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Evan
Lieberman
“Institutions and Identities: Explaining the Policy Response to HIV/AIDS
in Brazil and South Africa”
Evan
Lieberman is Assistant Professor of Politics and faculty
director of the Princeton AIDS Initiative at Princeton
University. The author of Race and Regionalism in the
Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa (Cambridge
University Press 2003), Prof. Lieberman is currently working
on a study of the politics of AIDS around the world as
well as on various projects concerned with comparative
research methods.
-Professor
Lieberman's homepage at
Princeton
-Paper: "Taxation
Data as Indicators of State-Society Relations: Possibilities and
Pitfalls in Cross-National Research" (.pdf document)
Co-sponsored
with the Department of Political Science.
Friday,
January 21, 2:00 pm
Room 202, Barrows Hall
Photos
of the event
Sebastián
Zulueta
“Service Learning and the Development of Volunteerism in Chile”
Chile
has undergone a series of transformations over the past
10 years as it has returned to democracy and experienced
the effects of globalization and economic growth. As social
responsibility has become more necessary, and consequently
more ingrained in the culture, Chile has expanded its community
volunteerism efforts. One outgrowth of this movement has
been the advancement of the concept of service learning.
Professor Zulueta will discuss how service learning structures
can be created within Chile’s education system as
well as the impact of volunteerism on Chilean society.
Sebastián Zulueta is director of the Service Learning Center
at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile where he is
also a professor in the Sociology Department. He holds graduate degrees
in Business Administration and Sociology from the UC of Chile.
-Powerpoint
presentation "Evolución
del Voluntariado en Chile"
Co-sponsored
with the Service-Learning Research and Development Center
and International and Area Studies.
Monday,
January 24, 12:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos of the event
Delia Revoredo Marsano
“The Jurisdiction of Peru’s Constitutional Court”
Justice
Revoredo is one of three members of the Constitutional
Court of Peru who voted against former President Alberto
Fujimori’s plan to seek a third term in 1997. Congress
immediately dismissed all three judges. In 1998, the government
of Costa Rica granted Justice Revoredo political asylum
and, in 2000, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
issued a protective order on her behalf. She and her colleagues
were reinstated by Congress in 2000, after Fujimori’s
departure.
-Justice
Revoredo's official
biography on the Constitutional Court of Peru website
Co-sponsored
with the Boalt
Hall School of Law. A presentation of the Robbins
Collection Lectures in Political Culture and Legal
Tradition.
Monday,
January 24, 4:00 pm
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall
Analysis
of the event
Tino
Soriano
“La Zafra—The Sugar Cane Harvest”
In
La Zafra, on exhibit at the Center for Latin American
Studies, photojournalist Tino Soriano focuses his lens
on the plight of Haitians at work in the sugar cane fields
of the Dominican Republic.
“The
sugar with which we sweeten our lives also contains bitter
ingredients: slavery, hunger, intolerable sanitary conditions
and, above all, thousands of campesinos trapped
in misery without the possibility of starting a new life.” — Tino
Soriano
-Tino
Soriano's website
Join
us for the photographer’s talk, followed by an
opening reception.
Wednesday,
January 26, 5:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
For
exhibit hours please call (510) 642-2088. On display
January 26-May 31, 2005.
Photo
of the event
Carlos
Castresana Fernández
“The Legacy of the Pinochet Case”
Judge
Carlos Castresana Fernández serves in the Central
Prosecution Service Against Corruption in the Attorney
General’s Office in Spain. He authored the formal
complaint and subsequent reports in “the Pinochet
Case” which led to the arrest of former Chilean
dictator Augusto Pinochet and his prosecution under international
law. Judge Castresana is an expert in international legal
cooperation and is currently a visiting professor at
the University of San Francisco where he teaches International
Criminal Law.
-BBC
article on Pinochet's recent
release on bail from house arrest in Chile, with
links to other reporting on the case's history.
Thursday,
January 27, 4:00 pm
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Analysis
and photos of the event
The
Pinochet Case
Directed by Patricio Guzmán (2001)
Augusto
Pinochet, the general who overthrew President Salvador
Allende of Chile in 1973, was the first dictator in Latin
America, or the world, to be prosecuted by the international
justice system since the Nuremberg trials. This film
investigates the legal origins of the case in Spain,
where it began two years before Pinochet’s arrest
in England. 109 minutes. English and Spanish with
English subtitles.
“Sober
political and legal analysis alternates with grim first-hand
accounts of torture and murder in a film that has the
structure of a choral symphony that swells to a bittersweet
finale.” — New York Times
Two
screenings:
Friday, January 28, 10:00 am and 2:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Tino
Soriano
"La Zafra — The Sugar Cane Harvest "
Photojournalist
Tino Soriano will show an additional 140 slides from
his series “La Zafra” currently on exhibit
at the Center for Latin American Studies. The series
follows Haitian workers in the Dominican Republic as
they harvest and process the sugar cane crop. Soriano
will provide a technical analysis of selected photos
and comment on the act of combining color and black and
white photography to emphasize the most important aspects
of an image.
