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4 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies programs and initiatives Panoramic view of the Andes Mountain Range from Mendoza, Argentina. The five faculty-led Committees on Andean, Brazilian, Cuban, Latino and Mexican Studies allow the Center to highlight current research and scholarship on countries and regions on which Harvard has particular faculty expertise. The Center’s core programs for Visiting Professors, Scholars and Fellows, Outreach and Publications are evidence of the Center’s sustained commitment to the teaching mission of the University, as are the Art Forum and the DRCLAS Regional Office in Santiago. For a complete listing of activities and further information on these programs and initiatives, please visit the DRCLAS web site. Andean Studies During the past two years, the arrival of new Andean region faculty specialists, the formation of a university-wide Committee on Andean Studies, and the development of greater links to the region have energized Andean studies at Harvard. Seeking to make Andean resources at Harvard more accessible, the Committee worked closely with the DRCLAS Regional Office in Chile to highlight various Harvard initiatives in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. Attention was focused on Harvard’s extensive institutional resources such as the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, which houses Andean textiles, metalwork and pottery, and the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C., which has a long-standing commitment to Andean studies through its collections and programs on Pre-Columbian Studies. DRCLAS hosted more than ten conferences and events on the Andes. In November 2003, Harvard hosted the 22nd Northeastern Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, bringing together Vista panorámica de la cordillera de los Andes en Mendoza, Argentina. Vista panorâmica da cordilheira dos Andes desde Mendoza, Argentina. specialists from around the globe to discuss Andean archaeology and history. In December 2003, Peruvian Prime Minister Beatriz Merino visited the Center and delivered a public lecture. The Committee organized the first Andean Region Symposium to highlight Harvard faculty members’ diverse initiatives, ranging from tuberculosis control in Peru to research on khipus, Incan knotted recording devices. In June 2004, Professor José Antonio Mazzotti of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures presided over the Seville Conference of the International Association of Peruvianists. In July 2004, Professors Mazzotti and Cummins taught two related courses, The Art of Cuzco and Latin American Literature in Context, as part of the Harvard Summer School program in Cuzco, Peru. Thomas B. F. Cummins Chair, Andean Studies Committee Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art History (FAS) Brazilian Studies The joint efforts of Harvard University faculty members from diverse disciplines, Harvard students, Brazilian institutions, and the local Brazilian community continue to strengthen Brazilian Studies at Harvard. The Brazilian Studies Committee, composed of twelve Harvard faculty members, has provided leadership and coordination for the Center’s activities related to the country. Support from an endowment established by Jorge Paulo Lemann enabled the Brazilian Studies Committee to convene experts from the United States and abroad to expand and diversify research and teaching on Brazil at the University. During 2003-2004, the Center hosted the visits of Donna Hrinak, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, and prominent Brazilians including “Harvard’s decision to establish a formal presence in the region has had an incredible energizing impact on the local Harvard alumni.” Andrés Rodríguez, President, Harvard Club of Chile Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President (1999-2002); Dilma Rouseff, Minister of Mines and Energy; Arminio Fraga, former Governor of the Central Bank; and Paulo Renato Souza, former Minister of Education. A yearlong Harvard Forum on Human Rights in Brazil focused on important questions concerning the rights of Brazilians. The series, developed by faculty adviser James Cavallaro (HLS), promoted insightful discussions on pressing social questions. Among the issues addressed were urban police violence in the context of rising criminality, women’s rights, the rights of indigenous peoples, as well as socio-economic rights. Panels featured leading scholars and human rights activists such as Oded Grajew, former Advisor to President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva; Peter Houtzager, of the University of Sussex; Ignacio Cano, of the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro; as well as Edward Telles, from the University of California, Los Angeles. Building on the consortium funded by the U.S. Department of Education and Brazil’s Ministry of Education, the Center welcomed four Brazilian students to Harvard for an exchange program, administered in conjunction with the University of Notre Dame, Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC). The Center welcomes Kenneth Maxwell, former Director of Latin American Studies, and Tomás Amorim, former Director of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the Council on Foreign Relations, to the DRCLAS community for the new academic year, ensuring the continued growth of Brazilian Studies at the Center. Clémence Jouët-Pastré Co-Chair, Brazilian Studies Committee Senior Preceptor in Portuguese Department of Romance Languages & Literatures (FAS) Cuban Studies and Exchange Program During 2003-2004, the Center’s Cuban Studies and Exchange Program remained steadfast in its promotion of endeavors that examine pressing economic, social, cultural and political issues for Cuba. The guidance of the Cuban Studies Committee and the financial support from the Ford Foundation and Christopher Reynolds Foundation enabled increased development of the study of Cuba and U.S.