SPRING
2000 CALENDAR OF EVENTS |
January | February | March | April | May
Patricio
Guzman
"Chilean
Films"
Patricio
Guzman was a bodyguard to Salvador Allende.
Moderator: Soledad Falabella, Ph.D.
candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
"The
Battle of Chile: The Struggle of an Unarmed People/
La Batalla de Chile: La Lucha de un Pueblo Sin Armas"
Part
1: The Bourgeois Insurrection, 1975.
The first film in a two-part documentary on the fate of Allende's Popular Unity
government filmed throughout Chile from February toSeptember
1973. Part one examines the escalation of rightist opposition following the
left's victory in Congressional elections held in March, 1973.
Part
2: The Coup, 1976.
The second film in a two-part documentary on the fate of Allende's Popular
Unity government filmed throughout Chile from February to September 1973. Part
two opens with the attempted military coup of June 1973, which is put down
by troops loyal to the government but everyone now realizes the final showdown
is only a matter of time. The film shows a left divided over strategy, while
the right methodically lays the groundwork for the military seizure of power. Part
3: The Struggle of an Unarmed People (La Fuerza del pueblo)",
1978.
Completed two years after the first two parts of "The Battle of Chile" in 1978,
this film deals with the creation of thousands of local groups of "popular
power" by ordinary workers and peasants. "Obstinate
Memory" 1997.
Patricio Guzman, returns to Chile 23 years later to show his film The Battle
of Chile (which has never been shown in Chile) to his old friends and to a
student group to enlighten them concerning the historical facts surrounding
the military coup.
Wednesday,
January 26, 6:30 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Amos
Megged
"Demarcating Memories: Indians' hidden voices in early-colonial settings"
This
talk examines the ways in which ordinary Indians, who had once
belonged to the former city-states around the Valley of Mexico,
reshaped and reconstructed their own conception of time, space,
and authority right after the Spanish conquest. The talk is
first in a series of meetings held by the working
group on Early-Colonial
Endeavors. Amos Megged, Associate Professor at the University
of Haifa and visiting scholar at CLAS, co-chairs the working
group with Professor William B. Taylor.
Friday,
January 28, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Maria
Angelica Madeira and Mariza Veloso:
"Leituras Brasileiras: Pensamento Social e Literatura no Brasil"
Brazil 2000
An intensive seminar on Brazilian social thought and literature with
Profs. Maria Angelica Madeira, Professor of Literature and Sociology, and
Mariza Velozo, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, at the Universidade
de Brasilia and the Instituto Rio Branco. Cosponsored with the Consulate
General of Brazil and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Monday, January
31 to Friday, February 4, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
CLAS, 2334 Bowditch Street
Bienvenidos
/ Boas-vindas
Welcome Back Reception
The
Center for Latin American Studies cordially invites all new and continuing
Latin Americanist students and faculty, visiting scholars, and friends
to an informal reception.
Tuesday,
February 1, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Arturo
Dávila on Octavio Paz
Latin American
Writers Video Series
Arturo
Dávila, Poet
and Visiting Professor at Mills College, will be giving a brief presentation
on Mexican poet/writer/cultural critic Octavio Paz, followed by a Lannan Literary
Video interviewing the late writer.
Tuesday,
February 8, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
CLAS Conference
Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Research Reports
from the Field
Maria Elena Martinez-Torres,
Latin American Studies: "Organic Coffee and Organizational Membership in Chiapas,
Mexico" and
Adrienne Pine, Anthropology and Demography: "Mitch, Maquiladoras
y Mujeres: An Examination of Recent Demographic Trends in the Female
Population of Honduras."
Thursday,
February 10, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Ted
Levine
Guatemala
Update:
"Elections, Human Rights and the Peace Accords"
For
the past eight months Ted Levine has been living in a returned
refugee
community, Copal AA, in the Ixcan in Guatemala. He is working
through a national grassroots program, the Guatemala Accompaniment
Project,
locally sponsored by The San Francisco Jewish Sanctuary Coalition.
Ted will be speaking about the recent elections, the status of
the peace accords, the human rights situation for returned
refugees and
rural community development in the context of globalization.
