Events

    2023 Dec 08

    Summer Internships: Pre-Texts for Opportunities to Learn and to Teach

    10:00am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Whether you want to explore Paraguay and support Guaraní speaking students, or you prefer a stay in Santiago, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Bogotá, México, and many more destinations, local mentors will guide you to learn from dynamic environments and to teach English or any subject of mutual interest.

    Come learn about the Pre-Texts methodology and its impact through the experiences of four undergraduates! The event is open to all members of the Harvard community. It will feature a Pre-Texts workshop as well as a panel discussion about the interns’ experiences.

    If the...

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    2023 Dec 01

    Harvard Andean Art History and Archaeology Working Group presents "The Construction of the Person in Afro-Indigenous Peruvian Societies"

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Speaker Dr. Luis Reyes Escate. Peruvian anthropologist and ethnologist and social anthropology Professor at the Peruvian National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru. Author of two books, Black becomings (2018) and The children of the Star and the Sun (2023). Luis is currently a Mellon Sawyer Fellow at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute.

    Presented in collaboration with the Harvard University Department of History and the Harvard Department of Anthropology.

    2023 Nov 30

    ReVista Launch: Queer in Latin America, LGBTQ+ Perspectives

    5:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    S030, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138

    This event is hybrid, to register to attend in-person, click here, to register to attend via Zoom, click here.

    Join us for the launch of the Fall issue of ReVista, “Queer in Latin America: LGBTQ+ Perspectives”. The issue focuses on a variety of themes, ranging from arts and culture to the trans community to thinking on the queer in...

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    2023 Nov 29

    Latin American Travelers and Revolutionary China in the Global 1960s: A Story of (Dis)encounters

    11:30am

    Location: 

    Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA,

     

    Speaker Wei Ran, Associate Professor, Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24

    Moderated by Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

    In the Global 1960s, many Latin American leading intellectuals, such as Pablo Neruda, José Venturelli, Eduardo Galeano and Ricardo Piglia, visited Maoist China, which was regarded as an alternative to Soviet Union and Cuba’s bureaucratic systems. This talk...

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    2023 Nov 17

    Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    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...

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    2023 Nov 16

    La lucha por la democracia en Venezuela: una conversación con Juan Guaidó, Ex Presidente Interino de Venezuela

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    S-020 (Belfer)

    This event will be held in Spanish.

    Regístrese para el evento aquí.

    En esta conversación con los estudiantes de Harvard y con el profesor Steven Levitsky, Juan Guaidó hablará sobre el urgente problema global de confrontar regímenes autoritarios....

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    2023 Nov 16

    Decentralization and Outcomes: Has Decentralization Improved Health in Latin America?

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Inspired by the DRCLAS Seminar “Was Decentralization a Mistake for Latin America” in November 2022, this seminar is designed to present some recent focused empirical research on how to define types of decentralization and to assess how decentralization contributes to specific outcomes in the health sector. The panelists have experience in specifying characteristics of decentralization in different countries and will present some recent research in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Honduras using sophisticated methodologies to evaluate outputs and outcomes of different...

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    2023 Nov 09

    Indigenous Resistance in Fierro Urco: A Conversation with Kichwa Saraguro Mayor Abel Sarango

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Barker Center #024

    Speaker Abel Sarango, current Kichwa mayor of Saraguro, Ecuador.

    A conversation with Abel Sarango, current Kichwa mayor of Saraguro, Ecuador, who will discuss about the current situation of páramo region of Fierro Urco and Indigenous resistance against mining activities in the region.

    Organized by the Quechua Initiative on Global Indigeneity, Harvard University Native American Program, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

    Event will be in Spanish with English...

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    2023 Nov 07

    Gender and climate change: an intersectional approach from Latin America and the Caribbean

    4:30pm to 6:45pm

    Location: 

    Tsai Auditorium

    Registration is not required. 

    Join us for a two-part event that aims to create a space for an overview of the intersection between climate change and gender—emphasizing the need for a nuanced understanding of its impacts in Latin America & the Caribbean—and to share efforts on how addressing gender disparities can enhance climate resilience, mitigation, and adaptation efforts.

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    2023 Nov 07

    The Origins of Democracy in South America

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be hybrid. To register for the online session, click here.

    Speaker: Raul L. Madrid, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
    Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

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    2023 Oct 24

    Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace: Advances and Challenges in Transitional Justice—A Conversation with Judge Oscar Parra Vera

    10:00am to 11:00am

    Location: 

    Harvard Law School WCC 3016

    In this coffee talk, Judge Parra will describe Colombia’s innovative Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Jurisdicción Especial por la Paz, “JEP” for its Spanish acronym) and contextualize the challenges it faces after 6 years of functioning. Parra will discuss how its public hearings have been critical to providing restorative justice for victims of the conflict and will also refer to various specific cases of ‘false positives’ handled by the JEP.

    Speaker Judge Parra Vera is a magistrate for Colombia’s...

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    2023 Oct 20

    Experiencing Authenticity in La Modelo, a Prison Education Initiative in Colombia, the documentary.

    4:30pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium

    Speakers: Lee Perlman, PhD, Co-Director of The Educational Justice Institute (TEJI) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Maria Paula Avila Veraanthropologist, researcher, and filmmaker; Sang J. Cho, Associate Producer, Harvard Kennedy School; Colin Conwell,...

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    2023 Oct 12

    Thursday Brown Bag Series: Environmental devastation, unlawful gold mining & persecution of Indigenous ways of life in the Peruvian Amazon

    1:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual. Zoom link below.

     

    Speaker: Selene Manga MD, MSc, Takemi Fellow, Takemi Program in International Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity board member at Doctors Without Borders, New York Office MSF- NYC.

    This event is fully...

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    2023 Oct 10

    Collaborative Systems for Solving Complex Social Challenges: Preventing Mental Illness in Chile

    4:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Thompson Room (110), Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street

    In-person: to register for this event, click here.

    Event showcasing Worldwide Week: Harvard’s Chile Regional Office, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, part of the Mahindra series...

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    2023 Oct 10

    Why Presidents Leave Early: New or Continued Political Instability in Peru and Ecuador?

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event is hybrid. To register for the online session, click here.

    Speakers: Andres Mejia Acosta, Associate Dean of Policy and Practice and Professor of Political Economy of Development, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame; Gretchen Helmke, University of Rochester; Mariana Llanos, Lead Research Fellow / Co-Leader of the GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies (ad interim).
    Moderated by: ...

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    2023 Oct 05

    Protecting the World’s Penguins. Pablo Borboroglu Lecture 2023 Winner of the Indianapolis Prize, the world's leading award for animal conservation

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    Zoom or Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

     

    Free Hybrid Lecture

    Speaker: Pablo (Popi) Garcia Borboroglu, Founder and President of the Global Penguin Society and Winner of the 2023 Indianapolis Prize.

    Advance registration required for both in-person and online

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    Join Dr. Pablo Borboroglu, the 2023 Indianapolis Prize Winner for animal conservation, as he recounts his lifelong...

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