Events

    2022 Apr 05

    Health Justice in the Americas: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

    12:30pm


    This event is virtual, to register click here.

    Introduction: Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center; Laura Clérico, Independent Researcher, Argentine National Scientific and Technical Council (CONICET), Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Buenos Aires, and Honorary...

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    2022 Apr 05

    Latin America’s Changing Left: Red versus Green?

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


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    Speakers: Thea Riofrancos, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Providence College; Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2020-2022); Manuela Picq, Professor of International Relations at Universidad San Francisco de Quito & Senior Lecturer of Political Science at Amherst College; Marco Fernandez, Professor of Government, Tec de Monterrey
    Moderated by: Steven Levitsky...

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    2022 Mar 30
    2022 Mar 29

    The New Right in Latin America

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


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    Speakers: Lindsay Mayka, Associate Professor of Government, Colby College; Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, Assistant Professor of International Development, University of Bath; Cristobal Rovira, Professor of Political Science, Universidad Diego Portales
    Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, David Rockefeller...

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    2022 Mar 08

    Latin America After the Left Turn

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


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    Speaker: Santiago Anria, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, Dickinson College; 2021-22 Cisneros Visiting Scholar, Harvard DRCLAS
    Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

    Santiago Anria is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latin...

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    2022 Mar 01

    Peru’s Continuing Crisis: New Perspectives

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


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    Speakers: Gonzalo Banda, Chevening Scholar, London School of Economics and Political Science; Rodrigo Barrenechea, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Universidad Católica del Uruguay; Zarai Toledo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Inter-American Policy and Research , Tulane University
    Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard...

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    2022 Feb 23

    Structural Solutions for Democracy and Climate Change with Nobel Prize Laureate President Juan Manuel Santos

    6:00pm


    This event will be held in person for Harvard affiliates and will be streamed live via IOP social media channels. To register for a seat, click here.

    Speaker: Juan Manuel Santos (HKS ‘81), former Colombian President
    Moderated by: Yanilda María González, Assistant Professor of Public Policy,...

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    2022 Feb 17

    Conversatorio sobre al libro Pantalla partida de Natalí Schejtman

    4:00pm to 6:00pm


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    Speakers: Natalí Schejtman, Writer and Journalist; Gonzalo Aguilar, Professor of Brazilian and Portuguese Literatures, Universidad de Buenos Aires; Ignacio Azcueta, PhD student in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Doris Sommer, Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and African and African...

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    2022 Feb 04

    ALARI Seminar Series with Luis Gilberto Murillo: Política ambiental y climática: Enfoque diferencial para Pueblos Afro-descendientes en las Américas

    12:00pm to 2:00pm


    This event is virtual and will be held in Spanish. To register, click here.

    Speaker: Luis Gilberto Murillo, ESI's MLK fellow, and former Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia
    Moderated by: Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics; Professor of African...

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    2021 Dec 10

    Harvard-UAI Collaborative Research Grant Series Presents: "New Perspectives on School Violences in Chile: Towards an Aesthetic, Academic, and Ethical World View"

    10:00am

    10:00 am ET / 12:00 pm Chile
    This event is virtual, to register click here.

    Speakers: Randy Testa, Educational Co-Director of the X-Media Lab; Associate Director, PreK -16 Programs, Professional Programs in Education (PPE); Harvard Graduate School of Education; Pedro Moscoso, Professor, Liberal Arts,...

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    2021 Dec 09

    Public Deliberation and Freedom of Expression in a More Inclusive Society: Can we have both? / Deliberación pública y libertad de expresión en una sociedad más inclusiva: ¿Podemos tener ambos?

    9:00am

    9:00 am ET / 11:00 am Chile

    For a recording of this event in English, please click here.

    For a recording of this event in Spanish, please click here.

    Welcoming Remarks: Steven Levitsky, Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Professor of Government, Harvard University; Co-author, How Democracies Die
    International Keynote...

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    2021 Dec 08

    Book Launch: Transforming the War on Drugs: Warriors, Victims and Vulnerable Regions with Coeditor Annette Idler

    3:30pm to 5:00pm


    This event is virtual, to register click here.

    Speaker: Annette Idler, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program; Director, Global Security Programme, Pembroke College, Oxford University 
    Chair: Melani Cammett, Center Director; Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University;...

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    2021 Dec 03

    ALARI Seminar Series with Luis Gilberto Murillo: Environmental and Climate Policy: Differential approach for Afro-descendant People in the Americas

    12:00pm


    This event is virtual, to register click here.

    Speaker: Luis Gilberto Murillo, ESI´s MLK fellow, and former Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia
    Moderated by: Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics; Professor of African and African American Studies and of...

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    2021 Dec 02

    Harvard-UAI Collaborative Research Grant Series Presents: "Flowering in desert shrublands: dynamic plant responses to climate in Chile"

    3:30pm

    3:30 pm ET / 5:30 pm Chile
    This event is virtual, and will have simultaneous English and Spanish interpretations. To register click here.

    Speakers: Charles C. Davis, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Curator of Vascular Plants in the Harvard University Herbaria; Karin Maldonado, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Universidad Adolfo...

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    2021 Dec 01

    DRCLAS Film Series | A Fantastic Woman by Sebastián Lelio

    5:00pm to 6:00pm


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    Speaker: Sebastián Lelio, Filmmaker
    Moderated by: Jorge Sánchez Cruz,  Visiting Assistant Professor, Harvard University and Adri Rodríguez Ríos, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    A conversation with filmmaker Sebastián Lelio on the film A Fantastic Woman. The movie will be offered for free through...

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    2021 Dec 01

    Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas

    4:00pm to 5:30pm


    This event is virtual, to register click here.

    Speaker: Stephen Kaplan, Associate Professor of Political Science and Economic Affairs, George Washington University

    This book explores how China’s state-led capitalism affects national level governance. China, as the world’s largest saver, has more than doubled its overseas banking presence since the 2008 global financial crisis...

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    2021 Nov 30

    Chile Presidential Elections

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


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    On November 21, 2021, Chile will hold its first presidential election since a massive wave of protest shook the country and ushered in a period of far-reaching constitutional change. What do the results of the Chilean election tell us about the country’s changing politics--and what do they portend for the future?

    Speakers: Juan Pablo Luna, Pontificia...

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    2021 Nov 24

    Conferencia Regional de Educación para el Siglo XXII - COEDU22

    7:00am

    7:00 am ET / 9:00 am Chile

    This event is virtual and will be held in Spanish. To register, click here.

    Speakers: Richard Weissbourd, Profesor de Educación, Director de la Facultad de Desarrollo Humano y Psicología de la Universidad de Harvard; Sergio Herskovits, Abogado y Educador; Joaquín Walker Martínez, Director Ejecutivo de Elige Educar; Peter Higgins, Profesor Educación Mediambiente...

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    2021 Nov 16

    Impact of Venezuela Migration on Latin America

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


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    Of the more than 5.6 million Venezuelans who have left Venezuela since 2017, more than 70 percent have migrated to Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Despite their stated intention to remain in the countries that received them, they often lack regular migration status, and they have suffered from unemployment or employment discrimination and restricted access to health care and local...

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