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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Speaker: Wesley Verástegui, Filmmaker and Master in Public Policy Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School Moderated by: Jorge Sánchez Cruz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Sandwiches will be served betweem 12:00 - 12:30pm. The event will begin promptly at 12:30pm and will be held in Portuguese with simultaneous English interpretation. To register, click here.
Speakers: Naine Terena, Artist, Art-educator, and Researcher, Pinacoteca de São Paulo; Gustavo Caboco, Artist; Jamille...
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;...
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...