Kirsten
Sehnbruch
“Michelle Bachelet: Chile ’s First Female President”
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Michelle
Bachelet,
President-elect of Chile. |
President-elect Michelle
Bachelet will be the first female president in the history
of Chile and the first female president elected purely on
her own name and merits in South America. This means that
the Concertación — the coalition of center-left
parties that has governed since Chile’s return to democracy
in 1990 — will be in power for four more years. And
again, the right-wing opposition, after an initially strong
performance, has fallen apart in the course of the election
campaign. Who is Michelle Bachelet? What can we expect from
her new government? Will the fact that she is a woman make
a difference? What future is there for the opposition in
Chile ? And what were the main themes and developments in
the election campaign that led to Bachelet’s victory?
This talk will provide some answers to these questions.
- BBC
reporting on Bachelet's victory
Kirsten
Sehnbruch is a visiting scholar at the Center for Latin American
Studies. Her research focuses on Latin American labor markets
and related concerns of social security, poverty and income
inequality. Her book The Chilean Labor Market will
be published by Palgrave Macmillan early in 2006.
- Dr.
Sehnbruch's Web site
- Dr. Sehnbruch's book, The
Chilean Labor Market
Monday,
January 23, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos
of the event
Kent
Eaton
“Bolivian
Regional Autonomy: A Reaction Against Indigenous Mobilization”
Increasingly,
scholars, policymakers and observers of Bolivian politics have
focused their attention on new forms of political mobilization
by the country’s indigenous majority. This mobilization
has produced some of the most sensational news of recent years
including the 2000 Water War against the Bechtel Corporation,
the 2003 Gas War against the Sánchez de Losada administration
and the 2005 election of Evo Morales as president. Less sensationally,
the emergence of indigenous Bolivians as powerful political
actors has begun to generate a backlash in the form of escalating
demands for regional autonomy in Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s
most economically developed and politically conservative department.
Kent
Eaton is Associate Professor of Political Science at the
Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and
Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science
at UC Berkeley. He is the author
of Politicians and Economic Reform in New Democracies:
Argentina and the Philippines in the 1990s and Politics
beyond the Capital: The Design of Subnational Institutions
in South America.
Monday,
January 30, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Room 370, Dwinelle Hall
Analysis
and photos
of the event
Elizabeth
Farnsworth
“Bringing Pinochet to Justice”
Augusto
Pinochet, Chile’s military dictator from 1973 until 1990,
is under indictment in Santiago for kidnapping and murder,
among other charges. He is currently free on bail and may face
trial soon. Elizabeth Farnsworth will screen portions of her
forthcoming documentary “The Pursuers” which follows
the investigative work of Judge Juan Guzmán and others
pursuing justice in Chile. The documentary takes viewers inside
some of the most important investigations and cases and places
them in context, showing how international human rights law
has been fortified by Chileans’ efforts to hold Pinochet
accountable for atrocities committed during his dictatorship.
Elizabeth
Farnsworth is a special correspondent on the NewsHour with
Jim Lehrer. Her writings have appeared in Foreign Policy, World
Policy Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Nation,
among other publications. She also has produced and directed
several hour-long documentaries for PBS.
Monday,
March 6, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Room
370, Dwinelle Hall (map)
Analysis
and photos of the event
Laura Nader
“Imperial
Uses of the Rule of Law”
Laura
Nader is Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Her current
work focuses on how central dogmas are made and how they work
in law, energy science and anthropology. She is the author
of several books including The Life of the Law: Anthropological
Projects (2002) and received the 1995 Kalven Prize for
distinguished research on law and society.
Monday,
March 20, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Room
370, Dwinelle Hall
Analysis
and photos of the event
Lowell
Bergman
“The
Way Things Work: Multinational Corporations in Latin America ”
Lowell
Bergman was one of the founding members of the Center for Investigative
Reporting and spent 16 years as a producer with CBS’s “60
Minutes.” More recently he has been a frequent contributor
to the New York Times and served as both producer and correspondent
for numerous PBS Frontline documentaries. He received the Pulitzer
Prize in 2004 for his New York Times series on workplace safety.
He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley.
Monday,
April 17, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Room 370, Dwinelle Hall
Analysis
and photos of the event
Marisol de la Cadena
Title TBA
Marisol de la Cadena is Associate Professor
of Anthropology at UC Davis.
Postponed
