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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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....
Interested in engaging with Latin America this year? Come to the DRCLAS Info Session to learn how you can get involved in the region! Gain internship experience, study, or participate in experiential learning through immersive programs and funding opportunities...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 CostaFerreira 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...
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...
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...