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2024 Apr 25

The AMLO Sexenio: Reflections on Violence, Organized Crime, and the Road to Peace

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South S216

This event will be hybrid, register to attend online here.

Upon taking office in late 2018, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised a rupture with the war on drugs in search of alternatives for peace. However, insecurity and militarization remain pressing issues as the AMLO sexenio comes to a close. This panel will convene leaders from Mexican academia and civil society to answer several important questions. What changed in public security under AMLO and what has stayed the...

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2024 Apr 12

Predatory Extractivism Panel Series- The Long Road to (In)Justice and Reparations

3:00pm to 4:45pm

Location: 

CGIS South- Tsai Auditorium

The journey towards justice and reparations in the wake of the tailings dam failures in Brumadinho and Mariana has been arduous and protracted, marked by legal battles, environmental concerns, and demands for accountability. The legal process has been complex and international, with lawsuits filed against the companies for negligence, environmental violations, and human rights abuses in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Efforts to secure reparations for victims, including compensation for loss of life, livelihoods, and environmental remediation, have been met with challenges,...

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2024 Apr 12

Predatory Extractivism Panel Series- Contested Spaces: Controlling Narratives and Territories

1:30pm to 2:45pm

Location: 

CGIS South- Tsai Auditorium

Since the Fundão and Córrego do Feijão dams collapsed in 2015 and 2019, respectively, local communities and the mining companies responsible for the catastrophes have battled over the causes of the failures as well as the control of impacted territories. Brazilian journalism professor André Luís Carvalho will share his experiences working with citizen journalists in affected communities to co-create and maintain media platforms to preserve memory and denounce violations. 

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2024 Apr 12

Predatory Extractivism Panel Series- Measuring the Unmeasurable: Health-Related Quality of Life Losses

11:15am to 12:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South- Tsai Auditorium

In 2015, the Samarco-operated Fundão dam collapsed in the municipality of Mariana, Brazil, unleashing a tsunami of nearly two billion cubic feet of mineral waste onto downstream communities. Over the course of 20 days, the waste traveled over 370 miles downriver, contaminating waterways and destroying almost 1,600 acres of vegetation. Nineteen people died and more than 600 families lost their homes. Brazilian economist Mônica Viegas will share the results of her 2021 study to estimate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) losses among affected communities. 

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2024 Mar 07

Blindada: Poemas de Protección

6:30pm

Location: 

Barker Center Thompson Room

Join us to experience this multidisciplinary performance, honoring Afro-diasporic spirituality and collective healing through verse, percussion, and movement. Featuring Yaissa Jimenez, Prince Angel Jah Rose, & J. Blak.

Doors open at 6:30 pm, show starts at 7 pm. 

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2024 Mar 21

The Impact of Violence on Community Health Workers/Agents in Brazil: Policy Implications

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

677 Huntington Avenue, Building 1, Room 1208

This seminar is part of the Thursday Brown Bag Series, at the Department of Global Health and Population at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The series features current research of members and affiliates of GHP. The intent is to educate and raise the awareness of our community and beyond, about the research activities presently being conducted by faculty, students, researchers, and special guests of the department.

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2024 Mar 29

The Role of Courts in Advancing the Right to a Healthy Environment: Lessons from Latin America

12:00pm

Location: 

Austin Hall; 111 Classroom – West. Harvard Law School

Latin America has been at the forefront of judicialization of a right to a healthy environment. Courts in different countries have curbed burning and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, as well as the expansion of wind farms in Mexico; they have ordered the clean-up of river basins in Argentina and ordered the protection of important ecosystems in Colombia. Some high courts have embraced ‘rights of nature’ and have fashioned innovative structural remedies, which have included the creation of new institutions. Nonetheless, there is a very mixed record on implementation of the judgments...

