2019 Mar 10
HFA Film Series: Deep Water. The Cinema of Lucrecia Martel
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St, Cambridge
For more information, please visit Harvard Film Archive. 
2019 Mar 05
The Politics of Visibility: How Local Elections Undermine Representation in Brazil
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Peter Johannessen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
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2019 Mar 04
Conflicto en Nicaragua: Antecedentes, desarrollo y perspectivas
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
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.
Speakers:
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2019 Mar 01
HFA Film Series: Deep Water. The Cinema of Lucrecia Martel
9:00pm to 11:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St, Cambridge
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2019 Mar 01
Regímenes de bienestar en Cuba: mujeres y desigualdades
12:00pm to 1:45pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Ailynn Torres Santana, ICIC Juan Marinello, FLACSO Ecuador
Moderator: Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American...
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2019 Feb 27
Indigenous Masters of a casa poblada: Indios ladinos and vecindad in Colonial New Kingdom of Granada
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S450, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Max Deardorff, University of Florida
Parry Lecture Series
HIS2525A: The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop Administrating Differences in Latin America: Historical Approaches
Presented in collaboration with the Department of History
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2019 Feb 27
Brazil urban cores. Monumentality and Banalities. The case of Rio de Janeiro.
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Washington Fajardo, Architect and Urban Planner; Loeb Fellow 2019, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government ...
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2019 Feb 26
Venezuela: Understanding the Crisis. Building a Sustainable Solution
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S020, 1730 Cambridge Street
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...
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2019 Feb 22
HFA Film Series: In a Landscape. The Films of Dominga Sotomayor
Repeats every day until Mon Feb 25 2019 .
7:00pm
7:00pm
7:00pm
7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
Click here for complete information. 
Presented in collaboration with the Harvard Film Archive, Visual & Environmental Studies, and the...
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2019 Feb 22
To Be or Not to Be Caribe: Magazine Combat in Cuba, 1944
12:00pm to 1:45pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
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...
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2019 Feb 21
Student Info Session: CASA (Study Abroad) Chile & Argentina
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
OIE, 1414 Massachusetts Ave., 3rd Floor (requires HUID)

Join us at the information session for the term-time DRCLAS Study Abroad Programs and learn about opportunities available for Harvard...
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2019 Feb 20
The Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street
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...
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2019 Feb 19
Homicidal Ecologies: Illicit Economies and Complicit States in Latin America
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Deborah Yashar, Professor of Politics & International Affairs, Princeton University; Editor of World Politics
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
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2019 Feb 15
HFA Film Series: The Extraordinary Stories of Mariano Llinás
Repeats every day until Sun Feb 17 2019 .
7:00pm
7:00pm
7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
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Presented in collaboration with the Harvard Film Archive and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
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2019 Feb 15
Havana's Noise and Rhythm: Understanding Afrocubaneity
12:00pm to 1:45pm
Location: 
104 Mt. Auburn Street 3R, Seminar Room
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-...
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2019 Feb 13
Indigenous People, Democracy and Historiography in Brazil (1978-2018)
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Camila Dias, Professor of Brazilian Colonial History, University of Campinas
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government at Harvard...
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2019 Feb 12
El Salvador's 2019 Presidential Election
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD Student in Government, Harvard University
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
On February 3, 2019, El Salvador held its...
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2019 Feb 06
Political Power, Elite Control, and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Brazil
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street
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...
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2019 Feb 05
Student Info Session: Study Abroad Cuba
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
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...
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2019 Feb 05
Student Info Session: Study Abroad Cuba
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
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...
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