2020 Nov 16
Ciudadanía Digital, Acercando posiciones entre jóvenes y adultos
8:00am to 10:30am

This virtual event will be held at 8am ET in Spanish with simultaneous English translation. To register, click here.
Speakers: Sonia Livingstone, Profesora en el Departamento de Medios y Comunicaciones de London School of Economics and Political Science; Andrés Lombana Bermúdez, Profesor Asistente en la Universidad Javeriana y Faculty Associate...
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2020 Nov 12
DRCLAS Film Series: ZURITA, VERÁS NO VER by Alejandra Carmona
6:00pm to 7:00pm

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Speakers: Raúl Zurita, Poet, DRCLAS RFK Visiting Scholar 2015-2016; Alejandra Carmona Cannobbio, Filmmaker
Moderated by: Rodrigo del Río, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures
A conversation with poet Raul Zurita and filmmaker Alejandra Carmona on the documentary ZURITA VERAS NO VER. The movie will be offered for free through streaming two days before...
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2020 Nov 12
Transnational Perspectives: COVID-19 in South America
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Speakers: Marcos Cueto, Professor of the History of Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Brazil; Lucía Dammert, Professor of International Relations at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile; María Inés Pacecca, Professor in the Department of Anthropological Sciences and researcher at the Institute of Anthropological Sciences at the Universidad de Buenos Aires
Moderated by: Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science, Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Co-Chair, Mexico Faculty Committee at DRCLAS, Harvard...
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2020 Nov 11
Pre-Textos para la Innovación
3:00pm to 4:30pm

3pm Cambridge / 5pm Santiago, Chile
This event is part of Harvard-UAI Collaborative Research Discoveries in Chile Series.
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Speakers: Doris Sommer, Profesora Ira y Jewell Williams de Lenguas y Literaturas Románicas y de Estudios Africanos y Afroamericanos, Universidad de Harvard; Sergio Araya, Decano y Catedrático de la Universidad...
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2020 Nov 10
The Uneven Racial and Ethnic Impacts of COVID in Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To watch the recording, click here. 
Speakers: Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy Development and Rule of Law, Stanford University; Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University; Edward Telles, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Moderated by: ...
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2020 Nov 05
How Old is the Anthropocene in Southwestern Amazonia?
12:00pm to 1:30pm

This event is virtual. To register, click here.
Speaker: Eduardo Neves, Professor of Brazilian Archaeology, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Southwestern Amazonia is an independent center of plant domestication and early ceramic production in the New World. It is also an area where a tradition of artificial mound building by Indigenous...
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2020 Oct 29
Bolivia: elección y gobernabilidad / Bolivia: Elections and Governability
4:00pm to 5:00pm

This event is virtual, to register click here. 
Speakers: Erika Brockmann, Former Senator, political scientist and political analyst; Armando Ortuño, Former Vice Minister of Planning and Ambassador, economist and social researcher
Moderated by: Victoria Murillo, Professor of Political Science, Columbia; Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University and...
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2020 Oct 29
#BlackLivesMatter Across the Americas: Black Youth Organizers and the Struggle for Racial Justice
4:00pm to 5:30pm

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Speakers: Ana Belique, Movimento Reconocido (Santo Domingo); Daniela Rincón, Casa Cultural El Chontaduro (Cali); Marcelle Decothé, Instituto Marielle Franco/Favelas Na Luta/Fórum da Juventude do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro); Mirtes Souza (mãe de Miguel Otávio) e Priscila Santana, Kilomba Collective (Brazil/USA...
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2020 Oct 27
Democratic Backsliding in Contemporary Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To watch the recording, click here. 
Speakers: Manuel Melendez-Sanchez, PhD candidate in Political Science, Harvard University; Santiago Anria, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, Dickinson College; Calla Hummel, Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Miami; Carmen Aída Lazo, Dean of the School of Economics and Business at Escuela Superior de Economía...
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2020 Oct 19
Challenges to Contain COVID-19 in Latin America: Lessons from Chile & Peru
12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Speakers: Maria Antonieta Alva, Minister of Economy & Finance, Peru; Eduardo Engel, Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Chile
Moderated by: Gordon Hanson, Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Latin America has become an epicenter of COVID-19...
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2020 Oct 13
The Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America: Causes and Consequences of Lava Jato
12:00pm to 1:20pm
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Speakers: Ezequiel González Ocantos, Associate Professor in the Qualitative Study of Comparative Political Institutions, University of Oxford; Paula Muñoz, Profesora del Departamento Académico de Ciencias Sociales y Políticas, Universidad del Pacifico en Perú
Discussant: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University
Moderated by: ...
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2020 Oct 08
Resisting Police Violence in the Americas: Mothers on the Front Lines
4:00pm to 5:30pm

