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The Chilean government plans to build two dams in and a highway right through Pumalín Park, one of the country's most pristine wilderness areas, "a move that environmentalists say threatens a unique experiment in international forest protection," says an Oct. 8 San Francisco Chronicle article. At the same time, Argentina is threatening to seize huge tracts of land owned by an American environmentalist, as politicians speak of the dangers of foreign ownership. The common factor
in both cases is American entrepreneur Douglas Tompkins, the cofounder of
the clothing retailers Esprit and North Face, who built Pumalín and
is determined to save it. - Article from the Washington Post on Argentina and Tompkins Friday,
October 13, 4:00 pm Article
about and photos
of the event
Brad
DeLong “I was a true believer in NAFTA--the North American Free Trade Agreement. Now my faith is not gone but shaken.” So states Brad DeLong, economist and creator of one of the net’s most popular weblogs on economics, at www.j-bradford-delong.net. J. Bradford DeLong is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Political Economy major at the University of California at Berkeley. He also serves as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. - Recent "Morning Coffee" video clip with Professor DeLong on NAFTA Monday,
October 16, 12:00 pm Article
about and photos
of the event
Manuel
Camacho Solís In July 2006, Mexico experienced one of the closest presidential elections in its history between Felipe Calderón and Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The formal result was only ratified by federal electoral authorities after weeks of controversy, and their decision is still contested. Manuel Camacho Solís is a key adviser to Andrés Manuel López Obrador and former mayor of Mexico City. Wednesday, October 18, 6:00 pm Article about and photos of this event
Voces Inocentes, by Luis Mandoki (2005) Chava, an eleven-year-old boy, suddenly becomes the "man of the house" after his father abandons the family in the middle of the El Salvadoran civil war. As he helps his mother pay the bills and experiences the pangs of first love, Chava knows that soon he may be either drafted by the army or forced to join the rebels to avoid being conscripted with his classmates. 118 minutes. Spanish with English subtitles. Wednesday,
October 18, 7:00 pm Veronica
Leyva Verónica Rosario Leyva is a grassroots organizer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Employed in the maquiladora industry for a decade, she has spent fifteen years organizing in her community, conducting workshops on worker's and women's rights. Ms. Leyva has worked for justice for the victims of the femicides in Ciudad Juarez and to change the overall living conditions in her community, most recently with the Mexico Solidarity Network. In Spanish, with translation. Co-sponsored with the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Ethnic Studies. Thursday,
October 19, 2:00 pm
Daniel
Coronell In 2000, Colombia and the United States inaugurated Plan Colombia with the goal of delivering a mortal blow to cocaine traffic. Six years and 10.6 billion dollars later, the results have been disappointing. The price of cocaine on the American street hasn’t increased significantly, and the area under coca cultivation in Colombia has not diminished. Daniel Coronell is a journalist from Colombia. He is the news director and founder of Noticias Uno, the most watched weekend news program on public stations in Colombia. He is also a columnist for the most widely circulated news magazine in Colombia, Semana. Daniel is currently a visiting scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. - Article on Coronell in the U.S. from the Los Angeles Times Monday,
October 23, 12:00 pm Article
and photos
of the event
Eva
Harris Dr. Harris will discuss her work on dengue fever in Nicaragua: clinical investigations, vaccine trial sites, and promoting community participation in mosquito control. Her work illustrates how such research can empower scientists and community members alike. Eva Harris is Associate Professor of Public Health at UC Berkeley, specializing in infectious diseases. She is also the founder and president of the Sustainable Sciences Institute (SSI), a non-profit organization based in San Francisco. Professor Harris was awarded the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 1997. - Interview with Professor Harris at the Institute for International Studies - New York Times interview with Professor Harris (from the Acumen Fund website) Monday,
October 30, 12:00 pm Article about and photos of the event Adriana
