FALL
2003 CALENDAR
OF EVENTS |
September | October |
November | December Latin
American Studies Graduate Student Reception
The
Center for Latin American Studies invites all current and
incoming students in the Latin American Studies graduate
program to a welcoming
reception.
Wednesday,
August 27, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Welcome
Back Reception
The
Center for Latin American Studies' faculty and staff would
like to invite you to celebrate of another exciting year. Please
join us for an informal reception.
Wednesday,
September 3, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photos
from the event
Art Opening
Xavier Castellanos, "Paintings—Magical Mexico"
 In
the Mexican landscape paintings of Xavier Castellanos we
find a broad lexicon of representative and narrative imagery
complimented by a refreshing exploration of the expressive
possibilities of landscapes rarely seen in today’s
contemporary art. For more information on Mr. Castellanos’ work,
please visit his website at www.xavierart.com.
Art
Exhibit August 25 – December 15,
2003
For exhibit hours, please call (510) 642-2088 Join
us for a talk given by the artist, followed by an opening
reception.
Tuesday,
September 9, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photo
from the opening
The
Pinochet Case
Director: Patricio Guzmán
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 humbled 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, 2001.
(English
and Spanish with English subtitles)
Wednesday,
September 10, 7:00 p.m.
Room 160, Kroeber Hall
Photo
from the event
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.
Postponed
until Spring 2004 Semester
Father
Jon de Cortina
"Buscando los niños desaparecidos de la guerra"
"Searching for El Salvador’s Disappeared Children"
The
counterinsurgency campaign carried out by the Salvadoran military
during the early 80’s resulted in many civilian deaths
and the destruction of villages. Often, children that survived
were kidnapped by the military and subsequently turned over
to the Salvadoran Red Cross, which in turn arranged for their
adoption or placed them in orphanages. Following the signing
of the Peace Accords in 1992, parents and families began searching
for their missing children. The NGO Pro Búsqueda was
formed in 1994 as part of this movement. The group estimates
that at least 200 children disappeared during the conflict.
Padre Cortina will discuss the efforts made by families of
the missing to locate their children and the advances in genetic
testing that have helped make some family reunifications possible.
Padre
Jon de Cortina is a Jesuit priest who has taken a leading role
in the search for missing children in El Salvador. Padre Cortina
is the Executive Director of Pro Búsqueda.
Cosponsored
by the Human Rights Center
Tuesday,
September 16, 2:15–3:30 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
IMMEDIATELY
FOLLOWING THE EVENT:
The Center for Latin American Studies invites you to a reception
following the lecture by Father Jon de Cortina.
Both Maria Julia Hernandez and Father Jon De Cortina will be
special guests at the reception.
Maria Julia Hernandez is a leading advocate of human rights
in El Salvador.
She has been the Director of Tutela Legal, the legal aid office
of the
Archdiocese of San Salvador, since the 1980’s.
Father Cortina is the director of Pro Busqueda, an NGO that
helps to reunify
families torn apart by the repression in El Salvador, especially
those whose
children were kidnapped by the military and adopted through military
channels.
Cosponsored
with the International Human Rights Clinic at Boalt Hall School
of Law and the Human Rights Center at
Berkeley
Tuesday, September 16, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photos
from the event
Walter
Goldfrank
“Harvesting Counter-Revolution: Women Workers in the Chilean Fruit Sector”
Over
a 40-year period, agrarian reform and counter-reform, state
subsidies and neoliberal restructuring in Chile have combined
with global technological advances and shifting food tastes
to fuel the growth and maturation of a highly profitable fresh
fruit sector. The great majority of its work force has been
comprised of young and middle-aged women whose situation has
changed considerably since their initial portrayal in the 1980s
as prototypical victims of neoliberalism.
W.
L. Goldfrank is a professor of Sociology and Latin American & Latino
Studies at UC Santa Cruz, where he has taught for 35 years.
His research has focused on the Mexican Revolution, fascist
movements and regimes in the interwar period, global hegemonic
transitions and the development of the Chilean fruit sector.
From 1993-96 he directed a collaborative project on social
and ecological change in the Aconcagua Valley. He is currently
co-editor of the on-line Journal of World-Systems Research.
Monday,
September 29, 12:00–1:15 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos of
the event
The
Trials of Henry Kissinger
Director: Eugene Jarecki
This
documentary focuses on Christopher Hitchens’ charges
against Henry Kissinger as a war criminal, based on his role
in countries such as Cambodia, Chile and Indonesia. Kissinger’s
story raises profound questions about American foreign policy
and highlights a new era of human rights. 80 minutes, 2002.
(in
English)
Wednesday,
October 1, 7:00 p.m.
Room 160, Kroeber Hall
CLAS
Summer Research Symposium
This
symposium is a unique opportunity to learn from the current
research of UC Berkeley graduate students.
Tuesday,
October 7, 2:00-4:00 p.m., and Wednesday, October 8, 2:00-5:00
p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
From
the Other Side
Director: Chantal Akerman
Through
images and interviews with Mexicans and American law enforcement
officers, this films examines the plight of poor Mexicans who
try to immigrate to the United States illegally in hope of
a better life. 99 minutes, 2002.
(Spanish
with English subtitles)
Wednesday,
October 22, 7:00 p.m.
Room 160, Kroeber Hall
Stefano
Varese
“Witness to Sovereignty: Revisiting the Latin American Indigenous Peoples’ Ethnopolitical
Movement”
During
his last 40 years as anthropologist, Prof. Varese has followed,
accompanied and witnessed the ethnopolitical struggle of the
indigenous peoples of Latin America for their self-determination,
autonomy and cultural sovereignty. He is now revisiting these
years of political struggle and professional engagement in
an attempt to reach some conclusions on the role of committed
Latin American anthropology in the hemispheric indigenous movement
for social, economic and cultural justice.
Stefano
Varese is a professor in the Department of Native American
Studies at UC Davis. He has done research in the Amazon region
of Peru, in Southeast México, among the indigenous diaspora
in California and at a continental level. He has completed
and submitted to the University of Oklahoma Press a manuscript
on these topics titled: “Witness to Sovereignty.”
Monday,
October 27, 12:00–1:15 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos
from the event
Gabriela Delamata
"The Organizations of Unemployed Workers in Greater Buenos Aires:
The Erosion of Clientelistic Practices" The number of unemployed workers’ organizations surged
in Argentina in the late 1990’s as a contentious response
to the policy of adjustment. More than a dozen organizations
developed in the Province of Buenos Aires, breaking ties with
the clientelistic networks of the Justicialista Party. This session
gives an overview of the main demands and achievements of the
unemployed workers’ movement and underlines the way it
built up a new logic of political action.
The number of unemployed workers’ organizations surged
in Argentina in the late 1990s as a response to the policy of
adjustment. This session gives an overview of the main demands
and achievements of the unemployed workers’ movement and
underlines the way it built up a new logic of political action.
Gabriela Delamata is a professor in the School of Politics
and Government at the University of San Martin and a researcher
at the CONICET in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Professor Delamata
is currently a visiting scholar at CLAS.
Wednesday,
October 29, 4:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photo
from the event
"The
Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
Directed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain
Two
Irish filmmakers gained unprecedented access to Venezuelan
Pres. Hugo Chávez in early 2002 for a film about the
leftist leader’s presidency. The focus of their documentary
changed dramatically on April 11 when they were trapped inside
the Presidential Palace by a rightwing coup. The architects
of the coup knocked out the government television station,
leaving only the oligarchy-controlled stations which filled
the airwaves with propaganda that framed events to make it
look as though Chávez had been forced to resign after
ordering a bloodbath. These reports, later proved false by
the footage in this film, were picked up internationally by
CNN. 74 minutes. (2002)
(
Spanish with English subtitles)
Wednesday,
October 29, 7:00 p.m.
Room 60, Evans Hall
Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez Herrera
"Fact and Fiction in Venezuela: An Update on Venezuela’s
Referendum Process"
Ambassador
Bernardo Alvarez Herrera will give an update on the current
political situation in Venezuela, including the latest
information on where things stand with the referendum to recall
President Hugo Chávez. This is a rare opportunity to
hear a voice from an embattled democratic government.
Bernardo Alvarez Herrera is the Venezuelan ambassador to the
United States. Previously he was elected as Deputy to the National
Congress for Miranda State in 1994. While a Deputy, he served
as Vice President of the Defense Committee and President of the
Energy and Mines Committee. He later became the Director-General
of Hydrocarbons and then the Vice Minister of Hydrocarbons in
the Ministry of Energy and Mines.
From 1999-2002, Ambassador Alvarez Herrera held several international
positions. He was the Venezuelan Coordinator for the Cooperation
Agreement between the Venezuelan Ministry of Energy and Mines
and the Department of Energy of the United States, the Coordinator
of the Venezuelan-French Energy Task Force and head of the Venezuelan
delegation to the ministerial-level conferences of the Organization
of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
An
informal reception will follow the ambassador’s talk.
Thursday,
October 30, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Lounge, Women's Faculty Club
Analysis
and photos
from the event
Brazil Symposium
"Lula’s
Brazil: A Challenge to Neoliberalism?" The election
of Workers’ Party candidate Luiz Inácio
Lula da Silva to the Brazilian presidency with 61 percent of
the popular vote has presented new possibilities for social
change in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. Many Brazilian
activists
and intellectuals are currently engaged in an important debate
about the best strategies for achieving long-term social transformation,
the elimination of poverty and hunger and a reduction in social
inequality. Three leading Brazilian Scholars will be present
to share their views on the current political, social and economic
situation in Brazil
Francisco
Menezes is an economist who specializes in agricultural
development. He is also the director of the Brazilian Institute
of Economic and Social Analyses and a member of the National
Council on Nutrition and Food Security. He has written extensively
on sustainable agriculture and government food policy.
Maria
Helena Moreira Alves is a political scientist and the author of State
and Opposition in Military Brazil. Moreira
Alves has served as an adviser to Workers’ Party elected officials.
Currently, she works for Viva Rio, the largest non-governmental
organization in Rio de Janeiro’s hillside shantytowns.
Marcos
Arruda is an economist and the director of Policy Alternatives
for
the Southern Cone, Rio de Janeiro. Arruda has written about
globalization, the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas and
alternative courses for the Workers’ Party. Among his works
is External Debt: Brazil and the International Financial
Crisis.
Co-sponsored
with the Institute of International Studies, the Center for
Study of the Americas and Brazil Strategy Network, and the Mellon
Foundation Friday,
October 31, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
220 Stephens Hall, Gabelle
Room
Analysis
and photo
of the event
Terry
Karl
"The Vicious Cycle of Inequality in Latin America"
Latin America is the most unequal region in the world. This
acute inequality affects virtually all aspects of political,
economic and social life, yet it has received very little attention
from social scientists. This lecture examines why inequality
has been so persistent, why it is so difficult to address and
what its implications are for the quality and durability of democracy
in Latin America. Democratization, it posits, may have proved
easier and yet far less consequential than analysts once thought
in the context of extreme inequalities.
Terry Lynn Karl is a Professor of Political Science, a Senior
Fellow at the Institute for International Studies and the William
R. and Gretchen Kimball University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
at Stanford University.
Monday,
November 3, 12:00–1:15 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos
of the event
Enrique
Dussel Peters
"The Fox Administration Three Years Later"
How
has Fox progressed on the socioeconomic proposals he made during the transition
period (July–December 2000)? Prof. Dussel Peters will outline what
Fox’s proposals were and how much he has been able to achieve in
the ensuing three years. Dussel Peters will present information from his
research into economic policies, wages, production and trade, as well as
Mexico’s relationship with the United States.
Enrique
Dussel Peters is Associate Professor of Economics at the Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México where he was named “Young Academician” in
2000. Previously, he was a member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de
Investigadores from 1997 to 2000. He has published several books and articles
on the political economy of Mexico, the social effects of economic change
and NAFTA, as well as on agroindustry, electronics and foreign direct investment
in Mexico. His writings include: Polarizing Mexico. The Impact of Liberalization
Strategy, “Mexico’s Liberalization Strategy, 10 Years
On: Results and Alternatives” and “Ser maquila o no ser maquila, ¿es
esa la pregunta?”
For
more information, please see http://www.dusselpeters.com.
Thursday,
November 6, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos
of the event
Powerpoint
presentation from the event
Sylvia
Guendelman
“The Health Consequences of Maquiladora Work: Female Workers on the U.S.–Mexico
Border”
The
U.S.–Mexico border is a powerful symbol of globalization
and its effects on work and health. This session gives an overview
of the health of women who work in the post-NAFTA maquiladoras
and draws on findings from a research project done in maquiladoras
in Tijuana.
Sylvia
Guendelman is Professor and Chair of the Maternal and Child
Health Program in the Division of Health Policy and Management
at the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. She has done
extensive research on the health consequences of migration,
U.S.–Mexico border health issues and binational access
to health care. She teaches a course on Health and Social Policy
in Mexico and Latin America.
Monday,
November 10, 12:00–1:15 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos of the event
Split
Decision
Director: Marcy Garriot
Talented
boxer Jesus Chavez finds his rise to the world championship
cut short when he is deported to Mexico for a crime committed
in his youth. Back in the country he left as a child, Jesus
finds himself facing two new battles: the fight for the right
to return to his family and career in the U.S., and the struggle
to be accepted in the country of his birth. 75 minutes. 2000.
(English
and Spanish with English subtitles)
Wednesday,
November 12, 7:00 p.m.
Room 160, Kroeber Hall
Lula:
A Winner’s
Journey
Directed by Cosme Coelho (2003)
U.S. Premiere
This
is the startling story of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,
the son of a poverty-ridden family from Northeast Brazil, who
learned to read at the age of ten, was mutilated by a factory-floor
accident, lost his wife through medical negligence and was arrested
and imprisoned under the oppressive law of the military dictatorship.
In spite of a difficult life, he became the President of Brazil.
50 minutes.
Prof. Harley Shaiken, Chair of the Center for Latin American
Studies, will conduct a question and answer session after the
film.
Part
of the
7th International Latino Film Festival takes place from November
6-16 at various locations throughout the Bay Area and includes
68 films from 12 countries.
Tickets
are $7.00.
Ticket phone line is 925-866-9559. A complete list of films
and ticket information
can be found at www.latinofilmfestival.org.
More information on the film can be found on the festival website
here. (Portuguese
with English subtitles)
Sunday,
November 16, 2:15 p.m.
Wheeler Auditorium
Gustavo Palacio
"U.S.–Latin America International Relations:
Past and Present" Gustavo Palacio, the Consul General of Ecuador in San Francisco,
has been a career diplomat since 1988. He studied economics and
international relations at Moscow University and attended the
Diplomatic Academy at Oxford University as well as Flasco University
in Quito, Ecuador. Until recently he was the Director of Studies
at the Diplomatic Academy of Ecuador and Counselor of the Ecuadorian
Mission to the United Nations in New York.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the International
House and the Consulate General of Ecuador.
Wednesday, November 19, 7:30 pm
Home Room, 2299 Piedmont Avenue
Alex
Stepick
"Immigrants, Race and Power in Miami: Reconfiguring Relations"
In This
Land Is Our Land, Immigrants and Power in Miami, award-winning
author Alex Stepick has developed a new approach that will challenge
the way Americans understand race and ethnic relations. A member
of what has been dubbed the Miami School, Stepick and his colleagues
focus on interactions between immigrants and native-born Americans.
Based upon more than a decade of researching face-to-face interactions
in Miami, Stepick documents not only the forces that produce
ethnic strife, but also what can be done to promote harmonious
relations. Reviewers of the book have already hailed this study
as must-read for anyone wanting to understand how immigration
is changing America.
Dr. Stepick has been conducting research on the impact of immigration
on Miami for the past 20 years. His co-authored book, City
on the Edge, on how immigration has changed Miami, has won two national
awards, the Robert Park Award for the best book in Urban Sociology
and the Anthony Leeds Award for the best book in Urban Anthropology.
His recent book, Pride Against Prejudice: Haitians in the
United States has already gone through numerous printings.
Dr.
Stepick is currently Director of the Immigration and Ethnicity
Institute and Professor of Anthropology & Sociology
at Florida International University in Miami.
Thursday, November 20, 4:00 pm
Note: Venue changed to
Lounge, Women's Faculty Club
Photos
of the event
Juliana
So and Garrett Brown
“Maquiladoras in Latin America and China — The Interaction of Export
Processing Zones on Women Workers in Asia and the Americas”
Juliana
So of the Chinese Working Women Network and Garrett Brown of
the Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network will describe
the impact of economic globalization on the lives of young
women workers in the maquiladoras of Mexico and Central America
and in the giant export factories of southern China. Accompanying
the talks will be a slide show of photographs taken inside
several sports shoe and garment factories in China and Guatemala
run by Korean and Taiwanese contractors for “name brand” transnationals
producing shoes and garments of the U.S. market.
