Speaker: Billie L. Turner II, Regents Professor and Gilbert F. White Professor of Environment and Society, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and the School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Moderator: William L. Fash, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology; Archaeology Program Director, Harvard University
Ancient Maya civilization—known for its cities, monumental architecture, ceramics, hieroglyphic writing, and advanced understanding of mathematics and...
This symposium will highlight the wide-ranging impact of Lorgia García-Peña's scholarship, particularly her acclaimed 2016 book, The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction. Distinguished speakers will reflect on the significance of her work for multiple fields, including Latinx Studies, Black Studies, and Women and Gender Studies, as well as for the theme of this year's Charles Warren Center fellowship, The Past, Present, and Future of Ethnic Studies. This event will be live-streamed at warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu.
Speakers: Joyelle McSweeney, author of TOXICON Urayoán Noel, author of BUZZING HEMISPHERE/RUMOR HEMISFÉRICO Ronald V. Wilson, author of POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT
A reading by three of the most dynamic and provocative performers in the genre: Joyelle McSweeney (author of TOXICON), Urayoán Noel (author of BUZZING HEMISPHERE/RUMOR HEMISFÉRICO), and Ronald V. Wilson (author of POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT).
Speaker: Eduardo Montero, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Assistant Professor, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street
Speakers: Jocelyn Viterna, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Oscar Martinez, Award winning Salvadoran journalist and author of The Beast Elizabeth Oglesby, Associate Professor of Geography and Development, University of Arizona Ieva Jusionyte, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies, Harvard University Deborah Anker, Clinical Professor of Law; Founder and Director, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic Sabrineh Ardalan, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law; Assistant Director, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic ...
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
The proposed panel discussion is part of the supporting programing for the exhibition Arquitectura del vaivén: Diasporic Building(s) in Central America’s Northern Triangle, organized by DRCLAS Arts and the Central America and the Caribbean’s programs during the academic year 2018-2019, and curated by Gabriela Poma, Harvard University Doctoral student in Romance Languages and Literatures. The panel responds to interest in the study of...
Chained and tortured, dozens of youths from the United States and from prominent Guatemalan families were held captive in the depths of the Guatemalan jungle in the 1970s and 1980s. With the complicity of the military high command that governed Guatemala at the time...
Esta charla tiene como objetivo exponer el conflicto sociopolítico de Nicaragua, sus antecedentes, desarrollo y perspectivas de salida, desde la óptica de varios de sus actores claves, entre ellos las victimas organizadas y el movimiento estudiantil.
Edmundo Jarquín graduated with a law degree and a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Chile. In Nicaragua he taught at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) and was one of the founders of UDEL, the democratic opposition movement led by Pedro Joaquín Chamorro against the Somoza dictatorship. He served in the FSLN government as Minister of External Cooperation (1981-84) as well as ambassador to Mexico (1984-88) and later Spain (1988-1990). He was a member of the Nicaraguan National Assembly (1990-1992)...
Speaker: Javier Zamora, Poet, Radcliffe Institute Fellow 2018-2019
The Salvadoran poet will read from his latest book Unaccompanied (2017). The reading is part of the associated programming for the DRCLAS Fall exhibition...
Speakers: Gabriela Poma, Harvard University Doctoral student in Romance Languages and Literatures; Fred Ritchin, Dean Emeritus of the School at the International Center of Photography (ICP) ; Susan Meiselas, Photographer, 2018-2019 Radcliffe Institute Fellow
Speaker: Kai Thaler, Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Speaker: Francisco Goldman, Author, 2018–2019 Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Trinity College
A film by Guillermo Escalón y Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Esta charla tiene como objetivo exponer el conflicto sociopolítico de Nicaragua, sus antecedentes, desarrollo y perspectivas de salida, desde la óptica de varios de sus actores claves, entre ellos las victimas organizadas y el movimiento estudiantil.
Speaker: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD Student in Government, Harvard University
