SPRING
2003 CALENDAR
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Walter
Belik
"Brazil: New Proposals to Banish Hunger"
Walter
Belik is Assistant Professor of Economics at the State University
of Campinas (Unicamp), São Paulo, Brazil. He
is the coordinator of the Food and Nutrition Research Unit
at Unicamp and one of the coordinators of the Zero Hunger Project,
adopted as priority by the new elected Brazilian president,
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
-Projeto
Fome Zero/Zero Hunger project description (Acrobat .pdf
file)
-Professor Belik's Powerpoint presentation
Tuesday,
January 28, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos from the event
Film Presentation, “Señorita
Extraviada”
Director: Lourdes Portillo
Lourdes Portillo is an accomplished writer, film
director, and producer. She has worked in a richly varied range
of forms, from
television documentary to satirical video-film collage. Portillo’s
film,“Señorita Extraviada”, investigates the
crime wave in Juarez, México that has left more than 270
young women dead since 1993. Her exploration of the topic brings
to light the courage of the women’s families as well as
the corruption and chaos of this border town where these crimes
are allowed to take place.
Ms. Portillo will present her film and answer questions.
See Ms. Portillo's website
Co-sponsored with the School of Journalism
Wednesday,
January 29, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Room 105, North Gate Hall (map)
Analysis
and photos from the event
Paulo
Paiva
“Challenges
Facing the New Brazilian Government”
Mr.
Paiva is the Vice President of the Inter American Development
Bank
(IADB). Previously he served as Brazil’s Minister
of Planning and Budget (1998-1999) and Minister of Labor (1995-1998).
He has published several articles in the area of population,
labor market developments and, more recently, on development
in Latin America.
-Mr.
Paiva's Powerpoint presentation
-Mr. Paiva's biography
Friday,
January 31, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos from the event
Tinker Summer Research Symposium
This
two-day symposium is a unique opportunity to learn from the
current research of UC Berkeley graduate students.
Thursday, February 6, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
and
Friday, February 7, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Thomas Holloway
“The Persistence of ‘Dependency’ as a Useful Framework for
Understanding Latin America”
Thomas
Holloway is Director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas
and
Professor of Latin American History at UC Davis.
He is immediate past president of the Latin American Studies
Association, and currently serves as Executive Secretary of the
Conference on Latin American History. Professor Holloway’s
main research field is the social history of Brazil in the National
Period. His major works include Immigrants on the Land: Coffee
and Society in São Paulo, 1886-1934 (Chapel Hill,
1980) and Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance
in a 19th-Century City (Stanford, 1993).
Monday,
February 10, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos of the event
"The
U.S. and Mexico: Problems and Prospects"
A
discussion featuring:
- Harley Shaiken Professor of Geography and
Education and Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies,
UC Berkeley. Prof. Shaiken specializes in issues of work, technology
and global production. He is the author of three books: Work
Transformed :Automation and Labor in the Computer Age; Automation
and Global Production; and Mexico in the Global Economy, as well
as numerous articles and reports.
- Rafael
Fernández de Castro, Professor
of Political Science and Director of the Department of International
Studies at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de
México. Prof. Fernández de Castro specializes in
U.S.-Mexico relations, NAFTA, trade policy, and Mexican public
policy. He is the author of The U.S. Congress: The Controversial
Pivot of North America with Robert Pastor; U.S.-Mexico:
The New Agenda (editor), and ¿Qué son los
Estados Unidos?.
Wednesday,
February 12, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos of the event
Tinker Summer Research Presentations -
Joseph Sutton, "Grassroots Development
in Candeal de Brotas, Brazil"
- Allison Davenport, "Cross-Border Migration Advocacy"
- Luis Carlos Monterrosa, "The Displaced People of Colombia"
Friday,
February 21, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Stephen Haber
“Political Institutions and Economic Development: Lessons from the Economic
Histories of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States”
Stephen
Haber is the A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor of Humanities
and Sciences at Stanford University,
where he teaches
political science and history. He is also Peter and Helen Bing
Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Senior Fellow of Stanford's
Center for International Development, and Director of the Social
Science History Institute. Prof. Haber’s most recent book, The
Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible
Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876-1929 (co-authored
with Armando Razo and Noel Maurer) will be released from Cambridge
University Press in May 2003.
