IPC/RDD (Boston)– A Brown University, sediada no estado de Rhode Island, nos Estados Unidos, realiza de hoje (18) até sábado (20) uma Conferência Brasileira sobre a Democracia no Brasil. A Conferência é conduzida pelo diretor do Centro de Estudos Brazil Initiative, James N. Green, e será aberta pelo reitor da Brown University, Richard Locke.
O painel de abertura tem como convidados o ex-deputado exilado Jean Wyllys, e a professora de Antropologia e Lei Débora Diniz, da Universidade de Brasília, dentre outros.
A Conferência, de caráter internacional, reúne acadêmicos e ativistas sociais e culturais para analisar a situação atual no Brasil e avaliar ameaças à democracia colocadas pela agenda de extrema-direita do presidente da República Bolsonaro. Durante a Conferência será lançado o Observatório dos Estados Unidos para a Democracia no Brasil, um website em inglês que vai documentar fatos no Brasil.
Alguns temas a serem debatidos são: o estado da democracia no Brasil a partir da eleição e posse do presidente Jair Bolsonaro, a criminalização dos movimentos sociais, a suspensão da demarcação de terras indígenas, a eliminação dos partidos políticos da oposição, o aumento do desmatamento da Amazônia e outras zonas ecológicas sensíveis e o impacto para o meio
ambiente, o destino da liberdade acadêmica e cultural, a perseguição aos ativistas de movimentos negros, de mulheres e LGBTQ + , o impacto da anunciada política de armas, a violência e assassinato de trabalhadores rurais e urbanos e, particularmente, de pessoas de origem africana e indígena, e a ameaça aos direitos humanos, especialmente de cidadãos de baixa renda.
International Press Committee (IPC) a Rede Defend Democracy in Brazil (DDB) Contatos: (EUA) Ana Alakija ana.alakija@gmail.com l Ana Paula Vargas paula.vargas@gmail.com
(Brazil) Simone de Moraes simonedemoraes2009@gmail.com l Mery Bahia meryba2222@hotmail.com (CA) Milla Gentil millagentil@yahoo.com (Portugal) Maria Alice nareal.alice@gmail.com (Italia) Analu Alakija) analu.alakija@gmail.com
Challenges to Brazilian Democracy
Conference
The U.S Network for Democracy in Brazil and the Brazil Initiative at Brown University are delighted to invite you to the Seventh International Conference on Brazil at Brown University, entitled Challenges to Brazilian Democracy, which will take place between April 18 th and 20 th , 2019 at the Watson Institute in Providence, Rhode Island. The conference is open to all, at no cost. Please, find the full program below.
Challenges to Brazilian Democracy
April 18-21, 2019
Watson Institute for International and Policy Studies 111 Thayer Street, Brown University, Providence, RI
The recent election of Jair Bolsonaro to the Brazilian presidency has raised new questions about the state of democracy in Brazil. Are his campaign promises to
criminalize social movements, stop the demarcation of indigenous lands, and eliminate opposition political parties merely electoral rhetoric? What does increased deforestation of the Amazon and other sensitive ecological zones mean for the environment? What is the fate of academic and cultural freedom under a new government whose supporters speak, among other questions, against “gender ideology” and “political correctness,” which can be read as veiled critiques of the women’s and the LGBTQI+ movements and the ideas of
progressive social sectors? Will new gun policies result in more deaths in rural and urban areas, and particularly among people of African and indigenous descent? To what extent are human rights, especially among low-income citizens, under threat? This international conference, organized jointly with
colleagues from Harvard University, will bring together scholars and social and cultural activists to analyze the current situation in Brazil and assess these and
other threats to democracy posed by President Bolsonaro’s far-right agenda. At the Conference, we will also launch the U.S. Observatory for Democracy in
Brazil, an English-language website documenting recent events in the country, and have a strategic discussion about how U.S.-based academics and activists can defend democracy in Brazil.
Thursday, April 18 Opening Ceremony
6:00-8:00 pm
Welcome: James N. Green, Director, Brown Brazil Initiative
Richard Locke, Provost, Brown University
Keynote Panel: What does it mean to be a political exile under the Bolsonaro government?
Débora Diniz, professor of anthropology and law
Jean Wyllys, journalist, former congressman
Márcia Tiburi, professor of philosophy
8:00-9:00 pm Reception
Friday, April 19
9:30-10:00 Light breakfast
10:00-12:00 Panel I: The Political Context in Brazil Today
Chair: Bruno Carvalho, cultural historian, Harvard University
Celso Rocha de Barros, journalist, Folha de São Paulo
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, sociologist, University of South Florida
Marlon Weichert, Deputy Federal Attorney for Citizen’s Rights
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Panel II: Cultural Resistance and Academic Freedom
Chair: Leiha Lehnen, literary scholar, Brown University
MC Carol, singer/songwriter
Éder Oliveira, artist
Sidney Chalhoub, historian, Harvard University
3:30-4:00 Coffee break
4:00-6:00 Panel III: Religious, Ethnicity and the Brazilian State
Chair: Geri Augusto, public policy, Brown University
Erisvaldo Santos, pai de santo, educator, Federal Univ. of Ouro Preto
TBA, indigenous leader and activist [1]
Michel Gherman, historian, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
6:30-9:00 Dinner for participants at Faculty Club
Saturday, April 20
9:30-10:00 Light breakfast
10:00-12:00 Panel IV: Economic and Social Rights
Chair: Anani Dzidzienyo, Africana Studies, Brown University
Pedro Paulo Bastos, economist, Campinas State University
Douglas Belchior, activist, popular educator
Symmy Larrat, trans activist, President of the ABGLT
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Panel V: Environmental Justice and the Right to Land
Chair: Leah Van Wey, environmental sociologist, Brown University
Ayala Dias Ferreira, Landless Peasants Movement (MST)
Paul E. Little, environmental anthropologist
Elionice Conceição Sacramento, community researcher, quilombola activist
3:30-4:00 Coffee break
4:00-6:00 Panel VI: Organizing Resistance in the United States
Chair: Marina Adams, National Organizer, U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil
Stanley Gacek, United Food and Commercial Workers Inter. Union
Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, President, Brazilian Studies Association
Alex Main, Director of International Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research,
Washington, D.C.
James N. Green, National Coordinator, U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil
Sunday, April 21
9:00-12:00 Open Forum: Discussions on Short-term and Strategic Activities
[1] To be confirmed
Conference Organizing Committee: James N. Green (chair), Geri Augusto, Bruno Carvalho, Sidney Sidney Chalhoub, Keisha-Khan Perry, Leila Lehnen, Ramon Stern, Leah VanWey
Sponsors: Africana Studies (Brown), Brown Brazil Initiative Center for Slavery and Justice (Brown), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Brown), Cogut Institute of Humanities (Brown), Department of History (Brown), Department of African and African American Studies (Harvard) Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (Brown), Watson Institute for International and Policy Studies (Brown).
