Daniel
Kammen
“Green Growth?”
The
next U.S. president will be confronted with the need
to right the listing economy while combating global climate
change. Dan Kammen discusses the opportunities available
to the next president, both at home and internationally,
as well as the constraints he will face, identifying
key areas for policy change.
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.
Download Professor
Kammen's Powerpoint presentation (2 mb .pdf)
Read "Energy
Shock," Professor Kammen's article for the Berkeley
Review
Tuesday,
September 9, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
554 Barrows Hall
Photos
of the event
Jonathan
Fox
“Mexico's Right-to-Know Reforms: Testing the Transition”
Mexico’s
laws and official political discourse now emphasize transparency.
Citizens’ “right to know” is assumed
to encourage more accountable governance. In practice,
however, what difference have these reforms made so far,
and how do we know? This presentation will include a
conceptual discussion of the relationship between transparency
and accountability, a national overview of the reform
process, and a field report on a grassroots civil society
campaign to exercise information rights in the state
of Guerrero.
Jonathan
Fox is professor of Latin American and Latino Studies
at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His
most recent books include Accountability Politics:
Power and Voice in Rural Mexico (Oxford University
Press, 2007) and, as co-editor, Mexico's Right-to-Know
Reforms: Civil Society Perspectives (Fundar & Woodrow
Wilson Center, 2007). The latter book is fully online
in English and Spanish at www.fundar.org.mx.
Monday,
September 22, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
554 Barrows Hall
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
"Lacan in a Cage: Institutional Psychiatry
and the Ghosts of Montes de Oca, Argentina’s National
Mental Asylum for the Profoundly Mentally Disabled"
Nancy Scheper-Hughes is a professor in the Department
of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. She is best known for her
award-winning books Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics:
Mental Illness in Rural Ireland and Death
without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
Monday
September 22, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
160 Kroeber Hall
John Zarobell
"The Hybrid Sources of Frida Kahlo"
Frida Kahlo is an artist
who has long been known for her fascinating biography
and larger than life personality which she recorded in
a series of riveting self-portraits, currently on view
at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. John Zarobell will discuss the Mexican and European sources of
Kahlo’s painting in order analyze the extraordinary
power of her imagery.
John Zarobell is Coordinating Curator of “Frida Kahlo” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art.
Exhibit
website
Wednesday,
September 24, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
554 Barrows Hall
Kenton T. Wilkinson
“Porous Border: Spanish-Language
Television in the Mexico–U.S. Mediascape”
This
talk will examine the historical development of a vibrant
Mexico–U.S. mediascape
that matured during the zenith of broadcast television
and has grown more complex under the forces of free
trade, media conglomeration and convergence.
Kenton
T. Wilkinson is Regents Professor and director of
the Institute for Hispanic and International Communication
in the College of Mass Communications at Texas Tech
University. The co-editor of Mass Media and Free Trade: NAFTA
and the Cultural Industries (Texas, 1996), Wilkinson’s
most recent publications examine the relationship between
media opening and democratization in Mexico and the need
to include more diverse perspectives in international communication
research. He is currently working on a book about the historical
development of Spanish-language television in the United
States.
Thursday, September 25, 4:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room,
2334 Bowditch Street
Jean-Paul Faguet
“Decentralization
and Access to Social Services in Colombia”
Jean-Paul
Faguet will explore the empirical effects of decentralization
on access to public services in Colombia. In general,
decentralization has led to a shift in investment from
infrastructure to primary social services, leading
to improvements in enrollment rates at public schools
and in poor people’s access
to public health services. Notably, it was the behavior
of smaller, poorer, more rural municipalities that
drove these changes. This contradicts common claims that
local government is more corrupt, institutionally weak
and prone to interest-group capture than central government.
Jean-Paul Faguet is a visiting scholar at the Center
for Latin American Studies and an associate professor of
Political Economy of Development at the London School of
Economics, where he is also program director for Development
Management.
Monday,
September 29, 12:00 – 1:15
pm
554
Barrows Hall
Panel
Discussion on Film
Children
of the Amazon
In
the 1960s, the Brazilian government began work on the
BR- 364, the highway that would open up the Amazon.
Farmers, loggers and cattle ranchers descended on the
tropical forest with devastating consequences for indigenous
people and for the rubber-tappers who eked out a living
from the trees. The Amazon quickly became Brazil’s “Wild
West,” and violence became commonplace among
the factions competing for a livelihood. The panelists
will examine how the road changed the forest and local
communities and discuss efforts to protect land and
traditions.