Monday,
February 24, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos of the event
Film
Presentation, "Enemies
of War"
This documentary tells the story of the murder of six Jesuit
priests, their housekeeper, and the housekeeper's teenage daughter
during El Salvador's Civil War. Dr. Beatriz Manz, Professor of
Geography and Ethnic Studies, will be present to discuss the
history and politics of El Salvador. A Salvadorian priest and
a refugee-immigrant will also be present to relate their stories.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of International
Studies, the Center of Social Justice at Boalt Law School,
the East Bay Sanctuary, and the Berkeley International Development
Group.
Monday, February 24, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Home Room, International House, 2299 Piedmont Avenue (map)
Photos
of the event
Guatemalan Youth: Creating a Culture of Resistance
Speaking Tour
Jennifer
Waleska Coguox Barrios is a young
mother and member of Iqui Balam, a popular youth theater
group from Guatemala City that creatively addresses social
and political issues through theater, dance and hip hop music. Rogelio
Hernández is a teacher and the secretary of
the board of directors of the Student Association of Santa
Maria
Tzejá, a scholarship organization formed by indigenous
youth from returned refugee communities in the Ixcan, Guatemala.
Both guests will share their experience of community organization,
resistance and cultural survival in times of globalization,
state violence and community displacement.
This tour
is an attempt to make connections for a future delegation of
Guatemalan
youth to travel to the Bay Area to participate in a cultural and political
exchange.
(Presentation
in Spanish, with English translation)
Tuesday,
February 25, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos of the event
The Last Zapatistas: Forgotten Heroes (Los Ultimos
Zapatistas: Heroes Olvidados)
Director: Francesco Taboada Tabone
“The Last Zapatistas” is
the chilling testimony of the soldiers who fought beside their
General Emiliano Zapata
in the 1910 Mexican Revolution. Almost one hundred years later,
the Mexican filmmaker Francesco Taboada discovered the last twelve
survivors of the legendary Liberation Army of the South. They
reveal a truth not to be found in any book. They speak of the
failure of the Revolution, of the agrarian and ecological disaster
threatening their country and of imminent civil war if the Zapatista
ideals they represent continue to be ignored. 70 minutes, 2001.
Wednesday,
February 26, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Luis
Garzón
“A Critical Look at the Uribe Government”
Luis
Garzón was the president of Colombia’s
largest labor federation, the CUT (Confederación
Unitaria de Trabajadores), from 1996-2001. He was a presidential
candidate in 2002 for the new party, Polo Democrático,
and won the largest support a third-party candidate has ever
received in the history of Colombia. Currently, he is a key figure
in the peace process, serving as a member of the Executive Committee
of the National Peace Council.
Thursday,
February 27, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Lounge, Women's Faculty Club (map)
Analysis
and photos of the event
International Money Laundering From Latin America to
Asia: Who Pays? The
2003 Stefan A. Riesenfeld Symposium Conference will address
drug
and weapons trafficking in Latin America, and the money
laundering schemes which go hand in hand with them. Additionally,
the conference will look at new democracies in Asia and Eastern
Europe, and in particular, at their lucrative trade in women.
The symposium will also address current measures dealing with
money laundering, like the Patriot Act and "know your client" rules,
as well as the potential for better measures and resolutions.
Keynote
Speaker: Ambassador Adolfo Aguilar Zinser,
the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United
Nations and a member of the Security Council
-photos
of Ambassador Aguilar
Zinser's visit
Co-sponsored
by the Berkeley Journal of International Law, the Boalt
Hall Student Association, the UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly,
the Boalt Hall Dean of Student Services and the Dean of
Boalt Hall School of Law.
