Plimpton Room, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street
Speaker: Diego Fernandez, Secretary for Social and Urban Integration, Buenos Aires
Moderator: Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Director, Cultural Agents Initiative
Join Harvard area studies centers and the Office of Career Services at an information session about Wintersession opportunities during the Jan break for Harvard undergraduates. Questions? Please email: ocs_summerfunding@fas.harvard.edu or rachelmurray@fas.harvard.edu
Practice your Portuguese and discuss Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries and cultures at this informal round table. Everyone is welcome! For more information: Everton Vargas da Costa, edacosta@fas.harvard.edu
Con la participación de Mónica Rubio, PHD en Astrofísica, y Profesora Titular del Departamento de Astronomía de la U. de Chile. También fue Presidenta de la Sociedad Chilena de Astronomía y Directora del Programa de Astronomía de Conicyt. Mónica nos comentará sobre su descubrimiento publicado en la revista Nature acerca de las regiones donde nacen las estrellas utilizando el poderoso telescopio ALMA
Speaker: Carlos Diego Mesa, Former President of Bolivia (2003-2005); International Spokesman of the Bolivian Maritime Cause in The Hague
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
For more than a century the diplomatic relationships between Bolivia and Chile have been conditioned by the Pacific war (1879-1883) where Bolivia and Peru confronted Chile. As a product of the war Bolivia lost access to the Pacific Ocean. This country has not renounced to the right of regaining sovereign access...
