CLAS Events > Spring Quarter 2003-04 Calendar

Taste of Latin America Cooking Demonstration

Asadito

PROFESSOR MARCELO ALEGRE, CLAS Visiting Scholar

Dr. Alegre, a native of Argentina, will instruct participants in the preparation of an "asadito." Bring your appetites; CLAS will provide beverages!

**Please email Caroline.Schultz@stanford.edu by Wednesday, 31 March if you wish to attend the class. We encourage participants to chip in one or two dollars to offset the cost of ingredients.

Bolívar House Lecture Series--Special Day!

Brazil's Abolition Law of 1871: A Struggle Over Freedom, A Struggle Over the State

PROFESSOR JEFFREY NEEDELL, Professor Of History, University of Florida

Dr. Needell received his Ph.D. under the guidance of Professor Richard Morse at Stanford. He is a leading authority on nineteenth-century Brazilian culture and politics.

Film Screening

My Mountain

A Film by MARIE-JO MONT-REYNAUD, Student in Stanford's Department of Political Science

Ms. Mont-Reynaud will be on hand to introduce and answer questions about the documentary film she created while in Haiti. CLAS is screening the film in conjunction with an exhibit of Ms. Mont-Reynaud's photography entitled Deye mon, gen mon--Beyond Mountains, More Mountains: A Photocumentary of Rural Haiti Today. Ms. Mont-Reynaud has spent the past three summers in Haiti. Her photographs will be on display at CLAS during the Spring Quarter.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

From Amores Perros to 21 Grams: Alejandro González Iñárritu and the Question of Mexican Cinema

PROFESSOR PAUL JULIAN SMITH, Visiting Professor in Stanford's Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Dr. Smith is on leave from his position as Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge. He specializes in the study of Hispanic literature and culture from the 15th century to the present, focusing particularly on Spanish and Mexican cinema. Dr. Smith is the author of the book Amores Perros in the Modern Classics series, published in 2003 by the British Film Institute and the University of California Press.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

The Biodiversity Virtual Institute: A Brazilian Model for Biodiversity Conservation

CARLOS JOLY, Professor of Biology at Brazil's UNICAMP

Dr. Joly, a colleague of Tinker Visiting Professor Luiz Martinelli, will speak about biodiversity in Brazil.

Taste of Latin America Cooking Demonstration

Muqueca

PROFESSOR LUIZ MARTINELLI, CLAS Tinker Visiting Professor

In addition to being an agronomist and expert in biogeochemical processes of the Brazilian Amazon, Professor Martinelli is a trained chef. He will be sharing his recipe and technique for cooking the Brazilian seafood dish muqueca.

**Please email Caroline.Schultz@stanford.edu by Wednesday, 21 April, if you wish to attend the class. We encourage participants to chip in one or two dollars to offset the cost of ingredients.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

Brazilian Foreign Policy

CONSUL GEORGES LAMAZIERE, Consul General of Brazil

Consul Lamazière has been the Consul General at the Consulate of Brazil in San Francisco since 2002. Consul Lamazière's career has included posts at the Brazilian embassies in Bolivia, France, and Mexico, and participation in United Nations delegations in Geneva.

Special Annual Event

Journalism in Latin America: Writing the Rules of the Game

The First Annual Clara Inés Rueda Memorial Lecture

PABLO ROSENDO GONZALEZ, Knight Fellow

The first of its kind, this annual lecture will honor the memory of former Knight Fellow Clara Inés Rueda, business editor of El Tiempo newspaper in Bogota, Colombia. Ms. Rueda was killed by police in Colombia in 2003. Sr. Gonzalez is a fellow in this year's Knight Fellows program, and is a special projects editor at Capital Intelectual S.A. in Buenos Aires.

Film Screening

On the Fringes

Westchester County, New York's immigrant subculture speaks out in this documentary film. Men and women from Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, and Guatemala work as day laborers, nannies, housekeepers, and landscapers, legally and illegally serving wealthy New York suburbanites. They tell their stories in their own words.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

THE AMERICAN WAY: Latin American Lawyers in U.S. Law Schools

MARTA VIDES, JD, MDiv, PhD, Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School,
MANUEL GOMEZ, JSM, JSD Candidate, Stanford Law School.
LUIS PEREZ HURTADO, JSM, JSD Candidate, Stanford Law School

The speakers will share preliminary results of an ongoing research project regarding Latin American Lawyers in U.S. Law Schools. Their project focuses on why there are so many Latin American lawyers, pursuing graduate legal studies in the U.S and also what is the rationale that has driven U.S. law schools to attract foreign lawyers as Masters' students.

Special Event:

Pablo Neruda Centennial Celebration: A Reading and Film Excerpt

Please join CLAS and alum Mark Eisner to celebrate the culmination of the Pablo Neruda Centennial Project. Mr. Eisner will read from his newly-released book of Neruda poetry translations and show an excerpt from the accompanying documentary film about Neruda's life.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

Title to Be Announced

PROFESSOR RICHARD ROSA, Assistant Professor in Stanford's Department of Spanish and Portuguese

CLAS Celebrates!

Center for Latin American Studies Annual Spring Fiesta!

We invite all of our friends to join the CLAS community to celebrate the year with us at our annual spring fiesta with dance performances by Grupo Folklórico los Decanos, Latin dance lessons, Latin American food, music, and more!

Taste of Latin America Cooking Demonstration

Ceviche and Chicheme

KAILA JIMENEZ-RODRIGUEZ, CLAS Staff

Ms. Jiménez-Rodríguez, a native of Panama, will demonstrate her technique for making ceviche and a corn-based Panamanian beverage called chicheme.

**Please email Caroline.Schultz@stanford.edu by Wednesday, 19 May, if you wish to attend the class. We encourage participants to chip in one or two dollars to offset the cost of ingredients.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

Articulations between Provincial, National, and International Intelligentsias in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Mexico: The Case of Cuban Exiles and their Presence in Yucatán during the Mexican Revolution (1890-1953)

FERNANDO ARMSTRONG-FUMERO, Doctoral Student in Stanford's Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology and PROFESSOR CARLOS BOJORQUEZ URZAIZ, Professor at Universidad Autónoma de México

Mr. Armstrong-Fumero and Professor Bojorquez will be speaking on their collaborative research into the relationship between regional intelligentsias and broader national and international networks of scholarship. Carlos Bojorquez Urzaiz is a professor in the Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. His research focuses on Cuban exiles in Mexico in the nineteenth century. Fernando Armstrong-Fumero is a fourth year Ph.D. student in CASA. His dissertation research focuses on the diffusion of elements of social science discourse into everyday speech in twentieth-century Yucatán.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

The Japanese in Latin America

PROFESSOR DANIEL MASTERSON, Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy

Dr. Masterson, a scholar of Japanese immigrants in Latin America, will be speaking about his book, The Japanese in Latin America.

Taste of Latin America Cooking Demonstration

Brazilian Stroganoff

ERIEM CRISTINA SOUZA, CLAS Staff

Ms. Souza, a native Brazilian, will demonstrate how to make stroganoff--Brazilian style.

**Please email Caroline.Schultz@stanford.edu by Wednesday, 2 June, if you wish to attend the class. We encourage participants to chip in one or two dollars to offset the cost of ingredients.