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• Created 20 April 2011; Published 22 December 2011
  Is Cuba on the Cusp of a New Social Contract?

  Marifeli Pérez-Stable, professor of sociology at Florida International University and Vice President for Democratic Governance at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, D.C. is our fourht annual Wynia Memorial lecturer.  Prof. Pérez-Stable is an internationally recognized expert on Cuban politics and society.

• Created 11 May 2010; Published 26 May 2010
  No Country for Leftists? Clientelist Continuity and the 2006 Vote in the Brazilian Northeast

  Presenter: Alfred Montero, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Latin American Studies

  Professor Al Montero presents his Brazil research in the Athenaeum at Carleton College.

• Created 17 April 2010; Published 29 April 2010
  Foro Latinoamericano 2010: Roundtable Discussion - The Neoliberal Agenda Reconsidered

  Foro guest speakers, faculty, and students discuss the Neoliberal Agenda in Latin America

• Created 17 April 2010; Published 29 April 2010
  Foro Latinoamericano 2010: Moises Arce - Inequality and Extra-parliamentary Politics in an Era of Democracy

  Moises Arce
  Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri. He received his Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of New Mexico. His primary research interests are
  in the areas of the politics of market transitions and contentious politics. His current research examines the changing basis of antigovernment mobilizations against economic liberalization in Latin America. He is the author of Market Reform in Society (Penn State, 2005) and several articles in leading journals of political science.

• Created 17 April 2010; Published 29 April 2010
  Foro Latinoamericano 2010: James McGuire - Politics, Policy, and Mortality Decline in Chile: The Pinochet Paradox

  James McGuire
  James W. McGuire is professor in the Department of Government at Wesleyan University. He specializes in comparative politics with a regional focus on Latin America and East Asia and a topical focus on democracy and public health. He is the author of Peronism without Perón: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina (Stanford, 1997) and of Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America (Cambridge, 2010). Professor McGuire is a recipient of Wesleyan's Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

• Created 16 April 2010; Published 29 April 2010
  Foro Latinoamericano 2010: Janice Perlman - Four Decades of Living on the Edge: The Favelas in Rio de Janeiro

  Janice Perlman
  Janice Perlman’s book, FAVELA: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro, has just been published by Oxford University Press. She has received Guggenheim, Fulbright and C. Wright Mills Awards. She is Founder and President of Mega-Cities, a global non-profit sharing urban innovations. She was a professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley and has taught at the Fundacao Getulio Vargas, IBAM and Federal University in Rio de Janeiro.

• Created 19 February 2010; Published 28 April 2010
  Eduardo Silva talk: Challenging Neoliberalism in Latin America

  2010 Gary Wynia Memorial Lecture:

  
  Professor G. Eduardo Silva, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science: Research Fellow, Center for International Studies is the 2010 Gary Wynia Memorial Lecturer. "Challenging Neoliberalism in Latin America"