Author: Juan P Acevedo

Juan P Acevedo

  • 60 Years After the Coup: A History of the Brazilian Communist Party – Jean Rodrigues Sales

    FEBRUARY 15 6:00 PM – SKYLIGHT ROOM IN-PERSON AND LIVESTREAM EVENT. Jean Rodrigues (Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) analyzes the history of the Brazilian Communist Party from its beginnings in 1962 to its arrival in power in 2002. Through a bibliographic approach on the history of communist parties and Brazilian left wing movements…

  • 34 & 5 Podcast: Karen Graubart’s Republics of Difference

    In this episode, Lidia Hernández Tapia talks with Professor Karen Graubart, author of Republics of Difference: Religious and Racial Self-Governance in the Spanish Atlantic World (Oxford University Press, 2022). Doctor Graubart, a historian specializing in race, gender, and law in colonial Latin America and the Iberian Atlantic, unpacks her latest findings on how marginalized communities,…

  • DISABILITY AND PUBLIC SPACE. A way to understand the social production of space

    Tuesday, Dec 5, 2023. 6:00pmRoom 9207 Pedro Javier Jaramillo Cruz is a professor at the University of Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano in the Architecture and Habitat School. Since 1997, following a strong car accident that he suffered, his practice has been oriented towards the problematization of the relationship between physical space and people with disabilities.…

  • Paquito D’ Rivera The Legend

    In this episode, CLACLS Associate Director, Mila Burns, talks to musician and composer Paquito D’Rivera. Born in Cuba in 1948, he has won a combined 11 Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards. Although we tend to associate him to Latin Jazz, it is hard to put him in a box. Paquito D’Rivera recorded more than 30…

  • How Can We Solve the Border Crisis?

    IN-PERSON AND LIVESTREAM EVENT. What can be done to alleviate the chaos and human suffering at the U.S.-Mexico border? Without comprehensive immigration reform by Congress, what actions can the Biden administration take to create safe and legal pathways for asylum seekers? A panel of experts discusses creative solutions to America’s immigration crisis, and how to…