2019 Mar 26
When the Church Votes Left: The Electoral Consequences of Progressive Religion
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Guadalupe Tuñón, Academy Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
How do progressive religious leaders shape...
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2019 Mar 25
Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor Lecture: Linguistic ideologies and social identities: implications for inclusive practices in public higher education institutions in Mexico
6:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Rosa Montes Miró, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor; Benemérita Universidad...
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2019 Mar 23
HFA Film Series: Deep Water. The Cinema of Lucrecia Martel
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St, Cambridge
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2019 Mar 14
La nueva Constitución cubana: un balance
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Julio Cesar Guanche, FLACSO-Ecuador, UNEAC-Cuba
Moderator: Alejandro de la Fuente, Harvard University, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African...
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2019 Mar 13
Screening of "La Negociacion/The Negotiation" with Director, Margarita Martinez
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street
The Negotiation tells the story of the peace dialogues between the government of Colombia and the Marxist FARC guerrilla, the oldest insurgency of the hemisphere after more than half a century of war and three failed dialogue attempts.
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2019 Mar 13
Education and Long-Term Development in Brazil
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Rodrigo R. Soares, Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs, Affiliated Professor of Economics, Columbia University - PhD University of Chicago, MA PUC-Rio, BA UFMG
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann...
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2019 Mar 12
The Other Side of Violence: Marielle Franco and the Struggle for Brazilian Democracy
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Speakers: Mariana Cavalcanti, Urban Anthropologist and Professor in the Institute of Social and Political Studies at the State University of Rio de Janeiro; Geri Augusto, Gerard Visiting Associate Professor of International & Public Affairs and Africana Studies and Watson Institute Faculty Fellow at Brown University
In 2016, Marielle Franco was...
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2019 Mar 12
Voting for Victors: Why Violent Actors Win Postwar Elections
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
This project seeks to understand political life after episodes of mass violence. After suffering wartime atrocities and winning peace, millions of people around the world elect to live under the rule of political actors with deep roots in the violent organizations of the past. This book analyzes why citizens vote for...
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2019 Mar 11
Panel Discussion: Central American Migration and Cultural Exchanges
5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
The proposed panel discussion is part of the supporting programing for the exhibition Arquitectura del vaivén: Diasporic Building(s) in Central America’s Northern Triangle, organized by DRCLAS Arts and the Central America and the Caribbean’s programs during the academic year 2018-2019, and curated by Gabriela Poma, Harvard University Doctoral student in Romance Languages and Literatures. The panel responds to interest in the study of...
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2019 Mar 11
Central America & the Caribbean Film Series: Cárcel de árboles / Prison of Trees (Guatemala, 2015)
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
A film by Guillermo Escalón y Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Chained and tortured, dozens of youths from the United States and from prominent Guatemalan families were held captive in the depths of the Guatemalan jungle in the 1970s and 1980s. With the complicity of the military high command that governed Guatemala at the time...
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2019 Mar 10
HFA Film Series: Deep Water. The Cinema of Lucrecia Martel
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St, Cambridge
For more information, please visit Harvard Film Archive. 
2019 Mar 05
The Politics of Visibility: How Local Elections Undermine Representation in Brazil
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Peter Johannessen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
...
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2019 Mar 04
Conflicto en Nicaragua: Antecedentes, desarrollo y perspectivas
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Esta charla tiene como objetivo exponer el conflicto sociopolítico de Nicaragua, sus antecedentes, desarrollo y perspectivas de salida, desde la óptica de varios de sus actores claves, entre ellos las victimas organizadas y el movimiento estudiantil.
Speakers:
...
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2019 Mar 01
HFA Film Series: Deep Water. The Cinema of Lucrecia Martel
9:00pm to 11:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St, Cambridge
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2019 Mar 01
Regímenes de bienestar en Cuba: mujeres y desigualdades
12:00pm to 1:45pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Ailynn Torres Santana, ICIC Juan Marinello, FLACSO Ecuador
Moderator: Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American...
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2019 Feb 27
Indigenous Masters of a casa poblada: Indios ladinos and vecindad in Colonial New Kingdom of Granada
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S450, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Max Deardorff, University of Florida
Parry Lecture Series
HIS2525A: The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop Administrating Differences in Latin America: Historical Approaches
Presented in collaboration with the Department of History
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2019 Feb 27
Brazil urban cores. Monumentality and Banalities. The case of Rio de Janeiro.
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Washington Fajardo, Architect and Urban Planner; Loeb Fellow 2019, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government ...
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2019 Feb 26
Venezuela: Understanding the Crisis. Building a Sustainable Solution
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S020, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Temir Porras Ponceleon, CEO, Ventuari Partners
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Temir Porras Ponceleon began his public service career in the Republic of France and continued in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. He specialized in foreign policy, sovereign credit, and oil. He has brokered and negotiated political and trade deals at the presidential level for more than 10 years in Latin...
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2019 Feb 22
HFA Film Series: In a Landscape. The Films of Dominga Sotomayor
Repeats every day until Mon Feb 25 2019 .
7:00pm
7:00pm
7:00pm
7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
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Presented in collaboration with the Harvard Film Archive, Visual & Environmental Studies, and the...
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2019 Feb 22
To Be or Not to Be Caribe: Magazine Combat in Cuba, 1944
12:00pm to 1:45pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
In the absence of a flourishing book industry, literary magazines become important vehicles of literary, intellectual, and political history in Cuba. This presentation investigates a located literary-critical battle between two Havana-based literary magazines that was central to the...
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