Speaker: Carlos Diego Mesa, Former President of Bolivia (2003-2005); International Spokesman of the Bolivian Maritime Cause in The Hague
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
For more than a century the diplomatic relationships between Bolivia and Chile have been conditioned by the Pacific war (1879-1883) where Bolivia and Peru confronted Chile. As a product of the war Bolivia lost access to the Pacific Ocean. This country has not renounced to the right of regaining sovereign access...
Instituto Singularidades - R. Dep. Lacerda Franco, 88 - Pinheiros, São Paulo - SP
At the time of his book launching, One Student at a Time. Leading the Global Education Movement, Professor Fernando Reimers will facilitate a discussion of the role of education leaders in enhancing the relevance of education and the challenges of collective leadership.
The conversation will be divided in two parts and participants are welcome to attend one or both sessions. Professor Manuel Palacios, from the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora and Teca Pontual, Director of Curriculum at the Ministry of Education...
Speaker: Fabio Kanczuk, Secretary of Economic Policy, Brazilian Ministry of Finance
Moderator: Frances Hagopian Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government Harvard University
Fabio Kanczuk is Electronic Engineer “Magna cum Laude” from ITA (Aeronautic Technological Institute) holds a Ph.D. in Economics from UCLA and a post-doctorate from Harvard University. His academic work was published in international journals as Journal of International Economics Review of Economic Dynamics Journal of Development...
*A newly created collaboration between the Harvard Music Department and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), the GLAM (Group for Latin American Musics) Concert Series is designed around the promotion of Latin American music on the Harvard campus and broader Boston community through an annual concert and associated master class. GLAM is an initiative of Harvard’s Music Department graduate students Daniel Walden, Julio Zúñiga, Diane Adamek Oliva, and Felipe Ledesma Núñez, under the mentorship of Carol Oja...
Speaker: Kai Thaler, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Av. Brig. Faria Lima, 3477, 14º andar - Itaim Bibi, São Paulo
Jefferson Alvares – Harvard LLM (“11), consultor jurídico do FMI e procurador do Banco Central – falará sobre recomendações internacionais para a resolução de crises bancárias que emergiram após a crise de 2008-09 e de suas implicações para a modernização da lei brasileira de regime de intervenção e liquidação de instituições financeiras (Lei no. 6.024, de 1974).
Join us at the information session for the DRCLAS January programs in Chile and Mexico and learn about the various opportunities available for Harvard students in health, government, microfinance, women’s rights, economics, documentary film, entrepreneurship, venture capital and more.
Speaker: Scot T. Martin, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
Professor Martin leads a research group at Harvard University that addresses scientific problems engineering challenges and technical breakthroughs in the atmospheric sciences especially as related to the roles of particulate matter in air quality climate and atmospheric...
Avenida Paulista, 1337, 23rd floor - São Paulo, SP 01311-200
Speaker: Isabel Guerrero Pulgar, Harvard Kennedy School
Moderator: Claudia Sardenberg Sussekind, MBA/MPP, Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School, 2015
In light of a provocative article recently published by The Financial Times entitled "Economics has a problem with women", Professor Isabel Guerrero Pulgar will reflect on her experience as a Latina economist leading policy reforms and development strategies for numerous countries around the world.
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street
Speakers: Seth Fein, Film Director; Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, Winner of the Founders Choice Award for Documentary at the Queens World Film Festival
Between Neighborhoods is an experimental documentary that nonlinearly examines the present and past of the worlds that orbit the world's biggest rendering of the world Unisphere "theme center" of the 1964-1965 New York Word's Fair which still stands in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queen. An audiovisual...
Office of International Education, 77 Dunster Street, Cambridge
Thinking about study abroad? Come to the DRCLAS-CASA info session to learn about how you can gain transfer credit and experience life in Chile or Argentina. You will also have the chance to meet the Program Managers from each country: Pilo Mella (Chile) and María José Ferreyra (Argentina) as well as talk to former participants. Info Session begins at 2:00 PM and will cover opportunities in Chile and Argentina specifically.
Join us at the Mentoring and Language Acquisition in Brazil (MLAB) program information session and learn about this year-long mentoring program for Harvard College students. The program connects Harvard mentors with high-potential Brazilian high school students to help them improve their English proficiency while inspiring them to apply for college prep programs in Brazil and to top universities in the U.S. MLAB includes an in-person component in São Paulo Brazil in Jan 2018. Light refreshments will be served. For more information please contact the Program Coordinator Tiago Genoveze....
Join us at this celebratory event to learn about activities and events in 2017-18. Entertainment provided by an ensemble from the Harvard Jazz Band. Latin American refreshments will be served.
Brazil Studies Program Faculty Co-Chairs Frances Hagopian and Scott Mainwaring will welcome (and welcome back) current students and faculty from or interested in Brazil.
