FALL
2007 CALENDAR
OF EVENTS |
Welcome
Back Reception
The Center for Latin American Studies would like to invite
you to celebrate the beginning of another exciting year.
Please join us for an informal reception.
Wednesday,
August 29, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Rebecca
Solnit
"Borders and Crossers: Landscapes for Politics"
Rebecca
Solnit will read from her new anthology, Storming
the Gates of Paradise and discuss
the cultural geographies of political
protest, the border and the social landscape.
The anthology contains 36 essays from
the last decade of her writing, dealing
with everything from gender politics
to the geographies of political protest,
the representation of nature and the
hybrid cultures of California.
Rebecca
Solnit is an essayist, contributing editor
to Harper’s and the recipient of
a Guggenheim and the National Book Critics
Circle award.
Monday,
September 10, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
International House, Home Room
Article,
webcast and photos of the event
Interview with Rebecca Solnit from
the Berkeley Review of Latin American
Studies
Extended version of the interview
The
House of Sand,
by Andrucha Waddington (Brazil, 2005)
"The
House of Sand" follows three generations
of women as they struggle to make a life
for themselves in the desert of northeastern
Brazil . The film opens in 1910 as Vasco
da Sa brings his pregnant wife Áurea
and her mother Maria to Maranhão
to homestead the barren waste. When Vasco
dies, the women are left to fend for themselves
and Áurea’s unborn daughter.
This film marks the first time Oscar-winner
Fernanda Montenegro has been paired with
her daughter, Fernanda Torres and, in a
move that adds nuance to the film, Montenegro
plays all three of the women at different
stages of their lives.
115
minutes. Portuguese with English subtitles.
"…has
the clarity of a fable and the sentimental
enchantment of a magic-realist novel." — New
York Times
Wednesday,
September 12, 7:00 pm
Room 160, Kroeber Hall
Panel Discussion: Bolivia Working Group
"After the Water War: Contemporary Political
Culture in Cochabamba, Bolivia"
In
2000, widespread protests against the
privatization of water systems brought
Cochabamba, Bolivia into the international
limelight and propelled a process of
further mobilizations that have utterly
reconfigured the country’s
political landscape. Three panelists
will present their papers, all based
on recent on-the-ground research in Cochabamba
, which examine the context and perspectives
of popular political culture in a city
that epitomizes social movements and
political change in Bolivia and Latin
America today.
Speakers:
Cristina
Cielo, Ph.D. candidate, Sociology, UC
Berkeley
Sarah
Hines, Ph.D. student, History, UC Berkeley
Michael
Shanks, MA student, Latin American Studies,
UC Berkeley
More information-->
Friday,
September 14, 3:00 - 4:30
pm
CLAS
Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Webcast
and photos
of the event
Conference
"Third
Conference on Brazilian Immigration and
Community on the West Coast of the United
States"
This conference is organized around four
main themes of concern to the Brazilian
community in the Bay Area: labor and business,
community organization, legal issues and
available resources. Speakers will address
topics ranging from how to open a business
in California to how the U.S. education
system serves the children of immigrants.
Co-sponsored by the Brazilian Consulate
and the Brazilian Citizens Council of the
Bay Area.
This
event is free and will be held in English
and Portuguese. Translation will
not be provided.
For
a detailed program, see http://www.brazilsf.org.
Saturday,
September 15, 2007, beginning at 8:30
am
Lipman Room,
210 Barrow Hall, 8th Floor
Photo
of the event
Open House
Afro-Latino Working Group
Housed
at the Center for Latin American Studies,
the Afro-Latino
Working Group is an
interdisciplinary body that brings
together faculty, graduate students
and undergraduates from all corners
of the Berkeley intellectual community
who are involved in research on the
African Diaspora in Latin America.
The open house includes entertainment
and information about working group
activities, including information about
the group's conference last year and
the one in the works right now.
Afro-Latino
Working Group webpage
Wednesday, September
19, 4:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334
Bowditch Street
Alain
de Janvry
"'Agriculture for Development': Implications for Latin America?"
With
75 percent of world poverty concentrated
in rural areas, the forthcoming World
Development Report "Agriculture for Development"
argues that the role of agriculture as
an instrument for development has been
badly underused by governments and donors,
with high social and environmental costs.
