LASC is proud to bring back Latin American Week in Dublin, Cork and Maynooth
Five days to reflect on populism, land and indigenous rights
The most extensive set of activities of LASC every year is ready to start on 19 September in Dublin. Because of the pandemic, 2019 was the last year we had the chance to gather with friends and collaborators to celebrate Latin American diversity and culture. In 2020 and 2021, we had to run it online.
Our late speaker in 2019 was Jakeline Romero Epiayu, from the Colombian group Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu, who discussed their struggle in the Cerrejon mine campaign with events in Cork, Galway and Dublin.
This year, all spots are upon Brazil and its presidential election. LASC is having Ricardo Rao, who is exiled in Europe after having his life threatened.
Ricardo Henrique Rao is an indigenist and former employee of the Brazilian National Indian Foundation (FUNAI). He left Brazil at the end of 2019 after one of his colleagues, Maxiel Pereira was murdered, and shot dead in Tabatinga – Javari Valley. Ricardo is among many other activists, academics, and political leaders who left the country since Bolsonaro took office in 2018. On the occasion of his exile, the indigenist said he “feared being the next to be murdered as he received many death threats”. Before his departure, Ricardo handed a document to the human rights commission in the lower house of the Brazilian parliament. It is titled “Militia action connected to organized logging crime, drug trafficking and homicides committed against the indigenous peoples of Maranhão – A brief dossier.” The document gathers information and reports about the involvement of police officers with organized crime in the region. Since then, Ricardo has been dedicating his life to publicly denouncing the intensification of the profitable enterprise of death, displacement, and destruction in the Brazilian Amazon, as well as the responsibility of the government for the current situation.
Check the timetable:
Monday, 19th September, at 1 pm, UCD
Co-hosted by School of Sociology University College Dublin, Co. Dublin
Seminar: From Latin America to Ireland: What is Populism?
Speaker: Kieran Allen
Kieran Allen is an associate professor in UCD. He is the author of Fianna Fail and Irish Labour (Pluto Press 1997) and co-author of Tax Haven Ireland (Pluto Press 2021).
Where: Newman Building – School of Sociology Seminar Room, D422
Tuesday, 20th September, 2 pm, UCC. Co. Cork
Co-hosted by University College Cork
Seminar: Indigenous Land Rights in Latin America
Speakers: Ricardo Rao (Brazil), Brenda Mondragon and Claudia Hernandez-Espinosa (Mexico) Julian Suarez (Colombia)
Where: Room 202 O’Rahilly Building, UCC
Wednesday, 21st September, 1 pm, UCD, Co. Dublin
Co-hosted by the UCD Equality Studies Centre and the UCD Centre for Human Rights
Seminar: Indigenous Land Rights in Latin America
Speaker: Ricardo Rao
Where: L246, School of Law, UCD. The in-person event, with zoom option available: https://ucd-ie.zoom.us/j/65634836106
Thursday, 22nd September, 5 pm, Maynooth University, Co. Kildare
Co-hosted by Maynooth University Department of Anthropology and School of Law and Criminology
Seminar: Indigenous Land Rights in Latin America
Speaker: Ricardo Rao
Where: Rowan House, Seminar Room 1.20
Friday, 23rd Sep, 4 pm, Trinity College
Co-hosted by Environmental History Research Seminar of the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities
“Indigenous Land Rights in Latin America”
Co-hosted by Environmental History Research Seminar of the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities
Where: Arts Building, Room 5039
LATIN AMERICA FESTIVAL
Thursday, 22nd September, 7h30 pm
Wigwam
Where: 54 Middle Abbey St, North City, Dublin, D01 E2X4
