Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado
“Punishing Gender Violence: Brazil’s ‘Maria da Penha Law’”
In August 2006, a statute against domestic and gender violence (the “Maria da Penha Law”) was promulgated in Brazil. The result of a four-year negotiation between Congress and a consortium of NGOs and activists, the statute was a turning point for how the Brazilian legal system treats women and gender-based violence. However, the new law remains controversial due to its emphasis on incarceration. In her talk, Machado will discuss the law and its application, exploring its ambiguous results.
Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado is a professor of Law at the Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo and a researcher at the Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). Her research focuses on the increase in criminalization and incarceration in Brazil. She is currently a visiting scholar at CLAS.
Monday, January 23, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Seth M. Holmes
“Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Indigenous Mexican Farmworkers in the U.S.”
Migration, social hierarchies, health disparities, race and medicine intersect along the transit routes between the United States and Mexico. Dr. Holmes spent 18 months conducting in-depth fieldwork while living, working and migrating with indigenous Mexican farmworkers in both the United States and Mexico. In this talk, he will focus on the ways in which social and health inequalities come to be understood as normal and natural.
Seth M. Holmes is the Martin Sisters Endowed Chair and Assistant Professor of Health and Social Behavior at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. He received the Rudolf Virchow Critical Anthropology of Global Health Award for an article based on this project and is currently completing a book on the same topic.
Monday, February 6, 12:00 pm
554 Barrows Hall
Martin Carnoy
“Triumph of the BRICs? Higher Education Expansion in the Developing World and the Changing Global Economy”
Martin Carnoy is the Vida Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University and a consultant to many organizations, including the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the OECD. A labor economist with a special interest in the relationship between the economy and the educational system, he is currently launching comparative projects on the quality of education in Latin America and Southern Africa, which include assessing teacher knowledge in mathematics, filming classrooms and assessing student performance. He is also working on a major new project to study changes in university financing and the quality of engineering and science education at the university level in China, India and Russia.
Monday, March 5, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
370 Dwinelle Hall
