2019 Feb 20
The Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street
Mary Plotkin, Co-Founder & President, The Amazon Conservation Team
Brian Hettler, GIS & New Technologies Manager, The Amazon Conservation Team
Richard Evans Schultes—ethnobotanist, taxonomist, writer, photographer, and Harvard professor—is regarded as one of the most important plant explorers of the twentieth century. In 1941, Schultes traveled to the Amazon rainforest on a mission to study how Indigenous peoples used plants for medicinal, ritual, and practical purposes. A new interactive online map, produced by the Amazon...
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2019 Feb 19
Homicidal Ecologies: Illicit Economies and Complicit States in Latin America
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Deborah Yashar, Professor of Politics & International Affairs, Princeton University; Editor of World Politics
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
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2019 Feb 15
HFA Film Series: The Extraordinary Stories of Mariano Llinás
Repeats every day until Sun Feb 17 2019 .
7:00pm
7:00pm
7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
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Presented in collaboration with the Harvard Film Archive and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
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2019 Feb 15
Havana's Noise and Rhythm: Understanding Afrocubaneity
12:00pm to 1:45pm
Location: 
104 Mt. Auburn Street 3R, Seminar Room
Speaker: Pablo D. Herrera Veitia, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
What is it like to be Afro-Cuban today? After more than a decade’s experience as an Afro-Cuban rap music producer, this is the question at the core of Herrera Veitia’s doctoral research in social anthropology. His presentation will explore how becoming a Hiphop practitioner vested him with a profound interest in the future of urban Afro-Cuban music in Havana. Following the question ‘What is Afro-Cubaneity?’ he argues that understanding what Afro-...
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2019 Feb 13
Indigenous People, Democracy and Historiography in Brazil (1978-2018)
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Camila Dias, Professor of Brazilian Colonial History, University of Campinas
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government at Harvard...
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2019 Feb 12
El Salvador's 2019 Presidential Election
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD Student in Government, Harvard University
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
On February 3, 2019, El Salvador held its...
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2019 Feb 06
Political Power, Elite Control, and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Brazil
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Monica Martinez-Bravo, Associate Professor at CEMFI; Associate Visiting Professor MIT
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government at Harvard University and the Faculty Chair of the Brazil Studies Program
This paper studies the effects of local political concentration on long-run economic development in Brazil. Contrary to what is observed in...
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2019 Feb 05
Student Info Session: Study Abroad Cuba
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Office of International Education, 1414 Mass. Ave, 3rd Floor
Interested in Studying Abroad in Cuba during Fall 2019? Join our Info Session to learn about how!  

The Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad (CASA) in Cuba study abroad program introduces students to critical issues in Cuban culture and politics, through a semester of coursework at CASA Cuba...
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2019 Feb 05
Student Info Session: Study Abroad Cuba
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Office of International Education, 1414 Mass. Ave, 3rd Floor
Interested in Studying Abroad in Cuba during Fall 2019? Join our Info Session to learn about how!  

The Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad (CASA) in Cuba study abroad program introduces students to critical issues in Cuban culture and politics, through a semester of coursework at CASA Cuba...
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2019 Feb 05
Justice Beyond the Final Verdict: The Sepur Zarco case and the aftermath of court-ordered reparations in transitional justice cases in Guatemala
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Irma Velásquez Nimatuj,Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies, Brown University
Moderator:  Steven Levitsky, Professor of...
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2019 Feb 04
Student Info Session: 2019 Summer Opportunities in Latin America
4:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Looking to spend summer living & working abroad in Latin America?

DRCLAS offers programs in Argentina, Brazil, Chile & Mexico. Come to our info session to find out how you can gain an internship or study abroad for credit through DRCLAS in these locations. 
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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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2019 Jan 31
Gallery talk with artist Clarissa Tossin: Future Fossil
2:00pm
Location: 
8 Garden Street, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall
Speaker: Clarissa Tossin, Radcliffe fellow in 2017–2018
Clarissa Tossin expands upon her fellowship project with a newly commissioned exhibition that considers the ecology of an uncertain future. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s science fiction trilogy Xenogenesis (1989), in which the Amazon becomes the site for a new civilization of alien-human hybrids, Tossin speculates upon a postapocalyptic world following ecological collapse. Pairing DIY plastic recycling techniques with the materials and practices of Amazonian aesthetic...
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2019 Jan 31
Lecture by Marcia Lima: "Narratives on race and gender in the Brazilian elections"
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
104 Mt. Auburn Street 3R, Seminar Room
The purpose of this lecture is to present - from the perspective on race and gender studies - how the representations of these social markers were mobilized in the 2018 elections, especially the presidential election. The dispute between leading candidates demonstrated that the public debate around...
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2019 Jan 21
Las Puertas que faltan por abrir, haciendo lo invisible visible
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Sala Matte, 2o piso de Centro de Extensión, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Campus Central, Avda. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 340 Santiago, Chile
Una conversación sobre la experiencia de la mujer profesional con Judy Singer, Vicerrectora Superior para el Desarrollo del Profesorado y la Diversidad, y Profesora de Educación "James Bryant Conant", Universidad de Harvard; Verónica López, Periodista de la Universidad Católica, Fundadora de Revista Caras, Cosas y Semana (Colombia) entre otras, Nieman Fellow 1997; María Elena Wood, Periodista de la UC, directora y productora audiovisual, co-fundadora y directora de Comunidad Mujer, socia de la productora Invercine & Wood
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2018 Dec 14
The Last Dream: Stories Created and Performed by the Children of TPS
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Avenue, Allston, MA 02134
Join the Harvard Ed Portal, Comité TPS, and Boston Experimental Theatre for a performance of The Last Dream: Stories Created and Performed by the Children of TPS. The play features the children of parents with Temporary Protected Status, a federal immigration status in danger of being canceled. The production is a dramatic representation of the struggles and joys of children of immigrants, including members of the Harvard community, and the pain of threat to one’s way of life.
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2018 Dec 11
GLAM* Concert Series presents Mesias Maiguashca: The Andean World in Contemporary Music
Tue - Sun, Dec 11 to Dec 16, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: 
Holden Chapel (Harvard Yard) & Paine Hall (Harvard Music Department)
The Arts and Andes & Southern Cone Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Music at Harvard University cordially invite you to a series of concerts and events featuring Ecuadorian composer Mesías Maiguashca, one of the leading figures in electronic and electroacoustic composition in Latin America. Of indigenous heritage, his music often locates Andean perceptions and sounds within the frameworks of Western experimental music...
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2018 Dec 11
Student Info Session: 2019 Summer Programs with DRCLAS
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street

Looking to spend summer living & working abroad in Latin America?

DRCLAS offers programs in Argentina, Brazil, Chile & Mexico. Come to our info session to find out how you can gain an internship or study abroad for credit through DRCLAS in these locations. 
...
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2018 Dec 06
I. Cervantes: Cuban Language & Poetry
4:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
2 Arrow Street., Cambridge, MA 02138
De Donde Crece la Palma: Day-long symposium on Cuban Language and Poetry at the Instituto Cervantes. Read more about I. Cervantes: Cuban Language & Poetry
2018 Dec 03
Screening of Magallanes, with Salvador del Solar
6:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street

The sins of the past force a painful reckoning in the present in “Magallanes,” a quietly gripping Peruvian thriller about old political wounds and the elusive quest...
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