DRCLAS offers summer programs throughout Brazil, Chile & Mexico. Come to our info session to find out how you can gain an internship in Latin America this summer!
Speakers: Rodrigo Barrenechea, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay and Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar at Harvard University; Madai Urteaga, Graduate Student Comparative Politics, School of Government at Harvard University; Eduardo Dargent, Professor Principal at the Pontifical Catholic University of Perú (PUCP); Omar Coronel,...
This event will be hybrid and held in both English and Spanish. To register for the in-person event, click here. To register for the virtual session, click here.
Interpretation will provided online only. If you wish...
Speaker: Alejandra Laera, Professor of Argentine Literature and Director of the Institute of Argentine Literature, Universidad de Buenos Aires Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Para esta sesión vamos a leer y discutir los textos “Ocupación territorial, cuerpo y relato: las novelas de la...
This event will be hybrid. To join for the virtual session, click here.
Speaker: Betsy Konefal, Associate Professor of History, William & Mary; DRCLAS Central American Visiting Scholar Moderated by: Erin Goodman, Director of the Weatherhead Scholars Program, Harvard University
Speaker: Paz Encina, Filmmaker and 2022-23 Radcliffe/Film Study Center Fellow
AEMI is Directed by Paz Encina | Paraguay/Argentina/Mexico/Germany/Netherlands/France/US, 2022, DCP, color, 75 min. Ayoreo, Guaraní and Spanish with English subtitles.
Encina’s latest film EAMI is a moving and sensitive portrait of the indigenous Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, among the last tribes living in isolation in the Amazon but now threatened by rampant and illegal deforestation of their ancestral lands. Encina will be joined in conversation with AFVS Visiting...
Speaker: Julio Antonio Fernandez Estrada, Cuban lawyer and historian; Professor of Law at the University of Havana (1999-2016); Visiting Scholar, Scholars Risk Program at Harvard University (2022-2023) Moderated by: Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Frances Hagopian, Jorge...
Speaker: Ximena Santaolalla, Author of 'Sometimes I wake up shaking", lawyer, psychotherapist Moderated by: Diane E. Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, GSD; Co-Chair, DRCLAS Mexico Faculty Committee
A novel exploring themes of humanity, violence, and allegiance in the contexts of Guatemala, Mexico, and the US. Two Kaibil soldiers are sent to an elite military training facility in Texas. They are both trained to bring down communism, guerillas, and Guatemala’s indigenous peoples. Their lives no...
Speaker: Ronald Raminelli, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, DRCLAS & RLL Moderated by: Sidney Chalhoub, David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and of African and African American Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Romance Languages...