FALL
2002 CALENDAR
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"The Politics of Petroleum and the Future of the U.S.-Mexico Relationship"
A
discussion featuring:
-José Alberro,
director of LECG, an economic consulting firm, and former CEO
of Pemex Gas y Petroquímica Básica.
- Michael J. Economides, professor of engineering at the University of
Houston, and formerly chief scientist of the Global Petroleum Research Institute
(GPRI).
-Sandy Tolan, journalist and visiting lecturer at UC Berkeley;
teaching "Politics and Petroleum," a course co-sponsored
by the Center for Latin American Studies.
Moderated by Harley Shaiken, professor of geography and
education at UC Berkeley
Thursday,
September 12, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and photos of the event
Notes for: • Mr.
Alberro's remarks • Mr.
Tolan's remarks
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Welcome Back Reception
The
Center for Latin American Studies faculty and staff would
like to invite you to come celebrate the beginning of
the semester with us at a reception.
We
look forward to seeing you!
Thursday,
September 12, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photo
from the event
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Sarah
Cleveland and Terry Collingsworth
"International
Labor Standards: From Definition to Enforcement"
Professor
Sarah Cleveland, Marrs McClean Professor of Law at the University
of Texas at Austin, and Terry Collingsworth, Executive Director
of the International Labor Rights Fund, will be speaking about
international labor standards at Boalt Hall School of Law.
Professor Cleveland will discuss her research on international
labor standards and give an overview of the field. Mr. Collingsworth
will discuss his work with the ILRF and the use of the Alien
Tort Claims Act to address labor rights abuses. A question
and answer period will follow.
(co-sponsored with the Berkeley Journal of Employment
and Labor Law)
Friday,
September 13, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Room 140, Boalt Hall School of Law (map)
Photos
of the event
Carolyn Patty Blum and Carlos Mauricio
"Romagoza
v. Garcia: A Case of Justice for Victims
of Torture"
Learn about
the landmark case in which three torture survivors won a federal
lawsuit against two former Salvadoran Ministers of Defense
filed under the Torture Victim Protection Act and the Alien
Tort Claims Act.
Professor Blum is director of the International
Human Rights Clinic at Boalt Hall School of Law. Mr. Mauricio
is one of the plaintiffs in the above lawsuit.
Co-sponsored
by: the International Human Rights Clinic, Boalt Hall; International
Human Rights Advisory Board, Boalt Hall; and the Human Rights
Center at UC Berkeley
Tuesday,
September 17, 6:00 p.m.
Room 110, Boalt Hall School of Law (map)
Photos
of the event
Marina
Castañeda
"EL
MACHISMO INVISIBLE: Machismo
in Contemporary Mexico"
Marina Castañeda,
a psychologist, is the author of El Machismo Invisible (2002),
a new best seller in Mexico, and Comprendre l'homosexualité (1999)
which addresses the psychology of homosexuality.
She will be
introduced and the talk moderated by Professor Beatriz Manz,
Department of Geography and Ethnic Studies.
Co-sponsored
by the Center for Race and Gender and the Womens' Studies
Department
Thursday,
September 19, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Geballe Room, 220
Stephens Hall (map)
Photos
and analysis of the event
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
Photos
and analysis of the event
Carmen
Valadez
"CITTAC: Organizing and Advocating for Workers' Rights Under Mexican Law"
Carmen
Valadez has worked extensively in Tijuana with the workers'
information center, CITTAC (Centro de Información para Trabajadores
y Trabajadoras, A.C.). CITTAC is a grassroots organization
that has worked principally with maquiladora and other low-wage
workers since its founding in 1991. Its comprehensive and innovative
approach to labor rights advocacy includes community education
and outreach, as well as training workers to enforce their
rights on the job and to represent themselves before government
agencies. Carmen Valadez is a co-founder of Casa de la Mujer/Grupo
Factor X, a Tijuana organization dedicated to organizing
for the human rights of women workers.
Biography
of Ms. Valadez
Co-sponsored with the Berkeley Journal of
Employment and Labor Law (BJELL)
Tuesday,
September 24, 12:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photos
from the event
Art
Opening
Denise Zmekhol, "Children of the Amazon"
 Photographs by Denise
Zmekhol
Art Exhibit August 26 - December 10, 2002
For exhibit hours, please call us at (510) 642-2088
Join us for the opening reception:
Tuesday, September
24, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photos
from the opening
"Coronación / Coronation," by
Silvio Caiozzi (2000)
Based on the novel by José Donoso, "Coronation" is
a masterfully directed drama of sexual obsession, greed, and
social inequity. Estela is a peasant girl hired by an older bachelor,
Andrés, to care for his wealthy, bullying grandmother.
