CLAS Events > Fall Quarter 2004-05 Calendar

Bolívar House Lecture Series

The Digital Divide and Challenges of Increasing Digital Inclusion in Mexico

KAREN COPPOCK, Visiting Scholar, Ph. D. Candidate, Tufts University

Karen Coppock researches corporate strategy and economic development. She will discuss her doctoral research on the challenges of increasing digital inclusion, or Internet usage, in Mexico. She will present the private, public and non-profit sector perspectives on the issue. Coppock has extensive academic and practical experience in this area--she has designed and executed market expansion strategies for multi-national firms across Latin America, worked in grassroots economic development in Guatemala and Uruguay, and conducted market research on the high-tech industry in Latin America for her doctoral dissertation, Harvard University and private sector firms.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

Races, Crowds and Souls in Brazilian Social Thought: Why Brazilian Intellectuals Wrote So Much about Popular Religion, 1880-1920

DAIN BORGES, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago

Introduced by ZEPHYR FRANK, Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University

Dain Borges (Stanford MA LAS 1978, PhD History 1986) is author of The Family in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1945 and editor of a new translation of Machado de Assis, Esau and Jacob. His research on Brazilian intellectuals, the new social and psychological sciences of the turn of the century, and religious pluralism has led him to reinterpret authors such as Euclides da Cunha, Nina Rodrigues, Machado de Assis, Joo do Rio, and Lima Barreto.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

Democratic Change and Human Rights in Mexico

MARICLAIRE ACOSTA URQUIDI, Center for Justice and International Law and Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley

Ms. Acosta recently served two years as the special ambassador for human rights and democracy of Mexico. Before that, she was president of the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights. She was formerly secretary general and founding member of the Mexican Academy of Human Rights, and chairman of the Sociology department at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). She has extensively written and spoken on human rights and social and political issues.

Bolívar House Lecture Series - Event Cancelled

Ancient Maya

JAMES A. FOX, Associate Professor of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University

Former Director of CLAS, Dr. Fox teaches courses on historical linguistics, language, and prehistory; linguistic anthropology; Mesoamerican anthropology; mythology; and major American Indian languages. He is currently writing a comparative Mayan etymological dictionary and a general introduction to Mayan historical linguistics. His talk will be included in a series of events related to the current exhibit The Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya at the Fine Arts Museum at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.

Bolívar House Lecture Series-Special Day!

People, Peccaries, and Paca: The Making of a Human Ecosystem in the Amazon

V. CONSTANZA OCAMPO-RAEDER, Lang Post Doctoral Fellow in Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University

While conducting research in the Peruvian Amazon for 28 months for her dissertation fieldwork, Ocampo-Raeder worked with the Ese eja people, who live in southeastern Peru. Her research evaluated human resource management impacts on rainforest dynamics.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

Urban Tapestry: Mapping Rio de Janeiro, 1840-1890

ZEPHYR FRANK, Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University

Zephyr Frank, (PhD Illinois 1999) has been with Stanford since the year 2000. He is also an affiliate of the American Historical Association, Economic History Association, Business History Association, and Economic History Society. Professor Frank will lecture about his recent research project involving the use of GIS mapping techniques in the analysis of Rio de Janeiro's urban history.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

The Argentine Economy Today

FEDERICO STURZENEGGER, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Business School

Introduced by STEPHEN HABER, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

Sturzenegger is Dean of the Business School at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, one of the leading universities in Argentina. He has held this position since 1998, with the exception of 2001 when he left the deanship to become Secretary of Economic Policy. In a year when all efforts were geared to save Argentina from an impending financial crisis, Sturzenegger was responsible for the design of debt, fiscal and exchange rate policy, and negotiated the controversial August 2001 package with the IMF. His policy experience was shared in his best-seller La Economía de los Argentinos, written in 2002.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

The Rise of Illiberal Democracy in Latin America

PETER SMITH, Professor of Political Science and Simon Bolivar Professor of Latin American Studies, University of California at San Diego

Introduced by ZEPHYR FRANK, Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University

Professor Smith specializes in comparative politics, Latin American politics, and U.S.-Latin American relations. He served as Director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies at UCSD until 2001. His lecture will be drawn from his forthcoming book, Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2005).

Bolívar House Lecture Series

Please note that CLAS will not hold a lecture this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday

Bolívar House Lecture Series

The Juntas of Good Government: Zapatista Initiatives and Retrenchment in Chiapas."

GEORGE COLLIER, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Stanford University

George Collier, former Director of CLAS and former Chair of the Department of Anthropology, has worked in Chiapas as an anthropologist since 1960. He is author of Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas (Food First Books, 1994, 1999). His talk reflects upon recent redirections of the Zapatista autonomy movement in Chiapas.