Workshop led by Carlos Jáuregui, University of Notre Dame and David Solodkow, Universidad de los Andes Bogotá

Space is Limited. Lunch will be provided. 

How do you plan to spend J-term break? Come to the Mexico winternship info session to learn how you could spend J-term building your resume, exploring a mega-city, improving your Spanish, and eating delicious food! 

Program managers, Rachel & Ariana, will be in-person to review the...

Speaker: Emilio Sauri, Associate Professor of English College of Liberal Arts,  Director Concentration in Transnational and Multiethnic Literatures, UMass Boston

Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor Department of Romance Languages and...

Speakers: Carlos Jáuregui, University of Notre Dame and David Solodkow, Universidad de los Andes Bogotá

Speakers: Elizabeth Jelin, Senior Researcher, CONICET Argentina and Professor Doctoral Program in the Social Sciences IDES-UNGS ; Kathryn Sikkink, Professor of Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Kimberly Theidon, Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Moderator: Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazil Studies, Harvard Kennedy School

Noted sociologist and pioneer of studies about historical memory human rights and politics Elizabeth Jelin...

Speaker: Daniel Hidalgo, Cecil and Ida Green Associate Professor of Political Science, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

I Dream in Another Language  (Narrative, 101 mins)

Ernesto Contreras Mexico/Netherlands 2016

Co-presented by the Independent Film Festival of Boston and in collaboration with the ARTS@DRCLAS Series Looking Out for the Queer in Latin American Film and Video Art (Fall 2017 – Spring 2018) A young linguist travels to the jungle of Mexico to research a language on the verge of disappearing. Once there he discoverers its last two speakers clashed 50 years ago and have refused to speak to each other since. Attempting...

Tempestad Documentary 104 mins Tatiana Huezo México 2017

Co-presented by Intercultural Productions and The Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston

Tickets must be purchased through the BLIFF Eventbrite page.

Two women their voices echoing over the landscape and highways of Mexico from north to south as they tell how official corruption and injustice allowed violence to take control of their lives desires and dreams. An emotional and evocative journey steeped not only in loss and pain but also in love dignity and resistance. Official Selection 66th Berlin...

Practice your Portuguese and discuss Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries and cultures at this informal round table. Everyone is welcome! For more information: Everton Vargas da Costa, edacosta@fas.harvard.edu

**Please note this event will be conducted in Spanish**

Speaker: Belén Vega Pichaco, ...

**Please note this event will be conducted in Spanish**

Speaker: Belén Vega Pichaco, ...

Boston Latino International Film Festival 2017 presents: 

Chavela

Documentary, 92 mins, Catherine Gund & Daresha Kyi, USA, 2017

Co-presented by Bright Lights Series at Emerson College, the Wicked Queer Festival and the Independent Film Festival of Boston;...

Speaker: Diego Fernandez, Secretary for Social and Urban Integration, Buenos Aires

Moderator: Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Director, Cultural Agents Initiative

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Join Harvard area studies centers and the Office of Career Services at an information session about Wintersession opportunities during the Jan break for Harvard undergraduates. Questions? Please email: ocs_summerfunding@fas.harvard.edu or rachelmurray@fas.harvard.edu

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DRCLAS is pleased to co-sponsor several screenings of the 2017 Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF). In its 15th year, the festival remains committed to its mission of "using the power of film to break stereotypes bring cultures and communities together and reveal the complex issues that affect the Latino community in the United States and Latin America."

The 2017 programming is aligned with this mission and expands the festival’s scope. “This year in addition to showcasing films by submission BLIFF will also include many award-winning feature-length films never...