Denise
Zmekhol is a film director and producer.
Elenira
Mendes is the daughter of late rainforest preservation
activist Chico Mendes.
Chief
AlmirSurui is a village chief who has worked to
protect Surui lands and culture.
Wednesday,
October 1, 7:00 pm
160
Kroeber Hall
David Bacon
“Illegal People: How Globalization
Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants”
Globalization uproots people in Latin America and Asia,
driving them to immigrate. At the same time, U.S. immigration
policy makes the labor of these displaced people a crime
in the United States. In his new book, Illegal People:
How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, David
Bacon examines the plight of migrants through interviews
and on-the-spot reporting from both impoverished communities
abroad and American immigrant workplaces and neighborhoods.
David Bacon is an award-winning labor journalist, photographer,
immigrant-rights activist and former labor organizer.
Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Labor Center, the Black
Alliance for Just Immigration, the East Bay Alliance for
a Sustainable Economy, the Oakland Institute and the Worker
Immigrant Rights Coalition.
Wednesday, October 1, 7:30 pm
Berkeley YWCA, 2600 Bancroft
Way
Symposium
“Bogotá: Lecciones de un Renacer”
Centered
on a keynote address by journalist and former mayor
of Bogotá, Enrique Peñalosa,
this symposium gives context to “Bogotá, el
Renacer de una Ciudad,” an exhibit showcasing the
city’s renaissance which will be on display in
108 Wurster Hall. Guest speakers include:
- Carolina
Barco, Ambassador
to the United States, Former Planning Director;
- Daniel
Bermudez, Architect,
Associate Professor of Architecture at the Universidad
de los Andes in Bogotá;
- Rachel
Berney, Assistant Professor
at the University of Southern California;
- Gerard
Martin, Former
director of the Colombia Program at Georgetown
University, Urban Consultant to Bogotá and
Medellín;
- Alexandra
Rojas, Former Deputy
Secretary of Finance; and
- Camilo
Santamaría, Architect
and City Planner.
This symposium will be in English. Co-sponsored
by the Departments of Architecture and City Planning,
the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, the
Program in the Design of Urban Places, the Berkeley-Stanford
CityGroup, the UC Transportation Center and
the Program in Global Metropolitan Studies.
For
more information about the symposium, its schedule and
to RSVP, see:
http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/events/conf/bogota2008
Friday,
October 3, 12:30 – 1:30 pm and 6:00 – 9:00
pm, 112 Wurster Hall
Saturday,
October 4, 9:30 am – 7:00
pm, 305 Wurster Hall
Barry Carr
“Pink,
Red or Tutti Frutti? Where Is Latin America Heading Politically?”
Is
Latin America turning to the left? In this talk, Barry
Carr looks at recent developments (in Venezuela, Bolivia,
Ecuador, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and
Paraguay) and assesses the significance of the so-called
Pink Tide, the emergence of new international actors
in Latin America and the challenge these developments
pose for the United States in what has traditionally
been a predictable political setting.
Barry
Carr taught at La Trobe University until early 2008
and served as the director of that university’s
Institute of Latin American Studies. He is currently
a visiting scholar at CLAS and is co-editing a book that
looks at recent developments in Latin America.
Monday,
October 13, 4:00 pm
554
Barrows Hall
Tinker
Summer Field Research Symposium
This symposium is a unique
opportunity to learn about the current research done by UC
Berkeley graduate students who spent last summer in Latin
America. Field research grants were provided by CLAS with
the generous support of the Tinker Foundation.
Schedule
of presentations-->
Wednesday-Thursday,
October 15-16, 1:00–3:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Discussion
“Underground Undergrads: A Teach-In on Immigrant
Students and Their Struggle to Create Political Change”
Find out about the growing student movement advocating
access to higher education for undocumented students. This
event will feature the authors of a new student publication, Underground
Undergrads: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students Speak
Out. In the book, eight undocumented immigrant students
tell personal stories of pain, financial hardship, emotional
distress and, ultimately, triumph. UC Berkeley students
and staff will also speak at the event, providing information
about the recent court case challenging AB 540, Cal organizations
that advocate for undocumented students’ rights and
how students can get involved in the struggle to create
political change.