Tino
Soriano has won awards for his photography from UNESCO,
World Press Photo Foundation and Fotopres and is a contributor
to publications including National Geographic, El País
Weekly and The Los Angeles Times. In 2001 he was contracted
as a photographer for the National Geographic Society.
Soriano also has an extensive background teaching photography
and photojournalism
Friday,
January 28, 1:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Alain
de Janvry
“Can Mexico’s Social Programs Reduce Poverty?”
Mexico
has been a pioneer in launching ambitious social programs
to assist the poor, which are currently coordinated in the
Contigo strategy. These programs have been quite effective
in meeting basic needs, particularly among the poorest. However,
they have been less successful in raising income through
productive employment and micro-enterprises. Prof. de Janvry
will discuss the reasons for these contradictory achievements
and explore ways in which social and income-generating programs
could be made complementary.
Alain de Janvry is an economist working on international economic development,
with expertise principally in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, the
Middle-East and the Indian subcontinent. Fields of work include: poverty
analysis, rural development, quantitative analysis of development policies,
impact analysis of social programs, technological innovations in agriculture
and the management of common property resources.
- Professor
de Janvry's homepage
- Professor
de Janvry's Powerpoint presentation from the event
- Paper
on the effects of transfer payments on keeping children in school (.pdf
file)
Monday,
January 31, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos of the event
Sabina
Berman
“Theater Crossing Borders”
The
work of playwright and director Sabina Berman examines contemporary
issues from a feminist perspective. In her plays she has
explored themes including sex and gender roles, Judaism and
critiques of traditional patriarchal values in Mexican society.
Among her successful works are El suplicio del placer (1976), Yankee (1979), Rompecabezas (1983), Herejía (1984), Muerte
súbita (1988), Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda (1992), Molière (2000)
and Feliz nuevo siglo, doktor Freud (2001). She
is currently a Writer in Residence at UC Berkeley.
- Short
description of some of Ms. Berman's work
- Article
in Reforma about Ms. Berman's work and its influence in the
U.S. (Spanish)
This
talk will be held in Spanish.
Tuesday,
February 1, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Analysis
and photos of the event
 Mundo
Grúa, by Pablo Trapero (1999)
Rulo
is a 50-year-old ex-bass player from a famous 1970s rock
group who now works as a crane operator. When a new laborer
takes his job, Rulo leaves Buenos Aires as well as his new
love, Adriana, and his son Claudio who hopes to follow in
his father’s footsteps by forming a band of his own. 90
minutes. Spanish with English subtitles.
Wednesday,
February 2, 7:00 pm
CLAS
Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Joaquim
Benedito Barbosa Gomes
“Recent Developments in Brazilian Public Law”
In
2003, Justice Barbosa became the first Afro-Brazilian member
of the Supreme Court of Brazil. After graduating from law
school, he worked for several years as a procurator in the
Federal Public Ministry and subsequently obtained a master’s
degree and a doctorate in public law at the University of
Paris II (Panthéon-Assas). He has written extensively
on affirmative action, race, equality and comparative constitutional
law.
- Article
from Sydney Morning Herald about Justice Barbosa's appointment
to the Supreme Court
Co-sponsored
with the Boalt Hall
School of Law. A presentation of the Robbins
Collection Lectures in Political Culture and Legal
Tradition.
Tuesday,
February 8, 4:00 pm
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall
Analysis
and photo of the event
Ramon
Peñate Díaz and Miguel Pickard
“Chiapas Today”
Ramón Peña Diaz and Miguel Pickard will be speaking about
the situation of the indigenous communities in Chiapas, the militarization
of the state, paramilitary violence and, more broadly, the effects of
NAFTA.
Ramon
Peñate Díaz is a human rights defender from
the Chol-speaking community of Emiliano Zapata in the municipality
of Tila, the site of a Mexican Army base where human rights
violations have taken place.
Miguel
Pickard is an investigative researcher with the Centro de
Investigaciones Económicas y Políticas de Acción
Comunitaria (CIEPAC), a nonprofit organization which explores
economic and political realities throughout Mexico, Central
America and Latin America.
Cosponsored
with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Wednesday,
February 9 from 3:00 – 4:45 pm
3335 Dwinelle Hall
 Gilberto
Gil
"Contemporary Brazilian Culture"
Minister
of Culture Gilberto Gil is one of the most important singers
and composers in modern Brazilian pop music. In the 1960s
he helped start the Tropicália movement that combined
Brazil’s regional folk culture with international influences
to create a new style of cinema, literature and music. He
has served as Minister of Culture under President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da
Silva since 2003.
