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 Nov 07
Public Health Crisis at the Border: The Mexican Perspective
12:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S020
The Trump Administration's new ‘remain in Mexico’ policy is causing an influx of migrants waiting on the Mexican side of the border. By the time they reach the border, many migrants are traumatized, have untreated chronic diseases and are in need of medical treatment. 
In response to this dynamic situation, The Harvard Global Health Institute, The Woodrow Wilson Center, Boston College School of Social Work, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and Harvard University Mexican Association of Students, will...
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2019 Nov 06
On Brazilian Authoritarianism
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S050
Speaker: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Full Professor of Anthropology, the University of São Paulo (USP); Visiting Professor, Princeton University
Moderator: Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, affiliated with Romance Languages and Literatures
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2019 Nov 05
Proyecto Pretextos En Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia
4:30pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Pre-Texts, a pedagogical protocol aimed at strengthening literacy skills, innovation, and citizenship, has reached a total of 1650 people since November 2018 in Rionegro and is a valuable example of a successful community cultural interventions. Five of the participants from the Subsecretary of Family Welfare in Rionegro will speak at Harvard on November 5th to discuss their reflections on the implementation of the Pre-Texts methodology in Rionegro.
Presented in collaboration with Harvard Colombian Student Society and Cultural Agents Initiative
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2019 Nov 05
Lessons from Bolivia’s “Left Turn” (and Post-Electoral Scenarios)
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216
Speaker: Santiago Anria, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, Dickinson College
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
What has gone right and...
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2019 Nov 01
Arts and Science Workshop Series: Noite americana/de tu lado del mar: a Musical Translation
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216
Speaker: Paloma Vidal, Writer, Associate Professor, Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Paloma Vidal will present a performance in which poetry and music intersect: a poem by the Brazilian poet Marília Garcia, from her book Câmera Lenta (2017), will be translated into Spanish accompanied by a theme by the Argentinian musician Carlos Aguirre, from the album Calma (2017). The body that translates,...
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2019 Nov 01
Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos
(All day)
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue
Each year, the Peabody celebrates the Day of the Dead with a family event and fiesta and a temporary altar that remains on display for the month of November.
Originating with the Aztecs, the Mexican Day of the Dead is a unique blend of Mesoamerican and Christian rituals. The holiday, which is celebrated on November 1 from 4-8pm, All Saints’ Day, is dedicated to adults;...
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2019 Oct 29
Downwind, Downhill, Downstream: Binational Security on the U.S.-Mexico Border
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Ieva Jusionyte, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS

In the U.S.-Mexico border region, environmental emergencies – from...
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2019 Oct 25
Pride & Progress - Film festival and symposium
(All day)
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School, WEX-434 A.B
9:30am – 12:00 pm Best practice from the Caribbean (WEX-434 A.B )                                           
Documentary: The Abominable Crime (1 hr 6 mins)                                                               
Moderator: ...
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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 22
A Tweeted History of the 2019 Argentine Election: It's not fake news if we believe the thread
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Ernesto Calvo, Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland-College Park
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
Social networks are today the primary source of political content among the unsteadily informed voters of Latin America. Much of the content, produced and published by traditional news organizations, caters to communities of partisans who activate posts among their peers. In this presentation,...
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2019 Oct 21
Environmental and Climate Science Under Attack: What is Happening in the Amazon?
11:00am
Location: 
Harvard University Center for the Environment, MCZ 440
Speakers: 
Tasso Azevedo, General Coordinator, SEEG Network and MapBiomas; Affiliated Scholar, Brazil Lab, Princeton University
Beto Veríssimo, Co-founder, Imazon; Director, Amazon Center for Entrepreneurship; Affiliated Scholar, Brazil Lab, Princeton University
Gina McCarthy, former U.S. EPA Administrator, Director, C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Moderator: Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor of Environmental...
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2019 Oct 17
The Aftermath of Zika in Brazil
1:00pm
Location: 
GHP 12th floor conference room (SPH-1, 1208), 655 Huntington Ave, Boston
Speaker: Debora Diniz, CLACS Visiting Scholar, Brown University
While media attention about Zika has all but disappeared, there are still new cases being identified in Brazil, as well as other countries in the region such as Cuba and Venezuela.  However,...
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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 15
Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
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
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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 Oct 09
Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Rebecca Tarlau, Assistant Professor of Education and of Labor and Employment Relations, Pennsylvania State University
Moderator: Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, affiliated with Romance Languages and Literatures
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2019 Oct 08
Future Of Cities: Water
3:30pm
Location: 
Askwith Lecture Hall, Longfellow Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education; 13 Appian Way Cambridge, MA
Opening Remarks by Sarah Whiting, Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Speakers:
Loreta Castro Reguera, Professor, UNAM Mexico; Design Director, Taller Capital, Mexico; Visiting Scholar in Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
John Fernandez, Professor, MIT; Director, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative; Director, Urban Metabolism Group
Jim Matheson, Founder and principal, Flybridge Ventures; Chairman and CEO, Oasys Water; Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School
Joyce Coffee Founder...
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2019 Oct 08
Population Pressures: Migration, Repression, and Agrarian Reform in Latin America
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Emily Sellars, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
Does emigration undermine pressure for agrarian change? I examine how the...
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2019 Oct 07
Student Info Session: January Programs in the Region
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Interested in spending January in Latin America? Come to the DRCLAS Info Session to learn how you can get involved in the region over casual refreshments. Gain internship experience, study, or participate in experiential learning through immersive programs offered this January.

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