Martín Rejtman and Carlos Gutiérrez in Conversation. Recently Restored. $15 Special Event Tickets.

Silvia Prieto. Directed by Martín Rejtman. With Rosario Bléfari, Valeria Bertuccelli, Vicentico. Argentina, 1999, DCP, color, 92 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

Rejtman’s effervescent masterpiece is a glittering screwball-inspired comedy of shifting identities that centers around the ardent efforts of its...

Introduction by Martín Rejtman and Producer Victoria Marotta. Director in Person. $15 Special Event Tickets.

The Practice (La Práctica) Directed by Martín Rejtman. With Catalina Saavedra, Esteban Bigliardi, Mirta Busnelli. US/Argentina/Chile/Portugal, 2023, DCP, color, 93 min. Spanish with English subtitles. DCP source: Visit Films

With an understated spiritual questioning, The Practice...

Democracy is not a singular thing; it is an enterprise comprised of many simultaneous methods of expression, resistance, regulation, and recognition. In other words, it is always a work in progress. Amidst political instability and tidal sways of extremist and authoritarian, grassroots forms of political resistance and strong social capital have preserved the democratic integrity of cities all throughout Latin America. The “GROUNDS OF DEMOCRACY” symposium will examine those forms of resistance alongside design practices working to serve democratic endeavors. With an emphasis on the...

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Over the last sixty years, my community in San Antonio, Texas has gone by many names—Mexicano, Tejano, and “Meskins;” Americans of Mexican descent, Mexican Americans, La Raza, Chicana/Chicano; and most recently Chicanx, and Chicané. Each of these cascading terms, refractions in an opaque (smoking?) mirror, marked chapters in a community’s ever-unfolding story of itself. They were partly martialed in resistance to an often inhospitable and exclusionary...

Join us to experience this multidisciplinary performance, honoring Afro-diasporic spirituality and collective healing through verse, percussion, and movement. Featuring Yaissa Jimenez, Prince Angel Jah Rose, & J. Blak.

Doors open at 6:30 pm, show starts at 7 pm. 

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Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscape—the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this book stands at the forefront of contemporary discussion. More than a mere compilation, Breaking the Bronze Ceiling epitomizes a movement. The book comprehensively assesses the portrayal of women...

Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature (2023, Northwestern University Press, FlashPoints Series) takes us to the edges, surfaces, and turns of the literary artifact when it crosses cultural boundaries. As Rosario Hubert demonstrates, in the absence of specialized programs of study, abstract discussions of China in Latin America took shape in contingent critical infrastructures built at the crossroads of the literary market, cultural diplomacy, and commerce.

Disoriented Disciplines understands translation as a material act of transfer,...

The screenings are part of the Harvard Film Archive Film Series EXCAVATING SUBTERRANEA. THE FILM POEMS OF ANA VAZ

Apiyemiyekî? Directed by Ana Vaz. Brazil/France/Portugal/Netherlands, 2019, DCP, color and b&w, 27 min. DCP source: Lightcone

Amazing Fantasy. Directed by Ana Vaz. France/Japan, 2018, DCP, color, 3 min. DCP source: Lightcone

There Is Land! (Há terra!). Directed by Ana Vaz. Brazil/France, 2016, DCP, color, 13 min. Portuguese with English subtitles. DCP source: Lightcone

Atomic Garden. Directed by Ana Vaz. Brazil/Portugal, 2018,...

In the opening shot of Ana Vaz’s feature debut, an intense blue descends upon the sprawling, modernist metropolis of Brasília, which starts spinning out of control as a symphony of wild animal sounds crescendos. It is night in America. A recognition, an alarm, an investigation, a lament…Vaz’s film sounds every one of these notes and then some, within rather subtle boundaries, such as the limited exposure and contrast range of an expired 16mm film stock, along with “day for night” shooting techniques that fabricate a permanent twilight. Through patient and attentive observation, Vaz...

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This presentation will explore the theoretical and historiographic contributions of ethnic studies in problematizing the in/capacitations and disablements central to the project of colonial racial capitalism. This will be accomplished through an analysis of the philosophical and affective dynamics of racial misrecognition as a precondition for...

Minas Gerais’ Quadrilátero Ferrífero, or Iron Quadrangle, is one of Brazil’s richest cultural, environmental and historical regions, home to two UNESCO World Heritage towns and Brazil’s largest iron ore reserves. The Quadrilátero Ferrífero region offers centuries of history through its architecture, monuments, archaeological sites, culinary, rituals, handicrafts, religious festivals and natural resources. Yet its local communities, natural environment and rich cultural heritage are at imminent risk from catastrophic natural and humanitarian disasters resulting from industrial mining. The...

This workshop will be held in Spanish.

Speaker Juan Torbidoni, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA)

Moderated by Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

En este workshop vamos a conversar sobre el proyecto de investigación del Prof. Juan Torbidoni sobre los modos en que Jorge Luis Borges, Macedonio Fernández y Leopoldo Marechal procesan la experiencia de la modernidad...

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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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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