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Predatory Extractivism Panel Series- Film Screening: Ironland

  • David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies CGIS South- Tsai Auditorium 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Boston, MA, 02110 United States (map)

Join for a screening of "Ironland" (Brazil, 2021, 99'), a film by Lucas Bambozzi about how extractivism – and massive mining catastrophes – have shaped the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais and its inhabitants. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Andresa Aparecida Rocha Rodrigues, a leader fighting for justice after the collapse of a tailings dam killed 272 people in her community, and Denise Bebbington, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Natural Resource Extraction and Society at Clark University.

Learn more about the panel series on "Predatory Extractivism: Brazil's Largest Mining Catastrophes in a Global Context" and register to attend.

Moderator: Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair, Brazil Studies Program; Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Panelists: Andresa Aparecida Rocha Rodrigues, President, Association of Families of Victims and People Affected by the Córrego do Feijão Mine Dam Crash in Brumadinho (AVABRUM) and Denise Bebbington, Research Associate Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice, Clark University

Dinner and refreshments will be served after the screening and Q&A.

Earlier Event: April 10
The Havana Film Festival New York
Later Event: April 11
Guanabacoa Legacy by Aitana Poey