Présentations en Anglais: Struggles over Food, Fuel and Transportation in Brazil
Le vendredi 6 mars 2020, Pavillon York, A301, de 13h à 15 heures
Venez voir trois présentations en anglais sur l’histoire du Brésil
Les présentations auront lieu dans le cadre du cours GL/HIST 4630 Brazil Globalization Seminar de la prof. d’histoire Gillian McGillivray
Struggles over Food, Fuel, and Transportation in Brazil
“Overpopulation or Overconsumption? A Brazilian Scientist’s Critique of Overpopulation Discourse during the Early Cold War, 1948-1973,” Dr. Eve Buckley, author of Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil (University of North Carolina Press, 2017)
“Food and Hunger During Brazil’s Ethanol Boom, 1975-1985,” Dr. Thomas Rogers, author of The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil (University of North Carolina Press, 2010)
“Bus Rapid Transit and Rights to the City: Comparing Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba,” Dr. Bryan McCann, Georgetown University, author of several books including Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro (Duke University Press, 2013) and The Throes of Democracy: Brazil since 1989 (London: Zed Press, 2008)