Speaker: Helena Lemos Petta, Lemann Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS Moderated by: Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Chair,...
Speakers: Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies; Co-Director, Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative (TBC); Sidney Chalhoub, David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor...
677 Huntington Ave, Kresge Building, 1st floor, room 110 (next to Sebastian’s Café/HSPH cafeteria) - Boston, MA
A limited number of Harvard affiliates can register to participate in this multidisciplinary, in-person panel aimed at discussing the complexities of the COVID-19 clinical trials from the perspectives of those planning the trials to the volunteers on the receiving end of the vaccines. Besides being able to...
Speaker: Sandra Kogut, Filmmaker and Radcliffe-Film Study Center Fellow, Harvard Radcliffe Institute Moderated by: Joana Pimenta, Filmmaker and Interim Director, Film Study Center, Harvard University
A limited number of Harvard affiliates canregister...
Speaker: Washington Fajardo, Arquiteto e Urbanista; Harvard DRCLAS Visiting Researcher
Moderator: Philip Yang, Fundador do Urbem – Instituto de Urbanismo e Estudos para a Metrópole; Membro do Conselho Consultivo do Harvard-Brazil Office
Washington Fajardo é arquiteto e urbanista pela FAU-UFRJ ’96, e dedica-se ao desenvolvimento urbano. Autor de projetos de reabilitação, habitação social, urban design e espaços culturais. Ex-presidente do Instituto Rio Patrimônio da Humanidade (2009-2016) implementou...
This event is virtual. To register for this event, please click here.
Speakers: Fernanda Campagnucci, Executive Director of Open Knowledge Brasil; Manoel Galdino, Executive Director of Transparência Brasil
O Brazil Caucus, uma organização de estudantes da Harvard Kennedy School, com o apoio do David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), convida para o debate com Fernanda Campagnucci, Diretora Executiva da...
Speaker: Tâmis Parron, Research Professor, Department of History, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Moderator: Danielle N. Boaz, Visiting Fellow, WIGH; Stuart Hall Fellow, Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research, Harvard University; Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jair Bolsonaro is the first far-right leader to be directly elected in Latin America. How did he come to power and what were the consequences of his election? In this event, scholars from the Brazilian university of Unicamp and Harvard will explore the social and political processes currently transforming...
L-382 (Khan Room), Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street
Speaker: Miguel Lago, Lecturer of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Executive Director, Institute for Health Policy Studies
Moderator: Nathalie Gazzaneo,MPP candidate, HKS.
The rise of populism is directly connected to the crisis of trust in political parties, mainstream media and trade unions. But it is also connected to the emergence of social media, where intermediaries tend do be removed in different activities. Therefore, is there still room for political intermediation in the digital...
Speakers: Graham Denyer Willis, Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge; Annette Idler, Visiting Scholar WCFIA, Harvard University; Director of Studies of the Changing Character of War Centre, University of Oxford
Moderator: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Graduate School of Design
Graham Denyer Willis is University Senior Lecturer in Development and Latin American Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University, and Fellow of...
Speaker: Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Government Department, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues will discuss the current state of...
Speaker: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Full Professor of Anthropology, the University of São Paulo (USP); Visiting Professor, Princeton University Moderator: Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, affiliated with Romance Languages and Literatures
Harvard University Center for the Environment, MCZ 440
Speakers: Tasso Azevedo, General Coordinator, SEEG Network and MapBiomas; Affiliated Scholar, Brazil Lab, Princeton University Beto Veríssimo, Co-founder, Imazon; Director, Amazon Center for Entrepreneurship; Affiliated Scholar, Brazil Lab, Princeton University Gina McCarthy, former U.S. EPA Administrator, Director, C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Moderator: Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor of Environmental...
Speaker: Debora Diniz, CLACS Visiting Scholar, Brown University
While media attention about Zika has all but disappeared, there are still new cases being identified in Brazil, as well as other countries in the region such as Cuba and Venezuela. However,...
While media attention about Zika has all but disappeared, there are still new cases being identified in Brazil, as well as other countries in the region such as Cuba and Venezuela. However,...