Amante and David Oubiña This three-day seminar features both lectures and master classes (see below) taught by Adriana Amante and David Oubiña. All lectures and classes will be conducted in Spanish. Monday, October 30:
Tuesday, October 31:
Wednesday, November 1:
This seminar is being co-sponsored by the Spanish & Portuguese Department and the Office of the Dean of Arts & Humanities. Monday-Wednesday, October 30-November 1
Susana
Kaiser Thirty years ago, a military coup installed a dictatorship in Argentina that left an estimated 30,000 disappeared. Kaiser will discuss how young Argentines remember the years of state terrorism and their postmemories, focusing on how the younger generation is reconstructing this past from three main sources: dialogue, education, and the media. Susana Kaiser is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media Studies and the Latin American Studies program at the University of San Francisco. Monday,
November 6, 12:00 pm
Jim Shultz Since Bolivia’s historic water revolt, popular movements have sought to reconstruct the state to better serve the needs of its indigenous majority. Those efforts culminated in last December's election of Evo Morales as the nation's first indigenous president. Since his election, Bolivia has struggled to implement reforms, from a stymied “nationalization” of the petroleum-based industries to contentious attempts at a new national constitution that adequately represents all of Bolivia’s ethnically diverse communities. Jim Shultz is the Executive Director of the Democracy Center and he has lived in Bolivia since 1998. His reports on the Cochabamba Water War, and his ongoing reporting on Bolivia, are featured in newspapers, magazines and radio across the US, Canada and Europe. Wednesday,
November 8, 2006, 2:00 – 4:00
pm
De Nadie, by Tin Dirdamal (2005) In De Nadie, Mexican filmmaker Tin Dirdamal follows Central American refugees in a South-Mexican refugee centre, from where they hitch illegal rides on freight trains to the northern border. Apart from the Mexican immigration service and police, the illegal aliens are threatened by the security service of the railroad companies, the criminal La Mara Salvatrucha gang and the train itself. The horror stories of refugees, are alternated with interviews with employees of the railroad, the immigration service and a relief organization, and complemented by background information. 84 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles. Wednesday,
November 8, 7:00 pm CLAS
Graduate Student Brown Bag Lunch As part of the CLAS Graduate Student Brown Bag Lunch series, Roberto Hernandez will present “El Tunel,” a 27 minute documentary film featuring the flaws in the Mexican criminal justice system. The Boston Latino Film Festival, in its film review claims, “In Mexico , a tunnel connects the prison and the courtrooms. Innocent people are locked up while the real criminals walk the streets. Meet the real legal thriller: the Mexican criminal justice system.” Students are invited to attend and give Roberto their feedback. Please bring your lunch. Beverages and dessert will be provided. Thursday,
November 9, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Amelia Barili Amelia Barili will discuss links between the works of Jorge Luis Borges and José María Arguedas through Alfonso Reyes' concept of "inteligencia americana." She analyzes how Borges and Arguedas' ideas begin to converge through their mutual interest in ancient cosmogonies and marginality. Amelia Barili teaches in the Spanish and Portuguese Department in UC Berkeley. She was a personal friend of Jorge Luis Borges and her conversations with him have been published in numerous newspapers. Her book "Jorge Luis Borges y Alfonso Reyes: La cuestión de la identidad del escritor latinoamericano" was published by Fondo de Cultura Económica with a prologue by Elena Poniatowska. Monday,
November 13, 12:00 pm
Film Screening In 1999, Don Ernesto Nava celebrated his 85th birthday with his family and revealed to them a secret that he had kept all of his life. He recalled how, on his 8th birthday, his mother had told him: “Look you are the son of Gen. Francisco Villa, but you may never tell any one.” Eighty-two years after having crossed the Rio Bravo, Nava returns to Mexico to discover who his father was. In Spanish with English subtitles, 102 minutes. Part of the 10th International Latino Film Festival. Tuesday, November 14, 7:00 pm
"Perspectives on Immigration: A Discussion" In
December 2005, at the request of President Bush, the US
House of Representatives passed legislation seeking to
change US immigration policy and reduce illegal immigration. The
bill, deemed overly restrictive by immigrants and their
supporters, sparked massive protests in many US cities. Though
