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Princeton awarded honorary degrees during its 2023 Commencement ceremony to Lynn A. Conway, Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones, Rhiannon Giddens, Suzan Shown Harjo, and Katalin Karikó.
GUEST SPEAKERS Luis Tapia, CIDES, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University Bruno Bosteels, Columbia University Today's call for diversity in the United States quite often reduces itself to body counts. René Zavaleta Mercado (1937-1984) confronted the question of respecting diversity in the analysis of social reality in the twentieth century. Luis Tapia’s Towards a History of the National-Popular in Bolivia, now translated into English for the first time, confronts this question not only in terms of mere inclusion and exclusion but in terms of a "motley" social situation, devising methodology to represent its demand. It is time that we in the United States take this text out of its silo and use it to think diversity beyond the inevitably hierarchized "intersection" model. Luis Tapia, an imaginative activist, is the best expert on Zavaleta we have. In his book, The Production of Local Knowledge: History and Po
This panel discussion will address the emergence of new progressive governments in the region, with a focus on Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexíco. PLAS has invited experts and policymakers connected to Latin America to ask about the most urgent challenges that these new governments currently face amidst a world of increasing nativism and economic distress. If the early 2000s saw the emergence of a Pink Tide in Latin America, these events will focus on the post-Covid '19 political development of the region at a time when new progressive governments have taken office. GUEST SPEAKERS Daniela Campello, Professor, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil Juan Gabriel Valdés 76, Chilean Ambassador to the United States Open to students, faculty, visiting scholars, staff and specially invited guests. A boxed lunch will be provided while supplies last. Co-sponsored by theProgram in Latin American Studies and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)