Visiting Scholars Program Lecture Series: Capital Accumulation and Racial Oppression: Contingency or Necessity?
A lecture by Ruy Braga, University of São Paulo
Event Details
Date
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Time
12:30-2 p.m.
Location
Description
Ruy Braga is head of the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at USP, where he coordinates the Center for the Study of Citizenship Rights (Cenedic). He holds a PhD in Social Sciences from Unicamp (2002, with thesis on "The nostalgia of Fordism: elements for a critique of the French Theory of Regulation") and aprofessorship at the University of São Paulo (2012; thesis on "The politics of the precariat: from populism to Lulist hegemony").
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-772-4103 (text only) or email pagac@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Wednesday, January 28, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.