Conference
Agenda
Friday, February 28, 2:00-7:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 1, 8:00 am- 6:00 p.m.
Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall School of Law (map)
Lorenzo
Meyer
"The Consolidation of Mexico's New Regime: The Beginning"
Lorenzo
Meyer teaches in the International Studies Department at the
Colegio de México in Mexico City, where he also directed
the U.S.-Mexican Studies Program. He will be teaching a seminar
at CLAS from late February to late March entitled "The
U.S. and Mexico: Conflicting Agendas. A View of the Present
from an Historical Perspective." Prof. Meyer is the author
of eleven books on contemporary Mexico and U.S.-Mexico issues.
Wednesday,
March 5, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Lounge, Women’s Faculty Club (map)
Analysis
and photo of the event
Álvaro
Mutis
Public Reading and Conversation
Álvaro Mutis is one of Latin America most prominent poets
and novelists. He has won countless awards including the Colombian
National Literature Prize (1983) and the prestigious Prix Médicis Étranger
(1989). Mutis, who produces an average of one book a year, is
author of Abdul Bashur, soñador de navío (1991), The
Adventures of Maqroll: Four Novellas (1995), and many poems.
Websites featuring Mr. Mutis can be found here and here
Mr. Mutis' visit has had to be postponed until Fall 2003.
 Albert
Fishlow
"Mexican Development in the Long Term: Is
NAFTA Sufficient?"
Professor Albert Fishlow
teaches at Columbia University's School of International and
Public Affairs. Previously Dr. Fishlow was Professor of Economics
at the University of California, Berkeley and Dean of International
and Area Studies. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State for Inter-American Affairs from 1975 to 1976.
Thursday,
March 13, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Lounge, Women’s Faculty Club (map)
Analysis
and photos of the event
Chappell Lawson
“Is There Public Opinion in Mexico?”
Chappell Lawson is Associate Professor of Political Science
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he holds
the Class of 1954 Career Development Chair. His recent book,
Building the Fourth Estate, addresses the role of the mass media
in democratization, and his current research focuses on voting
behavior in Mexico.
Monday,
March 17, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos of the event
Charles Hale
“Activist Research v. Cultural Critique:
Law, Anthropology and Black / Indigenous Land Rights Struggles in Neoliberal
Central America”
Charles Hale is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate
Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American
Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He has received research
fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Social Science
Research Council (SSRC) and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
He is author of Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians
and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987 (1994) and co-editor
(with Jeffrey Gould and Darío Euraque) of Memorias
del Mestizaje: Cultura y Política en Centroamérica,
1920 al Presente (forthcoming).
Co-sponsored
by the Department of Anthropology
Monday,
March 17, 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Room 575, McCone Hall (map) Analysis and
photos of the event
Nancy Appelbaum
"Competing Histories: Local Narratives of Race and Place in Colombia"
Nancy Appelbaum is Assistant Professor of History and Latin
American Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Her research interests include Latin America, Colombia, race,
and gender. Of her many publications, her most recent book, Muddied
Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, will
be released from Duke University Press in spring 2003.
Wednesday,
March 19, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos of the event
Amy
Ross
"The Myrna Mack Case"
Amy
Ross is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University
of Georgia. Her research interests include the spatiality of
violence, geographies of justice, international institutions
and the global civil society. Her book, The Body of the
Truth: Truth Commissions in Guatemala and South Africa,
is forthcoming.
Monday,
March 31, 12:00-2:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis and
photo of the event
The Yidishe Gauchos
Director: Mark Freeman
This
intriguing documentary tells the nearly forgotten tale of how
Jewish immigrants to Argentina became
a part of that country’s
ranching culture. These immigrants built schools, libraries,
theaters and agricultural cooperatives in the wilderness. 30
minutes, 1995.
