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A conversation between Renata Turrent and Idelfonso Guajardo.

Speakers Renata Turrent, MPP, economist,  coordinator in liaison in Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum's presidential campaign. Idelfonso Guajardo, former Secretary of Economy of Mexico and international liaison in Xóchitl Gálvez's presidential campaign.

Moderated by Victoria Murillo, Institute of Latin...

Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC) stand at the forefront of urbanization, with 81% of its population residing in urban areas, projected to rise to nearly 88% by 2050 (UN-Habitat, 2022). While urbanization brings forth opportunities and despite huge national and subnational investments in infrastructure to accomodate it, local governments have failed to organize the availability of land, housing, jobs, transportation, social and essential services in a sufficient, sustainable and equitable manner: approximately 110 million individuals in LAC live in informal settlements,...

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How can research contribute to the reduction of state violence and to the promotion of human rights and justice? This full day workshop will feature presentations from academic and community researchers about innovative participatory research projects on state violence in Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico. Panels and discussions will identify the distinctive challenges that state violence poses for the...

Criminality in urban areas in Mexico has been a long-term unsolved problem, owing not just to ineffective policies, but to police corruption and criminal complicity but also the failure of public authorities to build the rule of law. Both conditions create a culture of impunity.

Failure to confront and reduce chronic violence has increased the fragility of the (city)-state, reduced the legitimacy of authorities, and eroded the capacity of urban communities to build rule of...

This event will be in English with Spanish interpretation. This event will be hybrid, to attend virtually register here. 

Join us for a two-day panel series on Violence and Disappearance in Mexico.

April 24, 2024 from 3-5 pm: Dialogues of Knowledge on Disappearance in Mexico 

In Mexico, we are confronting one of the world's worst human...

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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...

This event will be in English with Spanish interpretation. This event will be hybrid, to attend virtually register here.

Join us for a two-day panel series on Violence and Disappearance in Mexico.

April 24, 2024 from 3-5 pm: Dialogues of Knowledge on Disappearance in Mexico 

In Mexico, we are confronting one of the world's worst human rights crises:...

This is a hybrid event. If you wish to join virtually, please register on Zoom

Latin America has been at the forefront of judicialization of a right to a healthy environment. Courts in different countries have curbed burning and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, as well as the expansion of wind farms in Mexico; they have ordered the clean-up of river basins in Argentina and ordered the protection of...

This event is in English. Spanish translation available online through Zoom only. This event is hybrid; to attend virtually, register here.

This online panel will discuss Mexico's upcoming elections from multiple perspectives, providing both a general overview and specific policies and candidate positions that define this election.

Speakers Joy Langston, Professor and Researcher of Political Science at the Center of International Studies-CEI,...

This event proposes a re-reading of the Mexican literary canon by challenging two of its main guiding principles: gender and nation. It aims to define 'women's writing' and explore recent literature of the region, questioning established concepts of what Américo Paredes reffers to as Greater Mexico.

Featuring groundbreaking voices in contemporary literature Brenda Navarro and Sara Uribe Sánchez the event aspires to create a dialogue that transcends traditional boundaries.

Speakers: Sara Uribe Sánchez, writer and poet. Brenda...

The Mexico Conference is a yearly student-led conference at Harvard that promotes an interdisciplinary dialogue around Mexico’s culture, politics, and economy. The conference gathers policymakers, entrepreneurs, social activists, academics, and many other outstanding personalities to analyze and discuss challenges and opportunity areas of the Mexican national and international landscape. Considering the strategic position of the US Mexico relations and the upcoming election for both countries this years edition paints a strategic interest for our community.

To attend,...

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This research project explores how the Mexican War on Drugs prompted drug cartels to diversify their activities and expand their geographic presence beyond their historical strongholds. Focusing on oil theft, it then explores the intrusion of cartels into new territories and analyzes its impacts on politics, crime, and violence.

Speaker: Marco Alcocer, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy...

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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