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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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,...
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...
Speaker: Kai Thaler, Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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...
Speaker: Kacey Carter, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Speakers: Javier Garciadiego, Professor of History, El Colegio de México; John Womack, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History, Emeritus, Harvard University
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...