-Cuban relations across a wide spectrum of disciplines at Harvard. This year, the Committee launched its first yearlong Cuba Seminar Series, fora presented by faculty, students and Cuban visiting scholars to discuss topics ranging from patent and trademark policies to student thesis projects. The Fall 2003 Corporate Partners Program, Doing Business with Cuba: Today and Tomorrow, examined future endeavors between the two countries. In addition, the Center hosted three Cuban Visiting Scholars in the fields of law, health economics, and biology. In collaboration with the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the Centro de Investigaciones Psicológicas y Sociológicas, the Center organized a two-part comparative forum with senior Cuban and American scholars on Poverty and Social Policy in Cuba: Addressing the Challenges of Social and Economic Change. With a focus on public policy, the forum, held in April 2003 in Cambridge and in January 2004 in Havana, engaged academics in a discussion of data-based papers on economic and social policy making, poverty and inequality in particular, and key service delivery challenges in the core of the Cuban welfare state — education, housing, public health and social services. A new volume examining the strengths and weaknesses in Cuba’s economy and overall development trajectory, The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century (edited by Jorge I. Domínguez, Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva and Lorena Barberia) will be launched at the Latin American Studies Association’s International Congress in October 2004. In public health and medicine, the Cuban Studies and Exchange Program is actively collaborating with Cuba’s Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK) on projects concerning AIDS, tuberculosis, and dengue. HMS faculty members Arachu Castro, Paul Farmer, and Michael Starnbach, and HSPH Professor John David are working with the IPK on joint research projects and teaching activities. Arachu Castro also is organizing the workshop Resource Allocation Practices in the Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean, with support from the Ford Foundation and the Pan American Health Organization. This workshop seeks to engage policymakers and scholars in narrowing the existing finance gap for AIDS programs in the Caribbean, the region outside sub-Saharan Africa most affected by this pandemic. Arachu Castro Chair, Cuban Studies and Exchange Committee Instructor in Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine (HMS) Cuban Short-Term Visiting Scholars Dánice de la C. Vázquez De Alvaré, Universidad de la Habana Research Topic: Trademark law & the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School Alicia Reyes Jiménez, Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kourí Research Topic: HIV/AIDS Resource Allocation in Cuba Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Vivian Kourí Cardella, Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kourí Research Topic: Genotypes of Kaposi’s Sarcoma associated Herpes Virus in Cuba New England Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu 5
Inter-Faculty Committee on Latino Studies The Center established the Inter-Faculty Committee on Latino Studies (IFCLAS) in 1999 to bring together faculty engaged in the study of Latin American immigration and communities of Latin American descent in the United States. For the past few years, IFCLAS has worked to ensure the development of research and teaching on Latino Studies at Harvard. IFCLAS has two established initiatives: the inter-disciplinary seminar series and the annual undergraduate thesis competition. The IFCLAS Spring Speaker Series, Paradox or Promise: Inter-disciplinary Perspectives on Latino Health, was led by the newest IFCLAS faculty member, Professor Dolores Acevedo-García from the School of Public Health. The series provided an inter-disciplinary forum to explore the debates central to the Latino Health Paradoxes Conference. This year’s IFCLAS Annual Thesis Award honored two undergraduate seniors from the Program in Social Studies whose theses exemplified the high level of scholarship produced at Harvard in Latino Studies: Rachel Sarah Bloomekatz, for Latino Immigrants in the United States South: A Study of Local Health Organizations Mediating Immigrant Incorporation in Morristown, Tennessee, and Maribel Hernández Rivera, for A Citizenship of Aliens: The Case of Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles. IFCLAS partnered with the Harvard student organization Concilio Latino to sponsor the first-ever Latino Studies Student Research Symposium. Countering the perception that scholarship related to Latinos is only generated in the humanities, many of Harvard’s professional schools were represented in the program, and over 60 participants attended the event. Faculty members served as panel moderators of this event and worked closely with organizers to ensure quality and academic rigor. IFCLAS led and participated in a variety of activities in partnership with other academic institutions, community groups