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    2017 Oct 24

    Democratic Innovations and Citizen Participation in Latin America

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

    Speaker: Thamy Pogrebinschi,  Democracy Visiting Fellow Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation,  Harvard Kennedy School 

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    While Latin America consistently scores badly in most assessments of democracy it has been celebrated by many as a laboratory of citizen...

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    2017 Oct 19

    Concert: Ancestral Memories

    8:00pm

    Location: 

    Oberon Theater, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge

    Ancestral Memories

    With grant support from the French-American Jazz Exchange Program, Cuban-American saxophonist/percussionist/composer Yosvany Terry and French pianist Baptiste Trotignon present a unique and exciting program inspired by the rich and diverse musical traditions that emerged from...

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    2017 Oct 19

    Understanding Puerto Rico’s Past & Present Relationship to the United States

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    79 John F. Kennedy Street, Littauer L-324 Fainsod Room, Cambridge

    Speaker: Pedro Reina Pérez, Director of the Harvard Puerto Rico Institute; Former Wilbur Marvin Visiting Scholar at DRCLAS

    Pedro Reina Pérez is an award-winning historian and journalist specializing in contemporary Spanish Caribbean history and is the director of the...

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    2017 Oct 17

    The Border Wall: Life and Injury on the Frontlines

    6:00pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    Peabody Museum, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street

    Speaker: Ieva Jusionyte, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies, Department of Anthropology and Committee on Degrees in Social Studies; Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

    The idea of building a wall on the U.S./Mexico border serves as a potent symbol across the political spectrum—a means of assuaging social and economic anxieties by placing them onto a remote frontier. Ieva Jusionyte will consider how an anthropological analysis of the state borders and security can help people understand the...

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    2017 Oct 12

    Brazil Between Reality and Fiction: Macunaíma and the Cultural Heritage of the Anthropophagy Movement

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street

    Speaker: Sonia Netto Salomão, Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Language and Literature, Sapienza University of Rome

    Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University

    The lecture illustrates the synthesis of foreign visions of Brazil and their influence on the Brazilian construction of identity best summarized in Macunaíma the novel which is a specific example of the coming together of literature history and theory. Sonia Netto Salomão has been a Full...

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    2017 Oct 10

    Living in Fear: The Dynamics of Criminal Extortion in Mexico's Drug War

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

    Speaker: Beatriz Magaloni, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

    Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University

    2017 Oct 06

    Student Info Session: Mexico January Winternship Programs

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street

    How do you plan to spend J-term break? Come to the Mexico winternship info session to learn how you could spend J-term building your resume, exploring a mega-city, improving your Spanish, and eating delicious food! 

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    Program managers, Rachel & Ariana, will be in-person to review the internships offered, funding,...

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    2017 Oct 05

    Arts and Sciences Workshop: "The Future that Finally Arrived: Latin American Literature and the Global Contemporary"

    6:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

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    Speaker: Emilio Sauri, Associate Professor of English College of Liberal Arts,  Director Concentration in Transnational and Multiethnic Literatures, UMass Boston

    Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard...

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    2017 Oct 05

    The Struggle for the Past: How We Construct Social Memory

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

    Speakers: Elizabeth Jelin, Senior Researcher, CONICET Argentina and Professor Doctoral Program in the Social Sciences IDES-UNGS ; Kathryn Sikkink, Professor of Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Kimberly Theidon, Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

    Moderator: Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazil Studies, Harvard Kennedy School

    Noted sociologist and pioneer of studies about historical memory human rights and politics Elizabeth Jelin...

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    2017 Oct 01

    Looking Out for the Queer in Latin American Film / BLIFF 2017: I Dream In Another Language

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    West Village F Room 020 at Northeastern University

    I Dream in Another Language  (Narrative, 101 mins)

    Ernesto Contreras Mexico/Netherlands 2016

    Co-presented by the Independent Film Festival of Boston and in collaboration with the ARTS@DRCLAS Series Looking Out for the Queer in Latin American Film and Video Art (Fall 2017 – Spring 2018) A young linguist travels to the jungle of Mexico to research a language on the verge of disappearing. Once there he discoverers its last two speakers clashed 50 years ago and have refused to speak to each other since. Attempting...

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    2017 Sep 30

    DRCLAS/BLIFF Film Screening: Tempestad

    6:15pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    West Village F Room 020 at Northeastern University

    Tempestad Documentary 104 mins Tatiana Huezo México 2017

    Co-presented by Intercultural Productions and The Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston

    Tickets must be purchased through the BLIFF Eventbrite page.

    Two women their voices echoing over the landscape and highways of Mexico from north to south as they tell how official corruption and injustice allowed violence to take control of their lives desires and dreams. An emotional and evocative journey steeped not only in loss and pain but also in love dignity and resistance. Official Selection 66th Berlin...

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    2017 Sep 29

    Boston Latino International Film Festival

    3:00pm to 4:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street

    DRCLAS is pleased to co-sponsor several screenings of the 2017 Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF). In its 15th year, the festival remains committed to its mission of "using the power of film to break stereotypes bring cultures and communities together and reveal the complex issues that affect the Latino community in the United States and Latin America."

    The 2017 programming is aligned with this mission and expands the festival’s scope. “This year in addition to showcasing films by submission BLIFF will also include many award-winning feature-length films never...

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