This roundtable focuses on illuminating the experiences of diasporic Indigenous Latine communities in the United States - such as the Indigenous Kichwa people of Ecuador - whose representation is often overlooked in discussions about Latine communities in education. Through discussions with Kichwa community members from the Kichwa Otavalo and Kichwa Saraguro people residing across the U.S., this event will highlight the importance of home- and community-based pedagogies as they foster intergenerational transmission of languages and cultures across youth and families in order to navigate...

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Over the last sixty years, my community in San Antonio, Texas has gone by many names—Mexicano, Tejano, and “Meskins;” Americans of Mexican descent, Mexican Americans, La Raza, Chicana/Chicano; and most recently Chicanx, and Chicané. Each of these cascading terms, refractions in an opaque (smoking?) mirror, marked chapters in a community’s ever-unfolding story of itself. They were partly martialed in resistance to an often inhospitable and exclusionary...

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This presentation will explore the theoretical and historiographic contributions of ethnic studies in problematizing the in/capacitations and disablements central to the project of colonial racial capitalism. This will be accomplished through an analysis of the philosophical and affective dynamics of racial misrecognition as a precondition for...

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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Learn all about DRCLAS programs, events, and student opportunities at the Open House Celebration!

The evening starts with a panel of students asking our Faculty Director, Steve Levitsky about all things DRCLAS, Latin America, politics, new books, and more.

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Presented by Afro-Latin American Research Institute (ALARI) at Harvard University

This event is virtual, to register click here.

Speakers: Kirsten Weld, Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Jorge E. Cuéllar

For the past seventeen years, the Caravan of Mothers of Missing Migrants has traveled across Mexico searching for disappeared loved ones and demanding...

Featuring Elizabeth Acevedo, Peggy Robles-Alvarado with Boston Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges!

For more information, please contact: mcastillo@fas.harvard.edu.

Speaker: María Luisa Parra, Senior Preceptor in Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Novel theoretical frameworks are being developed as global immigration challenges our traditional notions of languages bound to nation-states. These new approaches enable us to understand emergent social bilingual practices and identity development in children and youth. In this presentation, we will discuss how these...

Featuring Carmen Bardeguez-Brown, Elisabet Velasquez with Victoria Alicea DelValle

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Speakers: Noel Quiñones, Ariana Brown, and special Guest Michelle Garcia Fresca

SCHEDULE:

Kick-off!
Thursday, February 15, 2018
6:00PM
Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room

Lunchtime...

Speakers: Allison Maria Rodriguez, artist and curator and ...