Does this apply to Latin America ? The
region is highly urbanized, new developments
in production and marketing threaten
the competitiveness of smallholders and
agricultural labor markets have been
poorly remunerative. The model followed
has often been rapid growth in commercial
farming with poverty mitigated through
cash transfers. Can Latin America do
better? The authors of the report argue
that it can.
Alain de Janvry is Professor of Agriculture
and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley.
Monday,
October 1, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
International House, Home Room
- Webcast
of the event
- Berkeley
Review article by Professors Alain de Janvry
and Elisabeth Sadoulet
- Article
by Nathan McClintock on the event
-
Original article by Professors de Janvry
and Sadoulet
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 presentation-->
See
research updates from this past summer-->
Thursday,
October 4: Mexico, Central America
and the Caribbean
Friday, October 5: The Andes
Tuesday, October
9: South America
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Laura
Nader and Ugo Mattei
"Plunder: When the 'Rule of Law' Is Illegal"
While
the concept of the “rule of law” has
widespread support, few have considered
that it is often upheld to protect the
interests of the powerful. Nader and
Mattei will discuss how the rule of law
has been used to justify the plunder
of weaker economies, indigenous technologies
and natural resources.
Laura
Nader is Professor of Anthropology at UC
Berkeley. Ugo Mattei is Professor of International
and Comparative Law at Hastings College of
Law.
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study
of Law and Society.
Monday,
October 8, 4:00 – 5:15
pm
CLAS
Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Article
on and photo
of the event
- Article by Professor Nader from the
Fall Berkeley Review of Latin American
Studies
The
Aura
by Fabián Bielinsky (Argentina, 2005)
An
epileptic taxidermist who fantasizes about committing the perfect
crime stumbles upon an opportunity while on a hunting trip in
Patagonia. After mistakenly shooting a criminal in a hunting
accident, the unnamed protagonist decides to take over the dead
man’s role in a casino heist. Adding to the tension is
the uncertainty caused by his epilepsy, which comes on without
warning.
134 minutes. Spanish with English subtitles.
"…a
top-notch heist thriller … full of
dark, moody atmosphere and richly imagined,
indelibly etched characters." — Chicago
Tribune
Wednesday,
October 10, 7:00 pm
Room 160, Kroeber Hall
Martin
Carnoy
"Cuba's Academic Advantage"
When
UNESCO administered standardized tests to elementary school
students in 13 Latin American countries, low-income Cuban students
outperformed most middle-class students in the other 12 countries.
The test data confirmed years of anecdotal evidence that Cuba’s
primary schools are the best in the region, perhaps even better
than schools in neighboring Florida. Prof. Martin Carnoy will
present the results of his interviews with Cuban teachers,
principals and ministry officials as well as his visits to
university teacher training programs.
Martin
Carnoy is Professor of Education and Economics
at Stanford University.
Thursday,
October 11, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Home Room, International House
-
Article on and photos
of the event
- Article by Professor
Carnoy, Fall 2007 Berkeley Review of
Latin American Studies
Peter
Selz
"Fernando Botero's 'Abu Ghraib' Paintings"
Deeply
shocked by accounts of American atrocities, the renowned Colombian
artist Fernando Botero turned from his satiric figures to portray
tortured prisoners as victimized, degraded human beings. Prof.
Peter Selz will contextualize his discussion of Botero’s "Abu
Ghraib" series by comparing it with the oeuvre of other
artists who have depicted torture: Goya, Beckmann, Dix and
Picasso.
Peter
Selz is Professor Emeritus in UC Berkeley’s
History of Art Department and the founding
director of the Berkeley Art Museum.
Monday,
October 15, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Sproul
Room, International House
- Article
on Professor Selz' talk from the Berkeley
Review of Latin American Studies
- Article on Professor
Selz' talk by Sarah Moody
- Article on Professor Selz' talk by Ilona Aleksandrova
Miguel
Angel Nuñez
"Agroecology in
the Venezuelan Revolution"
Miguel
Angel Nuñez defines agroecology
as a process of collecting and evaluating
local farmers’ knowledge, integrating
it into the existing body of scientific
knowledge and combining it with culturally
and environmentally sensitive policies
to design and manage food production systems.
He will discuss his new book, Agroecology
and Food Sovereignty in Venezuela, in
which he argues that only by combining
agroecological science with political policies
can we create a true food revolution.
