Thursday, April 17, 2003

WILMINGTON, NC -- James N. Green, associate professor of Latin American history at California State University, Long Beach, will discuss “President Lula, Social Movements and Current Developments in Brazil” at 7 p.m., Monday, April 28, in King Hall, Room 101, at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Green, who is president of the Brazilian Studies Association, will talk about the impact of the October 2002 election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former metalworker and union leader, as president of Brazil. According to Green, Lula’s victory is perhaps the most important positive political and social event in that country since the abolition of slavery in 1888.

“It unravels a long-held notion that only the elites can rule the country and that only a person of wealth and social status has the knowledge, experience and presence to guide the nation forward,” said Green.

The author of Male Homosexuality n 20th Century Brazil, Green is completing the work No Time for Tears: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States, 1964-85.

The UNCW Departments of History, Foreign Languages and Literatures and Sociology and Criminal Justice are sponsoring this free, public lecture.

For more information, contact Dr. Hal Langfur, assistant professor in UNCW’s History Department, at 910/962-3311.