On Monday 15 June 2026, the World Political Analysis Laboratory, in partnership with the Jean Monnet Chair at UERJ, is pleased to invite Prof. Kevin Parthenay (Université de Tours) to give a lecture at our headquarters at the Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP-UERJ). Between 10.30 am and 12.30 pm, the researcher from the Latin American and Caribbean Political Observatory (OPALC/Sciences Po) will present his current research agenda through the lecture Latin America and the contemporary global order. Open to all interested parties, not just LABMUNDO researchers or IESP-UERJ students, the talk will be given in English, without simultaneous interpretation, at the Carlos Hasenbalg Room.

PhD in Comparative Politics at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), Kevin Parthenay is a tenured professor of political science at the University of Tours (France). In addition to his work as a researcher at OPALC, he serves as a Junior Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) and as an associate researcher at the United Nations University (UNU-CRIS). Together with Elodie Brum, he co-edits the ‘Latin America and the Caribbean’ section of the Annuaire français des Relations Internationales (AFRI), as well as serving as editor of the ‘regional multilateralism’ section of the Observatoire du multilatéralisme (GRAM). His main publications include A Political Sociology of Regionalisms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Crises in Latin America. Les démocraties déracinées (Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2020) and Politique de l’Amérique latine (co-authored with Frédéric Louault; Bruylant, 2023). His research focuses on comparative regionalism, Latin America’s place in global multilateralism, the foreign policy of Latin American states, and democracy in Central America.

Organised by LABMUNDO and the Jean Monnet Chair, this event is supported by the project Autonomy and Multilateral Reconfigurations: EU-Latin America Relations (AURELA), through the CAPES/COFECUB Programme.