What Happened in the Dressing Room?
LALACS Assoc. Prof. Desiree Garcia's video essay explores early cinema's fascination with backstage space and the relationship between interiority and the archive.
[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
LALACS Assoc. Prof. Desiree Garcia's video essay explores early cinema's fascination with backstage space and the relationship between interiority and the archive.
[more]Garcia's book "The Movie Musical" reflects on the roles of musicals, escapism, and their role in the current world.
[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]“Students created their own version of JR’s border wall installation in commemoration of having spent the term learning about and complicating the idea of the border and borderlands”, reports Desiree Garcia.
[more]Desiree Garcia speaks about the renewed popularity and potential financial returns of musicals on stage and on film.
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