The speaker will show how a particular approach to studying activism, through science communication, adds richness and nuance to our understanding and including the relationship between politics, science and the Amazon Forest protection today.

Diogo Lopes de Oliveira is professor of Social Communications at the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil and visiting scholar in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. In 2004, he graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Communications with specialization in Journalism from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Scientific, Medical and Environmental Communications from Pompeu Fabra University (2007), the same institution where he obtained a Ph.D. in Public Communications in 2012.

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