Moisés Lino e Silva, "Post Liberalism and the Politics of Liberation: Brazilian Favelas as Emerging Territories of Freedom"

Date and Time

May 2, 2025
05:00PM - 07:00PM CET

Location

Tunisia Office, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

The Tunisia Office, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University Presents:

Brazilian favelas as emergent territories of freedom

"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.