Beyond connecting Brazilians from different schools to strengthen the Brazilian community, the course will be very valuable to enhance leadership competencies and inspire people to increase their impact through their work, especially to contribute to make Brazil a more just and prosperous country. The program is made of two modules - each of them in one weekend. The first one is focused on self-leadership. The second is focused on leading groups, including facilitation skills and team management. Between the two modules, participants will have access to asynchronous materials.
Austin Hall; 111 Classroom – West. Harvard Law School
Latin America has been at the forefront of judicialization of a right to a healthy environment. Courts in different countries have curbed burning and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, as well as the expansion of wind farms in Mexico; they have ordered the clean-up of river basins in Argentina and ordered the protection of important ecosystems in Colombia. Some high courts have embraced ‘rights of nature’ and have fashioned innovative structural remedies, which have included the creation of new institutions. Nonetheless, there is a very mixed record on implementation of the judgments...
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This presentation will explore the theoretical and historiographic contributions of ethnic studies in problematizing the in/capacitations and disablements central to the project of colonial racial capitalism. This will be accomplished through an analysis of the philosophical and affective dynamics of racial misrecognition as a precondition for...
Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature (2023, Northwestern University Press, FlashPoints Series) takes us to the edges, surfaces, and turns of the literary artifact when it crosses cultural boundaries. As Rosario Hubert demonstrates, in the absence of specialized programs of study, abstract discussions of China in Latin America took shape in contingent critical infrastructures built at the crossroads of the literary market, cultural diplomacy, and commerce.
Disoriented Disciplines understands translation as a material act of transfer,...
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Despite high levels of access to primary schooling, educational quality in Latin America remains low. Why? Raised to Obey uncovers the deep roots of this enduring problem, documenting that the original goal of primary education systems was to promote obedience, not skills.
Speaker: Agustina Paglayan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UCSD.
Minas Gerais’ Quadrilátero Ferrífero, or Iron Quadrangle, is one of Brazil’s richest cultural, environmental and historical regions, home to two UNESCO World Heritage towns and Brazil’s largest iron ore reserves. The Quadrilátero Ferrífero region offers centuries of history through its architecture, monuments, archaeological sites, culinary, rituals, handicrafts, religious festivals and natural resources. Yet its local communities, natural environment and rich cultural heritage are at imminent risk from catastrophic natural and humanitarian disasters resulting from industrial mining. The...
The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries.
The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform...
This seminar is part of the Thursday Brown Bag Series, at the Department of Global Health and Population at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The series features current research of members and affiliates of GHP. The intent is to educate and raise the awareness of our community and beyond, about the research activities presently being conducted by faculty, students, researchers, and special guests of the department.
This paper examines the impact of women’s political representation on deforestation rates in Brazil. Using close election regression discontinuity design, we show that women, when elected to office, are more likely to drive improved environmental outcomes due to factors such as reduced access to corrupt networks that influence the enforcement of environmental laws at the local level. Altogether, our findings demonstrate...
This event proposes a re-reading of the Mexican literary canon by challenging two of its main guiding principles: gender and nation. It aims to define 'women's writing' and explore recent literature of the region, questioning established concepts of what Américo Paredes reffers to as Greater Mexico.
Featuring groundbreaking voices in contemporary literature Brenda Navarro and Sara Uribe Sánchez the event aspires to create a dialogue that transcends traditional boundaries.
Speakers: Sara Uribe Sánchez, writer and poet. Brenda...
This lecture describes the harrowing phenomenon of 19th-century child servitude in Peru’s capital, Lima, by upper-middle households. It builds upon a wide historical archive, mixing poems, short stories, print media articles, and, mostly, advertisements about the search for runaway child-servants. These graphic archives paint a grim picture of racialized bodies stripped of their agency and how children were trafficked: the ways they were exchanged for goods with the hope of better education or social mobility for their kids, or how these kids were simply abducted from their original...
Join us to experience this multidisciplinary performance, honoring Afro-diasporic spirituality and collective healing through verse, percussion, and movement. Featuring Yaissa Jimenez, Prince Angel Jah Rose, & J. Blak.
This event will be held in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation into English.
The Cuba Studies Program and the Institute for Latin American Studies of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, present the fourth session of their seminar series.
Desde la década de los noventa en Cuba, se han implementado reformas de la organización del...
The constructed space plays a crucial role in the memory and sustenance of Indigenous communities in Brazil. Despite this significance, the preservation efforts of Indigenous architecture by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional - IPHAN) have yet to fully incorporate this element. This seminar investigates how the Institute approached Indigenous heritage since 1937, navigating intellectual confrontations across diverse Brazilian cultural institutions and addressing the limited discourse surrounding Indigenous...
This workshop, open to scholars of any disciplinary background and geographic area, will focus on the challenges of historical work (broadly defined) in police archives. Based on research experiences with documentary collections of different police forces in South America and Southern Europe, it will attempt to discuss the connections between methodological strategies and historiographical problems. Police archives have been used extensively in the history of crime, marginality, state surveillance practices, political policing, and the repression of the labor movement...
At the turn of the twentieth century, several financial crises resulted in extreme illiquidity and retraction of bank credit. Such a situation created opportunities for the activities of counterfeiters and the formation of criminal networks that circulated across the Atlantic as part of larger circuits of migration connecting Europe with the Americas. National agencies sought to limit the action of local authorities – who were often suspected of negligence and even complicity with counterfeiters – and built collaborations with police from other countries.
This panel will take a look at what’s changed in recent months in the wake of U.S.- Venezuela negotiations – and what this means for the 2024 election.
Claudia López Hernández, former Mayor of Bogotá and Harvard 2024 ALI Fellow, talks about her career, what it meant to be Bogota’s first female Mayor and the future of her country Colombia.
Moderated by Steven Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, and ...
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Join us for the launch of the Winter issue of ReVista, “Agriculture and the Rural Environment”. This issue covers topics ranging from agribusiness to climate change to new alternative crops. It explores the challenges and accomplishments of agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean today.
Featured speakers include:
Angie Higuchi, Professor, Universidad del Pacífico, Peru...
We experimentally evaluate the social and political consequences of a military policing intervention in Cali, Colombia, one of the world’s most violent cities. Despite null or adverse effects on crime and human rights, we show that Plan Fortaleza improved citizen’ attitudes towards the military and increased their demand for military involvement in domestic law enforcement. It also strengthened citizens’ support for...