Events

    2024 Mar 08

    Disposable Bodies and Uprooted Lives: Indigenous child servitude in Peru’s 19th century and its Modern-Day legacies

    4:00pm

    Location: 

    Tozzer Anthropology Building, Room 203, 21 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138

    This lecture describes the harrowing phenomenon of 19th-century child servitude in Peru’s capital, Lima, by upper-middle households. It builds upon a wide historical archive, mixing poems, short stories, print media articles, and, mostly, advertisements about the search for runaway child-servants. These graphic archives paint a grim picture of racialized bodies stripped of their agency and how children were trafficked: the ways they were exchanged for goods with the hope of better education or social mobility for their kids, or how these kids were simply abducted from their original...

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    2024 Mar 07

    Blindada: Poemas de Protección

    6:30pm

    Location: 

    Barker Center Thompson Room

    Join us to experience this multidisciplinary performance, honoring Afro-diasporic spirituality and collective healing through verse, percussion, and movement. Featuring Yaissa Jimenez, Prince Angel Jah Rose, & J. Blak.

    Doors open at 6:30 pm, show starts at 7 pm. 

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    2024 Mar 07

    Reformas y crisis de la producción agropecuaria en Cuba: una mirada socio-antropológica

    1:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual

    1 PM EST/7 PM Paris

    This event is virtual, register here to attend.

    This event will be held in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation into English.

    The Cuba Studies Program and the Institute for Latin American Studies of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, present the fourth session of their seminar series.

    Desde la década de los noventa en Cuba, se han implementado reformas de la organización del...

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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.

    This presentation...

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    2024 Feb 29

    Conversation with Claudia López, Former Mayor of Bogotá

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S020, Belfer Case Study Room

    No registration required.

    Claudia López Hernández, former Mayor of Bogotá and Harvard 2024 ALI Fellow, talks about her career, what it meant to be Bogota’s first female Mayor and the future of her country Colombia.

    Speaker: Claudia López Hernández, Harvard 2024 Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow.

    Moderated by Steven Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, and ...

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    2024 Feb 28

    ReVista Launch: Agriculture and the Rural Environment

    5:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216

    This event is hybrid, to attend online register here.

    Join us for the launch of the Winter issue of ReVista, “Agriculture and the Rural Environment”. This issue covers topics ranging from agribusiness to climate change to new alternative crops. It explores the challenges and accomplishments of agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean today.

    Featured speakers include:

    • Angie Higuchi, Professor, Universidad del Pacífico, Peru...

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    2024 Feb 27

    Mano Dura: An Experimental Evaluation of Military Policing in Cali, Colombia

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216, Hybrid

    This event is hybrid, to attend remotely register here.

    We experimentally evaluate the social and political consequences of a military policing intervention in Cali, Colombia, one of the world’s most violent cities. Despite null or adverse effects on crime and human rights, we show that Plan Fortaleza improved citizen’ attitudes towards the military and increased their demand for military involvement in domestic law enforcement. It also strengthened citizens’ support for...

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    2024 Feb 24

    2024 Mexico Conference

    Sat - Sun, Feb 24 to Feb 25, 8:00am - 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Kennedy School

    The Mexico Conference is a yearly student-led conference at Harvard that promotes an interdisciplinary dialogue around Mexico’s culture, politics, and economy. The conference gathers policymakers, entrepreneurs, social activists, academics, and many other outstanding personalities to analyze and discuss challenges and opportunity areas of the Mexican national and international landscape. Considering the strategic position of the US Mexico relations and the upcoming election for both countries this years edition paints a strategic interest for our community.

    To attend,...

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    2024 Feb 23

    Colombia’s Health System: An Interdisciplinary approach (SUMA)

    1:30pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S020, Belfer Case Study Room

    To register for this event, click here.

    Former President of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe Velez, and Alicia Yamin, Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights and Lecturer at Harvard Law School, will present an interdisciplinary analysis of Colombia's current health system. They will discuss the importance of...

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    2024 Feb 23

    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 Feb 20

    Easier Said than Done: Citizens' Stated and Revealed Democratic Commitment in Latin America

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216, Hybrid

    This event is hybrid, to attend remotely register here.

    This project examines citizens' commitment to democracy and their role in monitoring politicians' undemocratic behavior.

    The most commonly used measures of support for democracy come from public opinion surveys, based on questions that may suffer from social desirability bias and overlook the trade-offs that citizens face when choosing candidates. We scrutinize stated commitment to democracy, as measured by both...

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    2024 Feb 15

    Desinformación en América Latina: Retos para la democracia liberal

    4:30pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States (2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor), Hybrid

    Speaker: Juan Luis Manfredi, Príncipe de Asturías Distinguished Visiting Professor, Georgetown University.

    Moderated by Javier Lafuente Preciados, Harvard Nieman Fellow.

    Welcoming remarks by Alisha Holland, Professor of Government at Harvard University.

    This event is hybrid, to attend register here.

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    2024 Feb 06

    Re-Collecting the Andean Dead: American Anthropology’s Peruvian Foundations at Harvard, 1863–1926

    5:15pm to 6:45pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-050

    Speaker: Dr. Christopher Heaney, Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Penn State. Author of Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones and the Search for Machu Picchu (2010).

    Moderated by: Harvard Andean Working Group

    By 1873, seven years after the founding of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, over 400 of the 684 skulls in its collection were from...

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    2024 Feb 05

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: It is night in America (É Noite na América)

    7:00pm to 8:05pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    In the opening shot of Ana Vaz’s feature debut, an intense blue descends upon the sprawling, modernist metropolis of Brasília, which starts spinning out of control as a symphony of wild animal sounds crescendos. It is night in America. A recognition, an alarm, an investigation, a lament…Vaz’s film sounds every one of these notes and then some, within rather subtle boundaries, such as the limited exposure and contrast range of an expired 16mm film stock, along with “day for night” shooting techniques that fabricate a permanent twilight. Through patient and attentive observation, Vaz...

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    2024 Feb 04

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: Ana Vaz Short Films

    7:00pm to 8:15pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    The screenings are part of the Harvard Film Archive Film Series EXCAVATING SUBTERRANEA. THE FILM POEMS OF ANA VAZ

    Apiyemiyekî? Directed by Ana Vaz. Brazil/France/Portugal/Netherlands, 2019, DCP, color and b&w, 27 min. DCP source: Lightcone

    Amazing Fantasy. Directed by Ana Vaz. France/Japan, 2018, DCP, color, 3 min. DCP source: Lightcone

    There Is Land! (Há terra!). Directed by Ana Vaz. Brazil/France, 2016, DCP, color, 13 min. Portuguese with English subtitles. DCP source: Lightcone

    Atomic Garden. Directed by Ana Vaz. Brazil/Portugal, 2018,...

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