Tobias Choyt '24 receives Fulbright
LALACS major Tobias Choyt '24 is the recipient of a Fulbright to study grazing in Uruguay in 2024-2025
[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 major Tobias Choyt '24 is the recipient of a Fulbright to study grazing in Uruguay in 2024-2025
[more]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]Dartmouth Art History Lecture Series Tania Braguera will be giving a public talk on Monday, March 4th at 4:30 @Carpenter Hall 013 The installation and performance artist Tania Bruguera (born 1968 in Havana, Cuba) researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life, focusing on the transformation of social affect into political effectiveness. Her long-term projects have been intensive interventions on the insititutional structure of collective memory, education and politics.
[more]Congratulations to Professor Analola Santana winner of a 2023-2024 Hopkins Center Arts Integration Initiative Grant! An initiative to support arts-centric research, incubate interdisciplinary projects and advance faculty-student mentorship.
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