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Public presentation: Indigenous Peoples and Land Conflicts in the Brazilian Amazon

Thursday, October 17th, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Gathering Space, John E. Robbins Library

Free

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A visiting scholar at Brandon University will present a public talk about the ongoing fires in the Brazilian Amazon forest.

Luiz Henrique Eloy is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Anthropology, National Museum, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and is a Brandon University 2019 ELAP Visiting Doctoral Student

Luiz Henrique is a Terena Indigenous doctoral student and his topic of presentation will be “Indigenous Peoples and Land Conflicts in the Brazilian Amazon”. The presentation will address Brazil’s current burning of the Brazilian Amazon from a historical-political perspective.

Luiz Henrique will be working at BU this fall semester. As a visiting scholar under the Emerging Leaders of the Americas Program (ELAP), he has received a full fellowship from the Canadian government to visit BU.

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Date:
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
Time:
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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