- Minister
Gil's website
- Feature
from the Guardian about Minister Gil
This
is a ticketed event. Tickets will be available
at the Wheeler Auditorium box office beginning at 6:00
pm. Tickets are free of charge and will be given out on
a first come, first served basis. One ticket per person.
Webcast
of the event
Text
of Minister Gil's speech (.pdf file)
Please
note that cameras and camcorders are not permitted
except for those carried by registered media representatives.
Thursday,
February 17, 7:00 pm
Wheeler Auditorium, Wheeler Hall
Analysis
and photos
of the event
Nicholas
Arons
"Something Funny Happened on the Way to the Drought"
When
droughts hit northeastern Brazil, thousands of rural workers
are forced to abandon their homes and hundreds die of remediable
disease. The double impact of drought and corruption — with
politicians taking advantage of drought to buy votes and
pilfer government accounts — contributes to an endless
cycle of human suffering. Nicholas Arons utilizes traditional
social science scholarship as well as literature, popular
art and oral history to interpret the impact of drought and
the phenomenon of drought politics.
Nicholas
Arons graduated from NYU Law School. He is currently Legal
Advisor to the Palau Mission to the UN and a Fellow in NYU
Law School’s Institute for International Law and Justice.
- Mr.
Arons' article on the drought in Brazil
- Article by Mr.
Arons on the drinking culture in Brazil
Cosponsored
with the Department of Anthropology and the Townsend Center
for the Humanities.
Friday,
February 18, 4:00 pm
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Photo
of the event
 Cenizas
del Paraíso, by Marcelo Piñeyro
(1997)
Piñeyro
tells a twisted story involving the suicide of a prominent
judge and the violent murder of a young girl. Though the
judge’s three sons confess to the girl’s murder,
the truth behind these two events is far from clear. 130
minutes. Spanish with English subtitles.
Wednesday,
February 23, 7:00 pm
CLAS
Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
José Ramón
Cossío Díaz
“Constitutional Actions in Mexico”
Justice
Cossío joined the Mexican Supreme Court in 2003. He
is one of the top constitutional law scholars in Mexico and
has published many works on constitutionalism, democracy
and the rights of indigenous peoples. He has a master’s
degree from the Spanish Center for Constitutional Studies
and a doctorate from the Complutense University in Madrid.
-
Paper by Justice Cossío Díaz, "Constitutional
Order and Hierarchy in Mexico"
-
Paper by Justice Cossío Díaz (in Spanish), "Jurisdiccion
Constitucional y Reforma del Estado"
Co-sponsored
with the Boalt
Hall School of Law. A presentation of the Robbins
Collection Lectures in Political Culture and Legal
Tradition.
Friday,
February 25, 4:00 pm
Venue Changed: Faculty Lounge, 336 Boalt Hall (North Addition)
Walter
Salles
“A Conversation with Walter Salles”
Brazilian
filmmaker Walter Salles broke onto the international scene
with the award-winning 1995 feature Foreign Land.
Since then Salles has established himself as a force to be
reckoned with, directing films such as Central Station and The
Motorcycle Diaries, both nominated for Academy Awards.
In addition to his work as a director and screenwriter, Salles
has produced films by young Brazilian filmmakers including City
of God and Madame Satã.
Mr.
Salles will discuss his films and show clips from some of
his recent works.
Friday,
March 4, 7:00 pm
Andersen
Auditorium, Haas School of Business (map)
Excerpts
from Mr. Salles' remarks, and photos
of the event
Estelle Tarica
“Mestizo Nationalism”
In
the mid-20th-century, a group of writers from Mexico, Bolivia
and Peru attempted to describe what might be called the “inner
life” of mestizo nationality. Prof. Tarica will examine
particular instances of this mode of narrating the experience
of modern nationality; discuss the important role played
by indigenismo in making these attempts possible;
and address them as forms of what Marisol de la Cadena terms “subordinate
racism.”
Estelle
Tarica is Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature
and Culture at UC Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative
Literature from Cornell University and is currently finishing
her first book, Intimate Indigenismo.
Monday, March 7, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photo
of the event
Kevin
Gallagher
“Guadalajara: The Silicon Valley of Mexico?”
Despite
the fact that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been the
cornerstone of Mexico’s economic policy, it has not
generally produced the “spillover” in technology
and know-how that policy-makers hoped for. Is Guadalajara
the exception to this lackluster record? To what extent has
Guadalajara, known as “Mexico’s Silicon Valley,” managed
to create domestic spillovers? Prof. Gallagher will discuss
what has been done in Guadalajara and what lessons other
Latin American countries might draw from that city’s
experiences.
Kevin
P. Gallagher is Assistant Professor in the Department of
International Relations at Boston University and a Research
Associate at the Global Development and Environment Institute
(GDAE) at Tufts University. His most recent books are Putting
Development First: The Importance of Policy Space in the
WTO and IFIs (forthcoming, Zed Books, 2005), Free
Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond (Stanford,
2004) and International Trade and Sustainable Development (Earthscan,
2002).