and student organizations, culminating in the conference, A Gathering of Voices: Latino Studies and Pedagogies for Building Community, held at Tufts University in May 2004. The event provided scholars in this discipline the opportunity to exchange information about programs and resources relevant to Latinos. Organizers fostered dialogues about the following topics: the Introductory Course, performance and aesthetics, working with Latino children in schools, familyteacher relations, bilingual learning, Latino Studies programs, and university-community cooperation. A consensus developed that the Latino population will play an increasingly important role in the United States. Attesting to Harvard’s enormous convening power, the event was an unprecedented collaboration of more than fifteen area institutions and over 100 individual participants engaged in teaching or research related to Latinos. Planning for the creation of a Greater Boston Latino Studies Consortium is underway. David Carrasco Chair, Inter-Faculty Committee on Latino Studies Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America (FAS) 6 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Mexican Studies Program The DRCLAS Mexican Studies Program contributes to the understanding of past and contemporary issues in Mexico, ranging from development, economics and politics, to culture, literature and art. The Program fosters greater awareness of Harvard faculty and student research and provides support for existing and new Harvard projects on Mexico. This year, the Mexican Studies Committee organized two symposia to highlight Harvard faculty research on Mexico. In the Fall 2003 Symposium, William Fash shared the surprising results of recent excavations at the Xalla Compound of Teotihuacán, Fernando Reimers explored how teaching quality matters even more to students who are the first in their families to attend school, and John Coatsworth examined why the Mexican economy is still highly influenced by the ideas of nationalism, despite the fact that the PRI political party lost the 2000 presidential elections. The Spring 2004 Symposium featured presentations by medical specialist Jody Heymann on working families in Mexico, anthropologist David Carrasco on the reading and interpretation of a 16th-century Aztec Codex, and biologist James Hanken on the unique amphibians in Mexico. The Fall Symposium was video-transmitted to the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) campus in Mexico. During the past academic year, the relationship between the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and ITESM intensified on an important project to strengthen ITESM’s Master in Public Administration and Public Policy Program. As part of this initiative, Merilee Grindle and Mary Hilderbrand organized an executive program for Mexican local, state and federal government officials at the KSG. Additionally, the Center hosted more than a dozen public events and conferences on Mexico ranging from talks on innovations in the oil industry by former general director of PEMEX, Adrián Lajous, to discussions of the country’s electoral reforms by former President of the Federal Electoral Institute, José Woldenberg. DRCLAS supported over 20 Mexico-related faculty initiatives throughout the University and awarded more than 20 research and internship grants to students, ranging from the study of the impact of international economic law on domestic legal regimes to research on the glycemic index of Mexican tortillas. Six of the eleven doctoral students who were DRCLAS-appointed Graduate Student Associates in 2003-2004 are undertaking research focused on Mexico. DRCLAS also supported six courses focused predominantly on Mexico, and promoted another 22 courses that explore different aspects of Mexico throughout the University. The Center continues to work closely with the Fundación México en Harvard, a Mexico City-based foundation created by Harvard alumni that promotes opportunities and provides funding for Mexicans to conduct graduate study and post-doctoral research at Harvard. This year’s two Antonio Madero/Fundación México Visiting Scholars played an important role in the academic life of the Center. Soledad Loaeza, Professor of Politics at El Colegio de México, developed a research project on the presidency of Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, and Orlandina de Oliveira, Professor of Sociology at El Colegio de México, engaged in comparative research on gender relations in urban areas of Mexico and Brazil. Merilee Grindle Chair, Mexican Studies Committee Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development (KSG) DRCLAS Regional Office The David Rockefeller Center is part of a bold institutional experiment for Harvard University. In August 2002, Harvard established its first office outside of the United States as a three-year pilot project with a mission to serve all parts of the University in promoting the work that Harvard wants to do in a region of the world. Located in Santiago, Chile, the DRCLAS Regional Office is designed to enhance opportunities for Harvard faculty to carry out their research and collaborative projects, as well as to expand opportunities for Harvard students studying, working or doing research in the five countries served by the Regional Office: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Uruguay. As part of Lawrence Summers’ first trip to Latin America as President of Harvard, he visited Chile on March 30, 2004, to meet with senior policy makers as well as Harvard faculty, students and