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2023 Oct 12

In our Own Voices: Community-led Research on Police Violence in Brazil

2:00pm to 3:30pm

Location: 

S216, CGIS South

This event will be held in Portuguese. Online simultaneous translation will be available for those who bring their own earphones.

 

Join us for a presentation of the participatory action research project, “Voices of Pain, Struggle, and Resistance of Mothers of Victims of State Violence in Brazil”. The project is a collaborative initiative led by researchers...

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2023 Oct 02

Student Info Session: Mexico Winternships

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, (1730 Cambridge St.) Room S216

How do you plan to spend J-term? Come to the Mexico Winternship Info Session to learn how you could spend January building your resume and professional skills, exploring a mega-city in Latin America, improving your Spanish, and meeting new friends. Details below.

Mexico Teo

The info session will review:

  • Program Overview...
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2023 Sep 22

Student Info Session: Mentoring & Language Acquisition

2:30pm to 3:30pm

Location: 

S216, CGIS South (1730 Cambridge St)

students in the MLAB program standing in front of a mural

Join us at the Mentoring and Language Acquisition in Brazil (MLAB) program information session!

MLAB connects Harvard student mentors (undergrad and grad) with high-potential Brazilian high school students to help them improve their English proficiency while inspiring them to apply for college prep programs in...

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2023 Sep 21

Sustainable Development and Challenges of the COPs: A Conversation with Izabella Teixeira

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

Wexner Building, Harvard Kennedy School - W-434 A&B

To register, please click here

Speaker: Izabella Teixeira, Co-Chair of the International Resource Panel, United National Environment Programme
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; Faculty Affiliate, Center for International Development at Harvard University. Roberto S. Waack...

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2023 Sep 25

Arts and Humanities Workshop | A conversation with Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and Martín Kohan

5:30pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

S216, CGIS South

This event will be held in Spanish.

Speakers: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Writer; Martín Kohan, Writer
Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara y Martín Kohan escribieron algunas de las novelas, cuentos y ensayos más notables de la literatura argentina contemporánea. Sus textos reescriben y dislocan la historia política y la tradición literaria argentinas, y las reinscriben y...

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2023 Oct 03

Poll Workers and the Effects of Supportive Political Participation

12:00pm to 1:20pm

Location: 

S216, CGIS South

This event is hybrid. To register for the virtual session, click here.

Speaker: Noam Lupu, Associate Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University; Associate Director of LAPOP Lab
Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

How does participating in democracy shape the attitudes...

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2023 Nov 14

Resisting Backsliding

12:00pm to 1:20pm

Location: 

S216, CGIS South

This event is hybrid. To register for the virtual session, click here.

Speaker: Laura Gamboa, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Utah; Santo Domingo Visiting Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

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2023 Sep 26

Street Politics in Brazil (2003-2013)

12:00pm to 1:20pm

Location: 

S216, CGIS South

This event is hybrid. To register for the virtual session, click here.

Speaker: Angela Alonso, Professor of Sociology, University of São Paulo, Visiting Fellow at ALARI
Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

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2023 Oct 17

The Impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff

12:00pm to 1:20pm

Location: 

S216, CGIS South

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

Speaker: Fernando Limongi, Professor of Political Science, São Paulo University; Fundação Getulio Vargas
Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...

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2023 Sep 21

Open House Celebration

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium & Concourse

To register for this event, click here.

Learn all about DRCLAS programs, events, and student opportunities at the Open House Celebration!

The evening starts with a panel of students asking our Faculty Director, Steve Levitsky about all things DRCLAS, Latin America, politics, new books, and more.

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2023 Sep 28

Paraguay Ante Viejos y Nuevos Desafíos

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

S216, CGIS South

This event will be held in Spanish.

Speaker: Benjamin Fernández Bogado, Doctor en derecho, periodista y profesor universitario
Moderated by: Beatriz Orostiaga, MBA Candidate, Harvard Business School; David Riveros García, Founder & Executive Director reAcción Paraguay, Harvard Kennedy School

Presented by: Rob Watson, Deputy Director EdRedesign Lab, Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Desde el 15 de agosto pasado Paraguay tiene un nuevo...

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