FALL
2004 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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Welcome
Back Reception
The
Center for Latin American Studies would like to invite
you to celebrate the beginning of another exciting year.
Please join us for an informal reception.
Wednesday,
September 1, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Lovell S. Jarvis
"The Long Term Agricultural Effects of Economic and Land Reforms in
Chile, 1965–2000"
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Lovell S. Jarvis |
Chile
was the first Latin American country to engage in significant
and sustained economic reform combined with land reform,
beginning in the mid-1960s. Land reform ended around
1978, but the economic reforms were redirected and
intensified between 1974 and 1984. This talk will examine
the impact
that reforms of the agricultural sector have had over
the long term, including relative prices, income growth
and distribution, political impact, product mix, employment
and technology.
Lovell
S. “Tu” Jarvis Lovell S. Jarvis is a professor
in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
at UC Davis. Professor Jarvis conducts research on agricultural
development and agricultural policy in less-developed
countries. He has written on international trade issues,
biotechnology and nutrition policy in developing countries.
Jarvis has also written extensively on the historical
development of Chile’s agricultural sector.
Recent
paper by Lovell Jarvis: "The
Impact of Fruit Sector Development on Female Employment and
Household Income"
Monday,
September 13, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photo
of the event
Sneak
Preview
“Diarios de Motocicleta / The Motorcycle Diaries”
Directed by Walter Salles (2004)
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Gael
García Bernal (right) stars as Che Guevara.
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Based
on the journals kept by Ernesto “Che” Guevara
while crossing South America by motorcycle with his friend
Alberto Granado in the early 1950s, The Motorcycle Diaries follows
the young men as they unveil the rich and complex social
topography of the Latin American continent.
128
minutes. Spanish with English subtitles.
“The
Motorcycle Diaries is a beautifully wrought account
of the dawning of the social conscience of one of
the 20th century's most romanticized revolutionaries.” — Variety
Tickets
will be distributed at 6:00 pm at the Pacific Film
Archive on a first come, first served basis. The
doors to the theater open at 6:40 pm.
Monday,
September 13, 7:00 pm
Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way
Art
Opening
Juanita Pérez-Adelman
“Markets”
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Canastas
/ Brooms, Mercados I (2003)
by Juanita Adelman.
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The
Mexican market is an immensely rich visual and psychic
encounter of food, taste, smell, sound, esthetic form
and texture. Juanita Pérez–Adelman transforms
this experience into images in her most recent work “Markets.” The
series consists of a polyptych that is in constant evolution
and whose number of pieces changes. Through the fragmentation
of the object, the use of collage, photography and the
objects themselves, “Markets” invites the
viewer to participate in a kind of puzzle or game in
which the familiar and known is seen anew.
Art
Exhibit August 30 – December 10, 2004
For exhibit hours, please call (510) 642-2088
Join
us for the artist’s talk, followed by an opening
reception:
Tuesday,
September 14, 2004, 5:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photos
of the event
Kirsten
Sehnbruch
“Privatized Unemployment Insurance in Chile”
In
2002 the Chilean government implemented a new unemployment
insurance plan which it claimed was the first genuine
alternative to traditional forms of unemployment
benefits. Already, the Chilean government is advising
other Latin American countries on how to copy this
model. However, while the new plan benefits those
who already have good jobs, it does little for those
on the lower rungs of the economic ladder who are
most likely to face unemployment.
Kirsten
Sehnbruch received her Ph.D. from Cambridge University
with a dissertation on the Chilean labor market.
She has worked as a consultant to the Chilean government
on a range of issues related to the labor market,
the new unemployment insurance and the pension system.
Wednesday,
September 22, 1:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photo
of the event
Bridges
Summer Field Research Symposium
This two-day symposium is a unique opportunity to
learn about the current research done by UC Berkeley
graduate students who spent last summer in Latin America.
Field research grants were provided by CLAS with the
generous support of Robert and Alice Bridges.
Schedule
of presentations
Tuesday,
September 28, 2:00 – 5:00
pm and
Wednesday, September 29, 2:00 – 5:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Russell Cohen and Matt Eisenbrandt
“The Archbishop Romero Case: Legal Accountability in U.S.
Courts”
No one has been held accountable for the 1980 assassination
of Archbishop Oscar Romero, an outspoken critic of
human rights abuses in El Salvador, until now. In August
2004, a California judge ordered Alvaro Saravia to
pay $10 million in damages for arranging the assassination
on behalf of Roberto D’Aubuisson, founder of
the ARENA party which still governs El Salvador. The
judgment has prompted calls for the Salvadoran government
to renew its investigation into the assassination and
served as an example of how U. S. courts can be used
as a means of combating impunity.
