New Conference Series: Uncomfortable Past: Disputes in transitional justice and the memory of dictatorship in recent Brazil
New Conference Series: Uncomfortable Past: Disputes in transitional justice and the memory of dictatorship in recent Brazil
Next Tuesday, 3 March, at 11:30 a.m., Fernando Perlatto, professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Brazil), will give a lecture entitled Disputes in transitional justice and the memory of dictatorship in recent Brazil.
The transition from military dictatorship to democracy in Brazil (1974-1985) was a slow, gradual process controlled by the military, initiated by Ernesto Geisel and completed with the indirect election of Tancredo Neves in 1985. Marked by the 1979 amnesty, the resurgence of the trade union movement and the economic crisis, the process guaranteed impunity for the military, leaving a legacy of lasting political tensions.
Fernando Perlatto is a professor in the Department of History and the Postgraduate Programme in History at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). He holds a PhD in Sociology from the Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP-UERJ), with a doctoral stay at New York University. He is a fellow at CNPQ, working mainly on the following topics: transitional justice, public uses of the past, dictatorship and democracy in Brazil. He is Director of the Institute of Human Sciences at UFJF.
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Further details:
Date: 03/03/2026
Title: Disputes in transitional justice and the memory of dictatorship in recent Brazilian history
Speaker: Fernando Perlatto (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil)
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Classroom 13, Faculty of Geography and History