-Professor
Gallagher's Powerpoint presentation (warning: 3.8 MB
file)
-Professor
Gallagher's book page for Free Trade and the Environment
Tuesday,
March 8, 12:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos
of the event
Professor
Carlos Rosenkrantz
“Problems in Argentine Commercial Law”
Note:
Postponed until April 4
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall
Luiz
Dulci
“Two Years of Lula's Government: Progress and Challenges”
As
Chief Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency
of the Republic of Brazil, Luiz Dulci is one of the closest
advisors to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da
Silva. Minister Dulci is also among the founders of the PT,
the Brazilian Worker’s Party, and the CUT, Brazil’s
leading national labor confederation. Since the foundation
of the PT, he has held several important roles both within
the party and for the party’s administrative governments,
including work with Fundação Perseu Abramo,
the PT’s political research foundation, and with the
municipal government of Belo Horizonte.
Webcasts
of the event in
Portuguese and English.
-Article
by Minister Dulci on social justice, from the PT website (in
Portuguese)
-Interview
with Minister Dulci (in Portuguese)
Monday,
March 14, 4:00 pm
Morrison Room, Doe Library (map)
Analysis
and photos
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 Bridges.
-Schedule
of presentations
Tuesday,
March 15, 2:00 – 3:45 pm and
Wednesday, March 16, 2:00 – 3:45 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Panel Discussion
“Crossing Borders: Trade Policy and Transnational Labor Education”
In
1998, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace
Workers and the Center for Latin American Studies initiated
a project which sought to inform union members about the
realities of the global economy and the importance of the
union’s role in trade policy. Between 1998 and 2002
nearly all the elected officials and appointed representatives
of the Machinists union in the United States and Canada — about
600 people in all — journeyed to Tijuana in an effort
at what might be called “transnational labor education.”
-Harley
Shaiken, Professor of Education and Geography;
Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley
-Owen Herrnstadt, Director of International Affairs,
International Association of Machinists
-Catha Worthman, Strategic Campaigns
Coordinator, Health Systems Division of the Service
Employees International Union
Tuesday,
March 15, 4:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos
of the event
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Watts, by Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll (2001)
This
simple, entertaining film tells the story of three young
people who are bored with life in Montevideo. Lacking the
drive to study, work or dedicate themselves to any particular
cause, they find other ways to pass the time. 94 minutes.
Spanish with English subtitles.
Wednesday,
March 16, 7:00 pm
CLAS
Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
David
Kyle
“The Transformation of Transnational Migration in Ecuador”
In
a recent study of rural Ecuadorian communities with historically
high levels of transnational migration, David Kyle and Brad
Jokisch found that migration patterns have changed significantly.
Migrants with legal status in the United States have decamped
with their entire families. Those who did not get in before
stiffer border controls were implemented must now pay smugglers
up to $14,000 to get to the U.S. or try their luck in Spain.
Prof. Kyle will discuss the causes and implications of these
trends.
David
Kyle is Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Davis. He
is the author of Transnational Peasants: Migrations,
Networks, and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2000) and the co-editor of Global Human
Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives (Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2001). His current book project is Brokered Bodies:
The Cross-Cultural Engineering of Contemporary Households.
Monday,
March 28, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos
of the event
 El
Leyton: Hasta que la muerte nos separe, by Gonzalo
Justiniano (2002)
Long
time friends Layton and Modesto are partners in a fishing
business in a small Chilean fishing village. When Layton
seduces Modesto’s wife, they find themselves entangled
in a tragic story of love, lust, friendship and betrayal. 90
minutes. Spanish with English subtitles.
Wednesday,
March 30, 7:00 pm
CLAS
Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Denise
Frossard
“Criminal Law and Corruption in Brazil”
In
the early 1990s, Brazilian Congresswoman Denise Frossard
was the trial judge who convicted several of the most prominent
organized crime bosses in Rio de Janeiro. After the judgment,
she spent a year in the United States, returning to head
the Brazilian branches of Transparency International and
the Women’s Bank. In 2002, she was elected Rio de Janeiro’s
Representative to the Brazilian Congress in a landslide,
garnering more votes in that election than any of her colleagues.
Co-sponsored
with the Boalt Hall
School of Law. A presentation of the Robbins
Collection Lectures in Political Culture and Legal
Tradition.
Postponed
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HOMENAJE A ANTONIO CORNEJO POLAR
Schedule
of events
Saturday,
April 2, 2005, 9:00 am - 6:30 pm
Morrison Room, Doe Library
Pensar
México
Identity
Join
us for the live taping of Pensar México: Identity,
the first in an innovative series of four television programs
which will be aired nationally in the United States, Mexico
and South America.
