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-...
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...
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 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: ...
Valentina Massari and Leonardo Mankow, world-class tango dancers from Buenos Aires, Argentina, will teach a masterclass and give a live performance with Harvard Tango.
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...
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.
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-...
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...
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 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
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...
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...
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....
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...