Tuesday Seminar Series

2024 Mar 07

Blindada: Poemas de Protección

6:30pm

Location: 

Barker Center Thompson Room

Join us to experience this multidisciplinary performance, honoring Afro-diasporic spirituality and collective healing through verse, percussion, and movement. Featuring Yaissa Jimenez, Prince Angel Jah Rose, & J. Blak.

Doors open at 6:30 pm, show starts at 7 pm. 

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2024 Apr 02

Understanding Mexico's 2024 Election

12:00pm to 1:20pm

Location: 

CGIS South S216, Hybrid

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, Colegio de México. Kenneth F. Greene, Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin. Mariano Sánchez-Talanquer, Assistant Professor at the Center for International Studies, Colegio de México (...

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2024 Mar 26

Raised to Obey: The Origins of Latin America's Failing Education Systems

12:00pm to 1:20pm

Location: 

CGIS South S216, Hybrid

This event is hybrid, register to attend online here

Despite high levels of access to primary schooling, educational quality in Latin America remains low. Why? Raised to Obey uncovers the deep roots of this enduring problem, documenting that the original goal of primary education systems was to promote obedience, not skills.

Speaker: Agustina Paglayan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UCSD.

Moderated by Steven...

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2024 Apr 16

Journalism in Latin America: Reporting in Minefields

12:00pm to 1:20pm

Location: 

CGIS South S216, Hybrid

The profession of journalism is surrounded by multiple threats in Latin America: those from criminal organizations that operate freely; political threats, regardless of ideology; and those from power structures that try to subdue or limit a profession which, despite everything, resists being submissive.

Speaker: Javier Lafuente, Journalist, Nieman Fellow of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Deputy Managing Editor of El Pais. 

Moderated by Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of...

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2024 Apr 09

Government Crackdowns and the Transformation of Mexican Drug Cartels

12:00pm to 1:20pm

Location: 

CGIS South S216, Hybrid

This event is hybrid, to attend remotely register here.

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...

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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 Feb 27

Mano Dura: An Experimental Evaluation of Military Policing in Cali, Colombia

12:00pm to 1:20pm

Location: 

CGIS South S216, Hybrid

This event is hybrid, to attend remotely register here.

We experimentally evaluate the social and political consequences of a military policing intervention in Cali, Colombia, one of the world’s most violent cities. Despite null or adverse effects on crime and human rights, we show that Plan Fortaleza improved citizen’ attitudes towards the military and increased their demand for military involvement in domestic law enforcement. It also strengthened citizens’ support for...

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2024 Feb 20

Easier Said than Done: Citizens' Stated and Revealed Democratic Commitment in Latin America

12:00pm to 1:20pm

Location: 

CGIS South S216, Hybrid

This event is hybrid, to attend remotely register here.

This project examines citizens' commitment to democracy and their role in monitoring politicians' undemocratic behavior.

The most commonly used measures of support for democracy come from public opinion surveys, based on questions that may suffer from social desirability bias and overlook the trade-offs that citizens face when choosing candidates. We scrutinize stated commitment to democracy, as measured by both...

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Tuesday Seminar: AMLO versus the Institutions: How Has the Lopez Obrador Presidency Affected Mexico’s Democracy?

The discourse of Mexico's President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), regarding the country's main institutions has sparked an intense debate about the weight of his relationship and potential influence on Mexican democracy. Recently, experts debated this matter during an online panel organized by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, exploring the various ways AMLO's administration is shaping democracy in Mexico.

The panel featured two distinguished speakers offering different perspectives on the key elements shaping Mexican democracy...

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