Juliana
So is Project Coordinator for the Chinese Working Women network
and coordinates the independent non-governmental organization’s
activities in southern China. These include an office and social
center for young migrant workers in Nansham; a mobile van providing
information on worker health issues which visits four industrial
towns in the Pearl River Delta; and a workers information center
attached to the main occupational disease hospital in Guangzhou,
China.
Garrett
Brown is Coordinator of the Maquiladora Health & Safety
Support Network, a volunteer network of 400 occupational health
professionals in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. The MHSSN has
been providing information, technical assistance and Spanish-language
trainings to maquila workers and their community-based organizations
on the U.S.–Mexico border since 1993.
Visit
the Maquiladora Health and
Safety Support Network website.
Friday,
November 21, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos
of the event
"Perspectives
on Immigration: A Panel Discussion"
A discussion featuring:
•
Gilbert Cedillo, California State Senator (D-Los Angeles); primary
author of the bill allowing undocumented migrants to receive
a drivers’ license.
• Eliseo Medina, International Executive Vice President, Service
Employees International Union (SEIU)
•
Philip Martin, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics;
Chair of UC Comparative Immigration & Integration Program,
UC Davis
• Harley Shaiken, Professor of Education and Geography; Chair of
the Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley
Postponed
- Friday, November 21
Room 370, Dwinelle Hall
ATTENTION:
Because of a conflict, this event has had to be postponed.
We hope to reschedule the event in the near future.
Holiday
Party
The faculty and staff of the Center for Latin American Studies
would like to invite you to a reception to celebrate the holiday
season.
We look forward to seeing you!
Wednesday,
December 3, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photos
of the event
An
evening to welcome and honor Dolores Huerta, UC Regent Dolores Huerta is among the most important labor leaders in
the history of the United States. She is cofounder and first
vice president of the United Farm Workers union. For more than
forty years she has dedicated her life to the struggle for justice
and dignity for migrant farm workers. She has also played a critical
role in the modern Civil Rights Movement and is the president
of the Dolores Huerta Foundation. This fall she was appointed
to the UC Board of Regents, the highest decision-making body
of the University of California.
-Biography of Dolores Huerta from the UFW website
Co-sponsored
with the Center for Labor Research and Education, the Institute
of Industrial Relations and the Institute for Labor and Employment.
Live music and refreshments provided.
Thursday,
December 4, 4:00 – 7:00 pm
UC Berkeley Alumni House
Nora
Lustig
"Poverty and Growth: The Two-Way Causality"
To reduce poverty rapidly, should countries and international
organizations focus entirely on boosting per capita income and
productivity? Or should they focus on actions to improve conditions
for the poor? In the past few years, a debate has sprung up between
those who agree with the former approach and those who support
the latter. Those on the side of growth felt that the pendulum
in the policy agenda was swinging away from economic principles
toward approaches that downplay the importance of development
in favor of empowerment as fundamental in the fight against poverty.
It is unfortunate that these approaches have ended up as opposing
views when in so many cases they can be complementary. Recent
research findings demonstrate that pro-growth actions and those
directly aimed at benefiting the poor are often mutually reinforcing.
The more these two approaches are combined, the more effective
economic growth can be in reducing poverty and vice versa.
Professor
Nora Lustig is the President of the Universidad de las Americas
in Puebla, Mexico. Previously, Dr. Lustig was Senior
Advisor and Chief of the Poverty and Inequality Unit at the Inter-American
Development Bank. Her recent publications include Shielding
the Poor (IDB and Brookings Institution, 2000).
-download
an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file of Professor Lustig's paper, "Poverty
Reduction and Economic Growth: A Two-way Causality"
Co-sponsored
with Executive and International Programs at the Goldman School
of Public Policy, International and Area Studies and GSPP’s
student-run International Public Policy Group.
Thursday,
December 4, 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Room 250, Goldman School of Public Policy New Annex, 1893 Le
Roy Street
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