Author: Juan P Acevedo

Juan P Acevedo

  • 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,…

  • Cuba/Mexico, Mexico/Cuba Una Conversación con Rafael Rojas

    MARCH 28 6:00PM – 8:00 PM | SKYLIGHT ROOM 9100 GRADUATE CENTER CUNY El Cuban Studies Group y el Mexican Studies Group de la City University of New York (CUNY) se complacen en invitarles a un conversatorio con el destacado historiador y ensayista Rafael Rojas. Este evento cuenta con el apoyo de CLACLS y será…

  • 34 & 5 Podcast: The History of the Brazilian Communist Party

    In this interview (in Portuguese) CLACLS Associate Director, Mila Burns talks with Jean Rodrigues (Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) about the history of the Brazilian Communist Party from its beginnings in 1962 to its arrival in power in 2002. Through a bibliographic approach to the history of communist parties and Brazilian left-wing movements,…

  • Book Presentation: Lanallwe with Ángeles Donoso Macaya

    APRIL 10 | 6:00-9:00 PM ROOM 9205 CUNY, GRADUATE CENTER 365 FIFTH AVENUE EVENT IN SPANISH – EVENTO EN ESPAÑOL   Lanallwe is an autobiographical essay. Drawing from a collection of inherited instant photos, the narrator attempts to reconstruct the history, or her own history, of the house on Lake Lanallwe, where she spent summers…