Speaker: Kai Thaler, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

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Harvard University, pre-LASA 2019 Workshop and Conference

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Speaker: Kai Thaler, Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard...

Screening of the documentary Los Ofendidos / The Offended (Mexico-El Salvador, 2016) followed by a discussion with the director, Marcela Zamora

Moderator: Alberto Castillo Ventura, PhD candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures

Trouble in Paradise: Puerto Rico After Maria

A look at 21st century Puerto Rico, especially in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the preexisting crisis. Conversation about the status quo and communities standing up when faced with social abandonment.

Presented in collaboration with Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (IBA), Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico School of Law, Consulado General de México en Boston, Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF) and The Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard

Opening remarks:...

Speaker: Francisco Goldman, Author, 2018–2019 Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Trinity College

Moderator: Kirsten Weld, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the...

The proposed panel discussion is part of the supporting programing for the exhibition Arquitectura del vaivén: Diasporic Building(s) in Central America’s Northern Triangle, organized by DRCLAS Arts and the Central America and the Caribbean’s programs during the academic year 2018-2019, and curated by Gabriela Poma, Harvard University Doctoral student in Romance Languages and Literatures. The panel responds to interest in the study of...

A film by Guillermo Escalón y Rodrigo Rey Rosa

Chained and tortured, dozens of youths from the United States and from prominent Guatemalan families were held captive in the depths of the Guatemalan jungle in the 1970s and 1980s. With the complicity of the military high command that...

Esta charla tiene como objetivo exponer el conflicto sociopolítico de Nicaragua, sus antecedentes, desarrollo y perspectivas de salida, desde la óptica de varios de sus actores claves, entre ellos las victimas organizadas y el movimiento estudiantil.

Speakers:...

Speaker: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD Student in Government, Harvard University

Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University

On February 3,...

Speaker: Irma Velásquez Nimatuj,Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies, Brown University

Moderator:  Steven Levitsky, Professor of...

This will be an open forum discussion to address the following topics:

• health after natural disasters

• infrastructure

• public health concerns

• risk modeling among others

Speaker: Edmundo Jarquín

Edmundo Jarquín graduated with a law degree and a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Chile. In Nicaragua he taught at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) and was one of the founders of UDEL, the democratic opposition movement led by Pedro Joaquín Chamorro against the Somoza dictatorship. He served in the FSLN government as Minister of External Cooperation (1981-84) as well as ambassador to Mexico (1984-88) and later Spain (1988-1990). He was a member of the Nicaraguan National Assembly (1990-1992)...

Speaker: Javier Zamora, Poet, Radcliffe Institute Fellow 2018-2019

The Salvadoran poet will read from his latest book Unaccompanied (2017). The reading is part of the associated programming for the DRCLAS Fall exhibition...

Speakers: Gabriela Poma, Harvard University Doctoral student in Romance Languages and Literatures; Fred Ritchin, Dean Emeritus of the School at the International Center of Photography (ICP) ; Susan Meiselas, Photographer, 2018-2019 Radcliffe Institute Fellow

The event will include a...