Speaker: Luz Horne, Professor of Literature at the Humanities Department at Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires. DRCLAS de Fortabat Visiting Scholar 2019-2020

Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature

This presentation explores the connection between a contemporary global catastrophic imaginary with the one from mid-twentieth century Latin America: that of a territory impregnated with future. Paying attention to this connection will shed light on the...

Speaker: Alejandro Velasco, Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government

While the literature on urban Latin America has examined the relationship between politics and space, the particular impact of political polarization on urban space and vice versa has received scant attention. In this sense, Caracas is an exemplary case. On one hand, it is marked by long standing spatial...

7:00pm

The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar)

Directed by Patricio Guzmán

France/Spain/Chile/Switzerland, 2015, DCP, color and b&w, 82 min.

9:00pm

Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la luz)

Directed by Patricio Guzmán France/Germany/Chile, 2010, 35mm, color, 90 min.

Details at: https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/patricio-guzmans-chile-trilogy

Presented in collaboration with Harvard Film Archive 

7:00pm

The Cordillera of Dreams (La Cordillère des songes)

Directed by Patricio Guzmán

Chile/France, 2019, DCP, color, 85 min.

9:00pm

The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar) 

Directed by Patricio Guzmán France/Spain/Chile/Switzerland , 2015, DCP, color and b&w, 82 min.

Details at: https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/patricio-guzmans-chile-trilogy

Presented in collaboration with Harvard Film Archive

Speaker:  Gary Urton, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies

Gary Urton is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard. He earned his M.A. in Ancient History and his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. His research focuses on a variety of topics in pre-Columbian and early colonial Andean cultural and intellectual history, drawing on...