Events

2024 Apr 11

Soldiers and Kings: Public Lecture with Jason de León

5:00pm

Location:

William James Hall 105

Based on the research for his upcoming book, Soldiers and Kings, Jason De León puts the spotlight on the billion-dollar human smuggling industry that resulted from both U.S. and Mexican immigration and border policies. Using his unforgettable photography and powerful prose, he documents the daily lives of Honduran smugglers who due to heightened security measures, make profit from transporting undocumented migrants across Mexico. In this eye-opening talk, he discusses the evolving, complicated relationship between transnational gangs, the human smuggling industry, and the migrants caught...

2024 Apr 11

Launch of the Elgar Companion to the World Trade Organization (WTO)

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, room B0015 (basement level)

The Elgar Companion to the World Trade Organization – launching at this event – provides an extensive guide to understanding the WTO, the current state of affairs on global trade and its geopolitical angles, and its impact on the global economy. Spread among 50 chapters and 70+ authors coming from all the regions of the world, the companion deep dives into an array of trade-related issues focusing in particular on three overarching topics: i) digitalization and technology; ii) facilitating the flow of goods, services and investment; and, iii) geopolitics.

You are cordially...

2024 Apr 10

Latin American Policy Association: Dialogues and Networking Event

5:00pm

Location:

Malkin Penthouse, Harvard Kennedy School

This event is in English.

Join us for the LAPA Dialogues event on Wednesday, April 10th, at 5 p.m. in the Malkin Penthouse. This flagship event, organized by the Latin America Policy Association (LAPA), aims to unite the HKS Latin American community to discuss the region's most pressing challenges and foster connections among students interested in these issues. Featuring esteemed speakers, the event promises insightful discussions on Latin America's productive, economic, and political challenges towards 2030.

Speaker Ricardo Hausmann,...

2024 Apr 09

Book Launch | Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Women, Memory , and Public Space

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location:

CGIS South S216

Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscape—the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this book stands at the forefront of contemporary discussion. More than a mere compilation, Breaking the Bronze Ceiling epitomizes a movement. The book comprehensively assesses the portrayal of women...

2024 Apr 09

Government Crackdowns and the Transformation of Mexican Drug Cartels

12:00pm to 1:20pm

Location:

CGIS South S216, Hybrid

This event is hybrid, to attend remotely register here.

This research project explores how the Mexican War on Drugs prompted drug cartels to diversify their activities and expand their geographic presence beyond their historical strongholds. Focusing on oil theft, it then explores the intrusion of cartels into new territories and analyzes its impacts on politics, crime, and violence.

Speaker: Marco Alcocer, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy...

2024 Apr 07

Brazil Conference Harvard & MIT

(All day)

Location:

MIT, Samberg Convention Center

The largest conference about Brazil organized by Brazilian Students, researchers, and professors. The mission is to create a diverse space for debate, the development of ideas about the future of Brazil, and the promotion of transformative actions.

Presented in collaboration with the Harvard Undergraduate Brazilian Association.

2024 Apr 06

Harvard Film Archive Screening: Silvia Prieto by Martin Rejtman

7:00pm

Location:

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

Martín Rejtman and Carlos Gutiérrez in Conversation. Recently Restored. $15 Special Event Tickets.

Silvia Prieto. Directed by Martín Rejtman. With Rosario Bléfari, Valeria Bertuccelli, Vicentico. Argentina, 1999, DCP, color, 92 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

Rejtman’s effervescent masterpiece is a glittering screwball-inspired comedy of shifting identities that centers around the ardent efforts of its...

2024 Apr 06

Brazil Conference Harvard & MIT

(All day)

Location:

Harvard University, Science Center

Presented in collaboration with the Harvard Undergraduate Brazilian Association.

2024 Apr 05

Harvard Film Archive Series: The Practice (La práctica) by Martín Rejtman

7:00pm

Location:

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

Introduction by Martín Rejtman and Producer Victoria Marotta. Director in Person. $15 Special Event Tickets.

The Practice (La Práctica) Directed by Martín Rejtman. With Catalina Saavedra, Esteban Bigliardi, Mirta Busnelli. US/Argentina/Chile/Portugal, 2023, DCP, color, 93 min. Spanish with English subtitles. DCP source: Visit Films

With an understated spiritual questioning, The Practice...

2024 Apr 05

Home- and Community-Based Pedagogies of Indigenous Kichwa Communities in the U.S

5:00pm

Location:

Harvard Graduate School of Education, Longfellow Hall, Eliot Lyman Room

This roundtable focuses on illuminating the experiences of diasporic Indigenous Latine communities in the United States - such as the Indigenous Kichwa people of Ecuador - whose representation is often overlooked in discussions about Latine communities in education. Through discussions with Kichwa community members from the Kichwa Otavalo and Kichwa Saraguro people residing across the U.S., this event will highlight the importance of home- and community-based pedagogies as they foster intergenerational transmission of languages and cultures across youth and families in order to navigate...