Participants
include:
Amalia García Medina, Governor
of the State of Zacatecas
Maria Echaveste,former White
House Deputy Chief of Staff to President Clinton
Fernando Sariñana, Film
Director
Jorge Cherbosque, Psychologist
Seating
will be on a first come first serve basis, so please plan
to arrive early.
Co-sponsored
by the Center for Latin American Studies, Boalt Hall School
of Law, and Fundación Azteca .
Monday,
April 4, 12:00 noon
Andersen Auditorium, Haas School of Business (map)
Analysis
of the series
Carlos
Rosenkrantz
“Problems in Argentine Commercial Law”
Carlos
Rosenkrantz is Professor of Law at the University of Buenos
Aires and Palermo University. He has an LL.M. and J.S.D.
from Yale Law School and teaches regularly at the Hauser
Global Law School Program at New York University and the
Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He served as former
President Raúl Alfonsín’s chief advisor
at the 1994 Argentine Constitutional Convention.
-
Paper by Professor Rosenkrantz, "In
Defense of Equality"
Co-sponsored
with the Boalt Hall
School of Law. A presentation of the Robbins
Collection Lectures in Political Culture and Legal
Tradition.
Monday,
April 4, 4:00 pm
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall (map)
Amalia
García Medina
"The U.S. and Mexico: A View from Zacatecas"
Amalia
García Medina is the governor of the state of Zacatecas,
Mexico. Previously she served two terms as a Federal Deputy
and was the vice-president of the Executive Committee of
the Chamber of Deputies. Governor García Medina was
also a senator and a legislator in the Legislative Assembly
of Mexico City. She is dedicated to a number of causes, including
equal rights for women, human rights and the fight against
corruption. Her tireless work promoting citizens' initiatives
has led to substantial changes in the political system.
Monday,
April 4, 4:00 pm
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall (map)
Analysis
and photos
of the event
Fim
Screening: Romero
Directed by John Duigan (1989)
Romero is
the true story of Oscar Romero, the Catholic Archbishop of
San Salvador from 1977–80. His principled and public
stand against the human rights abuses committed by the U.S.-backed
El Salvadoran government led to death threats and assassination
attempts. In spite of this, Romero continued to speak out
until his untimely death.
Following
the video Michael Rhodes, the supervising producer of Romero,
will discuss the production of the film and answer questions.
Co-sponsored
with the Graduate Theological Union.
Tuesday,
April 5, 6:45 pm
Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion, 1798 Scenic Ave.
Film
Screening: Amar Te Duele / Love Hurts
Directed by Fernando Sariñana (2002)
This
Romeo and Juliet story set in Mexico City explores class
discrimination through the characters of Ulises, a sales
clerk from a poor neighborhood, and Renata, the daughter
of a wealthy family. The two meet at a shopping mall and
fall in love but must overcome the obstacles set by the attitudes
of their families and friends. 104 minutes. Spanish with
English subtitles
Tuesday,
April 5, 7:30 pm
155 Kroeber Hall
Javier
Auyero
"Dissecting the 2001 Lootings"
Javier
Auyero received his Ph.D. from the New School for Social
Research in 1997 and is currently Associate Professor of
Sociology at SUNY-Stony Brook. Auyero's first book, Poor
People's Politics (Duke University Press, 2001), won
the New England Council for Latin American Studies Best Book
Prize and was a C. Wright Mills Award finalist. In 2003,
Auyero published Contentious Lives: Two Argentine Women,
Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition (Duke University
Press).
Part
of "on Argentina," an interdisciplinary lecture
series. For more information visit:
http://spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu/events/argentina.html
Wednesday,
April 6, 12:00 pm
Room 5125, Dwinelle Hall
Pensar
México
Security
Join
us for the live taping of Pensar México: Security,
the second in an innovative series of four television programs
which will be aired nationally in the United States, Mexico
and South America.
Participants
include:
Adolfo Aguilar Zínser,
former Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations
Mark Danner, Professor of
Journalism, UC Berkeley
Antonio Navalón, Director
of Alfaguara Editors
José Alberto Aguilar (PRI),
Undersecretary for International Affairs, PRI
Executive Committee
Mario Di Costanzo (PRD), economic advisor to Mayor
López Obrador
Seating
will be on a first come first serve basis, so please plan
to arrive early.
Co-sponsored
by the Center for Latin American Studies, Boalt Hall School
of Law, and Fundación Azteca .
Wednesday,
April 6, 4:00 pm
Andersen Auditorium, Haas School of Business (map)
Analysis
of the series
Film
Screening
Preguntas sin respuesta. Los asesinatos y desapariciones de mujeres en
Ciudad Juárez y Chihuahua
Directed by Rafael Montero (2004)
This journalistic
documentary tells the story of the hundreds of women who have been
murdered or disappeared in Ciudad Juárez. Through interviews
with victims’ family members, who describe their struggles to
seek justice, as well as with government officials and human rights
organizations, director Rafael Montero gives a sense of immediacy to
the tragedy that has continued unabated for more than a decade. 120
minutes. Spanish with English subtitles.
