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...
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...
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...
Bright Family Screening Room at the Emerson Paramount Center
Boston Latino International Film Festival 2017 presents:
Chavela
Documentary, 92 mins, Catherine Gund & Daresha Kyi, USA, 2017
Co-presented by Bright Lights Series at Emerson College, the Wicked Queer Festival and the Independent Film Festival of Boston; also, in collaboration...
Plimpton Room, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street
Speaker: Diego Fernandez, Secretary for Social and Urban Integration, Buenos Aires
Moderator: Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Director, Cultural Agents Initiative
Join Harvard area studies centers and the Office of Career Services at an information session about Wintersession opportunities during the Jan break for Harvard undergraduates. Questions? Please email: ocs_summerfunding@fas.harvard.edu or rachelmurray@fas.harvard.edu
Practice your Portuguese and discuss Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries and cultures at this informal round table. Everyone is welcome! For more information: Everton Vargas da Costa, edacosta@fas.harvard.edu
Speaker: Carlos Diego Mesa, Former President of Bolivia (2003-2005); International Spokesman of the Bolivian Maritime Cause in The Hague
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
For more than a century the diplomatic relationships between Bolivia and Chile have been conditioned by the Pacific war (1879-1883) where Bolivia and Peru confronted Chile. As a product of the war Bolivia lost access to the Pacific Ocean. This country has not renounced to the right of regaining sovereign access...
Speaker: Fabio Kanczuk, Secretary of Economic Policy, Brazilian Ministry of Finance
Moderator: Frances Hagopian Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government Harvard University
Fabio Kanczuk is Electronic Engineer “Magna cum Laude” from ITA (Aeronautic Technological Institute) holds a Ph.D. in Economics from UCLA and a post-doctorate from Harvard University. His academic work was published in international journals as Journal of International Economics Review of Economic Dynamics Journal of Development...
*A newly created collaboration between the Harvard Music Department and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), the GLAM (Group for Latin American Musics) Concert Series is designed around the promotion of Latin American music on the Harvard campus and broader Boston community through an annual concert and associated master class. GLAM is an initiative of Harvard’s Music Department graduate students Daniel Walden, Julio Zúñiga, Diane Adamek Oliva, and Felipe Ledesma Núñez, under the mentorship of Carol Oja...
Speaker: Kai Thaler, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
