Events

    2023 Apr 07

    Raçudos Bodies: Black Women and the Possession of Bodies as a Tactic of Resistance in Brazil

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Hip Hop Archive, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R

    This event will take place in Portuguese.

    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...

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    2023 Apr 07

    Cora Montgomery, the filibuster: Between Cuban Annexationism and U.S Expansionism

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Virtual event

    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...

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    2023 Apr 04

    Who Gives Us Our Names?

    6:00pm to 7:30pm


    This event is virtual, to join click here. COATL and Fuerza will organize a viewing party in CGIS S030 for those interested in joining in-person.

    Speakers: Kuitlahuak A. Martinez, Speak Nahuatl Language Teacher (Nahua); Odilia Romero, Co-founder and Executive Director of Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo (CIELO) (Zapotec); Dr. Marcelo...

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    2023 Apr 01

    TransQuinceañera

    7:30pm

    Location: 

    Adams House, 26 Plympton Street

    To register for this event, click here.

    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...

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    2023 Apr 01

    7th Quechua Alliance Annual Meeting

    9:00am to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South Concourse Level

    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...

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    2023 Mar 31

    Religion and Civil Society in Contemporary Cuba

    12:00pm to 1:30pm


    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speakers; Margaret E. Crahan, Senior Research Scholar and Director of the Cuba Program at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia University; Maha Marouan, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program at Harvard University; Associate Professor, Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and African Studies Program, The Pennsylvania State University; Mabel Cuesta...

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    2023 Mar 30

    Arts and Humanities Workshop | Las desmayadas (fábula autobiográfica): militancia feminista y ficciones del yo

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be held in Spanish.

    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...

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    2023 Mar 30

    For God and Liberty: Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790-1861

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    To register for this event, click here.

    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,...

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    2023 Mar 29

    Soy and Society in Paraguay and Argentina

    12:00pm to 1:30pm


    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speakers: Kregg Hetherington, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University; Pablo Lapegna, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Georgia; Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico

    Soybeans are one of the fastest growing...

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    2023 Mar 27

    Harvard Film Archive Film Screening: Diaries by Andres Di Tella

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Speaker: Andrés Di Tella, Filmmaker and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Ignacio Azcueta, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    The diary has that rare virtue of never quite being a “work” but, rather, always, a work in process. One writes it every day, without any correction, without knowing fully why, with no other objective than to capture something of the flow of life, the feeling of the moment. In the same way, my project Diaries (Argentina, 2022...

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    2023 Mar 27

    A conversation with Dr. Diego García-Sayán, former Peruvian Minister of Justice, Former President of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights

    5:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-250

    This event will be held in Spanish.

    Speaker: Diego García-Sayán Larrabure, Peruvian lawyer and former Foreign Affairs Minister of Perú. He sat as judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and was president of the Court between 2010 and 2012
    Moderated by: Harvard Association of Peruvian Students

    Board and members of the Harvard Association of Peruvian Students will meet Peruvian lawyer and former Foreign Affairs Minister of Perú, Diego García-Sayán to talk about his career and the current situation of...

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    2023 Mar 24

    Harvard Film Archive Film Screening: Photographs by Andrés Di Tella

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Speaker: Andrés Di Tella, Filmmaker and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, Harvard University
    Moderated by: Ignacio Azcueta, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

    Photographs (Directed by Andrés Di Tella. Argentina, 2007, DCP, color, 110 min. Spanish with English subtitles.) is the second installment of Andrés Di Tella’s “family trilogy,” a series of subjective documentaries centered on his family. Split between a first part in Argentina and a second part in India, the film functions...

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    2023 Mar 24

    A 13 años del 27F: ¿Qué hemos aprendido?

    9:00am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Edificio Bicentenario, Teatinos 92, Santiago Centro, Chile

    To register for this event in Santiago, Chile, click here.

    Speakers: June Carolyn Erlick, directora de publicaciones y editora de la ReVista, Harvard Review of Latin America, DRCLAS; Magdalena Vicuña, Investigadora CIGIDEN y profesora asociada del Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales UC; Pía...

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    2023 Mar 21

    Indigenous Languages at the Crossroads in Latin America: Screening and Conversation on the Survival of Indigenous Languages

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums

    Speakers: Maria Luisa Parra-Velasco, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages at Harvard University; Rebecca Mendoza Nunziato, Graduate Student at Harvard Divinity School; Isaura de las Santos Mendoza (Oaxaca, Mexico), Graduate Student at UMass Amherst; Carlos Flores Quispe (Quechua), Graduate Student at UMass Amherst; Sitalin Sanchez (Native Nahuatl speaker, Macehual, Mexico), Graduate Student at Harvard Divinity School; Americo Mendoza-Mori, Lecturer in Ethnicity, Migration,...

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    2023 Mar 21

    What Countries Are Most At Risk? Inequality, Presidentialism, and Democratic Erosion

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

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

    Speaker: Susan Stokes, Blake Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science; Director, Chicago Center on Democracy, University of...

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    2023 Mar 20

    Film Screening: "Out of Breath" & Interview with Director, Helena Lemos Petta

    5:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speaker: Helena Lemos Petta, Lemann Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS
    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,...

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