Miguel
Angel Nuñez is Professor
of Agroecology and Tropical Agriculture
at several Venezuelan universities and
a co-founder of the Instituto para la Produción
e Investigación de la Agricultura
Tropical (IPIAT). Since 2004 he has been
an advisor to the Venezuelan Presidential
Office on agroenvironmental issues. He
is a former coordinator of the Latin American
Agroecological Movement (MAELA) and has
written several books and articles, many
of which can be accessed in In
Motion Magazine and
on the IPIAT
website.
Tuesday, October 16, 4:00 pm
Ethnic Studies Conference Room, 554
Barrows Hall
Article
on and photos
of the event
Manuel
Castells
"Globalization, Development and Democracy: The Chilean Democratic Model"
The
economic growth and democratic consolidation
that took place in Chile from 1990
to 2007 has made that country the success
story of Latin American development.
Chile has been able to combine a high
rate of economic growth with a substantial
reduction in poverty and major improvements
in housing, education and health for
low income groups. Manuel Castells
argues, in contrast to the standard
view, that it was the inclusive, democratic
model of development rather than Pinochet’s
exclusionary, authoritarian model that
transformed Chile while the region
at large alternated between growth
and crisis. Castells will present the
results of several years of research
on Chile and examine its implications
for Latin America as a whole.
Manuel
Castells is the Wallis Annenberg Professor
of Communication Technology and Society
at the University of Southern California,
Research Professor at the Open University
of Catalonia in Barcelona and Professor
Emeritus of City Planning and Sociology
at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is the author of the trilogy The
Information Age: Economy, Society and
Culture, translated into 22 languages,
and, lately, of Globalización,
desarrollo y democracia: Chile en
el contexto mundial (Fondo de
Cultura Economica, 2005).
Thursday,
October 18, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Home
Room, International House
- Article on the event
from the Berkeley Review of Latin American
Studies
- Article
on and photos of the event
Laura Nader
"Losing Knowledge: Oaxaca, Mexico
(1957–2006)"
Prof.
Laura Nader will screen recent documentary
footage and discuss how knowledge formed
over centuries is being erased, forgotten,
faded, plundered and reclaimed in the
Rincón
Zapotec area of Oaxaca, Mexico. Her research
depicts changes in farming and food, medicine,
law and architecture.
Laura Nader is Professor of Anthropology
at UC Berkeley.
Monday,
October 22, 12:00 – 1:15
pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
-
Article on Prof. Nader's research from
the
Berkeley Review of Latin American
Studies
Francisco Goldman
“The Art of Political
Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?”
Critically acclaimed novelist Francisco
Goldman will discuss his first nonfiction
book, The Art of Political Murder:
Who Killed the Bishop?, a riveting
work of literary nonfiction that tells
the story of the murder of Guatemala’s
leading human rights activist, Bishop Juan
Gerardi. Through this story, Goldman takes
the reader deep inside a “broken
state” — where military officers
kill with impunity, the media is manipulated,
witnesses and judges are assassinated and
justice seems unattainable — and
examines the crippling legacy of failed “democracy
building.”
Francisco Goldman, prize-winning Guatemalan-American
fiction writer and journalist, is the author
of three acclaimed novels about cultural
and political conflict in the Americas: The
Long Night of White Chickens, The
Ordinary Seaman and The Divine
Husband.
Professor Goldman holds the Allan K. Smith
Chair in Literature at Trinity College,
Hartford, Connecticut and divides his time
between New York City and Mexico City.
Monday, October 22, 4:00 pm
Home Room, International House
Sergio Aguayo
"Governors, Billionaires,
Drug Cartels and Mexican Democracy"
Mexican presidents are still believed
to be all-powerful. That myth has to be
corrected. Huge chunks of presidential
power have been chiseled away by different
governmental and social actors. Professor
Aguayo will examine the new distribution
of power and its consequences for democracy.
Sergio
Aguayo is Professor of International
Studies at El Colegio de México.
He is also active in the promotion of democracy
and human rights through organizations
such as Civic Alliance and the Mexican
Academy of Human Rights. His weekly column
appears in Reforma, and he is a panelist
on the weekly television program Primer
Plano.
Tuesday, October 23, 6:00 pm
Home Room, International House
Webcast
of the event (RealPlayer required)
- Article
on the event from the Berkeley Review
of Latin American Studies
- Student's Perspective
article on the event by Veronica Herrera
-
Student's
Perspective article on the event by Diana
Negrín
Panel Discussion
"Beyond the Wall: The Future of Immigration
Policy"
A discussion with:
Gilbert
Cedillo, State Senator, Los Angeles
Senator Cedillo has written "A
Social, Public Safety, and Security Argument
for Licensing Undocumented Drivers," outlining one of his major policy initiatives
in immigration.
