Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics

"The Politics that Political Purges Make: Legacies of Authoritarian Politics on Democratic Brazil" Speaker: Daniel Hidalgo, Cecil and Ida Green Associate Professor of Political Science, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Co-sponsored by the David...

"Creative Construction: The Rise and Corruption of Infrastructure Projects in Latin America" Speaker: Alisha Holland, Assistant Professor, Politics Department, Princeton University. Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...

"When the Rebels Win: State Building and Service Provision in Revolutionary Nicaragua" Speaker: Kai Thaler, Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University. Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin...

"Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution" Speaker: Peter Andreas, John Hay Professor of International Studies, Brown University. Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. Contact: Isade Salcedo...

"Marijuana and the Origins of the US Colombia Drug Connection" Speaker: Lina Britto, Historian of Modern Latin America and the Caribbean. Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. Contact: Isade Salcedo...

"A Working Machine: Patronage Jobs and Political Services in Argentina" Speaker: Virginia Oliveros, Assistant Professor of Political Science; Associate Research Fellow, Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, Tulane University. Co-sponsored by the...

"Latin America and the International Criminal Court: The Cases of Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, and Mexico" Speaker: Luis Moreno Ocampo, Senior Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; former Chief Prosecutor of the...

"Women's Rights in Theory and Practice" Speaker: Mala Htun, Professor of Political Science, University of New Mexico. Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. Contact: Isade Salcedo isalcedo@fas.harvard...

"US Policy toward Latin America under the Trump Administration" Speaker: Michael Shifter, President, Inter-American Dialogue. Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. Contact: Isade Salcedo isalcedo@fas...

"From the Grounds up: Building an Export Economy in Mexico" Speaker: Casey Lurtz, Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of History, University of Chicago. Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for...