Featured speakers:

Professor Eli Carter, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese and author of Reimaining Brazilian Television: Luiz Fernando Carvalho’s Contemporary Vision and Brazil Reframed: Television and Internet Fiction Post-2011.

Daniel Gingerich, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and author of Political Institutions and Party-Directed Corruption in South America: Stealing for the Team.

David Nemer, Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies and author of Favela Digital –The other side of technology and Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity, Uncertainty, and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil.

Brian Owensby, Professor, Department of History and author of Intimate Ironies: Making Middle-Class Lives in Modern Brazil and Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico.