Harvard Book Store,1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge
Speaker: Amy C. Offner, Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania Moderator: Kirsten Weld, Professor of History, Harvard University
In the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the Third World out of poverty. These businessmen, economists, community workers, and architects went south with the gospel of the New Deal on their lips, but Latin American realities soon revealed unexpected possibilities within the New Deal itself. In...
Speaker: Catalina Smulovitz, Vicerrectora, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Moderator: Kathryn Sikkink, Ryan Family Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
How rights are protected and implemented in a federal context? The purpose of this presentation is to analyze the impact that federalism has on the way laws are defined, legal representation is supplied and resources for implementation are allocated at the local level. Analysis focus on the implementation of domestic violence laws in the Argentinian provinces...
Speaker: Salvador del Solar, former Minister of Culture (2016-2017) and former Prime Minister of Peru (2019) Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government
On the afternoon of Sept. 30, 2019, Peru's President Martin Vizcarra dissolved congress amid political controversy and broad popular support. The outcome of a long confrontation between the two branches of government has transformed the Peruvian political landscape, and the future looks uncertain. This event will feature a talk by a key actor in this process, ex Prime...
Speaker: Alan McPherson, Professor of History, Temple University
Moderator: Kirsten Weld, Professor of History, Harvard University
Historian Alan McPherson of Temple University will discuss his new book about the 1976 assassination of Chilean Orlando Letelier and U.S. citizen Ronni Moffitt, which took two decades to prosecute, transformed human rights, democracy, and counterterrorism in the United States and Chile, and helped end the Pinochet regime.
Alan McPherson is Freaney Professor of History and...
Pre-Texts, a pedagogical protocol aimed at strengthening literacy skills, innovation, and citizenship, has reached a total of 1650 people since November 2018 in Rionegro and is a valuable example of a successful community cultural interventions. Five of the participants from the Subsecretary of Family Welfare in Rionegro will speak at Harvard on November 5th to discuss their reflections on the implementation of the Pre-Texts methodology in Rionegro.
Presented in collaboration with Harvard Colombian Student Society and Cultural Agents Initiative
Speaker: Julie Weaver, PhD candidate, Department of Government Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
Conventional academic wisdom holds that the carrot and stick of...
Speaker: Carlos Gervasoni, Associate Professor of Political Science, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street
Climate change is one of the most important long-term threats for the future of our societies. Solutions are complex, depending not only on engineering and policy, but also on imagination and public will towards alternative forms of inhabiting the planet. Latin America, home to the largest rainforest areas in the world, is both at risk of environmental catastrophe and a key region in which models for thriving bioeconomies based on rainforests can evolve. This symposium will bring together experts and leaders from the US and Latin America to discuss the past, present and future of...
Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia
A new book, Guerrilla Marketing, details the Colombian government’s efforts to transform Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens. Alexander L. Fattal shows how the market has become one of the principal grounds on which counterinsurgency warfare is waged and postconflict futures are imagined in Colombia. This layered case study illuminates a larger phenomenon: the convergence of marketing and militarism in the twenty-first century. Taking a global view of...
Speaker: Alberto Vergara, Professor of Social and Political Sciences, Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru)
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Political parties are usually depicted as indispensable for democracies. However, Latin American history does not lack of instances of parties playing against democracy. Observing the case of Fuerza Popular (the Peruvian Fujimorista party) will allow us to analyze the ways how a political vehicle might...
Authors: Renato Cisneros, author of “La distancia que nos separa” José Carlos Agüero, author of “Los rendidos: Sobre el don de perdonar” (via Skype) Lurgio Gavilán, author of “Memorias de un soldado desconocido”
Respondents: Alexandra Hibbett, Universidad Católica, Perú Alberto Vergara, Universidad del Pacífico, Perú
The wounds inflicted by the protracted civil war Peru faced between 1980 and the early 2000s have proven hard to heal. After twenty years...
The Paraguay Conference 2019: Beyond Perceptions is an initiative of the Harvard Paraguayan Students Association, a new university-wide student organization composed of Paraguayan and international students interested in Paraguayan national development.The organization brings together students, scholars and practitioners within the Harvard community and at neighboring universities in the greater Boston area to explore interdisciplinary topics of strategic importance in Paraguay.
The event will convene an international audience of representatives from public institutions,...
Speaker: María Victoria Murillo, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Columbia University
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
This book focuses on the non-policy benefits that voters consider when deciding their vote. In addition to proposing policies, parties deliver non-policy benefits, such as competent economic management, constituency service, and patronage. This book provides a unified view of how politicians...
Conventional academic wisdom holds that the carrot and stick of...
Both democratic and not-very-democratic (or...
Speaker: Cherman (Germán Quino Ganoza), Graphic Artist