SPRING
2008 CALENDAR
OF EVENTS |
Teodoro
Petkoff
"Venezuela
Faces the Future"
 |
Opposition
protests against the Chavez referendum. (photo by a.andres) |
Teodoro
Petkoff has taken on many roles in his varied life, among
them professor, guerilla, economist, journalist and politician.
One of the founders of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS),
he left the party in 1998 when it decided to support the
candidacy of Hugo Chávez. The former congressman
and two-time presidential candidate is now the director of
the newspaper he founded, Tal Cual, which has been critical
of both Chávez and those who supported the coup attempt
against him. Petkoff is also the author of several books
including Chávez: Una segunda opinión,
Chávez: Tal Cual and Las Dos Izquierdas.
Friday,
January 25, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Room 223, Moses Hall
Article
about and photos of the event
Article on the event from the Berkeley Review of Latin
American Studies
Martha Delgado
Title to be announced
Martha
Delgado is a long-time leader in the Mexican environmental
movement. She currently is the Secretary of the Environment
for Mexico's Federal District.
Monday,
February 4, 4:00 pm
POSTPONED
Juan Gabriel Valdés
"The U.N. Mission in Haiti"
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Juan
Gabriel Valdés with Kofi Annan in 2003. |
Juan
Gabriel Valdés was Chile's Permanent Representative
to the United Nations
(2000-03) and a member of the Security Council during the
deliberations prior to the invasion of Iraq. Subsequently,
he served as head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission
in Haiti. Ambassador Valdés
now serves as the director of Chile's public diplomacy
program for the
Bachelet government.
Tuesday,
February 5, 4:00 pm
Room 554, Barrows Hall
Photos
of the event
Juan
Gabriel Valdés
"Where is Latin America Heading?"
Juan
Gabriel Valdés was Chile's Permanent Representative
to the United Nations (2000-03) and a member of the
Security Council during the deliberations prior to
the invasion of Iraq. Subsequently, he served as head
of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti.
Ambassador Valdés now serves as the director
of Chile's public diplomacy program for the Bachelet
government.
Wednesday,
February 6, 6:00 pm
Home Room, International House
Photos
of the event
Article on the event from the Berkeley Review of
Latin American Studies
Cocalero
Directed by Alejandro Landes
(Bolivia, 2006)
This
film, nominated for the 2007 Sundance Grand Jury Prize,
follows head of the coca-growers union, Evo Morales, as
he campaigns for the Bolivian presidency. The director
gets up close and personal with the unlikely candidate,
following him from formal fundraising dinners to mass rallies
to casual gatherings with friends. 94 minutes. Quechua
and Spanish with English subtitles.
"In
the midst of this consultant-polished election season,
Alejandro Landes’s inside look at Evo Morales’s
successful 2005 run for the Bolivian presidency is both
refreshing and just plain fun." — The Village
Voice
Wednesday,
February 13, 7:00 pm
160 Kroeber Hall
Jacquelynn
Baas
"José Clemente Orozco at Dartmouth"
The
mural cycle, “The Epic of American Civilization” at
Dartmouth College (1932–34) proved to be a pivotal
work in the career of José Clemente Orozco, one
of the most significant artists of the 20 th century. How
did this inflammatory work by a Mexican artist come to
be created at a liberal arts college in Hanover, New
Hampshire during the depths of the Great Depression?
Jacquelynn
Baas is Director Emeritus of the UC Berkeley Art Museum
and Pacific Film Archive and an independent scholar.
Her most recent book-length publications are: Buddha Mind
in Contemporary Art, co-edited with Mary Jane
Jacob and Smile of the Buddha:
Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to Today.
Monday,
February 25, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Room 554, Barrows Hall
Article
on the event from the Berkeley Review of Latin American
Studies
Orozco's 'Epic of American Civilization' artwork from
BRLAS
Glauco
Arbix
“The
Role of Innovation in the Brazilian Economy”
Brazil remains
a strong competitor in
global markets for standardized agricultural and industrial
goods. However, a small but important group of Brazilian
companies is also exporting medium and high-technology
goods to international markets. This cluster of highly
competitive Brazilian firms generates positive economic
spillovers in terms of wages and productivity. Contrary
to expectations in Brazil of
a regressive specialization, the new competitive environment
is unleashing innovative businesses. This process is different
from the experiences of firms in Mexico and Argentina and could
be giving
birth to a new culture of entrepreneurship in Brazil.
