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Paraguay Post-Pandemic (English & Spanish)
This summer, our DukeEngage+ student research team (+ because it includes a stellar undergraduate from Swarthmore) researched the question of how Paraguay could take meaningful steps to tackle the COVID-19 crisis and transition to a post-pandemic reality. Here you can read more about our work, in both English & Spanish.
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Interview (Spanish): El Caso Itaipú en Paraguay4Export
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Looking for Itaipú Post 2023 & the work we’ve been doing on Energy + Paraguay? Click here.
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Beyond Perceptions: Innovation, Creativity & the Harvard Paraguay Conference 2019
Showcasing the best of Paraguayan creativity and rethinking urbanism, agriculture, and technology: Paraguay’s young people take the stage at Harvard University.
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International Research Travel with an Infant
I’m an anthropologist. Almost by definition that means I travel a lot for research. And, to be completely honest, that’s not incidental… it’s one of the reasons I was drawn to this life. But this year, it’s different. Unlike the dozens of previous research trips I’ve taken, this summer we have a little one of…
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The Unlikely Jazz Capital: Asunción
Hundreds of people sit on the street every week in the hottest jazz capital. New York? Rio? Paris? No. Asunción, Paraguay. Never in my life have I ever seen a jazz scene so insistently popular as in Asuncíon. Taxi drivers, street kids, college students, urban professionals. Armed with yerba mate to ward off the cold…
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Blessed are the pacified? Reflections on Rio de Janeiro.
Babilônia, where I am staying in Rio de Janeiro, boasts enviable views of the Atlantic and Copacabana. Though half of the paint has been scraped off the mural, enough of the words remain to make out the slogan underneath the police patrol post next door to me: “Bienaventurados os pacificadores, porque serão chamados filhos de…
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Collecting Soil, Memorializing a History We Shouldn’t Forget
Soil collection as a way to memorialize a history we shouldn’t forget. This past Saturday, I took part in a project convened by the Equal Justice Initiative to collect soil from one of 363 documented lynching sites in Alabama. More than 4000 people were lynched in the South between the end of the Civil War…
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On the pleasures of teaching Borges’ “On Exactitude in Science” to students
Hi Dr. Folch, We can only see the first page of the document in the uploaded resources. It’s just the dedication page. Would you mind re-uploading the full one? Thank you! —redacted—
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Christine Folch 