Events

    2022 Oct 29

    Day of the Dead Family Fiesta

    1:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology (11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge)

    Learn more about this joyful holiday, a national symbol of Mexico shared with the world. The annual tradition of building ofrendas—altars with photos, favorite foods, and memorabilia of the departed—encourages annual visits by the souls, and is an occasion to honor and celebrate the lives of the departed. Enjoy three floors of activities for the young and young at heart including crafts, scent stations, traditional decorations, Nahuatl stories, decorating a sugar skull (extra fee), painting demonstrations, folk dances and two live music performances. Outside the museum, visitors can...

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    2022 Oct 21

    Abortion Rights and Reproductive Justice in Latin America: Recent Landmark Decisions from Mexico and Colombia

    11:00am

    Location: 

    Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138

    This event is open for both in-person and virtual attendance. In-person attendance is open to the Harvard Community. Register now to ensure you receive event location and updates. To register for this event, click here.

    NOTE: Access to Harvard buildings it restricted to Harvard ID holders. If you are unable to attend in-person,...

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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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    2022 Oct 04

    The Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Fall 2022 Lecture: Una mirada al pasado desde el presente: (Re)construyendo materialidades mesoamericanas entre lo físico y lo efímero

    8:00pm to 9:30pm

    Location: 

    Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Mexico

    This event will be livestreamed in Spanish via the INAH YouTube channel. Please email Lorena Rodas if you are interested in attending in-person. Masks will be required at all times during event.

    Speaker: Laura Filloy Nada, Associate Curator of Ancient American Art, The Metropolitan Museum

    The Harvard University Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series celebrates the...

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    2022 Apr 20

    Mexican Red: The Perfect Color that Changed the World

    6:00pm to 7:00pm


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

    Speaker: Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Harvard University

    Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) is a small insect that produces a brilliant red pigment. Found in textiles,...

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    2022 Apr 13

    Violence and Death in Contemporary Mexico: Meanings, Mobilizations and Justice from Below

    12:00pm to 1:15pm


    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speaker: Wil Pansters, Professor of Social Science, Utrecht University
    Discussant: Claudio Lomnitz, Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
    Moderated by: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

    This presentation will first chart the diverse forms of violence...

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    2022 Apr 12

    States of Extraction: The Emergence of Indigenous Rights in Latin America

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speaker: Chris Carter, Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
    Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

    Christopher Carter is an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and Research Associate at the Center on...

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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 05

    Health Justice in the Americas: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

    12:30pm


    This event is virtual, to register click here.

    Introduction: Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center; Laura Clérico, Independent Researcher, Argentine National Scientific and Technical Council (CONICET), Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Buenos Aires, and Honorary...

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    2022 Apr 05

    Latin America’s Changing Left: Red versus Green?

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speakers: Thea Riofrancos, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Providence College; Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2020-2022); Manuela Picq, Professor of International Relations at Universidad San Francisco de Quito & Senior Lecturer of Political Science at Amherst College; Marco Fernandez, Professor of Government, Tec de Monterrey
    Moderated by: Steven Levitsky...

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    2022 Mar 29

    The New Right in Latin America

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


    For a recording of this event, please click here.

    Speakers: Lindsay Mayka, Associate Professor of Government, Colby College; Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, Assistant Professor of International Development, University of Bath; Cristobal Rovira, Professor of Political Science, Universidad Diego Portales
    Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, David Rockefeller...

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    2022 Mar 22

    Bootstrap Justice: The Search for Mexico's Disappeared

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


    For a recording of this event, please click here.

    Speaker: Janice Gallagher, Assistant Professor in Political Science, Rutgers University
    Discussant: Kaitlyn Chriswell, PhD Candidate in Government, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University

    Janice Gallagher is an Assistant Professor of political science at...

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    2022 Mar 09

    Mexico Seminar: La Reconquista: Indigenous Migrants and Their New Geographies of Mestizaje in the US

    12:00pm to 1:15pm


    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speaker: María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University
    Moderated by: Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Harvard University

    Tens of thousands of indigenous peoples from Latin America have migrated to the United States since 1994, the vast majority of those...

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    2022 Feb 24

    The Mexico Conference

    Thu Feb 24 (All day) to Sat Feb 26 (All day)


    All panels will be virtual and live-streamed from Harvard Kennedy School. For tickets, click here.

    The MX Conference 2022 is the fifth edition of the non-profit conference organized annually by The Harvard University Mexican Association of Students (HUMAS).

    It seeks to establish a space to debate ideas and bring our attendees - mostly Mexican students and professors at Harvard and other national and foreign universities - closer to some of the country's most...

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    2021 Dec 08

    Mexico Seminar: The Local and the Territorial in Mexican National Politics

    6:00pm to 7:15pm


    For a recording of this event, please click here.

    Speakers: Sergio Aguayo, Professor of International Studies, El Colegio de México; Visiting Scholar, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University; María Marván, Researcher and Academic Secretary, Institute for Juridical Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico
    Moderated by: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism,...

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    2021 Dec 01

    Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas

    4:00pm to 5:30pm


    This event is virtual, to register click here.

    Speaker: Stephen Kaplan, Associate Professor of Political Science and Economic Affairs, George Washington University

    This book explores how China’s state-led capitalism affects national level governance. China, as the world’s largest saver, has more than doubled its overseas banking presence since the 2008 global financial crisis...

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