2019 Sep 26
Student Info Session: Puerto Rico Winter Institute
4:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Interested in spending January in Puerto Rico? Come to the DRCLAS Info Session to learn how you can get involved in our annual Winter Institute for Harvard and University of Puerto Rico Students. 

PRWI is a 10-day graduate seminar in collaboration between DRCLAS and the College of...
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2019 Sep 25
Education has limitations: inequality and poverty in Brazil
6:00pm
Location: 
L-382 (Khan Room), Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street
Speaker: Marcelo Medeiros, PLAS Fellow, Princeton University 
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Government Department, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS

There are important limitations to what educational policies can do:...
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2019 Sep 24
Electoral Dis-connection: The Limits of Re-Election In Contexts of Weak Accountability
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Julie Weaver, PhD candidate, Department of Government
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
Conventional academic wisdom holds that the carrot and stick of...
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2019 Sep 20
Student Info Session: CASA (Study Abroad) in Argentina
2:00pm
Location: 
OIE, 1414 Massachusetts Ave., Room 333 (requires HUID)
Join us at the information session for the term-time DRCLAS Study Abroad Programs and learn about opportunities available for Harvard undergraduates to study at top universities in Argentina for transfer credit. 
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2019 Sep 20
OPIUM: A Conversation with Cuban Artist José Toirac
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speakers: José Toirac, independent Cuban Artist; Octavio Zaya, curator and art critic
Moderator: Alejandro de la Fuente, Chair, Cuba Studies Program
Cuban Artist José Toirac and Art Curator Octavio Zaya will discuss the exhibition "OPIUM: Works by José Toirac", as...
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2019 Sep 19
Anti-Corruption Efforts and the International Circulation of Ideas
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S030, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speakers: Matthew C. Stephenson, Eli Goldston Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Fabio de Sa e Silva, Assistant Professor of International Studies and Wick Cary Professor of Brazilian Studies, University of Oklahoma
Moderator: Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Affiliated Professor in African and African American Studies; Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
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2019 Sep 17
Student Info Session: Mexico Winternships
4:30pm to 5:30pm
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! Details below.

Program managers will be in-person to review the internships offered, funding, and all program detials. Past participants will come to...
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2019 Sep 17
Hybrid Regimes within Democracies: Argentina's Subnational Rentier States in Comparative Perspective
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Carlos Gervasoni, Associate Professor of Political Science, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
Both democratic and not-very-democratic (or...
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2019 Sep 13
The Symbolism of Race in Cuba Today
12:00pm
Location: 
104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R
Speaker: Pedro Pérez Sarduy, independent Cuban poet, writer, and journalist
Moderator: Alejandro de la Fuente, Chair, Cuba Studies Program
 Multimedia presentation that will use documentary films that examine the Afro-Cuban experience and explore Afro-...
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2019 Sep 12
Mobilities & Immobilities: Histories of Modern Migration to and in the Americas
Thu - Fri, Sep 12 to Sep 13, 9:00am - 4:00pm
Location: 
Thursday: William James 1550. Friday: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room
This two day conference explores the history of migration to and in the Americas. Click here for more information and the complete schedule. 
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2019 Sep 10
Student Info Session: Healthcare & Education in Rural Chile Program
3:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Interested in health? Want to spend January in Chile? Come to our info session to learn more!

Come to the DRCLAS Info Session to learn how you can get involved in the region over casual refreshments. The Chile program allows you to participate in experiential learning...
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2019 Sep 10
Strategies of Redistribution. The Left and the Popular Sectors in Latin America
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Andrés Schipani, PhD in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
The study analyzes the different redistributive strategies adopted by presidents...
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2019 Sep 09

Open House Celebration

5:30pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South, Concourse Level

Learn all about DRCLAS programs, events, and student opportunities at the Open House Celebration!  



Get a chance to speak with faculty and staff about DRCLAS opportunities, enjoy some refreshments, and enter a raffle for some fun door prizes!

2019 Sep 09
The Confessional Community: Narratives of Violence and Survival in Mexico City’s Anexos
4:00pm
Location: 
Tozzer 203
Speaker: Angela Garcia, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Moderator: Ieva Jusionyte, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies

In the past decade, drug treatment centers called anexos (annexes) have proliferated throughout Mexico...
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2019 Sep 03
Inauguración sala Antártica del Museo Maritimo Nacional
11:00am
Location: 
Museo Marítimo Nacional, Paseo 21 de Mayo 45, cerro Artillería, Valparaíso

 
On September 3, 2019, the Antarctic Hall at the Museo Marítimo Nacional (MMN) will be inaugurated in Valparaiso, Chile. DRCLAS is one of the sponsors of this first exhibit entirely dedicated to Antarctica in the country, led...
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2019 Aug 20
A breakfast conversation with Nicolás Shea: "Cumplo: leading crowdlending platform in Latam"
8:30am to 10:00am
Location: 
Dag Hammarskjold 3269, Vitacura
Speaker: Nicolas Shea
Nicolas Shea is a Chilean entrepreneur, and the founder of Start-Up Chile, eClass & Cumplo. He is the founding president of the Chilean Association of Entrepreneurs (ASECH), Socialab & TODOS. Former advisor of entrepreneurship & innovation to the Chilean Ministry of Economy. M.Sc. Management from Stanford, M.Sc. Education from Columbia, B.A. in business and economics from the Catholic University of Chile.
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2019 Aug 09
Surface Wear in Art, Architecture & Film (Superficies Gastadas)
9:30am to 5:30pm
Location: 
Auditorio Fadeu, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Monseñor Carlos Casanueva 0335, Providencia, Región Metropolitana

Conferencia magistral por: Giuliana Bruno, Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University
La profesora Bruno es conocida internacionalmente por su investigación de los cruces entre artes visuales, arquitectura, cine...
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2019 Jul 08
Tecnologías para la participación ciudadana en el proceso legislativo
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Sede Senado Santiago, Morandé #441, Sala de Sesiones
Expositores: Mayra Feddersen; Luis Santana; Victoria Alsina Burgués
Cómo puede la participación ciudadana mejorar el proceso legislativo y/o el debate democrático? En qué medida contribuye a la calidad, eficacia y legitimidad de las leyes? Gracias a la masificación de las tecnologias digitales, hoy las instituciones públicas pueden aprovechar el conocimiento de la ciudadania en los procesos de formación de las politicas públicas. En varios paises, diversas insstituciones están probado mecanismos para, por medio de nuevas tecnologias, incluir a la ciudadania en...
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2019 Jun 26

El comportamiento de los gobiernos corporativos en Chile

4:15pm

Location: 

Av. Dag Hammarskjold 3269, Vitacura

Con la participación de Gonzalo Jiménez Seminario, Doctor en Governance de la Universidad de Liverpool, Inglaterra, profesor de Ingeniería y del Centro de Gobierno Corporativo UC, CEO de Proteus Management & Governance y Luksic Scholar (DRCLAS 2001.)



2019 Jun 18
Las Puertas que faltan por abrir
9:00am to 11:30am
Location: 
Aula Magna, Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins 340, Santiago
VI Conferencia sobre la Mujer: Con el fin de continuar posicionando a la mujer en los espacios de contribución a la sociedad.

9:00 am Palabras de bienvenida del Rector, Ignacio Sánchez

9:10 am Introducción a la Conferencia a cargo de ...
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