2020 Oct 29
Èṣù's Three-way Crossroads: The Future of Ancestrality in Uncertain Times
6:00pm to 7:30pm

This event is virtual, to register, click here.
Speakers: Luiz Rufino, PhD and scholar at UERJ; Sidnei Nogueira, Professor of and Coordinator of the Ilê Ará Institute; Rodney William, PhD, Anthropologist, and babalorixá
Moderated by: Joaquín Terrones, PhD and Lecturer of Literature at MIT
In recent times, a segment of academia has come to the realization that its institutions and disciplines currently produce...
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2020 Oct 29
Bolivia: elección y gobernabilidad / Bolivia: Elections and Governability
4:00pm to 5:00pm

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Speakers: Erika Brockmann, Former Senator, political scientist and political analyst; Armando Ortuño, Former Vice Minister of Planning and Ambassador, economist and social researcher
Moderated by: Victoria Murillo, Professor of Political Science, Columbia; Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University and...
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2020 Oct 29
#BlackLivesMatter Across the Americas: Black Youth Organizers and the Struggle for Racial Justice
4:00pm to 5:30pm

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Speakers: Ana Belique, Movimento Reconocido (Santo Domingo); Daniela Rincón, Casa Cultural El Chontaduro (Cali); Marcelle Decothé, Instituto Marielle Franco/Favelas Na Luta/Fórum da Juventude do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro); Mirtes Souza (mãe de Miguel Otávio) e Priscila Santana, Kilomba Collective (Brazil/USA...
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2020 Oct 28
Water Challenges on the U.S.- Mexico Border
6:00pm to 7:15pm

This virtual event is part of the Food Security in the Americas Series. To watch the recording, click here. 
 
Water Traveling Incognito. US-Mexico Transboundary Hydro-Policy...
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2020 Oct 27
Democratic Backsliding in Contemporary Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To watch the recording, click here. 
Speakers: Manuel Melendez-Sanchez, PhD candidate in Political Science, Harvard University; Santiago Anria, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, Dickinson College; Calla Hummel, Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Miami; Carmen Aída Lazo, Dean of the School of Economics and Business at Escuela Superior de Economía...
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2020 Oct 23
Constitutional Democracy and the Role of High Courts in Times of Crisis: The Case of Mexico
12:00pm

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Introduction: Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
Speakers: Justice Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena, Supreme Court Justice, Mexican Supreme Court...
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2020 Oct 22
Harvard-Brazil Dialogue with Fernando Haddad
10:00am to 11:30am

This event is virtual and will be in Portuguese. To register, click here.
Speaker: Fernando Haddad, Professor, University of São Paulo and Insper; Former Minister of Education; Former Mayor of São Paulo
Moderator: Hussein Kalout, Research Scholar, Harvard University; Former Secretary of Strategic Affairs of Brazil (2017-2018)
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2020 Oct 19
Challenges to Contain COVID-19 in Latin America: Lessons from Chile & Peru
12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Speakers: Maria Antonieta Alva, Minister of Economy & Finance, Peru; Eduardo Engel, Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Chile
Moderated by: Gordon Hanson, Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Latin America has become an epicenter of COVID-19...
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2020 Oct 15
The Fall 2020 Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture: Juan Villoro, "The Obsidian Mirror: Literature and Archaeology in Mexico"
6:00pm to 7:30pm

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Speaker: Juan Villoro, Author and Journalist, El Colegio Nacional (Mexico)
Mexican authors Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, José Emilio Pacheco, Salvador Novo, Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, and Rosario Castellanos, among others, have sought to use language to explore and recover the links between Mexico’s Indigenous peoples and its contemporary society. Focusing on Mexico’s pre-Hispanic past, Juan Villoro will explore the...
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2020 Oct 15
The Mariel Effect: Social and Racial Tensions in South Florida in the Wake of the Boatlift
11:00am

