Brazil Studies

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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2024 Mar 19

The Greener Gender: Women Politicians and Deforestation in Brazil

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

CGIS South S216, Hybrid

This event is hybrid, to attend remotely register here.

This paper examines the impact of women’s political representation on deforestation rates in Brazil. Using close election regression discontinuity design, we show that women, when elected to office, are more likely to drive improved environmental outcomes due to factors such as reduced access to corrupt networks that influence the enforcement of environmental laws at the local level. Altogether, our findings demonstrate...

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2024 Mar 07

Indigenous Architecture in Brazil as Heritage

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

CGIS South S216

The constructed space plays a crucial role in the memory and sustenance of Indigenous communities in Brazil. Despite this significance, the preservation efforts of Indigenous architecture by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional - IPHAN) have yet to fully incorporate this element. This seminar investigates how the Institute approached Indigenous heritage since 1937, navigating intellectual confrontations across diverse Brazilian cultural institutions and addressing the limited discourse surrounding Indigenous...

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2024 Feb 15

Desinformación en América Latina: Retos para la democracia liberal

4:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States (2 Arrow Street, 4th Floor), Hybrid

Speaker: Juan Luis Manfredi, Príncipe de Asturías Distinguished Visiting Professor, Georgetown University.

Moderated by Javier Lafuente Preciados, Harvard Nieman Fellow.

Welcoming remarks by Alisha Holland, Professor of Government at Harvard University.

This event is hybrid, to attend register here.

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2024 Mar 22

Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

S216, CGIS South

The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries.

The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform...

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2024 Feb 23

Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

S216, CGIS South

The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries.

The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform...

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2024 Feb 02

Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

S216, CGIS South

The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries.

The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform...

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2023 Dec 08

Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

S216, CGIS South

The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries.

The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform...

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2023 Nov 17

Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

S216, CGIS South

The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries.

The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform...

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2024 Apr 05

Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

12:00pm to 2:00pm

The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries. The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform our...

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2024 Apr 19

Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change

12:00pm to 2:00pm

The yearlong Sawyer Seminar seeks to understand contemporary contestation over citizenship and belonging by Afrodescendants in Latin America, situating these struggles within long-term, historical patterns of nation building, racial stratification, and political mobilization. It will explore the struggles and experiences of citizenship of this vastly heterogeneous group, which have been starkly uneven across time and across (and within) countries. The Seminar will also ask what these differences can teach us, including how these Afro-Latin American perspectives can help inform our...

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2023 Nov 30

ReVista Launch: Queer in Latin America, LGBTQ+ Perspectives

5:00pm to 8:30pm

Location: 

S030, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138

This event is hybrid, to register to attend in-person, click here, to register to attend via Zoom, click here.

Join us for the launch of the Fall issue of ReVista, “Queer in Latin America: LGBTQ+ Perspectives”. The issue focuses on a variety of themes, ranging from arts and culture to the trans community to thinking on the queer in...

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2023 Nov 16

Decentralization and Outcomes: Has Decentralization Improved Health in Latin America?

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

S216, CGIS South

Inspired by the DRCLAS Seminar “Was Decentralization a Mistake for Latin America” in November 2022, this seminar is designed to present some recent focused empirical research on how to define types of decentralization and to assess how decentralization contributes to specific outcomes in the health sector. The panelists have experience in specifying characteristics of decentralization in different countries and will present some recent research in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Honduras using sophisticated methodologies to evaluate outputs and outcomes of different...

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