2020 Dec 08
ReVista: All Things Chocolate
3:00pm to 5:30pm

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The launching of the Fall issue of ReVista on Chocolate features a fun-filled and informative afternoon with panels on chocolate, a tour of a chocolate museum in Mexico and a virtual chocolate tasting.
Panel 1 - 3-3:45pm
Chocolate, social justice, and labor
Moderator: Carla Martin, Harvard University
Katie Sampeck, Illinois, State University, former...
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2020 Dec 03
The Pandemic in Mexico: Lessons Learned
1:00pm to 2:00pm

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Speakers: Mauricio Hernandez Avila, SM '84, SD '88, Doctor and Director, Social and Economic Benefits Directorate, IMSS Former Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Ministry of Health, Mexico; Ana Mylena Aguilar, SD '12, Senior Health Specialist, Inter-...
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2020 Dec 02
Reimagining the Mexico-US Migration Corridor
5:00pm to 6:00pm
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Speakers: Tatiana Bilbao, Founder and Director, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio; Carolina Sepúlveda, Chilean architect & researcher, MDes ADPD '20
Presented by: Diane E. Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Harvard University; Moderated by: Malkit Shoshan, Design, and the Public Domain Area Head,...
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2020 Dec 02
LANZAMIENTO Foro académico para la nueva Constitución en Chile / Launch: Academic Forum for the New Constitution in Chile
3:00pm
This event is part of the Academic Forum for the New Constitution in Chile. It was held in Spanish with simultaneous English translation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL0GEysI0bk (English)
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2020 Dec 01
Right Wing Populism in Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm
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Speakers: Kenneth Roberts, Binenkorb Director of the Latin American Studies Program and Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government, Cornell University; Cristobal Rovira, Professor of Political Science, Universidad Diego Portales in Chile; Amy Erica Smith, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professor and Associate Professor of Political Science, Iowa State University
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2020 Nov 24
Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm
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Speaker: Yanilda María González, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Discussant: Eduardo Moncada, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University
Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, DRCLAS
In countries around the world, from the...
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2020 Nov 19
¿Hubo un golpe de Estado en Perú?
6:00pm to 7:15pm

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Oradores: Rosa María Palacios, Abogada y periodista; Alberto Vergara, Profesor del Departamento Académico de Ciencias Sociales y Políticas de la Universidad del Pacífico e investigador del CIUP; Daniel Olivares, Miembro del Congreso del Partido Morado por Lima Metropolitana (2020-2021); Paula Muñoz, Profesora asociada del Departamento Académico de Ciencias Sociales y Políticas de la Universidad...
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2020 Nov 19
Machado de Assis in Translation: Race, Slavery, and History
5:00pm to 6:30pm

A shared reading of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas with Flora Thomson-DeVeaux and Sidney Chalhoub
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2020 Nov 18
Vanishing Foods of the Americas: Coffee, Chocolate, and Quinoa
6:00pm to 7:00pm

This virtual event is part of the Food Security in the Americas Series. To watch the recording, click here.
Stuart McCook, Professor of History, University of Guelph
Coffee is Not Forever
Ana Rita García Lascuráin, Founder and Director, Museo del Chocolate
Chocolate: Biodiversity and Developing/Rebuilding Community 
Marygold Walsh-Dilley...
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2020 Nov 17
Federalism and COVID Responses
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To watch the recording, click here. 
Speaker: Agustina Giraudy, Associate Professor of Political Science, American University
Discussant: Kent Eaton, Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Moderated by: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University
Presented in collaboration with ...
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2020 Nov 16
Ciudadanía Digital, Acercando posiciones entre jóvenes y adultos
8:00am to 10:30am

This virtual event will be held at 8am ET in Spanish with simultaneous English translation. To register, click here.
Speakers: Sonia Livingstone, Profesora en el Departamento de Medios y Comunicaciones de London School of Economics and Political Science; Andrés Lombana Bermúdez, Profesor Asistente en la Universidad Javeriana y Faculty Associate...
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2020 Nov 12
DRCLAS Film Series: ZURITA, VERÁS NO VER by Alejandra Carmona
6:00pm to 7:00pm

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Speakers: Raúl Zurita, Poet, DRCLAS RFK Visiting Scholar 2015-2016; Alejandra Carmona Cannobbio, Filmmaker
Moderated by: Rodrigo del Río, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures
A conversation with poet Raul Zurita and filmmaker Alejandra Carmona on the documentary ZURITA VERAS NO VER. The movie will be offered for free through streaming two days before...
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2020 Nov 12
Transnational Perspectives: COVID-19 in South America
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Speakers: Marcos Cueto, Professor of the History of Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Brazil; Lucía Dammert, Professor of International Relations at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile; María Inés Pacecca, Professor in the Department of Anthropological Sciences and researcher at the Institute of Anthropological Sciences at the Universidad de Buenos Aires
Moderated by: Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science, Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Co-Chair, Mexico Faculty Committee at DRCLAS, Harvard...
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2020 Nov 12
El efecto Mariel: Before, During, and After presents PLUMA Y PLUMERO: PALABRAS Y PAPELES DE REINALDO ARENAS PRESENTED BY RENÉ CIFUENTES
11:00am

This event is virtual and will be held in Spanish. To register, click here.
Speaker: Rene Cifuentes, escritor y fundador de la revista "Mariel"
Desde su llegada a Nueva York como refugiados en 1980, Reinaldo Arenas y René Cifuentes formaron una íntima y jocosa amistad que duraría hasta los últimos años del...
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2020 Nov 11
Pre-Textos para la Innovación
3:00pm to 4:30pm

3pm Cambridge / 5pm Santiago, Chile
This event is part of Harvard-UAI Collaborative Research Discoveries in Chile Series.
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Speakers: Doris Sommer, Profesora Ira y Jewell Williams de Lenguas y Literaturas Románicas y de Estudios Africanos y Afroamericanos, Universidad de Harvard; Sergio Araya, Decano y Catedrático de la Universidad...
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2020 Nov 11
Segregation and Polarization in Urban Brazil
12:00pm to 1:20pm

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Speaker: Alice Xu, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University
Discussants: Daniel Hidalgo, Cecil and Ida Green Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT; Jonathan Phillips, Professor of Political Science, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Moderated by: Frances...
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2020 Nov 10
The Uneven Racial and Ethnic Impacts of COVID in Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To watch the recording, click here. 
Speakers: Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy Development and Rule of Law, Stanford University; Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University; Edward Telles, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Moderated by: ...
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2020 Nov 05
Libertades literarias: Afrolatinoamérica escribe. Conversación con Nancy Morejón
4:00pm to 5:00pm

This event is virtual and will be held in Spanish. To register, click here.
Speaker: Nancy Morejón, Cuban poet, critic, and essayist
Moderated by: Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Director of Graduate Studies In Spanish, Harvard University
Coordinado con el seminario "Libertades literarias:...
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2020 Nov 05
How Old is the Anthropocene in Southwestern Amazonia?
12:00pm to 1:30pm

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Speaker: Eduardo Neves, Professor of Brazilian Archaeology, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Southwestern Amazonia is an independent center of plant domestication and early ceramic production in the New World. It is also an area where a tradition of artificial mound building by Indigenous...
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2020 Nov 01
Día de los Muertos / Day of the Dead Celebration
3:00pm

Virtual Celebration: 3:00-5:00 pm ...
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