Meet our Falling Walls speaker who is breaking the wall of authoritarianism!

The Falling Walls Conversations offer the unique chance to engage in a live conversation with Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. The historian, anthropologist and professor at the University of São Paulo is a speaker at the Falling Walls Breakthrough Day 2022 and a former winner in the category of Social Sciences and Humanities.

In her work, Moritz Schwarcz outlines the path through which democarcies can slowly become autocracies, demonstrating how the decline of Brazilian institutions undermined the role of race, gender and inequality in this process. At the same time, she shows how vigilant democratic engagement and the integration of new concepts and fresh principles may be used in nations around the world to preserve democracy.

In 2021, she was awarded the Reimar Lüst Prize, which is awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, enabling her to spend a research period at the FU Berlin starting in the summer semester of 2022.

More information about the event here.