EVENT SUMMARY · It’s Not 30 Pesos, It’s 30 Years Protest Graphics in Chile
On March 5th, The Observatory on Latin America organized a panel with Terri Gordon, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at The New School and Eric Zolov, Associate Professor of Latin American history at Stony Brook University, to discuss the graphic protests...
Event Summary · Seminar “A Green New Deal to Latin America: challenges to Brazil”
This month Jaques Wagner, current Brazilian Senator and former Governor of the state of Bahia, joined Stephanie Kelton, Senior Economic Advisor to the Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign, and Randall Wray, Senior Scholar at the Levy Institute, and Daniel Aldana...
Event Summary · BRAZIL 2020: Politics and Economics
This month, Nelson Barbosa (former Brazilian Minister of Finance under Dilma Rousseff and New School alumni, Economics Ph.D. in 2002) offered a series of lectures and conversations in the university. The Observatory on Latin America hosted him on December 11th, 2019,...
Event Summary · CALLE K Documentary Screening
In 1978, the Moser family (Caroline, her then husband Brian, and two sons Titus -8- and Nathaniel -5-) went to live for a year in the Indio Guayas squatter settlement in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Like everyone else in the neighborhood, they built a wooden house on stilts,...
Environmental Conflicts in the Digital Public Space. Demands Concerning Streams and Natural Reserves in the South of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires
Authors: Margarita Gutman, Javier Nesprias, Ximena Puppoo Link: https://area.fadu.uba.ar/wp-content/uploads/AREA2601/2601_gutman_et_al.pdf Summary: This article presents an analysis of a set of demands for environmental conflicts related to five large...
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