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,...

Speakers: Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Head of the PhD Program in Architecture and Urban Studies, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Cara Daggett, Associate Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech; Jota Mombaça, Artist based in Brazil, Germany, and Portugal; Marina Otero Verzier, Head of the Social Design Masters Program, Design Academy Eindhoven; Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Artist based in Guatemala; Elizabeth...

Directed by Patricio Guzmán
Chile/Cuba/France, 1976, DCP, black & white, 88 min
Spanish with English subtitles
DCP source: Icarus Films

The second part of The Battle of Chile begins with the Chilean military’s first attempted coup in June 1973 and tracks the steady deterioration of Allende’s position across the months leading up to September 11. Focusing on Allende’s attempts to stave off the splintering of his party from within, The Coup d’État captures the frightening escalation of violence that began in the streets and climaxed in the fatal...

Directed by Patricio Guzmán 
Chile/Cuba/France, 1975, DCP, black & white, 96 min
Spanish with English subtitles
DCP source: Icarus FIlms

The Battle of Chile began as a boldly spontaneous attempt to comprehensively document Allende’s truly revolutionary experiment in social justice in its formative stages. Using film stock provided by Chris Marker, a thirty-one-year-old Guzmán, fresh out of film school in Madrid, led a team of cameramen into the streets of Santiago and outlying towns to capture the different sides forming staunchly for and...

Directed by Cristián Sánchez
With Felisa González, Andrés Quintana, Fernando Andía
Chile, 1979, DCP, black & white, 72 min
Spanish with English subtitles
DCP source: Cineteca Nacional de Chile

Shot clandestinely on a shoestring budget, the second feature by prolific filmmaker and theorist Cristián Sánchez bears an uncanny, yet ultimately only vague, resemblance to Taxi Driver (1976) with its story of a cabbie who spontaneously rescues a young woman from a brothel only to develop an obsessive yet platonic love for her. By keeping all violence and...

Directed by Patricio Guzmán
Chile/Cuba/France, 1978, DCP, black & white, 79 min
Spanish with English subtitles
DCP source: Icarus Films

Completed a couple of years after the first and second parts, The Power of the People offers an important coda to Guzmán’s epic documentary by turning away from the forces who opposed Allende and instead examining the loose coalition of workers and citizens who attempted to save Allende’s visionary politics. A stirring testimony to the grassroots power of Allende’s movement and its singular appeal to the working class,...

Speaker: Ignacio Agüero, Filmmaker
Moderated by: Haden Guest, Director, Harvard film Archive

Director in Person
$15 Special Event Tickets
Directed by Ignacio Agüero
Chile/UK, 1988, DCP, color and b&w, 55 min
Spanish with English subtitles 
DCP source: Filmmaker

Agüero’s remarkable documentary begins as a tender portrait of influential film historian, educator and activist Alicia Vega (b.1931) teaching a workshop on early film history to impoverished youth living on the outskirts of Santiago....

This event is virtual and will be held in Spanish. To register, click here.

In an attempt to move our discipline beyond Eurocentric perspectives, this conference explores connections that artworks express from within the American territories: from California to Aracuaní (North/South), from Acapulco to Río de Janiero (West/East), and from Potosí to Buenos Aires (High/Low). We propose the concept of “crossing” as the analytical framework, aiming to demonstrate not only intra-American hybridity, but also the...

This event will be held in Portuguese only.

Speakers: Tatiana Salem Levy, escritora, ensaísta e pesquisadora na Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Manoela Sawitzki, doutora em Literatura, Cultura e Contemporaneidade (PUC-Rio), escritora, roteirista e jornalista
Moderated by: Ana Laura Malmaceda, Doutoranda, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Vista Chinesa (2021), o mais recente romance de Tatiana Salem Levy, trabalha os dois lados de uma cidade, o Rio de Janeiro pré-Olimpíadas, cuja beleza...

Speakers: Maria Luisa Parra-Velasco, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages at Harvard University; Rebecca Mendoza Nunziato, Graduate Student at Harvard Divinity School; Isaura de las Santos Mendoza (Oaxaca, Mexico), Graduate Student at UMass Amherst; Carlos Flores Quispe (Quechua), Graduate Student at UMass Amherst; Sitalin Sanchez (Native Nahuatl speaker, Macehual, Mexico), Graduate Student at Harvard Divinity School; Americo Mendoza-Mori, Lecturer in Ethnicity, Migration,...

Speaker: Julia Fierman, College Fellow, Anthropology, Harvard University
Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

In this session we will discuss two articles that analyze the personalist aspects of Peronism through Fierman's ethnographic work among Kirchnerist militants.

Fierman is a sociocultural anthropologist who received their PhD from Columbia University. Their research has focused on the social world of Peronist activism during...

This event will take place in Spanish.

Speaker: Adrian Gorelik, Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and Tinker Visiting Professor of History,  University of Chicago
Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

La “ciudad latinoamericana” surge como categoría de pensamiento a mediados del siglo XX, resultado de una articulación de época entre la renovación de las ciencias sociales y la transformación...

Sandwiches will be served betweem 12:00 - 12:30pm. The event will begin promptly at 12:30pm and will be held in Portuguese with simultaneous English interpretation. To register, click here.

Speakers: Naine Terena, Artist, Art-educator, and Researcher, Pinacoteca de São Paulo; Gustavo Caboco, Artist; Jamille...

Directed by Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento
With Rubén Sotoconil, Claudia Paz, Luis Alarcón. Chile, 1967/2020, DCP, black & white, 70 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

Raúl Ruiz (1941 - 2011) is a filmmaker often heralded for prolific filmography, with his entire body of work still a mystery. His partner Valeria Sarmiento was his film editor and most frequent collaborator. After Ruiz’s passing, Sarmiento has been recuperating and giving new life to Ruiz’s films that were deemed lost, unfinished, or both. This program is centered on this newfound form of curatorship...

Directed by Alicia Scherson
With Viviana Herrera, Andres Ulloa, Aline Küppenheim. Argentina/Chile , 2005, DCP, color, 104 min. Spanish and Mapudungun with English subtitles.

Filmed in a hybrid technological style, Alicia Scherson’s dramedy makes use of computers, headphones and video games to bring to life the story of Cristina, a young indigenous woman navigating early-aughts Santiago. A caretaker for an elderly white man, she becomes interested in Tristán, a young worker, but can they make their chemistry work given the social boundaries that separate them? As her journey...