{"id":33807,"date":"2024-10-17T12:46:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T16:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?p=33807"},"modified":"2024-10-17T16:50:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T20:50:17","slug":"upcoming-event-violence-and-society-political-responses-from-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2024\/10\/17\/upcoming-event-violence-and-society-political-responses-from-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardee Center Hosts First Event of New &#8220;Violence and Society&#8221; Seminar Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2024\/10\/violenceandsociety1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2024\/10\/violenceandsociety1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2024\/10\/violenceandsociety1-533x300.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2024\/10\/violenceandsociety1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2024\/10\/violenceandsociety1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On October 15, 2024, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted the first event of its &#8220;Violence and Society&#8221; seminar series. The event explored how criminal and state violence have become a defining feature of everyday life and politics in Latin America, and the ways in which urban violence is shaping urban governance in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The panel discussion, which was co-sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Latin American Studies<\/a>, brought together political scientists and sociologists working on a wide range of political responses to violence in the region. The panel included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccabellmartin.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Bell-Martin<\/a> (Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey, M\u00e9xico), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latam.ufl.edu\/people\/center-based-faculty\/rebecca-hanson\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Hanson<\/a> (University of Florida, Harvard-DRCLAS), and <a href=\"https:\/\/forskning.ruc.dk\/en\/persons\/muellerm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Markus-Michael M\u00fcller<\/a> (Roskilde University, Denmark). The discussion was moderated by Boston University Assistant Professor of Sociology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/profile\/ana-villarreal\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ana Villarreal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The series, which is convened by Prof. Villarreal as part of her work as a Pardee Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/community\/pardee-fellows\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty Research Fellow,<\/a> seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogues among sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, and historians conducting cutting-edge scholarship on violence, in the hope of together producing a more transnational and combined approach to these issues than is currently available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 15, 2024, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted the first event of its &#8220;Violence and Society&#8221; seminar series. The event explored how criminal and state violence have become a defining feature of everyday life and politics in Latin America, and the ways in which urban violence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5494,84,60],"tags":[5381,5377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33807"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33840,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33807\/revisions\/33840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}