ERIGAL is pleased to invite you to the public lecture "Venezuela after Maduro: issues from Latin America."
In our commitment to connect current events with academic knowledge, we bring this lecture to the public with internationally renowned experts on the current situation in Venezuela.
Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfCvxYMcaKaZh7LqLnGoumNqIpTa1tkLRvGRdLNXS0nBHqT0w/viewform?usp=header
There is an option to attend the conference online. Please request the link when completing the registration form.
We look forward to seeing you on:
- Wednesday, January 28, 2026
- 🕝 4:00 – 6:00 PM
- 📍 McGill University, Room Leacock 429
- 855 Sherbrooke West
About the Panelists
Verónica Zubillaga is a Venezuelan sociologist. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the Catholic University of Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (2003). Since 2007, she has been a professor at Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas. For over twenty years, she has focused on the study of urban violence in Latin America, youth gang violence in Caracas, as well as gender, public policy, and qualitative methods. In recent years, she has combined academic work with public engagement on social and armed violence, advocating for arms control and disarmament public policies in her country.
Carsten-Andreas Schulz is an Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge. He received his DPhil from Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He previously taught at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His research focuses on Latin America’s relationships with, and contributions to, the international order.
Yoletti Bracho holds a PhD in Political Science and is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Avignon, France. Her doctoral research focuses on institutional militancy—that is, the ways in which mobilized actors strategically use public structures and goods to advance the causes they defend. Her research interests include democratic revolutions, particularly how dissent is built within authoritarian regimes.
Marie-Christine Doran is a Full Professor of comparative politics at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa. She specializes in democratization, human rights, and violence in Latin America. Since 2015, she has also served as a consultant on Latin American issues for Global Affairs Canada.