Featured speakers include:
Joel Aguiar, Organizer with UC Berkeley
RISE
María Blanco, Executive Director,
Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute for Race, Diversity
and Ethnicity
Matias Ramos, UCLA graduate whose story
is featured in the book Underground Undergrads
Kent Wong, Director, UCLA Labor Center
Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research
and Education, Rising Immigrant Scholars Through Education
(RISE), Xinaxtli, the Center for Latino Policy Research
and the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute for Race, Diversity
and Ethnicity
Thursday, October 16, 6:00 pm
MLK Jr. Student Union (Bancroft
at Telegraph)
Tan Oak Room, 4th Floor
Beatriz
Manz
“Anthropologist as Witness: Spain’s
Guatemala Genocide Case”
In
the early 1980s, Guatemala’s human
rights abuses reached genocidal proportions. As an
anthropologist who studies Guatemalan society, Prof.
Manz has taken the position, controversial within the
profession, that public exposure of what took place
is the necessary and ethical path. She has provided
expert testimony before Congressional committees and
asylum judges, written opinion pieces for such papers
as The New York Times and The International Herald
Tribune and, more recently, provided expert testimony
before the National Court in Madrid, Spain, which is
considering genocide charges against several Guatemalan
military officers.
Beatriz
Manz is a professor of geography and ethnic
studies at UC Berkeley and has done extensive anthropological
fieldwork in Guatemala. Her book, Paradise in Ashes, chronicles
the devastation in the war-torn rainforest region of
northern Guatemala. Professor Manz will be
joined by Almudena Bernabeu, International
Attorney from the Center for Justice and Accountability,
one of the lawyers involved in the Spanish case.
Monday,
October 20, 12:00 – 1:15
pm
554 Barrows Hall
Children
of the Amazon
Directed by Denise Zmekhol (United States,
2008)
“Children
of the Amazon” follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise
Zmekhol as she travels deep into the Amazon in search
of the Indigenous Surui and Negarote children
she photographed 15 years ago. Part road movie, part
time travel, her journey tells the story of what happened
to life in the largest forest on earth when a road
was built straight through its heart.
“Beautifully
filmed and compassionately told, ‘Children of the
Amazon’ deftly uses the director’s relationship
with the children of three Amazonian communities to show
the history of the region as a whole.” — Victoria
Langland, UC Davis
Wednesday,
October 22, 7:00 pm
160 Kroeber Hall
Anne Firth Murray
“Issues in International Women’s
Health and Human Rights”
Anne
Firth Murray will provide an overview of international
women’s health issues presented in the context of
a woman’s life, beginning in infancy and moving through
to old age. Drawing from her recent book, From Outrage
to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice,
she will highlight critical issues such as: discrimination
against women; poverty; unequal access to education, food
and health care; and violence. Examples of women’s
groups addressing these issues will be provided.
Anne
Firth Murray has been teaching international women’s
health and human rights in the Human Biology program at
Stanford since 2001. A New Zealander, she is the Founding
President of the Global Fund for Women.
Thursday, October
23, 4:00 pm
554 Barrows Hall
Raquel
Rolnik
“Participatory Planning and Urban Reform in
Brazil: Limits and Possibilities”
Professor
at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University
of São Paulo. She was Director
of the Department of Planning of the city of São
Paulo (1989-1992) and National Secretary for Urban Programs
of the Brazilian Ministry of Cities (2003-2007) during
a time of massive reform towards participatory planning
processes in Brazilian cities. She is currently the United
Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing as a component
of the right to an adequate standard of living and on the
right to non-discrimination in this context.
Co-sponsored by Global Metropolitan Studies and the
Ph.D. Colloquium Series of the Department of City and Regional
Planning.
Thursday,
October 30, 5:00 7:00 pm
112 Wurster Hall
Marcelo Birmajer
The Author Discusses “A Closed Coffin”
Marcelo
Birmajer is one of South America’s most
prominent young writers. He has written over 20 books and
screenplays for some of Argentina’s most important
films including “Lost Embrace.” His unique
style, a combination of Latin machismo, self-irony and
Jewish humor has earned him the nickname “the
Woody Allen of the Pampas.”
This talk will be in Spanish.
Co-sponsored by the Judaica Collection of Doe Library.
Download
PDF - "A
cajón cerrado"
Wednesday, November 5, 12:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334
Bowditch Street
Lost
Embrace
Directed by Daniel Burman (Argentina, 2004)
Directionless
and unsatisfied, Ariel dreams of escaping a life
trapped behind the counter of his mother’s lingerie
store in a shabby Buenos Aires shopping mall. He is angling
to move to Poland, a land of opportunity to him but
also the place his Jewish grandmother fled during
World War II. Before he can convince her to hand over
the documents he needs to secure a Polish passport, his
long-lost father arrives on the scene bringing with him
the answers to Ariel’s questions about the past. 100
minutes. Spanish with English subtitles.