alumni, and to give a major public address at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. During the 2003-2004 academic year, the DRCLAS Regional Office organized four Harvard international conferences and more than 20 public events in the region, with another 23 events for Harvard students. The office also hosted 18 Harvard faculty members and staff who were developing new or existing projects. Working closely with Harvard’s Office of International Programs, the Regional Office pioneered the University’s first term-time study abroad program. During the 2003-2004 academic year, the number of Harvard students participating in this study abroad program tripled from four to twelve. The Regional Office also joined with the Harvard Medical School (HMS) to establish a new two-month program in Intensive Spanish and International Service Learning in Santiago for HMS students. The Regional Office collaborated with the Harvard School of Public Health to launch a new three-week winter course on Public Health Policy Reform in Chile in January 2004. From July 2003 to June 2004, more than 80 Harvard students participated in academic programs, internship or research opportunities in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Uruguay. The Regional Office has also worked closely with Harvard alumni organizations in the region. Activities connected with the Regional Office vary widely, from Harvard astronomers studying the stars atop the Andes with some of the world’s most powerful telescopes in the world, to Harvard architects and urban planners designing innovative low-cost housing. The May-June 2004 issue of Harvard Magazine profiled this work in an eight-page article on Tying Knots: Glimpsing Global Harvard in Chile. This DRCLAS Regional Office experiment in Santiago also raises an important set of questions about the future of internationalization at Harvard. As the Regional Office completes its two-year anniversary, there is a formal review planned to help determine the future status of the Office beyond its initial three-year mandate. In the process, it may also help define some of the ways that Harvard can have an impact in the world and bring back those experiences most successfully to the University. Art Initiatives This year, the M. Victor Leventritt Latin American Art Lecture Series, organized by Mary Schneider Enríquez in collaboration with the Harvard University Art Museums, featured four lectures related to Latin American Art. Renato Gonzalez Mello, professor of Art History at the Universidad Autónoma de México, lectured on The Language of Mexican Muralists. In December 2003, Brooklyn Museum of Art Curator Emeritus Diana Fane discussed Mexican Featherwork on Display, from Aztec Ceremonies to the Twenty-first Century. The Series also featured Rita Eder, Professor of Art History, Visual Arts, and Theory at the University of British Columbia, who lectured on Melancholy and Politics: Representing the Nation and the Mexican School of Painting. Ramón Mujica Pinilla, Art Historian from Universidad de San Marcos in Lima, Peru, concluded the Series with the lecture Medieval and Renaissance Survivals in the Baroque Art of Viceregal Peru. The Center joined the University Art Museums in welcoming Persian painting expert Thomas W. Lentz as the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums. Lentz expressed a strong interest in promoting the development of Latin American Art at Harvard. A distinguished curator and institutional leader, Lentz is former Director of the International Art Museums division at the Smithsonian, where he oversaw four institutions: the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York; the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; and the National Museum of African Art. Art Forum This year marked the consolidation of the Art Forum as an active player in the Boston art scene and one of the leading venues for Latino and Latin American emerging artists in the United States. The 2003- 2004 Art Forum Contest received 98 portfolios, from which two artists were chosen to display their work at DRCLAS. During the fall of 2003, New York-based Uruguayan artist Rosalía Bermúdez transformed the DRCLAS building into a museum of remembrance with her 3-D installation, Code- Switching, which was received with enthusiasm by the press. During the spring of 2004, Colombian master photographer Jorge Mario Múnera exhibited a 52-print retrospective, spanning three decades of his career, documenting the different facets of his violence-ridden country. Portraits of an Invisible Country has become, already, a landmark for the Art Forum, as it will be the first DRCLAScurated exhibition to travel overseas, to Berlin, during the spring of 2005. It also marked the first time an artist exhibiting at the Center remained in residence. Mr. Múnera worked for a week with the Colombian community of East Boston in a photographic project entitled Transfiguraciones Bostonianas that will be presented in December 2004 in Bogota. In addition to these two major exhibitions, Art Forum was an active collaborator in the Made in Mexico exhibition at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, in which several DRCLAS jury members served as consultants to the curator. Exhibits Code-Switching by Rosalía Bermúdez (Uruguay/USA) September 2003 – January 2004, Installation/Photography Portraits of an Invisible Country by Jorge Mario Múnera (Colombia) February – June 2004, Photography http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu 7
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