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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Join leading Brazil scholars as they unpack the results and what's at stake in the runoff: sovereignty, U.S. pressure, tariffs, security, and the cost of living. 🗓 Thursday, October 22 | 4 PM 📍 Skylight Room, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu More info: bildner.org

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Call for Proposals for a two-day cross-disciplinary conference on Cuba ⏰ Submission deadline: October 5, 2026 🗓 Conference: April 15–16, 2027 | @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Submit to: rlopez@gc.cuny.edu theodore.henken@baruch.cuny.edu More info: bildner.org

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🎬 Join us for a screening & discussion of Dirty Hands | Manos Sucias, a powerful film followed by a conversation moderated by Jerry W. Carlson. 🗓 Thursday, October 15 | 6:00 PM 📍 Segal Theatre, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu #CUNY

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Come say hi! 👋 We're opening our doors this Tuesday, September 22 from 4:30-6PM. Meet students, faculty, and colleagues who care about the Americas; pizza included 🍕 Room 3300.12, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social RSVP via the QR code on the flyer!

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Join us for a discussion on “Youth, Power, and Social Media in Cuba” featuring new research on Cuban state repression of young people. 🗓️ Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 6 PM 📍 Room 9205, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social RSVP at bildner@gc.cuny.edu Co-organizer: Ciudadanía y Libertad

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The U.S. has designated Brazil's largest cartels as terrorist organizations. What does that mean for trade, corporate exposure, and U.S.-Brazil relations? Join us for a panel discussion on Thursday, September 24 at 12:30 PM 📍 Segal Theatre, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Can Latin America achieve security without sacrificing rights? Join us for a panel challenging the premise that safety requires eroding democracy. 🗓 Mon. September 21 | 4 PM | Skylight Room, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu Co-sponsored by @wola-org.bsky.social

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Join us for a book presentation by Araceli Tinajero, tracing the surprising connections between Asia and the Caribbean 🗓 Fri. September 25 | 5 PM | Segal Theatre, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu #Caribbean #AsianDiaspora #literature #art #CUNY

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Join us for a screening & discussion of Rodrigo D: No Future, moderated by Jerry W. Carlson, Bildner Center Senior Fellow & CUNY Professor. 🗓 Tuesday, Sept. 22 | 6:00 PM 📍 Segal Theatre, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu #cunyevents #bildnercentercuny

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

⏰ Reminder! Join us this Friday for our screening of Dirt! "She lives her life without leaving a mark." 🗓 Friday, May 15 | 6:00 PM 📍 Segal Theatre, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

📋 How do you conduct fieldwork in places in crisis? How do you interview elites? Where do research ethics fit in? Find out at our Professional Development Workshop 🗓 Monday, May 11 | 6:30 PM 📍 PSC Thesis Room (5200.07), @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Co-sponsored by the Bildner Center

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🌳 The Amazon is under threat. Who is fighting back? Join us for a conference on extraction, security, and the environmental challenges facing the Amazon and other critical regions. 🗓 Thursday, April 30 | 12 PM 📍 Segal Theatre, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

"She lives her life without leaving a mark." 🎬 Join us for a screening & discussion of Dirt, moderated by Jerry W. Carlson, Bildner Center Senior Fellow & CUNY Professor. 🗓 Friday, May 15 | 6:00 PM 📍 Segal Theatre, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

🎬 Film Screening & Discussion: Santitos Join us for a special screening followed by a discussion moderated by Jerry W. Carlson, Senior Fellow at the Bildner Center & Professor at CUNY. 🗓 Friday, May 8 | 6:00 PM 📍 Segal Theatre, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

A conversation in Spanish on what it means to be an independent journalist in Cuba today. Lunes 27 de abril · 6 PM Segal Theatre, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social RSVP en bildner@gc.cuny.edu

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

At a moment of major shifts in U.S. foreign policy, what does it mean for Latin America? We're bringing together three of the sharpest analysts in the field. April 2 @ 4pm — @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu #cunyevents #cuny #bildnercentercuny #foreignpolicy

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Democracy is under threat across Latin America. From Mexico to Argentina, authoritarianism is rising. Join scholars analyzing this crisis at "Varieties of Authoritarianism in Latin America" Friday, March 20 | 12:30 PM Segal Theatre, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

📢 Join us TONIGHT for our Spring 2026 Public Policy Workshop! 🎙️ "From Research to Policy: Fieldwork and Applied Scholarship" with Mark Ungar, Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and the GC. 🗓 March 9 | 🕡 6:30 PM | 📍 PSC Thesis Room @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Join the Bildner Center this March and April for film screenings and panels on authoritarianism, foreign policy, and the environment in Latin America at The Graduate Center, CUNY @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Learn more at bildner.org. #cunyevents #bildnercentercuny

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Varieties of Authoritarianism in Latin America Friday, March 20 | 12:30 PM Segal Theatre, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu #Authoritarianism #CUNY #AcademicEvents

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

🎬 Film Screening & Discussion Central Station (Brazil, 1998) 🗓️ Wednesday, March 11 | 6:00 PM 📍 Segal Theatre, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Join us for a screening and conversation around this acclaimed film. RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu #bildnercentercuny #cunyevents #centralstation

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Reposting in case you missed it. Happening next Wednesday!

