Art, Film, & Culture

Indigenous musicians played a central role in the communities of the Pueblos de Indios of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Historical documents often referred to them as “Indios cantores,” a term that encompassed a diverse group of individuals whose identities...

Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City native. In a narrative that moves from Mexico to the United States and back, Sánchez Prado discusses the definition of the taco, the question of the tortilla and...

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 talk examines the hidden assumptions embedded in digital humanities data. Although data-driven methods such as machine learning and statistical analysis are increasingly common, the data itself is shaped by human decisions, biases, gaps, and long...

Join Professors Patricio del Real, Ana María León, and José Luis Falconi in conversation on the exhibition Signal and Strata and its exploration of geology, capitalism, mythology, and cultural memory. This event is presented in collaboration with The...

Join us for an evening with Cuban artist Tania Bruguera. Learn about the work she is currently developing in her Harvard studio and how these new commissions connect to—and extend—her expansive body of work. Tania Bruguera will be joined in a conversation...

Join us for a special event featuring the presentation and discussion of The Archive and the Aural City. Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening by Alejandro L. Madrid. In this groundbreaking book, Madrid explores how archives can reveal the...

How has it been to research and write the history of women journalists and their efforts to expand political action in an exclusionary society during the mid-twentieth century? What do we learn about disruptions and (new) historiographical consensuses...

This event will be in Spanish. ¿Por qué el archivo, y por qué ahora? Las apuestas en torno al archivo nunca han sido tan altas. En un tiempo en que las historias se disputan intensamente, la memoria se utiliza como arma y el futuro de nuestros pasados...

Over the last decades visual thinking has been increasingly incorporated into the production and dissemination of knowledge. In the field of urbanism and spatial research, diverse software, satellite cartography and other languages have transformed how...