Author: Juan P Acevedo

Juan P Acevedo

  • CLACLS 2024 Open House

    OCTOBER 8, 2024 3:00 PM | ROOM 5419 CLACLS, GRADUATE CENTER CUNY

  • Soul by Soul

    The Evangelical Mission to Spread the Gospel to Muslims SEPTEMBER 17, 2024 6:00 PM | SEGAL THEATRE, GRADUATE CENTER CUNY A journey through the fault lines of contemporary religious wars US-born Protestant evangelicalism has gone global to an extent of which many of us might be unaware. This book tells the story of Americans’ colossal…

  • 34 & 5 Podcast: Colombia, a Wound that Won’t Heal

    Welcome to 34th & 5th from the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at the Graduate Center CUNY. In this episode, our staff member Fátima Vélez had a conversation with Sara Tufano, a Colombian feminist sociologist on her book ‘Colombia: A Wound That Won’t Heal.’ She presented it at our center last week.…

  • The South American Sex Wars: A Retrospective on Moral Battles Surrounding LGBTQI+ Rights in Brazil and Argentina

    MAY 6, 2024 6:00 PM | ROOM 9205, GRADUATE CENTER CUNY Since the 2000s, various countries in Latin America, including Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Chile, and Brazil, have enacted measures to combat LGBTIphobia through policies and legislation. These initiatives have been spurred by both pressure from social movements and the adoption of recommendations from international agencies.…

  • The Militarization of Rio de Janeiro and the vigilantes

    APRIL 2, 2024 6:00 PM | ROOM 9225, GRADUATE CENTER CUNY The city of Rio de Janeiro has been marked historically by different expressions of violence: The state through massive incarceration of black and racialized people, and/or the systematic extermination of black poor people from favelas through urban policing operations by security and armed forces,…