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    13th Annual Meeting of AL CAPONE America Latina Crime and Policy Network

    The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University and the America Latina Crime and Policy Network (AL CAPONE) –a network of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA)—are pleased to announce the 13th Annual Meeting of AL CAPONE, to be held at Harvard University on May 10 and 11, 2024.

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    Transformative Leadership Development Program

    Location: 

    Harvard Kennedy School

    Beyond connecting Brazilians from different schools to strengthen the Brazilian community, the course will be very valuable to enhance leadership competencies and inspire people to increase their impact through their work, especially to contribute to make Brazil a more just and prosperous country. The program is made of two modules - each of them in one weekend. The first one is focused on self-leadership. The second is focused on leading groups, including facilitation skills and team management. Between the two modules, participants will have access to asynchronous materials.

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    Transformative Leadership Development Program

    Location: 

    Harvard Kennedy School

    Beyond connecting Brazilians from different schools to strengthen the Brazilian community, the course will be very valuable to enhance leadership competencies and inspire people to increase their impact through their work, especially to contribute to make Brazil a more just and prosperous country. The program is made of two modules - each of them in one weekend. The first one is focused on self-leadership. The second is focused on leading groups, including facilitation skills and team management. Between the two modules, participants will have access to asynchronous materials.

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    The AMLO Sexenio: Reflections on Violence, Organized Crime, and the Road to Peace

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216

    This event will be hybrid, register to attend online here.

    Upon taking office in late 2018, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised a rupture with the war on drugs in search of alternatives for peace. However, insecurity and militarization remain pressing issues as the AMLO sexenio comes to a close. This panel will convene leaders from Mexican academia and civil society to answer several important questions. What changed in public security under AMLO and what has stayed the...

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    Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

    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 our...

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    Journalism in Latin America: Reporting in Minefields

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216, Hybrid

    The profession of journalism is surrounded by multiple threats in Latin America: those from criminal organizations that operate freely; political threats, regardless of ideology; and those from power structures that try to subdue or limit a profession which, despite everything, resists being submissive.

    Speaker: Javier Lafuente, Journalist, Nieman Fellow of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Deputy Managing Editor of El Pais. 

    Moderated by Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of...

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    Predatory Extractivism Panel Series- The Long Road to (In)Justice and Reparations

    Location: 

    CGIS South- Tsai Auditorium

    The journey towards justice and reparations in the wake of the tailings dam failures in Brumadinho and Mariana has been arduous and protracted, marked by legal battles, environmental concerns, and demands for accountability. The legal process has been complex and international, with lawsuits filed against the companies for negligence, environmental violations, and human rights abuses in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Efforts to secure reparations for victims, including compensation for loss of life, livelihoods, and environmental remediation, have been met with challenges,...

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    Predatory Extractivism Panel Series- Contested Spaces: Controlling Narratives and Territories

    Location: 

    CGIS South- Tsai Auditorium

    Since the Fundão and Córrego do Feijão dams collapsed in 2015 and 2019, respectively, local communities and the mining companies responsible for the catastrophes have battled over the causes of the failures as well as the control of impacted territories. Brazilian journalism professor André Luís Carvalho will share his experiences working with citizen journalists in affected communities to co-create and maintain media platforms to preserve memory and denounce violations. 

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    Predatory Extractivism Panel Series- Measuring the Unmeasurable: Health-Related Quality of Life Losses

    Location: 

    CGIS South- Tsai Auditorium

    In 2015, the Samarco-operated Fundão dam collapsed in the municipality of Mariana, Brazil, unleashing a tsunami of nearly two billion cubic feet of mineral waste onto downstream communities. Over the course of 20 days, the waste traveled over 370 miles downriver, contaminating waterways and destroying almost 1,600 acres of vegetation. Nineteen people died and more than 600 families lost their homes. Brazilian economist Mônica Viegas will share the results of her 2021 study to estimate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) losses among affected communities. 

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    Predatory Extractivism Panel Series- Trauma, (In)Justice, and Action: A Conversation with Community Leaders

    Location: 

    CGIS South- Tsai Auditorium

    Data, infographics, and technical reports cannot communicate the trauma suffered by communities impacted by tailings dam collapses. Though the failures of the Samarco-operated Fundão dam in 2015 and Vale´s Córrego do Feijão dam in 2019 are years in the past, local communities in Brazil are still reeling. Many continue to suffer from post-traumatic stress, the loss of loved ones, contaminated drinking water, and the impunity of those responsible for the dam failures. Join us to learn what justice, reconciliation, and reparations looks like for impacted communities.  

