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Ash Community Speaker Series: What to Watch for in Brazil's Upcoming Election Date

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Join Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor for Brazil Studies at Harvard Kennedy School; Mariana Batista, Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco in the Department of Political Science; and Fernando Bizzarro, Graduate Student...

HAPS Speaker Series: A Conversation with Beatriz Merino, Peru’s first female prime minister and the first female prime minister in Latin America

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Speaker: Beatriz Merino , former Prime Minister of Peru Beatriz Merino was the first female Prime Minister of Peru and the first female prime minister in Latin America. She held office between June 2003 and December 2003. She also served as Peru’s...

Mexico’s Glitter Revolution: A Conversation With Mexican Composer Gabriela Ortiz

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Join us for a public conversation on the Grammy nominated Revolución Diamantina, a political ballet inspired by Mexico’s feminist uprising of 2019. Speakers include celebrated composer Gabriela Ortiz and Alejandro L. Madrid, the Walter W. Naumburg...

Indigenous Languages at the Crossroads in Latin America: Screening and Conversation on the Survival of Indigenous Languages

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Speakers: Maria Luisa Parra-Velasco, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages at Harvard University; Rebecca Mendoza Nunziato, Graduate Student at Harvard Divinity School; Isaura de las Santos Mendoza (Oaxaca, Mexico), Graduate Student at UMass Amherst...

MX Conference 2020

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The MX Conference is a student-run initiative at Harvard University that aims to bring Mexico to the forefront of an interdisciplinary conversation. It establishes a space for the community, and everyone interested, to learn, understand, debate and...

El espía del Inca: The Incas between Archaeology, History, and Fiction

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Speaker: Rafael Dumett, author Moderated by the Harvard Andean Working Group About the Speaker Rafael Dumett (Perú) is the author of the extraordinary novel El espía del Inca, a bestseller and literary phenomenon. He studied linguistics at the Pontificia...

Toward a Critical History of Peruvian Archaeology

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Speaker Henry Tantaleán, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos About the Speaker Henry Tantaleán is a Peruvian archaeologist from Lima. He studied archaeology at the National University of San Marcos, where he is currently a full professor. He obtained...

Voting for Strongmen: Nationalist and Populist Leadership in Brazil and India

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Speakers: Rachel Brule, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy, Boston University Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University Patrick Heller, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs...

Collaborative Systems for Solving Complex Social Challenges: Preventing Mental Illness in Chile

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In-person: to register for this event, click here. Event showcasing Worldwide Week: Harvard’s Chile Regional Office, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, part of the Mahindra series Pedagogies for Life. Speakers: Claudia Bobadilla, Board...

Navigating the Future of Justice and Security in Latin America: A Series of Insights on Effective Governance Amidst Insecurity and Inequality

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The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), in collaboration with the Center for International Development and the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, hosted a seminar series titled Navigating Populism: The Future of...