Events

    2023 Oct 13

    Student Info Session: Portuguese Language Immersion in Brazil: Justice, Equity & Rights

    3:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Interested in spending six weeks in Brazil during Summer 2024 studying Portuguese and learning about contemporary struggles for justice, equity, and rights? Join us for this Harvard Summer School info session to learn about the program structure, objectives, dates, and details.

    Speakers Cristiane Soares, Senior Preceptor in Portuguese and Tiago Genoveze, Brazil Studies Program Director.

    Dr. Cristiane Soares has a B.A in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature, a M.A in Applied Linguistics, and a Ph.D in Luso-...

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    2023 Oct 12

    In our Own Voices: Community-led Research on Police Violence in Brazil

    2:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be held in Portuguese. Online simultaneous translation will be available for those who bring their own earphones.

     

    Join us for a presentation of the participatory action research project, “Voices of Pain, Struggle, and Resistance of Mothers of Victims of State Violence in Brazil”. The project is a collaborative initiative led by researchers...

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    2023 Oct 12

    Thursday Brown Bag Series: Environmental devastation, unlawful gold mining & persecution of Indigenous ways of life in the Peruvian Amazon

    1:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual. Zoom link below.

     

    Speaker: Selene Manga MD, MSc, Takemi Fellow, Takemi Program in International Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity board member at Doctors Without Borders, New York Office MSF- NYC.

    This event is fully...

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    2023 Oct 10

    Collaborative Systems for Solving Complex Social Challenges: Preventing Mental Illness in Chile

    4:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Thompson Room (110), Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street

    In-person: to register for this event, click here.

    Event showcasing Worldwide Week: Harvard’s Chile Regional Office, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, part of the Mahindra series...

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    2023 Oct 10

    Why Presidents Leave Early: New or Continued Political Instability in Peru and Ecuador?

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

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

    Speakers: Andres Mejia Acosta, Associate Dean of Policy and Practice and Professor of Political Economy of Development, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame; Gretchen Helmke, University of Rochester; Mariana Llanos, Lead Research Fellow / Co-Leader of the GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies (ad interim).
    Moderated by: ...

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    2023 Oct 05

    Protecting the World’s Penguins. Pablo Borboroglu Lecture 2023 Winner of the Indianapolis Prize, the world's leading award for animal conservation

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    Zoom or Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

     

    Free Hybrid Lecture

    Speaker: Pablo (Popi) Garcia Borboroglu, Founder and President of the Global Penguin Society and Winner of the 2023 Indianapolis Prize.

    Advance registration required for both in-person and online

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    Join Dr. Pablo Borboroglu, the 2023 Indianapolis Prize Winner for animal conservation, as he recounts his lifelong...

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    2023 Oct 03

    Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Brazilian Favelas: The Work of G10 Favelas

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium

    The event will be held in Portuguese with simultaneous English interpretation.

    Speakers: Gilson Rodrigues, President, G10 Favelas; Givanildo Pereira, CEO and Founder, Favela Brasil Xpress; Suéli Feio, Co-Founder, Costurando Sonhos Brasil; Rosilane Queiroz Soares, CFO, G10 Favelas
    Moderated by: Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair of...

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    2023 Oct 03

    Poll Workers and the Effects of Supportive Political Participation

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

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

    Speaker: Noam Lupu, Associate Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University; Associate Director of LAPOP Lab
    Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

    How does participating in democracy shape the attitudes...

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    2023 Oct 02

    Student Info Session: Mexico Winternships

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, (1730 Cambridge St.) Room S216

    How do you plan to spend J-term? Come to the Mexico Winternship Info Session to learn how you could spend January building your resume and professional skills, exploring a mega-city in Latin America, improving your Spanish, and meeting new friends. Details below.

    Mexico Teo

    The info session will review:

    • Program Overview...
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    2023 Sep 29

    Harvard’s Cuban-American Student Association (CASA) presents: Plantadas. Film screening.