(in Spanish, no subtitles)
Wednesday,
September 25, 6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Discussion Forum
"Perspectives
on the United States and Mexico: A Journalists' Forum"
A discussion featuring:
-Dolia Estevez, El
Financiero
Some articles by Ms. Estevez (in Spanish, © El
Financiero) :
--"A
dos años del triunfo "histórico" hay decepción en EU"
--"Rotundo
fracaso del Consenso de Washington"
-Mary Beth Sheridan, The
Washington Post/
Los Angeles Times
Sample article by Ms. Sheridan (© Times
Mirror Company)
-- "Drug
Lords Buy Way into Church's Heart"
from Washington Post-- "Administration,
Mexico 'Advancing' on Immigration Issues" (link
to North American Institute website archived article from Washington
Post)
-Ginger Thompson, The
New York Times
Articles by Ms. Thompson (© New
York Times Company)
-- "San
Salvador Atenco Journal; Cornfields or Runways?"
-- "Great Expectations
Of Mexico's Leader Sapped by Reality" (with Tim Weiner)
Moderated by Harley
Shaiken, professor of education at UC Berkeley and chair
of the Center for Latin American Studies.
Thursday, September
26, 4:00-6:00 pm
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens
Hall (map)
Photos
and analysis of the event
Stephen
Herzenberg
"The NAFTA Labor Agreement"
Stephen Herzenberg, one of the U.S. negotiators of the labor
side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),
will describe the dynamics that shaped the labor agreement. He
will discuss both the tensions within the United States' negotiating
team and the trilateral interaction among the United States,
Mexico, and Canada. Following this, Dr. Herzenberg and Professor
Harley Shaiken will lead an open discussion of what, if any,
value the labor side agreement might have in future efforts to
strengthen labor and environmental protections in trade agreements.
Friday,
September 27, 12:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
FILM: "The Rose Seller" by Victor Gaviria
(1998)
In this surreal adaptation of a Hans Christian
Andersen fable, director Victor Gaviria uses real street urchins
and a cinéma
vérité style to explore the lives of young girls living on the
streets of Medellín. After fleeing her shanty-town home where
her mother's boyfriend hits on her and her mom beats her, Monica
joins a gang of street girls and begins to sell roses in hopes
of creating a better life for herself. As she confronts the brutal
realities of the urban jungle and the difficult relationships
formed there, Monica must arm herself with the street smarts
necessary to survive. Gaviria's visceral filmmaking shapes this
beautiful yet painful coming-of-age story.
(in Spanish, with subtitles)
Director Victor Gaviria will be at the screening to give
an introduction and answer questions about the film.
Tuesday,
October 1, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Kroeber Hall, Room 160 (map)
FILM: "Rodrigo D: No Futuro" by
Victor Gaviria (1990)
A
truly powerful film about growing up on the streets in the
drug capital of
Medellín, Colombia. Shot in a documentary style,
many of the young people who appeared in the film are now dead
or in jail. In the tradition of Los Olvidados and Pixote, we
meet a variety of young people who will never have to worry about
growing old.
(in Spanish, with subtitles)
Wednesday,
October 2, 9:30-11:30 a.m. and 1:00-3:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Victor Gaviria
"Discussions with Victor Gaviria"
Victor Gaviria, a respected film producer and director, is
noted for his powerful portrayals of life on the streets of Colombia.
He produced several feature films including Rodrigo D., No
Future (1990), and The Rose Seller (1998). Rodrigo
D. won first prize at the Latino Film Festival of New York.
Wednesday,
October 2, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photos
and summary of Mr. Gaviria's visit
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
Photos
and analysis of the event
"Matta," by Pablo Basulto (1994)
This
documentary vividly captures Roberto Matta Echaurren, the famous
Chilean surrealist painter. Matta was
influenced by his
association with the surrealists Salvador Dalí and Andre Breton
and by Marcel Duchamp's theories of movement and process. Through
his work, he began to explore the realm of the subconscious and
to develop an imagery of cosmic creation and destruction.
