Events

    2023 Sep 21

    Strength from the Waters: A History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest Mexico

    6:00pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    Barker Center, Room 133

    NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS

    SPEAKER: JAMES MESTAZ, SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY

    Dr. James Mestaz is an Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Sonoma State University. He previously taught for two years in Harvard’s History and Literature concentration. His courses focus largely on the histories of marginalized groups, allowing students to draw connections between past and current social and environmental justice struggles. This approach fits into his...

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    2023 Sep 21

    Open House Celebration

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium & Concourse

    To register for this event, click here.

    Learn all about DRCLAS programs, events, and student opportunities at the Open House Celebration!

    The evening starts with a panel of students asking our Faculty Director, Steve Levitsky about all things DRCLAS, Latin America, politics, new books, and more.

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    2023 Sep 21

    Sustainable Development and Challenges of the COPs: A Conversation with Izabella Teixeira

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Wexner Building, Harvard Kennedy School - W-434 A&B

    To register, please click here

    Speaker: Izabella Teixeira, Co-Chair of the International Resource Panel, United National Environment Programme
    Moderated by: Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Chair, Brazil Studies Program – DRCLAS; Faculty Affiliate, Center for International Development at Harvard University. Roberto S. Waack...

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    2023 Sep 20

    Screening of the documentary El caso Padilla (The Padilla affair)

    4:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium

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

    This is an in-person only event with no streaming.

    Watch the trailer of the film here

    Speakers: Pavel Giroud, Director; Lía Rodríguez, Producer; Alejandro Hernández, Producer.
    Moderated by: Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics; Professor of...

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    2023 Sep 20

    El Descenso de Nicaragua a la dictadura: Perspectivas de exiliados políticos

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be hybrid and will be held in Spanish. To register for the online session, click here.

    Este evento sera hibrido y en idioma Espanol. Para registrarse a la session en linea, click here.

    Panelistas: Dora María Téllez, Nicaraguan historian, politician, and social rights activist; Marcela Castillo Mejia, Harvard University, ALB’ 24;...

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    2023 Sep 19

    Guatemala’s 2023 Elections

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

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

    Speakers: Rachel A. Schwartz, Assistant Professor of International and Area Studies, University of Oklahoma; Carlos Mendoza, Academic Coordinator of Diálogos; Claudia Méndez Arriaza, Journalist
    Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David...

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    2023 Sep 18

    De-nationalizing empire: Dutch involvement in the Early Modern British, French, and Spanish empires

    4:30pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-050

    Speaker: Cátia Antunes, Professor of History of Global Economic Networks at the institute for History, Leiden University
    Moderated by: Tamar Herzog, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs, Harvard Law School

    Early Modern European empires are portrayed and perceived as nationally geared enterprises, as entangled spaces at the peripheries and as zones of contact. In the Netherlands, these perceptions have filtered into the public debate that seeks to define material and immaterial responsibilities for the colonial past....

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    2023 Sep 11

    The Battle of Chile, Part Three: The Power of the People (La Batalla de Chile: El poder popular)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Patricio Guzmán
    Chile/Cuba/France, 1978, DCP, black & white, 79 min
    Spanish with English subtitles
    DCP source: Icarus Films

    Completed a couple of years after the first and second parts, The Power of the People offers an important coda to Guzmán’s epic documentary by turning away from the forces who opposed Allende and instead examining the loose coalition of workers and citizens who attempted to save Allende’s visionary politics. A stirring testimony to the grassroots power of Allende’s movement and its singular appeal to the working class,...

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    2023 Sep 10

    The Battle of Chile, Part Two: The Coup d’État (La Batalla de Chile: El golpe de estado)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Patricio Guzmán
    Chile/Cuba/France, 1976, DCP, black & white, 88 min
    Spanish with English subtitles
    DCP source: Icarus Films

    The second part of The Battle of Chile begins with the Chilean military’s first attempted coup in June 1973 and tracks the steady deterioration of Allende’s position across the months leading up to September 11. Focusing on Allende’s attempts to stave off the splintering of his party from within, The Coup d’État captures the frightening escalation of violence that began in the streets and climaxed in the fatal...

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    2023 Sep 09

    The Battle of Chile, Part One: The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie (La Batalla de Chile: La Insurrección de la Burguesía)

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Patricio Guzmán 
    Chile/Cuba/France, 1975, DCP, black & white, 96 min
    Spanish with English subtitles
    DCP source: Icarus FIlms

    The Battle of Chile began as a boldly spontaneous attempt to comprehensively document Allende’s truly revolutionary experiment in social justice in its formative stages. Using film stock provided by Chris Marker, a thirty-one-year-old Guzmán, fresh out of film school in Madrid, led a team of cameramen into the streets of Santiago and outlying towns to capture the different sides forming staunchly for and...

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    2023 Sep 07

    Spotlight on Brazil: Faculty Flash Talks & Community Networking

    5:00pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    Tsai Auditorium, GSD Back Yard

    This event will be held in Portuguese.

    Speakers: Alejandro de la Fuente, Director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History; Cristiane Soares, Senior Preceptor in Portuguese; Fernanda Viegas, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science; Yanilda González, Assistant Professor of Public Policy
    Moderated by: Marcia Castro...

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    2023 May 10

    ReVista Launch: Indigenous Voices

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    For a recording of this event, click here.

    We celebrate the Spring/Summer issue of ReVista on Indigenous Voices with a panel moderated by Américo Mendoza-Mori, followed by a lively discussion with authors and a meal.

    Speakers: Selene Manga is a Peruvian doctor who is a Takemi Fellow in International Health Harvard School of Public Health; Sharoll Fernandez Siñani, Director of the Zera Bolivia Educational Foundation, is a Harvard...

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    2023 May 02

    Democratic Hollowing: The Perils of Power Dilution and the Lessons from Peru

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

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

    Speaker: Rodrigo Barrenechea Carpio, Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University; Assistant Professor at the Departamento de Ciencias...

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    2023 Apr 28

    Cultural threads: weavers’ memories from the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes

    5:00pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Tozzer Anthropology Building

    This event will be held in Spanish. For complete information, click here.

    Speakers: Haydée Quiroz Malca, PhD in Anthropology; María Celidonia Chuquijajas Saman, Artisan from San Miguel, Cajamarca, Peru; Laura Sánchez Carhuajulca, Artisan from Tacabamba, Chota, Peru; Carlos...

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    2023 Apr 28

    ALARI Seminar Series with Gracyelle Costa: "Race, Eugenics and Social Policy in Brazil"

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    104 Mount Auburn Street 2R, Cambridge

    Speaker: Gracyelle Costa, Visiting Researcher, Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center
    Moderated by: Sidney Chalhoub, David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and of African and African American Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

    Gracyelle Costa Ferreira is a professor in the Social Work Department at the Universidade Federal Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Afro-Latin American Research...

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    2023 Apr 25

    Why Are Urban Services Still So Bad in Large Cities?

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speakers: Alison Post, Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Metropolitan Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Alice Xu, Postdoctoral Associate in Political Economy, Yale University; Alyssa Huberts, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University
    Moderated by: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government Department, Harvard University...

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    2023 Apr 24

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Femme populism: Vulnerability and desire in Argentine political aesthetics

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Speaker: Julia Fierman, College Fellow, Anthropology, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    In this session we will discuss two articles that analyze the personalist aspects of Peronism through Fierman's ethnographic work among Kirchnerist militants.

    Fierman is a sociocultural anthropologist who received their PhD from Columbia University. Their research has focused on the social world of Peronist activism during...

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