Russell Cohen, of
Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe
LLP, and Matt Eisenbrandt, of the Center for Justice & Accountability,
are two of the attorneys who brought the case against
Romero’s killers.
Website reporting the verdict in the case against
Alvaro Saravia
Wednesday, September 29, 4:00
pm
Room 3, LeConte Hall
Analysis
and photos
of the event
Daniel
A. Sumner
"Agricultural Trade Disputes and U.S. Farm Subsidies: Implications for
Latin America"
Professor Sumner
will review how Brazil has used the World Trade Organization’s
provisions for dispute resolution to challenge U.S. and EU farm subsidy
programs. The ongoing cotton dispute and Brazil’s challenge to
EU sugar subsidies will be outlined along with their impact on the
Doha Development Agenda negotiations. Latin American economic development
and international relations will also be discussed.
Daniel A. Sumner
is the Frank H. Buck Jr. Professor in the Department of Agricultural
and Resource Economics at UC Davis and the Director of the University
of California Agricultural Issues Center. Professor Sumner’s
research includes all aspects of agricultural policy, with an emphasis
on agricultural trade policy and the WTO and dairy industry issues.
Monday,
October 4, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos
of the event
“Abril
Despedaçado / Behind the Sun”
Directed by Walter Salles (2001)
Ordered by
his father to avenge the death of his older brother, a young man questions
the tradition of violence between two rival families living in the desert
landscape of the Brazilian Northeast.
99 minutes. Portuguese with English subtitles.
“Carvalho’s
superb cinematography, Antonio Pinto’s score and a dedicated
cast and crew admirably sustain this poetic and uncompromising film.” — Los
Angeles Times
Wednesday,
October 6, 7:00pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Rudy
Monterroso
“50 Years Under the Gun: The Real Legacy of `Regime Change’ in Guatemala”
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by Jonathan Moller.) |
Despite
the end of armed conflict in 1996, human rights violations continue
to plague Guatemala and remain a serious obstacle
to efforts to rebuild
society. Many current and former members of the military are still in
positions of power, both openly and clandestinely, across political and
economic lines. This talk will focus on militarization and its consequences;
efforts to investigate and prosecute clandestine security apparatuses;
and victim’s reparations.
Rudy Monterroso
is the Program Coordinator for the International Center for Research
in Human Rights (CIIDH), founded in 1993 to research
the
impact of militarization and to promote, defend and disseminate information
on human rights in Guatemala. Much of Monterroso’s recent work
has focused on reparations issues.
This
talk will be held in Spanish, but an interpreter will be present.
Thursday,
October 7, 3:30 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photo
of the event
Symposium
“Pathways
From Socialism: Agriculture in Post-1990 Nicaragua and Cuba”
Nicaragua
and Cuba have each experienced a shift in their overarching political
and economic agendas since 1990. In Nicaragua
the shift has
represented a retreat from socialism, while in Cuba it has represented
a reconfiguring of socialism. This symposium will examine one area of
policy-making — agriculture — to analyze the impact of this
shift on the economy and those who engage in agricultural production.
Speakers:
“Changes in Nicaragua’s
Agriculture Since 1990: The Atlantic Coast”
Selmira Flores is a Social Researcher at NITLAPAN-Universidad Centroamericana
(UCA), Managua. She has conducted extensive research on gender and economic
development and the situation of agriculture and agricultural marketing
in Nicaragua.
-Download
the Powerpoint presentations (#1 and #2) used by Ms. Flores
“Small
Farmers and Technological Change in Cuba”
Lucy Martin is a Sociologist-Researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones
Psicológicas y Sociológicas (CIPS), La Habana. She conducts
research on social structures and the inequalities that arise from
them, focusing particularly on small farmers.
-Download
paper on which this portion of the symposium is based (.pdf file)
“Cooperatives:
A Key Line of Agrarian Development in Cuba”
Armando Nova is an Economist at the Centro de Estudio de la Economía
Cubana, Universidad de La Habana. He has studied the cooperative sector
in Cuban agriculture, farmers’ markets in the post-1990 period
and the sugar and citrus industries and their international linkages.
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paper on which this portion of the symposium is based (.pdf file)
Presider:
Laura Enríquez is Associate Professor of Sociology
at UC Berkeley. Dr. Enríquez has conducted extensive research
on Nicaraguan and Cuban agriculture in the context of each country’s
larger political and economic agenda.
