10/08/2026
Please join the upcoming Sociology Colloquium, where Verónica Zubillaga, Richard E. Greenleaf Scholar-in-Residence, will present a talk titled "The Landscape of Violence in Venezuela: Women's Everyday Responses to Armed Actors in the Maduro Era."
Date: Friday, October 9, 2026
Time: 1:00–2:30 PM
Location: 301 Howard Tilton
Dr. Zubillaga is a Venezuelan sociologist and was a professor at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas until 2024. For more than two decades, her ethnographic research has examined the social dynamics of urban violence in Caracas with a particular focus on inequality, structural violence, youth subjectivities, gender practices, state violence, parastate armed actors, and strategies deployed by residents of poor and working-class neighborhoods in Caracas, especially mothers, to navigate the presence of guns and armed actors in their everyday life.