Glauco
Arbix is Professor of Sociology at the University of São
Paulo and a Visiting Scholar
at CLAS. He
is also a member
of the Brazilian National Council on Science and Technology
and Chair
of the
Observatory for Innovation at the Institute of Advanced
Studies.
Monday,
February 25, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
554
Barrows Hall
Article
from the Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies
Tulio
Halperin Donghi
“Whither Argentina?”
While
Argentina has recovered from the 2001 financial melt-down,
its economy continues to evolve. Although the market
for primary-sector exports is booming, the country has
also experienced de-industrialization which has led to
an expansion of the informal sector. In the formal sector,
labor unions are resurgent and form a key constituency
for President Cristina Fernández
de Kirchner who, with her husband former President Nestor
Kirchner, is striving to refashion the Peronist movement
on the lines of the Mexican PRI. Professor Tulio Halperin
Donghi will discuss the challenges and opportunities facing
Argentina’s new president as she works to maintain
Argentina ’s economic recovery and navigate South American
politics defined on one end of the spectrum by Chile ’s
Ricardo Lagos and on the other by Venezuela’s Hugo
Chávez. Tulio
Halperin Donghi is Professor Emeritus in the Department
of History at UC Berkeley. A distinguished Latin Americanist,
he received the Award for Scholarly Distinction from the
American Historical Association in 1998 for excellence in
teaching and research. Among his numerous publications are Un
conflicto nacional: moriscos y cristianos viejos en Valencia,
El Río de la Plata al comenzar el siglo XIX and Tradición
política española e ideología revolucionaria
de Mayo.
Tuesday,
February 26, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
554 Barrows Hall
Alfredo Corchado and Ricardo Sandoval
“How
to Report in Mexico Without Being Jailed, Kidnapped or
Killed”
Thousands
of murders have been linked to drug trafficking along
the U.S.–Mexico border. The victims include
many of the women killed in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua
since 1994. Journalists Alfredo Corchado and Ricardo Sandoval
have spent much of their careers writing about the border,
despite death threats and a tragic indifference among the
bureaucrats of both nations. In this talk, the two will
offer insight into the region’s troubles and
illustrate the perils journalists confront today along
on the border. Alfredo
Corchado is Mexico Bureau Chief for the Dallas Morning
News. Last year he was awarded the prestigious Maria
Moors Cabot award, honoring his years of groundbreaking
coverage of Latin America and the U.S.–Mexico border.
Since 1984 he has written award-winning articles about
life and death along the border — and the region’s
social and cultural vibrancy — for the Wall Street
Journal, the El Paso Herald Post and the Morning News. Ricardo
Sandoval is Assistant City Editor at the Sacramento Bee.
As a foreign correspondent in Latin America from 1997
to 2005, he covered crime, migration and insurgent movements
in Mexico , Colombia and Venezuela — work
that earned him awards from the Overseas Press Club and
the InterAmerican Press Association. He is also the co-author
of the 1997 biography, The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and
the Farmworkers Movement.Co-sponsored with the Graduate School of Journalism.
Thursday,
February 28, 4:00 – 5:30
pm
Library, North Gate Hall
Sylvia
Sellers-García
"When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep"
Sylvia
Sellers-García will read from her recently published
novel, When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep, and
talk about her research process. Informed largely by
oral history and the author’s personal experiences in
Guatemala, the novel tells the story of a Guatemalan man
raised in the United States who returns to his native country
in 1993 as the armed conflict is winding down and the slow
recovery process is beginning.Sylvia
Sellers-García is a writer and a graduate student
in the History Department at UC Berkeley.
