maintain media platforms to preserve memory and denounce violations. 

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    2024 Apr 12

    Predatory Extractivism Panel Series- Measuring the Unmeasurable: Health-Related Quality of Life Losses

    11:15am to 12:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South- Tsai Auditorium

    In 2015, the Samarco-operated Fundão dam collapsed in the municipality of Mariana, Brazil, unleashing a tsunami of nearly two billion cubic feet of mineral waste onto downstream communities. Over the course of 20 days, the waste traveled over 370 miles downriver, contaminating waterways and destroying almost 1,600 acres of vegetation. Nineteen people died and more than 600 families lost their homes. Brazilian economist Mônica Viegas will share the results of her 2021 study to estimate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) losses among affected communities. 

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    2024 Apr 12

    Predatory Extractivism Panel Series- Trauma, (In)Justice, and Action: A Conversation with Community Leaders

    9:30am to 11:00am

    Location: 

    CGIS South- Tsai Auditorium

    Data, infographics, and technical reports cannot communicate the trauma suffered by communities impacted by tailings dam collapses. Though the failures of the Samarco-operated Fundão dam in 2015 and Vale´s Córrego do Feijão dam in 2019 are years in the past, local communities in Brazil are still reeling. Many continue to suffer from post-traumatic stress, the loss of loved ones, contaminated drinking water, and the impunity of those responsible for the dam failures. Join us to learn what justice, reconciliation, and reparations looks like for impacted communities.  

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    2024 Apr 07

    Brazil Conference Harvard & MIT

    (All day)

    Location: 

    MIT, Samberg Convention Center

    Register to attend here. 

    The largest conference about Brazil organized by Brazilian Students, researchers, and professors. The mission is to create a diverse space for debate, the development of ideas about the future of Brazil, and the promotion of transformative actions.

    Presented in collaboration with the Harvard Undergraduate Brazilian Association.

    2024 Apr 06

    Brazil Conference Harvard & MIT

    (All day)

    Location: 

    Harvard University, Science Center

    Register to attend here. 

    The largest conference about Brazil organized by Brazilian Students, researchers, and professors. The mission is to create a diverse space for debate, the development of ideas about the future of Brazil, and the promotion of transformative actions.

    Presented in collaboration with the Harvard Undergraduate Brazilian Association.

    2024 Apr 05

    V Brazil Legal Symposium

    3:00pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    101 Pound Hall, 1563 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Register to attend this event here.

    The Harvard Law School Brazilian Studies Association is thrilled to invite you to the V Brazil Legal Symposium at Harvard Law School, scheduled for April 13 and 14, with a kickoff event on April 5. Renowned practitioners, policymakers, and scholars will gather at Harvard Law School to discuss...

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    2024 Apr 05

    Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries. The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform our...

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    2024 Mar 29

    The Role of Courts in Advancing the Right to a Healthy Environment: Lessons from Latin America

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Austin Hall; 111 Classroom – West. Harvard Law School

    This is a hybrid event. If you wish to join virtually, please register on Zoom

    Latin America has been at the forefront of judicialization of a right to a healthy environment. Courts in different countries have curbed burning and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, as well as the expansion of wind farms in Mexico; they have ordered the clean-up of river basins in Argentina and ordered the protection of...

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    2024 Mar 26

    The Novel as a Counter-Archive Literature in Post-Abolition Brazil

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    12 Quincy Street, Room 133, Cambridge MA 02138

    This event will be held in Portuguese.

    This event will explore the role of literature as a “source” for historical and sociological interpretation of race in post-abolition Brazil. A central question arises when considering the analysis of this crucial phase in the formation of Brazilian society, which grapples with the scarcity of oral narratives or written testimonies produced by free or enslaved Black individuals who experienced the end of slavery. This paper aims to address this gap by examining how two Afro-Brazilian writers, Astolfo Marques (1876-1918) and...

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    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...

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    2024 Mar 22

    Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries.

    The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform...

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    2024 Mar 21

    The Impact of Violence on Community Health Workers/Agents in Brazil: Policy Implications

    1:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    677 Huntington Avenue, Building 1, Room 1208

    This seminar is part of the Thursday Brown Bag Series, at the Department of Global Health and Population at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The series features current research of members and affiliates of GHP. The intent is to educate and raise the awareness of our community and beyond, about the research activities presently being conducted by faculty, students, researchers, and special guests of the department.

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    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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    2024 Mar 07

    Indigenous Architecture in Brazil as Heritage

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216

    The constructed space plays a crucial role in the memory and sustenance of Indigenous communities in Brazil. Despite this significance, the preservation efforts of Indigenous architecture by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional - IPHAN) have yet to fully incorporate this element. This seminar investigates how the Institute approached Indigenous heritage since 1937, navigating intellectual confrontations across diverse Brazilian cultural institutions and addressing the limited discourse surrounding Indigenous...

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    2024 Mar 06

    Repression Archives? Working with Documents from Police Institutions in Latin America

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South - S040 Uziel Family Seminar Room

    This workshop, open to scholars of any disciplinary background and geographic area, will focus on the challenges of historical work (broadly defined) in police archives. Based on research experiences with documentary collections of different police forces in South America and Southern Europe, it will attempt to discuss the connections between methodological strategies and historiographical problems. Police archives have been used extensively in the history of crime, marginality, state surveillance practices, political policing, and the repression of the labor movement...

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    2024 Mar 05

    Money on the margins: Counterfeiters, Migrants, and Policemen in the Ibero-American World, 1880-1940.

    4:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S250

    At the turn of the twentieth century, several financial crises resulted in extreme illiquidity and retraction of bank credit. Such a situation created opportunities for the activities of counterfeiters and the formation of criminal networks that circulated across the Atlantic as part of larger circuits of migration connecting Europe with the Americas. National agencies sought to limit the action of local authorities – who were often suspected of negligence and even complicity with counterfeiters – and built collaborations with police from other countries.

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