CLAS Events > Spring Quarter 2004-05 Calendar

Bolívar House Lecture Series - Special Location

"Americas Plural - Old Wine in a New Bottle?"

JAMES DUNKERLEY, Professor of Politics and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London

Introduced by ALBERTO DIAZ-CAYEROS, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

Professor Dunkerley received his DPhil from Oxford University. He specialises in Latin American politics and modern history. He is the author of The Long War: Dictatorship and Revolution in El Salvador (1982), Rebellion in the Veins: Political Struggle in Bolivia, 1952-1982 (1984), Power in the Isthmus: a Political History of Modern Central America (1988), Origenes del Poder Militar: Historia del Ejercito Boliviano (1988), Political Suicide in Latin America (1992), The Pacification of Central America (1994), and Americana: The Americas in the World Around 1850 (2000). He has also edited two books: Brazil Since 1985 Economy, Polity and Society (2003) and Studies in the Formation of the Nation-State in Latin America (2002).

Bolívar House Lecture Series - Special Day

"Human Rights and the School of the Americas: Talking the Talk"

LESLEY GILL, Associate Professor of Anthropology, American University

Lesley Gill is a cultural anthropologist who has conducted extensive research in Bolivia and Latin America. Her books include Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class and Domestic Service in Bolivia (Columbia University Press, 1994) and Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State (Columbia University Press, 2000).

Bolívar House Film Screening

Los Afroargentinos

A film which unearths the hidden history of black people in Argentina and their contributions to Argentine culture and society, from the slaves who fought in the revolutionary wars against Spain, to the contemporary struggles of black Argentines against racism and marginalization. It provides a counternarrative to the national myth of Argentina's exclusively European heritage. In Spanish with English subtitles.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"The Concept of Coreo-Drama within Mexican Ballet Folclórico"

SUSAN CASHION, Senior Lecturer of Dance, Stanford University

In the l950s, Mexico City birthed a new concept of concert dance. Amalia Hernández combined Mexican folkloric dance with North American modern dance and created El Ballet Folclórico de México. Simultaneously in Guadalajara, choreographic narratives were being embedded into the performance dances of the son mariachi. By the end of the l960s, a full-blown coreo-drama was created by master choreographer, Rafael Zamarripa, of the Universidad de Guadalajara. Susan Cashion will track the development of the coreo-drama in Mexico and speculate on its inclusion within Chicano dance groups in the United States.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"After Default: Legal, Political and Economic Institutions in Kirchner´s Argentina"

MARCELO ALEGRE, Visiting Scholar, Latin American Studies, Stanford University

Marcelo Alegre received his J.S.D. from New York University. He is a professor of law and philosophy at the Universities of Buenos Aires and Palermo, and a visiting professor at the Universidad de Chile. Professor Alegre has worked for former President Alfonsín on institutional reforms, and took part in the drafting of the Constitution of 1994. He has published several articles and co-authored books on human rights, constitutional law, and moral and political philosophy.

CLAS Working Group on Latin America and the Environment

"Report on the MAPDER Conference: Forum of Communities Affected by Dams"

ROSA VALDEZ and KAROLO APARICIO, Founders of CASA Salvemos Nuestros Pueblos

CASA Salvemos Nuestros Pueblos is a grassroots organization working in solidarity with people whose towns are threatened by the construction of a dam in the west Mexican state of Jalisco.

Rosa Valdez is a first generation Mexican-American artist with a background in photography and community activism. She directed the College for Kids, Metas and the Tech Prep Multimedia Programs, all youth-based projects at Contra Costa Community College which serve students in the West Contra Costa Unified School District.

Karolo Aparicio worked as the Latin America Program Coordinator for the international human rights organization Global Exchange where he organized educational travel seminars and electoral monitoring and fact-finding delegations to nine Latin American and Caribbean countries including Brazil, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Currently, he works for the environmental education and advocacy non-profit Save The Bay, headquartered in Oakland, California, where he resides.

Bolívar House Lecture Series - Special Day

"Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900"

CARLOS FORMENT, Centro de Investigacion y Documentacion de la Vida Publica, Buenos Aires

Carlos A. Forment is author of Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900: Volume 1, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru, (2003) published by University of Chicago Press. His aim in this highly ambitious work is to write the book that Tocqueville would have written had he traveled to Latin America instead of the United States. Drawing on an astonishing level of research, Forment pored over countless newspapers, partisan pamphlets, tabloids, journals, private letters, and travelogues to show in this study how citizens of Latin America established strong democratic traditions in their countries through the practice of democracy in their everyday lives.

CLAS Working Group on Law & Policy in Latin America

"The Conceptions of Rights in Latin America"

ANGEL OQUENDO, Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut, and Visiting Professor at U.C. Berkeley (Boalt Hall)

Discussant: LAWRENCE M. FRIEDMAN, Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

At U.C. Berkeley, Angel Oquendo is teaching Civil Procedure, International Human Rights and Latin American Law. After graduating from Yale Law School, Oquendo clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Oquendo has been a visiting professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2001-02), the Free University of Berlin (1998-99) and the University of Aix-en-Provence (1998). Oquendo's publications and research focus on self-determination, comparative corporate law, Latin American law, jurisprudence, moral and political philosophy, international dispute resolution, and critical race theory. He published the book Democracia y Pluralismo (2004) and has written numerous articles, including Liking to be in America: Puerto Rico's Quest for Difference within the United States in the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law (2003) and Deliberative Democracy in Habermas and Nino in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2002). Oquendo is a member of the bar in Connecticut and Puerto Rico. Lunch will be provided.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"Witnesses from the Grave: The Work of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team"

ERIC STOVER, Director of Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley

In the early 1990s, Stover and British deminer Rae McGrath conducted the first research on the social and medical consequences of land mines in Cambodia and other post-war countries. During the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, he served on several medicolegal investigations as an "Expert on Mission" to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. He conducted a survey of mass graves throughout Rwanda for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1995. His books include Breaking of Bodies and Minds: Torture, Psychiatric Abuse, and the Health Professions (with Elena O. Nightingale); Witness from the Grave: The Stories Bones Tell (with Christopher Joyce); The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar (with Gilles Peress); and A Village Destroyed, May 14, 1999: War Crimes in Kosovo (with Fred Abrahams and Gilles Peress). Stover is now conducting a study of witnesses who have testified before the ICTY. He will introduce the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) photo exhibit on display at Bolívar House and discuss his work with EAAF.

Taste of Latin America Cooking Demonstration

Picadillo

STEPHANIE EARLY, CLAS Student Administrative Assistant and MOLLY VITORTE, CLAS Associate Director

Ms. Early and Dr. Vitorte will instruct participants in the preparation of the Cuban dish picadillo. Bring your appetites; CLAS will provide beverages.

**Please email megorman@stanford.edu by Wednesday, 20 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 - Special Day

"Longitudinal Study in the Bolivian Amazon: How to Organize a Long-Term Study in Cultural-Biological Anthropology"

RICARDO GODOY, Professor, Sustainable International Development Program, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Introduced by BILL DURHAM, Bing Professor of Human Biology, Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University

Ricardo Godoy is an anthropologist trained at Columbia University (PhD 1983). He has done research in Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Bolivia, and Indonesia. The focus of his work has been in Bolivia, where he has worked since the late 1970s, first on mining and agricultural research, and subsequently on the effect of markets on human welfare and conservation. Since the early 1990s he has been doing research on the effect of markets among indigenous people in Central America and in the Bolivian lowlands. His most recent book is Indians, Markets, and Rainforests: Theory, Methods, Analysis (Columbia University).

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"Creating a World Market: European Consumption of Extra-European Products"

MARCELLO CARMAGNANI, Professor of History, University of Turin and the Colegio de Mexico

Professor Carmagnani received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris in 1969. He specializes in the history of Latin America, particularly Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Brazil. His recent publications include El otro occidente: América Latina de la invasión europea a la globalización (2003) and Los mecanismos de la vida económica en una sociedad colonial: Chile, 1680-1830 (2001).

Bolívar House Lecture Series - Special Day and Location

"Chile's Educational Policies in the Last Quarter of a Century: Lessons on Markets, the State, and Educational Reform"

CRISTIAN COX, Visiting Tinker Professor, Latin American Studies, Stanford University

Introduced by MARTIN CARNOY, Professor of Education, Stanford University

Dr. Cox is the highest ranking civil servant in the Chilean Ministry of Education. He has headed the reform effort in Chile for the past thirteen years. He is currently on leave from his position as head of the Curriculum and Evaluation unit, where he has been the driving force behind a number of major changes in Chilean education in the democratic period. Cox earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of London.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"Popular Mobilization and the State in Bolivia Today"

HERBERT S. KLEIN, Director, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University

Professor Klein specializes in Latin American history. He is the author of some 17 books and 145 articles in several languages on Latin America and on comparative themes in social and economic history. He has written four books on Bolivian history, most recently A Concise History of Bolivia (2003) and Haciendas and Ayllus: Rural Society in the Bolivian Andes in the 18th and 19th Centuries (1993). He has just returned from a research trip to La Paz.

