2020 Apr 14
Brazil's Education Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
2:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Zoom Webinar
This event is virtual. To register for this event, please click here.
Speakers: Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education; Director, Global Education Innovation Initiatve, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Claudia Costin, Director, Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education Policies (FGV) Global Commission on the...
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2020 Apr 14
O que o coronavírus revela sobre as cidades brasileiras? Favelas e assentamentos informais, até quando?
11:30am to 12:45pm
Location: 
Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Washington Fajardo, Arquiteto e Urbanista; Harvard DRCLAS Visiting Researcher
Moderator: Philip Yang, Fundador do Urbem – Instituto de Urbanismo e Estudos para a Metrópole; Membro do Conselho Consultivo do Harvard-Brazil Office
Washington Fajardo é arquiteto e urbanista pela FAU-UFRJ ’96, e dedica-se ao desenvolvimento urbano. Autor de projetos de reabilitação, habitação social, urban design e espaços culturais. Ex-presidente do Instituto Rio Patrimônio da Humanidade (2009-2016) implementou...
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2020 Apr 10
Respuestas Educativas al COVID-19: Retos y perspectivas para México
2:00pm
Location: 
Zoom Webinar
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Participantes: Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice in International Education, Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and of The International Education Policy Program, Harvard...
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2020 Apr 10
US-Cuban Relations in the time of COVID-19
12:00pm
Location: 
Zoom Webinar
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Speaker: Ambassador Jeffrey Delaurentis, Chief of Mission, US Embassy in Havana, Cuba (2015-2017); Non-Resident Visiting Fellow, DRCLAS Cuba Studies Program
Moderator: Alejandro De la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics;...
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2020 Apr 08
Transparência e resposta à COVID-19 no Brasil
6:00pm to 7:15pm
Location: 
Zoom Webinar
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Speakers: Fernanda Campagnucci, Executive Director of Open Knowledge Brasil;  Manoel Galdino, Executive Director of Transparência Brasil
O Brazil Caucus, uma organização de estudantes da Harvard Kennedy School, com o apoio do David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), convida para o debate com Fernanda Campagnucci, Diretora Executiva da...
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2020 Mar 10
Electoral Management, Partisan Strategic Interaction, and Civic Engagement: Lessons from Latin America and Africa
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Alejandro Trelles, Assistant Professor of Politics, Brandeis University
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government
This talk focuses on the formal and informal aspects of electoral autonomy in Latin America and Africa, how political parties interact within electoral management boards, and mechanisms that facilitate the civic engagement and transparency. Drawing on examples from Venezuela, Mexico, Ghana, and Kenya, the talk centres around the concepts of autonomy, the adoption of...
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2020 Mar 09
Global History Seminar: Tâmis Parron, "Black Slavery and World Accumulation: Towards a Global History of Value"
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Lower Library
Speaker: Tâmis Parron, Research Professor, Department of History, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Moderator: Danielle N. Boaz, Visiting Fellow, WIGH; Stuart Hall Fellow, Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research, Harvard University; Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
...
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2020 Mar 08
Film Screening: The Edge of Democracy
5:00pm
Location: 
Boylston Hall - 110 Fong Auditorium

