Speaker: Brian D. Farrell, Curator in Entomology Museum of Comparative Zoology; Professor of Biology Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Director David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Harvard University
At the heart of every great collection be it art books or specimens lies the soul of a passionate collector. David Rockefeller had a passion for beetles and collected more than 150 000 specimens beginning as a seven-year-old naturalist and continuing throughout his life. This fall his collection arrives at Harvard where...
Please join us for a discussion with Luis Othoniel Rosa, Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska. Professor Rosa studied at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras and holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He authored Comienzos para una estétia anarquista: Borges con Macedonio in 2016. Earlier this year he published his latest novel Caja de fractales a futurist novel set in a post-capitalist Puerto Rico. Before Hurricane María Puerto Rico was hit with brutal austerity measures and an un-...
Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre / The Sanctuary Theatre, 400 Harvard Street, Cambridge
We are pleased to present Isabel Allende in conversation to discuss her new novel In The Midst of Winter with Diana Sorensen and Erin Goodman. Isabel Allende won worldwide acclaim when her bestselling first novel The House of the Spirits was...
Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre / The Sanctuary Theatre, 400 Harvard Street, Cambridge
We are pleased to present Isabel Allende in conversation to discuss her new novel In The Midst of Winter with Diana Sorensen and Erin Goodman. Isabel Allende won worldwide acclaim when her bestselling first novel The House of the Spirits was...
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Live music dancers and beautiful decorations help to make this a joyful event designed to remember and welcome back the spirits of loved ones. Decorate a sugar skull (additional $6 fee) make papel picado (cut paper banners) cempasúchil flowers and other artwork and write a message in any language you choose to place upon the Día de los Muertos altar.
No advance ticket required. Pan de muerto (sweet bun) and activities free with regular museum admission.
Free event parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage.
Presented in collaboration with the Peabody Museum of...
**Please note this event will be conducted in Spanish**
Speaker:Dayrelis Ojeda Suris, Centro de Estudios de la Economía Cubana, Universidad de La Habana, Asociación Nacional de Economistas y Contadores de Cuba
Auditorio del Ministerio de Hacienda, Teatinos 120, Santiago, Chile
La conferencia tendrá dos paneles, de cuatro participantes cada uno. El primero tratará sobre inserción laboral de la mujer, donde se compartirán los principales resultados del estudio 2017 de la Comisión Nacional de Productividad “Mujeres en el mundo laboral: Más oportunidades, crecimiento y bienestar” y se comentarán las oportunidades, desafíos, críticas y complementos derivados del catastro realizado.
El segundo panel contará con los encargados programáticos en temáticas de género de los candidatos presidenciales 2017, para que presenten las acciones...
Speaker: Nathaniel Wolfson, College Fellow, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
In the post-war years, the poet João Cabral de Melo Neto reflected on the state of literature in Brazil and in particular the question of how poetry can...
