Directed by Raúl Ruiz
With Beatrice Lapido, Rodrigo Ureta, Luis Alarcón. Chile, 1992, DCP, color, 125 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

In 1973 Raúl Ruiz was invited by then-fledgling national film company Chilefilms to direct the biggest-budgeted Chilean feature to date, an adaptation of the best-selling eponymous novel by Enrique Lafourcade. Palomita blanca is a coming-of-age story of a young girl from a poor background who falls in love with the scion of a wealthy upper-class family. From the novel Ruiz maintained only its formulaic fairytale plot and detailed...

Speaker: Andrés Di Tella, Filmmaker and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, Harvard University
Moderated by: Ignacio Azcueta, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

The diary has that rare virtue of never quite being a “work” but, rather, always, a work in process. One writes it every day, without any correction, without knowing fully why, with no other objective than to capture something of the flow of life, the feeling of the moment. In the same way, my project Diaries (Argentina, 2022...

Speaker: Andrés Di Tella, Filmmaker and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, Harvard University
Moderated by: Ignacio Azcueta, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Photographs (Directed by Andrés Di Tella. Argentina, 2007, DCP, color, 110 min. Spanish with English subtitles.) is the second installment of Andrés Di Tella’s “family trilogy,” a series of subjective documentaries centered on his family. Split between a first part in Argentina and a second part in India, the film functions...

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Speakers: Sandra Ramos, Artist; Mary Schneider Enriquez, Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art , Harvard Art Museums

A reception and tour of ...

This event will be held in Spanish.

Speaker: Cecilia Szperling, Writer
Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Una adolescente se desmaya como una forma súbita de interrumpir el mundo. Muere su padre, su madre vive astillada por el duelo, y mientras la muerte cruza el jardín de su casa como un relámpago, también se despliega su enérgico viaje de iniciación por el sexo, la hermandad y los afectos nuevos, en una Buenos Aires pesadillesca de los primeros...

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Speakers: José Luis Hurtado, Associate Professor of Music Theory, University of New Mexico; Antonio Rosales, Professor of Bass Clarinet, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Juan José García, Professor, Anáhuac University and ...

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Speakers: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Harvard University; Joaquin Tomé, Master in Urban Planning Candidate, Harvard University; Lindsay Mayer, Master in Urban Planning Candidate, Harvard University; Shrinkhala Khatiwlada,...

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Speaker: Wesley Verástegui, Filmmaker and Master in Public Policy Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School
Moderated by: Jorge Sánchez Cruz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Un romance...

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Speakers: Carlos Flores, Director de Cine; Dominga Sotomayor, Directora CCC y Profesora Visitante de Art Film and Visual studies, Harvard University; Haden Guest, Director, Harvard Film Archive

Proyección especial de la película El...

Details and registration at: Cases for Culture Conference

This event will take place in Spanish.

Speaker: Alejandra Laera, Professor of Argentine Literature and Director of the Institute of Argentine Literature, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Para esta sesión vamos a leer y discutir los textos “Ocupación territorial, cuerpo y relato: las novelas de la...

Speaker: Martin Sivak, Director of ElDiario.Ar 
Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Sivak will address the experience of conceiving and launching a new national newspaper at the peak of the pandemic and the challenges facing an independent media outlet in Latin America. The model of the newspaper —inspired by the Spanish newspaper eldiairioes, a partner of elDiarioAR—is based on the goal of empowering its community of readers, who pay a monthly fee,...