This event is presented in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
This presentation provides an overview of the logic of political corruption in Argentina between 2009 and 2015. It examines the motivations behind corrupt practices, the challenges politicians face in extracting rents through corrupt contracting, and the strategies they developed to overcome those obstacles.
Speaker
Valentin Figueroa, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Moderated by Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Alisha Holland, Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Government Department, Harvard University. Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University.
This event is presented in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Chainsaw and Deregulation: Two years of Javier Milei’s Presidency.
Speaker
Federico Sturzenegger , Minister of Deregulation and State Reform, Argentina; Full Professor, Universidad de San Andrés; Adjunct Professor, Harvard Kennedy School (on leave).
Moderated by Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Alisha Holland, Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Government Department, Harvard University. Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University.
This event is co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University and the Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University.
Visualizing, Representing, and Interrogating Latin American Urbanism:
Buenos Aires, São Paulo, and Mexico City
Over the last decades visual thinking has been increasingly incorporated into the production and dissemination of knowledge. In the field of urbanism and spatial research, diverse software, satellite cartography and other languages have transformed how the built environment is perceived, analyzed, and understood. The colloquium Visualizing, Representing, and Interrogating Latin American Urbanism: Buenos Aires, São Paulo, and Mexico City convenes scholars who use distinct media such as text, iconography, and audiovisual to study the historical evolution and growth of Latin American cities.
This is a two-day event. Click here to view the program for Day 1, and see below for Day 2.
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