2024 Apr 05

The Impermanence of Inca Architecture. A talk with Dr. Stella Nair.

4:00pm

Location:

CGIS South S354

This event is hybrid. To attend online, register here.

One material has come to define Inca architecture —stone. The Inca used this enduring material as part of their built environment, and it played a critical role in helping to validate their rule. For example, the Inca shaped stone in ways that seemed to root the Inca in time and space, and thus convey messages of authority and belonging. Over the centuries, Inca stones have captured the modern imagination, such that...

2024 Apr 05

V Brazil Legal Symposium

3:00pm to 5:30pm

Location:

101 Pound Hall, 1563 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Harvard Law School Brazilian Studies Association is thrilled to invite you to the V Brazil Legal Symposium at Harvard Law School, scheduled for April 13 and 14, with a kickoff event on April 5. Renowned practitioners, policymakers, and scholars will gather at Harvard Law School to discuss...

2024 Apr 05

Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

12:00pm to 2:00pm

The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries. The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform our...

2024 Apr 04

The Chicanx Enigma: Ancestors, Borderlands, Chronicles, Learning

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location:

S250, CGIS South

To register for this event, click here.

Over the last sixty years, my community in San Antonio, Texas has gone by many names—Mexicano, Tejano, and “Meskins;” Americans of Mexican descent, Mexican Americans, La Raza, Chicana/Chicano; and most recently Chicanx, and Chicané. Each of these cascading terms, refractions in an opaque (smoking?) mirror, marked chapters in a community’s ever-unfolding story of itself. They were partly martialed in resistance to an often inhospitable and exclusionary...

2024 Apr 02

Quechua Hip-hop: A Musical Performance and Conversation on Indigenous Urban Movements with Liberato Kani

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Fong Auditorium at Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138

Musical performance and conversation on Indigenous urban movements with Liberato Kani, Quechua hip-hop artist, and Jorge Luis Astovilca, a master of traditional Andean scissor dancing. Both the performance and conversation will offer an opportunity to learn more about the relevance of Indigenous urban music and dancing in the Andes. Quechua is the most spoken Indigenous language family in the Americas, with almost 10 million speakers in South America, and with significant migrant communities in the U.S., Spain and Italy.

Speakers...

2024 Apr 02

Understanding Mexico's 2024 Election

12:00pm to 1:20pm

Location:

CGIS South S216, Hybrid

This event is in English. Spanish translation available online through Zoom only. This event is hybrid; to attend virtually, register here.

This online panel will discuss Mexico's upcoming elections from multiple perspectives, providing both a general overview and specific policies and candidate positions that define this election.

Speakers Joy Langston, Professor and Researcher of Political Science at the Center of International Studies-CEI,...

2024 Apr 01

The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

CGIS South S216

In this new book, Mateo Jarquín explores the rise and fall of Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution (1979-1990). Whereas most scholars recall the Sandinistas from U.S. debates over the Reagan administration’s policies in Central America, Jarquín recenters the Nicaraguan Revolution as a major episode in the history of Latin America, the international left, and the Cold War. Drawing on research in Nicaragua and several other Latin American countries, he recreates the perspective of Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) leaders in Managua and shows how their ideology...

2024 Apr 01

2024 Latin GSD Symposium- Public Grounds: Ground Truths of Resistance in Latin American Cities

Mon Apr 1 (All day) to Thu Apr 4 (All day)

Location:

Harvard University Graduate School of Design, GSD Gund 111, Kirkland 42 and GSD Piper Auditorium

Democracy is not a singular thing; it is an enterprise comprised of many simultaneous methods of expression, resistance, regulation, and recognition. In other words, it is always a work in progress. Amidst political instability and tidal sways of extremist and authoritarian, grassroots forms of political resistance and strong social capital have preserved the democratic integrity of cities all throughout Latin America. The “GROUNDS OF DEMOCRACY” symposium will examine those forms of resistance alongside design practices working to serve democratic endeavors. With an emphasis on the...

2024 Mar 31

Transformative Leadership Development Program

9:00am to 7:00pm

Location:

Harvard Kennedy School

Beyond connecting Brazilians from different schools to strengthen the Brazilian community, the course will be very valuable to enhance leadership competencies and inspire people to increase their impact through their work, especially to contribute to make Brazil a more just and prosperous country. The program is made of two modules - each of them in one weekend. The first one is focused on self-leadership. The second is focused on leading groups, including facilitation skills and team management. Between the two modules, participants will have access to asynchronous materials.

2024 Mar 30

Transformative Leadership Development Program

9:00am to 7:00pm

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Harvard Kennedy School

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