DRCLAS offers semi-structured summer programs throughout Brazil, Chile & Mexico, and support for independent experience and research throughout Latin America and the...
The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries.
The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform...
Whether you want to explore Paraguay and support Guaraní speaking students, or you prefer a stay in Santiago, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Bogotá, México, and many more destinations, local mentors will guide you to learn from dynamic environments and to teach English or any subject of mutual interest.
Come learn about the Pre-Texts methodology and its impact through the experiences of four undergraduates! The event is open to all members of the Harvard community. It will feature a Pre-Texts workshop as well as a panel discussion about the interns’ experiences.
Speaker Dr. Luis Reyes Escate. Peruvian anthropologist and ethnologist and social anthropology Professor at the Peruvian National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru. Author of two books, Black becomings (2018) and The children of the Star and the Sun (2023). Luis is currently a Mellon Sawyer Fellow at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute.
Presented in collaboration with the Harvard University Department of History and the Harvard Department of Anthropology.
S030, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
This event is hybrid, to register to attend in-person, click here, to register to attend via Zoom, click here.
Join us for the launch of the Fall issue of ReVista, “Queer in Latin America: LGBTQ+ Perspectives”. The issue focuses on a variety of themes, ranging from arts and culture to the trans community to thinking on the queer in...
Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA,
Speaker Wei Ran, Associate Professor, Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24
Moderated by Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
In the Global 1960s, many Latin American leading intellectuals, such as Pablo Neruda, José Venturelli, Eduardo Galeano and Ricardo Piglia, visited Maoist China, which was regarded as an alternative to Soviet Union and Cuba’s bureaucratic systems. This talk...