Running after Social Welfare Benefits in Brazil and Argentina

The Murphy Institute's Center for Ethics will welcome Beatriz Magaloni, Professor in Stanford University's Department of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University, as the featured speaker for the second installment of 2024's Public Lecture Series. She is also director of the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab. Her current work focuses on state repression, police, human rights, and violence, and her topic for the public lecture will center around her pathbreaking work in police violence.

Conflict over the tenure of Haitian president Jovenel Moise represents a critical moment for Haitian democratic society. The discussion brings together a panel of homegrown experts, each with a distinct disciplinary perspective, to discuss the Moise power grab, the opposition reaction, and the future of democracy in Haiti.

For more information about each of the panelists’ research and their respective institutions:

Chantalle Verna, Ph.D. (NC '96)

In this talk, Laura-Zoë Humphreys contextualizes the current 27N protest movement within a longer history of Cuban artists and intellectuals' effort to counter censorship and negotiate a new relationship between dissidents and revolutionaries and between Cubans on the island and the diaspora.

At the beginning of 2021, the Cuban economy finds itself in very precarious conditions. The presentation analyzes recent macroeconomic trends in Cuba with a focus on GDP growth, merchandise and service trade patterns, the external debt, and the country’s overall financial situation. It also identifies systemic problems and external factors that negatively affect the overall performance of the Cuban economy. On the internal front, Cuba continues to suffer from all the inefficiencies, red tape, and distortions of its state-dominated and overly centralized economy.

At the beginning of 2021, the Cuban economy finds itself in very precarious conditions. The presentation analyzes recent macroeconomic trends in Cuba with a focus on GDP growth, merchandise and service trade patterns, the external debt, and the country’s overall financial situation. It also identifies systemic problems and external factors that negatively affect the overall performance of the Cuban economy. On the internal front, Cuba continues to suffer from all the inefficiencies, red tape, and distortions of its state-dominated and overly centralized economy.

Join us for a discussion with Amalia Leguizamón and Toby Miller about resource extraction and environmental politics in Latin America. Leguizamón will be presenting her new book, Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina published by Duke University Press.

Tuesday 11/17, 2-3p CST

RVSP for Zoom link: https://bit.ly/booklaunch_soybeans

On April 5 Deborah Yashar from Princeton University will host a CIPR seminar from 4:00-6:00 pm in the Greenleaf Conference Room in the LBC, entitled: “Homicidal Ecologies: Illicit Economies and Complicit States in Latin America”                                                                                                    

On February 22 from  4:00-6:00 pm at the Greenleaf Conference Room in the LBC,  Sara Niedzwiecki from UC Santa Cruz will deliver her seminar entitled: “Uneven Social Policies: The Politics of Subnational Variation in Latin America”

On February 8, from 4:00-6:00pm at the Greenleaf Room at the LBC, Jessica Rich from Marquette University will give a CIPR seminar entitled: "State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil"