2020 Nov 05
How Old is the Anthropocene in Southwestern Amazonia?
12:00pm to 1:30pm

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Speaker: Eduardo Neves, Professor of Brazilian Archaeology, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Southwestern Amazonia is an independent center of plant domestication and early ceramic production in the New World. It is also an area where a tradition of artificial mound building by Indigenous...
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2020 Oct 29
Èṣù's Three-way Crossroads: The Future of Ancestrality in Uncertain Times
6:00pm to 7:30pm

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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
#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 22
Harvard-Brazil Dialogue with Fernando Haddad
10:00am to 11:30am

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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 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
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
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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2020 Oct 05
ReVista Launch: The Future of the Amazon, Lessons From the Past
4:00pm to 5:00pm

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Speakers: Felipe Milanez, Associate Professor at the Institute for Humanities, Arts and Sciences, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil; Bret Gustafson, Professor, Washington University in Saint Louis; Isabelle Foster, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Paraguay; Douglas Southgate, Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University; Patricia Vieira, Professor, Department of Spanish and...
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2020 Oct 02
Open House Deep Dive
10:00am

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We would love to hear from you!
DRCLAS staff will be holding office hours the day after our In-House Open House to discuss...
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2020 Oct 01
In-House Open House
6:00pm

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Join us as we welcome our new faculty director, Steven Levitsky!
Professor Levitsky will be joined by Marcia Castro, co-chair of the Brazil Studies Program and Alejandro de la Fuente, chair of the Cuba Studies Program to discuss ongoing and upcoming initiatives in three priority areas for 2020-21: challenges to democracy, the impact...
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2020 Oct 01
The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America
4:00pm

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Speakers: Mala Htun, University of New Mexico; Eduardo Darget, Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Peru; Alisha Holland, Harvard University; Daniel Brinks, University of Texas-Austin; Steven Levitsky, Harvard University; Maria Victoria Murillo, Columbia University
Moderated by: Javier Auyero, University of Texas-Austin
Observers often take institutional weakness as an exogenous feature...
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2020 Oct 01
COVID-19 in Latin America: Situation and Lessons Learned
1:00pm to 2:00pm

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Speaker: Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr., Assistant Director, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) 
Presented in collaboration with ...
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2020 Sep 29
How COVID has Changed Latin American Economics
12:00pm to 1:20pm

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Speakers: Andres Velasco, Dean of the School of Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science; former Finance Minister of Chile; Ana Maria Ibanez, Professor of Economics, Universidad de los Andes; Economics Principal Advisor for the Interamerican Development Bank; Daniela Campello, Associate Professor, Brazilian School of Business and Public Administration;...
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2020 Sep 22
Populist Coalitions in Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm

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Speaker: Rodrigo Barrenechea, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Discussants: Thea Riofrancos, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Providence College; Aaron Watanabe, PhD Candidate in Government, Harvard University
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2020 Jun 25
Qual o futuro das favelas?
11:00am to 12:30pm
11am EDT/12pm BRT
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Speakers: Eliana Silva, Diretora, Redes de Desenvolvimento da Maré; Gilson Rodrigues, Presidente, União dos Moradores e do Comércio de Paraisópolis; Preto Zezé, Presidente Global da CUFA- Central Única das Favelas; Raull Santiago – Fundador, Coletivo Papo Reto
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2020 May 28
Adaptabilidade, inovação e agilidade na administração pública
6:00pm to 7:30pm
6pm (EDT) / 7pm (Brasília time)
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Speaker: Bruna Santos, Diretora Executiva da Escola Nacional de Administração Pública (ENAP)
Organized by the Harvard Kennedy School Brazil Caucus, a student organization, and...
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2020 May 22
Lynchings in Brazil: Race, Social Control and Justice (1850-1930)
12:00pm to 1:15pm
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Speaker: Ricardo Pirola, Professor, UNICAMP, Brazil; Visiting Fellow, ALARI
Ricardo Pirola is professor of Brazilian History at UNICAMP – Brazil. He is author of Escravos e rebeldes no tribunais do Império (2015 – Winner of National Archive Prize - Brazil) and Senzala Insurgente (...
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2020 May 14
Relações Internacionais do Brasil em Tempos de Coronavirus
11:00am to 12:15pm
Location: 
Zoom Webinar
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Speakers: Adriana Abdenur, Coordenadora da área de Paz e Segurança Internacional, Instituto Igarapé; Hussein Kalout, Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Ex-Secretário de Assuntos Estratégicos da Presidência da República (2017-2018); Rubens Ricupero, Embaixador do Brasil em Genebra, Washington e...
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