Speaker: John Macomber, Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School Discussants: Rosa Lemos de Sá, Secretary-General, Funbio; Carlos Nobre, General Director, Project Amazonia 4.0; Marcelo Behar, Vice President of Sustainability and Group Affairs,...
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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...
Cities often are seen as polluted, dangerous, and unequal. How can cities become more sustainable, safe, and inclusive? What are the political challenges to their transformation? The mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, will speak about the city’s environmental and public security initiatives.
Speaker: Eduardo Paes, Mayor of Rio de Janeiro Moderated by: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of...
This event is virtual and will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation to Portuguese. To register click here.
Speakers: Alvaro Jarrín, Lisa Goldberg Fellow, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross; Moises Lino e Silva, Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Federal University of Bahia Moderated by:...
Speakers: Claire Wardle, Co-founder and US Director, First Draft; David Nemer, Faculty Associate, Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center; Pablo Ortellado, Professor of Public Policy, Universidade de São Paulo (USP) Moderated by: Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History and African and African-American Studies, Harvard University; Natalia Viana...
Speaker: Bruno Paes Manso, Researcher, Center for the Study of Violence at the University of São Paulo (USP) Discussant: José Cláudio Souza Alves, Full Professor, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro Moderated by: Yanilda María González, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Introduction: Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center; Laura Clérico, Independent Researcher, Argentine National Scientific and Technical Council (CONICET), Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Buenos Aires, and Honorary...
Speaker: João Paulo Cuenca, Writer and Filmmaker Moderated by: Lucas Mertehikian, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Argentine-Brazilian writer and filmmaker João Paulo Cuenca will read segments from his latest book "I Found Out I Was Dead" as well as discuss the creative process for his next book.
João Paulo Cuenca is a Argentine-Brazilian writer and filmmaker born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the author of six books and some of his novels have been translated into eight languages. “I found out I...
Speakers: Josemeire Alves Pereira, Professor, FLACSO- Brasil; Maria Cristina Cabral, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Sol Camacho, Architect and former Director of Instituto Bardi (2017-2021) ; Sabrina Fontenele, Cultural Director, Brazilian Institute of Architects; José Lira, Professor of...
Speaker: Dan McDonald, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humanities Center at the University of Rochester Respondent: Alyssa Huberts, PhD candidate in the Government at Harvard University
HMUI Urban Conversations aim to pair visiting scholars with Harvard faculty or graduate students as...
Speakers: David Williams, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health; Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Silvio Almeida, Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University; President, Luiz Gama Institute Moderated by: Marcia Castro...
This event is virtual and will be held in both English and Portuguese with simultaneous interpretation. To register, click here.
Speakers: Marília Gallmeister, Scenic Architect and member of Teatro Oficina since 2011; Lucas Weglinski, Actor and Filmmaker, one of the two directors of “Desire Machine”; Patricio del Real, Associate Professor at...
Speaker: Randolfe Rodrigues, Senator for Amapá, Brazil; Vice President, COVID-19 Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) Interviewers: Thiago Amparo, Professor, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV); Malu Gaspar, Columnist, O Globo; Miguel Lago, Executive Director, Institute for Health Policy Studies (IEPS- Instituto de Estudos para Políticas de Saúde); ...
Speaker: Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Marcia Castro is a founding member of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global...
Speaker: Stephen Kaplan, Associate Professor of Political Science and Economic Affairs, George Washington University
This book explores how China’s state-led capitalism affects national level governance. China, as the world’s largest saver, has more than doubled its overseas banking presence since the 2008 global financial crisis...
Speaker: Anjuli Fahlberg, Assistant Professor, Tufts University Moderated by: Yanilda Gonzalez, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
Across Latin America, the rise of armed drug trafficking organizations and militarized policing in poor neighborhoods has created...
Of the more than 5.6 million Venezuelans who have left Venezuela since 2017, more than 70 percent have migrated to Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Despite their stated intention to remain in the countries that received them, they often lack regular migration status, and they have suffered from unemployment or employment discrimination and restricted access to health care and local...
Speakers: Maud Chirio, Associate Professor of History, Université Gustave Eiffel; João Roberto Martins Filho, Full Professor, Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar); and Natalia Viana, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Agência Pública; Nieman Fellow ´22 Moderated by: Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies...
