Please join us for a public panel discussion Thursday, November 16, 12:10-1:40
This panel will examine the political and historical context of the Argentinian run-off election for president being held November 19, 2023. The two candidates facing off will be Sergio Massa of the ruling Unión por la Patria (Union for the Homeland) and Javier Milei of La Libertad Avanza (Liberty Advances). This panel brings together specialists on Argentinian politics to better understand the stakes in the upcoming vote, and the context that gave rise to the far-right political outsider Milei.
Location: TBD in Faculty of Law
This event is hybrid.
Register here: http://Uoft.me/arg-election
Moderator:
Mariana Mota Prado
Professor, William C. Graham Chair in International Law and Development, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Panelists:
- Catalina Smulovitz, Full Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Alejandro Soifer, novelist, writer, PhD in Latin American Literature, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, University of Toronto
- Viviana Patroni, Professor Emerita, Department of Social Science, International Development Studies and Work & Labour Studies, York University
- Caitlin Andrews-Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Toronto Metropolitan University
Sponsors
Latin American Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto
Department of History, University of Toronto
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
Centre for Research on Latin America and Caribbean, York University
For information, contact:
Luis van Isschot, Associate Chair for Latin American Studies, University of Toronto
luis.vanisschot@utoronto.ca
Participant Profiles:
Dr. Mariana Mota Prado obtained her law degree (LLB) from the University of Sao Paulo, and her master's (LLM) and Doctorate (JSD) from Yale Law School. She is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. She has published extensively on law and development, including three co-authored books with Michael J. Trebilcock: Institutional Bypasses: A Strategy to Promote Reforms for Development (Cambridge University Press 2019), Advanced Introduction to Law and Development (Edward Elgar, 1st ed. 2014; 2nd ed. 2021), and What Makes Poor Countries Poor (Edward Elgar, 2011). A Brazilian national, she has taught courses at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London, Direito Rio - Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School in Brazil, ITAM Law School in Mexico, Los Andes Law School in Colombia, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina and University of Puerto Rico School of Law in the United States. Her scholarship focuses on law and development, corruption and comparative law.
Dr. Catalina Smulovitz is Full Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. and has been a principal researcher at CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council). She has written on human rights and civil-military relations; social accountability in Latin America, the uses of the law as well as on the impact of federalism on rights protection and judicial wars in Latin America. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a member of the Committee on Academic Freedom of IPSA (International Political Science Association). Some of her recent publications include: "Ley + presupuesto + acceso a la defensa: midiendo la protección de derechos en las provincias argentinas." en Arcidiácono., P y G Gamallo (eds.) La otra ventanilla. Judicialización de conflictos sociales en Argentina" Editorial EUDEBA,( 2023). "From the 'discovery of law' to 'lawfare' or how the grapes turned sour" in SAAP Journal (2022); "Public Defense and Access to Justice in a Federal Context: Who Gets What, and how in the Argentinian Provinces" en Kapiszewski, Diana and Ingram, Matthew (editores) Beyond High Courts, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame (2019).
Dr. Alejandro Soifer was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1983. He has a B.A. in Modern Languages from the Universidad de Buenos Aires with a specialization in Latin American and Argentinian Literature. In 2022 he received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in Hispanic Studies with a specialization in contemporary Mexican literature. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, he is the author of several books, scientific articles and journalistic pieces.
Dr. Viviana Patroni is Professor Emerita, Department of Social Science, International Development Studies at York University. Between 2000 and 2007 she was the director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, also at York University. Her research focuses on the political economy of Latin America, the dramatic changes in the world of work in this region since the 1980s, the centrality of labour struggles in shaping patterns of development, and the transformation of labour markets in Argentina since the 1990s. She has also contributed to the study of the impact of Canadian investment in the Latin American mining sector and, as a co-directed of Canadian-funded initiative, to a program of activities aimed at supporting the development of a Latin American network for human rights education and research. More recently her work has concentrated on the rise of organizations of informal workers and their challenge to prevalent views within labor movements about their understanding of work and working class. Amongst her most recent publications in these areas are a co-authored book entitled Labor Politics in Latin America: Democracy and Worker Organization in the Neoliberal Era published by the University of Florida Press in 2018, and a co-host edited special issue on Informal Workers and the Politics of Working-class Transformation in the Americas which appeared in the Global Labour Journal in 2021.
Dr. Caitlin Andrews-Lee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University. Andrews-Lee's research and teaching focuses on comparative politics and research methods with a regional focus on Latin America. She is interested in how leaders cultivate charismatic attachments with voters to garner support, consolidate power, and undermine democratic accountability. She has published an award-winning book with Cambridge University Press, The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic Movements: Argentine Peronism and Venezuelan Chavismo, as well as peer-reviewed articles in several academic journals. Her current research examines the gendered structure of charismatic authority and investigates under what conditions women can defy expectations and establish charismatic legitimacy as executive leaders.
