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Documentary Screening: El Doble Secuestro de Sigifredo López
MAY 7, 2026 6:30 PM | SEGAL THEATRE GRADUATE CENTER CUNY, 365 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK CITY. The documentary “The Double Kidnapping of Sigifredo Lopez” tells the shocking story of the 12 deputies from Valle del Cauca who were kidnapped by the FARC-EP in 2002, and the only person who survived: Sigifredo Lopez. After being…
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Book Launch: Atusparia
APRIL 28, 2026 7 PM | SKYLIGHT ROOM GRADUATE CENTER CUNY, 365 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK CITY. Gabriela Wiener in conversation with Ángeles Donoso Macaya, and Fátima Vélez Atusparia (2024) tells the story of a leftist militant who ends up imprisoned in a high-security facility in the Amazon after becoming a victim of lawfare.The protagonist…
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Book Launch: Caught in the Current
APRIL 27, 2026 6:30 PM | ROOM 9205 GRADUATE CENTER CUNY, 365 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK CITY. The book tells an unfamiliar story: Mexico trying—and spectacularly failing—to control emigration to the United States. Across four decades, Mexican officials imposed moratoriums, launched “stay-at-home” campaigns, clashed violently with their own citizens at the border, and experimented with…
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Migration as Punishment: Transimperial Grammars of Displacement in the Atlantic World
APRIL 13, 2026 6:00 PM | SKYLIGHT ROOM GRADUATE CENTER CUNY, 365 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK CITY. This presentation examines penal reform and colonial expansion in the nineteenth-century Atlantic through two cases: deportations from prisons in Germany to Brazil and transportation from an English Reformatory to Natal (today’s South Africa). Drawing on archives from three…
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Event: The Political Economy of Welfare in Latin America
APRIL 24, 2026 3:00 PM | SOCIOLOGY LOUNGE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY – 365 FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK NY 10016 This innovative book analyses the hurdles preventing Latin American governments from implementing universalist welfare regimes. Juan Cruz Ferre presents a unique quantitative analysis of the persistent inequalities in welfare policy across this region including a three-dimensional…
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