Bolívar House Film Screening

Los Rubios

Introduced by JORGE RUFFINELLI, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University

Albertina Carri's film The Blonds looks at Argentina's recent history from the perspective of a generation forced to mourn those of whom they have no recollection. In Spanish.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"Incas and Intruders: The (il)legitimation of indigenous authority in late colonial Cusco"

DAVID GARRETT, Assistant Professor of History and Humanities, Reed College

David T. Garrett is Associate Professor of History and Humanities at Reed College. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University (2002) under Herbert Klein; his M.A. from Harvard (1991); and his B.A. from Yale (1988). His research examines stratification and authority in indigenous, colonial Andean society, with a focus on the Indian nobility. He has published articles in Hispanic American Historical Review and Revista Andina; his book, Shadows of Empire: The Indian Nobility of Cusco, 1750-1825 will be published by Cambridge University Press in fall 2005.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"The Nsanda Tree Transplanted: Kongo Cults of Affliction and Slave Identity in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo"

ROBERT W. SLENES, Professor of History, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

Professor Slenes received his Ph.D. from Stanford's Department of History. He specializes in African slavery in 19th century Brazil. He is the author of Na senzala, uma flor: Esperanças e recordações na formação da família escrava (Nova Fronteira, 1999).

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"Two Complementary Visions of Latin American Development"

ARMANDO DI FILIPPO, Tinker Visiting Professor, Latin American Studies, Stanford University

Armando Di Filippo is a professor at the Universidad Jesuita Alberto Hurtado de Chile and has taught for Stanford in Santiago since winter 1999. He is an economist devoted to the study of the economic and social development of Latin America and the author of two books. Di Filippo has been a researcher and adviser to the United Nations for thirty years. He is currently a Tinker Visiting Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies. In this talk, he will build a bridge between two versions of institutional economics, and discuss the complementary nature of Douglass North and Raul Prebisch’s seminal works.

CLAS Co-Sponsored Film Screening

Señorita Extraviada (Missing Young Woman)

Directed and produced by Lourdes Portillo, Señorita Extraviada (Missing Young Woman) is a documentary that tells the story of the hundreds of kidnapped, raped and murdered young women of Juárez, Mexico. The murders first came to light in 1993 and young women continue to "disappear" to this day without any hope of bringing the perpetrators to justice. There will be a Q&A with Lourdes Portillo after the film. Dessert will be served after the film, but before the Q&A begins.

Taste of Latin America Cooking Demonstration

Salvadoran-Style Brunch

MEGAN GORMAN, CLAS Program Coordinator, and KAILA RODRIGUEZ, CLAS Academic and Administrative Associate

Ms. Gorman and Mrs. Rodriguez will instruct participants in the preparation of a Salvadoran-style brunch of plátanos, frijoles, crema, and queso fresco. Bring your appetites; CLAS will provide beverages.

**Please email megorman@stanford.edu by Wednesday, 18 May if you wish to attend the class. We encourage participants to chip in one or two dollars to offset the cost of ingredients.

CLAS Co-Sponsored Event

"Policymaking under Globalization Pressures: Reforming Public Utilities in Latin America"

VICTORIA MURILLO, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science/School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Professor Murillo received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1997. She is the author of Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, Comparative Politics Series, 2001). This event is co-sponsored with Stanford's Department of Political Science. For those interested the paper is available at http://comparativepolitics.stanford.edu/.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"¿Existe un nuevo cine uruguayo?"

JORGE RUFFINELLI, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University

Professor Ruffinelli is a noted scholar of Latin American cinema whose projects include a comprehensive encyclopedia of Latin American film and a forthcoming book on Uruguayan cinema. This lecture will be given in Spanish.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"The Political Economy of Factionalism in the PRI in Mexico"

FEDERICO ESTEVEZ, Professor of Political Science, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)

Professor Estevez conducted Ph.D. work at UCLA where he earned two master's degrees in Political Science and Latin American Studies. He received his B.A. from Stanford. He specializes in parties, elections, and public opinion in Mexico, and distributive politics.

In this talk, he will discuss the recent evolution of events in the presidential race in Mexico and analyze the following question: After suffering severe erosion from electoral competition and internal splits, do formerly hegemonic parties shrink into cohesive groups tied to still loyal supporters or do they manifest the cleavages that hegemony always managed to dampen? Estevez's study of Mexico's PRI, in its openly competitive era, reveals a rift in its still potent electoral base between state-driven and market-driven developmental strategies.

CLAS Honors Thesis Presentations

10:30 - 11:00 AM, "Decentralization and Implications for NGOs in Sexual and Reproductive Health," Lauren Rodriguez.

11:00 - 11:30 AM, "Cuba's Son: The Elián González Case and the Complexity of U.S.-Cuba Storytelling," Stephanie Early.

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM, "The Struggle for Gay Unions: A Comparative Study of Chile and Argentina," John Yandell.

1:00 - 1:30 PM, "Land, Credit, Identity: The Politics of Microfinance in Argentina's Altiplano," Carly Schuster.

1:30 - 2:00 PM, "Yo tengo que luchar": Women in the Afro-Ecuadorian Civil Rights Movement, Rubi Vaughn.

2:00 - 2:30 PM, "Public-Private Collaborations Providing Health and Social Services in Rural Peru: A Case Study in Pucallpa," Dana Hornbeak.

2:30 - 3:00 PM, "Colombian Refugee Women in Ecuador: Policy Recommendations," Kelly Wells.

Refreshments will be served.