Events

    2022 Dec 05

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | El otro lado del trabajo. Propuestas contra la aceleración capitalista en la narrativa contemporánea del cono sur

    6:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-250

    This event will take place in Spanish.

    Speaker: Alejandra Laera, Professor of Argentine Literature and Director of the Institute of Argentine Literature, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    Para esta sesión vamos a leer y discutir los textos “Ocupación territorial, cuerpo y relato: las novelas de la...

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    2022 Dec 05

    The Nun and the Volcano: Revolutionary Histories and the ‘Memory of Possibility’ in Guatemala

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    S450, CGIS South

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

    Speaker: Betsy Konefal, Associate Professor of History, William & Mary; DRCLAS Central American Visiting Scholar
    Moderated by: Erin Goodman, Director of the Weatherhead Scholars Program, Harvard University

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    2022 Dec 02

    Harvard Film Archive Film Screening: EAMI

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Speaker: Paz Encina, Filmmaker and 2022-23 Radcliffe/Film Study Center Fellow

    AEMI is Directed by Paz Encina | Paraguay/Argentina/Mexico/Germany/Netherlands/France/US, 2022, DCP, color, 75 min. Ayoreo, Guaraní and Spanish with English subtitles.

    Encina’s latest film EAMI is a moving and sensitive portrait of the indigenous Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, among the last tribes living in isolation in the Amazon but now threatened by rampant and illegal deforestation of their ancestral lands. Encina will be joined in conversation with AFVS Visiting...

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    2022 Nov 30
    2022 Nov 22

    El Derecho en Cuba y su relación con el sistema político, de 2019 a 2022

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S030 Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room

    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speaker: Julio Antonio Fernandez Estrada, Cuban lawyer and historian; Professor of Law at the University of Havana (1999-2016); Visiting Scholar, Scholars Risk Program at Harvard University (2022-2023)
    Moderated by: Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Frances Hagopian, Jorge...

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    2022 Nov 16

    Book Talk: A veces despierto temblando / Sometimes I Wake Up Shaking

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Graduate School of Design, Room 510

    Speaker: Ximena Santaolalla, Author of 'Sometimes I wake up shaking", lawyer, psychotherapist
    Moderated by: Diane E. Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, GSD; Co-Chair, DRCLAS Mexico Faculty Committee

    A novel exploring themes of humanity, violence, and allegiance in the contexts of Guatemala, Mexico, and the US. Two Kaibil soldiers are sent to an elite military training facility in Texas. They are both trained to bring down communism, guerillas, and Guatemala’s indigenous peoples. Their lives no...

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    2022 Nov 16

    RFK Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies Lecture - Blacks in Nation Making: Brazil and Cuba c. 1790-1850

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S-050, CGIS South

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speaker: Ronald Raminelli, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, DRCLAS & RLL
    Moderated by: Sidney Chalhoub, David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and of African and African American Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Romance Languages...

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    2022 Nov 15

    After Clientelism: How the Breakdown of Political Representation Led to a Crisis of Democracy in Brazil and Beyond

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216

    This event will be hybrid. To register for virtual, click here; to register for in-person, click here.

    Speaker: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government...

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    2022 Nov 14

    Film Screening: "Out of Breath" & Discussion with Director, Helena Lemos Petta

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Speaker: Helena Lemos Petta, Lemann Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS
    Moderated by: Erin Goodman, Director of the Weatherhead Scholars Program, Harvard University

    Join us for this in-person film screening of "Out of Breath" (Brazil, 2022, 81'), about public health workers in marginalized areas of Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic, awarded the Best Documentary in the Brazilian Competition of the 2022 It's All True International Documentary Film Festival. "Out of Breath" is also running for the OSCARS in the Best Documentary...

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    2022 Nov 08

    Civil Society is Not an Unalloyed Good: The Organizational Foundations of Bolsonarismo

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216

    This event will be hybrid. To register for virtual, click here; to register for in-person, click here.

    Speaker: Liz McKenna, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
    Moderated by: Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David...

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    2022 Nov 04

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | elDiarioAR, a new national newspaper in the context of political polarization, economic crisis, and concentration of media ownership

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Speaker: Martin Sivak, Director of ElDiario.Ar 
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    Sivak will address the experience of conceiving and launching a new national newspaper at the peak of the pandemic and the challenges facing an independent media outlet in Latin America. The model of the newspaper —inspired by the Spanish newspaper eldiairioes, a partner of elDiarioAR—is based on the goal of empowering its community of readers, who pay a monthly fee,...

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    2022 Nov 03

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Evo Morales and the Burnt Palace: His Fall and Unexpected Rebirth (A documentary and a diary)

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Speaker: Martin Sivak, Director of ElDiario.Ar
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    For this session, we will read and discuss the introduction to Sivak’s work-in-progress narrative and diary of the last three years in Evo Morales’s life. Since September 2019, Sivak has been working on a documentary (together with Noah Friedman-Rudovsky) based on Morales' life. Thanks to their unique access to the former president, they have been able to document his...

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    2022 Nov 02

    Groundbreaking Discoveries in the Study of "The City of the Gods"

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Room S-216

    “Recent excavations in the complex of the Citadel and the neighborhood of La Ventilla: New evidence on early occupations in Teotihuacan, Mexico” by Dr. Julie Gazzola

    Join us to learn about one of the most groundbreaking discoveries in the study of "The City of the Gods," made by Dr. Julie Gazzola during her investigations of the early, "foundational" buildings she uncovered at thevery center of Teotihuacan, Mexico.

    Traditional Mexican mole, rice and beans will be served (RSVP by Tuesday, Nov. 1) as we ponder the origins of the first empire of ancient...

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