Teresa
Caldeira
"A Contested Public: Walls, Graffiti, and Pichações in
São Paulo"
Professor
Caldeira will discuss narratives of inequality in modern
São Paulo . She explores expressions of separation
in contemporary Brazilian cities. Separation and inequality
help define the urban space itself, and also permeate music,
film, and graffiti.
Teresa
Caldeira is Professor of Anthropology at the University
of California, Irvine. She is the author of numerous articles
and the book City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship
in São Paulo (University of California Press, 2000).
Monday,
October 2, 12:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
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of the event
Daniel
Coronell
"Plan Colombia: Corte de Cuentas"
In
2000, Colombia and the United States inaugurated Plan Colombia
with the goal of delivering a mortal blow to cocaine traffic.
Six years and 10.6 billion dollars later, the results have
been disappointing. The price of cocaine on the American street
hasn’t increased significantly, and the area under coca
cultivation in Colombia has not diminished.
Daniel
Coronell is a journalist from Colombia. He is the news
director and founder of Noticias Uno, the most watched weekend
news program on public stations in Colombia. He is also a columnist
for the most widely circulated news magazine in Colombia, Semana. Daniel
is currently a visiting scholar at the Center for Latin American
Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Article
on Coronell in the U.S. from the Los Angeles Times
Monday,
October 23, 12:00 pm
Lounge, Women's Faculty Club (map)
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of the event
Eva
Harris
"Infectious Disease Research in Latin America: A Platform for Scientific
Capacity Building and Social Mobilization"
Dr.
Harris will discuss her work on dengue fever in Nicaragua:
clinical investigations, vaccine trial sites, and promoting
community participation in mosquito control. Her work illustrates
how such research can empower scientists and community members
alike.
Eva
Harris is Associate Professor of Public Health at UC Berkeley,
specializing in infectious diseases. She is also the founder
and president of the Sustainable Sciences Institute (SSI),
a non-profit organization based in San Francisco. Professor
Harris was awarded the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship
in 1997.
- Interview
with Professor Harris at the Institute for International
Studies
Monday,
October 30, 12:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
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of the event
Susana
Kaiser
"The Dirty War"
Thirty
years ago, a military coup installed a dictatorship in Argentina
that left an estimated 30,000 disappeared. Kaiser will discuss
how young Argentines remember the years of state terrorism
and their postmemories, focusing on how the younger generation
is reconstructing this past from three main sources: dialogue,
education, and the media.
Susana
Kaiser is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media Studies
and the Latin American Studies program at the University of
San Francisco.
Monday,
November 6, 12:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
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of the event
Amelia
Barili
"Writing from the Margins: Borges, Reyes and Arguedas"
Amelia
Barili will discuss links between the works of Jorge Luis Borges
and José María Arguedas through Alfonso Reyes'
concept of "inteligencia americana." She analyzes
how Borges and Arguedas' ideas begin to converge through their
mutual interest in ancient cosmogonies and marginality.
Amelia
Barili teaches in the Spanish and Portuguese Department in
UC Berkeley. She was a personal friend of Jorge Luis Borges
and her conversations with him have been published in numerous
newspapers. Her book "Jorge Luis Borges y Alfonso Reyes:
La cuestión de la identidad del escritor latinoamericano" was
published by Fondo de Cultura Económica with a prologue
by Elena Poniatowska.
Monday,
November 13, 12:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
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