Tuesday,
February 15, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room 2334 Bowditch Street
Research
Reports from the Field
Isabelle Fauconnier, Agricultural and Resource Economics: "Equity, Efficiency,
and Environment: The Private Provision of Public Services to Low-income Households
in Latin American Cities - A Case in Urban Argentina" and
Misha Klein, Anthropology: "Creating Community: Jewish Identity
in Contemporary Brazil."
Thursday,
February 17, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Ruth
Cardoso
"Youth in Brazil: Social Conditions, Culture and Public Policies"
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Ruth
Cardoso |
A
public talk and discussion by Ruth Cardoso,
anthropologist and First Lady of Brazil.
Dr. Cardoso is the president of the organization Comunidade Solidária,
Brazil's most important umbrella organization for community service.
As an anthropologist, Dr. Cardoso has specialized in urban culture
and youth
and has extensively researched political participation and the informal
sector. She will discuss the current situation of youth in Brazil and
Latin America.
-view
a Powerpoint presentation on Comunidade
Solidária
Thursday,
February 17, 4:00-6:00 p.m.; reception to follow
Lipman Room, 8th floor, Barrows Hall
Analysis
and commentary for this event
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"Challenges
for Brazil: A Dialogue"
Series:
Brazil 2000
|
Focusing
on global economic integration in the Americas,
this conference will feature
dialogue among Brazilians, and between Brazilian and U.S. participants.
Topics will include the impact of globalization on Brazil, perspectives
on labor in the Americas, and social problems and political alternatives.
For
more information, see the Challenges
for Brazil website.
Friday,
February 25, 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Lipman Room, 8th Floor, Barrows Hall
Fabián
Banga on Jorge Luis Borges
Latin
American Writers Video Series
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Jorge
Luis Borges |
Fabián
Banga, a graduate student in Spanish
and Portuguese, will be introducing Argentinean
writer Jorge Luis Borges. He will follow his presentation with a video
interview of the author.
Tuesday,
February 29, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Claudia
Bernardi
"Opening
Reception"
Bernardi,
an Argentine artist whose work focuses on human rights themes, has
exhibited her "frescoes on paper" internationally.
This reception marks the opening of
her exhibit at CLAS.
Wednesday,
March 8, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Visit the online gallery of Ms. Bernardi's
exhibit
Mynor
Melgar
"Human Rights Challenges in Contemporary Latin America"
Guatemalan
lawyer Mynor Melgar, a visiting scholar at the Center for Latin American
Studies in 2000, has led the prosecution of a number of prominent human rights
cases,
including those of assassinated anthropologist Myrna Mack, the massacre
at Dos Erres, and the murder of Bishop Juan José Gerardi following
the church's release of its human rights report.
Santiago
Oñate
"Mexico in 2000: A Leap Ahead or a New Crisis?" Santiago Oñate
is the Ambassador of Mexico to the United Kingdom. In the last decade, he
has held several positions in the Mexican government, including Head of the
President's Coordination Office, Secretary of State for Labor, and Ambassador
of Mexico to the Organization of American States.
Tuesday,
March 14, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Sproul
Room, International House, 2299 Piedmont Avenue
Analysis
and commentary for this event
Adolfo
Gilly
"The Long Strike at the UNAM: Higher Education and the Restructuring of the Mexican
State"
Adolfo Gilly,
a professor of political science at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México (UNAM), is a renowned scholar of Mexican politics. His recent publications
include Chiapas: La Razón Ardiente. Ensayo sobre la Rebelión del Mundo Encantado
(1997), and México, el Poder, el Dinero, y la Sangre (1996). From 1997 to
1999 he served as adviser to Mexico City Mayor Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas.
Wednesday,
March 22, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and commentary for this event
Memorial for Woodrow
Borah
Woodrow Borah,
an expert in Latin American history and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley,
recently passed away. Chair of CLAS from 1973 to 1979, Prof. Borah was for
decades one of the most influential and active scholars working to reconstruct
the colonial experience in Spanish America. Prof. Eric Van Young, of UC San
Diego's Department of History, a former student of Prof. Borah, will speak
at CLAS on Borah's scholarly legacy.
