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A new film tells the story of Dartmouth students who worked to change existing Library of Congress subject terminology describing undocumented immigrants.
[more]This event convened a panel of experts to discuss the upcoming October 2022 federal elections in Brazil, arguably one of the most pressing elections of modern contemporary Latin American politics. In 2018, Brazilians elected the far-right Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. Bolsonaro's election represented the most serious challenge to Brazil's democracy since the restoration of civilian rule in 1985 after over two decades of military dictatorship (1964-85). In conjunction with Bolsonaro's sustained weakening of democratic institutions and norms, his presidency has seen record deforestation of the Amazon, rising violence against Afro-Brazilians, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ persons, and a troubled response against the COVID-19 pandemic in which Bolsonaro spread misinformation about vaccines. His main opponent is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores), the former trade union leader and president of Brazil (2003-10), whose previous imprisonment on corruption charges based on flimsy evidence preemptively ended his 2018 presidential campaign. The current election promises to be no less dramatic and our panel of experts will address a complex, highly fluid situation whose implications extend beyond Brazil and will engage anyone interested in the global rise of right-wing authoritarian populists, climate change, and the potential redux of the 2000s "Pink Tide" of leftist leaders across Latin America.
You can view the recording here: Precarious Democracy recording
A new film tells the story of Dartmouth students who worked to change existing Library of Congress subject terminology describing undocumented immigrants.
[more]The Oscars generate annual interest in Hollywood, and Desiree Garcia and other Dartmouth professors weighed in on their favorites for the statuette this year: The Envelope Please In conjunction with the HOP, LALACS will host the only Upper Valley screening of Roma on April 7 at 7PM. Speaking
[more]The following faculty have published or won awards for their work and scholarship in LALACS: Garcia, Desiree. “Ramona in the City: Mexican Los Angeles, Dolores Del Rio, and the Remaking of a Mythic Story” an essay in Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles: Origins to 1960.(Rutgers, Feburary 2019) Edited by Colin Gunckel, Jan-Christopher Horak, Lisa Jarvinen Contributions by Jacqueline Avila, Alstair Tremps, Viviana García Besné, Desirée J. Garcia, Nina Hoechtl
[more]Darlyn Rodriguez Hayes is a Senior Attorney at Microsoft, currently supporting the Universal Store teams delivering storefronts, infrastructure, code signing, distribution and security capabilities.
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