Monday,
October 11, 12:00 – 2:00 pm
223 Moses Hall (map)
Photo
of the event
Bárbara
Belloc
“Poesía argentina hoy: las polémicas después
de los ‘90”
Tras el “boom” creativo-editorial y la catástrofe
económica que cerraron el último milenio, la poesía
argentina buscó, como es su costumbre, las vías más
inesperadas para darse a conocer y seguir interpelando a sus lectores.
La propuesta es revisar los rasgos estilísticos y políticos
más salientes de esa década en la obra de algunos autores “jóvenes” y
abrir el camino a los nuevos modos de difusión/producción
de la poesía en Argentina.
Bárbara Belloc es poeta, editora, traductora y periodista cultural.
Publicó los libros de poesía Bla, Sentimental journey,
Ambición de las flores, Ira y Orang-utans; la investigación
periodística Tribus porteñas; y el libro-objeto de fotografías
y textos digitalizados Obrero artificial. Actualmente prepara la publicación
de su libro de prosas breves Espantasuegras. Su obra ha sido antologada
en la Argentina, México y Brasil.
Cosponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department
of Comparative Literature.
This lecture will be in Spanish.
Tuesday, October 12, 12:00 pm
5125 Dwinelle Hall (map)
Mariclaire
Acosta
“The Women of Ciudad Juárez”
Between
1993 and 2003 more than 300 women were murdered in the border town
of Ciudad Juárez. In at least 86 of these cases, the victims
exhibited signs of extreme violence including torture, rape and mutilation.
Most of the slain women were poor immigrants from rural Mexico between
15 and 25 years of age.
The lecture
will explore the causes of this extreme violence as well the reasons
why the Mexican State has failed to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators
of these crimes.
Mariclaire
Acosta Urquidi is the former subsecretary for Human Rights and Democracy
in the Secretariat of Foreign Relations Office in Mexico. Her career
in the field of human rights has led her on missions ranging from investigating
the treatment of immigrants in the United States to studying the effects
of violence in Colombia. Currently she is a member of the Advisory
Council on Foreign Relations and a board member for the Center for
Justice and International Law (CEJIL).
Wednesday,
October 13, 4:00 pm
Room 223, Moses Hall (map)
Analysis
and photo of the event
Martín
Hopenhayn
"Jóvenes en América Latina: entre protagonistas y postergados"
En
los campos de la participación social y el ejercicio ciudadano,
la juventud latinoamericana dista mucho de los impulsos utópicos
y mesiánicos de generaciones precedentes. Han cambiado radicalmente
los espacios y los motivos que los nuclean. Las dificultades para conciliar
sus aspiraciones de inclusión social con sus nuevas pulsiones
de individuación plantean hoy los desafíos principales
a programas públicos que buscan promover la participación
juvenil. Ni redimidos por grandes proyectos de cambio social, ni reconocidos
en condición de plena ciudadanía, los y las jóvenes
ocupan hoy un lugar incierto y contradictorio entre la autonomía
cultural y la dependencia material, entre más educación
y menos empleo, entre el ideal de plenitud presente y la exigencia de
capital humano futuro, entre más información y menos
poder.
Martín Hopenhayn ha sido profesor de filosofía en la Universidad
de Chile (1980-1985, 1993 y 1998), Universidad Diego Portales (1983-1988)
y Academia de Humanismo Cristiano (1982-1983). Desde 1989 es investigador
a tiempo completo de la División de Desarrollo Social de la Comisión
Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y durante
2004 ejerce como Oficial a Cargo de dicha División. Es autor de
más de cincuenta artículos en temas como integración
social, situación y políticas educativas, y dimensiones
culturales y sociales de la juventud en Iberoamérica. Es autor
del libro “Ni apocalipticos ni integrados: aventuras de la modernidad
en America Latina” que obtuvo el Premio Iberoamericano de Ensayo
de LASA en 1997, y fue traducido al ingles por Duke University Press.
Cosponsored
by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department
of Comparative Literature.
This lecture will be given in Spanish.
Thursday,
October 14, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photos
of the event
Peter
H. Smith
Illiberal Democracy in Latin America
Democratization in contemporary Latin America is a complex
process. The most common polity throughout the region has become “illiberal” democracy — a
form that combines free and fair elections with systematic restrictions
on civil liberties. A central question is whether these “illiberal” democracies
are likely (a) to endure, (b) to backslide into some version of authoritarianism,
or (c) move in a more liberal direction.
