Tuesday Seminar Series

Why do governments embrace human rights discourses to justify policing that violates rights? Looking urban security interventions in Bogotá, this talk will explore the growing power of rights ideas, and the political benefits they can offer politicians...

Under what conditions can xenophobic attitudes toward immigrants diminish? By analyzing internet search data, a panel survey of group-specific attitudes, and conducting an original survey experiment, Dr. Rasband demonstrates that Chileans’ perceptions of...

As courts around the world become more active in convicting politicians for corruption, politicians have increasingly responded by appointing partisan judicial actors in the hope of securing judicial protection. Does this strategy lead to partisan bias in...

This panel will explore emerging dynamics at the U.S.-Mexico border under Trump's second term. Featuring a range of scholars, panelists will discuss pressing questions and policies that shape the current climate. Speakers Stephanie L. Canizales, Assistant...

This panel will explore the evolving dynamics of U.S.-Mexico relations under President Trump’s second term. Panelists specializing in government, policy, economics, journalism, and more will provide perspectives on the U.S. and Mexico's shifting political...

This seminar presents findings from a set of surveys of the Venezuelan diaspora in Colombia and Peru. Designed by LAPOP Lab and implemented in collaboration with local partners in 2023, the surveys offer a multi-dimensional perspective on integration and...

While the historical role of landed elites as obstacles to democratic consolidation in Latin America has been widely studied, how these elites have adapted to the new democratic context remains underexplored even four decades after the start of the Third...

This Tuesday Seminar will summarize some of the research that sustained the art exhibit El Pasado Mío / My Own Past: Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Art (Cooper Gallery, Harvard University, September 2022-June 2023) and is based on a book in...

Speakers: Will Freeman, Fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations Juan S. Gonzalez, Resident Fellow, Georgetown University Carolina Jiménez Sandoval, President of The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) Moderated by Steven...

This panel will explore the recent judicial reform in Mexico. Leading scholars will debate the implications of this reform, addressing critical issues of judicial independence, prosecutorial accountability, and constitutionalism. The popular election of...