Speaker: Temir Porras Ponceleon, CEO, Ventuari Partners
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Temir Porras Ponceleon began his public service career in the Republic of France and continued in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. He specialized in foreign policy, sovereign credit, and oil. He has brokered and negotiated political and trade deals at the presidential level for more than 10 years in Latin...
In the absence of a flourishing book industry, literary magazines become important vehicles of literary, intellectual, and political history in Cuba. This presentation investigates a located literary-critical battle between two Havana-based literary magazines that was central to the...
Mary Plotkin, Co-Founder & President, The Amazon Conservation Team Brian Hettler, GIS & New Technologies Manager, The Amazon Conservation Team
Richard Evans Schultes—ethnobotanist, taxonomist, writer, photographer, and Harvard professor—is regarded as one of the most important plant explorers of the twentieth century. In 1941, Schultes traveled to the Amazon rainforest on a mission to study how Indigenous peoples used plants for medicinal, ritual, and practical purposes. A new interactive online map, produced by the Amazon...
Speaker: Pablo D. Herrera Veitia, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
What is it like to be Afro-Cuban today? After more than a decade’s experience as an Afro-Cuban rap music producer, this is the question at the core of Herrera Veitia’s doctoral research in social anthropology. His presentation will explore how becoming a Hiphop practitioner vested him with a profound interest in the future of urban Afro-Cuban music in Havana. Following the question ‘What is Afro-Cubaneity?’ he argues that understanding what Afro-...
Speaker: Monica Martinez-Bravo, Associate Professor at CEMFI; Associate Visiting Professor MIT
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government at Harvard University and the Faculty Chair of the Brazil Studies Program
This paper studies the effects of local political concentration on long-run economic development in Brazil. Contrary to what is observed in...
Office of International Education, 1414 Mass. Ave, 3rd Floor
Interested in Studying Abroad in Cuba during Fall 2019? Join our Info Session to learn about how!
The Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad (CASA) in Cuba study abroad program introduces students to critical issues in Cuban culture and politics, through a semester of coursework at CASA Cuba...
Office of International Education, 1414 Mass. Ave, 3rd Floor
Interested in Studying Abroad in Cuba during Fall 2019? Join our Info Session to learn about how!
The Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad (CASA) in Cuba study abroad program introduces students to critical issues in Cuban culture and politics, through a semester of coursework at CASA Cuba...
Looking to spend summer living & working abroad in Latin America?
DRCLAS offers programs in Argentina, Brazil, Chile & Mexico. Come to our info session to find out how you can gain an internship or study abroad for credit through DRCLAS in these locations.
Day One (1pm-8pm) Askwith Auditorium, Graduate School of Education; Day Two (9am-6:30pm): Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
The MX Conference is a student initiative that seeks to bring Mexico to the forefront. It provides a forum for the learning and debate of Mexico’s challenges and opportunities given its recent transition of power; and in addition; highlight the Harvard community and campus to external attendees. The Conference’...
8 Garden Street, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall
Speaker: Clarissa Tossin, Radcliffe fellow in 2017–2018
Clarissa Tossin expands upon her fellowship project with a newly commissioned exhibition that considers the ecology of an uncertain future. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s science fiction trilogy Xenogenesis (1989), in which the Amazon becomes the site for a new civilization of alien-human hybrids, Tossin speculates upon a postapocalyptic world following ecological collapse. Pairing DIY plastic recycling techniques with the materials and practices of Amazonian aesthetic...
The purpose of this lecture is to present - from the perspective on race and gender studies - how the representations of these social markers were mobilized in the 2018 elections, especially the presidential election. The dispute between leading candidates demonstrated that the public debate around...
In the absence of a flourishing book industry, literary magazines become important vehicles of literary, intellectual, and political history in Cuba. This presentation investigates a located literary-critical battle between two Havana-based literary magazines that was central to the...
Speaker: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD Student in Government, Harvard University
The MX Conference is a student initiative that seeks to bring Mexico to the forefront. It provides a forum for the learning and debate of Mexico’s challenges and opportunities given its recent transition of power; and in addition; highlight the Harvard community and campus to external attendees. The Conference’...
The purpose of this lecture is to present - from the perspective on race and gender studies - how the representations of these social markers were mobilized in the 2018 elections, especially the presidential election. The dispute between leading candidates demonstrated that the public debate around...