Event Description
2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of Chile’s MIR (Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, or Movement of the Revolutionary Left). Dr. Schlotterbeck sheds light on how grassroots organizing strategies endured despite the defeat of the Latin American Left’s vanguard politics.
Speaker
Marian Schlotterbeck is an assistant professor of history at UC Davis, where she teaches courses on modern Latin America, social revolutions, and human rights.
Read "Reflecting on the Revolutionary Left" by Marian Schlotterbeck in the Fall 2015 Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies.