Kathryn E. Peters
UNM Latin American and Iberian Institute
Thursday, August 13th, 2026, 4:00 p.m.
Botts Hall, Albuquerque Special Collections Library
423 Central NE, Albuquerque, NM (Central & Edith)
AIA’s August lecture will be on “Governing the Plate in Latin America: Lessons in Food Policy and Public Health from Brazil and Chile” and will focus on comparative food policy, looking at Brazil’s national dietary guidelines alongside U.S. food guidelines, both in terms of how they were developed and their public health outcomes. The talk will also briefly incorporate Chile’s front-of-package food labeling policies. Together, these cases offer compelling examples from Latin America of governments prioritizing public health and social well-being over corporate food industry interests, and they open up broader questions about what is politically possible in food policy.
Dr. Kathryn Peters is an instructor and cultural anthropologist with the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico. She also serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the LAII. She holds a PhD from Vanderbilt University & MA in Latin American Studies from UNM. Dr. Peters has extensive experience in Latin American as a development worker and anthropologist, with her research focusing on Paraguay, Brazil, and Chile. She is teaching a course at UNM in the Fall of 2026 on “Food, Politics, & Power in Latin America.”
$15 for AIA Members; $20 for Non-Members; Students under 30 with ID – Free.
Pay online or mail check made out to AIA by August 11th to: AIA, PO Box 92921, Albuquerque, NM 87199.