(in Spanish, with subtitles)
Wednesday,
October 9, 6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Discussion Forum:
"The Brazilian Elections: What's Next?"
A discussion featuring:
-Manuel Castells, Professor of Sociology and
City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
-Harley Shaiken, Professor of Geography and
Education and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies,
UC Berkeley
Thursday,
October 10, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photos
and analysis of the event
Jeffrey Davidow
“Possibilities and Challenges for the U.S. and Mexico”
Jeffrey Davidow is the former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico.
Monday,
October 14, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Lounge in the Women’s Faculty Club (map)
Photos
and analysis of the event
Blanca
Velasquez Diaz, “The Economic Consequences of NAFTA:
A Labor Organizer’s
Point of View”
Blanca Velazquez Diaz is a representative and co-founder of
CAT, the Support Center for Workers located in Atlixco, Puebla
in central Mexico. In addition to supporting the organizing efforts
of workers in maquiladoras (assembly-line factories
producing for export), the CAT also does education and outreach
to workers through workshops, trainings, and street theater.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Labor Research
and Education
Wednesday,
October 16, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photo
and summary of the event
Graciela Speranza
"Manuel Puig y sus precursoras" (literatura y cine)
Graciela Speranza is professor of Spanish American literature,
co-editor of the cultural journal milpalabras, and columnist
for the literary supplement of Clarín. Among
her recent books are Manuel Puig : después del fin
de la literatura, Guillermo Kuitca: documentación
e imágenes, Los hijos de la guerra, and Primera
persona : conversaciones con quince narradores argentinos.
As a Guggenheim fellow this year, she is preparing a book on
the interrelationship between the visual arts and literature.
Co-sponsored with the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese and the
Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
Friday,
October 18, 12:00 p.m.
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Library, Room 5125, Dwinelle Hall
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.
-Professor Cain's biography
- On-line paper: "Is
the Democratic deficit a deficiency? The Case of Immigration Policy in the
US and EU"
Monday,
October 21, 12:00-1:15 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Summary
and photos of the event
"States, Domestic Politics, and the U.S.-Mexico
Relationship"
-Alejandra Barrales,
Secretary for Social Development, State of Michoacan, Mexico
-Richard
D. Polanco, Majority Leader of the California State Senate
(official
website)
POSTPONED:
Due to political developments in Michoacan, Secretary Barrales
has had to postpone her trip to the Center. We hope to reschedule
for a date in November; please check back on this site for
updates.
"Amnesia" by
Gonzalo Justiniano (1994)
Amnesia follows
Private Ramírez, an ineffectual
soldier serving in the Chilean army in the 1960s, who defies
his brutal
commanding officer and allows a prisoner to escape. This touching
and provocative story addresses the horrors of war and what
happens when peace returns.
(in Spanish, no subtitles)
Wednesday,
October 23, 6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
“Civilians Under Fire in Colombia: A Discussion
with Human Rights Defenders from Cali and Quibdó”
Mr. José Amin Cortes, former-director
of the Human Rights Office of the Archdiocese of Cali, and Sister Elsa
Maria Rueda Jaimes, coordinator of the Displaced Persons
Program in Chocó, Colombia, will explore the current challenges
human rights defenders face in Colombia. Photographs along with
a new 30 minute documentary--"Bojayá: A Crime of
War"--will be presented.
Moderated
by Michael Donovan, City and Regional
Planning
(Presentation in Spanish with English translation)
Friday,
October 25, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Summary
and photos of the event
CAL
PERFORMANCES:
California Festival of Son 2002
La Tercera Raiz— La Influencia Africana en el Son ROUND
TABLE DISCUSSION & FANDANGO with the Artists
 The
Mexican Son tradition and new work will be discussed by ethnomusicologists
Carlos Ruiz Rodríguez, National College
of Mexico, and Guillermo Contreras, National School of Music,
Veracruz; Armando Herrara, Cultural Director of Central and Western
Regions, Mexico City; Patricio Hidalgo of Chumchumbé;
Festival Artistic Director, Artemio Posadas; Jordan Simmons,
Director, East Bay Center for the Performing Arts & CK
Ladzepko, UCB.
Co-sponsored with Cal
Performances & the
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts.
Friday,
October 25, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Seaborg Room of the Faculty Club (map)
"Democracy:
Perceptions in Mexico and the U.S."