Ghosts in Patagonia (Fantasmas en la Patagonia)
Director: Claudio Remedi
In
Sierra Grande, a town in Argentina’s Patagonia, the
government decreed the closure of the iron mine, the town’s
principle source of income. This documentary illustrates the
personal stories of inhabitants as they relate their community’s
decay from unemployment. In this isolated town a few people survive,
struggling against unemployment and its social consequences.
84 minutes, 1996.
Wednesday,
April 2 6:00-8:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
 David
Bonior
"NAPU
and You: The North American Parliamentary Union-
What It Is and Why We Need It"
"The
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is the constitution
of the North American Common Market. It recognizes only one
form of citizenship — that of multinational corporations.
The North American Parliamentary Union (NAPU) is a democratic
structure which will enfranchise citizens, farmers, laborers,
small business people and environmentalists in the NAFTA countries
as well as Central America. It will broaden the playing field
so that our best democratic values will be incorporated into
our social, economic and political decisions."
David
E. Bonior was elected to the 10th Congressional District of
Michigan in 1976. From 1991-2002, Congressman Bonior was the
Democratic Whip, the second in command in the House Democratic
Leadership. Throughout his political career, Congressman Bonior
made it a priority to work on a wide range of issues, including
fair trade, issues affecting women, improvement of the education
system, health care coverage for all, the environment, civil
and human rights, and election reform. He currently is a Professor
in the College of Urban, Labor & Metropolitan Affairs,
Wayne State University.
Thursday, April 3, 2003,
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Maude Fife Room (Room 315), Wheeler Hall (map)
Analysis
and photos of the event
David Bonior
“U.S. and Iraq: Implications for the Americas”
David E. Bonior was elected to the 10th Congressional District
of Michigan in 1976. From 1991-2002, Congressman Bonior was the
Democratic Whip, the second in command in the House Democratic
Leadership. In September of 2002, Congressman Bonior led the
last congressional delegation to Iraq to assess the humanitarian
situation and encourage both the Iraqi and the U.S. administrations
to give the return of the weapons inspectors a chance.
Friday, April 4, 12:00 p.m.
Room 575, McCone Hall
Vinod Aggarwal
“The Strategic Dynamics of Latin American Trade”
Vinod Aggarwal is Professor in the Department of Political Science,
Affiliated Professor of Business and Public Policy in the Haas
School of Business, and Director of the Berkeley Asia Pacific
Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) at the University of
California at Berkeley. Dr. Aggarwal has been a consultant to
the Mexican Government, the U.S. Department of Commerce, OECD,
the Group of Thirty, and the World Bank. Professor Aggarwal will
present with Ralph H. Espach, a doctoral student in political
science.
Monday,
April 7, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos of the event
 Rosario
Robles
"Mexicans Abroad: The Right to Vote and to Live With Dignity"
Rosario
Robles Berlanga is the President of the Partido de la Revolución
Democrática (PRD) and was the Mayor of Mexico City
from 1999-2000. She also served on the executive committee
of the workers' union at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México from 1988-1993.
DUE TO POLITICAL CHANGES, MS. ROBLES HAS HAD TO POSTPONE
HER PRESENTATION. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE HER VISIT IN THE
FALL. PLEASE CHECK BACK TO THIS SITE FOR UPDATES.
William
Mendoza Gomez
"Stopping
the Coca-Cola Murders: Meet Union Leaders on the Front Lines of the World’s
Deadliest Labor Struggle"
William Mendoza Gomez is a prominent human rights advocate and president
of the Coca-Cola workers’ union in Barrancabermeja, Colombia. Since 1994,
eight workers and union activists from Coca-Cola plants in Colombia have been
murdered by anti-union paramilitary groups. Mendoza, and colleague, Hector Rivera,
will speak about their efforts to win justice for workers in one of the world’s
most turbulent and dangerous regions.
Sponsored by:
UC Berkeley Labor Center, UC Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies,
Global Exchange, Corp Watch, Sweatshop Watch, Amazon Watch, Students Organizing
for Justice in the Americas, Colombia Support Network and Plumbers and Fitters
Local 393
Thursday, April 10, 7:00 p.m.
