MFJMCE Lecture: The Social-Environmental Ramification of the EU-Mercosur Agreement

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Venue:FIU-MMC-SIPAII-Room 102

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the Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, in collaboration with the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, is organizing a discussion on the social-environmental ramifications of the EU-Mercosur agreement: its issues and challenges.

Guest speaker

ImageManuela Picq, PhD
Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Political Science and Sexuality
Women's and Gender Studies
Amherst College

Manuela Picq is Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Political Science and Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College (USA). She is the author of Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State (2024, co-authored with Andrew Canessa) and Vernacular Sovereignties: Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics (2018) translated to Spanish by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui. She has co-edited various books on sexuality in world politics and is Editor of the scholarly journal Public Humanities. Her work at the intersection of scholarship, activism and journalism in Latin America has shaped her political involvement with indigenous struggles for self-determination in Ecuador and led her to coordinate two electoral campaigns of Kichwa water defender Yaku Pérez Guartambel for presidential office. She was nominated a New Generation of Public Intellectuals (2018), featured in the FemiList 100 (2021) of women working in law, policy, and peacebuilding across the Global South, then received the International Studies Association’s 2024 Outstanding Activist Scholar Award.

Moderator:

ImageMarkus Thiel, Ph.D
Professor, Politics & International Relations, FIU
Director, Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of Excellence
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Sponsor:

Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of Excellence

Co-sponsor:

Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center