Events

    2023 Mar 07

    Migration on the Rise: The Roles of Work, Violence, and Climate Change

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    For a recording of this event, click here.

    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...

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    2023 Mar 06

    Harvard Film Archive Film Screening : Play by Alicia Scherson

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    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...

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    2023 Mar 06

    The Day After a Mega Event: How to Adapt Infrastructures for a more Equal, Adaptable, and Participatory City”

    6:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-030

    To register for this event, click here.

    Speakers: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Harvard University; Joaquin Tomé, Master in Urban Planning Candidate, Harvard University; Lindsay Mayer, Master in Urban Planning Candidate, Harvard University; Shrinkhala Khatiwlada,...

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    2023 Mar 03

    Harvard Film Archive Screening: Little White Dove by Raul Ruiz

    7:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

    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...

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    2023 Mar 02

    Reflexiones sobre el Perú: Más allá del Bicentenario, book presentation

    4:00pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    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...

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    2023 Mar 01

    ReVista Launch: Animals!

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    For a recording of this event, click here.

    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,...

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    2023 Feb 28

    Intentional Polarization: Why do populist presidents in Latin America often turn to extremist public policies?

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event is hybrid. To register for the in-person session, click here. To register for the virtual session, click here.

    Speaker: Javier Corrales, Dwight W. Morrow 1895 Professor of Political Science, Amherst College
    Moderated by: Steve Levitsky,...

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    2023 Feb 22

    Relevance on Indigeneity

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S-030

    To register for this event, click here.

    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;...

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    2023 Feb 22

    Policing Disappearance: Missing People, Mass Graves and Debt in Democratic Brazil

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    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...

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    2023 Feb 09

    La crisis social vista por los retos del cuidado y envejecimiento en Cuba

    1:00pm to 2:30pm


    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Esta será la primera sesión del Seminario de Estudios de Cuba Harvard-Sorbonne Nouvelle. Este será un seminario transnacional sobre Cuba que fomentará intercambios productivos y rigurosos entre diferentes enfoques de los mismos temas.

    Panelistas: Blandine Destremau, Socióloga y Directora de Investigación, Centro Nacional de Investigación Científica de Francia (CNRS); Juan Carlos Albizu-...

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