Monday,
March 3, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Room 554, Barrows Hall
Article
on the event from the Berkeley Review of Latin American
Studies
Garrett
Brown
“Striking Copper Miners in Cananea, Mexico — Fighting
for Their Lives”
Copper
miners at the giant open-pit copper mine in Cananea, Mexico,
have been on strike for seven months to protect both themselves
and their historic union, which have been jeopardized by
the transnational mine operator Grupo México. The
outcome of the current battle of the 1,200 union workers
at the historic mine, where the 1906 strike led to the 1910
Mexican Revolution, will have a tremendous impact on workers’ rights
and labor relations throughout Mexico for years to come. Garrett
Brown (MPH, CIH) is a graduate of the UC Berkeley School
of Public Health and compliance officer for Cal/OSHA’s
Oakland District Office. Since 1993, Brown has also been
the volunteer coordinator of the Maquiladora Health and Safety
Support Network which provides information, technical assistance
and training to workers in Mexico, Central America, Indonesia
and China. The
report of the independent occupational health team’s
survey of the Cananea mine, as well as 25 photographs of
the mine, is posted at: www.igc.org/mhssn
Monday, March 3, 4:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch
Street
Kirsten Sehnbruch
“The Concertación Is Dead!
Long Live the Concertación!”
The
government of Chilean president Michelle Bachelet has
been in trouble almost since day one. Although the political
legacy she inherited from the previous administration,
a rapidly changing social environment and the personal
characteristics of Bachelet herself have all contributed
to her administration’s
problems, much can also be attributed to the exhaustion of
a coalition that has been in power since Chile’s transition
to democracy in 1990. How much longer can this coalition
perpetuate itself in power? Has Bachelet’s agenda
for change failed? Kirsten Sehnbruch is a Senior Scholar and Lecturer at the
Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley. She has
worked as a consultant to the Chilean government on a range
of issues related to employment policy, unemployment insurance
and the pension system. Her book The Chilean Labor Market:
A Key to Understanding Latin American Labor Markets was
published by Palgrave Macmillan in September.
Website:
www.kirstensehnbruch.com
Tuesday,
March 4, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
554 Barrows Hall
Tinker
Summer Field Research Symposium
This 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 the
Tinker Foundation.Schedule
of presentations-->
Wednesday,
March 5: Mexico,
Central America and the Caribbean
Thursday, March 6: The Andes
Friday, March 7: South America
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Article
on one student's summer research from the
Berkeley Review
of Latin American Studies
Alejandro Toledo
“Can
Democracy Afford to Neglect the Poor?”
Alejandro
Toledo, Ph.D., is the former president of Peru (2001–06)
and the founder and current president of the Global Center
for Development and Democracy which focuses on the interrelationship
between poverty and inequality and the future of democracy.
He is a Payne Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and
a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies
in the Behavioral Sciences, both at Stanford. Co-sponsored
by the Blum Center for Developing Economies.
Monday,
March 10, 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Chevron
Auditorium, International House
Article
on the event from the Berkeley Review of Latin American
Studies
Heading
South
by Laurent Cantet (Haiti, 2006)
In
the late 1970s, three middle-aged, middle-class Western
women vacation in a Haitian resort where handsome young
locals cater to their every need. Two of the women are
soon caught up in a rivalry over Legba, the most desirable
man on the beach. Consumed by the politics of their own
sexual escape, the women choose to remain ignorant about
the economic and political situation that pushes young
men like Legba into their arms. 108 minutes. Creole,
French and English with English subtitles. "'Heading
South' is a seemingly straightforward and simple picture
that’s really defiantly complex, sexually, politically
and emotionally." — Salon.com
Wednesday,
March 12, 7:00 pm
160 Kroeber Hall
José Miguel
Vivanco
"Rights vs. Trade: The U.S.–Colombia Free
Trade Agreement and Anti-Union Violence in Colombia"
Human Rights Watch has urged the delay of ratifification
of a free trade agreement with Colombia until the Colombian
government can demonstrate sustained results in addressing
paramilitary abuses and violence against trade unions.José Miguel
Vivanco is Executive Director of the Americas Division
of Human Rights Watch and the founder of the Center for
Justice and International Law (CEJIL).
Monday, March 17, 6:00 pm
Lounge, Women’s Faculty Club
Naomi
Roht-Arriaza
"Reparations Programs in the Wake of Large-Scale Atrocities"
International
law holds that reparations must be paid for serious violations
of human rights and humanitarian law, yet doing so in situations
where there are thousands of victims and scarce resources
can be challenging even for well-intentioned governments.