This event is virtual, to register click here. 
Speakers: Dorothy Holmes, Ronnieman Foundation and Justice for Families, Chicago, US; Débora Maria da Silva, Mothers of May, Brazil; Rute Fiuza, Mothers of May of the Northeast, Brazil; Jacqueline Castillo, Mothers of False Positives of Soacha and Bogotá, Colombia; Cristina Bautista Salvador, Mothers and...
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2020 Oct 07
Are We Alone in the Universe? The Giant Magellan Telescope in Las Campanas, Chile
6:00pm to 7:00pm
7:00 pm (Local time in Chile)
This event is in English and virtual, to join click here.
Chile was selected as the best site for the Giant Magellan Telescope because of the country’s outstanding astronomical positioning and clear weather throughout most of the...
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2020 Oct 07
Amazon 4.0 – Defining a Third Way for the Amazon
4:00pm to 5:00pm

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Speaker: Carlos Nobre, Senior Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo; Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute
Discussant: Vinicius Furuie, Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center on the Environment
Moderated by: Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Co-Chair Brazil...
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2020 Oct 06
Human Rights = Public Health With Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
1:00pm to 2:00pm

This event is virtual, to join click here.
Speaker: Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Moderated by: Guillermo Arduino, Anchor and Correspondent, CNN en Español
The coronavirus pandemic has made clear the disproportionate impact among women, minority groups and impoverished people around the world. Protecting human rights IS a matter of public health. Please join a...
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2020 Oct 05
ReVista Launch: The Future of the Amazon, Lessons From the Past
4:00pm to 5:00pm

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Speakers: Felipe Milanez, Associate Professor at the Institute for Humanities, Arts and Sciences, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil; Bret Gustafson, Professor, Washington University in Saint Louis; Isabelle Foster, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Paraguay; Douglas Southgate, Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University; Patricia Vieira, Professor, Department of Spanish and...
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2020 Oct 05
Making Dew in the Atacama: Atmospheric Water Capture by Desert Plants
12:00pm to 1:30pm
1:00 pm (Chile local time)
This event is part of Harvard-UAI Collaborative Research Discoveries in Chile Series.
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Speakers: Noel Michele Holbrook, Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry; Professor of Biology, Harvard University; Jacques Dumais, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
The ecosystems of Chile are biodiversity...
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2020 Oct 02
Open House Deep Dive
10:00am

This event is virtual, to register click here.
We would love to hear from you!
DRCLAS staff will be holding office hours the day after our In-House Open House to discuss...
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2020 Oct 01
In-House Open House
6:00pm

This event is virtual, to register click here.
Join us as we welcome our new faculty director, Steven Levitsky!
Professor Levitsky will be joined by Marcia Castro, co-chair of the Brazil Studies Program and Alejandro de la Fuente, chair of the Cuba Studies Program to discuss ongoing and upcoming initiatives in three priority areas for 2020-21: challenges to democracy, the impact...
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2020 Oct 01
The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America
4:00pm

This event is virtual, to register click here. 
Speakers: Mala Htun, University of New Mexico; Eduardo Darget, Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Peru; Alisha Holland, Harvard University; Daniel Brinks, University of Texas-Austin; Steven Levitsky, Harvard University; Maria Victoria Murillo, Columbia University
Moderated by: Javier Auyero, University of Texas-Austin
Observers often take institutional weakness as an exogenous feature...
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