Peter H. Smith is Professor of Political Science and
Simón Bolívar
Professor of Latin American Studies at UC San Diego. He is a specialist
on comparative politics, Latin American politics, and U.S.–Latin
American relations. Professor Smith has been an affiliate of CLAS since
2003.
-CLAS Working
Paper "Cycles
of Electoral Democracy in Latin America, 1900-2000" by
Peter H. Smith (.pdf file)
-Download
paper "The Rise of Illiberal Democracy in Latin America" on
which talk is based (.pdf file)
Monday
October 18, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos
of the event
Claudine
LoMonaco & Mary
Spicuzza
Video Premiere: “Matías”
More than
3,000 people have died trying to cross the U.S.–Mexico
border in the last decade. Filmmakers Claudine LoMonaco and Mary Spicuzza
came face to face with one migrant’s tragedy when they met with
the family of Matías Juan García Zavaleta, a father of
two who perished in the Arizona desert during what U.S. border officials
call the “season of death.” In this documentary, LoMonaco
and Spicuzza interview the brother who accompanied Matías García
on his tragic journey as well as the wife, children and parents he left
behind.
Claudine
LoMonaco and Mary Spicuzza are correspondents for Frontline/World and
have recently received their master’s
degrees from the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley.
Wednesday, October 20, 4:00 pm
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall (map)
Article
on the film and photo
of the event
Panel
Discussion
“Perspectives on Immigration”
- Gilbert
Cedillo, California State Senator (D-Los Angeles)
- Maria Echaveste, Attorney and CEO Nueva Vista Group;
Deputy Chief of Staff, Clinton Administration (1998-2000)
- Philip Martin, Professor of Agricultural and Resource
Economics; Chair of UC Comparative Immigration & Integration Program,
UC Davis
- Harley Shaiken, Professor of Education and Geography;
Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley
- Lucas Guttentag, Director of the ACLU National Immigrants’ Rights
Project; Lecturer, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley
Thursday,
October 21, 4:00 pm
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall (map)
Analysis
and photos of the event
Estela
Neves
"Brazil 2004: Environmental Challenges and Local Action"
0What are
the possibilities and limitations of municipal action in applying environmental
policies in Latin America? To what extent can local authorities fulfill
their constitutional responsibility regarding environmental management?
In this talk, Neves will examine the decentralization process of the
90s, how it changed the context of government action in the environmental
arena and how local governments are responding to the new challenges.
She will compare the situation in Brazil with that of Mexico, another
environmentally rich country that shares many common threats.
Estela Neves
is an environmental planner affiliated with the Universidade Federal
Rural do Rio de Janerio. She specializes in environmental policies
and management, particularly at the local government level. Originally
trained as an architect and urban planner, Neves has 18 years of professional
experience in environmental planning. She is currently a visiting scholar
at CLAS.
Monday,
October 25, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos
of the event
Symposium:
Brazil's Alternative Ways to Health
As the United States struggles with the its health care crisis and the
rising costs of medicare, there are different models used elsewhere
that we could look for inspiration. In the last years the idea of participatory
democracy has spread in Brazil, and with it new patterns of health
delivery. Porto Alegra has led the way. It created a universal program,
which deals with medical care, the promotion of health, and the connection
to needs throughout the city. Brazil has also demonstrated how Health
Cities - a worldwide program - can be a paradigm both for health and
for community governance.
Registration is required. Call 642-9513, email ccadigal@berkeley.edu,
or visit the conference website at http://sph.berkeley.edu:7133/news/events/brazil_conf.htm
Tuesday, October 26, 9:00 am- 5:15 pm
Wednesday, October 27, 9:00
am-12:00 pm
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall (8th Floor)
“Central
do Brasil / Central Station”
Directed by Walter Salles (1998)
A former school
teacher and a young boy whose mother has just died in a car accident take
an emotional journey to Brazil’s remote Northeast in search of the
father he never knew.
113 minutes. Portuguese with English subtitles.
”Normally
the sound in movie theaters is of popcorn crunching.