Tulio
Halperin remembers Woodrow
Borah Friday,
March 24, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Irving Stone Room, Bancroft Library
Lorenzo
Meyer:
"The End of Mexico's Transition?" Will
the 2000 elections succeed in changing the nature of Mexico's regime? Lorenzo
Meyer, a leading scholar on U.S.-Mexico relations, and a professor affiliated
with the Centro de Estudios Internacionales at El Colegio de México.
will examine this question in depth. His recent publications include Fin
de Régimen y Democracia Incipiente: México Hacia el Siglo
XXI (1998), and Liberalismo Autoritario: Las Contradicciones del
Sistema Político Mexicano (1995).
Wednesday,
April 12, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street Analysis
and commentary for this event
The
Fair Trade Movement
Change the World:
One Cup at a Time 
The
Fair Trade is a growing movement throughout
the U.S.! Join Trans Fair USA
and the Rural Mexico Working Group
to learn about the new alternatives
to current global trade practice. Meet
fair trade farmers from Peru. Free
Fair Trade coffee served!
Wednesday,
April 19, 12:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Adolfo
Aguilar Zinser
"The Fate of the Opposition in the Year 2000 Presidential Election"
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Adolfo
Aguilar Zinser |
The
first Independent to be elected to the Mexican Federal Congress,
Senator Aguilar Zinser is a specialist on U.S.-Mexico relations,
NAFTA, human rights, government corruption, and the environment.
His publications include "Operation Casablanca's Sting (International
Sting Operation Against Money-laundering in Mexico)" (1998) and "Vamos
a Ganar!: La Pugna de Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas por el Poder" (1995).
Senator Aguilar Zinser is a former visiting scholar at CLAS. Wednesday,
April 19, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
International
Reporting: Mexico
Students
from Prof. Francis Pisani's International Reporting class will present
their work following their in-depth reporting trip to Mexico. The
ten-day trip culminates an international reporting course focusing
on Mexico. Some students plan to report on concerns along the border
between Mexico and the U.S., and others will focus on issues affecting
Mexico's southern states.
Thursday,
April 20, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Denise
Dresser: "Blood Sport: The Politics of Mexico's Presidential
Elections"
Professor
Dresser teaches political science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo
de México (ITAM). She is currently a visiting fellow at the Pacific
Council, a research institution affiliated with the University of Southern
California focusing on policy issues in the Pacific Rim.
Wednesday,
April 26, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
and commentary for this event
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Rigoberta
Menchú |
Rigoberta
Menchú
"Guatemalan
Reflections"
Ms.
Menchú,
the winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, will deliver
a lecture, moderated by Professor Beatriz Manz of Ethnic
Studies and Geography.
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| Vivian
Rivera (right),
with Professor
Beatriz Manz |
Vivian Rivera
"Peasant Cooperatives in the Ixcan, Guatemala"
Since
1997, Vivian Rivera has worked in the promotion, education, administration and
finance management of the agricultural cooperative Zona Reyna, El Quiche, Guatemala.
Tuesday,
May 2, 2:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Francis Pisani
"The Hurricane Basin and the Future of the Americas - Creolization, Informal Networks
and Technology"
The Hurricane Basin (or Mediterranean of the Americas) - Southern United States,
the Caribbean, Venezuela, Colombia, Central America and Mexico - should be seen
as a metaregion. Informal networks, the inventive use of technology and hybridization
will benefit the South in its relationship with the North.
This provoking approach to the future of the continent draws from Dr. Francis
Pisani's experience in Latin America as a correspondent for over 20 years and
has been the subject of his dissertation recently presented at La Sorbonne. He
is presently a Regent's Lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism.
Cosponsored with the Graduate School of Journalism
Thursday,
May 4, 4:00-6:00
p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Mauricio
Cárdenas
Department
of Economics Commencement Address Mauricio
Cárdenas,
director of the Department
of National Planning
in Colombia, is a
cabinet member of
Andrés
Pastrana's administration,
an author of the "Plan
Colombia," and
involved in the
peace talks with
insurgent
leaders in Colombia.
He gave the Department
of Economics commencement
speech on May
18.
He also met with
CLAS faculty and
students for a
breakfast
and informal discussion.
Cárdenas
is a UC Berkeley
alum, and obtained
a PhD in Economics
in 1991.
May 18, 2000
Text
of Mr. Cárdenas
Commencement Address |