Reparations programs in Peru and Guatemala raise new possibilities,
problems and dilemmas in the wake of large scale rights
violations.Naomi
Roht-Arriaza is Professor of Law at UC Hastings. She
is the author of The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice
in the Age of Human Rights along with other books
and articles on transitional justice, universal jurisdiction
and reparations.
Monday,
March 31, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Room 554, Barrows Hall
Philip
Martin
"International Migration: Global, American and Agricultural Issues"
About
9 percent of industrial country residents are international
migrants. While many migrant-sending countries hope
that remittances can spur development, the U.S. and other
migrant-receiving countries are debating what to do about
unauthorized migration. In the U.S., agriculture is developing
a peculiar human capital structure — almost all farm
operators are U.S.-born and almost all hired workers are
foreign-born. This talk outlines the major migration issues,
the contributions of research to policy making and opportunities
for policy-relevant research.Philip
Martin is a UC Davis professor of Agricultural and
Resource Economics and the chair of the UC Comparative
Immigration and Integration Program.
Wednesday,
April 2, 12:00-1:15 pm
Room 554, Barrows Hall
Scholars Discuss
"Immigration: Challenges for the Next President"
Immigration is a hot-button political topic and a substantive
issue for the country. How should the next president deal
with the opportunities and challenges surrounding immigration?
Featuring:
- Frank D. Bean, chancellor's professor of sociology and
economics, and director, Center for Research on Immigration,
Population and Public Policy, UC-Irvine
- Philip Martin, professor of agricultural and resource economics,
UC-Davis, and chair of the UC Comparative Immigration and
Integration Program
- Peter D. Salins, professor of political science, Stony
Brook University
Moderator: Max
Neiman, associate director and senior fellow,
Public Policy Institute of California
This
event is part of a year-long series organized
by the Institute of Governmental Studies at Berkeley to
address the issues and politics of the 2008 presidential
election. Series co-sponsors include the Center for Latin
American Studies, Boalt Hall School of Law, the Institute
of International Studies, and California Magazine.For
more information on the Choosing the President series,
including webcasts of past events, go to http://igs.berkeley.edu/events/president2008.
Wednesday, April 2, 4:00 pm
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
Alfonso
Valenzuela Aguilera
"Surveillance, Territory and the Rule of Law in Mexico City"
Professor
Valenzuela Aguilera will address the role in which legal
frameworks and perceived norms shape the social control
of space in Mexico City. He will examine the classic prevention/intervention/suppression
model that frames our thinking on crime and the implications
that mainstream surveillance policies are having in the
urban realm. Alfonso
Valenzuela Aguilera is Professor of Urban Planning
at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos and the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and
a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Urban and Regional
Development at UC Berkeley. He is the author of numerous
articles and the forthcoming book Urbanists and Visionaries.
Planning Mexico City in the first half of the XX Century (Miguel
Angel Porrua Editores).
Monday,
April 7, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Room 554, Barrows Hall
Ha-Joon Chang
“Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade”
Over
the last 25 years, most developing countries have experienced
a slowdown in growth, rising inequality and increased
economic instability. The outcome is, Ha-Joon Chang contends,
due to the policies imposed on them by the rich countries
and the international organizations they control — free
trade, free international investment, privatization, stronger
protection of intellectual property rights and conservative
macroeconomic policies. These are not the policies
rich countries used when they themselves were developing
countries nor are they policies used by more recent development
success stories. Featuring Alexander Hamilton, the Lexus,
Nokia mobile phone, his son, Orson Welles and an elephant,
Chang’s talk argues for a fundamental reform of the
international economic system and for national policies
focused on raising long-term productivity (mostly) in manufacturing.
Ha-Joon
Chang is a Reader in the Political Economy of Development
at Cambridge University and a fellow at the Center for
Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He is
the author of Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in
Historical Perspective and Bad Samaritans: The Myth
of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism.
About Bad Samaritans
"The
best riposte [to contemporary globalization] from the critics
that I have seen." – Paul Blustein, Washington
Post Book World, February 17, 2008
Co-sponsored by the Center for Korean Studies.
