In the fifth episode of imPACT: Diálogos, historian João Cezar de Castro Rocha speaks about Orvil, a book written by members of the Armed Forces as an answer to Brasil: Nunca Mais, the watershed book project that documents episodes of torture and violence during the military dictatorship. He reflects on the influence of Orvil on the current administration and on the Bolsonaro family in particular, and analyses the ‘hate rhetoric’ found in their political discourse.

João Cezar de Castro Rocha is Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He is the author of several books, among them, Literatura e cordialidade: O público e o privado na cultura brasileira and the O exílio do homem cordial: Ensaios e revisões. Among other distinctions, João Cezar has received the Endowed Chair Machado de Assis of Latin American Studies and was Ministry of Culture Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin, and John and Rose Jackson Fellow at Yale University.

imPACT: Diálogos is an original production that is part of the ERC-funded PACT: Populism and Conspiracy Theory project at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

It is written, produced, and hosted by PACT postdoctoral researcher, Katerina Hatzikidi.

Sound design and mixing: Ignacio Albornoz Fariña

Cover image: Yul Koh

Special thanks to: Steffi da Silva, Julius Haferkorn, Gabriele Höffner, Michael Butter

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