Art, Film, & Culture

2024 Mar 07

Blindada: Poemas de Protección

6:30pm

Location: 

Barker Center Thompson Room

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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2024 Apr 04

Harvard Film Archive Screening: The magic gloves and Doli Goes Home by Martin Rejtman

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

The Magic Gloves (Los Guantes mágicos). Directed by Martin Rejtman. With Gabriel Fernandez Capello, Valeria Bertucelli, Fabian Arenillas. Argentina, 2003, 35mm, color, 90 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

A rich satire of midlife crisis and free market capitalism, The Magic Gloves is a wonderful chamber piece played between two dysfunctional couples who establish an oddly symbiotic relationship, exchanging advice and services in a roundabout economy of friendship and entrepreneurship. The Magic Gloves offers a more tightly controlled variation of Rejtman’s...

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2024 Apr 03

Harvard Film Archive Screening: Rapados and Elementary Training for Actors by Martin Rejtman

7:00pm to 9:20pm

Location: 

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

Rapado. Directed by Martin Rejtman. With Ezequiel Cavia, Damian Dreizik, Mirta Busnelli. Argentina, 1992, 35mm, color, 75 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

Rejtman’s legendary feature debut became an instant cult sensation, immediately recognized as an authentic, iconic harbinger of a new sensibility in Argentine and Latin American filmmaking. Rapado boldly announced Rejtman’s signature laconic style with its restrained camera work, zero-degree performance style, crisply distilled dialogue and its careful structure of repetitions that both abstract and...

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2024 Apr 02

Harvard Film Archive Screening: Silvia Prieto and Copacabana by Martin Rejtman

7:00pm to 9:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

Silvia Prieto. Directed by Martin Rejtman. With Rosario Bléfari, Valeria Bertuccelii, Susana Pampin. Argentina, 1999, 35mm, 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 strong-willed heroine to suddenly lead her life in a radically new direction. Buoyed by its fanciful, rapid-fire dialogue and an at times hilariously absurd story, Silvia Prieto is saturated in a pop sensibility that belies a fascination with bright...

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2024 Apr 09

Book Launch | Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Women, Memory , and Public Space

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South S216

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...

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2024 Mar 27

Arts and Humanities Workshop | Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature

5:30pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South S216

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,...

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2024 Feb 04

Harvard Film Archive Screening: Ana Vaz Short Films

7:00pm to 8:15pm

Location: 

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

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,...

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2024 Feb 05

Harvard Film Archive Screening: It is night in America (É Noite na América)

7:00pm to 8:05pm

Location: 

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

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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2024 Mar 28

Dos X: On the Crip Ethics of the "Misrecognitive" in Latinx and Filipinx American Culture

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South S216

To attend, please register through Eventbrite using this link.

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...

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2024 Mar 25

Roots of Resilience: Art and Heritage as Drivers of Socio-economic Development in the Iron Quadrangle - Brazil

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

CGIS South S216

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...

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El Mostrador Cultura- Presentan sitio web sobre arte chileno entre 1960 y 2000 basado en investigación de U. de Harvard

November 29, 2023

Max Shakespeare

Reúne conversaciones inéditas entre artistas activos en los años de dictadura y posteriores al retorno a la democracia, presentando testimonios personales y diálogos generacionales entre artistas como Alfredo Jaar, Raúl Zurita, Arturo Duclos, Patrick Hamilton, Bernardo...

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2023 Oct 25

Arts and Humanities Workshop | Afectos metafísicos: Borges, modernidad urbana y duelo

5:30pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

S216, CGIS South

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...

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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 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 Oct 18

Harvard Art Museums Program: Bosco Sodi in Dialogue

6:00pm to 7:15pm

Location: 

Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums

Speaker: Bosco Sodi, Artist
Moderated by: Mary Schneider Enriquez, former Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums

Discussion with Bosco Sodi about his sculpture installation Origen, which marks the first outdoor public art display for the Harvard Art Museums. Mary Schneider Enriquez, former Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museums, will talk with Bosco Sodi about his practice,...

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