Maria Echaveste, Boalt Hall School of
Law
Ms. Echaveste is a lecturer at the Boalt
Hall School of Law, and a scholar in residence
at Boalt's Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute
on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity. Her biography
is available
here.
With commentary by:
- Moderator Harley Shaiken, Class of 1930
Chair and Professor, Center for Latin
American Studies
- Lydia Chávez, Graduate
School of Journalism
- Alex Saragoza, Department of Ethnic Studies
Wednesday, October 24, 12:00 pm
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Article
on, webcast and photos of the event
Panel Discussion
"South
America : Untold Stories"
Introductions:
Jon Sawyer, Executive
Director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Ted Genoways, Editor,
Virginia Quarterly Review
Panelists:
"South
America in the 21st Century"
Daniel
Alarcón,
novelist and Associate Editor of the
Peruvian monthly Etiqueta Negra
"The
Last Commons: Drilling in the Peruvian
Amazon"
Kelly Hearn, Buenos Aires-based
freelance reporter
"The
White Train: Cartoneros in
Buenos Aires"
Gabrielle
Weiss, videographer
and photojournalist
"Soy
in the Amazon"
Pat Joseph, Current Affairs
Editor for the Sierra Club website
Co-sponsored
by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
and the Virginia Quarterly Review.
Wednesday, October 24, 6:00 pm
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Photos
and webcast of the event
Juan de Recacochea and Adrian Althoff
“American
Visa”
Juan de Recacoechea will discuss his novel American
Visa, which won Bolivia’s
National Book Prize in 1994 and was made
into a movie in 2005. The novel follows
the exploits of a mild-mannered English
teacher hoping to reunite with his son
in Miami who turns to dangerous money-making
schemes in an effort to buy a black market
U.S. visa. Along the way he meets Blanca,
a prostitute who complicates his plans
with her desire to settle down in Bolivia.
Born
in La Paz, Juan de Recacoechea worked
as a journalist in Europe for almost
20 years. After returning to his native
country, he helped found Bolivia’s
first state-run television network, served
as its general manager and dedicated
himself to fiction writing. De Recacoechea
is the author of seven novels. American Visa is
his first novel to be translated into English.
Translator Adrian Althoff will introduce
the author and discuss the impact the book
has had in Bolivia and the U.S.
Monday, October 29, 4:00 pm
104 LeConte
Hall
American
Visa
by Juan Carlos Valdivia (Bolivia, 2005)
A
mild-mannered English teacher hoping to reunite with his son
in Miami turns to dangerous money-making schemes in an effort
to buy a black market U.S. visa. Along the way he meets the exotic
dancer, Blanca, who complicates his plans with her desire to
settle down in Bolivia. For director Juan Carlos Valdivia this
film, set in the Bolivian capital La Paz, is about "the
Bolivian dream versus the American dream."
100 minutes. Spanish with English subtitles.
There
will be a question and answer session
with Juan de Recacoechea,
the author of American
Visa, after the film. He will also be
giving an author's talk, along with the book's
translator, at 4:00 pm.
Please
note that this film contains mature
content and may not be suitable for
all audiences.
Monday,
October 29, 7:00 pm
Pacific Film Archive Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way
The
Price of Sugar
Directed by Bill Haney (2007)
“The
Price of Sugar” follows a charismatic
Spanish priest, Father Christopher
Hartley, as he organizes some of this
hemisphere’s poorest people,
challenging powerful interests profiting
from their work. When he arrives in
the Dominican Republic , he’s
warned against entering the sugar plantations
where most of his parishioners live.
Breaking a centuries old taboo, he
discovers shocking examples of modern-day
slavery intrinsic to the global sugar
trade. “The Price of Sugar” raises
key questions about where the products
we consume originate, at what cost
they are produced and ultimately, where
our responsibility lies.
90 minutes. English and Spanish
with English subtitles.
The
screening will be followed by a question
and answer session with Roxanna Altholz,
Associate Director of the International
Human Rights Law Clinic at Boalt Hall.
Julia Sweig
"Cuba After Fidel: Defying
Expectations Abroad, Managing Them at Home"
Julia Sweig is Director of the Latin American
Section of the Council of Foreign Relations.
