The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Department of Economics, the Department of History, and the Center for "Race," Culture and Social Justice present:
VENEZUELA:
CRISIS & OPPORTUNITY By Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher Wednesday, 24 April 2019 4:30-6:00 p.m. Breslin Hall 216 Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher is a political theorist and activist with extensive research experience inside of Venezuela. Among his recent publications are: We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution (Duke U. Press, 2013), which is a "bottom-up" analysis of the bases of support for the Chavista movement; Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela (Verso, 2016) that deals with the emergence and trials of new institutions of direct democracy and production in Venezuela; Decolonizing Dialectics (Duke U. Press, 2017), a theoretical intervention, tracing the role of three antidialectical thinkers—Sorel, Fanon, and Dussel—that parallels that logic with the unfolding of the Venezuelan revolution. Refreshments will be served!