Dr. Manuel Pastor Jr.
"From
Poster Child to Basket Case: Argentina on the Edge"
Dr. Manuel Pastor Jr. is Professor of Latin American and Latino
Studies at UC Santa Cruz and director of the Center for Justice,
Tolerance and Community. Dr. Pastor's work focuses on urban poverty
and regional development, macroeconomic stabilization in Latin
America, and distribution, democracy and growth in the developing
world.
Monday,
September 23, 12:00- 1:15 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
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and image from the event
Robert Collier
"A Murky Mix: Venezuelan Instability and U.S. Oil Geopolitics"
Robert Collier is a staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle.
He writes the column "Global California" in which he provides
views of foreign affairs from the local angle. He has written
extensively about contemporary issues in Latin America.
Monday,
October 7, 12:00-1:15 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Summary
of the event
Bruce Cain
"Voting Rights and Mexican Americans: New Tactics for a Changing Context"
Bruce Cain is Robson Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley
and the director of the Institute of Governmental Studies. He
received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1976, and was co-editor of
the series Developments in American Politics.
Monday,
October 21, 12:00-1:15 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Dr. Philip Martin
"Mexico-US Migration Ten Years After NAFTA"
Dr. Philip Martin studied Labor Economics and Agricultural
Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned
a Ph.D. in 1975. Martin does research on farm labor, labor migration,
economic development, and immigration issues, and has testified
before Congress and state and local agencies numerous times on
these issues. Dr. Martin is currently a professor in the Agricultural
and Resource Economic department at UC Davis. He is the chair
of the UC Comparative Immigration and Integration Program and
the editor of the monthly Migration News and the quarterly Rural
Migration News.
Dr.
Martin's recent publications
Monday,
November 4, 12:00-1:15 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Dr. Barry Eichengreen
"The Monetary Consequences of a Free Trade Agreement
for the Americas"
Barry Eichengreen is a professor of Economics at the University
of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from Yale, and
has taught at UCB since 1986 where he specializes in the history
and current operation of the international monetary and financial
system.
Monday,
November 25, 12:00-1:15 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street