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🦐Join us next Tuesday, May 17th from 5.00 PM – 6.30 PM CDT for a screening of the film, PORT TRIUMPH, followed by a conversation with director Jeffrey Gould (IU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies). Register here: bit.ly/3FJpefK

Our 'Outlook on Brazilian Democracy' series continues next Wed. May 18th, 12.30 PM – 2.00 PM CDT with "Environment and Democracy in Brazil" featuring Nathalia Capellini, Jennifer Eaglin, Caio Pompeia, Mauricio Guetta 🌆Register here: bit.ly/3LdDwGp

🦐TOMORROW: Tuesday, May 17th from 5.00 PM – 6.30 PM CDT, join us for a film screening of PORT TRIUMPH. Followed by a conversation with director Jeffrey Gould (IU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies). 🔔Register here: bit.ly/3FJpefK

🔔Register here (bit.ly/3FJpefK) for today's 5.00 PM (CDT) film screening of PORT TRIUMPH, a finalist at the Queens World Film Festival Festival. Film followed by a conversation with director Jeffrey Gould.

🔆TODAY: bit.ly/3LdDwGp, our 'Outlook on Brazilian Democracy' series continues at 12.30 PM – 2.00 PM CDT with "Environment and Democracy in Brazil" featuring Nathalia Capellini, Jennifer Eaglin, Caio Pompeia, Mauricio Guetta Co-sponsored by the Chicago Center on Democracy

📢Next Wednesday, May 25th 12.30 PM – 1.50 PM CDT, Wlamyra Albuquerque will be in the Social Science Research Building's Tea Room (201) to discuss the experience of Manoel Querino in the period of abolition and post-abolition. 🔔Register here: bit.ly/3G2MoO5.

Our last in-person event of the year is this Wednesday, 12.30 PM – 1.50 PM CDT. Wlamyra Albuquerque will be in the Social Science Research Building to discuss the experience of Manoel Querino in the period of abolition and post-abolition 🔔Register here: bit.ly/3G2MoO5

The Polyphony of Black Experiences at the Time of Abolition Brazil youtu.be/4M2-pxyyt6Y via YouTube join us now!

ICYMI: Angela S. García & Ilana Ventura, PhD discussed their forthcoming article on the resiliency of remittances – the money and goods migrants send to their families. Watch the lecture hosted by Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) here: youtu.be/w6lXfFhGenw

Autocracy and Redistribution: The Politics of Land Reform, the award-winning book by Michael Albertus, is now available in Spanish—translated by Rodrigo Taborado. Translation made possible in part to a @uchicagocissr monograph enhancement award! 📘Find here bit.ly/3NCZzIa

🔔Today at 12.30 PM CDT, Professors Diego Gambetta and Michel Misse will be in the Social Science Research Building Room 107 discussing Organized Crime & Violence: Brazil vs Italy CLASMisseGambetta.eventbrite.com

Watch us Live! Professors Michel Misse and Diego Gambetta on Criminal Organizations and Violence - Italy vs. Brazil youtu.be/yKgZiRHjo98 via YouTube

Important! New venue Today's CLAS event "Brazil at the Crossroads: The Stakes for Democracy" will now take place at Saieh Hall for Economics, Room 203, 5757 S University Ave

🔔Today at 5.30 CT The Future of Democracy in Brazil with former President Dilma Rousseff with Simon Romero Watch the event online at: youtube.com/watch?v=eI73-B…

Our director, Benjamin Lessing encountered these two books from our CLAS affiliated faculty Larissa Brewer-García, and DSD Program Lina Britto in their Spanish translations at the Ediciones Uniandes 📚 bookstore in Bogota Colombia. What a wonderful coincidence!

I'm thrilled to host @gabriel_feltran , Joana Monteiro, and our own John Henry Murdy at our inaugural Latin American Debates lunch, on Violnece and Criminal Governance in Ecuador and Brazil. Register here: events.uchicago.edu/event/222378-v… And check out CLAS for future installments.

An interesting article from The New York Times on the role of gangs in Latin American prisons . Our faculty Director Benjamin Lessing acknowledges: “the gang is solving a problem for the government (…) gives a gang a kind of power that’s hard to measure, but is also hard to overestimate”