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CULTURAL AGENTS SEMINAR SERIES
The Cultural Agents Series focuses our attention on how cultural activists and engaged humanists reflect on the relationship between aesthetic and political effects, i.e. How cultural agents contribute positive change through the arts and humanities.

2008
Aula Verde: Recycle Crime into Ecological Entrepreneurship
Marco Abarca
February 2008

2007
Lava la Bandera
Gustavo Buntinx
October 2007

Rise and Development of CADA and Huayco
Paulina Wendt, Gustavo Buntinx, Gabriela Rangel, Nicolas Guagnini
October 2007

In Lieu of Modernity: The Works of Alexander Apostol
Alexander Apostol
October 2007

Militant Happiness in Argentina
Robert Jacoby
October 2007

Recasting Reconciliation through Culture and the Arts
Cynthia Cohen
March 2007

Recycle Paper and Prose: Bookmaking with Literary Variations
Milagros Saldarriaga
March 2007

Panel: ¡CULTURES IN THE AIR!: The Multiple Voices of Native Radio in the Americas
February 2007

2006
Estampas del Caribe Colombiano en el Medio Siglo pasado
Nereo López Meza
November 2006

Youth and Music for a Change
Madeleine Steczynski (Zumix).
September 2006
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

CULTURAL AND HUMANITARIAN SEMINAR SERIES
The Humanities Center provides a locus for interdisciplinary discussions among Harvard faculty, faculty from other area institutions, graduate students, undergraduates, and the public.
Creative Empowerment of Marginalized Youth in Refugee Camps: Experiences and Lessons from the West Bank
Nidal al-Azraq and Nitin Sawhney
October 26, 2009

Equality in Difference: Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre, Lebanon
Professor Hashim Sarkis
April 22, 2009

"Brother Plan Program" Art As a Tool for Social Engagement: Children Surviving Land Mines in Colombia
Alvaro Jimenez
March 9, 2009

RELATED SEMINARS

Colombian Youth Dance Group: Culture as Agency
Miguel Vargas and Claudia Pineda present the work of Bajucol, Ballet Folklorico Juvenil Colombiano.
November 19

The Gatekeeper
John Carlos Frey

The Americas
Doris Sommer

2009
Washington Cucurto at Art Forum
Washington Cucurto
October 2009

Current Situation of the Indigenous Mapuche in Chile and Argentina
Elías Paillan Coñoepan
March 2009

2008
Indigenous Politics and Community Radio from Native New England and Beyond
J. Kehaulani Kauanui
November 2008

“I am thinking, I am remembering”: The Yuyachkani Theatre Collective Group – Workshop and Talk
October 2008

2007
Recasting Reconciliation through Culture and the Arts
March 7, 2007

2006
Youth and Music for a Change: Zumix
Madeleine Steczynski
Director of Zumix
September 29, 2006

2005
Terapia de Arte para ninos maltratados. Sociedad y Arte
Alicia Campos Masso
November 17, 2005

Rethinking Borges
Sylvia Molloy
October 25, 2005

Biblioteca y libro en Colombia: Notas sobre alfabetismo y democracia
Jorge Orlando Melo
Director, Departamento de Artes y Biblioteca
Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango y Museo Botero, Banco de la República
Bogotá, Colombia
October 12, 2005

Reframing Conflict: Building Peace Through Participatory Media
Alex Fattal
April 2005

Buenos Aires in Black and White: Art as Agency
Martín Rosenthal
March 2005

Community Engagement in America
Robert Putnam
March 2005

Arte Público: Cultural Agency in Late Populism
Silvia Álvarez Curbelo
February 9, 2005

2004
The Americas
Anaida Hernández
September 2004

Mayra Santos Febres, reads from her works
April 5, 2004

2003
Augusto Boal
December 5-11, 2003

Community-Based Service Learning and the Curriculum
Paul Buckhardt and Lesley Bailey
October 20, 2003

Música, raíces, y patria nueva
José Masso
October 15, 2003

Photography in Guatemala
Nancy McGirr
Americas Seminar
October 1st, 2003