César Chávez Fellow Melanie Plasencia in Generations Today
"Immigration status plays a significant role in how one navigates old age," says Melanie Plasencia Cesar Chavez Fellow in Generations Today.
[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
"Immigration status plays a significant role in how one navigates old age," says Melanie Plasencia Cesar Chavez Fellow in Generations Today.
[more]Professor Matthew Garcia has been appointed to the advisory committee for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino.
[more]Nikole Hannah-Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. She has spent her career investigating racial inequality and injustice, and her reporting has earned her numerous awards.
[more]Read Professor Moreton's article "The bond that explains why some on the Christian right support Putin's war" in The Washington Post, and "The U.S. Christians Who Pray for Putin" in the Boston Review.
[more]Vanessa Castañeda, Ph.D. has been selected for the Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop hosted by the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University in May. The Mark Claster Mamolen annual Dissertation Workshop on Afro-Latin American Studies seeks to support the best doctoral dissertations on Afro-Latin American topics anywhere in the world. More information about it can be found here: https://alari.fas.harvard.edu/mark-claster-mamolen-dissertation-workshop Casteñeda is the Guarini Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies.
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