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 Sep 17
DRCLAS Film Series: Ficción Privada (2020) by Andrés Di Tella
6:00pm to 7:00pm

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Speaker: Andrés Di Tella, Filmmaker
Moderated by: Ignacio Azcueta, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures
A conversation with filmmaker Andrés Di Tella on his latest feature-length film, Ficción Privada (2020). The movie will be offered for free through streaming one day before the event to pre-registered participants. This...
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2020 Jul 30
-NESS Talks: Landscape as Urbanism in the Americas
4:00pm to 6:00pm
This event is virtual. E-mail hello@nessmagazine.com for the zoom link.
Keynote: Charles Waldheim, Director, Office for Urbanization, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Moderators: Mercedes Peralta, Office for Urbanization, Harvard University; Jeanette Sordi, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez and New York Institute of Technology; Florencia Rodriguez, Editorial Director and Co-founder, Lots of Architecture-publishers
Join us for the online launch of NESS....
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2020 Mar 08
Film Screening: The Edge of Democracy
5:00pm
Location: 
Boylston Hall - 110 Fong Auditorium

Speaker: Petra Costa, Filmmaker and Director of "The Edge of Democracy"
Description: A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis, the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic...
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2020 Feb 29
HFA Film Series: Patricio Guzman's Chile Trilogy
7:00pm to 10:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
7:00pm
The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar)
Directed by Patricio Guzmán
France/Spain/Chile/Switzerland, 2015, DCP, color and b&w, 82 min.
9:00pm
Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la luz)
Directed by Patricio Guzmán France/Germany/Chile, 2010, 35mm, color, 90 min.
Details at: https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/patricio-guzmans-chile-trilogy
Presented in collaboration with Harvard Film Archive 
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2020 Feb 28
HFA Film Series: Patricio Guzman's Chile Trilogy
7:00pm to 10:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
7:00pm
The Cordillera of Dreams (La Cordillère des songes)
Directed by Patricio Guzmán
Chile/France, 2019, DCP, color, 85 min.
 
9:00pm
The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar) 
Directed by Patricio Guzmán France/Spain/Chile/Switzerland , 2015, DCP, color and b&w, 82 min.
 
Details at: https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/patricio-guzmans-chile-trilogy
Presented in collaboration with Harvard Film Archive
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2020 Feb 23
HFA Film Series: Patricio Guzman's Chile Trilogy
4:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
4:00pm
Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la luz)
Directed by Patricio Guzmán
France/Germany/Chile , 2010, 35mm, color, 90 min.
 
7:00pm
The Cordillera of Dreams (La Cordillère des songes) 
Directed by Patricio Guzmán
Chile/France , 2019, DCP, color, 85 min
 
Details at: https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/patricio-guzmans-chile-trilogy
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2019 Nov 07
DRCLAS Film Series: Lower Dream State
5:30pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S020
Speakers: Oliver J. Curtis, film co-Director and Gabriel Muñoz Moreno, film co-Director
Moderators: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Graduate School of Design; Jose Castillo, Graduate School of Design
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2019 Oct 23
Curating Architecture Across the Americas: Spaces of Contact MX-US
4:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S030, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speakers: 
José Esparza Chong Cuy, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Storefront for Art and Architecture
Ruth Estévez, Co-founder, Executive Director and Curator, LIGA and Senior Curator-at-Large, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
Julieta González, Artistic Director, Museo Jumex
Sarah Herda, Director, Graham Foundation
Michelle Millar Fisher, Curator, Contemporary Decorative Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Zoë Ryan, John H. Bryan Chair and...
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2019 Oct 16
A PROVOCATION: Joyelle McSweeney, Urayoán Noel + Ronaldo V. Wilson
6:00pm
Location: 
Forum Room, Lamont Library, 11 Quincy Street
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). 
Presented in collaboration with ...
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2019 Oct 09
ERRE: A conversation with Mexican artist Marcos Ramírez
6:30pm
Location: 
Senior Common Room (Standish Hall), Winthrop House
Speaker: Marcos Ramírez (ERRE), Artist
Moderators: Doris Sommer, Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies; José Falconi, Lecturer in Fine Arts, Brandeis University
Artist Marcos Ramírez (ERRE) in conversation with Professor Doris Sommer, Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies and José Falconi (Lecturer in Fine Arts, Brandeis University)
Marcos Ramírez...
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2019 Sep 27
BLIFF: La Camarista (The Chambermaid)
Repeats every day until Sat Sep 28 2019 .
8:05pm
8:05pm
Location: 
Bright Family Screening Room at the Emerson Paramount Center
LA CAMARISTA (THE CHAMBERMAID)
Narrative, 102 mins, Lila Avilés, Mexico, 2018

Eve (Gabriela Cartol) works long hours as a maid at a luxurious hotel in Mexico City. A young, single mother who travels far to get to her place of work, Eve has aspirations for the future and hopes that her diligence will get her a coveted spot as the cleaner on an executive floor. She enrolls in the hotel's adult education program in her quest for a better life but quickly discovers that it's not necessarily the most hard-working who get noticed for advancement. Q&A with producer
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2019 Sep 27
BLIFF: Caballerango (Horse Wrangler)
6:00pm
Location: 
Bright Family Screening Room at the Emerson Paramount Center
Caballerango (Horse Wrangler)
Documentary, 61 mins, Juan Pablo González, Mexico, 2018
A family reflects on a young man’s disappearance in a Mexican village under the watchful eyes of the horse who saw him last.
• Official Selection, 2018 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
• Official Selection, 2019 True/False Film Festival
• Official Selection, 2019 Ambulante
• Official Selection, 2019 Festival Internacional de Guadalajara (FICG)
• Official Selection, 2019 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

Trailer: https://youtu.be/2Yl2sJEzkyc...
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2019 Sep 20
OPIUM: A Conversation with Cuban Artist José Toirac
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speakers: José Toirac, independent Cuban Artist; Octavio Zaya, curator and art critic
Moderator: Alejandro de la Fuente, Chair, Cuba Studies Program
Cuban Artist José Toirac and Art Curator Octavio Zaya will discuss the exhibition "OPIUM: Works by José Toirac", as...
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2019 May 23
Global Dominicanidades: New Approaches to Dominican Studies in the 21st Century
9:15am to 6:30pm
Location: 
Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street
Harvard University, pre-LASA 2019 Workshop and Conference

For free tickets for afternoon events: bit.ly/GlobalDomo
For conference registration and other...
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2019 Apr 30
Arts and Science Workshop Series: The Archive of the Iberian Slave Trade: Death, Value and Historical Ethics
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Anna More, Professor, Universidade de Brasília
Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
The sixteenth- and seventeenth-century slave trade was predominantly Iberian, with the Portuguese controlling much of...
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2019 Apr 25
A Conversation on Poetry and Gender with Angélica Freitas and Glória Sofia
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Angélica Freitas (Pelotas, Brazil, 1973) is the author of two books of poetry, Rilke shake (Phoneme Press), translated by Hilary Kaplan and winner of the Best Translated Book Award and of the National Translation Award in 2016, and Um útero é do tamanho de um punho...
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2019 Apr 23
Screening of Los Ofendidos, with Marcela Zamora
6:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street
Screening of the documentary Los Ofendidos / The Offended (Mexico-El Salvador, 2016) followed by a discussion with the director, Marcela Zamora
Moderator: Alberto Castillo Ventura, PhD candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures
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2019 Apr 19
Central America and the Caribbean Film Series presents: Puerto Rico: Trouble in Paradise
5:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
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
Opening remarks:...
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2019 Apr 13
Memories on/for a future reconciliation
1:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
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...
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