Cambridge

2023 Apr 18

Haddad Distinguished Lecture: Arminio Fraga

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium

For a recording of this event, click here.

Speaker: Arminio Fraga, Founding Partner, Gavea Investimentos

The Haddad Distinguished Lecture was established in honor of Claudio Haddad, Chair of the DRCLAS Brazil Office Advisory Group since 2006, and President and founder of Insper, a leading not-for-profit business and economics school in Brazil. The inaugural Haddad Distinguished Lecture will be delivered by renowned Brazilian economist Arminio Fraga....

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2022 Dec 05

The Nun and the Volcano: Revolutionary Histories and the ‘Memory of Possibility’ in Guatemala

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

S450, CGIS South

This event will be hybrid. To join for the virtual session, click here.

Speaker: Betsy Konefal, Associate Professor of History, William & Mary; DRCLAS Central American Visiting Scholar
Moderated by: Erin Goodman, Director of the Weatherhead Scholars Program, Harvard University

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2022 Nov 30
2022 Nov 16

Book Talk: A veces despierto temblando / Sometimes I Wake Up Shaking

6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Graduate School of Design, Room 510

Speaker: Ximena Santaolalla, Author of 'Sometimes I wake up shaking", lawyer, psychotherapist
Moderated by: Diane E. Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, GSD; Co-Chair, DRCLAS Mexico Faculty Committee

A novel exploring themes of humanity, violence, and allegiance in the contexts of Guatemala, Mexico, and the US. Two Kaibil soldiers are sent to an elite military training facility in Texas. They are both trained to bring down communism, guerillas, and Guatemala’s indigenous peoples. Their lives no...

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