07/20/2020
We are excited to announce our next *FREE* webinar for our summer webinar series! ✨✨
What does globalization mean to you? How do connections between countries enable or disable us from progressing as a global society? Join us on Zoom this coming Saturday at 10:00AM Eastern Standard Time to learn more from the well-esteemed Dr. Antonio Torres-Ruiz. Registration link in bio!
Once again, this webinar is FREE and E-Certificates will be issued to those who attend and participate in the full webinar. We look forward to having you join!! 🤩
Dr. Antonio Torres-Ruiz is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Toronto, both in the Department of Political Science and the Latin American Studies Program, and has taught at York University (Toronto, Canada) in the Department of Equity Studies and at the Centre for International Studies at El Colegio de México (Mexico City). He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York, and specializes in democratization, identity politics, global political economy, and globalization, with a focus on Latin America and North America. His publications include contributions for several academic journals such as Latin American Research Review (U.S.), International Journal (Canada), História, Ciencias, Saude (Brazil), Journal of Latin American Studies (U.K.), Latin American Politics and Society (U.S.), Working Papers Series, CIDE (Mexico), and Crítica Contemporánea (Uruguay). Among other book contributions, he co-authored a book chapter and co-edited a volume on contentious politics in North America with the late UofT professor Stephen Clarkson. In 2018, he published a single-authored book on The Political Economy of HIV/AIDS in Mexico, by Common Ground Research Networks, University of Illinois Research Park, and he is currently working on two different projects: a) a critique of the democratization literature in political science, with a special focus on the ontology and genealogy of the human rights discourse, and b) A Ford Foundation-funded project on Afro-descendants and participatory research in Cuba.