Speaker: Petra Costa, Filmmaker and Director of "The Edge of Democracy"
Description: A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis, the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic...
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2020 Mar 05
Arts and Science Workshop Series: Lo que queda después: la imaginación del futuro y el revés de lo moderno desde la estética Latinoamericana contemporánea hasta la del siglo pasado
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Luz Horne, Professor of Literature at the Humanities Department at Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires. DRCLAS de Fortabat Visiting Scholar 2019-2020
Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature
This presentation explores the connection between a contemporary global catastrophic imaginary with the one from mid-twentieth century Latin America: that of a territory impregnated with future. Paying attention to this connection will shed light on the...
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2020 Mar 03
On the Origins of Polarization in Venezuela
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Alejandro Velasco, Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government
While the literature on urban Latin America has examined the relationship between politics and space, the particular impact of political polarization on urban space and vice versa has received scant attention. In this sense, Caracas is an exemplary case. On one hand, it is marked by long standing spatial...
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2020 Feb 29
Patricio Guzman's Chile Trilogy
7:00pm to 10:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
7:00pm
The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar)
Directed by Patricio Guzmán
France/Spain/Chile/Switzerland, 2015, DCP, color and b&w, 82 min.
9:00pm
Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la luz)
Directed by Patricio Guzmán France/Germany/Chile, 2010, 35mm, color, 90 min.
Details at: https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/patricio-guzmans-chile-trilogy
Presented in collaboration with Harvard Film Archive 
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2020 Feb 28
Patricio Guzman's Chile Trilogy
7:00pm to 10:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
7:00pm
The Cordillera of Dreams (La Cordillère des songes)
Directed by Patricio Guzmán
Chile/France, 2019, DCP, color, 85 min.
 
9:00pm
The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar) 
Directed by Patricio Guzmán France/Spain/Chile/Switzerland , 2015, DCP, color and b&w, 82 min.
 
Details at: https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/patricio-guzmans-chile-trilogy
Presented in collaboration with Harvard Film Archive
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2020 Feb 28
CANCELED: The Resurgence of the Right: Evaluating the impact of the Trump policies on the opinion towards Cuba and its government within the Cuban diaspora of South Florida
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, Room S-216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Guillermo J. Grenier, Professor of Sociology and Chair in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University
Moderator: Alejandro de la Fuente, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History; Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University
The work presents the results of the most recent Cuba Poll, (November 2018) and compares the details with the opinions compiled by the research...
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2020 Feb 27
Gordon R. Willey Lecture: The Ancient Maya Response to Climate Change: A Cautionary Tale
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Billie L. Turner II, Regents Professor and Gilbert F. White Professor of Environment and Society, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and the School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Moderator: William L. Fash, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology; Archaeology Program Director, Harvard University
Ancient Maya civilization—known for its cities, monumental architecture, ceramics, hieroglyphic writing, and advanced understanding of mathematics and...
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2020 Feb 26
A Sensitive Past: Slavery as historical trauma in Brazil
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S050

Speaker: Hebe Mattos, Professor of History, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Minas Gerais, Brazil);...
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2020 Feb 25
Did Ancient Andean People Know How to Write, do Math, or Keep Accounts Before the Spaniards Arrived?
7:00pm
Speaker:  Gary Urton, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies
Gary Urton is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard. He earned his M.A. in Ancient History and his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. His research focuses on a variety of topics in pre-Columbian and early colonial Andean cultural and intellectual history, drawing on...
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2020 Feb 25
Neoliberalism and Social Protest Waves in Latin America: The Chilean Case in Comparative Perspective
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, Room S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Kenneth Roberts, Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government, Cornell University
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government
Waves of social protest have increasingly challenged Chile's neoliberal economic model and the constitutional order that sustains it. Chile's most recent protest cycle belongs to a broader pattern of resistance to neoliberalism in Latin America, but it has a number of distinctive characteristics that reflect the singular breadth, depth,...
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2020 Feb 24
Policy and Planning: How Design Transforms Mexico City and Beyond
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
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2020 Feb 23
Patricio Guzman's Chile Trilogy
4:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
4:00pm
Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la luz)
Directed by Patricio Guzmán
France/Germany/Chile , 2010, 35mm, color, 90 min.
 
7:00pm
The Cordillera of Dreams (La Cordillère des songes) 
Directed by Patricio Guzmán
Chile/France , 2019, DCP, color, 85 min
 
Details at: https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/patricio-guzmans-chile-trilogy
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2020 Feb 19
The Return of the Right in Brazil: Politics and Society
10:15am to 3:45pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S030

Jair Bolsonaro is the first far-right leader to be directly elected in Latin America. How did he come to power and what were the consequences of his election? In this event, scholars from the Brazilian university of Unicamp and Harvard will explore the social and political processes currently transforming...
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