Rafael Montero
will be available to answer questions after the film.
Wednesday,
April 6, 7:00 pm
160 Kroeber Hall (map)
Juan Ramón de la Fuente
"Education, Competitiveness and Reforms in Mexico"
Dr. de la Fuente
is the rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
where he is responsible for a community of more than 250,000 students
and 30,000 faculty and administrative workers. Previously, he has been
appointed to key international positions: Vice President of the World
Health Assembly, President of the Board of the United Nations Program
on AIDS, and President of the Net of Macro-Universities of Latin America
and the Caribbean.
Thursday,
April 7, 4:00 pm
Lounge, Women's Faculty Club (map)
Analysis
and photos
of the event
Film
Screening: Todo el Poder / All the Power
Directed by Fernando Sariñana (1999)
This black
comedy centers on the politics and corruption that shroud the Mexican
police system. Featuring Demián Bichir as Gabriel, a filmmaker
whose career has left him assaulted and robbed in broad daylight more
times than he cares to remember, the film itself was inspired by Sariñana’s
personal experience with urban crime oftentimes perpetrated by the
police themselves. 102 minutes. Spanish with English subtitles.
NOTE:
DAY AND LOCATION CHANGED TO
Thursday, April 7, 7:30 pm
155 Kroeber Hall
Pensar
México
Power
Join us
for the live taping of Pensar México: Power,
the third in an innovative series of four television programs which
will be aired nationally in the United States, Mexico and South America.
Participants
include:
Juan Ramón de la Fuente,
Rector of the National Autonomous University
of Mexico
Porfirio Muñoz Ledo,
co-founder of the PRD, former ambassador to
the European Union
Laura Nader, Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Jorge Matte, founder and president of Estudios
Psico-Industriales, S.A.
Enrique Cabrero Mendoza, Professor of Public Administration,
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas A.C.
Seating
will be on a first come first serve basis, so please plan to arrive
early.
Co-sponsored
by the Center for Latin American Studies, Boalt Hall School of Law,
and Fundación Azteca .
Friday,
April 8, 10:00 am
Andersen Auditorium, Haas School of Business (map)
Analysis
of the series
Pensar
México
Future
Join us
for the live taping of Pensar México: Future,
the fourth in an innovative series of four television programs which
will be aired nationally in the United States, Mexico and South America.
Participants
include:
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (PRD)
Felipe Calderón (PAN)
Enrique Norten, Architect
Luis Enrique Mercado, General Manager
of El Economista
Seating
will be on a first come first serve basis, so please plan to arrive
early.
Co-sponsored
by the Center for Latin American Studies, Boalt Hall School of Law,
and Fundación Azteca.
Friday,
April 8, 1:00 pm
Andersen Auditorium, Haas School of Business (map)
Analysis
of the series
Beatriz Magaloni
“Neoliberal Economic Policies and Partisan Cleavages in Latin America”
Latin America
has experienced a profound economic transformation during the past
three decades, with most countries in the region abandoning Import
Substitution Industrialization in favor of “neoliberal” economic
policies. Although the results of these policies vary considerably
across the region, economic growth remains elusive. Prof. Magaloni
will discuss the extent of support for neoliberal policies in Latin
America using macroeconomic data and a region-wide survey on economic
attitudes conducted in 1998.
Beatriz
Magaloni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.
She recently finished a manuscript entitled Voting for Autocracy:
The Politics of Hegemonic Party Survival and Demise soon to be
released by Cambridge University Press. She has written numerous articles
on the Mexican democratization, including many on voting behavior,
political parties and the rule of law.
Monday,
April 11, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos
of the event
Gabriel
Giorgi
"The Biopolitical Imagination: Literature and Eugenics"
Gabriel
Giorgi studied literature and semiotics at the Universidad Nacional
de Córdoba, where he went on to work as professor and researcher.
He then received his Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from NYU. Giorgi
is currently Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish & Portuguese
at USC. In 2004 Giorgi published Sueños de Exterminio: Homosexualidad
y representación en la literatura argentina contemporánea.
Part
of "on Argentina," an interdisciplinary lecture series.
For more information visit:
http://spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu/events/argentina.html
Monday,
April 11, 5:00 pm
Room 5125, Dwinelle Hall
Film
Screening
Peões,
by Eduardo Coutinho (2004)
In this documentary about the 1979 and 1980 Metallurgist’s
Trade Union strikes in Brazil, the people who participated in the events
tell
their stories. They speak of the origins of the movement, the involvement
of current Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da
Silva and the paths
their lives have taken. 85 minutes. Portuguese with English subtitles.
