Upcoming Events
Pre-Texts Internship Summer 2021
Cultural Agents is starting a new remote internship program for Summer 2021 where Harvard undergrads are trained as facilitators of Pre-Texts, and are then paired with a host organization to collaborate. We’d like to gather as much information as we can on possible internship partners and begin student outreach at Harvard.
If you are interested in becoming a host, please fill out this interest form by January 1st, 2021. There will be more information to come in the next few weeks.
#Luiss.MasterClasses – Intersections
#Luiss.MasterClasses – Intersections is a new series of webinars organized by the LUISS Guido Carli University and dedicated to a serious reflection on the intersections that exist between various disciplines, cultures, and fields.
The third meeting features Luca Guadagnino, Film Director, Writer and Producer and Doris Sommer Ira Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. Introduction and moderation by Luiss Rector Andrea Prencipe.
The event will be held in English and streamed live on Luiss Social TV.
More information here.
Pabellón Araucanía
Cultural Agents, Inc. has been invited by the Universidad Mayor de Chile to propose, together with a number of local artists and poets, an exhibition for 2022 that will help promote and develop a culture of democracy in the region at the Pabellón Araucanía in Temuco, Chile.
Designed by renowned architects Cristián Undurraga and Sebastián Mallea, and built originally for the “Expo Milan 2015”, the pavilion was then later relocated in the capital of the Region of the Araucania in 2018, with the purpose of fostering fair trade commerce for small producers of the region. As it is well known, the region has been a contested space for centuries, as it has been the traditional territory of the Mapuche culture since pre-hispanic times. Since then, starting with the Spanish in the Colonial period, a number of immigrant “colonias” have ended up moving to the region, transforming it now to a unique but socially volatile patchwork of communities coexisting precariously together. For this reason, the invitation to propose an exhibition at the Pavilion not only represents an opportunity to reach new audiences but, most importantly, it presents us with the urgent task to contribute in forging a much needed democratic culture in the region—one which could help overcome the collective mistrust and perennial animosity among them.
Revista Brasileira de Extensão Universitária
The Brazilian Journal of University Extension will publish in the next few weeks the first article of a group of Brazilian universities in collaboration with Harvard and MIT. The professors and researchers involved share the challenge of co-creating projects, programs and strategies with communities. One example is the Little Hearts Program which started in Brazil in 2014 and aims to innovate in learning strategies similar to the Pre-Texts methodology.
International Summit on Domestic/Family Violence during the COVID-19 Era
From November 18 to 20, 2020, the NGO Alliance on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at the United Nation Headquarters held a three-day international summit on Domestic and Family Violence during the Covid-19 era. The summit was an urgent and global response to what has been described as the Shadow Pandemic of the Covid-19 era. Rates of violence in the family setting have skyrocketed in many countries since the beginning of Covid-19 this past March. It is essential to provide more information to the public on the effects that Covid-19 has had on domestic violence, sharing the voices of victims and survivors, and allowing experts to propose ideas for solutions. You can find more information here.
Sign the declaration to end domestic violence here.
Check out the many exciting events that were held around the world in November and early December 2020!
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