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Álvarez will discuss Latin America's "turn to the Left", with a focus on anti-neoliberal movements, especially those linked to the World Social Forum and to U.S. Latina/o movements. Dr. Alvarez is Director of Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the author of "Engendering Democracy in Brazil: Women's Movements in Transition Politics" (Princeton UP, 1990). She was a Program Officer in Rights and Social Justice for the Brazil Office of the Ford Foundation from 1993 to 1996 and is currently on national and international boards of editorial board of "Latin American Politics and Society," "Political Geography," "Bulletin of Latin American Research," and "Revista de Estudios Feministas."
This event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Institute, the Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Institute, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
For more information, please contact latinamerica@uconn.edu or Prladm02@uconn.edu or call 860-486-3997 or (860)486-4964.
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