Coming of Age on the Streets of Rio, by Udi Mandel Butler (2002)
This documentary explores the lives of street children
as they come of age in Rio de Janeiro. Their life trajectories are
explored in terms
of their own perceptions and representations. Key themes include: the
family, the process of going to the street, day-to-day survival, the
children’s perceptions of the positive and negative aspects of
street life and their hopes for the future. 55 minutes, Portuguese with
English subtitles.
Both
movies are presented as part of the Violence
and the Americas conference. Thursday, April 14, 6:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
 La
Ciénaga, by Lucrecia Martel (2001)
In this
film set in the high plains of northwestern Argentina during the dog
days of summer, director Lucrecia Martel paints a somber portrait of
a middle-class family trying to preserve a semblance of European class
and traditions. 102 minutes. Spanish with English subtitles.
Please
note, this event has been replaced by the following:
Lucrecia
Martel
"La Ciénaga: A Screening of the Film and Discussion with the Filmmaker"
Lucrecia
Martel is one of Argentina's leading and most singular new filmmakers.
She has written and directed two award-winning feature films, La
Ciénaga / The Swamp (2001) and La Niña Santa
/ The Holy Girl (2004), as well as a number of shorts and documentaries.
She lives and works in Buenos Aires.
Part
of "on Argentina," an
interdisciplinary lecture series. For more information visit:
http://spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu/events/argentina.html
Friday,
April 15, 2:00 pm
Room 370, Dwinelle Hall
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Conference:
Violence and the Americas
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Conference:
“Violence and the Americas”
In Latin
America, the relationships between the state, violence and the forces
of globalization are continuously shifting. The conference “Violence
and the Americas” will examine the connections between state
legacies of abuse, criminal practices and new social movements, with
a focus on Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Topics to be explored include:
the legitimacy of state violence; criminal violence as masked resistance;
hybrid social identities that transcend the limits of class, ethnicity
and religious affiliation; and the role of the state in a global context.
Co-sponsored
with the Townsend Center for
the Humanities and the Colombian Working Group with funds from the
UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly.
- Conference
Schedule
Friday,
April 15 and Saturday April 16
Geballe Room, Stephens Hall (map)
Analysis
of the Plenary session
Analysis of the First Panel
Analysis of the Second Panel
Carlos
Forment
"Democracy
in Latin America: Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Peru and Mexico"
Carlos Forment will discuss his recent two-volume book, Democracy
in Latin America, 1760-1900: Civic Selfhood and Public Life (Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press), a highly ambitious work that seeks to create
the book Tocqueville would have written had he traveled to Latin America
instead of the United States. Forment studied countless newspapers, partisan
pamphlets, tabloids, journals, private letters and travelogues in order
to illustrate how citizens of Latin America established strong democratic
traditions in their countries through the practice of democracy in their
everyday lives.
Carlos A.
Forment is the director of the Centro de Investigación
y Documentación de la Vida Pública in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Previously, he was a member of the School for Social Science at the Institute
for Advanced Study. Dr. Forment is now studying the emergence of democratic
practices in contemporary Argentina.
Monday, April 18, 4:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photos
of the event
Lucrecia
Martel, B. Ruby Rich, Natalia Brizuela
"On Storytelling"
Lucrecia
Martel is one of Argentina's leading and most singular new filmmakers.
She has written and directed two award-winning feature films, La
Ciénaga / The Swamp (2001) and La Niña Santa
/ The Holy Girl (2004), as well as a number of shorts and documentaries.
She lives and works in Buenos Aires.
B. Ruby
Rich is a film critic and cultural theorist who contributes regularly
to the Village Voice and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She also teaches
documentary film and queer studies at UC Berkeley.
Natalia
Brizuela is Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture
in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley.
Part
of "on Argentina," an interdisciplinary lecture series.
For more information visit:
http://spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu/events/argentina.html
Wednesday,
April 20, 5:00 pm
Room 370, Dwinelle Hall
Luiz
Fernando Furlan
"Ethanol
and Renewable Fuels: The Brazilian Experience"
Luiz Fernando Furlan was appointed Minister of Development, Industry
and Foreign
Trade by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2002.
Prior to becoming minister, he was President of the Administration Council
of
Sadia S.A., one of Brazil’s largest food processing companies.
Minister Furlan has held several executive positions including Second
Vice-President and Director of Foreign Trade at FIESP/CIESP (Federation
of Industries of the State of São Paulo), Vice-President of the
Brazilian Foreign Trade Association and President, from 2000 to 2002,
of the Entrepreneurial Leaders Forum. He has also served as a member
of the Global Corporate Governance Forum and the Private Sector Advisory
Group of the World Bank.
Wednesday, April 20, 6:00 pm
Lounge, Women's Faculty Club
Analysis
and photos
of the event
Juan
Guzmán
“Creating Justice: The Pursuit of Human Rights Crimes in Chile”
Justice
for human rights cases in Chile has been a long time coming. Judge
Juan Guzmán will discuss the progress of justice from the time
of the 1973 coup that overthrew President Salvador Allende to the present.
