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2021 Mar 12

ALARI Seminar Series with Carolina Silva Portero: Challenging the Narrative: Unraveling the Relationship between Race & Law in Latin America

12:00pm to 2:00pm
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This presentation will connect the colonial inception of legal systems across the Latin American region that enforced racialized social hierarchies with present-day local discourses on the legal rights of indigenous and black peoples. Starting with an examination of the politics of social hierarchy during colonial times, I will explore how liberal...
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2021 Mar 10

Pueblos Étnicos y Paz en Colombia: Implicaciones internacionales

2:00pm to 4:00pm
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2021 Feb 26

Democratic Resilience Against Political Violence: A Conversation with Congresswoman Talíria Petrone.

4:00pm to 6:00pm

4:00pm ET / 18h Horário de Brasília

This event is virtual and will be held in Portuguese with simultaneous English translation. To register, click here.

Speaker: Talíria Petrone, Brazilian Congresswoman
Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, DRCLAS

Brazil has been in a state of political turmoil since 2013. Mass protest, a dubiously democratic...
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2021 Feb 26

IAP-UAM Lecture Series with Manuel Barcia

12:00pm to 2:00pm
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Manuel Barcia: "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth Century Transatlantic Slave Trade"

As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were...
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2021 Feb 24

Affirmative Action in Graduate Studies in Brazil: Possibilities and Challenges

12:00pm to 1:20pm
This event is virtual, to register click here.

Speaker: Anna Carolina Venturini, Postdoctoral Fellow - IPP-CEBRAP
Moderator: Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies, FAS
Discussants: Cristiano dos Santos Rodrigues, Professor of Political Science, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG); and Graziella Moraes Dias da Silva...
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2021 Feb 12

ALARI Seminar Series with Stephanie Noach: "La oscuridad como actor en los grabados de la artista afrocubana Belkis Ayón"

12:00pm to 2:00pm
En esta presentación la historiadora de arte Stéphanie Noach analizará cómo los grabados, Aunque vayamos al cielo, siempre se acordarán de nosotros (1990) y La sentencia (1993), de la artista Belkis Ayón acentúan, simultáneamente, la vitalidad de la oscuridad y su capacidad para proteger conocimientos secretos. Específicamente los de la hermandad religiosa afrocubana Abakuá. A diferencia de investigaciones previas acerca de la obra de...
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2020 Nov 20

ALARI Seminar Series with Jhon Antón and Bernd Reiter: "El Proceso de Edición de Routledge Handbook de Estudios Afro Latino Americanos"

12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Via Zoom
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https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlf-ysqzkqGNfG6W49-EqPQvlTMpN6jpir

En español y em portugues.

Bernd Reiter y...
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2020 Nov 19

Libertades literarias: Afrolatinoamérica escribe

Repeats every week every Thursday until Thu Sep 17 2020 . Also includes Thu Sep 24 2020, Thu Oct 08 2020, Thu Oct 15 2020, Thu Nov 05 2020, Thu Nov 12 2020, Thu Nov 19 2020.
2:30pm to 3:30pm
Location:
Via Zoom
Coordinado con el seminario "Libertades literarias: Afrolatinoamérica escribe," facilitado por la profesora Doris Sommer, este ciclo de conversaciones virtuales explora técnicas y estrategias literarias con brillantes autores. Sus creaciones inspiran a soñar, pensar, reflexionar y recordar porque, por definición, el arte es irreverente con la realidad y por eso es capaz de alentar cambios. El valor agregado de estas conversaciones a las importantes entrevistas ya realizadas sobre...
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2020 Nov 12

Libertades literarias: Afrolatinoamérica escribe

2:30pm to 3:30pm
Location:
Via Zoom
Coordinado con el seminario "Libertades literarias: Afrolatinoamérica escribe," facilitado por la profesora Doris Sommer, este ciclo de conversaciones virtuales explora técnicas y estrategias literarias con brillantes autores. Sus creaciones inspiran a soñar, pensar, reflexionar y recordar porque, por definición, el arte es irreverente con la realidad y por eso es capaz de alentar cambios. El valor agregado de estas conversaciones a las importantes entrevistas ya realizadas sobre...
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2020 Nov 10

The Uneven Racial and Ethnic Impacts of COVID in Latin America

12:00pm to 1:20pm
This event is part of a virtual series. To register, click here.

Speakers: Veronica Figueroa, Profesora Asociada del Instituto de Asuntos Públicos, Universidad de Chile; Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy Development and Rule of Law, Stanford University; Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University; Edward Telles, Distinguished Professor of...
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ALARI: Building the New Field of Afro-Latin American Studies

Past Events

ALARI Seminar Series with Carolina Silva Portero: Challenging the Narrative: Unraveling the Relationship between Race & Law in Latin America

Pueblos Étnicos y Paz en Colombia: Implicaciones internacionales

Democratic Resilience Against Political Violence: A Conversation with Congresswoman Talíria Petrone.

IAP-UAM Lecture Series with Manuel Barcia

Affirmative Action in Graduate Studies in Brazil: Possibilities and Challenges

ALARI Seminar Series with Stephanie Noach: "La oscuridad como actor en los grabados de la artista afrocubana Belkis Ayón"

ALARI Seminar Series with Jhon Antón and Bernd Reiter: "El Proceso de Edición de Routledge Handbook de Estudios Afro Latino Americanos"

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Libertades literarias: Afrolatinoamérica escribe

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Libertades literarias: Afrolatinoamérica escribe

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The Uneven Racial and Ethnic Impacts of COVID in Latin America

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