Events

    2023 Oct 03

    Poll Workers and the Effects of Supportive Political Participation

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event is hybrid. To register for the virtual session, click here.

    Speaker: Noam Lupu, Associate Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University; Associate Director of LAPOP Lab
    Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

    How does participating in democracy shape the attitudes...

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    2023 Sep 28

    Paraguay Ante Viejos y Nuevos Desafíos

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be held in Spanish.

    Speaker: Benjamin Fernández Bogado, Doctor en derecho, periodista y profesor universitario
    Moderated by: Beatriz Orostiaga, MBA Candidate, Harvard Business School; David Riveros García, Founder & Executive Director reAcción Paraguay, Harvard Kennedy School

    Presented by: Rob Watson, Deputy Director EdRedesign Lab, Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

    Desde el 15 de agosto pasado Paraguay tiene un nuevo...

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    2023 Sep 21

    Open House Celebration

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium & Concourse

    To register for this event, click here.

    Learn all about DRCLAS programs, events, and student opportunities at the Open House Celebration!

    The evening starts with a panel of students asking our Faculty Director, Steve Levitsky about all things DRCLAS, Latin America, politics, new books, and more.

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    2023 Sep 11

    The Battle of Chile, Part Three: The Power of the People (La Batalla de Chile: El poder popular)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Patricio Guzmán
    Chile/Cuba/France, 1978, DCP, black & white, 79 min
    Spanish with English subtitles
    DCP source: Icarus Films

    Completed a couple of years after the first and second parts, The Power of the People offers an important coda to Guzmán’s epic documentary by turning away from the forces who opposed Allende and instead examining the loose coalition of workers and citizens who attempted to save Allende’s visionary politics. A stirring testimony to the grassroots power of Allende’s movement and its singular appeal to the working class,...

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    2023 Sep 10

    The Battle of Chile, Part Two: The Coup d’État (La Batalla de Chile: El golpe de estado)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Patricio Guzmán
    Chile/Cuba/France, 1976, DCP, black & white, 88 min
    Spanish with English subtitles
    DCP source: Icarus Films

    The second part of The Battle of Chile begins with the Chilean military’s first attempted coup in June 1973 and tracks the steady deterioration of Allende’s position across the months leading up to September 11. Focusing on Allende’s attempts to stave off the splintering of his party from within, The Coup d’État captures the frightening escalation of violence that began in the streets and climaxed in the fatal...

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    2023 Sep 09

    The Battle of Chile, Part One: The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie (La Batalla de Chile: La Insurrección de la Burguesía)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Patricio Guzmán 
    Chile/Cuba/France, 1975, DCP, black & white, 96 min
    Spanish with English subtitles
    DCP source: Icarus FIlms

    The Battle of Chile began as a boldly spontaneous attempt to comprehensively document Allende’s truly revolutionary experiment in social justice in its formative stages. Using film stock provided by Chris Marker, a thirty-one-year-old Guzmán, fresh out of film school in Madrid, led a team of cameramen into the streets of Santiago and outlying towns to capture the different sides forming staunchly for and...

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    2023 Jul 19

    Cruzando las Américas Arte e ideas en movimiento (1500-1800)

    Wed Jul 19 (All day) to Fri Jul 21 (All day)


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

    In an attempt to move our discipline beyond Eurocentric perspectives, this conference explores connections that artworks express from within the American territories: from California to Aracuaní (North/South), from Acapulco to Río de Janiero (West/East), and from Potosí to Buenos Aires (High/Low). We propose the concept of “crossing” as the analytical framework, aiming to demonstrate not only intra-American hybridity, but also the...

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    2023 May 31

    New Constitutional Counselors Election: Processing the Results and Reflecting on the Way Forward

    9:30am

    9:30 Hora de Chile

    This event is part of the Academic Forum for the New Constitution in Chile. For a recording of this event in English, click here. For a recording in Spanish, click here.

    Introduction: Steven Levitsky, Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Professor of Government,...

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    2023 May 02

    Democratic Hollowing: The Perils of Power Dilution and the Lessons from Peru

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

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

    Speaker: Rodrigo Barrenechea Carpio, Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University; Assistant Professor at the Departamento de Ciencias...

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    2023 Apr 28

    Cultural threads: weavers’ memories from the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes

    5:00pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Tozzer Anthropology Building

    This event will be held in Spanish. For complete information, click here.

    Speakers: Haydée Quiroz Malca, PhD in Anthropology; María Celidonia Chuquijajas Saman, Artisan from San Miguel, Cajamarca, Peru; Laura Sánchez Carhuajulca, Artisan from Tacabamba, Chota, Peru; Carlos...

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    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 12

    Wayuu Peoples’ Struggles for Self-Determination in the Guajira Peninsula

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    Barker Center, Room 114

    This event will be hybrid. To register for the virtual session, click here.

    Speaker: Emil' Keme (K’iche’ Maya Nation) is 2022-2023 Fellow at The Harvard Radcliffe Institute, member of the Community of Maya Studies, and Professor of English and Indigenous Studies at Emory University

    How do Indigenous peoples whose homelands have been demarcated by settler...

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    2023 Apr 07

    Who Gives Us Our Names?

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), 14 Story Street (4th floor)

    This in-person guided community dialogue is intended to follow up on topics raised during the virtual panel for Who Gives Us Our Names?

    Moderated by students from COATL (Colectivo Olin Ancestral: Languages and Traditions)

    Who Gives Us Our Names? Is a two-day event and provocation for the Harvard Community on the topics of Indigeneity, Latinidad, and Identity in Abya Yala (the Americas). On Tuesday April 4th at 6pm EST we will host a...

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    2023 Apr 04

    Who Gives Us Our Names?

    6:00pm to 7:30pm


    This event is virtual, to join click here. COATL and Fuerza will organize a viewing party in CGIS S030 for those interested in joining in-person.

    Speakers: Kuitlahuak A. Martinez, Speak Nahuatl Language Teacher (Nahua); Odilia Romero, Co-founder and Executive Director of Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo (CIELO) (Zapotec); Dr. Marcelo...

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    2023 Apr 01

    7th Quechua Alliance Annual Meeting

    9:00am to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South Concourse Level

    This event will be held in Spanish and Quechua. For a complete program, click here.

    Since 2015, The Quechua Alliance’s Annual Meeting has been a vibrant and multigenerational space for the exchange of ideas between Quechua speakers, community leaders, college students and educators who share an interest and passion for Quechua language and Andean culture. This will be our first in-person event since 2019. One of the main goals is the strengthening the vibrant Quechua...

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    2023 Mar 29

    Soy and Society in Paraguay and Argentina

    12:00pm to 1:30pm


    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speakers: Kregg Hetherington, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University; Pablo Lapegna, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Georgia; Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico

    Soybeans are one of the fastest growing...

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    2023 Mar 27

    A conversation with Dr. Diego García-Sayán, former Peruvian Minister of Justice, Former President of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights

    5:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-250

    This event will be held in Spanish.

    Speaker: Diego García-Sayán Larrabure, Peruvian lawyer and former Foreign Affairs Minister of Perú. He sat as judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and was president of the Court between 2010 and 2012
    Moderated by: Harvard Association of Peruvian Students

    Board and members of the Harvard Association of Peruvian Students will meet Peruvian lawyer and former Foreign Affairs Minister of Perú, Diego García-Sayán to talk about his career and the current situation of...

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