Jacquelynn
Baas
"José Clemente Orozco at Dartmouth"
The
mural cycle, “The Epic of American Civilization” at
Dartmouth College (1932–34) proved to be a pivotal
work in the career of José Clemente Orozco, one of
the most significant artists of the 20 th century. How
did this inflammatory work by a Mexican artist come to be
created at a liberal arts college in Hanover, New Hampshire
during the depths of the Great Depression?
Jacquelynn Baas is Director Emeritus of the UC Berkeley
Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and an independent scholar.
Her most recent book-length publications are: Buddha
Mind in Contemporary Art, co-edited with Mary Jane Jacob
and Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet
to Today.
Monday,
February 25, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Room 554, Barrows Hall
Sylvia
Sellers-García
"When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep"
Sylvia
Sellers-García will read from
her recently published novel, When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep,
and talk about her research process. Informed largely by
oral history and the author’s personal experiences
in Guatemala, the novel tells the story of a Guatemalan man
raised in the United States who returns to his native country
in 1993 as the armed conflict is winding down and the slow
recovery process is beginning.
Sylvia
Sellers-García is a writer
and a graduate student in the History Department at UC
Berkeley.
Monday,
March 3, 12:00 – 1:15
pm
Room 554, Barrows Hall
Naomi
Roht-Arriaza
"Reparations Programs in the Wake of Large-Scale
Atrocities"
International law holds that reparations must be paid for
serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law,
yet doing so in situations where there are thousands of victims
and scarce resources can be challenging even for well-intentioned
governments. Reparations programs in Peru and Guatemala raise
new possibilities, problems and dilemmas in the wake of large
scale rights violations.
Naomi Roht-Arriaza is Professor of Law at UC Hastings. She
is the author of The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice
in the Age of Human Rights along with other books and
articles on transitional justice, universal jurisdiction
and reparations.
Monday,
March 31, 12:00 – 1:15
pm
Room 554, Barrows Hall
Philip
Martin
"International Migration: Global, American and Agricultural
Issues"
About
9 percent of industrial country residents are international
migrants. While many migrant-sending countries hope that
remittances can spur development, the U.S. and other migrant-receiving
countries are debating what to do about unauthorized migration.
In the U.S., agriculture is developing a peculiar human
capital structure — almost
all farm operators are U.S.-born and almost all hired workers
are foreign-born. This talk outlines the major migration
issues, the contributions of research to policy making
and opportunities for policy-relevant research.
Philip Martin is a UC Davis professor of Agricultural and
Resource Economics and the chair of the UC Comparative Immigration
and Integration Program.
Wednesday, April 2, 12:00-1:15 pm
Room 554, Barrows Hall
Alfonso
Valenzuela Aguilera
"Surveillance, Territory and the Rule of
Law in Mexico City
Professor Valenzuela Aguilera will address the role in which
legal frameworks and perceived norms shape the social control
of space in Mexico City. He will examine the classic prevention/intervention/suppression
model that frames our thinking on crime and the implications
that mainstream surveillance policies are having in the urban
realm.
Alfonso
Valenzuela Aguilera is Professor of Urban Planning at the
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Urban and Regional
Development at UC Berkeley. He is the author of numerous
articles and the forthcoming book Urbanists and Visionaries.
Planning Mexico City in the first half
of the XX Century (Miguel Angel Porrua Editores).
Monday,
April 7, 12:00 – 1:15
pm
Room 554, Barrows Hall
Daniel
Kammen
Title to be announced
Daniel
Kammen is a professor in the Energy and Resources Group,
the Goldman School of Public Policy and the Department
of Nuclear Engineering at UC Berkeley. He is also the director
of the university’s Renewable
and Appropriate Energy Laboratory.
Date and location to be determined
