Latin American Working Group
Location: Millikan Room, E53-482.
Seminars are held from 12:00-1:30, unless otherwise noted.
The Latin American Working Group provides an interdisciplinary forum for faculty and students across the Institute who work on issues related to Latin America. Students and Faculty are welcome. Meetings are generally held on Wednesdays, twice a month during the semester.
If you have questions about LAWG, the mailing list, or would like to attend a meeting, please email Emilia Simisan (simison@mit.edu) or Lukas Wolters (woltersl@mit.edu).
Manipulate my fear: How new forms of (mis)information and processes of political subjection contribute to the erosion of democracy in Brazil
Jean Wyllys de Matos Santos
December 6, 2019 11:30AM E40-496 (Pye Room)
Large-scale Social Housing Programs in Brazil and Mexico: Political Balances that Define Public Action
Claudia Acosta
Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), São Paulo, & MIT
November 20, 2019 12:00PM E53-482
Guillermo Toral (MIT)
October 30, 2019 12:00PM E53-482
Local Politics and Development in Brazil
Alicia Cooperman
Princeton University
October 2, 2019 12:00PM E53-482
Economic Dependence on the State and Democracy: Theory and Evidence from Latin America
Carlos Gervasoni
Associate Professor of Political Science, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
September 18, 2019 10:00AM E53-482
Strategies of Redistribution. The Left and the Popular Sectors in Latin America.
Andrés Schipani
Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley
September 9, 2019 12:00PM E53-482
Networks, Information, and Vote Buying
Horacio Larreguy
Faculty Associate and Assistant Professor at the Department of Government of Harvard University
May 8, 2019 12:00PM E53-482
Landowners and democracy in Latin America
Belén Fernández Milmanda
Harvard University
November 14, 2018 12:00PM E53-482, Millikan Room
Urban securitization and human rights in Colombia.
Lindsay Mayka
Assistant Professor, Colby College
October 26, 2018 12:00PM E53-482, Millikan Room
Social movements, labor unions, and informal workers in developing countries
Candelaria Garay
Ford Foundation Associate Professor of Democracy at the Kennedy School of Government
October 17, 2018 12:00PM E53-482, Millikan Room
Policies Make Politicians: Intermediaries, State Benefits, and Political Entrepreneurship in Brazil
Yuri Kasahara
Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research
October 10, 2018 12:00PM E53-482, Millikan Room
How do candidates spend? An analysis of campaign expenditures of federal representatives from 2002 to 2014 in Brazil
Arthur Fisch
FEA USP, currently a PhD candidate at the program in Public Administration and Government at FGV EAESP, Research Assistant at Centro de Política e Economia do Setor Público (CEPESP - FGV), and a visiting student at MIT.
September 26, 2018 12:00PM E53-482, Millikan Room
The Contentious Returns to Education: Evidence from Protests in Brazil
Jorge Mangonnet
Columbia University
PhD Candidate
May 2, 2018 12:00PM E53-482, The Millikan Room
The Art of Accountability: Using Technology towards a New Democracy in Brazil
Bradson Camelo
Prosecutor of the State Accounts Court of Paraíba, Brazil
February 28, 2018 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
Political Elites and Teacher Unions: Making Sense of the Politics of Mexico's Education Reform
Blanca Heredia
Director of the research unit on education and education policy (Programa Interdisciplinario sobre Política y Prácticas Educativas -PIPE)
CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas) in Mexico City
February 23, 2018 11:00AM E53-438
New Institutions for Citizen Participation in Latin America: Addressing Unanswered Questions
Thamy Pogrebinschi
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
February 21, 2018 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
“Better Together: Multinational Corporations and Domestic Business Groups in Times of Economic and Political Transitions – Evidence from Chile”
Erica Salvaj
Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
February 7, 2018 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
“Norms versus action: Voting against malfeasance in Brazil” Taylor Boas (Boston University)
Taylor Boas
Boston University
December 6, 2017 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
Electoral Concentration in Brazil, 1994-2014
George Avelino
Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo
November 29, 2017 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
Veronica Herrera from the University of Connecticut
November 15, 2017 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
“Coalition Management under Divided/Unified Government”
Carlos Pereira
Professor at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro
Visiting Professor, Stanford University
October 27, 2017 2:00PM Millikan Room E53-482