Workshop | Popular Fronts and the Struggle for Democracy in the Americas: Past and Present

This workshop will bring together scholars, activists, and policymakers to reflect collectively on the authoritarian challenges to democracy in the 21st century. Amidst the rise of a new radical right throughout the Americas, this workshop provides a space to discuss the need to build democratic coalitions capable of protecting democratic rule and civic rights currently under threat. To do so, participants will examine the historical experience of popular fronts in the 1930s and 1940s and assess the viability of such forms of coalitional democratic politics in the present. The need to preserve democracy in the region while advancing social and economic reforms that improve people’s everyday lives constitutes the driving force behind our proposal.

PROGRAM TIMELINE
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Opening Remarks (9:30-9:45)

Jeffrey Gould

Panel 1 - Indigenous and Ethnic Rights (9:45-11:15)
Fabiana Nahuelquir, Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj & Adolfo Millabur

Break (11:15-11:30)

Panel 2 - Historical Reflections on Popular Fronts (11:30-1:00)
Barbara Weinstein, Kirsten Weld & Luis Herrán

Lunch (1:00-2:00)

Panel 3 - The Politics of Popular Fronts Today (2:00-3:30)
Itai Hagman, Juan Grabois & Manuela D’Ávila

Break (3:30-4:00)

Panel 4 - The Social Dynamics of Popular Fronts (4:00-5:30)
Sebastian Rojas-Cabal, Charles Hale & Miguel Centeno

Closing Remarks (5:30-6:00)
Ann Farnswoth-Alvear

PARTICIPANT BIOS

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CO-ORGANIZERS

PLAS would like to acknowledge the generous support received from the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn's Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies.

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This workshop is open to the public.

Sponsorship of an event does not constitute institutional endorsement of external speakers or views presented.

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Department of History Undergraduate Program

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