“A
film of unexpected, almost indescribable off-center
charm that deepens as it goes on.” — Kenneth
Turan, Los Angeles Times
Wednesday,
November 5, 7:00 pm
Please
note new location: 126 Barrows Hall
Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs
“On Bats, Rabies, Reporters and the Wrath of the State: Popular Power in
a Venezuelan Epidemic”
In
July of 2008, anthropologist Charles Briggs and public health physician Clara
Mantini-Briggs stumbled into an epidemic of an unknown, 100 percent fatal disease
in the Delta Amacuro rainforest of eastern Venezuela . Working closely with
pro-Chávez
indigenous leaders, they documented an outbreak of bat-borne rabies. The talk
charts encounters with a disease, racial inequality, international press coverage
and the hostility of a pro-poor, revolutionary state.
Charles
Briggs is the Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor in
Folklore and Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley.
Clara Mantini-Briggs, M.D. M.P.H., is an Associate Researcher
in the Department of Demography and is affiliated with
the Ph.D. Program in Medical Anthropology at UC Berkeley.
She is also the Director of Fundación para las Investigaciones
Aplicadas Orinoco.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
Monday,
November 10, 4:00 pm
160 Kroeber Hall
Linda
and Loretta Sánchez
“A
Conversation with the Sánchez Sisters”
With
her 2002 election, Linda Sánchez
joined her sister Loretta in the U.S. Congress, and the
two became the first women of any relation to serve together
in the House of Representatives. They recently coauthored
a joint autobiography, Dream in Color.
Introduction by Beatriz
Manz, Professor and Chair of Ethnic
Studies at UC Berkeley.
Wednesday, November 12, 5:30–7:00 pm
Gaia Arts Center, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley
Kent Eaton
"Power to the Left, Autonomy for the Right?:
Territorial Conflict in Bolivia and Ecuador"
As
in much of Latin America, leftist governments in Bolivia
and Ecuador have come to power at the national level
recently. Unlike other countries in the region, however,
conservative autonomy movements have also gathered
strength. A number of questions emerge from these twin
developments. First, are these really “movements,” how are they “conservative” and
what do they mean by “autonomy”? Second,
why have they emerged in Bolivia and Ecuador and not
elsewhere, and why have they emerged now and not earlier?
Finally, why has the movement in Santa Cruz ( Bolivia)
gathered far greater momentum than the equivalent movement
in Guayaquil ( Ecuador)?Kent Eaton is an Associate Professor
in the Politics Department at UC Santa Cruz and is currently
teaching a graduate seminar on Latin American politics
at UC Berkeley.
Monday, November 24, 4:00 pm
Location TBD
The
Judge and the General
Directed by Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco (United States, 2008)When
Chilean judge Juan Guzmán was assigned the first
criminal case against the country’s ex-dictator,
General Augusto Pinochet, no one expected much. After
all, the conservative judge had supported Pinochet and
believed the general’s version of events: that
the tales of mass murder and systematic violations of
human rights were mostly Communist propaganda and any
excesses committed by the military were the unfortunate
consequences of a dire struggle. The filmmakers trace
the judge’s descent into what he calls “the
abyss,” where he uncovers the past and his own
role in the tragedy. 84 minutes.English and Spanish
with subtitles. Director Elizabeth
Farnsworth will answer questions following
the film. “See
the movie if you get a chance, even just for a break
from the cynicism of everyday life.” — Phil
Bronstein, San Francisco Chronicle Co-sponsored
with the Human Rights Center.
Monday,
December 1, 7:00 pm
Pacific Film Archive Theater
Linha
de Passe
Directed by Walter Salles (Brazil, 2008)In
the heart of São Paulo, one of the toughest,
most chaotic cities in the world, four fatherless brothers
struggle to earn respect and reales without
turning to crime. “Linha De Passe” explores
how the brothers — like the vast majority of young
Brazilian men — instead seek refuge in soccer,
religion or familial connections. The title, a Brazilian
soccer term for players passing the ball from one to
another without letting it touch the ground, poetically
evokes both the structure of the film and the boys’ efforts
to stay in the game. 108 minutes. Portuguese with
English subtitles.Walter
Salles, the award-winning director of “Central
Station,” “Midnight,” and “The
Motorcycle Diaries,” will be on hand to discuss “Linha
de Passe,” as well as “On the Road,” an
upcoming film currently in production.
Date:
TBD
Location: TBD
