Events

    2023 Jul 19

    Cruzando las Américas Arte e ideas en movimiento (1500-1800)

    Wed Jul 19 (All day) to Fri Jul 21 (All day)


    This event is virtual and will be held in Spanish. To register, click here.

    In an attempt to move our discipline beyond Eurocentric perspectives, this conference explores connections that artworks express from within the American territories: from California to Aracuaní (North/South), from Acapulco to Río de Janiero (West/East), and from Potosí to Buenos Aires (High/Low). We propose the concept of “crossing” as the analytical framework, aiming to demonstrate not only intra-American hybridity, but also the...

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    2023 Apr 24

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Femme populism: Vulnerability and desire in Argentine political aesthetics

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Speaker: Julia Fierman, College Fellow, Anthropology, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    In this session we will discuss two articles that analyze the personalist aspects of Peronism through Fierman's ethnographic work among Kirchnerist militants.

    Fierman is a sociocultural anthropologist who received their PhD from Columbia University. Their research has focused on the social world of Peronist activism during...

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    2023 Apr 24

    O que precisa ser dito: violência de gênero na literatura brasileira contemporânea

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be held in Portuguese only.

    Speakers: Tatiana Salem Levy, escritora, ensaísta e pesquisadora na Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Manoela Sawitzki, doutora em Literatura, Cultura e Contemporaneidade (PUC-Rio), escritora, roteirista e jornalista
    Moderated by: Ana Laura Malmaceda, Doutoranda, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    Vista Chinesa (2021), o mais recente romance de Tatiana Salem Levy, trabalha os dois lados de uma cidade, o Rio de Janeiro pré-Olimpíadas, cuja beleza...

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    2023 Apr 17

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror by Raul Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento
    With Rubén Sotoconil, Claudia Paz, Luis Alarcón. Chile, 1967/2020, DCP, black & white, 70 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

    Raúl Ruiz (1941 - 2011) is a filmmaker often heralded for prolific filmography, with his entire body of work still a mystery. His partner Valeria Sarmiento was his film editor and most frequent collaborator. After Ruiz’s passing, Sarmiento has been recuperating and giving new life to Ruiz’s films that were deemed lost, unfinished, or both. This program is centered on this newfound form of curatorship...

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    2023 Apr 13

    Music Lecture-demonstration: Nuevas músicas Latinoamericanas by Low Frequency Trio

    3:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Music Department (Room 6) 3 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speakers: José Luis Hurtado, Associate Professor of Music Theory, University of New Mexico; Antonio Rosales, Professor of Bass Clarinet, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Juan José García, Professor, Anáhuac University and ...

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    2023 Apr 11

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | La ciudad latinoamericana. Una figura de la imaginación social del siglo XX

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will take place in Spanish.

    Speaker: Adrian Gorelik, Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and Tinker Visiting Professor of History,  University of Chicago
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    La “ciudad latinoamericana” surge como categoría de pensamiento a mediados del siglo XX, resultado de una articulación de época entre la renovación de las ciencias sociales y la transformación...

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    2023 Mar 30

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Las desmayadas (fábula autobiográfica): militancia feminista y ficciones del yo

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be held in Spanish.

    Speaker: Cecilia Szperling, Writer
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    Una adolescente se desmaya como una forma súbita de interrumpir el mundo. Muere su padre, su madre vive astillada por el duelo, y mientras la muerte cruza el jardín de su casa como un relámpago, también se despliega su enérgico viaje de iniciación por el sexo, la hermandad y los afectos nuevos, en una Buenos Aires pesadillesca de los primeros...

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    2023 Mar 27

    Harvard Film Archive Film Screening: Diaries by Andres Di Tella

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Speaker: Andrés Di Tella, Filmmaker and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Ignacio Azcueta, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    The diary has that rare virtue of never quite being a “work” but, rather, always, a work in process. One writes it every day, without any correction, without knowing fully why, with no other objective than to capture something of the flow of life, the feeling of the moment. In the same way, my project Diaries (Argentina, 2022...

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    2023 Mar 24

    Harvard Film Archive Film Screening: Photographs by Andrés Di Tella

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Speaker: Andrés Di Tella, Filmmaker and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Ignacio Azcueta, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    Photographs (Directed by Andrés Di Tella. Argentina, 2007, DCP, color, 110 min. Spanish with English subtitles.) is the second installment of Andrés Di Tella’s “family trilogy,” a series of subjective documentaries centered on his family. Split between a first part in Argentina and a second part in India, the film functions...

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    2023 Mar 21

    Indigenous Languages at the Crossroads in Latin America: Screening and Conversation on the Survival of Indigenous Languages

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums

    Speakers: Maria Luisa Parra-Velasco, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages at Harvard University; Rebecca Mendoza Nunziato, Graduate Student at Harvard Divinity School; Isaura de las Santos Mendoza (Oaxaca, Mexico), Graduate Student at UMass Amherst; Carlos Flores Quispe (Quechua), Graduate Student at UMass Amherst; Sitalin Sanchez (Native Nahuatl speaker, Macehual, Mexico), Graduate Student at Harvard Divinity School; Americo Mendoza-Mori, Lecturer in Ethnicity, Migration,...

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    2023 Mar 20

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

    5:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speaker: Helena Lemos Petta, Lemann Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS
    Moderated by: Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Chair,...

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    2023 Mar 06

    Harvard Film Archive Film Screening : Play by Alicia Scherson

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Alicia Scherson
    With Viviana Herrera, Andres Ulloa, Aline Küppenheim. Argentina/Chile , 2005, DCP, color, 104 min. Spanish and Mapudungun with English subtitles.

    Filmed in a hybrid technological style, Alicia Scherson’s dramedy makes use of computers, headphones and video games to bring to life the story of Cristina, a young indigenous woman navigating early-aughts Santiago. A caretaker for an elderly white man, she becomes interested in Tristán, a young worker, but can they make their chemistry work given the social boundaries that separate them? As her journey...

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    2023 Mar 06

    The Day After a Mega Event: How to Adapt Infrastructures for a more Equal, Adaptable, and Participatory City”

    6:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-030

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speakers: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Harvard University; Joaquin Tomé, Master in Urban Planning Candidate, Harvard University; Lindsay Mayer, Master in Urban Planning Candidate, Harvard University; Shrinkhala Khatiwlada,...

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    2023 Mar 03

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: Little White Dove by Raul Ruiz

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Raúl Ruiz
    With Beatrice Lapido, Rodrigo Ureta, Luis Alarcón. Chile, 1992, DCP, color, 125 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

    In 1973 Raúl Ruiz was invited by then-fledgling national film company Chilefilms to direct the biggest-budgeted Chilean feature to date, an adaptation of the best-selling eponymous novel by Enrique Lafourcade. Palomita blanca is a coming-of-age story of a young girl from a poor background who falls in love with the scion of a wealthy upper-class family. From the novel Ruiz maintained only its formulaic fairytale plot and detailed...

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    2022 Dec 14

    Cóctel, Proyección y Conversación: El Charles Bronson Chileno

    8:00pm to 11:00pm

    Location: 

    Centre de Cine y Creación (CCC) Raulí 581, Santiago, Chile

    Para registrarse a este evento, click acá.

    Speakers: Carlos Flores, Director de Cine; Dominga Sotomayor, Directora CCC y Profesora Visitante de Art Film and Visual studies, Harvard University; Haden Guest, Director, Harvard Film Archive

    Proyección especial de la película El...

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    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 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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