Events

    2022 Nov 04

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | elDiarioAR, a new national newspaper in the context of political polarization, economic crisis, and concentration of media ownership

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Speaker: Martin Sivak, Director of ElDiario.Ar 
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    Sivak will address the experience of conceiving and launching a new national newspaper at the peak of the pandemic and the challenges facing an independent media outlet in Latin America. The model of the newspaper —inspired by the Spanish newspaper eldiairioes, a partner of elDiarioAR—is based on the goal of empowering its community of readers, who pay a monthly fee,...

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    2022 Nov 03

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Evo Morales and the Burnt Palace: His Fall and Unexpected Rebirth (A documentary and a diary)

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Speaker: Martin Sivak, Director of ElDiario.Ar
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    For this session, we will read and discuss the introduction to Sivak’s work-in-progress narrative and diary of the last three years in Evo Morales’s life. Since September 2019, Sivak has been working on a documentary (together with Noah Friedman-Rudovsky) based on Morales' life. Thanks to their unique access to the former president, they have been able to document his...

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    2022 Oct 14

    Argentine Tango Masterclass with Javier Rodriguez & Moira Castellano

    6:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Barker Center Cafe (12 Quincy Street)

    Featuring: Javier Rodriguez and Moira Castellano, world-class tango dancers from Buenos Aires
    Moderated by: Thomas Patrick Wisniewski, Lecturer on Comparative Literature, Harvard University

    Javier Rodriguez and Moira Castellano will give a masterclass on Argentine Tango to current Harvard students. This event event will be followed by a live performance on October 15 (Lehman Hall,...

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    2022 Oct 11

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Breve historia del antipopulismo: A conversation with Ernesto Semán

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216

    To register for this event, please click here.

    Speaker: Ernesto Semán, Associate Professor of Latin American History, University of Bergen
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    For this session, we will read and discuss the Introduction and Chapter 7 of  Breve historia del antipopulismo. PDFs available below...

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    2022 Oct 05

    Book Launch: Constructing Latin America. Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art

    5:30pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S216

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speaker: Patricio del Real, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
    Moderated by: José Lira, Professor of Architecture, Univesity of Sao Paulo (FAU-USP) and Visiting Professor 2022-23, Princeton University

    Professor...

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    2022 Sep 23

    Harvard Film Archive Film Screening : CASA ROSHELL

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    CASA ROSHELL is Directed by Camila José Donoso | Mexico/Chile, 2017| digital video, color, 71 min | Spanish with English subtitles.

    During a trip to Mexico in 2014, after making Naomi Cambel (2013), the director Camila José Donoso learned about Club Roshell: a private site founded by the trans artist and activist Roshell Terranova in 2004, populated by men looking for somewhere they can assume an alternative gender role and explore their identity. Over six weeks, the filmmaker visited the club, observing, talking to, and generating dialogue with its members, and finally...

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    2022 May 10

    Arts and Humanities Workshop Series | "Desplazamiento, viaje y literatura: estructuras de significación y dislocación" (Parte 2)

    5:00pm to 7:00pm


    This event is virtual and will be held in Spanish. To register, click here.

    Speakers: Leila Gómez, Director of the Latin American Center and Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, CU Boulder; Martín Bergel, Professor of Latin American Contemporary History, Universidad de San Martín (Buenos Aires); Irene Depetris Chauvin, researcher CONICET UBA and Professor, Universidad Nacional de las Artes; ...

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    2022 Apr 11

    2022 Latin GSD Symposium "LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA"

    Repeats every weekday until Wed Apr 13 2022 .
    6:30pm

    6:30pm
    6:30pm


    This event is virtual, to register click here.

    On behalf of Latin GSD, We would like to invite you to this year’s symposium on LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA

    In contexts of rapid, inequitable urbanization and socio-spatial innovations, what can global scholars and practitioners of urban planning, design, landscape, and architecture learn from Latin America?

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    2022 Apr 06

    DRCLAS Film Series | Dance of the Forty One by David Pablos

    5:00pm to 6:00pm


    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speaker: David Pablos, Filmmaker
    Moderated by: Laura Pérez Muñoz & Adri Rodríguez Ríos, PhD Candidates in Romance Languages and Literatures (Latinx & Spanish Track), Harvard University

    A conversation with filmmaker David Pablos on the film Dance of the Forty One (2020). This event is part of the DRCLAS Film Series Are we there yet? A Film Series...

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    2022 Apr 04

    Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    114 Kresge Foundation Room, Barker Center

    Speaker: João Paulo Cuenca, Writer and Filmmaker
    Moderated by: Lucas Mertehikian, PhD Candidate, Harvard University

    Argentine-Brazilian writer and filmmaker João Paulo Cuenca will read segments from his latest book "I Found Out I Was Dead" as well as discuss the creative process for his next book.

    João Paulo Cuenca is a Argentine-Brazilian writer and filmmaker born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the author of six books and some of his novels have been translated into eight languages. “I found out I...

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    2022 Apr 01

    Brazil Speaks! Architecture Culture at Risk

    9:00am to 12:00pm


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    Speakers: Josemeire Alves Pereira, Professor, FLACSO- Brasil; Maria Cristina Cabral, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Sol Camacho, Architect and former Director of Instituto Bardi (2017-2021) ; Sabrina Fontenele, Cultural Director, Brazilian Institute of Architects; José Lira, Professor of...

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