Kirsten
Sehnbruch
"From the Quantity of Employment to the Quality of Employment:
An Application of Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach to the Chilean Labor
Market"
Chile
is often held up as a model for the developing world because
its progress on market liberalization has led to high growth
rates coupled with a sharp reduction in poverty. Chile’s
flexible labor market in particular has been credited with
contributing to growth and lowered unemployment rates. Most
recently, Chile has pioneered alternatives to traditional unemployment
benefits and subsidies by implementing a “privatized” unemployment
insurance system. This presentation explores what is behind
this model image and points out some of its flaws by means
of a survey specifically designed to ask questions that other
labor market surveys avoid.
Kirsten
Sehnbruch has just completed her Ph.D. on the Chilean Labor
Market at Cambridge University. She has spent the last five
years researching the labor market in Chile and 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. She is now a visiting scholar at the
Center for Latin American Studies.
-Draft
of the paper on which the talk will be based (.pdf file)
Monday,
February 9, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
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Natalia
Brizuela
"Photography, Melancholy and the Conception of Brazilian Nationalism"
The
Empire of Brazil’s passage toward progress and modernity
is reflected in the photographic and literary production of
the second half of the 19th century. In this talk, Prof. Brizuela
will explore the relationship between 19th century Brazilian
nationalism and melancholy by mapping the historical, political
and theoretical geographies of the photography and literature
of the period.
Natalia
Brizuela recently joined the Department of Spanish & Portuguese
at UC Berkeley after completing her Ph.D. at New York University
where she worked on the relationship between politics and aesthetics
in Argentina and Chile. Her research focuses on literary and
visual cultures in the Southern cone and Brazil and their relationship
to state formations.
Monday,
March 8, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
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Carol
A. Smith
"Indigenous Movements in Guatemala and Ecuador:
Different Histories, Different Social Contexts, Different Strategies?"
This
talk will focus on the differences between the indigenous movements
in “peaceful” Ecuador and “violent” Guatemala.
Smith, who has studied both areas, will also comment on input
she solicited from other specialists comparing the situation
in Ecuador with that of other parts of Latin America where
indigenous social movements are taking place. Key to Smith’s
comparison is her challenge of the belief that the history
of the Maya movement in Guatemala developed out of Guatemala’s
period of violence in the 1980s.
Carol
A. Smith is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at UC Davis.
She has worked with the Maya of Guatemala in many different
parts of the country for 30 years, concentrating on ethnic/class
relations. Recently, her work has considered the nature of
Guatemala’s Maya movement as it has shifted over time
and space, race and racism in Guatemala and the intersection
of race, class, and gender in Guatemala and other parts of
Central America.
- Professor
Smith's biography from the Department of Anthropology
at UC Davis
Monday,
March 15, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
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Mark Alan Healey
"City
of Rubble, Visions of Order: Architects, Powerbrokers and the Peronist
State in the Remaking of San Juan, Argentina After
the 1944 Earthquake"
The worst natural disaster in Argentine history, the 1944 San
Juan earthquake,
was also the spark for a wide range of projects for dramatic
transformation.
While the aid campaign for victims launched the career of Colonel
Juan Peron,
the city in ruins inspired dramatic plans for rebuilding. This
talk will trace
the intellectual origins, political contours and ultimate trajectory
of
architectural attempts to use this opportunity to forge a model
city for the
nation.
Trained as an architect and historian, Mark Healey recently
arrived at
Berkeley after teaching at New York University and the University
of
Mississippi. His work centers on the broad transformations of
state authority,
social life and cultural forms in twentieth-century Latin America,
especially
Argentina. This talk comes out of his current project, which
explores these
themes in the unmaking and remaking of the city of San Juan after
the 1944
earthquake.
-Two
articles by Professor Healey from The American Prospect dealing
with the Argentinian financial crisis of 2001-02, "Down,
Argentine Way" and "The
Costs of Orthodoxy"
Monday
April 5, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
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Susanne Jonas
"Latino Immigrant Rights, Legalization Strategies and Citizenship
in the Shadow of the National Security State: Responses to
Domestic Preemptive Strikes"
In
this talk, Prof. Jonas will address U.S. anti-immigrant measures
since 1996 with a focus on the changes that have taken
place
since Sept. 11 and the passage of the “Patriot” Act(s).
A comparison will be made between the measures that were already
in place in 1996 and those that were created during the post-9/11 “national
security” regime. The proactive efforts by the Latino immigrant
communities to protect their rights will be examined. In conclusion,
a theoretical link will be made between anti-immigrant measures
and their opposite— i.e., the reconceptualization of citizenship
and its implications for U.S. democracy.
Susanne
Jonas teaches Latin American & Latino Studies at
the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is Associate Chair
of LALS, and coordinator of the “Latinos in California” Research
Cluster of UCSC’s Chicano/Latino Research Center.
Monday,
April 12, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
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