But the sound at theaters where Central Station is
showing is of hearts breaking.” — New York
Daily News
Wednesday,
October 27, 7:00 pm
Room 155, Kroeber Hall (map)
Suzana
Sawyer
“Suing ChevronTexaco: Citizenship, Contamination and Capitalism in the
Ecuadorian Amazon”
In November 1993, a Philadelphia law firm filed a $1.5
billion dollar class-action lawsuit against Texaco Inc.
in the New York Federal Court on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadorian
citizens. The plaintiffs sought reparations for alleged
health problems and environmental degradation resulting
from over 25 years of Texaco's petroleum activity in
the Ecuadorian Amazon. Nearly ten years later, after
being shuffled back and forth between the U.S. Federal
Court and the Court of Appeals, the lawsuit was transferred
to Ecuador, and the trial began in October 2003. Professor
Sawyer will discuss the case and its implications for
citizenship and corporate behavior in Ecuador and beyond.
Suzana Sawyer is Associate Professor in the Department
of Anthropology at UC Davis. Her current research focuses
on conflict over oil operations in Ecuador. Her new research
examines the lawsuit against Texaco, focusing specifically
on what it tells us about shifting regimes of citizenship,
sovereignty and law.
-Professor
Sawyer's homepage at UC Davis
REFERENCES
2002 "Bobbittizing
Texaco: Dis-membering Corporate Capital and Re-membering
the Nation in Ecuador" Cultural Anthropology.
17 (2): 150-180.
2001 "Fictions
of Sovereignty: Prosthetic Petro-Capitalism, Neoliberal
States, and Phantom-Like Citizens in Ecuador." Journal
of Latin American Anthropology. 6 (1): 156-197.
Monday,
November 1, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Article
about and photo of the event
Ximena
Cuevas
Ximena Cuevas and the Laboratory of Life
Artist in Residence, November 3-5
Absorbed by the minutiae of the everyday, Cuevas
calls her spirited work a "laboratory of life," an experimental process, personal in
its origins but public in its scope. She looks upon Mexico City with
an eye that carefully scrutinizes the world from the inside out, finding
the secret whispers of individual yearning as telling as the great urban
tumult. Cuevas begins with unadorned observations of mundane Mexican
life, then reinvents them through her forceful vision. She is preoccupied
with the implications of received behavior, with notions such as romance
and machismo — in other words, with the myths that charge a culture.
As
artist in residence, Cuevas will present videoworks spanning
the early 1980s to the present, as well as a Free
First Thursday screening of recent video art from
Mexico City which she has selected for the occasion.
On Friday afternoon she will conduct a free salon centered
on her artistic process, conceived especially for students
and aspiring artists.
More
information, and a schedule of Ms. Cuevas’ visit
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Wednesday,
November 3 – Friday,
November 5
All Events at the Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft
Way
Cristovam
Buarque
“Education and Political Transformation in Brazil”
Cristovam
Buarque is a member of the Brazilian Senate. He previously
served as Minister
of Education (2003-04)
and governor of the Federal District of Brasília
(1995-98) and is the founder and president of Missão
Criança, an NGO which aims to help the children
of poor families attend school. He holds a degree from
the University of Pernambuco in mechanical engineering
and a doctorate from the Sorbonne in Economics.
-Download
Senator Buarque's Powerpoint presentation Thursday, November 4, 4:00 pm
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall (map)
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Oral
history interview from
"1932: Scars of Memory"
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Jeff
Gould
"1932: Scars of Memory"
In January 1932 indigenous communities together with
a communist-led union rose up against local authorities
and seized control of five towns in western El Salvador.
The military government responded with unprecedented
violence: in the week after the revolt, the army executed
10,000 Salvadorans. This terror devastated indigenous
communities and silenced political debate in the country
for decades.
In this extraordinary film, historians Jeff Gould and
Carlos Henriquez Consalvi bring together documentary
research, photographs and oral history interviews to
tell the story of the massacre for the first time.
The screening of the film will be followed by comments
from the director.
Jeff Gould is Professor of Latin American History at
Indiana University.
Cosponsored by the Department of History and the Muriel
McKevitt Sonne Chair in Latin American History
Monday,
November 8, 2:00 pm
Auditorium, Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way
Cristina
Fernández de Kirchner
“Women in Latin American Politics”
Senator
Fernández de Kirchner represents the province
of Santa Cruz and is the first lady of Argentina. She
has also held the post of national deputy and served
three terms as the provincial deputy of that state.
Senator Fernández de Kirchner currently heads
the Senate’s Constitutional Affairs Committee
and is a member of the Judiciary Committee where she
has played a central role in formulating and implementing
the current administration’s institutional reforms.
Monday,
November 8, 4:00 pm
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall (map)
Analysis
and photos
of the event
Teresa
Caldeira
“Democratizing the Neoliberal City”
Teresa
Caldeira is Associate Professor of Anthropology at
the UC Irvine. She is the author of City of Walls:
Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo (2001).
