University of Montana
Presidential Lecture Series 2007-2008
Presidential Lecture Series 2007-2008
Kenneth Maxwell
Senior Fellow at Harvard Univerity's
David Rockefeller Center of Latin American Studies
Visiting Professor in the Department of History, Harvard University
In collaboration with the Davidson Honors College
“The Red Wave in Latin America:
What the Turn to the Left Means for the United States”
Monday, 4 December 2006
8:00 P.M.
University Center Ballroom
From 1993 to 2004, Professor Maxwell worked as the Western Hemisphere book reviewer for Foreign Affairs, and he remains an active writer on Latin American politics and history for such publications as the New York Review of Books. He will discuss the trends and events that have brought left-wing critics of the United States to the forefront of Latin American politics.
In addition, Professor Maxwell will give a faculty-student seminar entitled "Contemporary Brazil: Continuity and Change" from 3:10-4:30 P.M. in Gallagher Business Building 123.
