CLAS Events > Fall Quarter 2006-07 Calendar

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"Campesino a Campesino, Voices from Latin America's Farmer to Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture"

ERIC HOLT-GIMENEZ, Executive Director, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy

Eric Holt-Gimenez is the author of Campesino a Campesino: Voices from Latin America’s Farmer to Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture which chronicles the development of this movement in Mexico and Central America over two and a half decades. Eric earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2002.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"Science Policy in Brazil"

RUY DE QUEIROZ, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Professor De Queiroz received his doctorate in computing science from Imperial College, University of London in 1990. He is the editor of several books and articles, including the book Logic for Concurrency and Synchronization (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003). He is executive editor of Logic Journal, published by Oxford University Press. De Queiroz was chairman of the Organizing Committee of WOLLIC'06 (Workshop on Logic, Language, Information, and Computation), held at Stanford in July 2006. He has been actively involved in the organization of these international WOLLIC meetings since 1994. In December, he was elected as a member of the Council for the Association of Symbolic Logic and will serve a three-year term from 2006 to the end of 2008. He was a Tinker Visiting Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies in 2005-06.

Bolívar House Film Series

The BoHo Film Series returns this week with a screening of Casa de Areia (2005).

"Three generations of women struggle to make lives for themselves and their families in the desert wastes of Northern Brazil in a drama from filmmaker Andrucha Waddington."

Introduction by JORGE RUFFINELLI, Professor of Spanish, Stanford University

Documentary and Talk on Resisting Oil Development in the Ecuadorian Amazon

PATRICIA GUALINGA, indigenous leader from the Kichwa community of Sarayaku

A showing of the award-winning documentary Soy Defensor de la Selva, filmed by Sarayaku community-member Eriberto Gualinga.  Followed by a conversation with leader Patricia Gualinga.

Patricia Gualinga has played a critical part in her community's successful efforts to keep oil extraction off their territories over the last ten years and thrust their struggle into the headlines of major media around the world.  Patricia continues to participate in shaping the legal strategies of Sarayaku's ground-breaking case currently pending before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of America States, relating to human rights abuses suffered by the community at the hands of the Ecuadorian military and oil company contractors. 

Sarayaku has garnered tremendous national and international attention for their strategic and effective efforts to defend their rights, territory, and culture in the face of unrelenting pressure from oil companies and the Ecuadorian military.  Within the Ecuadorian and broader Andean-Amazonian indigenous movement, the vision articulated by Sarayaku's leadership has been a source of inspiration and guidance for over 20 years. 

Cosponsored with the Department of Anthropological Sciences and the Stanford American Indian Organization.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"Comparing Growth in Mexico and the US in the 20th Century"

ENRIQUE HERNANDEZ LAOS, Visiting Scholar, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University

Introduced by CLARK REYNOLDS, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Food Research Institute, Stanford University

Enrique Hernandez Laos is Professor of Economics at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. He is currently a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores in Mexico. He is the author of more than 25 books and 60 specialized papers published on economic and social issues in Mexico and Latin America. His current research focuses on productivity growth performance of the Mexican economy and its effects on economic growth. Dr. Laos earned a degree in Economics from the Monterrey Institute of Technology, an MA in Economics at El Colegio de Mexico and a Ph.D. in Economics from the School of Social Studies at the University of East Anglia.

This talk will be given in Spanish.

"Justice for Women on the Border" - Special Talk by a Former Maquiladora Worker

VERONICA LEYVA, former maquiladora worker and longtime Juarez activist

For more than a decade, the cities of Juarez and Chihuahua have been the sites of over 400 unsolved, brutal murders of women.  This event will highlight the impact of neoliberal economic policies, drug trafficking, militarization, and the maquiladora sector of the femicides.  Often families of victims suffer threats and defamation by government officials for making one demand:

STOP THE FEMICIDES!!!!

Cosponsored with the Stanford Women's Community Center in conjunction with the Mexico Solidarity Newtork -  msn@mexicosolidarity.org

Cosponsored with the Cantor Arts Center

"Seventeeth-Century Religiosity among Indians and Spaniards in the Andes"

CLARA LOPEZ BELTRAN, art historian, Universidad Mayor de San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia

This lecture is part of a series of four talks organized around the exhibit The Virgin, Saints, and Angels: South American Paintings 1600-1825 from the Thoma Collection, on display September 20-December 31, 2006 in the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Lomita Drive at Museum Way.

