LARC Speaker Series – The State of Disorder: The Improvisation of Military Rule in Brazil

LARC Speaker Series: Fifty years ago, the Brazilian military overthrew the elected government and established a long dictatorship. Dr. Jerry Dávila, University of Illinois, will reflect on the nature of the military regime in his talk “State of Disorder: The Improvisation of Military Rule in Brazil.” Monday March 3, 2014, 7pm in the Evans Room, Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary. This presentation is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For more information visit http://www.larc.ucalgary.ca.

Location:

Evans Room Rozsa Centre University of Calgary

Speaker:

Dr. Jerry Dávila is Jorge Paulo Lemann professor of Brazilian History at the University of Illinois. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1998. His research is focused on the influence of racial thought in public policy, as well as the state and social movements in the twentieth century. Professor Dávila has authored several books including Dictatorship in South America (Wiley Blackwell, 2013); Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization (Duke, 2010), winner of the Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Book Prize; and Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945 (Duke, 2003). In 2000, Dávila taught as a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of São Paulo, and in 2005, he held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro. He has also received the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and the Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship. He has also written for publications including the New York Times, the Folha de S. Paulo and the Cairo Review about the experiences of military rule and redemocratization in Brazil, Argentina and Chile, the subject of his most recent book.

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/larc-speaker-series-state-disorder-improvisation-military-rule-brazil