Events

    La lucha por la democracia en Venezuela: una conversación con Juan Guaidó, Ex Presidente Interino de Venezuela

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    S-020 (Belfer)

    This event will be held in Spanish.

    Regístrese para el evento aquí.

    En esta conversación con los estudiantes de Harvard y con el profesor Steven Levitsky, Juan Guaidó hablará sobre el urgente problema global de confrontar regímenes autoritarios....

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    Decentralization and Outcomes: Has Decentralization Improved Health in Latin America?

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Inspired by the DRCLAS Seminar “Was Decentralization a Mistake for Latin America” in November 2022, this seminar is designed to present some recent focused empirical research on how to define types of decentralization and to assess how decentralization contributes to specific outcomes in the health sector. The panelists have experience in specifying characteristics of decentralization in different countries and will present some recent research in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Honduras using sophisticated methodologies to evaluate outputs and outcomes of different...

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    Zelia Nuttall Book Talk with Author Merilee Grindle

    5:30pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Tozzer Library

    Come listen to Merilee Grindle and Davíd Carrasco discuss her new book on the remarkable Zelia Nuttall. 

    It’s a gripping story of a pioneering anthropologist whose exploration of Aztec cosmology, rediscovery of ancient texts, and passion for collecting helped shape our understanding of pre-Columbian Mexico. 
     
    Enjoy refreshments and explore rare collections related to Zelia Nuttall’s work. 
     
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    Resisting Backsliding

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

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

    Speaker: Laura Gamboa, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Utah; Santo Domingo Visiting Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
    Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

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    Indigenous Resistance in Fierro Urco: A Conversation with Kichwa Saraguro Mayor Abel Sarango

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Barker Center #024

    Speaker Abel Sarango, current Kichwa mayor of Saraguro, Ecuador.

    A conversation with Abel Sarango, current Kichwa mayor of Saraguro, Ecuador, who will discuss about the current situation of páramo region of Fierro Urco and Indigenous resistance against mining activities in the region.

    Organized by the Quechua Initiative on Global Indigeneity, Harvard University Native American Program, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

    Event will be in Spanish with English...

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    RFK Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies Lecture -The Politics of Impeachment: The Brazilian Case

    4:30pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    Ash Center Seminar Room 225, Floor Two, Suite 200N, 124 Mount Auburn Street

    Harvard-ID holders are invited to join the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies for the RFK Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies Lecture featuring Fernando Limongi, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies.

    Today, most Latin American countries are democracies. Military regimes and coups are not as frequent as in the past. Yet, political instability remains a regional feature. Several presidents have been forced out of office before concluding their term....

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    Gender and climate change: an intersectional approach from Latin America and the Caribbean

    4:30pm to 6:45pm

    Location: 

    Tsai Auditorium

    Registration is not required. 

    Join us for a two-part event that aims to create a space for an overview of the intersection between climate change and gender—emphasizing the need for a nuanced understanding of its impacts in Latin America & the Caribbean—and to share efforts on how addressing gender disparities can enhance climate resilience, mitigation, and adaptation efforts.

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    The Origins of Democracy in South America

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

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

    Speaker: Raul L. Madrid, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
    Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

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    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Afectos metafísicos: Borges, modernidad urbana y duelo

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This workshop will be held in Spanish.

    Speaker Juan Torbidoni, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA)

    Moderated by Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

    En este workshop vamos a conversar sobre el proyecto de investigación del Prof. Juan Torbidoni sobre los modos en que Jorge Luis Borges, Macedonio Fernández y Leopoldo Marechal procesan la experiencia de la modernidad...

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    Letters to Lula in Detention: Epistolary Resistance and Writings on the Self

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-216

    Speakers: Maud Chirio, Associate Professor of History, Université Gustave Eiffel; Ernesto Bohoslavsky, Lecturer, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento
    Moderated by: Sidney Chalhoub, Chair, Department of History; David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and of African and African American Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

    During his 580 days of political imprisonment, from April 2018 to November 2019, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva received more...

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    Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace: Advances and Challenges in Transitional Justice—A Conversation with Judge Oscar Parra Vera

    10:00am to 11:00am

    Location: 

    Harvard Law School WCC 3016

    In this coffee talk, Judge Parra will describe Colombia’s innovative Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Jurisdicción Especial por la Paz, “JEP” for its Spanish acronym) and contextualize the challenges it faces after 6 years of functioning. Parra will discuss how its public hearings have been critical to providing restorative justice for victims of the conflict and will also refer to various specific cases of ‘false positives’ handled by the JEP.

    Speaker Judge Parra Vera is a magistrate for Colombia’s...

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    New Narratives on Crime: Rethinking the State and Violence in Mexico

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

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

    Speakers Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs George Washington University; Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center. Alke Jenss, Head of the research cluster State and Contested Governance, Arnold...

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    Experiencing Authenticity in La Modelo, a Prison Education Initiative in Colombia, the documentary.

    4:30pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium

    Speakers: Lee Perlman, PhD, Co-Director of The Educational Justice Institute (TEJI) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Maria Paula Avila Veraanthropologist, researcher, and filmmaker; Sang J. Cho, Associate Producer, Harvard Kennedy School; Colin Conwell,...

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    LAPA Worksop: Building State Capability in LATAM

    2:30pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Littauer L-332 Deland Classroom

    In our first LAPA workshop we will learn how to use the Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) toolkit designed by Building State Capability to guide the process of solving complex problems while building capability. In this workshop we will be looking at a real problem in Latin America and we will engage in a learning by doing experience. 

    Dates: Session 1 - 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. | Friday, October 20thSession 2 - 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. | Thursday, October 26thSession 3 - 2:...

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    Harvard Art Museums Program: Bosco Sodi in Dialogue

    6:00pm to 7:15pm

    Location: 

    Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums

    Speaker: Bosco Sodi, Artist
    Moderated by: Mary Schneider Enriquez, former Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums

    Discussion with Bosco Sodi about his sculpture installation Origen, which marks the first outdoor public art display for the Harvard Art Museums. Mary Schneider Enriquez, former Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museums, will talk with Bosco Sodi about his practice,...

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    Energies and Imaginations: Hypotheses for a Present in Transition

    2:30pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    HAA Lower Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA, 02138

    Speakers: Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Head of the PhD Program in Architecture and Urban Studies, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Cara Daggett, Associate Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech; Jota Mombaça, Artist based in Brazil, Germany, and Portugal; Marina Otero Verzier, Head of the Social Design Masters Program, Design Academy Eindhoven; Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Artist based in Guatemala; Elizabeth...

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    The Impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

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

    Speaker: Fernando Limongi, Professor of Political Science, São Paulo University; Fundação Getulio Vargas
    Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...

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