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...
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.
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,...
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...
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....
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Speaker: Antonia Gabriela Pereira de Araujo, 2022-2023 Du Bois Research Institute Fellow, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
Antônia Gabriela Pereira de Araújo has a doctorate in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ/Museu Nacional). Her interests include racial justice, self-defense, racial stereotypes, racialization, feminization, and hypersexualization of young black women in Brazil. She is the founder of the Black...
For a recording of this event in English, click here. For a recording of this event in Spanish, click here.
Speaker: Daylet Domínguez, Wilbur Martin Visiting Scholar at Harvard University; Associate Professor at the Spanish and Portuguese Department of UC Berkeley Discussant: Marial Iglesias Utset, Visiting Research Scholar at the Afro-Latin American Research...
Speaker: Jorge E. Cuéllar, Assistant Professor, Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies; Founding Faculty Fellow, Consortium of Studies in Race, Migration & Sexuality (RMS), Dartmouth College Moderated by: Kirsten Weld, Professor of History,...
Join us on Saturday, April 1 at 7:30 PM for our Quinceañera-themed celebration to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility and Women's History Month! If you're planning on attending, please fill out this short form so that we can make sure we get enough snacks and drinks for everyone. Documentary and performance...
This event will be held in Spanish and Quechua. For a complete program, click here.
Since 2015, The Quechua Alliance’s Annual Meeting has been a vibrant and multigenerational space for the exchange of ideas between Quechua speakers, community leaders, college students and educators who share an interest and passion for Quechua language and Andean culture. This will be our first in-person event since 2019. One of the main goals is the strengthening the vibrant Quechua...
Speaker: Cecilia Szperling, Writer Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Una adolescente se desmaya como una forma súbita de interrumpir el mundo. Muere su padre, su madre vive astillada por el duelo, y mientras la muerte cruza el jardín de su casa como un relámpago, también se despliega su enérgico viaje de iniciación por el sexo, la hermandad y los afectos nuevos, en una Buenos Aires pesadillesca de los primeros...
Speaker: Pamela Voekel, Associate Professor of History and LALACS, Dartmouth College. Discussant: David Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, Harvard University Moderated by: Kirsten Weld, Professor of History, Harvard University
In her talk, Dr. Voekel will be discussing material from her latest book,...