Art, Film, & Culture

2022 Nov 03

Arts and Humanities Workshop | Evo Morales and the Burnt Palace: His Fall and Unexpected Rebirth (A documentary and a diary)

5:30pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

S216, CGIS South

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

For this session, we will read and discuss the introduction to Sivak’s work-in-progress narrative and diary of the last three years in Evo Morales’s life. Since September 2019, Sivak has been working on a documentary (together with Noah Friedman-Rudovsky) based on Morales' life. Thanks to their unique access to the former president, they have been able to document his...

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2022 Dec 02

Harvard Film Archive Film Screening: EAMI

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

Speaker: Paz Encina, Filmmaker and 2022-23 Radcliffe/Film Study Center Fellow

AEMI is Directed by Paz Encina | Paraguay/Argentina/Mexico/Germany/Netherlands/France/US, 2022, DCP, color, 75 min. Ayoreo, Guaraní and Spanish with English subtitles.

Encina’s latest film EAMI is a moving and sensitive portrait of the indigenous Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, among the last tribes living in isolation in the Amazon but now threatened by rampant and illegal deforestation of their ancestral lands. Encina will be joined in conversation with AFVS Visiting...

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2022 Sep 23

Harvard Film Archive Film Screening : CASA ROSHELL

7:00pm to 8:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

CASA ROSHELL is Directed by Camila José Donoso | Mexico/Chile, 2017| digital video, color, 71 min | Spanish with English subtitles.

During a trip to Mexico in 2014, after making Naomi Cambel (2013), the director Camila José Donoso learned about Club Roshell: a private site founded by the trans artist and activist Roshell Terranova in 2004, populated by men looking for somewhere they can assume an alternative gender role and explore their identity. Over six weeks, the filmmaker visited the club, observing, talking to, and generating dialogue with its members, and finally...

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2022 Oct 14

Argentine Tango Masterclass with Javier Rodriguez & Moira Castellano

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Barker Center Cafe (12 Quincy Street)

Featuring: Javier Rodriguez and Moira Castellano, world-class tango dancers from Buenos Aires
Moderated by: Thomas Patrick Wisniewski, Lecturer on Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Javier Rodriguez and Moira Castellano will give a masterclass on Argentine Tango to current Harvard students. This event event will be followed by a live performance on October 15 (Lehman Hall,...

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2023 Mar 20

Film Screening: "Out of Breath" & Interview with Director, Helena Lemos Petta

5:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South

To register for this event, click here.

Speaker: Helena Lemos Petta, Lemann Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS
Moderated by: Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Chair,...

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2022 Oct 05

Book Launch: Constructing Latin America. Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S216

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Speaker: Patricio del Real, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Moderated by: José Lira, Professor of Architecture, Univesity of Sao Paulo (FAU-USP) and Visiting Professor 2022-23, Princeton University

Professor...

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2022 Oct 11

Arts and Humanities Workshop | Breve historia del antipopulismo: A conversation with Ernesto Semán

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S216

To register for this event, please click here.

Speaker: Ernesto Semán, Associate Professor of Latin American History, University of Bergen
Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

For this session, we will read and discuss the Introduction and Chapter 7 of  Breve historia del antipopulismo. PDFs available below...

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2022 May 10

Arts and Humanities Workshop Series | "Desplazamiento, viaje y literatura: estructuras de significación y dislocación" (Parte 2)

5:00pm to 7:00pm


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

Speakers: Leila Gómez, Director of the Latin American Center and Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, CU Boulder; Martín Bergel, Professor of Latin American Contemporary History, Universidad de San Martín (Buenos Aires); Irene Depetris Chauvin, researcher CONICET UBA and Professor, Universidad Nacional de las Artes; ...

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2022 Apr 11

2022 Latin GSD Symposium "LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA"

Repeats every weekday until Wed Apr 13 2022 .
6:30pm

6:30pm
6:30pm


This event is virtual, to register click here.

On behalf of Latin GSD, We would like to invite you to this year’s symposium on LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA

In contexts of rapid, inequitable urbanization and socio-spatial innovations, what can global scholars and practitioners of urban planning, design, landscape, and architecture learn from Latin America?

This year's Latin GSD Symposium...

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