Events

    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 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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    2023 Mar 07

    Migration on the Rise: The Roles of Work, Violence, and Climate Change

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speakers: Abby Córdova, Associate Professor of Global Affairs, Faculty Fellow of the Keough School’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame; Sarah Bermeo, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, co-director of the Duke Program on Climate-Related Migration, Duke University; David Scott FitzGerald, Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican...

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    2023 Mar 06

    Harvard Film Archive Film Screening : Play by Alicia Scherson

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Alicia Scherson
    With Viviana Herrera, Andres Ulloa, Aline Küppenheim. Argentina/Chile , 2005, DCP, color, 104 min. Spanish and Mapudungun with English subtitles.

    Filmed in a hybrid technological style, Alicia Scherson’s dramedy makes use of computers, headphones and video games to bring to life the story of Cristina, a young indigenous woman navigating early-aughts Santiago. A caretaker for an elderly white man, she becomes interested in Tristán, a young worker, but can they make their chemistry work given the social boundaries that separate them? As her journey...

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    2023 Mar 06

    The Day After a Mega Event: How to Adapt Infrastructures for a more Equal, Adaptable, and Participatory City”

    6:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-030

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speakers: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Harvard University; Joaquin Tomé, Master in Urban Planning Candidate, Harvard University; Lindsay Mayer, Master in Urban Planning Candidate, Harvard University; Shrinkhala Khatiwlada,...

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    2023 Mar 03

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: Little White Dove by Raul Ruiz

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    Directed by Raúl Ruiz
    With Beatrice Lapido, Rodrigo Ureta, Luis Alarcón. Chile, 1992, DCP, color, 125 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

    In 1973 Raúl Ruiz was invited by then-fledgling national film company Chilefilms to direct the biggest-budgeted Chilean feature to date, an adaptation of the best-selling eponymous novel by Enrique Lafourcade. Palomita blanca is a coming-of-age story of a young girl from a poor background who falls in love with the scion of a wealthy upper-class family. From the novel Ruiz maintained only its formulaic fairytale plot and detailed...

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    2023 Mar 02

    Reflexiones sobre el Perú: Más allá del Bicentenario, book presentation

    4:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will take place in Spanish. To register, click here.

    Speakers: Mariela Noles Cotito, profesora de Ciencia Política y Discriminación y Políticas Públicas, Universidad del Pacífico, Perú; Américo Mendoza Mori, investigador y docente en el programa de Etnicidad, Universidad de Harvard; Solsiré...

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    2023 Mar 01

    ReVista Launch: Animals!

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Animals in Latin America and the Caribbean are everywhere, from stray dogs to endangered wildlife to innovative conservation projects. come to the launch of the Winter 2023 issue of ReVista, which takes a panoramic view of animals in the region. The panel will be followed by a celebratory reception.

    Panelists: Macarena Montes Franceschini, Harvard Law School; Erika Lucero Robles Cortés,...

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    2023 Feb 28

    Intentional Polarization: Why do populist presidents in Latin America often turn to extremist public policies?

    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: Javier Corrales, Dwight W. Morrow 1895 Professor of Political Science, Amherst College
    Moderated by: Steve Levitsky,...

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    2023 Feb 22

    Relevance on Indigeneity

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-030

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speakers: Selene Manga, Takemi Fellow in International Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Emil’ Keme, Humanities Fellow in Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University; Julie Fiveash, Librarian for American Indigenous Studies at Tozzer Library, Harvard University;...

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    2023 Feb 22

    Policing Disappearance: Missing People, Mass Graves and Debt in Democratic Brazil

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    Speaker: Graham Denyer-Willis, Director of Studies in Geography and Professor of Global Politics and Society in the Department of Politics and International Studies, Queens College, University of Cambridge
    Moderated by: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism

    A political ethnographer, Graham’s research and teaching is concerned with practices and assumptions of power amidst inequality, as they work through cities, institutions and informality. He approaches these questions from...

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