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Brazil is approaching a pivotal moment. Join us for a panel discussion examining the political, social, and economic challenges shaping Brazil ahead of the 2026 elections. 🗓️ Wed, Feb 25 | 3:00 PM 📍 @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social | Room 9207 📧 RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

What happens when borders become battlegrounds? Join us for a screening and discussion of Border Incident (1949) 🗓️ Feb 11 | 6:00 PM 📍 Segal Theatre, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu #bildnercentercuny #cunyevents #filmscreening

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Join us this February and March for film screenings and conversations on politics and authoritarianism in Latin America. 📍 @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social 🎟 Free & open to the public 🔗 Details at bildner.org

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Happening tomorrow at 6 p.m.—don’t miss it.

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Join us for a screening of María Antonia — a powerful classic of Cuban cinema 🗓️ Tuesday, December 2 – 6 PM  📍 Segal Theatre, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social 👉 RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu Co-sponsored by The Columbia University Seminar on Cuba.

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Anthony Fontes examines how state actors engage in mass disappearance in El Salvador, Mexico, and the United States.

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Dairee Ramírez shows how criminal groups make their moral vocabularies concrete through naming practices, ritual sponsorship, event order, and routine negotiations with officials in Mexico.

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Verónica Zubillaga examines the dynamics of “mano dura” policies in Venezuela.

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Zachariah Mampilly comments on illicit ideologies in Central America and the Caribbean

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Angélica Durán-Martínez breaks down the roles of greed and grievance in driving crime in Colombia

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Dennis Rodgers discusses gangs and the socialization of violence in Nicaragua @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Starting now! Join us for Illicit Ideologies in Latin America The event is beginning — you’re still on time to join the discussion. 📍 @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social 🗓️Today | ⏰ Happening now All are welcome!

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Join us for this roundtable bringing together leading scholars to explore how illicit organizations shape governance and power across Latin America. 🗓️ Thursday, November 13 🕑 2:00 PM 📍 Room 9207, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social 📩 RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Join us for Illicit Ideologies in Latin America, a full-day conference exploring the intersection of crime, politics, and ideology. 🗓️ Friday, November 14 🕘 9:00 AM (Registration begins at 8:30 AM) 📍 Skylight Room, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social 📩 RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Join us for a screening of El ángel exterminador (1962) followed by a Q&A! 🗓️ Tuesday, November 25 🕕 6:00 PM 📍 Segal Theatre, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social 📩 RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu #LuisBuñuel #FilmScreening #ElÁngelExterminador #CUNYEvents #BildnerCenter #ClassicCinema

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Dr. Bishop argued that homicides have decreased but that reduction is exaggerated since homicides are not counted the same way as before. Homicides in prison, deaths at the hands of police, and people who have disappeared are not counted.

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Sarah Bishop, a professor at Baruch College, offered comments noting how Bukele became popular because of his use of image, hiding the erosion of democracy, and the presumption that the country was democratizing at the time he came to power. Inmates are uncommunicated and their rights suspended.

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Why was Bukele’s mass incarceration policy effective? Dr. Cruz provided two reasons: 1) El Salvador is a small country; 2) it has two highly organized gangs. Once you bring those two groups under control crime drops. This is hardly replicable to other countries in the Hemisphere.

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Bukele pursues a prong strategy: negotiation with gangs & a territorial control program, a mano dura policy linked to the same security cohorts that have supported this for many years. In 2022 MS-13 made more aggressive demands and launched an offensive in March that led to 80 homicides in a weekend

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Violence decline began in 2015, 4 years before Nayib Bukele came to power. Bukele, arrived on the scene in the 2010s as a mayor. He reached the presidency becoming very popular through the use of social assistance programs during the COVID pandemic as well as a sophisticated political communication.

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

These policies in the 2000s became the state response for gang violence, leading to increasing mass imprisonment. This produced an unintended consequence: gangs become better organized through their networking in prison. Gangs went from isolation to close communication and operation.

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Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Dr. Cruz showed country's continuity with counterinsurgent policies (e.g., mano dura and super mano dura policies), with members of security forces from civil war remaining in security services after transition to democracy. Political arrangements were not dissolved after democratic transition.

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