This event will be in English with Spanish interpretation. This event will be hybrid, to attend virtually register here. 

Join us for a two-day panel series on Violence and Disappearance in Mexico.

April 24, 2024 from 3-5 pm: Dialogues of Knowledge on Disappearance in Mexico 

In Mexico, we are confronting one of the world's worst human...

This event is in English.

Join us for the LAPA Dialogues event on Wednesday, April 10th, at 5 p.m. in the Malkin Penthouse. This flagship event, organized by the Latin America Policy Association (LAPA), aims to unite the HKS Latin American community to discuss the region's most pressing challenges and foster connections among students interested in these issues. Featuring esteemed speakers, the event promises insightful discussions on Latin America's productive, economic, and political challenges towards 2030. 

Speaker Ricardo Hausmann,...

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The largest conference about Brazil organized by Brazilian Students, researchers, and professors. The mission is to create a diverse space for debate, the development of ideas about the future of Brazil, and the promotion of transformative actions.

Presented in collaboration with the Harvard Undergraduate Brazilian Association.

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The largest conference about Brazil organized by Brazilian Students, researchers, and professors. The mission is to create a diverse space for debate, the development of ideas about the future of Brazil, and the promotion of transformative actions.

Presented in collaboration with the Harvard Undergraduate Brazilian Association.

Democracy is not a singular thing; it is an enterprise comprised of many simultaneous methods of expression, resistance, regulation, and recognition. In other words, it is always a work in progress. Amidst political instability and tidal sways of extremist and authoritarian, grassroots forms of political resistance and strong social capital have preserved the democratic integrity of cities all throughout Latin America. The “GROUNDS OF DEMOCRACY” symposium will examine those forms of resistance alongside design practices working to serve democratic endeavors. With an emphasis on the...

This roundtable focuses on illuminating the experiences of diasporic Indigenous Latine communities in the United States - such as the Indigenous Kichwa people of Ecuador - whose representation is often overlooked in discussions about Latine communities in education. Through discussions with Kichwa community members from the Kichwa Otavalo and Kichwa Saraguro people residing across the U.S., this event will highlight the importance of home- and community-based pedagogies as they foster intergenerational transmission of languages and cultures across youth and families in order to navigate...

This event will be held in Portuguese.

This event will explore the role of literature as a “source” for historical and sociological interpretation of race in post-abolition Brazil. A central question arises when considering the analysis of this crucial phase in the formation of Brazilian society, which grapples with the scarcity of oral narratives or written testimonies produced by free or enslaved Black individuals who experienced the end of slavery. This paper aims to address this gap by examining how two Afro-Brazilian writers, Astolfo Marques (1876-1918) and...

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Over the last sixty years, my community in San Antonio, Texas has gone by many names—Mexicano, Tejano, and “Meskins;” Americans of Mexican descent, Mexican Americans, La Raza, Chicana/Chicano; and most recently Chicanx, and Chicané. Each of these cascading terms, refractions in an opaque (smoking?) mirror, marked chapters in a community’s ever-unfolding story of itself. They were partly martialed in resistance to an often inhospitable and exclusionary...

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The Inca control in the Utcubamba basin is indisputable, however, there is still much to clarify regarding dates, sequences, associations, and spaces involved in the process.

Archaeology and bioarchaeology in the Amazonas region have advanced enough for the cultural process in this region to appear more clearly. Ancient genetics...

This event will be in English with Spanish interpretation. This event will be hybrid, to attend virtually register here.

Join us for a two-day panel series on Violence and Disappearance in Mexico.

April 24, 2024 from 3-5 pm: Dialogues of Knowledge on Disappearance in Mexico 

In Mexico, we are confronting one of the world's worst human rights crises:...

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,...

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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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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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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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.

Brown Bag Seminars will...