Institute of Industrial Relations, 2521 Channing Way
Enrique
V. Iglesias
 Enrique
V. Iglesias is president of the Inter-American Development
Bank (IBD). Prior to his election as president
of the IDB, Mr.
Iglesias was Uruguay’s Minister of Foreign Relations, (1985-1988)
and the Executive Secretary of the U.N. Economic Commission for
Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC (1972-1985).
He has written numerous articles and papers on Latin American
and Uruguayan economic issues, capital markets, external financing
and multilateralism.
Mr. Iglesias' biography
Postponed until Fall 2003
Anibal Quijano
"Coloniality and the Equality of Unequals" Anibal Quijano is the Director of the Center of Social Research
in Lima, Peru.
Co-sponsored with the Chicano-Latino Studies
Program, Dean's Office of Social Sciences, and the Ethnic Studies
Department.
Tuesday, April 15, 5:00 p.m.
Room 100, Genetics and Plant Biology Hall (GPB)
The Past, Present and Future of the Venezuelan Crisis
A panel discussion featuring:
-Heinz Sonntag, Professor of Sociology, Universidad
Central de Venezuela, Caracas
-Edgardo Lander, Professor of Social Sciences, Universidad
Central de Venezuela, Caracas
Moderated by:
Ramon Grosfoguel, Department of Ethnic Studies
Wednesday, April 16, 4:00 p.m.
Ida Sproul Room, International House (map)
Analysis
and photos of the event
"Caribbean Identity: A Work of Fiction?" Conference Co-sponsored with the Caribbean Studies Working
Group
Readings by the authors and Keynote Speech by Jose Saldivar
Thursday,
April 17, 8:00 p.m.
Room 100, Genetics and Plant Biology building (GPB) A
panel discussion featuring:
- Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American writer and 1995 finalist
for the National Book Award for "krik?krack!"
- Junot Diaz, Dominican-American writer and 1997 nominee for
the Quality Paperback "New Voices" award
- Natasha Tinsley, Graduate Student, Comparative Literature,
UC Berkeley
- Percy Hintzen, Professor and Chair, African American Studies,
UC Berkeley
Friday, April 18, 11:00 a.m.
Lipman Room, 8th floor of Barrows Hall
Workshops featuring the artists and their works
Friday, April 18, 2:00 p.m.
Room 88, Dwinelle Hall
Angel Quintero
"Maroon Ethnicities: Music, Dance and Cultural Politics in the Spanish-speaking
Caribbean"
Angel Quintero is Director of the Center for Social Research
at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras.
Co-sponsored with: the Department of
African American Studies; the Department of Ethnic Studies;
and the Townsend Center for the Humanities
Friday, April 18, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Barbara Christian Conference Room
5th floor, Barrows Hall (map)
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New
Contribution to Chilean Literature
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Teresa Stojkov
“Jorge Teillier: Poet of the Hearth: A Reading”
Teresa Stojkov is Vice Chair of the Center for Latin American
Studies at UC Berkeley. Her reading will be followed by
a question and answer session with remarks by Ignacio Navarrette,
Gwen Kirkpatrick, Estelle Tarica and Carlos Delgado. A
light reception will follow the presentation.
-Reviews of
the book
-Essay on
related topic by Dr. Stojkov
Co-sponsored with the Department
of Spanish and Portuguese and the Library
Tuesday, April 22, 4:00 p.m.
Room 5125, Dwinelle Hall (Level E)
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Antonio
Barros de Castro
"Brazil in Transition"
 Professor
Barros de Castro teaches at the Institute of Economics
of the Federal University
of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and has been a visiting
professor at the Center for Latin American Studies.
Professor Barros de Castro is an expert on Brazilian
industrial and trade policy, having directed BNDES,
Brazil's giant development bank, which has a loan
volume greater than the World Bank's.
Wednesday,
April 23, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos of the event
Latinos and the Political
Process
A discussion featuring:
 - Maria
Echaveste, attorney and consultant in Washington D.C.