Panel on Brazilian Elections

HERBERT KLEIN, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies

DORA PAIVA DA COSTA, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies

FABIOLA PUERTA, former journalist for Agence France Presse in Uruguay, Peru, and Brazil

RUY DE QUEIROZ, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil.

Drinks and light snacks provided.

"The Life of a Traveling Circus" - Exhibition, Lecture and Reception

NORMA I. QUINTANA, photographer

Exhibition Date: From now until December 15, 2006
Exhibition Time: Mon-Fri, 9:30-11:30am, 1:30-4:00pm
Exhibition Location: Bolívar House

Lecture Time: 3:00pm
Lecture Location: Cummings Art Building, Room ART 2

Reception Time: 5:00 - 7:00pm
Reception Location: Bolívar House

Norma Quintana is a Bay Area photographer and educator working in the tradition of social documentary. For CIRCUS, Quintana has spent nine years following and photographing the circus, earning the trust and respect of her subjects. The hauntingly beautiful black and white images capture the performers off stage, in contemplative or playful moments, proudly perfecting their craft.

The exhibition includes sixteen silver gelatin prints including striking new images taken in 2005. The work has recently returned from solo exhibitions in Pittsburgh, PA and Penn State University.

To view more of Norma Quintana’s work, visit: www.normaquintana.com.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"Teotihuacan: Venerable Beginnings and Fiery Ends"

IAN ROBERTSON, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropological Sciences

Ian Robertson earned his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2001. He is an archaeologist who specializes in the prehispanic cultures of Mesoamerica, particularly Central Mexico. He conducts most of his research at the ancient city of Teotihuacan, where he has most recently been investigating the nature of social variation in residential neighborhoods.

Cosponsored with the Cantor Arts Center

"Saints and Miracles in the New World, from Absence to Presence"

THOMAS CUMMINS, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art, Harvard University

This lecture is part of a series of four talks organized around the exhibit The Virgin, Saints, and Angels: South American Paintings 1600-1825 from the Thoma Collection, on display September 20-December 31, 2006 in the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Lomita Drive at Museum Way.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"Attention Deficits: Why Politicians Ignore Defense Policy in Latin America"

HAROLD TRINKUNAS, Visiting Scholar, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University

Harold Trinkunas is an Associate Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. His research and writing focuses on Latin American politics, particularly democratization and civil-military relations. He recently authored Crafting Civilian Control of the Military in Venezuela (University of North Carolina, 2005). He received a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University in 1999 after conducting extensive field research in Argentina and Venezuela. He also served as the field officer for the Carter Center electoral observation mission in Venezuela during the highly contested 1998 congressional and presidential elections.

Cosponsored with the Cantor Arts Center

"Imperial Spain and the Religious Origins of Ameridian Nationalism: The Case of Saint Rose of Lima"

RAMON MUJICA PINILLA, art historian, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru

This lecture is part of a series of four talks organized around the exhibit The Virgin, Saints, and Angels: South American Paintings 1600-1825 from the Thoma Collection, on display September 20-December 31, 2006 in the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Lomita Drive at Museum Way.

"Ethnic Relations in Brazil"

PETRONILHA GONÇALVES E SILVA, Professor of Ethnic Relations, University Federal de São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil

Dr. Petronilha Gonçalves e Silva was the first African-Brazilian to be appointed as one of the only 12 members of the Brazilian Chamber of Higher Education of the Brazilian Federal Council of Education, the most important Brazilian higher education governmental agency in Brazil. She served from 2002 to 2006, and was responsible, among other things, for the write-up of the important curricular policy Parecer CNE/CP 3/2004, that establishes the national guidelines for education of ethnic and racial relations and the teaching of African-Brazilian and African in Brazil.

