Andes & Southern Cone

2024 Mar 29

The Role of Courts in Advancing the Right to a Healthy Environment: Lessons from Latin America

12:00pm

Location: 

Austin Hall; 111 Classroom – West. Harvard Law School

Latin America has been at the forefront of judicialization of a right to a healthy environment. Courts in different countries have curbed burning and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, as well as the expansion of wind farms in Mexico; they have ordered the clean-up of river basins in Argentina and ordered the protection of important ecosystems in Colombia. Some high courts have embraced ‘rights of nature’ and have fashioned innovative structural remedies, which have included the creation of new institutions. Nonetheless, there is a very mixed record on implementation of the judgments...

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2024 Mar 06

Repression Archives? Working with Documents from Police Institutions in Latin America

12:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South - S040 Uziel Family Seminar Room

This workshop, open to scholars of any disciplinary background and geographic area, will focus on the challenges of historical work (broadly defined) in police archives. Based on research experiences with documentary collections of different police forces in South America and Southern Europe, it will attempt to discuss the connections between methodological strategies and historiographical problems. Police archives have been used extensively in the history of crime, marginality, state surveillance practices, political policing, and the repression of the labor movement...

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2024 Mar 05

Money on the margins: Counterfeiters, Migrants, and Policemen in the Ibero-American World, 1880-1940.

4:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South S250

At the turn of the twentieth century, several financial crises resulted in extreme illiquidity and retraction of bank credit. Such a situation created opportunities for the activities of counterfeiters and the formation of criminal networks that circulated across the Atlantic as part of larger circuits of migration connecting Europe with the Americas. National agencies sought to limit the action of local authorities – who were often suspected of negligence and even complicity with counterfeiters – and built collaborations with police from other countries.

This presentation...

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2024 Mar 08

Disposable Bodies and Uprooted Lives: Indigenous child servitude in Peru’s 19th century and its Modern-Day legacies

4:00pm

Location: 

Tozzer Anthropology Building, Room 203, 21 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138

This lecture describes the harrowing phenomenon of 19th-century child servitude in Peru’s capital, Lima, by upper-middle households. It builds upon a wide historical archive, mixing poems, short stories, print media articles, and, mostly, advertisements about the search for runaway child-servants. These graphic archives paint a grim picture of racialized bodies stripped of their agency and how children were trafficked: the ways they were exchanged for goods with the hope of better education or social mobility for their kids, or how these kids were simply abducted from their original...

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2024 Feb 29

Conversation with Claudia López, Former Mayor of Bogotá

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S020, Belfer Case Study Room

No registration required.

Claudia López Hernández, former Mayor of Bogotá and Harvard 2024 ALI Fellow, talks about her career, what it meant to be Bogota’s first female Mayor and the future of her country Colombia.

Speaker: Claudia López Hernández, Harvard 2024 Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow.

Moderated by Steven Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, and ...

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Universidad de Chile- Universidad de Chile suscribe convenio de la Alianza de Mujeres en la Academia para disminuir brechas de género

January 30, 2024

La Casa de Bello lideró la instancia, que agrupa a 12 planteles chilenos y a la Universidad de Harvard, durante el año 2022. Con la firma de este convenio, las instituciones de educación superior participantes se comprometen a generar colaborativamente las condiciones para disminuir las brechas de género en la academia.

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Universidad de los Andes Noticias- UANDES cierra exitosa coordinación de la Alianza de Mujeres en la Academia con la firma del convenio

January 4, 2024

Escrito por Nicole Kazazian

Women in Academia Conference

Este jueves 4 de enero, la Universidad de los Andes presentó a las casas de estudio miembros de la Alianza de Mujeres en la Academia (AMA) -iniciativa impulsada por la Universidad de Harvard- los resultados del trabajo realizado durante el...

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2024 Feb 27

Mano Dura: An Experimental Evaluation of Military Policing in Cali, Colombia

12:00pm to 1:20pm

Location: 

CGIS South S216, Hybrid

This event is hybrid, to attend remotely register here.

We experimentally evaluate the social and political consequences of a military policing intervention in Cali, Colombia, one of the world’s most violent cities. Despite null or adverse effects on crime and human rights, we show that Plan Fortaleza improved citizen’ attitudes towards the military and increased their demand for military involvement in domestic law enforcement. It also strengthened citizens’ support for...

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2024 Feb 20

Easier Said than Done: Citizens' Stated and Revealed Democratic Commitment in Latin America

12:00pm to 1:20pm

Location: 

CGIS South S216, Hybrid

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This project examines citizens' commitment to democracy and their role in monitoring politicians' undemocratic behavior.

The most commonly used measures of support for democracy come from public opinion surveys, based on questions that may suffer from social desirability bias and overlook the trade-offs that citizens face when choosing candidates. We scrutinize stated commitment to democracy, as measured by both...

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2024 Feb 15

Desinformación en América Latina: Retos para la democracia liberal

4:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States (2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor), Hybrid

Speaker: Juan Luis Manfredi, Príncipe de Asturías Distinguished Visiting Professor, Georgetown University.

Moderated by Javier Lafuente Preciados, Harvard Nieman Fellow.

Welcoming remarks by Alisha Holland, Professor of Government at Harvard University.

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2024 Feb 06

Re-Collecting the Andean Dead: American Anthropology’s Peruvian Foundations at Harvard, 1863–1926

5:15pm to 6:45pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S-050

Speaker: Dr. Christopher Heaney, Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Penn State. Author of Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones and the Search for Machu Picchu (2010).

Moderated by: Harvard Andean Working Group

By 1873, seven years after the founding of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, over 400 of the 684 skulls in its collection were from...

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