Seminars and Symposia

(Re)Presenting Lucia: an Ethnographic Biography of Violence in Rio de Janeiro

Robert J. Gay
Professor of Sociology at Connecticut College

Robert Gay is Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Connecticut College. He is also the Director of the Toor-Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts (CISLA). His research focuses on democracy, civil society and violence in Brazil and other countries of Latin America.

Gay will be discussing his most recently published book, Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer’s Woman, (Temple University Press 2005), which documents the life a poor favelada as she struggles to survive in the increasingly violent and divided city of Rio de Janeiro. This life history/biography project was supported by an American Council of Learned Societies grant. Gay is also the author of Popular Organization & Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: A Tale of Two Favelas and has published numerous articles on Latin American political change.

Discussant:
Desmond Arias
Professor, Department of Political Science
John Jay College, CUNY

Moderator:
Mauricio Font
Director, Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies
Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center and Queens College

WHEN: Friday, February 10, 4-6 PM
WHERE: Room 9204, 9205
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue (@34th St.)
New York, NY

Space is limited. To reserve, send e-mail to bildner@gc.cuny.edu

 

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