Cambridge

This event is presented in collaboration with: The Department of History of Science, Harvard University , The Harvard Graduate School of Design , and The Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University.

Join us for a two-part event – half flash talks, half social gathering – to celebrate the beginning of the academic year. To begin, a few Harvard faculty will deliver short presentations on their research and ongoing initiatives related to Brazil. Then...

This workshop will be dedicated to discussing the book Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism (Verso 2026). This book traces how, in the half-century running between 1910 and 1970, the Latin American novel plotted...

This event is presented in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs .

The rise of the populist right is a defining feature of contemporary world politics. In Europe and in the Americas, in particular, the political dimensions (illiberalism, cultural backlash, the reactionary international) of this epochal shift are...

This event is presented in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs .

Abortion is a polarizing political issue across the American continent, yet US-focused scholars seldom interrogate the consequences of abortion politics for democratic institutions. Latin America scholarship has done better. Moving beyond the typical US...

Police violence against marginalized groups persists in many democracies. Yet, democratically-elected leaders may lack incentives to curb it because repressive policing often enjoys widespread support, and views toward police violence often mirror...

Colombia elected a new right-wing president, Abelardo de la Espriella, by a razor-thin margin in the June 2026 runoff. De la Espriella ran as an outsider against the political establishment and against Iván Cepeda, the left-wing governing coalition's...