Panel Discussion: Brazil Elections

Date: 

Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 12:00pm to 1:20pm


This event is virtual, to register click here. If you would like join us in watching the virtual panel on Brazil elections in room S216, register here.

Speakers: Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida, Senior researcher at Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP); Claudio Ferraz, Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio); Fernando Limongi, Professor of Political Science, University of Sao Paulo; Professor of Economics, Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV EBAPE)
Moderated by: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University

Frances Hagopian is Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government. She specializes in the comparative politics of Latin America, with emphasis on democratization, political representation, political economy, and religion and politics. Hagopian is author of  Reorganizing Representation in Latin America (2014, Cambridge University Press), editor of Religious Pluralism, Democracy, and the Catholic Church in Latin America (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009), co-editor (with Scott Mainwaring) of The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks (Cambridge 2005), and author of Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and numerous journal articles and book chapters. Her current work focuses on the establishment of a social welfare regime in Brazil, and the political economy of inequality in Latin America. She previously taught at the University of Notre Dame, where she was Director of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, as well as Tufts and Harvard Universities. She has also been a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford.

Presented in collaboration with Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and The Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs