Events

    2023 Sep 21

    Strength from the Waters: A History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest Mexico

    6:00pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    Barker Center, Room 133

    NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS

    SPEAKER: JAMES MESTAZ, SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY

    Dr. James Mestaz is an Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Sonoma State University. He previously taught for two years in Harvard’s History and Literature concentration. His courses focus largely on the histories of marginalized groups, allowing students to draw connections between past and current social and environmental justice struggles. This approach fits into his...

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    2023 Sep 21

    Open House Celebration

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium & Concourse

    To register for this event, click here.

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

    The evening starts with a panel of students asking our Faculty Director, Steve Levitsky about all things DRCLAS, Latin America, politics, new books, and more.

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    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 26

    Forensics, DNA Testing and the Disappeared in Latin America

    12:00pm to 1:15pm


    This event will be virtual, to register click here.

    Speakers: Vivette García Deister, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Eden Medina, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Moderated by: Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico

    In...

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    2023 Apr 21

    Mexico Conference 2023

    Fri Apr 21 (All day) to Sun Apr 23 (All day)

    Location: 

    Harvard Kennedy School

    The Mexico Conference is an annual event that serves as a platform for the professional growth of the community of Mexican students at Harvard, the strengthening of the Harvard brand in Mexico, as well as the projection of the Mexican image in the United States. For complete conference information, click here.

    Presented by The Association of Mexican Students at Harvard (HUMAS)

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    2023 Apr 20

    Green Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Inter-American Development Bank's Vision

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S216 Room, CGIS South

    This event is hybrid. To register for this in-person event, click here. To register for the virtual session, click here.

    Speakers: Ricardo Hausmann, Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy, Director of the Harvard Growth Lab, Harvard Kennedy School; Lenin H. Balza,...

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    2023 Apr 19

    Migration Cluster Seminar: "Majority Minority: The Pursuit of a Diverse Democracy" with Justin Gest

    3:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-050

    Speaker: Justin Gest, Associate Professor of Policy and Government, George Mason University

    How do societies respond to great demographic change? This question lingers over the contemporary politics of many countries where persistent immigration has altered populations and may soon produce a majority minority milestone, where the original ethnic or religious majority loses its numerical advantage to one or more foreign-origin minority groups. Until now, most of our knowledge about large-scale responses to demographic change has been based on studies of...

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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 07

    Who Gives Us Our Names?

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), 14 Story Street (4th floor)

    This in-person guided community dialogue is intended to follow up on topics raised during the virtual panel for Who Gives Us Our Names?

    Moderated by students from COATL (Colectivo Olin Ancestral: Languages and Traditions)

    Who Gives Us Our Names? Is a two-day event and provocation for the Harvard Community on the topics of Indigeneity, Latinidad, and Identity in Abya Yala (the Americas). On Tuesday April 4th at 6pm EST we will host a...

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    2023 Apr 04

    Who Gives Us Our Names?

    6:00pm to 7:30pm


    This event is virtual, to join click here. COATL and Fuerza will organize a viewing party in CGIS S030 for those interested in joining in-person.

    Speakers: Kuitlahuak A. Martinez, Speak Nahuatl Language Teacher (Nahua); Odilia Romero, Co-founder and Executive Director of Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo (CIELO) (Zapotec); Dr. Marcelo...

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    2023 Mar 30

    For God and Liberty: Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790-1861

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speaker: Pamela Voekel, Associate Professor of History and LALACS, Dartmouth College. Discussant: David Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Kirsten Weld, Professor of History, Harvard University

    In her talk, Dr. Voekel will be discussing material from her latest book,...

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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 07

    Migration on the Rise: The Roles of Work, Violence, and Climate Change

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speakers: Abby Córdova, Associate Professor of Global Affairs, Faculty Fellow of the Keough School’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame; Sarah Bermeo, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, co-director of the Duke Program on Climate-Related Migration, Duke University; David Scott FitzGerald, Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican...

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    2023 Feb 22

    Relevance on Indigeneity

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-030

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speakers: Selene Manga, Takemi Fellow in International Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Emil’ Keme, Humanities Fellow in Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University; Julie Fiveash, Librarian for American Indigenous Studies at Tozzer Library, Harvard University;...

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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 14

    Food Security in the Americas: Avocados, Honey, and Oilseeds: Stories from Mexican Fields and Beyond

    12:00pm to 1:30pm


    This event is virtual, to register click here.

    Speakers: Viridiana Hernández Fernández, Assistant Professor of History, University of Iowa; Angélica Márquez Osuna, PhD Candidate, History of Science, Harvard University; Jayson Porter, Voss Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute at Brown for the Environment and Society, Brown University
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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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