Intervenants:

Christian JECOV SCHALLENMÜLLER is Professor of Political Science at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), postdoctoral fellow, and visiting researcher at the Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po, Paris (2024-2025). Previously, he served as a substitute professor of political theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of São Paulo (USP). He holds a postdoctoral degree in International Relations, as well as a Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from USP. He earned a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC/SP) and a degree in Philosophy from USP. He was a Fulbright doctoral fellow at The New School for Social Research, New York (2013-2014). He is an assistant editor of Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política and was coordinator of the Undergraduate Commission for the Public Policy program at UFRGS (2023-2024). His areas of focus include Political Theory, Human Rights, Modern and Contemporary Constitutionalism.

David NEMER is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies and an Affiliate Faculty in Anthropology and the Latin American Studies program at the University of Virginia. He is also a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. His research and teaching interests cover the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS), Anthropology of Technology, ICT for Development (ICT4D), and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Nemer is an ethnographer whose fieldwork includes the slums of Vitória, Brazil; Havana, Cuba; Guadalajara, Mexico; and Eastern Kentucky, Appalachia. Nemer is the author of Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press, 2022) — winner of the 2022 Marcel Roche Book Award and the 2024 Sally Hacker Book Award — and Favela Digital: The Other Side of Technology (Editora GSA, 2013). He holds an MA in Anthropology from the University of Virginia, an MS in Computer Science from Saarland University, and a Ph.D. in Computing, Culture, and Society from Indiana University. Nemer has written for The Guardian, El País, The Huffington Post (HuffPost), Salon, The Intercept, O Globo, UOL, and CartaCapital.

Threats to Democracy in Brazil