-Roderic Camp, Professor
of Government at the Claremont McKenna College (website)
-Alejandro Moreno, Professor at the Departamento de Ciencias Sociales,
ITAM
Moderated by Harley Shaiken, professor of geography and
education at UC Berkeley
Monday,
October 28, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Summary
and photos of the event
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
Photo
of the event
"Art
and Resistance: Economic Catastrophe and Strategies of Solidarity
in Argentina"
-Claudia Bernardi, Human rights activist, artist,
and professor at the California College of Arts & Crafts
--Earlier
exhibition of Ms. Bernardi's art at the Center
-Roberto Varea, Theatre director and professor,
Performing Arts and Social Justice Program, University of San
Francisco
Monday, November 4, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room
Photo
of the event
"Ardiente Paciencia," by Antonio Skármeta
(1983)
Based
on Antonio Skármeta's novel, Ardiente Paciencia is
the story of a poor postman in Isla Negra who is befriended
by Pablo Neruda. The postman asks Neruda's help writing poems
to
the woman of his dreams. Skármeta's work was the basis for
the movie Il Postino. Come see how the author originally adapted
his novel to film! (in Spanish, with subtitles)
Wednesday,
November 6, 6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
"Demanding
the Land: Urban Social Movements and Local Politics in Peru and
Ecuador"
Building
on a year of field research in Peru and Ecuador, political
scientist Paul Dosh and documentary photographer James Lerager
explore the political
struggles of urban social movements in the shantytowns of Lima and Quito.
Friday,
November 8, 12:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photos
of the event
Helen Mack
"The
Myrna Mack Case: Challenge to Military Impunity in Guatemala" Myrna Mack, an anthropologist, was assassinated by a Guatemalan
army sergeant in 1990. Her sister Helen has sought justice against
those responsible, both the sergeant and his superiors, in Guatemalan
courts for the last 11 years. Recently, the court handed down
a landmark decision, convicting a colonel of ordering the murder
and sentencing him to 30 years in prison, after convicting the
sergeant in 1993.
-Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights Myrna
Mack Case reports
Tuesday,
November 12, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Ethnic Studies Library, Stevens Hall (map)
Photos
and interview with Ms. Mack
 Adolfo
Aguilar Zinser
"Mexico in the Security Council"
Ambassador Zinser is the
Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations. He
served as National Security Advisor to President Fox until
January 2002. Mr. Zinser has also been a visiting faculty member
here at the Center for Latin American Studies.
-Recent New
York Times article on Mr. Zinser's role in the UN Iraq
resolution
Monday, November
18, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Moses Hall, Room 224 (map)
Analysis
and photos of Zinser's visit
Dr.
Huberto Juárez Núñez
"Labor Regulations and Development of the Modular Production of the Auto
Industry in Mexico : The Cases of VW and GM"
Dr.
Huberto Juárez Núñez
is Professor of Economics at the Autonomous University of Puebla,
Mexico.
Thursday,
November 21, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photo
from the event
THE LAST ZAPATISTAS: FORGOTTEN HEROES
A documentary by 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 filmaker 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.
Thursday, November 21, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Kroeber Hall, Room 160
Photos
from the screening
Dr.
Huberto Juárez Núñez
"Impacts of the Maquiladora Clothing Industry in Mexican Regions, 1994-2001"
Dr.
Huberto Juárez Núñez is Professor of
Economics at the Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico.
-"LA
INDUSTRIA MAQUILADORA DE CONFECCIÓN DE PRENDAS DE
VESTIR EN MÉXICO" -
Adobe .pdf file of a paper from Dr. Juárez
Núñez
Friday, November 22, 4:00-6:00 pm
Location: CLAS Conference Room
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
Photos
of the event
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 Democratico, 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.
A light reception will follow.
Mr.
Garzón's visit has been postponed until
February 2003.
Vivian Rivera
"Rural Cooperatives in Northern Guatemala"
Vivian Rivera has worked for many years with rural cooperatives,
especially in the Ixcán rainforest. She conducts workshops
to train local peasants on the principles and organization of
a cooperative as well as providing advice
once the cooperatives are functioning. Ms. Rivera serves as liaison with international
funding agencies as well as maintaining the accounting books and reporting.
Monday, December 2, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Photos
and analysis of the event
 Albert
Fishlow, Columbia University
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.
Mr. Fishlow's visit
has been postponed until February 2003.
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