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Tuesday, November 10

The Expansion of MERCOSUR: Special Approach in the Case of Venezuela

Adriana Dreyzin de Klor, Professor of Integration Law, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina)

12:15-1:05 pm
Bolivar House, 582 Alvarado Row

Venezuela has asked to be incorporated as a full member of MERCOSUR, the Southern Cone integration process. But, MERCOSUR has special clauses for those who desire to be part of the process. Is Venezuela in a condition to be incorporated into the MERCOSUR? The conditions are written as legal rules and include respect for democratic rights which are enumerated in the Asuncion Protocol. In addition, all four member states of MERCOSUR must agree to Venezuela's membership request. To date, two of these countries (i.e., Brazil and Paraguay) have not yet done so. I will provide an analysis of the legal conditions and the reasons why these two countries have not yet moved to include Venezuela as a full member of MERCOSUR.

Adriana Dreyzin is Professor of Integration Law at the National University of Córdoba in Argentina. She is the author of numerous academic books and papers and has been a Visiting Professor at Complutense University, Madrid; UNAM, Mexico D.F.; UFSC, Brasil; National University of Chile, Santiago; Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg; and UNIDROIT Italia. Ex Legal Consultant of the MERCOSUR Secretariat in Montevideo, she is a current member of the list of arbitrators of MERCOSUR and was a delegate at the UNCITRAL Working Group on Mediation & Arbitration, New York, 2009.

You are invited to bring your own "brown bag" lunch. In keeping with the Bolivar House cafecito tradition, hot coffee is provided beginning at 11:45 am. Lecture/q&a runs from 12:15-1:05 pm.

Wednesday, November 11

Spies and Gossip in the Forest: Children's Role in Mediating Resource Management Activities in an Amazonian Society

V. Constanza Ocampo-Raeder, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Maine

12:00-1:00 pm
Bolivar House, 582 Alvarado Row

Indigenous people around the world have experienced a change in land and resource availability due to policies that limit access to traditional territories. In response they are having to develop new or reconfigure old resource management systems to deal with changing environmental and social conditions. Although studies have uncovered intricate cultural arrangements that are implemented by a population to mitigate impacts, children are a sector of the population that has largely been overlooked. My research shows that in fact children play an important role in mediating relationships around resource management activities. In this lecture I examine children’s activities as a critical mechanism in influencing social networks and resource use within communities. Stemming from over 28 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Ese eja people of southeastern Peru, I show the manner in which children’s participation in monitoring resource use (spying) and communicating this information (gossip) to their kin plays an important role in the equitable use of resources in a community, especially as resource availability decreases.

Dr. Ocampo-Raeder’s primary research focuses on uncovering human signatures in the forest through the analysis of indigenous resource management strategies. More specifically, her work with the Ese eja people of the southeastern Peruvian Amazon, spanning over 10 years of ethnographic fieldwork, shows how they have influenced their traditional territory (an area of about 1.5 million hectares) by creating a series of anthropogenic habitats that influence vegetation structure and wildlife resources. In addition to studying the human ecology of the Amazon, she also examines the applied dimension of this research such as implications to conservation and indigenous rights. Dr. Ocampo-Raeder obtained her doctorate in Anthropology from Stanford University and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department and Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine.

You are invited to bring your own "brown bag" lunch.

Thursday, November 12

'Waar Gwan': An Artist Talk on Caribbean Identity and Diaspora

Faisal Abdu'Allah

12:00-1:00 pm
Bolivar House, 582 Alvarado Row

Black British identity has been played out amongst UK academia for sometime with little response from the practitioner. 'Waar Gwan' is an honest Artist talk with cultural annotations illustrating my life through the lens in contemporary England. Referencing the Personal through the eyes of my family in 70’s London exposing the complex kaleidoscopic reception by the English which reached breaking point in 1958 with the race riots of Notting Hill. The race riots were to transform the streets of London forever, primarily in the realm of black consciousness.

The second element, that of Culture, will be illustrated through my arts practice and influences chronologically but also unpacking issues of displacement, assimilation, and identity, highlighting the complex differences that artists from the Caribbean have to constantly define or align themselves with.

You are invited to bring your own "brown bag" lunch.

Tuesday, November 17

Development in Brazil and Latin America: A Policy-Oriented Approach

Pedro Maciel, Former Manager of Fiscal Analysis, Brazilian Secretariat of the National Treasury

12:15-1:05 pm
Bolivar House, 582 Alvarado Row

Pedro presents the progress of his current research in Bolívar House. He is preparing a comparative study about fiscal policy and development in Brazil and Latin America. He is also analyzing how the Brazilian government should address policies based on good practices and experiences in Latin American public sector. In this lecture, he shows recent trends of the Brazilian economy, Latin American and Brazilian updated development indicators, the role of the public sector in the Brazilian development performance and case studies of federal government programs in education, social transferences and defense areas.

Pedro Maciel is the former Manager of Fiscal Analysis at the Brazilian Secretariat of the National Treasury - Ministry of Finance. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Brasilia. He is responsible for developing studies and policies regarding fiscal programs of the Brazilian Government. He has published articles about fiscal policy and economic growth in Brazil and has been awarded several national prizes for his research.

You are invited to bring your own "brown bag" lunch. In keeping with the Bolivar House cafecito tradition, hot coffee is provided beginning at 11:45 am. Lecture/q&a runs from 12:15-1:05 pm.

Wednesday, November 18

Reminiscences of Contemporary Portugal

Fernando Ferreira, Tinker Visiting Professor, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)

12:00-1:00 pm
Bolivar House, 582 Alvarado Row

A leading Portuguese specialist in logic, Fernando Ferreira holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Pennsylvania State University and is currently Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Lisbon and a corresponding member of the Academia das Ciencias de Lisboa. He has been a visiting fellow at Harvard and Stanford Universities and the University of Aarhus (Denmark) and given invited talks throughout Europe and in the United States. His book, Matemática Finita (with Carlos André), was published in 2000. Recently published articles by Ferreira include "The co-ordination principles: a problem for bilateralism" (Mind, 2008), "A most artistic package of a jumble of ideas" (Dialectica, 2008), and "The Riemann integral in weak systems of arithmetic" (with Gilda Ferreira, Journal of Universal Computer Science, 2008).

You are invited to bring your own "brown bag" lunch.

Tuesday, December 1

Mike Albertus, PhD Candidate in Political Science, Stanford

12:15-1:05 pm
Bolivar House, 582 Alvarado Row

You are invited to bring your own "brown bag" lunch. In keeping with the Bolivar House cafecito tradition, hot coffee is provided beginning at 11:45 am. Lecture/q&a runs from 12:15-1:05 pm.