She is the author of several books including Friendly
Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies
in the Anti-American Century (2006)
and Inside
the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and
the Urban Underground (2002).
Co-sponsored by the Cuba Working Group.
Thursday, November 1, 4:00 pm
Geballe Room,
220 Stephens Hall
Photos
of the event
James
Holston
"'Treating the Unequal Unequally': The Entrenched Regime of Special Treatment
Citizenship in Brazil"
Since
independence, Brazil has maintained a
regime of citizenship that is universally
inclusive in national membership and
massively inegalitarian in distributing
rights and legalizing social differences.
Thus, Brazilian citizenship has been
a legal means to distribute inequality.
This lecture analyzes the development
and persistence of this regime of special
treatment citizenship, which, while still
dominant, has been challenged by a new
and insurgent formulation of citizenship
arising in the urban peripheries.
James
Holston is Associate Professor of Anthropology
at UC Berkeley. His forthcoming book Insurgent
Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy
and Modernity in Brazil will be
available in January from Princeton University
Press.
Monday,
November 5, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photos
of the event
Film Screening
"The City of Photographers"
by Sebastián
Moreno Mardones (Chile, 2006)
During
Pinochet’s long regime, a
motley crew of photojournalists shot and
framed Chile’s people and turmoil
from many points of view. In the streets,
in the middle of bloody riots and protests,
these fearless photographers learned their
craft and created many of the now legendary
images which helped focus world attention
on the regime’s repressive tactics.
They lived dangerously, and they lived
to tell. This is their story. 80 minutes.
Spanish with English subtitles.
Co-sponsored by the International Latino
Film Festival.
Thursday, November 8, 6:00 pm
La Peña,
3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
Conference
"From
Accomarca to Fujimori: Justice and Accountability
in Peru"
This event will focus on justice and
accountability in Peru from the Accomarca
Massacre in the 1980s through the return
of former President Alberto Fujimori in
September.
Reception
6:00 – 6:30 Music
by Chaskinakuy, interpreters of traditional
Andean village music.
Program
7:00 – 7:10 Introduction
by a Quechua leader.
7:10 – 7:20 Almudena
Bernabeu, International Attorney from the
Center for Justice and Accountability and
lead attorney on the cases against Peruvian
officials for their role in the Accomarca
Massacre.
7:20 – 7:30 Eduardo
González, Peruvian expert on transitional
justice from the International Center for
Transitional Justice, who was a core staff
member of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation
Commission.
7:30 – 7:40 Francisco
Pancho Soberón, Founder and President
of the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos,
which works to combat human rights abuses.
7:40 – 7:50 Robin
Kirk, award-winning author and human rights
activist, who reported on the war between
the government and the Shining Path during
the 1980s and prepared reports for the
U.S. Committee on Refugees, including the
first report ever on the plight of Peru’s
internally displaced people.
7:50 – 9:00 Audience
discussion
Co-sponsored
by the International Human Rights Law
Clinic and the Center for Justice and
Accountability.
Thursday,
November 8, 6:00 – 9:00
pm
Reception
at 6:00 pm ; Program from 7:00 – 9:00
pm
Goldberg
Lounge, Boalt Hall School of Law
Carlos Albacete and Piedad Espinosa
“In
the Cauldron of Drugs, Poverty and Environmental
Destruction”
Carlos
Albacete and Piedad Espinosa are the
cofounders of Trópico Verde,
a Guatemalan environmental organization
that seeks to conserve natural resources
and defend the rights of impoverished rural
communities to sustainable livelihoods
and a healthy environment. Against powerful
adversaries, Trópico Verde has successfully
shut down oil exploration in fragile ecosystems
and exposed the devastating environmental
impacts of drug trafficking inside Guatemala’s
impoverished Mayan Biosphere Reserve.
Forced to leave Guatemala by an assassination
attempt in January, Albacete and Espinosa
are currently living in the United States.
In this presentation, they will discuss
the confluence of narcotics, poverty and
environmental degradation in Central America,
its implications for the U.S. and what
can be done about it.
Before
founding Trópico
Verde, Carlos
Albacete worked as Greenpeace’s
Advisor to Central America’s Chemical
and Biodiversity Campaigns and served
as Director of Oilwatch Mesoamerica.