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    Book Launch | Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Women, Memory , and Public Space

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216

    Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscape—the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this book stands at the forefront of contemporary discussion. More than a mere compilation, Breaking the Bronze Ceiling epitomizes a movement. The book comprehensively assesses the portrayal of women...

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    Government Crackdowns and the Transformation of Mexican Drug Cartels

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216, Hybrid

    This event is hybrid, to attend remotely register here.

    This research project explores how the Mexican War on Drugs prompted drug cartels to diversify their activities and expand their geographic presence beyond their historical strongholds. Focusing on oil theft, it then explores the intrusion of cartels into new territories and analyzes its impacts on politics, crime, and violence.

    Speaker: Marco Alcocer, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy...

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    Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

    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 our...

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    Harvard Film Archive Screening: The magic gloves and Doli Goes Home by Martin Rejtman

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    The Magic Gloves (Los Guantes mágicos). Directed by Martin Rejtman. With Gabriel Fernandez Capello, Valeria Bertucelli, Fabian Arenillas. Argentina, 2003, 35mm, color, 90 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

    A rich satire of midlife crisis and free market capitalism, The Magic Gloves is a wonderful chamber piece played between two dysfunctional couples who establish an oddly symbiotic relationship, exchanging advice and services in a roundabout economy of friendship and entrepreneurship. The Magic Gloves offers a more tightly controlled variation of Rejtman’s...

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    Harvard Film Archive Screening: Rapados and Elementary Training for Actors by Martin Rejtman

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Rapado. Directed by Martin Rejtman. With Ezequiel Cavia, Damian Dreizik, Mirta Busnelli. Argentina, 1992, 35mm, color, 75 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

    Rejtman’s legendary feature debut became an instant cult sensation, immediately recognized as an authentic, iconic harbinger of a new sensibility in Argentine and Latin American filmmaking. Rapado boldly announced Rejtman’s signature laconic style with its restrained camera work, zero-degree performance style, crisply distilled dialogue and its careful structure of repetitions that both abstract and...

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    Harvard Film Archive Screening: Silvia Prieto and Copacabana by Martin Rejtman

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    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Silvia Prieto. Directed by Martin Rejtman. With Rosario Bléfari, Valeria Bertuccelii, Susana Pampin. Argentina, 1999, 35mm, color, 92 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

    Rejtman’s effervescent masterpiece is a glittering screwball-inspired comedy of shifting identities that centers around the ardent efforts of its strong-willed heroine to suddenly lead her life in a radically new direction. Buoyed by its fanciful, rapid-fire dialogue and an at times hilariously absurd story, Silvia Prieto is saturated in a pop sensibility that belies a fascination with bright...

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    Understanding Mexico's 2024 Election

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216, Hybrid

    This online panel will discuss Mexico's upcoming elections from multiple perspectives, providing both a general overview and specific policies and candidate positions that define this election.

    Speakers Joy Langston, Professor and Researcher of Political Science at the Center of International Studies-CEI, Colegio de México. Kenneth F. Greene, Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin. Mariano Sánchez-Talanquer, Assistant Professor at the Center for International Studies, Colegio de México (...

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    The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216

    In this new book, Mateo Jarquín explores the rise and fall of Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution (1979-1990). Whereas most scholars recall the Sandinistas from U.S. debates over the Reagan administration’s policies in Central America, Jarquín recenters the Nicaraguan Revolution as a major episode in the history of Latin America, the international left, and the Cold War. Drawing on research in Nicaragua and several other Latin American countries, he recreates the perspective of Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) leaders in Managua and shows how their ideology...

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    Transformative Leadership Development Program

    Location: 

    Harvard Kennedy School

    Beyond connecting Brazilians from different schools to strengthen the Brazilian community, the course will be very valuable to enhance leadership competencies and inspire people to increase their impact through their work, especially to contribute to make Brazil a more just and prosperous country. The program is made of two modules - each of them in one weekend. The first one is focused on self-leadership. The second is focused on leading groups, including facilitation skills and team management. Between the two modules, participants will have access to asynchronous materials.

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