Description

The recent election of Lula da Silva as President of Brazil, for what will be his third term in the office, marks a dramatic change in the political leadership of the country. Having defeated Jair Bolsonaro who governed from a right-wing, self-styed Trumpist perspective, Lula will represent a significant change in emphasis for Brazil.  The country faces difficult challenges ranging from the economy, climate change and the environment, poverty and security that will test the Lula administration.

The Latin America and Caribbean Study Group is pleased to bring together a group of experts to discuss prospects for the start of Lula’s third presidency.  

Speakers

Rafael Palma Mungioli
Brazilian economist (University of São Paulo), and PhD Candidate at Carleton University, Political Science

Barbara Duarte
PhD Candidate at the Federal University
of Pernambuco, Sociology, and Visiting Researcher at Carleton University

Sean Burges
Assistant Professor in Global and International Studies, Carleton University, author of scholarly publications on Brazilian, inter-American and South-South relations

Moderator:  Jean Daudelin
Associate Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University

Name and contact details of event lead: Robert Ready & Carolina M. Shimada

Registration

Via Eventbrite, please register in the following link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/lula-is-back-prospects-and-challenges-for-the-new-brazilian-government-tickets-510383810717

Further information on the speakers

Picking up the pieces: challenges and perspectives of economic policy in Lula’s new administration

Rafael Palma Mungioli

Brazilian economist (University of São Paulo) with an M.A. in International Political Economy (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). He is currently on a leave from the Brazilian Development Bank while pursuing his PhD in Political Science at Carleton University.

Towards more humane public security and drug policies in Brazil?

Barbara Duarte

PhD student in Sociology at the Federal University of Pernambuco; researcher at the Centre for the Study of Public Securities (NEPS/UFPE). Visiting Researcher at Carleton University. Specialist of drug markets and public security policies.

Back to the Future? Where goes Brazilian foreign policy with Lula III?

Sean Burges

Assistant Professor in Global and International Studies. He is the author of the books Brazil in the World: The International Relations of a South American Giant (Manchester 2017; Best book, International Relations, Latin American Studies Association) and Brazilian Foreign Policy After the Cold War (Florida 2009) in addition to dozens of scholarly publications on Brazilian foreign policy, inter-American affairs, South-South relations.

Too Few Friends: The tricky domestic politics of Lula’s new government

Jean Daudelin

Associate Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Recent publications: “Negacionismo Dependente,” with Maria Celina D’Araujo (Dicionario dos Negacionismos no Brasil, 2022); “Drug Policy and Canada-US Relations: The Evidence and Its (Ir)relevance,” with Philip Jones (Canada Among Nations, 2019); Illegal Markets, Violence, and Inequality, with JL Ratton (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).