He is the author of numerous articles
and research reports on Guatemalan conservation
and has won recognition and awards for
his work throughout Central America. Piedad
Espinosa graduated from the
Castillo de Batres Landscape School in
Madrid, with advanced specialization
in environmental impact studies and restoration
of degraded environments.
Tuesday, November 13, 4:00 pm
Ethnic Studies Conference Room, 554 Barrows
Hall
Domingo Felipe Cavallo
“Argentina
After the Hyperinflation”
Domingo
Felipe Cavallo is President of Acción por la República,
the Argentine political party he founded
in 1977. He also serves as Chairman and
CEO of DFC Associates, LLC, a consultancy
firm and is a member of the Group of Thirty.
Previously he was Minister of Economy (1991–96
and 2001), Minister of Foreign Affairs
(1989–91) and Chair of the Central
Bank (1982) and was twice elected to the
Argentine National Congress. Formerly a
professor of economics at the National
University of Córdoba, Dr. Cavallo
is the author of several books, including Economía
en tiempos de crisis, La Argentina
que pudo ser, El desafío
federal, El peso de la verdad and Pasión
por crear.
Wednesday, November 14, 6:00 pm
Sproul Room, International House
Violeta Menjivar-Escalante
“Salvadoran
Women Coming Into Power: The Struggle for
Socioeconomic and Political Rights”
In 2006, Dr. Violeta Menjivar-Escalante
became the first woman to be elected mayor
of San Salvador . A physician, she is a
longtime fighter for equal access to health
care as well as justice for the poor of
El Salvador . From 1980 to 1990 Menjivar-Escalante
worked as a doctor with the Christian Federation
of Salvadoran Peasants and the Farmworkers
Union, often in areas of conflict. More
recently, she served as an FMLN Deputy
in the National Assembly from 1997 until
2006. During this time she chaired the
Committee on Health and the Environment
where she fought for equal treatment of
people living with HIV-AIDS and was a member
of the Committee for Women, Children and
Families where she sponsored a law against
intra-family violence and reforms to the
Family Law Code related to the responsibilities
of paternity and maternity.
Co-sponsored by the SHARE Foundation.
Monday, December 3, 4:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
The
Year My Parents Went on Vacation
by Cao Hamburger (Brazil, 2006)
In
this coming-of-age film that juxtaposes the excitement of Brazil’s
victory in the 1970 World Cup with the increasing oppression
of the military government, 12 year-old Mauro is dropped off
at his Jewish grandfather’s house when his left-leaning
parents take an unexpected “vacation.” The plot thickens
when Mauro discovers that his grandfather has just died, and
he must learn to live in an unfamiliar community in an uncertain
time. 104 minutes. Portuguese with English subtitles.
The
mixture of sports and politics adds
a phenomenal touch to a story that
is, at its core, fundamentally about
an outsider trying to fit in.— Tribeca
Movie Review
Monday,
December 3, 7:00 pm
Pacific Film Archive Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way
Scholars Discuss
“Water Governance at the River Basin Level in Brazil”
An
interdisciplinary group of Brazilian
and North American researchers have been
studying the reform of water resources
management policy in Brazil through the “Watermark
Project” begun in 2001. Since the
1990s, a gradual yet sweeping transformation
has occurred in the country, including
the creation of new participatory stakeholder
arenas at the river basin level with responsibilities
for planning, defining pricing systems
for bulk water, resolving conflicts among
bulk water users, and other issues. To
explore the politics of these changes,
the Watermark Project has promoted a number
of case studies and a large sample survey
of members of river basin decision-making
arenas. A panel of well known international
scholars and practitioners will discuss:
- Water governance in Brazilian river basin
(Beate Frank and Manuela Moreira)
- Brazilian river basin committees: the
experience with diversity (Beate Frank
and Rosa Formiga)
- Basin
committees & water
policy democratization: the Watermark
Survey (Margaret Keck and Maria Carmem
Lemos)
Beate
Frank, Universidade Regional de Blumenau,
Luce Fellow at UC Berkeley
Margaret Keck, Johns Hopkins University
Maria Carmem Lemos, University of Michigan
Maria Manuela Moreira, Ministério do Meio Ambiente, Luce Fellow at UC
Berkeley
Rosa Maria Formiga Johnsson, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Co-sponsored by the Institute of International
Studies.
Wednesday, December 12, 1:00 pm
Institute of International Studies Conference Room, 223 Moses Hall
