Events

    2024 Feb 24

    2024 Mexico Conference

    Sat - Sun, Feb 24 to Feb 25, 8:00am - 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Kennedy School

    The Mexico Conference is a yearly student-led conference at Harvard that promotes an interdisciplinary dialogue around Mexico’s culture, politics, and economy. The conference gathers policymakers, entrepreneurs, social activists, academics, and many other outstanding personalities to analyze and discuss challenges and opportunity areas of the Mexican national and international landscape. Considering the strategic position of the US Mexico relations and the upcoming election for both countries this years edition paints a strategic interest for our community.

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    2024 Feb 23

    Colombia’s Health System: An Interdisciplinary approach (SUMA)

    1:30pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S020, Belfer Case Study Room

    To register for this event, click here.

    Former President of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe Velez, and Alicia Yamin, Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights and Lecturer at Harvard Law School, will present an interdisciplinary analysis of Colombia's current health system. They will discuss the importance of...

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    2024 Feb 23

    Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries.

    The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform...

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    2024 Feb 20

    Easier Said than Done: Citizens' Stated and Revealed Democratic Commitment in Latin America

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216, Hybrid

    This event is hybrid, to attend remotely register here.

    This project examines citizens' commitment to democracy and their role in monitoring politicians' undemocratic behavior.

    The most commonly used measures of support for democracy come from public opinion surveys, based on questions that may suffer from social desirability bias and overlook the trade-offs that citizens face when choosing candidates. We scrutinize stated commitment to democracy, as measured by both...

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    2024 Feb 15

    Desinformación en América Latina: Retos para la democracia liberal

    4:30pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States (2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor), Hybrid

    Speaker: Juan Luis Manfredi, Príncipe de Asturías Distinguished Visiting Professor, Georgetown University.

    Moderated by Javier Lafuente Preciados, Harvard Nieman Fellow.

    Welcoming remarks by Alisha Holland, Professor of Government at Harvard University.

    This event is hybrid, to attend register here.

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    2024 Feb 06

    Re-Collecting the Andean Dead: American Anthropology’s Peruvian Foundations at Harvard, 1863–1926

    5:15pm to 6:45pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-050

    Speaker: Dr. Christopher Heaney, Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Penn State. Author of Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones and the Search for Machu Picchu (2010).

    Moderated by: Harvard Andean Working Group

    By 1873, seven years after the founding of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, over 400 of the 684 skulls in its collection were from...

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    2024 Feb 05

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: It is night in America (É Noite na América)

    7:00pm to 8:05pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    In the opening shot of Ana Vaz’s feature debut, an intense blue descends upon the sprawling, modernist metropolis of Brasília, which starts spinning out of control as a symphony of wild animal sounds crescendos. It is night in America. A recognition, an alarm, an investigation, a lament…Vaz’s film sounds every one of these notes and then some, within rather subtle boundaries, such as the limited exposure and contrast range of an expired 16mm film stock, along with “day for night” shooting techniques that fabricate a permanent twilight. Through patient and attentive observation, Vaz...

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    2024 Feb 04

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: Ana Vaz Short Films

    7:00pm to 8:15pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    The screenings are part of the Harvard Film Archive Film Series EXCAVATING SUBTERRANEA. THE FILM POEMS OF ANA VAZ

    Apiyemiyekî? Directed by Ana Vaz. Brazil/France/Portugal/Netherlands, 2019, DCP, color and b&w, 27 min. DCP source: Lightcone

    Amazing Fantasy. Directed by Ana Vaz. France/Japan, 2018, DCP, color, 3 min. DCP source: Lightcone

    There Is Land! (Há terra!). Directed by Ana Vaz. Brazil/France, 2016, DCP, color, 13 min. Portuguese with English subtitles. DCP source: Lightcone

    Atomic Garden. Directed by Ana Vaz. Brazil/Portugal, 2018,...

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    2024 Feb 02

    Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries.

    The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform...

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    2023 Dec 15

    Conferencia Magistral - Información Social e Inferencia Causal para el Diseño de Políticas Públicas: Terremoto, Lucro y Pandemia en Chile

    8:30am

    Location: 

    Hybrid- Auditorio Alessandri, Facultad de Derecho UChile

     “Información Social e Inferencia Causal para el Diseño de Políticas Públicas: Terremoto, Lucro y Pandemia en Chile” será dictada por José Zubizarreta, Ph.D. en estadística de The Wharton School de la Universidad de Pensilvania, profesor del Departamento de Health Care...

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    2023 Dec 08

    Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries.

    The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform...

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    2023 Dec 08

    Summer Internships: Pre-Texts for Opportunities to Learn and to Teach

    10:00am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Whether you want to explore Paraguay and support Guaraní speaking students, or you prefer a stay in Santiago, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Bogotá, México, and many more destinations, local mentors will guide you to learn from dynamic environments and to teach English or any subject of mutual interest.

    Come learn about the Pre-Texts methodology and its impact through the experiences of four undergraduates! The event is open to all members of the Harvard community. It will feature a Pre-Texts workshop as well as a panel discussion about the interns’ experiences.

    If the...

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    2023 Dec 01

    Harvard Andean Art History and Archaeology Working Group presents "The Construction of the Person in Afro-Indigenous Peruvian Societies"

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Speaker Dr. Luis Reyes Escate. Peruvian anthropologist and ethnologist and social anthropology Professor at the Peruvian National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru. Author of two books, Black becomings (2018) and The children of the Star and the Sun (2023). Luis is currently a Mellon Sawyer Fellow at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute.

    Presented in collaboration with the Harvard University Department of History and the Harvard Department of Anthropology.

    2023 Nov 30

    ReVista Launch: Queer in Latin America, LGBTQ+ Perspectives

    5:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    S030, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138

    This event is hybrid, to register to attend in-person, click here, to register to attend via Zoom, click here.

    Join us for the launch of the Fall issue of ReVista, “Queer in Latin America: LGBTQ+ Perspectives”. The issue focuses on a variety of themes, ranging from arts and culture to the trans community to thinking on the queer in...

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    2023 Nov 29

    Latin American Travelers and Revolutionary China in the Global 1960s: A Story of (Dis)encounters

    11:30am

    Location: 

    Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA,

     

    Speaker Wei Ran, Associate Professor, Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24

    Moderated by Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

    In the Global 1960s, many Latin American leading intellectuals, such as Pablo Neruda, José Venturelli, Eduardo Galeano and Ricardo Piglia, visited Maoist China, which was regarded as an alternative to Soviet Union and Cuba’s bureaucratic systems. This talk...

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