2019 Oct 08
Future Of Cities: Water
3:30pm
Location: 
Askwith Lecture Hall, Longfellow Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education; 13 Appian Way Cambridge, MA
Opening Remarks by Sarah Whiting, Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Speakers:
Loreta Castro Reguera, Professor, UNAM Mexico; Design Director, Taller Capital, Mexico; Visiting Scholar in Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
John Fernandez, Professor, MIT; Director, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative; Director, Urban Metabolism Group
Jim Matheson, Founder and principal, Flybridge Ventures; Chairman and CEO, Oasys Water; Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School
Joyce Coffee Founder...
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2019 Oct 03
The Politics of Making Poverty Visible in Brazil and Mexico
12:00pm
Location: 
L-P-9 Malkin Penthouse, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street
Speaker: Luciana de Souza Leão, LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology Department, University of Michigan
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Government Department, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
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2019 Sep 27
BLIFF: La Camarista (The Chambermaid)
Repeats every day until Sat Sep 28 2019 .
8:05pm
8:05pm
Location: 
Bright Family Screening Room at the Emerson Paramount Center
LA CAMARISTA (THE CHAMBERMAID)
Narrative, 102 mins, Lila Avilés, Mexico, 2018

Eve (Gabriela Cartol) works long hours as a maid at a luxurious hotel in Mexico City. A young, single mother who travels far to get to her place of work, Eve has aspirations for the future and hopes that her diligence will get her a coveted spot as the cleaner on an executive floor. She enrolls in the hotel's adult education program in her quest for a better life but quickly discovers that it's not necessarily the most hard-working who get noticed for advancement. Q&A with producer
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2019 Sep 27
BLIFF: Caballerango (Horse Wrangler)
6:00pm
Location: 
Bright Family Screening Room at the Emerson Paramount Center
Caballerango (Horse Wrangler)
Documentary, 61 mins, Juan Pablo González, Mexico, 2018
A family reflects on a young man’s disappearance in a Mexican village under the watchful eyes of the horse who saw him last.
• Official Selection, 2018 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
• Official Selection, 2019 True/False Film Festival
• Official Selection, 2019 Ambulante
• Official Selection, 2019 Festival Internacional de Guadalajara (FICG)
• Official Selection, 2019 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

Trailer: https://youtu.be/2Yl2sJEzkyc...
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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 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 May 03
Frontiers of Clientelism: Linking the Micro and the Macro
9:00am to 6:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S030, 1730 Cambridge Street
Panels will discuss: Clientelism, Linkages and Party Organization, Political Competition, Linkage Strategies, Political Economy
Please note: this event is by invitation only. Please contact Horacio Larreguy (hlarreguy@fas.harvard.edu) if interested.
Presented in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
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2019 Apr 23
Screening of Los Ofendidos, with Marcela Zamora
6:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street
Screening of the documentary Los Ofendidos / The Offended (Mexico-El Salvador, 2016) followed by a discussion with the director, Marcela Zamora
Moderator: Alberto Castillo Ventura, PhD candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures
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2019 Apr 23
The political origins of Mexico’s corruption
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Viridiana Rios, Ph.D. in Government, Harvard University
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
In contexts where corruption is widespread, why do some incumbents choose to not be corrupt? My research argues that party loyalty is a major influence to reduce corruption and test this argument using fine-grained data of 12 billion dollars audited to 3,601 local incumbents over a period of 16 years. Contributing to an unsettled and vibrant...
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2019 Apr 18
Beyond Reconstruction: Environmental, social, and infrastructural challenges for long-term recovery after major earthquakes in Mexico and Chile
9:00am to 1:00pm
Location: 
Lower Common Room, Adams House
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2019 Apr 17
Beyond Reconstruction: Environmental, social, and infrastructural challenges for long-term recovery after major earthquakes in Mexico and Chile
6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Room 121
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2019 Apr 17
From 1910 to the 4th Transformation: Actors, Institutions, and Objectives in Mexico’s Revolutionary Politics
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Graduate School of Design, Sackler 222
Speakers: Javier Garciadiego, Professor of History, El Colegio de México; John Womack, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History, Emeritus, Harvard University
Moderator: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism,...
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2019 Apr 16
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series presents: The Mexican Revolution of 1910: A Sociohistorical Interpretation
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Javier Garciadiego Dantán, Historian and Author; Director, Academia Mexicana de la Historia; Former President of El Colegio de México
A rigged election and a political crisis among competing elites, middle classes, and rural workers: What could go wrong? The Mexican...
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2019 Mar 25
Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor Lecture: Linguistic ideologies and social identities: implications for inclusive practices in public higher education institutions in Mexico
6:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Rosa Montes Miró, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor; Benemérita Universidad...
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2019 Feb 01
The Mexico Conference 2.0: Same Challenges, Different Expectations
Fri - Sat, Feb 1 to Feb 2, 2:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: 
Day One (1pm-8pm) Askwith Auditorium, Graduate School of Education; Day Two (9am-6:30pm): Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
The MX Conference is a student initiative that seeks to bring Mexico to the forefront. It provides a forum for the learning and debate of Mexico’s challenges and opportunities given its recent transition of power; and in addition; highlight the Harvard community and campus to external attendees. The Conference’...
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2018 Nov 16
Coffee Chat with Professor Irma Eréndira Sandoval, Mexico's incoming Secretary of Public Function
3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Law School, WCC 1023 Classroom

2018 Nov 05
Film Screening & Harvard Premier of: Song for Cesar: The Music and The Movement
6:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street

Please join us for a film screening followed by discussion featuring:
Davíd Carrasco, Professor, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, with a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Abel Sánchez, Film...
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2018 Nov 01
Día de los Muertos Celebration
4:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

Remember and celebrate your departed loved ones at this year’s Día de los Muertos altar, savor traditional Mexican hot chocolate and pan de muerto, and enjoy live music. The Catrina/catrín costume contest is at 6:30 pm.
Free and open to the public. ...
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2018 Oct 26
Mexican Literature, Culture, and Film across Borders: Translation, Migration and Frontiers
9:00am to 7:00pm
Location: 
Boston Univeristy, Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215
“Mexican Literature, Culture, and Film across Borders: Translation, Migration and Frontiers,” a two-day conference organized by the Center of Latin American Studies at Boston University. The central aim of the conference is to bring prominent scholars who will explore cultural and sociopolitical phenomena related to Mexico, often neglected by national histories, and to engage with theories on translation and migration in the field of literary and film studies.
24 scholars from across North America and Mexico have committed to present their work at the conference. Among...
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2018 Oct 23
Can Access to Information Increase Community Monitoring & Service Provision? Evidence from a School Intervention in Mexico
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Ana De la O, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Ana Lorena De La O is associate professor of Political Science at Yale University, where she is affiliated with the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the Institution of Social and Policy Studies, and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Her research relates to the political economy of poverty alleviation, clientelism and the provision of...
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