How can research contribute to the reduction of state violence and to the promotion of human rights and justice? This full day workshop will feature presentations from academic and community researchers about innovative participatory research projects on state violence in Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico. Panels and discussions will identify the distinctive challenges that state violence poses for 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 our...
An informal critical inquiry into Octavio Paz’s work from the perspective of three different areas of study: religion, ecological studies, and human rights. Refreshments will be provided.
Speakers: Alfredo Garcia Garza, PhD Candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. AndreaGarza, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literature at Harvard University. Carlos A. González, PhD candidate and scholar in the Romance Languages and Literatures Department at Harvard University....
A conversation between Renata Current and Idelfonso Guajardo.
Speakers Renata Current, MPP, economist, coordinator in liaison in Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum's presidential campaign. Idelfonso Guajardo, former Secretary...
Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC) stand at the forefront of urbanization, with 81% of its population residing in urban areas, projected to rise to nearly 88% by 2050 (UN-Habitat, 2022). While urbanization brings forth opportunities and despite huge national and subnational investments in infrastructure to accomodate it, local governments have failed to organize the availability of land, housing, jobs, transportation, social and essential services in a sufficient, sustainable and equitable manner: approximately 110 million individuals in LAC live in informal settlements,...
Bloomberg Center for Cities, Taubman Third Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
This event will be held in English. Register here to attend.
Is effective management of city government enough to get (re)elected? Rawi Abdelal, the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at Harvard Business School, interviews former Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta of Buenos Aires,...
This event is hybrid, to attend remotely click here. Este evento será híbrido, para atender virtualmente regístrese aquí.
Is Costa Rica different? Without an army since 1949, the small Central American country of six million people has been a democratic bastion in a region of conflict. What it has not spent on defense has been invested in health and...
Join us for an insightful dialogue with Horacio Larreta, the former Chief of Government of the City of Buenos Aires, as he shares reflections on his tenure in city government and offers perspectives on the political landscape of Argentina and Latin America.
This event will delve into Larreta's role as a presidential candidate and his vision for the future of Argentina. As populism continues to shape political...