Professor Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin tell the behind-the-scenes story of this remarkable movement in their new book Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women’s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration. As a father-daughter team, they describe the challenges of ethnographic research and the way their collaboration gave them a unique window into a fiery struggle for equality. In 1986, […]
The Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs co-sponsored a conference called Religion, Social Movements, and Zones of Crisis in Latin America with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future in April, 2012. Below are two links to recordings of two of the talks presented at this conference. This is […]
Professor Adam Seligman received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the Paissiy Hilendarski University of Plovdiv in Bulgaria at a ceremony on Monday, January 16th. The honor was bestowed for his achievements in integrating scientific work with practical work around issues of the public good and overcoming religious and […]