Battling AIDS in Brazil: A message of hope
An upbeat conference on AIDS? Hard to imagine, unless you’d attended “The Brazilian Response to AIDS” on March 22, sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. True, Brazil...
View ArticleAbby Aldrich Rockefeller Curatorship of Asian Art established
David Rockefeller has agreed to establish a new Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curatorship of Asian Art within the Harvard University Art Museums, Thomas W. Lentz, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot...
View ArticleDRCLAS awards certificates, names thesis prize winners
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has awarded a total of 33 Certificates in Latin American Studies this year. Thirty undergraduates from 12 academic departments and two...
View ArticleHarvard Foundation set to honor DR president
The Harvard Foundation will host Dominican Republic President Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna on Sept. 24. Fernández will receive the Harvard Foundation Medal for his creation of the Foundation for...
View ArticleIt takes 200 (or more) to tango
Barefoot and dressed with thrift-shop elegance in a floor-length, taffeta gown with fingerless gloves and a discus-shaped hat, Marta Elena Savigliano read from her paper “Wallflowers and Femmes...
View ArticleSecond class of Lemann Fellows welcomed
Kenneth Maxwell, director of the Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) and visiting professor of history, has announced the...
View Article‘A good start’
Late in January, a delegation from Chile visited Harvard to discuss “Un Buen Comienzo” (“A Good Start”), an early childhood education program undertaken in 2006 by the Harvard Graduate School of...
View ArticleBrazilian Studies welcomes ambassador
The Brazilian ambassador to the United States, Antonio Patriota, will visit Harvard on Feb. 13 to participate in the University’s new and dynamic Brazil Studies Program’s spring 2008 calendar of...
View ArticleJoint Harvard-Brazil program fights entrenched diseases
Recently (Jan. 6-21), 15 Harvard and 16 Brazilian students participated in an intensive experience: the first Harvard-Brazil Collaborative Course on Infectious Diseases. The course, which was offered...
View ArticleMartorell conducts his own sort of life class at Fogg
Shortly after unpacking his bags and setting up his easel, Antonio Martorell is ruminating on the philosophy of art. “The materials, as such, are as important as subject matter. They become subject...
View ArticleDRCLAS names Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor
The Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies has named distinguished journalist and Hispanic publisher Edward Schumacher-Matos the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor...
View ArticleThe complex legacy of slavery in Brazil
In Heliópolis, a favela, or shantytown of São Paulo, Brazil, an annual tradition pits residents against one another for an epic soccer game. The match is called simply Pretos vs. Brancos, or “Blacks...
View ArticleDRCLAS awards 27 certificates, names thesis prize winners
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has awarded nearly 30 certificates in Latin American Studies this year. Undergraduates from multiple academic departments and doctoral...
View ArticleDRCLAS awards grants, travel internships
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) is sponsoring more than 130 students traveling to Latin America for research and internships this summer. DRCLAS awarded research...
View ArticleThird class of Lemann Fellows comes into residence at Harvard
The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) recently welcomed its third class of Lemann Fellows. Funded by a generous gift from...
View ArticleCertificates awarded by DRCLAS
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has awarded nearly 20 certificates in Latin American Studies in 2009.Undergraduates from multiple academic departments and doctoral...
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Spotlight on Harvard in Chile
President Drew Faust is traveling this week to highlight Harvard’s engagement with Latin America. In Chile, she is meeting with government and academic leaders and getting a firsthand look at the...
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Chile’s president pushes progress
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera said Friday that he hopes to lead fast-growing Chile past the middle-income rut that has trapped many of the world’s developing nations, and instead bring it into...
View ArticleDRCLAS receives Sovereign Bank gift
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard has received a generous gift from Sovereign Bank, a retail and commercial bank that is a subsidiary of Banco Santander. This...
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Hub away from home
This is the fourth in a series of stories about Harvard’s engagement in Latin America. SÃO PAULO, Brazil — At 6 feet 4 inches, Jason Dyett cuts an imposing figure as he navigates the chaos that is São...
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Dots on the borderline
In 2006, artist David Taylor was driving along a remote dirt road, eager to get an up-close look at the United States’ border with Mexico, when he spied “a cast-iron obelisk incongruously placed in...
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