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 Sep 19
Anti-Corruption Efforts and the International Circulation of Ideas
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S030, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speakers: Matthew C. Stephenson, Eli Goldston Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Fabio de Sa e Silva, Assistant Professor of International Studies and Wick Cary Professor of Brazilian Studies, University of Oklahoma
Moderator: Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Affiliated Professor in African and African American Studies; Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
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2019 Sep 17
Student Info Session: Mexico Winternships
4:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
How do you plan to spend J-term break? Come to the Mexico Winternship Info Session to learn how you could spend J-term building your resume, exploring a mega-city, improving your Spanish, and eating delicious food! Details below.

Program managers will be in-person to review the internships offered, funding, and all program detials. Past participants will come to...
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2019 Sep 13
The Symbolism of Race in Cuba Today
12:00pm
Location: 
104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R
Speaker: Pedro Pérez Sarduy, independent Cuban poet, writer, and journalist
Moderator: Alejandro de la Fuente, Chair, Cuba Studies Program
 Multimedia presentation that will use documentary films that examine the Afro-Cuban experience and explore Afro-...
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2019 Sep 12
Mobilities & Immobilities: Histories of Modern Migration to and in the Americas
Thu - Fri, Sep 12 to Sep 13, 9:00am - 4:00pm
Location: 
Thursday: William James 1550. Friday: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room
This two day conference explores the history of migration to and in the Americas. Click here for more information and the complete schedule. 
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2019 Sep 10
Student Info Session: Healthcare & Education in Rural Chile Program
3:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Interested in health? Want to spend January in Chile? Come to our info session to learn more!

Come to the DRCLAS Info Session to learn how you can get involved in the region over casual refreshments. The Chile program allows you to participate in experiential learning...
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2019 Sep 10
Strategies of Redistribution. The Left and the Popular Sectors in Latin America
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Andrés Schipani, PhD in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
The study analyzes the different redistributive strategies adopted by presidents...
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2019 Sep 09

Open House Celebration

5:30pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South, Concourse Level

Learn all about DRCLAS programs, events, and student opportunities at the Open House Celebration!  



Get a chance to speak with faculty and staff about DRCLAS opportunities, enjoy some refreshments, and enter a raffle for some fun door prizes!

2019 Sep 09
The Confessional Community: Narratives of Violence and Survival in Mexico City’s Anexos
4:00pm
Location: 
Tozzer 203
Speaker: Angela Garcia, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Moderator: Ieva Jusionyte, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies

In the past decade, drug treatment centers called anexos (annexes) have proliferated throughout Mexico...
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2019 May 23

La Leva: Perfoconferencia homenaje a Pedro Lemebel

4:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

Harvard University, pre-LASA 2019 Conference



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 May 23
Cuba y los nuevos desafíos del sector privado, en el marco de las actuales transformaciones de la nación
(All day)
Location: 
CGIS South, S020, 1730 Cambridge Street
Harvard University, pre-LASA 2019 Conference
La iniciativa privada constituye una bisoña experiencia en la Cuba actual. Aun cuando persisten un gran número de limitaciones legales, económicas y políticas para su desarrollo, muchos cubanos han decidido apostar por la creación de un negocio propio. Con el desarrollo del sector privado en los últimos años, se ha percibido un aumento de su peso en la economía nacional y su rol como actor social.

El sector vive un nuevo periodo de cambios, las regulaciones que rigen su funcionamiento han sufrido modificaciones, con...
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2019 May 23
Latinoamérica en perspectiva: Representacion, narrativas y modos de vida
(All day)
Location: 
Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street
Harvard University, pre-LASA 2019 Conference
Latinoamérica en Perspectiva es un seminario dedicado a reflexionar sobre problemas filosóficos, culturales, literarios, históricos y políticos relacionados con Latinoamérica y su relación con el mundo hispano con sede en la Facultad de Filosofía de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) inició sus actividades en 2018 con un encuentro títulado "Nuevas conceptualizaciones en tiempos de cambio". Este seminario trabaja dentro de las áreas temáticas del Grupo de Investigación “Historia y ontología del presente: la...
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2019 May 23
Entre la Injusticia y la Inclusión la diversidad sexual en América a 50 años de Stonewall
(All day)
Location: 
CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Harvard University, pre-LASA 2019 Conference
Preconferencia Sección Estudios sobre Sexualidad de LASA, 2019
Co-organizadores: Sarah Soanirina Ohmer, CUNY Lehman College y Oscar Laguna
9:30- 10:00 -  Registro y bienvenida por Oscar Laguna de la Sección de Estudios sobre Sexualidad de LASA
10:00- 11:15 - Mesa de Presentaciones/Panel presentation

Entendidos y maricas: El Frente de Liberación Homosexual de la Argentina más allá de Stonewall (1963-1983)
Javier Fernández...
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2019 May 22
Latinoamérica en perspectiva: Representacion, narrativas y modos de vida
9:00am to 6:30pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Harvard University, pre-LASA 2019 Conference
Latinoamérica en Perspectiva es un seminario dedicado a reflexionar sobre problemas filosóficos, culturales, literarios, históricos y políticos relacionados con Latinoamérica y su relación con el mundo hispano con sede en la Facultad de Filosofía de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) inició sus actividades en 2018 con un encuentro títulado "Nuevas conceptualizaciones en tiempos de cambio". Este seminario trabaja dentro de las áreas temáticas del Grupo de Investigación “Historia y ontología del presente: la perspectiva hispana...
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2019 May 03
Frontiers of Clientelism: Linking the Micro and the Macro
9:00am to 6:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S030, 1730 Cambridge Street
Panels will discuss: Clientelism, Linkages and Party Organization, Political Competition, Linkage Strategies, Political Economy
Please note: this event is by invitation only. Please contact Horacio Larreguy (hlarreguy@fas.harvard.edu) if interested.
Presented in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
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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 30
Resistance and Repression: One Year on from Nicaragua's Civil Uprising
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Kai Thaler, Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
How did...
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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 24
Including the Periphery: Expanding the Public Sphere through São Paulo's Literature Periférica
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Kacey Carter, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government at Harvard University and the Faculty Chair of the Brazil Studies Program
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