Registration ClosedWed - Fri, Dec 11 to Dec 13, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Location:
TBD
This gathering seeks to promote the academic field of Afro-Latin American Studies by fostering a necessary dialogue among actors involved in the production and implementation of academic and race justice agendas in Latin America.
TSAI Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA 02138
Jean Wyllys Matos de Santos: Combining the long experience (eight years) as a victim of fake news and hate speech due to sexual orientation, including communication strategies and policies thought of as antidotes during this experiment, his research aims to understand, through...
Luis Gilberto Murillo-Urrutia is a Former Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia and a very well-known national political figure in that country. He is a policy expert with nearly 30 years of experience in public...
Ana María Silva is a historian of race, gender, and the law in colonial Latin American cities. She is a Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She earned her Ph.D. in History at the University of Michigan in 2018 and holds B.A.s from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.
Exhibition opening at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge MA 02138
An exhibition of photographs by Leonardo Finotti and Alophus Opara of landscapes of orisha devotion in Salvador da Bahia and Osogbo will be mounted in the Neil L. and Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, and will open in October 3, 2019. These photographs, which will focus on different types of sacred groves, will help articulate the spatial conditions of the groves.
ALARI is happy to inaugurate the Academic Year 2019-2020 with a Welcome Lunch for faculty, students, fellows, and friends of the Afro-Latin American Studies. The Seminar Series on Afro-Latin American Studies will initiate with Pedro Perez Sarduy's lecture on "The Symbolism of Race in Cuba Today."
The ALARI Fellow, 
Ana María Silva is a historian of race, gender, and the law in colonial Latin American cities. She is a Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She earned her Ph.D. in History at the University of Michigan in 2018 and holds B.A.s from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.
