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....
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...
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.
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
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.
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....
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.
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
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...
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...
This event is hybrid. To register for the online session, click here.
Speakers:
Maria Victoria Murillo, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Columbia University; Ernesto Calvo, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland; ...
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.Parrawill 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...
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...
Speakers: Lee Perlman, PhD, Co-Director of The Educational Justice Institute (TEJI) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Maria Paula Avila Vera, anthropologist, researcher, and filmmaker; Sang J. Cho, Associate Producer, Harvard Kennedy School; Colin Conwell,...
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.
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,...
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...
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...