Over the past decade, democracy has been in retreat in a large number of countries in different regions, at least partially reversing the wave of democratization that swept across much of the world in the late 20th century. This webinar explores patterns of "democratic backsliding" in different world regions and their implications for democratic rule and its political resiliency in the face of autocratic challenges.

Panel: Valerie Bunce, Tom Pepinsky, Rachel Riedl, and Kenneth Roberts

Co-sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Latin American Studies Program, Institute for African Development, Institute for European Studies, and Southeast Asia Program.

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The Romance Studies Department is pleased to invite Dr. Patricio del Real from Harvard's History of Art and Architecture Department to give a talk from the selection of the manuscript of his new book, Inventing Latin American Architecture: Politics and Race at the Museum of Modern Art.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8th 2020

5pm

Via Zoom (see link below)

Looking at “Racial Democracy” in MoMA’s Brazil Builds

Abstract: The exhibition “Brazil Builds” is credited with launching the international celebration of Brazil’s modern architecture and the culture of brasilidade. Staged at the Museum of Modern Art in 1943, this groundbreaking show was a collaborative affair that brought together diverse actors and institutions in the United States and Brazil at a critical moment during the Second World War. With “Brazil Builds,” MoMA became a platform where architectural aesthetics met politics and culture. The exhibition built new alliances – between modern architecture and tradition, the United States and the authoritarian government of President Getulio Vargas – in an eloquent celebration of brasilidade and acted as a Trojan Horse of Brazil’s official ideology of Racial Democracy in the United States. I focus on the staging of this exhibition and explore how this multifaceted architecture seduced U.S. audiences with the spirit of brasilidade.

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After the fracture of the Republic of Colombia in 1831, a first civil war that took place in the Republic of New Granada—known as the War of the Supremes (1839-1842)—pitted slaveholding elites in New Granada’s Cauca region against the central government in Bogotá, whose republican platform centered egalitarian and inclusive antislavery goals. As a means of mobilization, Julio Arboleda, a powerful slaveowner in Cauca, founded the newspaper El Payanés. From the outset of the war, then, an influential proslavery voice was articulated publicly, and with the intent of fostering favorable opinion. The paper denounced what it called ‘violent acts’ by Afro-descendants across the country, and was expressly concerned with the supposed ‘sedition’ of Afro-New Granadans in and around the cities of Cali and Popayán. It produced a solid image of the dangers that the slaves, as a population, represented and argued in favor of their exclusion from the republic; literally their exportation outside of the territory.

This presentation contextualizes the rise of this proslavery publication in the broader process of republican formation in South America, analyzing the links of Arboleda’s proslavery activism to the emergence of a Pacific transnational class in defense of slavery. Putting El Payanés and its racist discourse about slaves’ incompatibility with the republican project at the center of the study, the presentation also reads Arboleda’s denunciatory accounts in El Payanés against the grain to trace slaves’ politics in Cauca as a crucial factor in the War of the Supremes and in close connection with the New Granadan antislavery republic’s foundations and goals.

Marcela Echeverri is the author of Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution: Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780–1825. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016

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Join us on Zoom throughout the fall for LRC Happy Hour. Every third Tuesday of the month. We'd love to hear how it’s going! All of it.

Bring your (language instruction) stories whether they be good, bad, amazing, or unusual. It takes all kinds of stories to make a Happy Hour great!Bring your own coffee, tea, or mystery beverage.While we can't serve lunch, the LRC will provide fun, jokes, and laughs free of charge.Also, we just want to see your smiling faces, because we miss you.

More details and link posted on our website: https://lrc.cornell.edu/online-hybrid#live-help-sessions

Global flows of workers from Central America and the Caribbean to sustain agricultural production in the US are highlighted in this presentation. Based on interviews with farmworkers, we will examine their motivations for leaving home, their experience in the US, long term goals and structural challenges. We will explore the particular health vulnerabilities of immigrant workers under COVID-19, and strategies to maintain communication with and support for building capacity among this population.

Presenter: Mary Jo Dudley, Director of the Cornell Farmworker Program and Chair, Farmworker Committee, Finger Lakes Community and Migrant Health

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Part of the series "Migrations: A Global, Interdisciplinary, Multi-Species Examination"

In addition to the expropriation of lands that belonged to native communities, one of the most consequential outcomes of settler colonialism in the Americas was the invention, speciation, and treatment of enslaved people of African ancestry as subhuman. As a clandestine network of perilous migration routes, the Underground Railroad provided the enslaved with the opportunity to reject their categorization as "human property" and transition to the enjoyment of a freedom that recognized them as fully human. This presentation examines the Underground Railroad as a form of migration that, in challenging the dehumanization of the enslaved, impacted the politics of a United States on the brink of civil war.

Presenter: Gerard Aching, Professor of Africana and Romance Studies and Co-Principal Investigator with the Rural Humanities Initiative, Cornell University

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Part of the series "Migrations: A Global, Interdisciplinary, Multi-Species Examination"