On November 19, Argentina will elect its next president. The candidates, Sergio Massa, the current Minister of the Economy from the Unión por la Patria party – and Javier Milei, the far-right candidate from the La Libertad Avanza party – will face each other in a second round marked by alliances and ruptures.
The electoral landscape of this decisive vote opens up unknowns about the future of the country. Regardless of who wins, difficult times lie ahead. To begin with, the uncertainty of an increasingly devalued economy, governability in the midst of a divided and polarized society. For Brazil, the risk of a deterioration in historic trade and diplomatic relations.

The Center for Ibero-American Studies and the Institute of International Relations invite the entire university community to take part in this thought-provoking and enlightening dialogue!

Date/Time: November 14th at 4pm
Venue: Auditorium of the IRI 2 – Institute of International Relations

MODERATOR
Maria Elena Rodriguez (IRI/PUC-Rio)
PARTICIPATION
Jose Maria Gomez (DIREITO/PUC-RIO)
Arthur Ituassu (COMMUNICATION/PUC-RIO)
Graciela Rodriguez (EQÜIT INSTITUTE)

The WEBINAR will be held on September 13, at 2 p.m., in online format, with direct transmission via the IRI PUC-Rio YouTube channel: @IRIPUCRJ.

This seminar is part of the activities carried out by the MUDRAL (Multilateralism and the Radical Right in Latin America) research network launched in 2022, and aims to discuss the weakening of global and regional multilateral human rights systems and memory policies with an emphasis on Latin American countries.

Presentations:

Paulo Abrão – Executive Director of the WBO (Washington Brasil Office).
Gabriela Mitidieri – Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), Argentina.
Camilo M. López Burian – Professor Universidad de la República de Uruguay.

Moderator:

Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, Professor at IRI/ PUC-Rio.
Giancarlo Summa, Director of the United Nations Information Center.

How do small arms and light weapons flow across the borders of Latin America and its territories? On August 28th, 10:00h to 16:00h, IRI/PUC-Rio will bring together national and international experts to discuss contemporary trends and challenges linked to arms flows in Latin America.

Discussions will include issues related to the circulation, control, and effects of rifles on broad social processes that allow the modulation and reproduction of violence. The two roundtables will discuss the current dynamics of the circulation of weapons and how these dynamics fuel and transform armed violence in the region, as well as existing challenges for data production and analysis on arms flows and their control.

The seminar “Transnational Arms Flows in Latin America: Trends and Challenges” will be held on August 28th, 10:00h to 16:00h, in a hybrid format – at the IRI2 Auditorium (R. Marquês de São Vicente, 232 – Gávea) and via Zoom.

The event is held by IRI/PUC-Rio in collaboration with the Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding (CCDP/IHEID) and the Small Arms Survey, with the support of FAPERJ and the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS).

The roundtables will be held in English, offering simultaneous interpretation to Portuguese via Zoom. To participate in virtual format, it will be necessary to make prior registration through the link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PwOsNr51QSKk-nkjCVW-pA

Check out the schedule below:

10h-12h – Small arms and the changing character of contemporary armed violence
Chair: Monica Herz (IRI/PUC-Rio)

Panelists:
Keith Krause (CCDP/IHEID)
Carina Solmirano (ATT Monitor)
Monica Herz (IRI/PUC-Rio)

14h-16h – Small arms in Latin America: tracing flows, mapping norms
Chair: Monica Herz (IRI/PUC-Rio)

Panelists:
Adam Baird (UNIDIR);
Bruno Langeani (Sou da Paz);
Gianluca Boo (Small Arms Survey);
Ignacio Cano (LAV/UERJ and UNAM);
Jorge Restrepo (CERAC / Javeriana).

Technological infrastructures and devices become noticeably more visible and audible when they fail. This is especially true of the algorithmic processes that govern our attention and behavior on digital platforms and applications. In this conference, Professor Fernanda Bruno (Instituto de Psicologia/UFRJ) will explore the potential of technological failures as epistemological and technopolitical opportunities to understand the mode of operation of algorithmic rationality, as well as to contest it and, eventually, make it more open to negotiations. The conference will address cases of recent failures in algorithmic systems aimed at extracting behavioral, emotional and psychological data.

Speaker: Fernanda Bruno (Professor at the Institute of Psychology/UFRJ and Coordinator of MediaLab/UFRJ)

Thematic conference of the IPS Brazil Network.

May 26, 2022. Via Zoom – To get the link send email to: ipsrede@gmail.com

About the speaker
Fernanda Bruno completed her doctorate in Communication from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 2001. She is a post-doctoral fellow at the Institut dӎtudes politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), where she worked as a visiting researcher from 2010 to 2011. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Instituto of Psychology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at UFRJ. She is the author of the books Machines to see, ways of being: surveillance, technology, subjectivity. (Sulina, 2013) and From Sexual to Virtual (Unimarco, 1997) and organizes Surveillance and Visibility: space, technology and identification (Sulina, 2010), Image, visibility and media culture (Sulina, 2007) and Image thresholds: technology and aesthetics in contemporary culture (Mauad, 2006). His areas of interest and research are: technology, subjectivity, body, communication technologies, cyberculture, cognition, surveillance and visibility. She coordinates CiberIdea: Research Center in Communication Technologies, Culture and Subjectivity, at ECO / UFRJ. She is a level 2 researcher at CNPq.