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Faculty Voices
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Faculty Voices is produced by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. Hear what Harvard faculty think about relevant topics that impact Latin America.
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Episode 78: Gareth Doherty on Urban Ecologies of Afro-Brazilian Sacred Groves
Nov 1600:31:24Tap to summarizeGareth Doherty, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and an affiliate at the Department of African and African American Studies, discusses his most recent book, Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design. He tells us a fascinating story about the secret gardens, islands of green, that he wrote about in the chapter "Gathering Leaves: Urban Ecologies of Afro-Brazilian Sacred Groves.
Transcribe →Episode 77: Raquel Jimenez and David Guerra on the Arts in Puerto Rico
Apr 23, 202500:34:25Tap to summarizeHow does art make a difference? Students in Raquel Jimenez’s Arts and Cultural Organizing Intensive course at the Harvard School of Education got to see how in a learning experience in Puerto Rico. In Faculty Voices, Jimenez, a lecturer on education and co-chair of the Arts and Learning Concentration at HGSE, and David Guerra, a curator and Harvard Law School alum, discuss the impact of the experience and what Puerto Rico can teach us.
Transcribe →Episode 76: Louis E. Caldera on the Panama Canal and DEI under Trump's Administration
Mar 25, 202500:28:40Tap to summarizeLouis E. Caldera, a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, chaired the Panama Canal Commission the year the Canal was returned to Panama, 1999. He was also the first (and only) Latino to serve as Secretary of the Army. He talks on issues ranging from President Trump's threat to "take back" the Canal to the implications of the ban of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) on the nation's military and security.
Transcribe →Episode 75: Aitor Bouso-Gavín on the importance of Latinx Studies
Mar 7, 202500:30:32Tap to summarizeAs we head into a new era under President Donald Trump, migration and rights are very much in the news, even as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Threatened deportations and the end of some existing paths to legal status, as well as the Supreme Court decision against university use of affirmative action, create new challenges. Aitor Bouso Gavín, a lecturer of Latinx Studies at Harvard's Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR) and the faculty coordinator for the Latinx Studies Working Group, discusses the important role of Latinx Studies.
Transcribe →Episode 74: Tomomichi Amano on Colombian Markets
Mar 3, 202500:30:02Tap to summarizeTomomichi Amano is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Market Unit at Harvard Business School. Recently he's been researching a large Colombian retailer.
Transcribe →Episode 73: Amber Henry on Black History Present and Past
Feb 22, 202500:36:26Tap to summarizeIn honor of Black History Month, Amber Henry, an assistant professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard, discusses the importance of Black history past and present. An anthropologist of Latin America and the Caribbean, her latest book focuses on San Basilo de Palenque in Colombia, a community founded by runaway formerly enslaved people.
Transcribe →Episode 72: Gabrielle Oliveira on Trump's Hardline Immigration Policies
Feb 12, 202500:29:57Tap to summarizeYou can access the information about Colectivas Infancias by clicking the link below.https://infanciasenmovimiento.org/en/infancias-collective/
Transcribe →Episode 71: Vesall Nourani on Education for Community Development
Feb 5, 202500:34:11Tap to summarizeVesall Nourani, an assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, will be teaching a course on Education for Community Development this semester. With a disciplinary background in development economics, he talks about his research on education and development in both Colombia and Uganda,
Transcribe →Episode 70: Ignacio Bunster-Ossa on the Panama Canal Under Trump's Administration
Jan 28, 202500:20:15Tap to summarizeIgnacio Bunster-Ossa, a design critic in landscape architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design,co-teaches a timely studio course on the Panama Canal with fellow faculty member Anita Berrizbeitia. He talks about the implications of President Donald Trump's threats to take over the Canal, as well as "how a 19th-century symbol of 'ecological triumph' can be transformed into a 21st-century landscape that repairs, reconciles, and reconnects, safeguarding local conditions and aspirations from mounting pressures from ongoing global interests and climate uncertainty."
Transcribe →Episode 69: Alejandra Caraballo on Implications for LGBTQ Community Under Trump's Administration
Jan 22, 202500:40:20Tap to summarizeAre Latinx immigrants and transgender people the canaries in the coal mine for the new Trump administration? Alejandra Caraballo, Esq., a clinical instructor in the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard University Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, reflects on future challenges, historical precedents, and what we can do. Before joining Harvard, Caraballo worked as a staff attorney with the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, and at the LGBTQ Law Project at New York Legal Assistance Group, where she focused on immigration and family law.
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