CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street
The Negotiation tells the story of the peace dialogues between the government of Colombia and the Marxist FARC guerrilla, the oldest insurgency of the hemisphere after more than half a century of war and three failed dialogue attempts. ...
Speaker: Rodrigo R. Soares, Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs, Affiliated Professor of Economics, Columbia University - PhD University of Chicago, MA PUC-Rio, BA UFMG
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann...
Speakers: Mariana Cavalcanti, Urban Anthropologist and Professor in the Institute of Social and Political Studies at the State University of Rio de Janeiro; Geri Augusto, Gerard Visiting Associate Professor of International & Public Affairs and Africana Studies and Watson Institute Faculty Fellow at Brown University
This project seeks to understand political life after episodes of mass violence. After suffering wartime atrocities and winning peace, millions of people around the world elect to live under the rule of political actors with deep roots in the violent organizations of the past. This book analyzes why citizens vote for...
The proposed panel discussion is part of the supporting programing for the exhibition Arquitectura del vaivén: Diasporic Building(s) in Central America’s Northern Triangle, organized by DRCLAS Arts and the Central America and the Caribbean’s programs during the academic year 2018-2019, and curated by Gabriela Poma, Harvard University Doctoral student in Romance Languages and Literatures. The panel responds to interest in the study of...
Chained and tortured, dozens of youths from the United States and from prominent Guatemalan families were held captive in the depths of the Guatemalan jungle in the 1970s and 1980s. With the complicity of the military high command that governed Guatemala at the time...
Esta charla tiene como objetivo exponer el conflicto sociopolítico de Nicaragua, sus antecedentes, desarrollo y perspectivas de salida, desde la óptica de varios de sus actores claves, entre ellos las victimas organizadas y el movimiento estudiantil.
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: Rodrigo R. Soares, Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs, Affiliated Professor of Economics, Columbia University - PhD University of Chicago, MA PUC-Rio, BA UFMG
This project seeks to understand political life after episodes of mass violence. After suffering wartime atrocities and winning peace, millions of people around the world elect to live under the rule of political actors with deep roots in the violent organizations of the past. This book analyzes why citizens vote for...
A film by Guillermo Escalón y Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Esta charla tiene como objetivo exponer el conflicto sociopolítico de Nicaragua, sus antecedentes, desarrollo y perspectivas de salida, desde la óptica de varios de sus actores claves, entre ellos las victimas organizadas y el movimiento estudiantil.
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...
