In the 2008-2009 academic year, DRCLAS introduced a new program series, Central America in Focus that will explore diverse issues affecting a diverse region.  This new program series suppliments a broad array of co-sponsored seminars, exhibitions, and cultural events that relate to Central America across the University.

>> Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Conference on the Honduras Crisis, Co-Sponsored by DRCLAS, to be held at the Harvard Kennedy School on November 23

>> Film Screening: Living at Risk: The Story of a Nicaraguan Family (1985) and New Interviews with the Barrios Family, November 30


>> The Rubén Blanes Archives at Harvard
>> Harvard Alumni Association plans trip to Costa Rica in Dec/2009 - Jan/2010
>> Harvard Summer School Program in Costa Rica
>> Faculty Projects in Central America
>> Select Harvard Publications on Central America
>> Current and Past Central American Visiting Scholars
>> On YouTube: Rigoberta Menchú Tum's DRCLAS co-sponsored talk at U-Mass Boston

FEATURES:

>> FROM THE ARCHIVES - President Arias at the JFK Forum: International Development in the 21st Century: A Call to Responsibility (1998)

>> FROM THE ARCHIVES - HBS Professor Michael Porter Honored by Nicaragua

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Rigoberta Menchu Tum and Harvard College Senior, Marisol Boc at recent DRCLAS co-sponosored event at UMASS Boston

>> Harvard Open Collection - Tropical Diseases and the Construction of the Panama Canal, 1904–1914

>> Costa Rican Orchids - Image Documentation at Ames Herbarium at Harvard