NAVARRO AWARDED LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Professor Emerita Marysa Navarro has been awarded the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) lifetime achievement award at the International Congress in Lima, Peru, on April 30, 2017.
[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
Professor Emerita Marysa Navarro has been awarded the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) lifetime achievement award at the International Congress in Lima, Peru, on April 30, 2017.
[more]Refused admission by public universities and unable to get funding from private ones, aspiring students find another way. Pamela Voekl, Dartmouth Professor of History and the Series Editor of Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism (Columbia University Press), is featured in the New Yorker piece on education opportunities for undocumented immigrants.
[more]Please visit the following link for a list of departments at Dartmouth that serve undocumented students and DACA recipients. For more information on any of these services, please consult the links.
[more]Elias D. Krell is the 2016-2017 César Chávez Fellow. Krell is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University.
[more]LALACS faculty unanimously urged President Hanlon to reaffirm this institutional commitment to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Students, regardless of whatever changes in immigration policy might come about.
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