Events

    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 26

    Forensics, DNA Testing and the Disappeared in Latin America

    12:00pm to 1:15pm


    This event will be virtual, to register click here.

    Speakers: Vivette García Deister, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Eden Medina, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Moderated by: Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico

    In...

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    2023 Apr 26

    The Brazilian Domestic Workers' Movement: Past and Present Struggles for Racial, Gender, and Economic Justice

    12:00pm to 1:30pm


    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speakers: Joaze Bernardino-Costa, Professor of Sociology, Universidade de Brasília; Creuza Maria de Oliveira, President, Sindoméstico, the domestic workers' union of Bahia, Former Coordinator, FENATRAD; Luiza Batista Pereira, Coordinator, Federação Nacional das Trabalhadoras Domésticas (FENATRAD); Meg Weeks, PhD candidate in History, Harvard
    Moderated by:...

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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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    2023 Apr 24

    O que precisa ser dito: violência de gênero na literatura brasileira contemporânea

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be held in Portuguese only.

    Speakers: Tatiana Salem Levy, escritora, ensaísta e pesquisadora na Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Manoela Sawitzki, doutora em Literatura, Cultura e Contemporaneidade (PUC-Rio), escritora, roteirista e jornalista
    Moderated by: Ana Laura Malmaceda, Doutoranda, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    Vista Chinesa (2021), o mais recente romance de Tatiana Salem Levy, trabalha os dois lados de uma cidade, o Rio de Janeiro pré-Olimpíadas, cuja beleza...

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    2023 Apr 21

    Mexico Conference 2023

    Fri Apr 21 (All day) to Sun Apr 23 (All day)

    Location: 

    Harvard Kennedy School

    The Mexico Conference is an annual event that serves as a platform for the professional growth of the community of Mexican students at Harvard, the strengthening of the Harvard brand in Mexico, as well as the projection of the Mexican image in the United States. For complete conference information, click here.

    Presented by The Association of Mexican Students at Harvard (HUMAS)

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    2023 Apr 20

    Las dinámicas de la crisis multidimensional y duradera de Cuba

    1:00pm to 2:30pm


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

    Panelistas: Mayra Espina, Doctora en Ciencias Sociológicas, Profesora e Investigador del Centro de Investigaciones Psicológicas y Sociológicas (CIPS), La Habana; Carmelo Mesa Lago, Catedrático de Servicio Distinguido Emérito en Economía y Estudios Latinoamericanos en la Universidad de Pittsburgh...

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    2023 Apr 20

    Green Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Inter-American Development Bank's Vision

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S216 Room, CGIS South

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

    Speakers: Ricardo Hausmann, Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy, Director of the Harvard Growth Lab, Harvard Kennedy School; Lenin H. Balza,...

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    2023 Apr 19

    Migration Cluster Seminar: "Majority Minority: The Pursuit of a Diverse Democracy" with Justin Gest

    3:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-050

    Speaker: Justin Gest, Associate Professor of Policy and Government, George Mason University

    How do societies respond to great demographic change? This question lingers over the contemporary politics of many countries where persistent immigration has altered populations and may soon produce a majority minority milestone, where the original ethnic or religious majority loses its numerical advantage to one or more foreign-origin minority groups. Until now, most of our knowledge about large-scale responses to demographic change has been based on studies of...

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    2023 Apr 18

    Haddad Distinguished Lecture: Arminio Fraga

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium

    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speaker: Arminio Fraga, Founding Partner, Gavea Investimentos

    The Haddad Distinguished Lecture was established in honor of Claudio Haddad, Chair of the DRCLAS Brazil Office Advisory Group since 2006, and President and founder of Insper, a leading not-for-profit business and economics school in Brazil. The inaugural Haddad Distinguished Lecture will be delivered by renowned Brazilian economist Arminio Fraga....

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    2023 Apr 17

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror by Raul Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento
    With Rubén Sotoconil, Claudia Paz, Luis Alarcón. Chile, 1967/2020, DCP, black & white, 70 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

    Raúl Ruiz (1941 - 2011) is a filmmaker often heralded for prolific filmography, with his entire body of work still a mystery. His partner Valeria Sarmiento was his film editor and most frequent collaborator. After Ruiz’s passing, Sarmiento has been recuperating and giving new life to Ruiz’s films that were deemed lost, unfinished, or both. This program is centered on this newfound form of curatorship...

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    2023 Apr 13

    Music Lecture-demonstration: Nuevas músicas Latinoamericanas by Low Frequency Trio

    3:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Music Department (Room 6) 3 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speakers: José Luis Hurtado, Associate Professor of Music Theory, University of New Mexico; Antonio Rosales, Professor of Bass Clarinet, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Juan José García, Professor, Anáhuac University and ...

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    2023 Apr 12

    Wayuu Peoples’ Struggles for Self-Determination in the Guajira Peninsula

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    Barker Center, Room 114

    This event will be hybrid. To register for the virtual session, click here.

    Speaker: Emil' Keme (K’iche’ Maya Nation) is 2022-2023 Fellow at The Harvard Radcliffe Institute, member of the Community of Maya Studies, and Professor of English and Indigenous Studies at Emory University

    How do Indigenous peoples whose homelands have been demarcated by settler...

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    2023 Apr 11

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | La ciudad latinoamericana. Una figura de la imaginación social del siglo XX

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will take place in Spanish.

    Speaker: Adrian Gorelik, Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and Tinker Visiting Professor of History,  University of Chicago
    Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    La “ciudad latinoamericana” surge como categoría de pensamiento a mediados del siglo XX, resultado de una articulación de época entre la renovación de las ciencias sociales y la transformación...

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    2023 Apr 07

    Who Gives Us Our Names?

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), 14 Story Street (4th floor)

    This in-person guided community dialogue is intended to follow up on topics raised during the virtual panel for Who Gives Us Our Names?

    Moderated by students from COATL (Colectivo Olin Ancestral: Languages and Traditions)

    Who Gives Us Our Names? Is a two-day event and provocation for the Harvard Community on the topics of Indigeneity, Latinidad, and Identity in Abya Yala (the Americas). On Tuesday April 4th at 6pm EST we will host a...

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