Monday,
April 7, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
Peter Evans interviews Ha-Joon Chang from the
Fall 2008 Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies
El
Violin
by Francisco Vargas (Mexico, 2006)
"El
Violin" tells the story of a family of traveling musicians
living a dangerous double life in rural 1970s Mexico, gathering
weapons for a revolt as they move from town to town. They
return home to find that the army has occupied their village,
and their neighbors have fled to the hills. Using his seeming
helplessness as a disguise, the elderly Don Plutarco — played
by Don Angel Tavira, who won the Best Actor prize at Cannes
for his portrayal — takes his violin down to the
army camp in an attempt to retrieve munitions buried in
a village cornfield. 98 minutes. Spanish with English
subtitles. “Pure
and emotive cinema that shakes you with its honesty.” — Guillermo
del Toro
Monday,
April 7, 7:00 pm
Pacific Film Archive Theater
Stanford
Ovshinsky
"Alternative
Energy and the Americas"
Stanford
R. Ovshinsky has been called “the modern world’s
most important energy visionary.” His career
has combined path-breaking scientific work, the creation
of new industries and a deep commitment to “make
a better world.” His work on energy and the
environment has particular significance for the Americas.
Ovshinsky
developed a new class of disordered or amorphous
materials in an area of physics now called "Ovonics." He
translated these scientific advances into non-polluting
approaches to producing and storing energy from
thin film solar technology that is mass produced
to hydrogen fuel cells and storage devices. The
nickel metal hydride batteries he developed currently
power most hybrid cars.
Stan
Ovshinsky holds about 350 U.S. patents and has authored
more than 275 scientific papers in fields as diverse
as neurophysiology and amorphous semiconductors.
He has won innumerable honors including the 2005
Innovation Award for Energy and the Environment from
the Economist magazine.
He
and his late wife, Iris, were named Heroes of Chemistry
2000 by the American Chemical Society for "advances
in electrochemical, energy storage and energy generation,
including the development of Ovonic nickel metal
hydride (NIMH) rechargeable batteries, regenerative
fuel cells, solid hydrogen storage system and amorphous
silicon photovoltaics" and for having "made
significant and lasting contributions to global human
welfare."
Stan
Ovshinsky is a fellow of both the American Physical
Society and of
the
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Tuesday,
April 8, 5:00 pm
María
Carranza
"Agents
of Change at Turrialba: A History of the Costa Rican
Family Planning Program"
Costa
Rica has been the source of demographic attention for
at least two reasons: its startling rate of population
growth — which at its peak, between 1955 and 1960,
was considered one of the highest in the world — and
the astounding decline in the total fertility rate, from
7.3 to 3.7 children, that took place between 1960 and 1975.
The sharp reduction in the fertility rate has been attributed
in significant measure to the use of modern contraceptive
methods provided by state health institutions from 1968
onwards. This talk examines the first Costa Rican experience
with mass contraception. María Carranza is a medical doctor who also holds
a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. She is a researcher at
the Instituto Costarricense de Investigación y Enseñanza
en Nutrición y Salud (INCIENSA) and the University
of Costa Rica. Co-sponsored
by the Department of Anthropology; the Science, Technology,
and Society Center; the Gender and Women’s
Studies Department; the Berkeley Population Center; and
the Department of Anthropology and History of Social Medicine
at UCSF.
Wednesday,
April 16, 4:00 – 5:30
pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Laura
Cházaro
"Trade in Medical Instruments
and Colonialist Policies in 19th-Century Mexico"
In
the mid-1800s, Mexico carried on a vigorous trade in
shipping and transferring medical instruments from
Europe, especially France. Though it is now common to
question G. Bachelard’s concept of instruments as merely “reified
theories,” it is not clear whether the space in
which they may come to be placed determines the knowledge
they produce. This talk proposes to respond to such questions
as: how does the knowledge encapsulated in such artifacts
travel from one place to another?; and, having been designed
for universal use, how is it that they come to calibrate
bodies and national issues? Laura
Cházaro holds a Ph.D. in the History of
Science and is a researcher at the Centro de Investigación
y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico
Nacional (CINVESTAV) in Mexico City. Co-sponsored
by the Department of Anthropology; the Office for History
of Science and Technology; the Science, Technology, and
Society Center; and the Department of Anthropology and
History of Social Medicine at UCSF.