the Senate passed more liberal legislation, the immigration
issue remained unresolved and is a major campaign issue
in the 2006 elections. “Perspectives on Immigration” aims
to explore the immigration debate, proposed legislation,
and how the outcome of the 2006 election may affect the
future of immigration. - Gilbert
Cedillo, California State Senator (D-Los Angeles) Symposium Friday, November 17 Opening Remarks 4:00 - 4.30 pm
Opening Keynote, 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Reception, 6:00 pm ***** Saturday,
18 November 2006 Café, 8:30-9:00 am Panel 1: Memorias heroicas, 9:00-11:00 am
Panel 2: Razas, multitudes, y nación, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Lunch Break Panel 3: Citizenship and Social Struggles, 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Closing Keynote, 4:30 – 6:00 pm
Roundtable Discussion, 6:00 - 7:00 pm ___________ Coordinator: Christene DeJong (Venezuela Studies Group, UC Berkeley) Co-sponsored with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Venezuela Studies Group, the Dean of International and Area Studies, the Townsend Center, the Dean of Letters and Science, and the Program for Chicano and Latino Studies For more information call the Center for Latin American Studies (510-642-2088) or the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (510-642-0471) at UC Berkeley. Friday and Saturday, November 17-18 Carmen
Aída Ibarra For thirty-six years, civil war bled Guatemala. Though peace accords were signed in 1996 and extensive political reforms were subsequently implemented, corruption, impunity and lingering misgivings continue to plague the country. Carmen Ibarra will discuss efforts for reconciliation, justice and reparations. Carmen Aída Ibarra is the political coordinator for Guatemala’s Fundación Myrna Mack, one of Guatemala’s leading human rights foundations. This lecture will be delivered in Spanish. Monday,
November 20, 4:00 pm Article about and photos of the event Colloquium
"Mesoamerican Time Before and After the Spanish Invasion" The colloquium will provide an opportunity to reflect
on what it means to think about time before and after the
European invasion of the Americas. The conversation will
explore concepts of time beyond the commonplaces that reduce
European time to linear structures and Mesoamerican time
to cyclical patterns.
Speakers include:
Johanna Broda, Instituto de Invesitaciones Históricas,
UNAM
Johannes Neurath, Museo Nacional de Antropología
e Historia, INAH Gordon Brotherston, Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University José Rabasa (Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley)
Kathleen Davis (English, Princeton University)Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco (Spanish and Portuguese,
UC Berkeley
Co-sponsored with the Townsend Center
for the Humanities,
Anthropology, Medieval Studies, and the Dean of Arts and
Humanities.
Contact
the department of Spanish and Portuguese for more information,
at http://spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu.
Tuesday, November 21, 8:30 am - 6:30 pm Javier Echecopar
Javier Echecopar will play and discuss his music: guitar compositions that integrate European, Andean and African music and techniques. Echecopar plays both baroque and traditional guitar in a manner that demonstrates both technical precision and human passion. Javier Echecopar is an award-winning Peruvian guitarist and composer. He is a founding instructor at the Pontifica Universidad Católica Peruana’s Conservatory of Music. Tuesday,
November 28, 6:00 pm Mônica
de los Rios and Brent Millikan Date
and Time Change: Wednesday, November 29, 4:00 pm Lyal White Unlike previous efforts characterized by much talk and little action, the India-Brazil-South Africa forum is developing a plan for economic and political integration. White will analyze the implications of South-South cooperation moving toward a more constructive development agenda. Lyal White is a CLAS visiting scholar and doctoral student at the University of Cape Town in South Africa researching investment rationale in Africa and Latin America. - Article by White in Business Day (South Africa) Thursday,
November 30, 4:00 pm Carlos Chamorro
Carlos F. Chamorro is a renowned journalist and consultant on issues related to communication and democracy in Latin America. He currently serves as director of the television program Esta Semana y Esta Noche, Canal 8, and editor of the weekly paper Confidencial. He is also director of the radio show "Onda Local" on "Radio La Primerísima" and President of the Centro de Investigaciones de la Comunicación (CINCO). Thursday, November 30, 6:00 pm |
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