Events

    Peru’s Deepening Political Crisis: Is There a Way Out? / La profundización de la crisis política en Perú: ¿hay una salida?

    4:00pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-030

    For a recording of this event, click here.

    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,...

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    Arts and Humanities Workshop | El otro lado del trabajo. Propuestas contra la aceleración capitalista en la narrativa contemporánea del cono sur

    6:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-250

    This event will take place in Spanish.

    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...

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    The Nun and the Volcano: Revolutionary Histories and the ‘Memory of Possibility’ in Guatemala

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    S450, CGIS South

    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

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    Harvard Film Archive Film Screening: EAMI

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    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...

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    El Derecho en Cuba y su relación con el sistema político, de 2019 a 2022

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S030 Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room

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    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...

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    Book Talk: A veces despierto temblando / Sometimes I Wake Up Shaking

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Graduate School of Design, Room 510

    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...

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    RFK Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies Lecture - Blacks in Nation Making: Brazil and Cuba c. 1790-1850

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S-050, CGIS South

    To register for this event, click here.

    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...

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