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Latin America and The Right plus The “Don-roe Doctrine” with Dr. Kirwin Shaffer

April 14, 2027 @ 11:30 am - 1:15 pm

Dr. Kirwin Shaffer is Professor of Latin American Studies at Penn State Berks. He teaches courses on Latin American and Caribbean History, Latin American Studies, Global Terrorism, Tyranny and Freedom, Globalization, and Global Cinema. His research focuses on Caribbean history and transnational anarchism in the Americas.

His books on anarchist politics and culture in Latin America include Anarchism and Countercultural Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (University Press of Florida, 2005), re-issued as Anarchist Cuba: Countercultural Politics in the Early Twentieth Century (PM Press, 2019); Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico, 1897-1921 (University of Illinois Press, 2013/2020); In Defiance of Boundaries: Anarchism in Latin American History (University Press of Florida, 2015/2017), co-edited with Geoffroy de Laforcade; and Anarchists of the Caribbean: Countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion (Cambridge University Press, 2020). He is also a co-editor of Anarchist Militants: Biographies, Historiographies, and Transnational Lives (PM Press).

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Buffet opens at 11:30 AM. The presentation begins at noon.

Members – $30.00
Non-members – $35.00
Students – $15.00
Non-eaters – $10.00

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  • Date: April 14, 2027
  • Time:
    11:30 am - 1:15 pm
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