Events

    2019 Apr 03

    Student Workshop with Peruvian graphic artist Cherman

    3:30pm to 4:30pm

    Location: 

    Art Study Center, Harvard Art Museums, Level 4

    In this informal workshop, Peruvian graphic artist Cherman will offer insights about his own creative practice and discuss the artists that have inspired him using works from the Harvard Art Museums’ collections. Admission is free and open to Harvard students. Capacity is limited to 15 and registration is required through this link.

    Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the program to allow sufficient time to sign in at the Art Study Center...

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    2019 Mar 25
    2019 Mar 13

    Screening of "La Negociacion/The Negotiation" with Director, Margarita Martinez

    6:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

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

    la_negociacionThe Negotiation tells the story of the peace dialogues between the government of Colombia and the Marxist FARC guerrilla, the oldest insurgency of the hemisphere after more than half a century of war and three failed dialogue attempts.
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    2019 Mar 12

    The Other Side of Violence: Marielle Franco and the Struggle for Brazilian Democracy

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge

    SpeakersMariana Cavalcanti, Urban Anthropologist and Professor in the Institute of Social and Political Studies at the State University of Rio de Janeiro; Geri Augusto, Gerard Visiting Associate Professor of International & Public Affairs and Africana Studies and Watson Institute Faculty Fellow at Brown University

    In 2016, Marielle Franco was...

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    2019 Mar 12

    Voting for Victors: Why Violent Actors Win Postwar Elections

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

    Sarah DalyThis project seeks to understand political life after episodes of mass violence. After suffering wartime atrocities and winning peace, millions of people around the world elect to live under the rule of political actors with deep roots in the violent organizations of the past. This book analyzes...

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    2019 Mar 11

    Panel Discussion: Central American Migration and Cultural Exchanges

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street

    The proposed panel discussion is part of the supporting programing for the exhibition Arquitectura del vaivén: Diasporic Building(s) in Central America’s Northern Triangle, organized by DRCLAS Arts and the Central America and the Caribbean’s programs during the academic year 2018-2019, and curated by Gabriela Poma, Harvard University Doctoral student in Romance Languages and Literatures. The panel responds to interest in the study of...

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    2019 Mar 11

    Central America & the Caribbean Film Series: Cárcel de árboles / Prison of Trees (Guatemala, 2015)

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street

    Carcel ImageA film by Guillermo Escalón y Rodrigo Rey Rosa

    Chained and tortured, dozens of youths from the United States and from prominent Guatemalan families were held captive in the depths of the Guatemalan jungle in the 1970s and 1980s. With the complicity of the military high command that...

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