MS. Echaveste served as Deputy Chief of Staff in the Clinton
White House, from 1998 to 2000. Upon leaving government service,
she formed her own consulting firm, the Nueva Vista Group,
focusing on public policy, strategy and advocacy.
-Article from
Horizon Magazine, about Ms. Echaveste's role in the Clinton
White House
Thursday,
April 24, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Home Room, International House (map)
Analysis
and photos of the event
Peter H. Smith
“Cycles and Shapes of Democracy in Latin America”
Peter
H. Smith is a professor of political science and the Simón
Bolivar Professor of Latin American Studies at the University
of California, San Diego. His major publications include Labyrinths
of Power: Political Recruitment in Twentieth-Century Mexico (1979), Modern
Latin America (1984) and Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics
of U.S–Latin American Relations (1996).
Friday, April 25, 12:30 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos of the event
Charlie
Kernaghan
“Ending the Race to the Bottom: The Struggle for Workers' Rights in the
Global Economy”
Charlie
Kernaghan is Executive Director of the National Labor Committee,
an independent human rights organization. He is prominent
in the labor movement for drawing attention to and helping correct
the overseas labor practices of U.S. corporations.
The
New York Times calls him “the labor movement’s
mouse that roared.” Friday, April 25, 4:00 p.m.
Room 575, McCone Hall (map)
Photos
of the event
Debra Castillo
“Myths of Origin: The Conquest of Mexico in Early U.S. Narrative”
Professor
Debra Castillo teaches in the Department of Romance Studies
and Comparative Literature at Cornell University and
is the former director of Cornell’s Latin American Studies
Program (1997-2000). Currently, she is a visiting scholar at
Stanford.
A light reception will follow.
Co-sponsored with the Department of Spanish
and Portuguese
Monday, April 28, 4:00 p.m.
Room 5125, Dwinelle Hall (Spanish and Portuguese Department Library)
The Scorpion (Comparsa
el Alacrán)
Director: Gloria Rolando
A
homage to Santos Ramírez, who wrote the comparsa “El
Alacrán” in 1938, this colorful program documents
the Afro-Cuban tradition. First preformed by whites dressed in
blackface in the early 1900s, Santos Ramírez transformed
the Alacrán into the most famous African comparsa celebrated
in Cuban carnival. 19 minutes, 1999.
Cauri: The Word of the Saint (Cauri: La Palabra
del Santo)
Director: Luis Acevedo Fals
This
film depicts the Santería religion and the magic
of the “cauri”- shells used by Santería priests
to translate messages from the orishas. The documentary
also provides an explanation of each of the saints in this Afro-Cuban
religion. 27 minutes, 1996.
Even Queen Isabel Dances the Danzón (Hasta la Reina Isabel Baila
el Danzón)
Director: Luis Felipe Bernaza
This
comic documentary examines the mixture of Hispanic and African
traditions that permeates every aspect
of Cuban life.
It follows a spiritist who is visited from time to time by the
spirit of Queen Isabel of Spain. The filmmaker attempts to speak
with Queen Isabel through the medium to ask her questions about
the Cuban people. Depicting the belief in the supernatural within
the context of a socialist revolution, the film is a self-reflective
satire of the island’s pervasive Afro-Cuban popular beliefs.
20 minutes, 1991.
Wednesday,
April 30, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Mercedes
Roffé
“El pajaro de fuego”
Mercedes
Roffé is an Argentine poet. She
has written several books of poetry, including Mayan Definitions (1999)
and Poetic Anthology (2000). Among other literary and
academic distinctions, she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Fellowship in Poetry in 2001.
She will be reading from El pajaro de fuego.
Co-sponsored with the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the
Department of Comparative Literature
Thursday, May 1, 1:00 p.m.
Room 5125, Dwinelle Hall (Spanish and Portuguese Department Library)
 Robert
Pastor
“North America: Vision or Illusion?”
