Speaker: Helena Lemos Petta, Lemann Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS
Moderated by: Erin Goodman, Director of the Weatherhead Scholars Program, Harvard University

Join us for this in-person film screening of "Out of Breath" (Brazil, 2022, 81'), about public health workers in marginalized areas of Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic, awarded the Best Documentary in the Brazilian Competition of the 2022 It's All True International Documentary Film Festival. "Out of Breath" is also running for the OSCARS in the Best Documentary...

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Presented by Afro-Latin American Research Institute (ALARI) at Harvard University

This event will take place in Spanish.

Speaker: Alejandra Laera, Professor of Argentine Literature and Director of the Institute of Argentine Literature, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Para esta sesión vamos a leer y discutir los textos “Ocupación territorial, cuerpo y relato: las novelas de la...

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Speakers: Thiago Amparo, Professor of Human Rights and International Law, FGV Law School in SP and Lemann Public Policy...

“Recent excavations in the complex of the Citadel and the neighborhood of La Ventilla: New evidence on early occupations in Teotihuacan, Mexico” by Dr. Julie Gazzola

Join us to learn about one of the most groundbreaking discoveries in the study of "The City of the Gods," made by Dr. Julie Gazzola during her investigations of the early, "foundational" buildings she uncovered at thevery center of Teotihuacan, Mexico.

Traditional Mexican mole, rice and beans will be served (RSVP by Tuesday, Nov. 1) as we ponder the origins of the first empire of ancient...

Speaker: Martin Sivak, Director of ElDiario.Ar 
Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Sivak will address the experience of conceiving and launching a new national newspaper at the peak of the pandemic and the challenges facing an independent media outlet in Latin America. The model of the newspaper —inspired by the Spanish newspaper eldiairioes, a partner of elDiarioAR—is based on the goal of empowering its community of readers, who pay a monthly fee,...

Speaker: Martin Sivak, Director of ElDiario.Ar
Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

For this session, we will read and discuss the introduction to Sivak’s work-in-progress narrative and diary of the last three years in Evo Morales’s life. Since September 2019, Sivak has been working on a documentary (together with Noah Friedman-Rudovsky) based on Morales' life. Thanks to their unique access to the former president, they have been able to document his...

Speaker: Roman Macaya, PhD, Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow, HSPH
Moderated by: Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Chair, Brazil Studies Program - DRCLAS

Ambassador Roman Macaya will discuss how Costa Rica played to the strengths of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund, the sole provider of all public health care services, to respond to the pandemic. The conversation will cover challenges faced...

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Speakers: ...

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Speaker: Diego Tituaña, Kichwa Otavalo diplomat from Ecuador who served at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations from 2014 to 2019 and was in charge of human rights, disarmament, and international security agendas
Commentators:...

Learn more about this joyful holiday, a national symbol of Mexico shared with the world. The annual tradition of building ofrendas—altars with photos, favorite foods, and memorabilia of the departed—encourages annual visits by the souls, and is an occasion to honor and celebrate the lives of the departed. Enjoy three floors of activities for the young and young at heart including crafts, scent stations, traditional decorations, Nahuatl stories, decorating a sugar skull (extra fee), painting demonstrations, folk dances and two live music performances. Outside the museum, visitors can...

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Speaker: Pablo Lapegna, DRCLAS Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholars & Fellows; Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and...

This event will be hybrid and held in Spanish only. To register for the virtual event, click here; to register for the in-person event, click here.

Speaker: Felipe...