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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2020 Oct 30
The Resurgence Of The Right: Evaluating The Impact Of The Trump Policies On The Opinion Towards Cuba And Its Government Within The Cuban Diaspora Of South Florida
12:00pm to 2:00pm
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Speaker: Guillermo J. Grenier, Professor of Sociology and Chair in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University
Moderated by: Alejandro de la Fuente, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History; Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
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2020 Oct 29
Èṣù's Three-way Crossroads: The Future of Ancestrality in Uncertain Times
6:00pm to 7:30pm

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Speakers: Luiz Rufino, PhD and scholar at UERJ; Sidnei Nogueira, Professor of and Coordinator of the Ilê Ará Institute; Rodney William, PhD, Anthropologist, and babalorixá
Moderated by: Joaquín Terrones, PhD and Lecturer of Literature at MIT
In recent times, a segment of academia has come to the realization that its institutions and disciplines currently produce...
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2020 Oct 29
Bolivia: elección y gobernabilidad / Bolivia: Elections and Governability
4:00pm to 5:00pm

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Speakers: Erika Brockmann, Former Senator, political scientist and political analyst; Armando Ortuño, Former Vice Minister of Planning and Ambassador, economist and social researcher
Moderated by: Victoria Murillo, Professor of Political Science, Columbia; Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University and...
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2020 Oct 29
#BlackLivesMatter Across the Americas: Black Youth Organizers and the Struggle for Racial Justice
4:00pm to 5:30pm

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Speakers: Ana Belique, Movimento Reconocido (Santo Domingo); Daniela Rincón, Casa Cultural El Chontaduro (Cali); Marcelle Decothé, Instituto Marielle Franco/Favelas Na Luta/Fórum da Juventude do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro); Mirtes Souza (mãe de Miguel Otávio) e Priscila Santana, Kilomba Collective (Brazil/USA...
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2020 Oct 28
Water Challenges on the U.S.- Mexico Border
6:00pm to 7:15pm

This virtual event is part of the Food Security in the Americas Series. To watch the recording, click here. 
 
Water Traveling Incognito. US-Mexico Transboundary Hydro-Policy...
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2020 Oct 27
Democratic Backsliding in Contemporary Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To watch the recording, click here. 
Speakers: Manuel Melendez-Sanchez, PhD candidate in Political Science, Harvard University; Santiago Anria, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, Dickinson College; Calla Hummel, Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Miami; Carmen Aída Lazo, Dean of the School of Economics and Business at Escuela Superior de Economía...
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2020 Oct 23
Constitutional Democracy and the Role of High Courts in Times of Crisis: The Case of Mexico
12:00pm

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Introduction: Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
Speakers: Justice Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena, Supreme Court Justice, Mexican Supreme Court...
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2020 Oct 22
Harvard-Brazil Dialogue with Fernando Haddad
10:00am to 11:30am

This event is virtual and will be in Portuguese. To register, click here.
Speaker: Fernando Haddad, Professor, University of São Paulo and Insper; Former Minister of Education; Former Mayor of São Paulo
Moderator: Hussein Kalout, Research Scholar, Harvard University; Former Secretary of Strategic Affairs of Brazil (2017-2018)
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2020 Oct 19
Challenges to Contain COVID-19 in Latin America: Lessons from Chile & Peru
12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Speakers: Maria Antonieta Alva, Minister of Economy & Finance, Peru; Eduardo Engel, Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Chile
Moderated by: Gordon Hanson, Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Latin America has become an epicenter of COVID-19...
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2020 Oct 15
The Fall 2020 Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture: Juan Villoro, "The Obsidian Mirror: Literature and Archaeology in Mexico"
6:00pm to 7:30pm

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Speaker: Juan Villoro, Author and Journalist, El Colegio Nacional (Mexico)
Mexican authors Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, José Emilio Pacheco, Salvador Novo, Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, and Rosario Castellanos, among others, have sought to use language to explore and recover the links between Mexico’s Indigenous peoples and its contemporary society. Focusing on Mexico’s pre-Hispanic past, Juan Villoro will explore the...
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2020 Oct 15
The Mariel Effect: Social and Racial Tensions in South Florida in the Wake of the Boatlift
11:00am

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Speakers: Julio Capó, Jr., PhD, Associate Professor, Department of History and Deputy Director, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, Florida International University; Antonio López, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of English, George Washington...
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2020 Oct 13
The Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America: Causes and Consequences of Lava Jato
12:00pm to 1:20pm
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Speakers: Ezequiel González Ocantos, Associate Professor in the Qualitative Study of Comparative Political Institutions, University of Oxford; Paula Muñoz, Profesora del Departamento Académico de Ciencias Sociales y Políticas, Universidad del Pacifico en Perú
Discussant: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University
Moderated by: ...
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2020 Oct 08
Resisting Police Violence in the Americas: Mothers on the Front Lines
4:00pm to 5:30pm

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Speakers: Dorothy Holmes, Ronnieman Foundation and Justice for Families, Chicago, US; Débora Maria da Silva, Mothers of May, Brazil; Rute Fiuza, Mothers of May of the Northeast, Brazil; Jacqueline Castillo, Mothers of False Positives of Soacha and Bogotá, Colombia; Cristina Bautista Salvador, Mothers and...
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