2019 Sep 09
The Confessional Community: Narratives of Violence and Survival in Mexico City’s Anexos
4:00pm
Location: 
Tozzer 203
Speaker: Angela Garcia, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Moderator: Ieva Jusionyte, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies

In the past decade, drug treatment centers called anexos (annexes) have proliferated throughout Mexico...
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2019 May 23

La Leva: Perfoconferencia homenaje a Pedro Lemebel

4:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

Harvard University, pre-LASA 2019 Conference



2019 May 23
Global Dominicanidades: New Approaches to Dominican Studies in the 21st Century
9:15am to 6:30pm
Location: 
Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street
Harvard University, pre-LASA 2019 Workshop and Conference

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2019 May 23
Cuba y los nuevos desafíos del sector privado, en el marco de las actuales transformaciones de la nación
(All day)
Location: 
CGIS South, S020, 1730 Cambridge Street
Harvard University, pre-LASA 2019 Conference
La iniciativa privada constituye una bisoña experiencia en la Cuba actual. Aun cuando persisten un gran número de limitaciones legales, económicas y políticas para su desarrollo, muchos cubanos han decidido apostar por la creación de un negocio propio. Con el desarrollo del sector privado en los últimos años, se ha percibido un aumento de su peso en la economía nacional y su rol como actor social.

El sector vive un nuevo periodo de cambios, las regulaciones que rigen su funcionamiento han sufrido modificaciones, con...
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2019 May 23
Latinoamérica en perspectiva: Representacion, narrativas y modos de vida
(All day)
Location: 
Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street
Harvard University, pre-LASA 2019 Conference
Latinoamérica en Perspectiva es un seminario dedicado a reflexionar sobre problemas filosóficos, culturales, literarios, históricos y políticos relacionados con Latinoamérica y su relación con el mundo hispano con sede en la Facultad de Filosofía de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) inició sus actividades en 2018 con un encuentro títulado "Nuevas conceptualizaciones en tiempos de cambio". Este seminario trabaja dentro de las áreas temáticas del Grupo de Investigación “Historia y ontología del presente: la...
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2019 May 23
Entre la Injusticia y la Inclusión la diversidad sexual en América a 50 años de Stonewall
(All day)
Location: 
CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Harvard University, pre-LASA 2019 Conference
Preconferencia Sección Estudios sobre Sexualidad de LASA, 2019
Co-organizadores: Sarah Soanirina Ohmer, CUNY Lehman College y Oscar Laguna
9:30- 10:00 -  Registro y bienvenida por Oscar Laguna de la Sección de Estudios sobre Sexualidad de LASA
10:00- 11:15 - Mesa de Presentaciones/Panel presentation

Entendidos y maricas: El Frente de Liberación Homosexual de la Argentina más allá de Stonewall (1963-1983)
Javier Fernández...
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2019 May 22
Latinoamérica en perspectiva: Representacion, narrativas y modos de vida
9:00am to 6:30pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Harvard University, pre-LASA 2019 Conference
Latinoamérica en Perspectiva es un seminario dedicado a reflexionar sobre problemas filosóficos, culturales, literarios, históricos y políticos relacionados con Latinoamérica y su relación con el mundo hispano con sede en la Facultad de Filosofía de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) inició sus actividades en 2018 con un encuentro títulado "Nuevas conceptualizaciones en tiempos de cambio". Este seminario trabaja dentro de las áreas temáticas del Grupo de Investigación “Historia y ontología del presente: la perspectiva hispana...
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2019 May 03
Frontiers of Clientelism: Linking the Micro and the Macro
9:00am to 6:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S030, 1730 Cambridge Street
Panels will discuss: Clientelism, Linkages and Party Organization, Political Competition, Linkage Strategies, Political Economy
Please note: this event is by invitation only. Please contact Horacio Larreguy (hlarreguy@fas.harvard.edu) if interested.
Presented in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
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2019 Apr 30
Arts and Science Workshop Series: The Archive of the Iberian Slave Trade: Death, Value and Historical Ethics
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Anna More, Professor, Universidade de Brasília
Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
The sixteenth- and seventeenth-century slave trade was predominantly Iberian, with the Portuguese controlling much of...
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2019 Apr 30
Resistance and Repression: One Year on from Nicaragua's Civil Uprising
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Kai Thaler, Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
How did...
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2019 Apr 25
A Conversation on Poetry and Gender with Angélica Freitas and Glória Sofia
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Angélica Freitas (Pelotas, Brazil, 1973) is the author of two books of poetry, Rilke shake (Phoneme Press), translated by Hilary Kaplan and winner of the Best Translated Book Award and of the National Translation Award in 2016, and Um útero é do tamanho de um punho...
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2019 Apr 24
Including the Periphery: Expanding the Public Sphere through São Paulo's Literature Periférica
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Kacey Carter, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government at Harvard University and the Faculty Chair of the Brazil Studies Program
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2019 Apr 23
Screening of Los Ofendidos, with Marcela Zamora
6:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street
Screening of the documentary Los Ofendidos / The Offended (Mexico-El Salvador, 2016) followed by a discussion with the director, Marcela Zamora
Moderator: Alberto Castillo Ventura, PhD candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures
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2019 Apr 23
The political origins of Mexico’s corruption
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Viridiana Rios, Ph.D. in Government, Harvard University
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
In contexts where corruption is widespread, why do some incumbents choose to not be corrupt? My research argues that party loyalty is a major influence to reduce corruption and test this argument using fine-grained data of 12 billion dollars audited to 3,601 local incumbents over a period of 16 years. Contributing to an unsettled and vibrant...
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2019 Apr 19
Central America and the Caribbean Film Series presents: Puerto Rico: Trouble in Paradise
5:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street
Trouble in Paradise: Puerto Rico After Maria
A look at 21st century Puerto Rico, especially in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the preexisting crisis. Conversation about the status quo and communities standing up when faced with social abandonment.

Presented in collaboration with Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (IBA), Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico School of Law, Consulado General de México en Boston, Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF) and The Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard
Opening remarks:...
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2019 Apr 18
Book Discussion: Guerrilla Marketing and Managing Multiculturalism in Colombia
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia

A new book, Guerrilla Marketing, details the Colombian government’s efforts to transform Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens. Alexander L. Fattal shows how the market has become one of the principal grounds on which counterinsurgency warfare is waged and postconflict futures are imagined in Colombia. This layered case study illuminates a larger phenomenon: the convergence of marketing and militarism in the twenty-first century. Taking a global view of...
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2019 Apr 18
Beyond Reconstruction: Environmental, social, and infrastructural challenges for long-term recovery after major earthquakes in Mexico and Chile
9:00am to 1:00pm
Location: 
Lower Common Room, Adams House
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2019 Apr 17
Beyond Reconstruction: Environmental, social, and infrastructural challenges for long-term recovery after major earthquakes in Mexico and Chile
6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Room 121
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2019 Apr 17
From 1910 to the 4th Transformation: Actors, Institutions, and Objectives in Mexico’s Revolutionary Politics
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Graduate School of Design, Sackler 222
Speakers: Javier Garciadiego, Professor of History, El Colegio de México; John Womack, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History, Emeritus, Harvard University
Moderator: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism,...
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2019 Apr 17
Fluvial Metropolis: Making São Paulo Viable
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speakers: Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Affiliated Professor in African and African American Studies; Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the GSD; Rafael Marengoni, Architect and Urbanist; Masters Candidate in Architecture of Urban...
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