2021 Apr 21
The Roots of Brazil's Weak Party System
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is virtual, to register click here.
Speaker: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD Candidate in Government, Harvard University
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
Brazil's political parties have been historically weaker than in many other major democracies. Personalism runs deep in the country's politics...
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2021 Mar 10
Machine [Gun] Politics: Why Politician Cooperate with Criminal Groups
12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Speaker: Jessie Bullock, PhD Candidate in Government, Harvard University
Discussants: Ignacio Cano, Professor of Sociology, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro; Ben Lessing, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior...
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2021 Mar 03
The Right to Your Duties: Interpersonal Responsibilities in Riverside Amazonia
12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Speaker: Vinicius Furuie, Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Discussants: Mauro Almeida, Professor of Anthropology, UNICAMP; Natalie Unterstell, Director, Talanoa Think Tank
Moderator: Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University...
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2021 Mar 02
The Return of the Military?
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To register, click here.
Speakers: Wendy Hunter, Professor of Government, UT-Austin; Diego Vega, PhD Candidate in Government, UT-Austin; John Polga-Hecimovich, Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, U.S. Naval Academy; Kristina Mani, Associate Professor of Politics, Oberlin College and Conservatory; David Pion-Berlin, Professor of Political Science, University of California Riverside
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2021 Feb 24
Affirmative Action in Graduate Studies in Brazil: Possibilities and Challenges
12:00pm to 1:20pm
 
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Speaker: Anna Carolina Venturini, Postdoctoral Fellow - IPP-CEBRAP
Moderator:  Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies, FAS
Discussants: Cristiano dos Santos Rodrigues, Professor of Political...
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2021 Feb 23
Latin America’s Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil
12:00pm to 1:20pm

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Speakers: Kathryn Hochstetler, Professor of International Development, London School of Economics
Discussants: Alicia Cooperman, Assistant Professor in Political Science, Texas A&M University; Eduardo Viola, Professor of International Relations, University of Brasilia
Moderated by: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on...
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2021 Feb 18
DRCLAS Film Series: The Dead and the Others by Renée Nader Messora and João Salaviza
6:00pm to 7:00pm

This event is virtual and will be held in Portuguese with English translation. To register click here.
Speakers: Renée Nader Messora, Filmmaker; and João Salaviza, Filmmaker
Moderated by: Ana Laura Malmaceda, PhD student in Romance Languages, Harvard University
A conversation with filmmaker Renée Nader Messora and João Salaviza on their...
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2021 Feb 10
Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg
12:00pm to 1:20pm

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Speaker: Ben Bradlow, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program, Harvard University
Moderator: Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Discussant: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University
The divergent trajectories of São Paulo and...
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2020 Dec 09
Ecological Urbanism 2020 - Colaborar
9:30am to 11:00am

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Speakers: Mohsen Mostafavi, Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Gareth Doherty, Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Program, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture (GSD); Marina Correia, Professor at FAU-UFRJ. Guests: Angelo Bucci, Guilherme...
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2020 Dec 01
Right Wing Populism in Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm
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Speakers: Kenneth Roberts, Binenkorb Director of the Latin American Studies Program and Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government, Cornell University; Cristobal Rovira, Professor of Political Science, Universidad Diego Portales in Chile; Amy Erica Smith, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professor and Associate Professor of Political Science, Iowa State University
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2020 Nov 24
Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm
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Speaker: Yanilda María González, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Discussant: Eduardo Moncada, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University
Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, DRCLAS
In countries around the world, from the...
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2020 Nov 19
Machado de Assis in Translation: Race, Slavery, and History
5:00pm to 6:30pm

A shared reading of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas with Flora Thomson-DeVeaux and Sidney Chalhoub
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2020 Nov 17
Federalism and COVID Responses
12:00pm to 1:20pm

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Speaker: Agustina Giraudy, Associate Professor of Political Science, American University
Discussant: Kent Eaton, Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Moderated by: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University
Presented in collaboration with ...
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2020 Nov 12
Transnational Perspectives: COVID-19 in South America
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Speakers: Marcos Cueto, Professor of the History of Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Brazil; Lucía Dammert, Professor of International Relations at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile; María Inés Pacecca, Professor in the Department of Anthropological Sciences and researcher at the Institute of Anthropological Sciences at the Universidad de Buenos Aires
Moderated by: Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science, Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Co-Chair, Mexico Faculty Committee at DRCLAS, Harvard...
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2020 Nov 11
Segregation and Polarization in Urban Brazil
12:00pm to 1:20pm

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Speaker: Alice Xu, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University
Discussants: Daniel Hidalgo, Cecil and Ida Green Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT; Jonathan Phillips, Professor of Political Science, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Moderated by: Frances...
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2020 Nov 10
The Uneven Racial and Ethnic Impacts of COVID in Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm

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Speakers: Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy Development and Rule of Law, Stanford University; Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University; Edward Telles, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Moderated by: ...
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2020 Nov 05
How Old is the Anthropocene in Southwestern Amazonia?
12:00pm to 1:30pm

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Speaker: Eduardo Neves, Professor of Brazilian Archaeology, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Southwestern Amazonia is an independent center of plant domestication and early ceramic production in the New World. It is also an area where a tradition of artificial mound building by Indigenous...
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2020 Oct 29
Èṣù's Three-way Crossroads: The Future of Ancestrality in Uncertain Times
6:00pm to 7:30pm

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Speakers: Luiz Rufino, PhD and scholar at UERJ; Sidnei Nogueira, Professor of and Coordinator of the Ilê Ará Institute; Rodney William, PhD, Anthropologist, and babalorixá
Moderated by: Joaquín Terrones, PhD and Lecturer of Literature at MIT
In recent times, a segment of academia has come to the realization that its institutions and disciplines currently produce...
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2020 Oct 29
#BlackLivesMatter Across the Americas: Black Youth Organizers and the Struggle for Racial Justice
4:00pm to 5:30pm

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Speakers: Ana Belique, Movimento Reconocido (Santo Domingo); Daniela Rincón, Casa Cultural El Chontaduro (Cali); Marcelle Decothé, Instituto Marielle Franco/Favelas Na Luta/Fórum da Juventude do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro); Mirtes Souza (mãe de Miguel Otávio) e Priscila Santana, Kilomba Collective (Brazil/USA...
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2020 Oct 22
Harvard-Brazil Dialogue with Fernando Haddad
10:00am to 11:30am

This event is virtual and will be in Portuguese. To register, click here.
Speaker: Fernando Haddad, Professor, University of São Paulo and Insper; Former Minister of Education; Former Mayor of São Paulo
Moderator: Hussein Kalout, Research Scholar, Harvard University; Former Secretary of Strategic Affairs of Brazil (2017-2018)
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