Brazil LAB

Brazil on Edge: The Future of a Fractured Democracy
A Post-Election Forum
Tomorrow at 4:30PM!

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjy2ZPpxWZs

A Brazil LAB event with Ilona Szabó, Patrícia Campos Mello, and Brian Winter. Moderator: João Biehl.

Ilona Szabó is a human rights and international studies scholar. A globally recognized civic entrepreneur, Szabó is the co-founder and executive-director of Igarapé, a leading think-and-do-tank on security, climate, and development issues in the Global South. Szabó is a member of the High-Level Advisory Board of the United Nations Secretary-General. She is the author of A Defesa do Espaço Cívico (In Defense of Civic Space) and Dr**as: As Histórias que Não te Contam (Drugs: The Untold Stories), among other books.

Patrícia Campos Mello is an award-winning investigative journalist and columnist at Folha de São Paulo, Brazil premier daily newspaper. She is widely known for her fierce reporting on fake news and the illegal use of mass messaging to influence public opinion. Campos Mello is the author of the book A Máquina de Ódio (The Hate Machine). She is currently a research fellow at Columbia University.

Brian Winter is the editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly and one of Latin America’s most influential political analysts. He lived in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico as a correspondent for Reuters before taking on his current role in New York, where he is also the vice president of policy for the Americas Society and Council of the Americas. He is the author of several books, including The Accidental President of Brazil (with Fernando Henrique Cardoso).

João Biehl is Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology, Chair of the Anthropology Department, and Director of the Brazil LAB at Princeton University.

Co-organized with the School of Public and International Affairs.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Program in Latin American Studies, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

São Paulo: Governing the Brazilian Megacity
Benjamin Bradlow, Associate Research Scholar, Department of Sociology
November 4 | 12PM | 144 Louis A. Simpson

A Brazil LAB lunch talk with Benjamin Bradlow (Princeton). Discussant: José Lira.

Benjamin Bradlow is an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University and a Lecturer in Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs. Before arriving at Princeton, Bradlow was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at Harvard University. In award-winning academic and public-facing publications, he connects urban inequality, climate change, and the political challenges for democracy that confront societies across the globe. Bradlow’s first book, Urban Power (under contract with Princeton University Press), compares the divergent politics of distributing urban public goods — housing, sanitation, and transportation — in two mega-cities after transitions to democracy: Johannesburg, South Africa, and São Paulo, Brazil.

José Lira is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo, where he also directs the Maria Antonia Cultural Center. In his research, Lira explores housing debates, urban culture, and architectural and planning discourses, with a focus on Recife, Brazil. Lira has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris - Malaquais.

Open to the public. Lunch will be served.

Co-sponsored by the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, the Princeton Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, the Program in Latin American Studies, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.