As part of our commitment to connecting current events with academic knowledge, we held yesterday at McGill University the conference “Venezuela after Maduro: Issues from Latin America”, bringing together internationally renowned experts on the country’s current situation.
The event featured:
- Verónica Zubillaga
- Yoletti Bracho
- Carsten-Andreas Schulz
The conference was moderated by:
- Tania Islas Weinstein
- Juan Pablo Luna
The event gathered a large audience, both in person and online, highlighting the strong interest in this issue of international relevance.
Many thanks to all participants.
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.