Moisés Lino e Silva, "Post Liberalism and the Politics of Liberation: Brazilian Favelas as Emerging Territories of Freedom"
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The Tunisia Office, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University Presents:
"Post Liberalism and the Politics of Liberation: Brazilian Favelas as Emerging Territories of Freedom"
A Lecture by Moisés Lino e Silva, Professor of Anthropology, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Discussion moderated by: Gareth Doherty, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Moisés Lino e Silva is tenured faculty in the department of anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in Brazil. As a political anthropologist in both Brazil and Nigeria, he specializes in the ethnographic study of freedom and authority in relation to poverty, sexuality, race, and religion. He is the author of Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela. Lino e Silva has been selected as a World Social Science fellow by the International Social Science Council (UNESCO).
This event will be held in person.
Admission Free
Questions: cmes_tunisia@fas.harvard.edu.