CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street
Trouble in Paradise: Puerto Rico After Maria
A look at 21st century Puerto Rico, especially in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the preexisting crisis. Conversation about the status quo and communities standing up when faced with social abandonment.
Presented in collaboration with Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (IBA), Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico School of Law, Consulado General de México en Boston, Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF) and The Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard
Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia
A new book, Guerrilla Marketing, details the Colombian government’s efforts to transform Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens. Alexander L. Fattal shows how the market has become one of the principal grounds on which counterinsurgency warfare is waged and postconflict futures are imagined in Colombia. This layered case study illuminates a larger phenomenon: the convergence of marketing and militarism in the twenty-first century. Taking a global view of...
Speakers: Javier Garciadiego, Professor of History, El Colegio de México; John Womack, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History, Emeritus, Harvard University
Moderator: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism,...
Speakers: Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Affiliated Professor in African and African American Studies; Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the GSD; Rafael Marengoni, Architect and Urbanist; Masters Candidate in Architecture of Urban...
Speaker: Alberto Vergara, Professor of Social and Political Sciences, Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru)
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Political parties are usually depicted as indispensable for democracies. However, Latin American history does not lack of instances of parties playing against democracy. Observing the case of Fuerza Popular (the Peruvian Fujimorista party) will allow us to analyze the ways how a political vehicle might...
Authors: Renato Cisneros, author of “La distancia que nos separa” José Carlos Agüero, author of “Los rendidos: Sobre el don de perdonar” (via Skype) Lurgio Gavilán, author of “Memorias de un soldado desconocido”
Respondents: Alexandra Hibbett, Universidad Católica, Perú Alberto Vergara, Universidad del Pacífico, Perú
The wounds inflicted by the protracted civil war Peru faced between 1980 and the early 2000s have proven hard to heal. After twenty years...
Harvard University Jazz Master in Residence Chucho Valdés in concert with Harvard Jazz Bands
A concert featuring pianist Chucho Valdés, the 2019 Harvard University Jazz Master in Residence, with the Harvard Jazz Bands. The Cuban pianist, composer and arranger Chucho Valdés is one of the most influential figures in modern Afro-Cuban jazz. He is a six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Latin Grammy Award Winner. Born into a family of musicians in Quivicán, Havana province, Cuba, Dionisio Jesús "Chucho" Valdés Rodríguez, has distilled elements of the...
The Paraguay Conference 2019: Beyond Perceptions is an initiative of the Harvard Paraguayan Students Association, a new university-wide student organization composed of Paraguayan and international students interested in Paraguayan national development.The organization brings together students, scholars and practitioners within the Harvard community and at neighboring universities in the greater Boston area to explore interdisciplinary topics of strategic importance in Paraguay.
The event will convene an international audience of representatives from public institutions,...
Moderator: Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History at Harvard University; Director, Afro...
A través del diálogo entre el pianista y compositor Chucho Valdés y el Prof. Yosvany Terry, Narrativas Musicales ahondará en la vida y obra artística de Valdés, su concepción del Jazz y la música en general, sus contribuciones a la...
Speaker: María Victoria Murillo, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Columbia University
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
This book focuses on the non-policy benefits that voters consider when deciding their vote. In addition to proposing policies, parties deliver non-policy benefits, such as competent economic management, constituency service, and patronage. This book provides a unified view of how politicians...
Speakers: Javier Garciadiego, Professor of History, El Colegio de México; John Womack, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History, Emeritus, Harvard University
Speakers: Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Affiliated Professor in African and African American Studies; Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the GSD; Rafael Marengoni, Architect and Urbanist; Masters Candidate in Architecture of Urban...
Speaker: Javier Garciadiego Dantán, Historian and Author; Director, Academia Mexicana de la Historia; Former President of El Colegio de México
Speaker: Ruth Behar, University of Michigan
Speaker: Chucho Valdés, composer and pianist
Speaker: Felix Lopez, Researcher, Brazilian Institute of Applied Economic Research
Speaker: Francisco Goldman, Author, 2018–2019 Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Trinity College
Speaker: Cherman (Germán Quino Ganoza), Graphic Artist