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Speakers: Julio Capó, Jr., PhD, Associate Professor, Department of History and Deputy Director, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, Florida International University; Antonio López, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of English, George Washington...
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2020 Oct 13
The Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America: Causes and Consequences of Lava Jato
12:00pm to 1:20pm
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Speakers: Ezequiel González Ocantos, Associate Professor in the Qualitative Study of Comparative Political Institutions, University of Oxford; Paula Muñoz, Profesora del Departamento Académico de Ciencias Sociales y Políticas, Universidad del Pacifico en Perú
Discussant: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University
Moderated by: ...
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2020 Oct 08
Resisting Police Violence in the Americas: Mothers on the Front Lines
4:00pm to 5:30pm

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Speakers: Dorothy Holmes, Ronnieman Foundation and Justice for Families, Chicago, US; Débora Maria da Silva, Mothers of May, Brazil; Rute Fiuza, Mothers of May of the Northeast, Brazil; Jacqueline Castillo, Mothers of False Positives of Soacha and Bogotá, Colombia; Cristina Bautista Salvador, Mothers and...
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2020 Oct 07
Channeling Anzaldúa: Navigating the Borders of Gender, Culture, Language, and Sexuality in Sports and Beyond
7:30pm to 8:30pm
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Speaker: Janelly Farías, professional soccer player for Chivas Femenil and the Mexican Women's National Team
Farías is openly gay and was born and raised in Southern California. Soccer was her passion, but when she came out, she felt isolated and...
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2020 Oct 07
Are We Alone in the Universe? The Giant Magellan Telescope in Las Campanas, Chile
6:00pm to 7:00pm
7:00 pm (Local time in Chile)
This event is in English and virtual, to join click here.
Chile was selected as the best site for the Giant Magellan Telescope because of the country’s outstanding astronomical positioning and clear weather throughout most of the...
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2020 Oct 07
Changing the Game: Mexico and Global Agricultural Innovation in the 21st Century
5:00pm to 6:00pm

This event is virtual and will be presented in English with Spanish translation available. To join click here.
Speakers: Daniel Nocera, Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University; Dilek Dogutan Kiper, Principal Research Scientist, Nocera Lab and Lecturer, Harvard University; Nazario López Cruz, Professor of Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de...
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2020 Oct 07
Amazon 4.0 – Defining a Third Way for the Amazon
4:00pm to 5:00pm

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Speaker: Carlos Nobre, Senior Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo; Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute
Discussant: Vinicius Furuie, Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center on the Environment
Moderated by: Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Co-Chair Brazil...
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2020 Oct 07
Channels of Expression at Times of Change: Music and Dance Across Continents
1:00pm to 2:00pm

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Speakers: Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University; Emma Dench, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics, Harvard University; Richard Tuck, Frank G. Thomson...
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2020 Oct 06
Film screening of Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro-Tradition in the Heart of Mexico, hosted by the Latinx Student Association
6:30pm to 8:30pm

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Speaker: Ebony Bailey, cinematographer and director of film
Join us on Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 6:30 PM EST for a special screening of Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico. The jamaica flower and tamarind are iconic ingredients in Mexico,...
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2020 Oct 06
Human Rights = Public Health With Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
1:00pm to 2:00pm

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Speaker: Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Moderated by: Guillermo Arduino, Anchor and Correspondent, CNN en Español
The coronavirus pandemic has made clear the disproportionate impact among women, minority groups and impoverished people around the world. Protecting human rights IS a matter of public health. Please join a...
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2020 Oct 06
Democracy on the Line in Brazil
12:00pm to 1:20pm
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Speakers: Fernando Limongi, Professor of Political Science, University of Sao Paulo; Nara Pavao, Assistant Professor in Political Science, Federal University of Pernambuco; Marta Arretche, Professor of Political Science, University of Sao Paulo
Moderated by: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD Candidate in Government, Harvard University
Halfway through Jair...
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