Thursday,
April 17, 12:00 – 2:00
pm
221 Kroeber
Hall
Centolia Maldonado Vasquez and Bernardo Ramirez Bautista
"Binational
Struggles of Mexican Indigenous Migrant Communities: Oaxacan
Perspectives"
Centolia
Maldonado Vasquez and Bernardo Ramirez Bautista of
Mexico's Frente Indígena de
Organizaciones Binacionales will discuss the current
political situation in Oaxaca, including such topics
as: the role of indigenous Mexican migration to the
U.S. and its impact in the communities of origin; the
role of women in the movement for social justice in Oaxaca;
and the current challenges facing indigenous governing
community institutions in Oaxaca. They
will also screen the film, "Women
Who Organize Make Progress." Centolia Maldonado Vasquez is the Binational Advisor
for Economic Development Director and a District Coordinator.
Bernardo Ramirez Bautista is the Mixteca Region Coordinator
and Legal Advocacy Program Director. This event will be in Spanish with the option of English
translation.
Monday, April 28, 12:00 - 2:00 pm
554 Barrows Hall
Lila Caimari
“Crime and Society in Interwar Buenos
Aires”
In
recent years, a number of studies have established the
role of the “crime question” in the context
of the spectacular growth of Latin American cities in the
late 19 th century, producing a growing body of knowledge
on prison reform, criminology and social control. This
presentation shifts the attention to other historical dimensions
of the Latin American “crime question.” Based
on the analysis of a string of robberies and kidnappings
that triggered a wave of moral panic in 1920s and 1930s
Buenos Aires, it argues that crime remained at the forefront
of public opinion concerns well beyond the urban revolution.
Furthermore, it suggests that the Interwar period witnessed
the decline of the influence of scientists as providers
of concepts to describe criminality and led to the resurrection
of the death penalty as a viable form of punishment. Finally,
these arguments will be linked to the broader context of
1930s Argentine anti-liberalism.Lila
Caimari is a Tinker visiting professor at Columbia University
and a professor at the Universidad de San Andrés
in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Co-sponsored by the Department of History.
Friday,
May 2, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
2227 Dwinelle Hall
Roberto
Dobles
"Costa
Rica: The Carbon Neutrality Challenge"
Costa
Rica has declared that it will go carbon neutral by 2021.
To meet that challenge, energy officials from the Central
American nation have gone on a fact-finding tour of the
United States, seeking out best practices that can be
incorporated at home. The Center for Latin American Studies
together with the National Resources Defense Council
have helped coordinate the delegation’s visit to
Berkeley, focusing on global strategies for carbon neutrality,
methods for reducing dependence on fossil fuels and the
building of partnerships for future collaborations. Minister
Dobles will discuss his country’s efforts to mitigate
carbon emissions during this special presentation.Roberto Dobles is the Costa Rican Minister of the Environment
and Energy.Co-sponsored by the National Resources Defense Council.
Monday, May 19, 4:30 pm
Room 554, Barrows Hall
Daniel
Kammen
Title to be announced Daniel
Kammen is a professor in the Energy and Resources Group,
the Goldman School of Public Policy and the Department
of Nuclear Engineering at UC Berkeley. He is also the
director of the university’s Renewable and Appropriate
Energy Laboratory.
Date
and location to be determined
Michelle
Bachelet, President of Chile
"The Transformation of Chile"
President
Michelle Bachelet will discuss the current challenges
Chile faces and what the new Chile-California agreement
means for her country.
Moderated
by Professor Harley Shaiken
Introduction by Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau
Tickets will
be available prior to the event at the Chevron Auditorium
on a first come, first served basis. NO backpacks, large
bags, food, banners, signs, or sound-making devices.
Article
on President Bachelet's visit from the San Francisco
Chronicle
Thursday,
June 12, 2008, 5:00 pm
Chevron Auditorium, International House (map)
Article
on President Bachelet's visit
Link
to webcast and photos
of the event