    5:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium

    This film is in Spanish with English subtitles. The Q&A will be in Spanish.

    Speaker: Lilo Vilaplana, Film director; Genoveva Canaval, ex-political prisoner.
    Moderated by: Emily Carrero-Mustelier, PhD Candidate at Harvard University’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and President and Founder of the Harvard Cuban-American Student Association (CASA); Layra de la Caridad Valdés-Ramirez, Student at Harvard University’s School of Dental Medicine, and Vice-...

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    2023 Sep 28

    Paraguay Ante Viejos y Nuevos Desafíos

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be held in Spanish.

    Speaker: Benjamin Fernández Bogado, Doctor en derecho, periodista y profesor universitario
    Moderated by: Beatriz Orostiaga, MBA Candidate, Harvard Business School; David Riveros García, Founder & Executive Director reAcción Paraguay, Harvard Kennedy School

    Presented by: Rob Watson, Deputy Director EdRedesign Lab, Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

    Desde el 15 de agosto pasado Paraguay tiene un nuevo...

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    2023 Sep 27

    JFK Jr. Forum- Tyranny of the Minority: An Urgent Call to Reform our Politics

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Join internationally acclaimed Harvard professors Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky in conversation with WBUR journalist Tiziana Dearing (MPP ‘2000) in a discussion about the perilous crisis in democratic politics in the US and around the world. Based on their new book—a sequel to the global bestseller How Democracies Die—this is an essential event for everyone interested in understanding why and how democracy has come under assault and what should be done about it.

    This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard...

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    2023 Sep 26

    Street Politics in Brazil (2003-2013)

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

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

    Speaker: Angela Alonso, Professor of Sociology, University of São Paulo, Visiting Fellow at ALARI
    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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    2023 Sep 25

    The Chinese Shoe (El zapato chino)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Cristián Sánchez
    With Felisa González, Andrés Quintana, Fernando Andía
    Chile, 1979, DCP, black & white, 72 min
    Spanish with English subtitles
    DCP source: Cineteca Nacional de Chile

    Shot clandestinely on a shoestring budget, the second feature by prolific filmmaker and theorist Cristián Sánchez bears an uncanny, yet ultimately only vague, resemblance to Taxi Driver (1976) with its story of a cabbie who spontaneously rescues a young woman from a brothel only to develop an obsessive yet platonic love for her. By keeping all violence and...

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    2023 Sep 25

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | A conversation with Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and Martín Kohan

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be held in Spanish.

    Speakers: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Writer; Martín Kohan, Writer
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

    Gabriela Cabezón Cámara y Martín Kohan escribieron algunas de las novelas, cuentos y ensayos más notables de la literatura argentina contemporánea. Sus textos reescriben y dislocan la historia política y la tradición literaria argentinas, y las reinscriben y...

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    2023 Sep 22

    One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (Cien niños esperando un tren)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Speaker: Ignacio Agüero, Filmmaker
    Moderated by: Haden Guest, Director, Harvard film Archive

    Director in Person
    $15 Special Event Tickets
    Directed by Ignacio Agüero
    Chile/UK, 1988, DCP, color and b&w, 55 min
    Spanish with English subtitles 
    DCP source: Filmmaker

    Agüero’s remarkable documentary begins as a tender portrait of influential film historian, educator and activist Alicia Vega (b.1931) teaching a workshop on early film history to impoverished youth living on the outskirts of Santiago....

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    2023 Sep 22

    Student Info Session: Mentoring & Language Acquisition

    2:30pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South (1730 Cambridge St)

    students in the MLAB program standing in front of a mural

    Join us at the Mentoring and Language Acquisition in Brazil (MLAB) program information session!

    MLAB connects Harvard student mentors (undergrad and grad) with high-potential Brazilian high school students to help them improve their English proficiency while inspiring them to apply for college prep programs in...

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