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) dismantled barriers
and nearly tripled trade and investment. However, it failed to
address the development gap between Mexico and its northern neighbors,
and it omitted any credible institutions to anticipate crises
or shape a new partnership. Thus, instead of uniting to respond
to Sept. 11 , old habits of U.S. unilateralism and Canadian and
Mexican ambivalence prevailed, endangering further integration.
We need to plan for the second decade of NAFTA by developing
North American solutions to continental problems and opportunities.
Robert Pastor is Vice President of International Affairs and
Professor of International Relations at American University,
where he established and directs a new Center for North American
Studies and a new Center for Democracy and Election Management.
Professor Pastor was a fellow and founding director of the Latin
American and Caribbean Program at the Carter Center from 1985-98.
He has written 13 books, including Toward
a North American Community: Lessons from the Old World for the
New.
Thursday,
May 1, 4:00 p.m.
Room 370, Dwinelle Hall (map)
Analysis
and photos of the event
Jonathan Fox
“Rethinking Local Governance: Lessons From a Collaborative Research Project
With the Oaxaca Indigenous Binational Front”
Jonathan Fox is Professor and Chair of the Department of Latin
American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. He has published
widely on the issues of democratization and the strengthening
of civil society, particularly in Mexico. This research has been
supported with grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Council
on Foreign Relations, the Heinz Foundation, and the North-South
Center. Of his many publications, he most recently co-edited Cross-Border
Dialogues: Mexico-U.S. Social Movement Networking (.pdf
file).
Articles
by Professor Fox:
-"La
relación recíproca entre la participación ciudadana y
la rendición de cuentas: La experiencia de los fondos municipales en
el México rural" (in Spanish, Acrobat .pdf file)
-"Los Fondos Municipales de
Solidaridad y la participación comunitaria en Oaxaca" (in
Spanish, Acrobat .pdf file)
Monday,
May 5, 12:00- 1:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photos from
the event
Roberto Schwarz
“Misplaced Ideas: A Colloquium With Roberto Schwarz on Cultural Theory
and the Peripheries of Capitalism”
A special seminar and colloquium discussion featuring:
-Introduction and opening remarks from Candace Slater,
professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Townsend
Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley
-Opening discussion moderated by Neil Larsen,
professor of comparative literature and Co-director of the Program
in Critical Theory, UC Davis
-Presentation by Roberto Schwarz,
professor of literary theory, University of Campinas, São Paulo.
Professor Schwartz’s materialist interpretation of cultural
history has produced many works of critical theory, spanning
25 years. His books include Um Mestre Na Periferia do Capitalismo:
Machado de Assis (1990) and Misplaced Ideas: Essays
on Brazilian Culture (1992).
Co-sponsored with: the Townsend Center for the
Humanities, the Department of English, the Department of Spanish
and Portuguese, the Department of Comparative Literature, the
Interdisciplinary Marxism Working Group, Spatial Theories/Spatial
Practices and the Consortium on the Novel.
Monday, May 5, 4:00 p.m.
Geballe Room, Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall
Eduardo Posada Carbo
“Elections, Parties and State Formation in Latin America, 1850-1880”
Eduardo
Posada Carbo is a columnist for El Tiempo, a major newspaper
in Bogotá, Colombia. Dr. Posada Carbo is also a research
associate for the Latin American Centre at St. Anthony’s
College in Oxford, England, where he received his doctorate in
modern history.
Wednesday, May 7, 4:00 p.m.
Room 3335, Dwinelle Hall
Graciela
Montaldo
“Lo que queda de la nación: La multitud entre el estado y la industria
cultural”
Professor
Graciela Montaldo teaches literature and cultural studies at
the Universidad Simón Bolívar
in Caracas, Venzuela. Currently she is a visiting scholar at
UC Davis.
A light reception will follow.
Co-sponsored with the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese
Thursday, May 8, 12:00 p.m.
Room 5125, Dwinelle Hall (Spanish and Portuguese Department Library)
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