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INAUGURAL LECTURE FOR 2024 AT IPPUR
My Inaugural Lecture for 2024 at IPPUR—the Institute for Research [...]
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THE MEGA-CITIES PROJECT 2023 -“24 HIGHLIGHTS”
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Invitation to an Event: BOOK SIGNING in Rio de Janeiro , March 14, 2024
BOOK SIGNING in Rio de Janeiro, March 14, 2024 —for [...]
Paperback edition of Favelain Portuguese will be published by Rio Books
The volume has only been available in digital format until now. The launch will be in mid- March in Rio!
Unheard Voices From the Urban Peripheries
In 1965, I spent two months in Pontezinha and Ponte dos Carvalhos, two small towns on the periphery of the Recife. Nearly six decades later I returned as a Fulbright Distinguished Professor, hosted by the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation (FUNDAJ) to learn what had transpired and search for people who were there at that time.