Events

    The Greener Gender: Women Politicians and Deforestation in Brazil

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216, Hybrid

    This event is hybrid, to attend remotely register here.

    This paper examines the impact of women’s political representation on deforestation rates in Brazil. Using close election regression discontinuity design, we show that women, when elected to office, are more likely to drive improved environmental outcomes due to factors such as reduced access to corrupt networks that influence the enforcement of environmental laws at the local level. Altogether, our findings demonstrate...

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    Resisting Backsliding

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event is hybrid. To register for the virtual session, click here.

    Speaker: Laura Gamboa, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Utah; Santo Domingo Visiting Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
    Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

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    The Impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be hybrid. To register for the virtual session, click here.

    Speaker: Fernando Limongi, Professor of Political Science, São Paulo University; Fundação Getulio Vargas
    Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...

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    Why Presidents Leave Early: New or Continued Political Instability in Peru and Ecuador?

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event is hybrid. To register for the online session, click here.

    Speakers: Andres Mejia Acosta, Associate Dean of Policy and Practice and Professor of Political Economy of Development, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame; Gretchen Helmke, University of Rochester; Mariana Llanos, Lead Research Fellow / Co-Leader of the GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies (ad interim).
    Moderated by: ...

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    Poll Workers and the Effects of Supportive Political Participation

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event is hybrid. To register for the virtual session, click here.

    Speaker: Noam Lupu, Associate Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University; Associate Director of LAPOP Lab
    Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

    How does participating in democracy shape the attitudes...

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    JFK Jr. Forum- Tyranny of the Minority: An Urgent Call to Reform our Politics

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Join internationally acclaimed Harvard professors Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky in conversation with WBUR journalist Tiziana Dearing (MPP ‘2000) in a discussion about the perilous crisis in democratic politics in the US and around the world. Based on their new book—a sequel to the global bestseller How Democracies Die—this is an essential event for everyone interested in understanding why and how democracy has come under assault and what should be done about it.

    This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard...

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    Street Politics in Brazil (2003-2013)

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event is hybrid. To register for the virtual session, click here.

    Speaker: Angela Alonso, Professor of Sociology, University of São Paulo, Visiting Fellow at ALARI
    Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

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    El Descenso de Nicaragua a la dictadura: Perspectivas de exiliados políticos

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be hybrid and will be held in Spanish. To register for the online session, click here.

    Este evento sera hibrido y en idioma Espanol. Para registrarse a la session en linea, click here.

    Panelistas: Dora María Téllez, Nicaraguan historian, politician, and social rights activist; Marcela Castillo Mejia, Harvard University, ALB’ 24;...

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    Guatemala’s 2023 Elections

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event is hybrid. To register for the online session, click here.

    Speakers: Rachel A. Schwartz, Assistant Professor of International and Area Studies, University of Oklahoma; Carlos Mendoza, Academic Coordinator of Diálogos; Claudia Méndez Arriaza, Journalist
    Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David...

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    Cruzando las Américas Arte e ideas en movimiento (1500-1800)

    Wed Jul 19 (All day) to Fri Jul 21 (All day)


    This event is virtual and will be held in Spanish. To register, click here.

    In an attempt to move our discipline beyond Eurocentric perspectives, this conference explores connections that artworks express from within the American territories: from California to Aracuaní (North/South), from Acapulco to Río de Janiero (West/East), and from Potosí to Buenos Aires (High/Low). We propose the concept of “crossing” as the analytical framework, aiming to demonstrate not only intra-American hybridity, but also the...

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    New Constitutional Counselors Election: Processing the Results and Reflecting on the Way Forward

    9:30am

    9:30 Hora de Chile

    This event is part of the Academic Forum for the New Constitution in Chile. For a recording of this event in English, click here. For a recording in Spanish, click here.

    Introduction: Steven Levitsky, Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Professor of Government,...

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    Democratic Hollowing: The Perils of Power Dilution and the Lessons from Peru

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event is hybrid. To register for the in-person session, click here. To register for the virtual session, click here.

    Speaker: Rodrigo Barrenechea Carpio, Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University; Assistant Professor at the Departamento de Ciencias...

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    Forensics, DNA Testing and the Disappeared in Latin America

    12:00pm to 1:15pm


    This event will be virtual, to register click here.

    Speakers: Vivette García Deister, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Eden Medina, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Moderated by: Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico

    In...

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    The Brazilian Domestic Workers' Movement: Past and Present Struggles for Racial, Gender, and Economic Justice

    12:00pm to 1:30pm


    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speakers: Joaze Bernardino-Costa, Professor of Sociology, Universidade de Brasília; Creuza Maria de Oliveira, President, Sindoméstico, the domestic workers' union of Bahia, Former Coordinator, FENATRAD; Luiza Batista Pereira, Coordinator, Federação Nacional das Trabalhadoras Domésticas (FENATRAD); Meg Weeks, PhD candidate in History, Harvard
    Moderated by:...

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    Why Are Urban Services Still So Bad in Large Cities?

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speakers: Alison Post, Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Metropolitan Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Alice Xu, Postdoctoral Associate in Political Economy, Yale University; Alyssa Huberts, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University
    Moderated by: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government Department, Harvard University...

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    Las dinámicas de la crisis multidimensional y duradera de Cuba

    1:00pm to 2:30pm


    For a recording of this event in Spanish, click here. For a recording in English, click here.

    Panelistas: Mayra Espina, Doctora en Ciencias Sociológicas, Profesora e Investigador del Centro de Investigaciones Psicológicas y Sociológicas (CIPS), La Habana; Carmelo Mesa Lago, Catedrático de Servicio Distinguido Emérito en Economía y Estudios Latinoamericanos en la Universidad de Pittsburgh...

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    Wayuu Peoples’ Struggles for Self-Determination in the Guajira Peninsula

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    Barker Center, Room 114

    This event will be hybrid. To register for the virtual session, click here.

    Speaker: Emil' Keme (K’iche’ Maya Nation) is 2022-2023 Fellow at The Harvard Radcliffe Institute, member of the Community of Maya Studies, and Professor of English and Indigenous Studies at Emory University

    How do Indigenous peoples whose homelands have been demarcated by settler...

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