Events

    2023 Apr 20

    Green Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Inter-American Development Bank's Vision

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S216 Room, CGIS South

    This event is hybrid. To register for this in-person event, click here. To register for the virtual session, click here.

    Speakers: Ricardo Hausmann, Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy, Director of the Harvard Growth Lab, Harvard Kennedy School; Lenin H. Balza,...

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    2023 Apr 19

    Migration Cluster Seminar: "Majority Minority: The Pursuit of a Diverse Democracy" with Justin Gest

    3:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-050

    Speaker: Justin Gest, Associate Professor of Policy and Government, George Mason University

    How do societies respond to great demographic change? This question lingers over the contemporary politics of many countries where persistent immigration has altered populations and may soon produce a majority minority milestone, where the original ethnic or religious majority loses its numerical advantage to one or more foreign-origin minority groups. Until now, most of our knowledge about large-scale responses to demographic change has been based on studies of...

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    2023 Apr 18

    Haddad Distinguished Lecture: Arminio Fraga

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium

    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speaker: Arminio Fraga, Founding Partner, Gavea Investimentos

    The Haddad Distinguished Lecture was established in honor of Claudio Haddad, Chair of the DRCLAS Brazil Office Advisory Group since 2006, and President and founder of Insper, a leading not-for-profit business and economics school in Brazil. The inaugural Haddad Distinguished Lecture will be delivered by renowned Brazilian economist Arminio Fraga....

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    2023 Apr 07

    Raçudos Bodies: Black Women and the Possession of Bodies as a Tactic of Resistance in Brazil

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Hip Hop Archive, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R

    This event will take place in Portuguese.

    Speaker: Antonia Gabriela Pereira de Araujo, 2022-2023 Du Bois Research Institute Fellow, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research

    Antônia Gabriela Pereira de Araújo has a doctorate in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ/Museu Nacional). Her interests include racial justice, self-defense, racial stereotypes, racialization, feminization, and hypersexualization of young black women in Brazil. She is the founder of the Black...

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    2023 Mar 20

    Film Screening: "Out of Breath" & Interview with Director, Helena Lemos Petta

    5:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speaker: Helena Lemos Petta, Lemann Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS
    Moderated by: Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Chair,...

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    2023 Feb 22

    Relevance on Indigeneity

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-030

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speakers: Selene Manga, Takemi Fellow in International Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Emil’ Keme, Humanities Fellow in Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University; Julie Fiveash, Librarian for American Indigenous Studies at Tozzer Library, Harvard University;...

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    2023 Feb 22

    Policing Disappearance: Missing People, Mass Graves and Debt in Democratic Brazil

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Speaker: Graham Denyer-Willis, Director of Studies in Geography and Professor of Global Politics and Society in the Department of Politics and International Studies, Queens College, University of Cambridge
    Moderated by: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism

    A political ethnographer, Graham’s research and teaching is concerned with practices and assumptions of power amidst inequality, as they work through cities, institutions and informality. He approaches these questions from...

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    2022 Nov 30
    2022 Nov 16

    RFK Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies Lecture - Blacks in Nation Making: Brazil and Cuba c. 1790-1850

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S-050, CGIS South

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speaker: Ronald Raminelli, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, DRCLAS & RLL
    Moderated by: Sidney Chalhoub, David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and of African and African American Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Romance Languages...

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    2022 Nov 15

    After Clientelism: How the Breakdown of Political Representation Led to a Crisis of Democracy in Brazil and Beyond

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216

    This event will be hybrid. To register for virtual, click here; to register for in-person, click here.

    Speaker: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government...

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    2022 Nov 14

    Film Screening: "Out of Breath" & Discussion with Director, Helena Lemos Petta

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Speaker: Helena Lemos Petta, Lemann Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS
    Moderated by: Erin Goodman, Director of the Weatherhead Scholars Program, Harvard University

    Join us for this in-person film screening of "Out of Breath" (Brazil, 2022, 81'), about public health workers in marginalized areas of Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic, awarded the Best Documentary in the Brazilian Competition of the 2022 It's All True International Documentary Film Festival. "Out of Breath" is also running for the OSCARS in the Best Documentary...

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    2022 Nov 08

    Civil Society is Not an Unalloyed Good: The Organizational Foundations of Bolsonarismo

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216

    This event will be hybrid. To register for virtual, click here; to register for in-person, click here.

    Speaker: Liz McKenna, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
    Moderated by: Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David...

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    2022 Oct 20

    Indigenous diplomacy: participation and the agenda of the Indigenous Peoples at the UN

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Belfer (S-020)

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speaker: Diego Tituaña, Kichwa Otavalo diplomat from Ecuador who served at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations from 2014 to 2019 and was in charge of human rights, disarmament, and international security agendas
    Commentators:...

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