Monday,
November 8, 5:00 pm
Room 112, Wurster Hall (map)
Beatriz
Manz
“The Legacy of a Coup: A Guatemalan Village Perspective”
Fifty
years ago the CIA orchestrated its first coup in Latin
America. The overthrow of the democratically elected
government in Guatemala was hailed by the U.S. as a
victory for freedom and democracy. However, when viewed
from a Guatemalan perspective the Cold War years had
more to do with military dictatorships, death, destruction
and dislocation, a legacy that is still hard to undo.
Beatriz
Manz is Professor of Geography and Ethnic Studies at
UC Berkeley. She is the author of Paradise
to Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror and
Hope, a social and political history of a village
in the Guatemalan rainforest.
Monday,
November 15, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos of the event
Rigoberta
Menchú
“The Legacy of War in Guatemala: Continuous Human Rights
Abuses”
Rigoberta
Menchú received the Nobel Peace Prize
in 1992 for her work on indigenous people’s rights.
Born to a poor K’iche’ Maya family, Menchú became
involved in social reform activities in the late 1970s.
After several members of her family were tortured and
killed by Guatemalan government forces, she became increasingly
active in the Committee for Peasant Union (CUC). Forced
to flee to Mexico in 1981, she continued her involvement
on behalf of poor peasants in Guatemala and assumed an
international role in exposing human rights violations
in her war-torn country. In 1983, the story of her life,
I, Rigoberta Menchú was published and has since
been translated into more than a dozen languages. She
currently heads the Rigoberta Menchú Foundation
with offices in Guatemala City and Mexico City.
Introductory remarks by Professor Beatriz Manz.
Plan to arrive early as seating is limited. Tickets
will be passed out at the door.
Thursday, November 18, 2:00
pm
Lipman Room, 8th Floor, Barrows Hall
Analysis
and photos
of the event
Rodrigo Sabbatini
“Free Trade Area of the Americas: Perspectives From Brazil”
How is the FTAA viewed from Brazil? Part
of the answer to this question lies in the negotiation
process and
how the original proposal for the agreement has evolved.
Another factor is the potential effect of the FTAA — both
positive and negative — on the Brazilian economy.
Dr. Sabbatini will analyze these issues and present a
range of Brazilian perspectives on the negotiations and
their outcome for Brazil.
Rodrigo Sabbatini teaches international and Brazilian
economics at the Faculdades de Campinas in Brazil and
is a senior researcher at the State University of Campinas.
He is currently a visiting scholar at CLAS.
Tuesday, November 30, 12:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
“O
Primeiro Dia / Midnight”
Directed by Walter Salles (1998)
Fate
brings together a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle
class teacher at midnight, December 31, 1999, as fireworks
fall over Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach and the
new millennium approaches.
76 minutes. Portuguese with English subtitles.
“Its
mood, at once mournful and exuberant, owes something to
the spirit of samba, Rio’s great contribution to
world culture.”
—
New York Times
Wednesday,
December 1, 7:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Video Screening: Rigoberta Menchu
“The Legacy of War in Guatemala: Continuous Human Rights Abuses”
The Center for Latin American Studies will
be showing a video of Rigoberta Menchú’s public
lecture from November 18th to accommodate those who were
unable to see
the event. A description of the event can be found here.
There will be three screenings of the video:
Tuesday, December 7, 10:00 am, 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Coletta A. Youngers and Joy Olson
“Drugs and Democracy in Latin America: The Impact of U.S.
Policy”
Although the U.S. has spent more than $25 billion on international
drug-control programs over the past two decades, it has failed
to reduce the supply of cocaine and heroin entering the country.
It has, however, succeeded in generating widespread, often
profoundly damaging, consequences, most notably in Latin
America and the Caribbean. The authors of Drugs and Democracy
in Latin America (Westview Press, 2005) offer a comprehensive
review of U.S. drug-control policies toward the region and
assess the impact of those policies on democracy and human
rights.
A project of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA),
this major work is the first systematic, region-wide documentation
and analysis of the collateral damage caused by the U.S.
war on drugs.
Coletta A. Youngers is a Senior Fellow at the Washington
Office on Latin America (WOLA).
Joy Olson is Executive Director of WOLA.
Friday, December 10, 2:00 pm
Director's Room, Institute of Industrial
Relations,
2521 Channing Way (map-across from Anna Head Parking
Lot)
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