He divides the process into four stages: 1) the period of “absolute
concealment” from 1973–78 when only 10 out of 10,000 habeus
corpuses filed were accepted; 2) the period of “total impunity” from
1978–90 when a general amnesty law protected those who had committed
human rights abuses; 3) the “as much justice as possible” period
from 1991–98 when the first rulings on human rights crimes took
place; 4) the period from 1998–present when the institutions
of justice began to perform the full scope of their duties.
A judge
since 1972, Juan Guzmán has spent the last seven years overseeing
the Chilean case against former dictator Augusto Pinochet. He is Professor
of Procedural and Penal Law at the Universidad Católica, SEK
Internacional, Universidad de las Américas and Universidad de
la República in Chile and teaches at the Chilean Police Academy.
-Judge
Guzman's notes from the talk
Monday,
April 25, 7:00 pm
Morrison Room, Doe Library
Analysis
and photos
of the event
Hernán
Diaz
"Figures of Confinement"
Hernán
Diaz studied Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, where he
went on to teach literary theory. He is an active member of an ongoing
University of Buenos Aires research group Concepciones y operaciones
de la crítica. He received an MA in Latin American Literature
from King's College, London and is currently a doctoral candidate in
Spanish and Portuguese at NYU, completing a dissertation titled Figures
of Containment: Literature and Claustrophobia.
Part
of "on Argentina," an interdisciplinary lecture series.
For more information visit:
http://spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu/events/argentina.html
Wednesday,
April 27, 6:00 pm
Room 5125, Dwinelle Hall
Alvaro
Ramazzini
“Perspectives on CAFTA and Immigration”
Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini, an internationally recognized human rights
activist, is the
bishop of the Dioceses of San Marcos, Guatemala and president of the
Episcopal Secretariat of Central America (SEDAC). In his work with campesinos,
immigrants and the landless, Bishop Ramazzini has consistently promoted
rural development. Along with other bishops, he also played a pivotal
role in the 1996 Peace Accords and is active in the promotion of the
Recovery of Historical Memory Project (REMHI) in San Marcos. The REMHI
report found state agents responsible for nearly 90 percent of human
rights abuses during Guatemala’s 36 year armed conflict.
In Spanish,
with English translation.
-Transcript
of Bishop Ramazzini's testimony on CAFTA Monday, May 2, 4:00 pm
Howard Room, Men’s Faculty Club (map)
Analysis
of Ramazzini and Stein events, and photos
of this event
Mark Healey and Jeffrey Hadler
“After the Catastrophe: Historical Perspectives from Argentina and Indonesia”
“The
Ruins of the New Argentina: Remaking San Juan After the 1944 Earthquake”
The worst natural disaster in Argentina’s history,
the 1944 San Juan earthquake served as an indictment of a corrupt political
order
and an invitation for transformation. This talk will address the place
of disaster in political transformation and the limits and contours of
that eventual transformation.
Mark Healey is Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley.
“Indeterminate
Frames: Earthquakes and Uprisings in Sumatran History”
In Minangkabau, Indonesia, the failed Padri War that ended in 1833 and
a failed Islamic-Communist uprising in 1926 were both marked by destructive
earthquakes. This talk explores the connections between the earthquakes,
the coincidence of political change and whether the disasters were historically
decisive events.
Jeffrey Hadler is Assistant Professor of South & Southeast
Asian Studies at UC Berkeley.
Moderated by Prof. Peter Zinoman, History & Southeast
Asian Studies
Co-sponsored
with the Center for Southeast Asia Studies
Wednesday,
May 4, 12:15 – 2:00 pm
Room 3335, Dwinelle Hall
Photos
of the event
Eduardo Stein
“The Impact of the Central American Free Trade Agreement”
Eduardo Stein is the Vice President of the Republic of
Guatemala. Previously, he was a consultant for the International Organization
for Migration,
focusing on strategies and development projects related to issues of
migration to the U.S. Dr. Stein also served as Guatemala’s Foreign
Minister from 1996–2000. In that capacity he was an active participant
in the country’s peace process during the final negotiating phases
(1996) and in the promotion of international support for the implementation
phases (1997-99). He helped revamp Guatemala’s foreign relations
agenda in several fields including human rights, indigenous peoples’ rights,
foreign aid, regional development, environmental issues, trade and tourism.
- Interview
with Dr. Stein by the Fund for Peace (2002)
Wednesday, May 4, 4:00 pm
Howard Room, Faculty Club (map)
Analysis
of this and the Ramazzini event, and photos
of this event
José Natividad
González Parás
Title to be announced
José Natividad
González Parás is the Governor of Nuevo León,
Mexico.
Postponed
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