CLAS Events > Winter Quarter 2004-05 Calendar

Bolívar House Lecture Series - Special Day and Time

"Reconstructing Freedom: Manumission and Freedmen in the Parish of São José (Brazil), 1750-1850"

DOUGLAS LIBBY, Professor of History, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais-UFMG

Libby's work focuses on economic and social dimensions of slavery in Minas Gerais during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Professor Libby's current research is on view in his recent paper, "Reconstructing Freedom," which takes up the theme of manumission in the Rio das Mortes region of Minas Gerais.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

"Does Slavery Overdetermine the Social Order of Slave Societies?"

IAN WILLIAM READ, PhD Candidate, Stanford University

This talk will try to answer that question by looking closely at the port city of Santos during the Brazilian Empire. Ian Read is a Ph.D. candidate in the Stanford History Department writing his thesis titled "Slavery's Castes in Imperial Brazil." The research draws on methods from economics, sociology, geography and history.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

“Haiti After the Coup: Resistance and Repression”

SASHA KRAMER, PhD Candidate, Stanford University

Sasha Kramer is a graduate student in the Biological Sciences department at Stanford University. Kramer currently has her photo documentary of Haiti on display at Bolivar House. She will discuss the images and her experiences from her trip as a member of a human rights delegation to Haiti from August 8-26, 2004.

Bolívar House Lecture Series – Special Day

“Re-evaluation of the Mexican Caste System: Race in the 18th Century”

BEN VINSON III, Associate Professor of History, Penn State University

Professor Vinson is the author of Flight: The Story of Virgil Richardson, A Tuskegee Airman in Mexico (Palgrave, 2004) and Afromexico (with Bobby Vaughn). He is currently working on a second edition of Herbert S. Klein’s African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

“Two Types of Regional Integration in the Americas”

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

Armando Di Filippo is a former researcher and advisor at the Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL/UN). He will discuss two different types of regional integration processes that are unfolding in the Americas. The first one can be called market regional integration and the second can be called multidimensional regional integration. The Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) can be considered as an example of the first class. On the other hand, the Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR) can be considered as an example of the second type. The issue will be connected with the globalization process that is unfolding at a global level.

Bolívar House Lecture Series - Special Day

"Reconsidering the U.S. and the Caribbean in the Early Twentieth Century: New Perspectives on Social and Economic Transformations in Cuba and Puerto Rico"

LAIRD W. BERGAD, Professor of Latin American and Caribbean history, City University of New York

A member of CUNY's faculty since 1980, he has served as Director of Lehman College's interdisciplinary program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies since 1984, and on the Executive Committees of the CUNY/Cuba (Caribbean) Scholarly Exchange Program as well as on the CUNY-University of Puerto Rico Exchange. Professor Bergad's research interests have revolved around the social and economic history of slave-based plantation societies in the 18th and 19th centuries including Puerto Rico, Cuba and Brazil.

Bolívar House Film Series - Special Day

We Are the Indians

Directed by Philip Cox and Valeria Mapelman. Mr. Cox will introduce and answer questions about the documentary film. He is director of the London-based company Native Voice Films (www.nativevoicefilms.com).

Adultery, identity, 9/11, Hollywood and God, all against the backdrop of the rainforest. Argentina's last surviving Guarani Indians reveal some extraordinary stories in this independent four-year UK/Argentinean production. With its intimate style and compelling characters determined to speak for themselves, the film takes the viewer into a world rarely seen, where the death of a culture and a people's fall from God are matched by indelible humour and breathtaking resilience.

Bolívar House Lecture Series - Special Time and Location

"Mining, Economic Growth, and the Costs of Independence in Mexico"

RAFAEL DOBADO GONZÁLEZ, Professor of Economic History, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Rafael Dobado González received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1989 from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. He was a Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University in 1995 and 1999. In 2004 he was professor of Latin American economic history at Sciences-Po in France. His research interests include colonial and postcolonial Mexican economic history and Spanish regional economic history. He has published several journal articles and book chapters. His most recent publication is Corn Market Integration in Porfirian México, Journal of Economic History (2005). His most recent working paper, Geografía y desigualdades económicas y demográficas de las provincias españolas, siglos XIX y XX, is available at http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/cee/doc/04-020/04020.pdf (2004).

This event is co-sponsored with the Social Science History Workshop.

Bolívar House Lecture Series - Special Day

“Colombia’s Peace Processes 1982-2002: Conditions, Strategies, and Outcomes”

CARLO NASI, Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Political Science at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá

Dr. Nasi directs the Theory and Practice of Conflict Resolution in Civil Wars and Negotiations & International Relations graduate programs at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. He received his Ph.D. in Government and International Studies from the University of Notre Dame in 2002. From 1999-2001, he was a Visiting Researcher at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). He was a consultant to the Colombian Congress during peace negotiations with paramilitary groups.

This event is co-sponsored with the Colombia Working Group.

Bolívar House Lecture Series

“How Spain and Portugal Invented Modern Cartography”

PATRICIA SEED, Visiting Scholar, Latin American Studies, Stanford University

Dr. Seed is a professor of history at Rice University. She pioneered the comparative approach to the history of European empires in the Americas. Her books include ''To Love, Honor and Obey in Colonial Mexico'' (1992), and the ground-breaking comparative studies, ''Ceremonies of Possession in Europe´s Conquest of the New World'' (1995) and ''American Pentimento'' (2001), in which she contrasts English and Spanish approaches to the management of indigenous peoples.