Spring 2011

The Invisibles film poster

CineLatino: The Invisibles

Directed by Marc Silver and Gael García Bernal (Mexico, 2010)
January 19, 2011 |Part of the Spring 2011 Cine Latino Series

Workers at Guatemala’s Historical Archives of the National Police inspect and restore documents. ((Photo by Rodrigo ABD/Associated Press.))

Hidden Archives and Human Rights Prosecutions in Latin America

Kate Doyle
January 27, 2011| Part of the Spring 2011 U.S.–Mexico Futures Forum

Perlo Cohen speaking at UC Berkeley

The Global Economic Crisis and the Mexican–U.S. Border

Manuel Perlo Cohen
January 31, 2011 | Part of the Spring 2011 Bay Area Latin American Forum 

Francesca Rubino wearing a white blouse seating talking to the audience and pointing toward her slides

2011 Tinker Summer Field Research Grants

Informational Meeting
February 4, 2011

Five students seating at a round table talking

CLAS Summer Field Research Symposium

CLAS Research
February 8, 2011

The Middle of the World film still

CineLatino: The Middle of the World

Directed by Vicente Amorim (Brazil, 2003)
February 9, 2011 | Part of the Spring 2011 Cine Latino Series

Janice Perlman speaks on her experiences over 40 years in Rio's favelas

Marginality: From Myth to Reality

Janice Perlman
February 23, 2011

Revolucion film poster

Cine Latino: Revolución

(Mexico, 2010)
March 7, 2011 | Part of the Spring 2011 Cine Latino Series

Those Who Remain film poster

Screening and Director's Talk: Those Who Remain

Directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo and Carlos Hagerman (Mexico, 2008)
March 8, 2011

In a photo from a political rally, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his successor, Dilma Rousseff, both represent the Worker's Party (PT). (Photo by Andre Penner/Associated Press.)

Lula’s Hegemony and Brazilian Labor Relations: Call Centers and Their Unions

Ruy Braga
April 4, 2011, 2011 | Part of the Spring 2011 Bay Area Latin American Forum

Undertow film poster

Cine Latino: Undertow

Directed by Javier Fuentes-León (Peru 2009)
April 6, 2011 | Part of the Spring 2011 Cine Latino Series

Portrait of Sergio Aguayo

Mexico and the United States: Neighbors in Crisis

Directed by Pamela Yates (Guatemala, 2011)
April 7, 2011 | Part of the Spring 2011 U.S.–Mexico Futures Forum

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Transplant Tourism: João’s Kidney Safari

Nancy Scheper-Hughes
April 11, 2011 | Part of the Spring 2011 Bay Area Latin American Forum

Chinese President Hu Jintao, backed by troops from China's armed services, receives Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner across a red carpet in Beijing to sign trade deals. (Photo courtesy of casarosada.gov.)

The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization

Kevin P Gallagher 
April 13, 2011| Part of the Spring 2011 U.S.–Mexico Futures Forum

Michelle Bachelet speaks at Berkeley, May 2010. (Photo by Jim Block.)

Women's Rights: A Global Challenge

Michelle Bachelet
April 14, 2011

A man is silhouetted against the water as he fishes in the watershed of Belo Monte, site of a controversial dam project in Brazil.. (Photo by Bruno Abreu.)

California Climate Policy — A New Template for the Americas?

Robert Collier
April 25, 2011 | Part of the Spring 2011 Bay Area Latin American Forum

Nostalgia for the Light film poster

CineLatino: Nostalgia for the Light

Directed by Patricio Guzmán (Chile, 2010)
April 26, 2011 | Part of the Spring 2011 Cine Latino Series