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2024 Apr 02

Understanding Mexico's 2024 Election

12:00pm to 1:20pm

Location: 

CGIS South S216, Hybrid

This online panel will discuss Mexico's upcoming elections from multiple perspectives, providing both a general overview and specific policies and candidate positions that define this election.

Speakers Joy Langston, Professor and Researcher of Political Science at the Center of International Studies-CEI, Colegio de México. Kenneth F. Greene, Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin. Mariano Sánchez-Talanquer, Assistant Professor at the Center for International Studies, Colegio de México (...

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2024 Mar 06

Repression Archives? Working with Documents from Police Institutions in Latin America

12:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South - S040 Uziel Family Seminar Room

This workshop, open to scholars of any disciplinary background and geographic area, will focus on the challenges of historical work (broadly defined) in police archives. Based on research experiences with documentary collections of different police forces in South America and Southern Europe, it will attempt to discuss the connections between methodological strategies and historiographical problems. Police archives have been used extensively in the history of crime, marginality, state surveillance practices, political policing, and the repression of the labor movement...

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2024 Mar 05

Money on the margins: Counterfeiters, Migrants, and Policemen in the Ibero-American World, 1880-1940.

4:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South S250

At the turn of the twentieth century, several financial crises resulted in extreme illiquidity and retraction of bank credit. Such a situation created opportunities for the activities of counterfeiters and the formation of criminal networks that circulated across the Atlantic as part of larger circuits of migration connecting Europe with the Americas. National agencies sought to limit the action of local authorities – who were often suspected of negligence and even complicity with counterfeiters – and built collaborations with police from other countries.

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2024 May 05

Transformative Leadership Development Program

9:00am to 7:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Kennedy School

Beyond connecting Brazilians from different schools to strengthen the Brazilian community, the course will be very valuable to enhance leadership competencies and inspire people to increase their impact through their work, especially to contribute to make Brazil a more just and prosperous country. The program is made of two modules - each of them in one weekend. The first one is focused on self-leadership. The second is focused on leading groups, including facilitation skills and team management. Between the two modules, participants will have access to asynchronous materials.

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2024 May 04

Transformative Leadership Development Program

9:00am to 7:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Kennedy School

Beyond connecting Brazilians from different schools to strengthen the Brazilian community, the course will be very valuable to enhance leadership competencies and inspire people to increase their impact through their work, especially to contribute to make Brazil a more just and prosperous country. The program is made of two modules - each of them in one weekend. The first one is focused on self-leadership. The second is focused on leading groups, including facilitation skills and team management. Between the two modules, participants will have access to asynchronous materials.

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2024 Mar 31

Transformative Leadership Development Program

9:00am to 7:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Kennedy School

Beyond connecting Brazilians from different schools to strengthen the Brazilian community, the course will be very valuable to enhance leadership competencies and inspire people to increase their impact through their work, especially to contribute to make Brazil a more just and prosperous country. The program is made of two modules - each of them in one weekend. The first one is focused on self-leadership. The second is focused on leading groups, including facilitation skills and team management. Between the two modules, participants will have access to asynchronous materials.

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2024 Mar 30

Transformative Leadership Development Program

9:00am to 7:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Kennedy School

Beyond connecting Brazilians from different schools to strengthen the Brazilian community, the course will be very valuable to enhance leadership competencies and inspire people to increase their impact through their work, especially to contribute to make Brazil a more just and prosperous country. The program is made of two modules - each of them in one weekend. The first one is focused on self-leadership. The second is focused on leading groups, including facilitation skills and team management. Between the two modules, participants will have access to asynchronous materials.

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2024 Mar 07

Reformas y crisis de la producción agropecuaria en Cuba: una mirada socio-antropológica

1:00pm

Location: 

Virtual

1 PM EST/7 PM Paris

This event is virtual, register here to attend.

This event will be held in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation into English.

The Cuba Studies Program and the Institute for Latin American Studies of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, present the fourth session of their seminar series.

Desde la década de los noventa en Cuba, se han implementado reformas de la organización del...

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