Andes & Southern Cone

2021 Sep 14

Prospects for Post-COVID Economic Recovery in Latin America

12:00pm to 1:20pm


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The economic toll of the Covid crisis on Latin America has been catastrophic. According to The Economist, whereas global GDP contracted by 3% last year, that of Latin America and the Caribbean fell on average by 7%, the worst of any region tracked by the IMF. Lengthy lockdowns have contributed to the exacerbation of poverty and inequality, and school closures...

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2021 Nov 30

Chile Presidential Elections

12:00pm to 1:20pm


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On November 21, 2021, Chile will hold its first presidential election since a massive wave of protest shook the country and ushered in a period of far-reaching constitutional change. What do the results of the Chilean election tell us about the country’s changing politics--and what do they portend for the future?

Speakers: Juan Pablo Luna, Pontificia...

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2021 Nov 16

Impact of Venezuela Migration on Latin America

12:00pm to 1:20pm


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Of the more than 5.6 million Venezuelans who have left Venezuela since 2017, more than 70 percent have migrated to Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Despite their stated intention to remain in the countries that received them, they often lack regular migration status, and they have suffered from unemployment or employment discrimination and restricted access to health care and local...

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2021 Nov 09

The Volatility Curse

12:00pm to 1:20pm


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When does economic voting function as a mechanism of democratic accountability, and when does it fail to do so? In their new book, The Volatility Curse, Campello and Zucco show that in Latin American countries that are dependent on commodity exports and inflows of foreign capital, governments may lose popular support and be punished by voters for economic outcomes that are beyond their...

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2021 Nov 02

Protest and Repression in Latin America

12:00pm to 1:20pm


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Latin America experienced a wave of large-scale and often sustained protest between 2018 and 2021. In Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and elsewhere, these protests triggered harsh police or paramilitary repression. How do these responses compare to earlier eras in Latin America? Have decades of democracy and human rights activism had on impact on the behavior of domestic security forces? Are Latin...

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2021 Oct 26

Technocracy vs Politics

12:00pm to 1:20pm


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Technocrats dominated policymaking across Latin America in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Now, in much of the region, including its largest democracies, voters and politicians on both the left and the right have challenged the role of technocrats in democratic governments. What explains technocrats’ declining legitimacy in many Latin American democracies? How have technocrats...

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2021 Oct 19

Populism and the Courts in Latin America

12:00pm to 1:20pm


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Populist presidents have assaulted (or seriously threatened) judicial independence in much of Latin America in the early twenty-first century. What drives these attacks? How do courts resist them? And why have some judiciaries proven more resilient in the face of populist governments than others?

Speakers: Julio Rios Figueroa, Associate Professor of Law,...

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2021 Oct 05

The Geography of State Power: Political Antagonism and Partisan Statebuilding in Colombia and Mexico

12:00pm to 1:20pm


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Why do states develop more effective authority in some parts of their territory and domains of governance than in others? The Geography of State Power attributes contemporary variation in the state’s ability in Mexico and Colombia to perform such core functions as taxation, coercion, and public service provision within its borders to the historical lines of political conflict – religious in...

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2021 Jul 26

The Pandemic is Not Only a Viral Event

Repeats every day until Tue Jul 27 2021 .
8:00am to 4:00pm

8:00am to 4:00pm


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In the field of health practices enlivened by the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, the emergence of variants of the SarsCov-2 virus, the lack of sufficient vaccines and the uncontrolled infection in Brazil, the response to the pandemic has depended on the participation and production of researchers from various areas and the involvement of community leaders in the social response. The objective of this international seminar, the...

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Donald H. Pfister

Asa Gray Research Professor of Systematic Botany
Curator Emeritus of the Farlow Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany

Donald Pfister’s research interest center on the classification and relationships among several groups the fungi. A particular focus is on the fungi found...

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2021 Jul 02

¿Que ha pasado con el aprendizaje en la pandemia? Experiencias de diálogo nacional en Costa Rica, formación inicial en Chile, y desarrollo profesional docente en Perú

9:00am to 10:30am


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SpeakersAndrea Rolla, Consultora, Banco Mundial, Chile; Eva Villalón, Directora de Investigación, Fundación Flamboyán, Puerto Rico.

A más de un año de que el Covid 19 provocara cambios radicales en la educación a nivel global, este panel...

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"Es un momento propicio para rediseñar y reformar las prácticas educativas y así mejorar la vida de estudiantes y docentes"

June 7, 2021

Katherine Merseth, experta en formación de profesores y prácticas efectivas en el aula de la U. de Harvard:

De acuerdo a la especialista, la crisis sanitaria ofrece una oportunidad para reconsiderar el desarrollo de la educación. Que los educadores apliquen nuevos métodos de enseñanza, trabajen colaborativamente entre colegas y motiven la participación de los alumnos en las clases remotas, son parte de sus sugerencias.

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