Dr. Gonçalves e Silva earned her doctorate from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. She also studied at the Institute International de Planification de l'Éducation - UNESCO - Paris, France, and did post-doctoral studies at the University of South Africa in Pretoria. She is a professor of Education at the School of Education of the Universidade Federal de São Carlos/Brasil (UFSCar), where she is also a leading researcher in the Núcleo de Estudos Afro/Brasileiros. She has been a visiting professor at the University of South Africa (1996), and at the Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, in Cuernavaca, Mexico (2003). In the US she has been an active member of the International Research Group on Epystemology of African Roots and Education, established by Joyce King, Georgia Sate University, and developed USAID-sponsored research with Mwalimu Shujaa of Medgar Evers College in New York. She has lectured extensively in conferences and universities in the USA, France, Portugal, Chile, Peru, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Sénégal. She is the author of several books, chapters and articles, and a leading figure in racial relations studies in Brazil.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"The Will to Heal in the Novels of Latin American and Latina Women Authors"

FELICIA FAHEY, Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature, Bates College

Felicia Fahey's research focuses on exile, diaspora, nationality, and representations of identity in twentieth century Latin American narratives. Her most recent work examines new feminist identities in extra- and trans- national narrations by women writers in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and the United States. She earned a Ph.D. in Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies in 2000 from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"Does Money Whiten? Intergenerational Changes in Racial Classification in Brazil"

Luisa Schwartzman, Doctoral Candiate in Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Luisa Farah Schwartzman is a visiting scholar at the Stanford Center for Latin American Studies. She is currently writing her dissertation on the relationship between racial categories and social boundaries in Brazil. Before starting her Ph.D., Luisa received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and completed a master’s degree in Latin American studies at Stanford.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"Inequality, Human Development and Migration in Mexico"

LUIS F. LOPEZ-CALVA, Professor and Director, Master's Degree in Economics and Public Policy, Tec de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico City

Luis F. Lopez-Calva is also the director of the National Human Development Report, UNDP-Mexico. He has been Professor of Economics at the Universidad de las Américas (UDLA) in Puebla, and El Colegio de México. He is a member of the Mexican Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, the Official Committee for Poverty Measurement and the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Ministry of Social Development in Mexico. Professor Lopez-Calva holds a MA in Economics from Boston University and a Master's and Ph. D. in Economics from Cornell University. His research interests include child labor, poverty and inequality, institutional economics and development.

SPECIAL EVENT

"The Nicaraguan Election: Is Latin America Turning Left?"

Featuring:
Alejandro Toledo, former President of Peru
Shelley A. McConnell, Senior Associate Director of the Americas Program, The Carter Center
William Ratliff, Research Fellow and Curator, Latin and North American Collections, Hoover Institution

Co-sponsored by the Stanford Department of Political Science

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"Adorno and Paz: Towards a Comparative Critique of Modernity"

OLIVER KOZLAREK, Visiting Scholar, Center for Latin American Studies

Oliver Kozlarek is Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Morelia, Mexico. He was born in 1965 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. He received a doctorate in social sciences from Freie Universität Berlin (1997) and a doctorate in humanities from the Metropolitan Autonomous University Iztapalapa (2001). In Mexico, he has worked in the Department of Sociology of the UAM-Azcapotzalco, and the Department of Philosophy of the UAM-Iztapalapa. His research areas include: social philosophy and politics as well as of social theory. Specialization topics are: internationalization of the political and social thought, theories of the globalization, critical theory, theories of the modernity and sociological theory.

Cosponsored with the Cantor Arts Center

"Nobles and Outlaws: Living in Quito in the Eighteenth Century "

TAMAR HERZOG, Professor of History, Stanford University

This lecture is part of a series of four talks organized around the exhibit The Virgin, Saints, and Angels: South American Paintings 1600-1825 from the Thoma Collection, on display September 20-December 31, 2006 in the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Lomita Drive at Museum Way.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"Is Latin America Turning Left?"

TYLER BRIDGES, Miami Herald

Tyler Bridges is the Lima bureau chief for the Miami Herald. He has been at the paper since 1996. Tyler has been a member of two Pulitzer-prize winning teams at the Herald, in 1999 and 2001 (for investigative reporting and deadline reporting, respectively). In 1982, he graduated with a degree in political science from Stanford University, where he was a member of the Leland Stanford Junior University marching band. Tyler grew up in Palo Alto.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution"

MYRNA I. SANTIAGO, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Women's Studies Program, St. Mary's College, California

Myrna Santiago received her History PhD from UC Berkeley in 1997. She did her undergraduate degree at Princeton (Class of '82), and spent most of the eight years between her undergraduate degree and graduate school in Latin America. She was in Mexico for two years on a Fulbright, and she lived in Nicaragua for four years, while the Sandinistas were in power. She was doing human rights work there, specifically investigating violations of the laws of war. She has had work published in Environmental History and in Mexico. She is the author of The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938 (Cambridge University Press, 2006).