Episode 1: The Past of the Present (with Lilia Moritz Schwarcz)

Описание: In the first episode of imPACT: Diálogos, anthropologist and historian Lilia Moritz Schwarcz sheds light on Brazil’s authoritarian past and offers insights into how this past may be reflected on its present. She draws an unexpected parallel between the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the handling of the influenza in the early 20th century and discusses the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on Brazil’s ‘minoritised majorities’.



Lilia Moritz Schwarcz is senior professor at the University of São Paulo (USP) and visiting professor at Princeton University. She has published several books, including Retrato em branco e preto (1987), O espectáculo das raças (1993), As Barbas do Imperador (1998), A longa viagem da biblioteca dos reis (2002), O sol do Brasil (2008), Um enigma chamado Brasil (with André Botelho, 2009), Brasil : Uma biografia (with Heloisa Starling, 2015), Dicionário da escravidão e Liberdade (with Flavio Gomes, 2018), Lima Barreto. Triste visionário (2018) and Sobre o autoritarismo brasileiro (2019). In 2010, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz received the Comenda do Mérito Científico, and she is a member of the American committee of Human Rights Watch. She writes regularly in Brazilian newspapers such as Folha de S. Paulo, Estado de S. Paulo, Globo and Nexo, for which she has written a column since 2016. Since 2015 she has been assistant curator for histories at the São Paulo Museum of Art.








imPACT: Diálogos is an original production that is part of the ERC-funded PACT: Populism and Conspiracy Theory project at the University of Tübingen, Germany.



It is written, produced, and hosted by PACT postdoctoral researcher, Katerina Hatzikidi.



Sound design and mixing: Ignacio Albornoz Fariña



Cover image: Yul Koh



Special thanks to: Steffi da Silva, Julius Haferkorn, Gabriele Höffner, Michael Butter



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