Past Seminars

September, 3

Integral Community Development in Rural Guatemala

Father Gregory Schaeffer, the pastor and program director of San Lucas Mission, will discuss his involvement in poverty reduction projects at Mission San Lcas Toliman in Guatemala.

For a complete biography of Father Gregory Schaeffer visit http://www.sanlucasmission.com/historia.asp

 

G08 Uris Hall
12:15PM

March, 5

Student Roundtable Discussion: "The Alchemy of Fiction and Ethnography"

Like many Colombian novelists, Laura Restrepo first wrote professionally as a journalist. In a visit to Cornell last year, she revealed that she intially turned to fiction when newspaper editors demanded proof for what she knew to be true. Restrepo will explore the connections between fiction and reality and how Colombian events have influenced her writing. She is particularly interested in meeting student writers and encouraging them to share their work in this informal setting.

2B47 Kroch Library
4:30PM

September, 10

Seminar Series: Stories of Inclusion and Exclusion. Ecuadorian Migrant Domestic Workers

Giaconda Herrera, Director of Gender Studies, Facultad Lationamericano de Ciencias Sociales Sede (FLASCO), Ecuador

225 ILR Conference Center
4:30PM -to- 6:00PM

April, 24

Between Fiction and Description: Recent Literature from Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay

Luz Horne, Romance Studies, Cornell University

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

April, 17

Land Policies across Geography and Time: Lessons from Latin America

Professor Smolka will speak about how more socially responsible planning - particularly the mobilization of land value increments resulting from public action - could facilitate improving housing and neighborhood conditions in general and the access of the urban poor to serviced land in particular.

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

April, 10

Race, Transnationalism, and the History of the Social Sciences in Mexico and the United States

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

April, 3

Overture to a History of Amazonia

David Block, Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

March, 27

The "Movement Towards Socialism" in Bolivia: A Populist Government by Social Movements?

Rene Mayorga is a senior researcher, Centro Boliviano de Estudios Multidisciplinarios (CEBEM). His expertise includes institutional development of democracy in Latin America; political parties and governance in teh Andes region; democratic theory and political philosophy. Rene Mayorga is currently a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies. His project is WIlson Center Project "Weak States and Institutional Reforms in the Andean Region."

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

March, 13

The Salvador (Brazil) Graffiti Project

The Projeto Salvador Graffita (PSG), The Salvador Graffiti Project, is a bold initiative that addresses problems commonly found in the urbanizing Global South. It was initiated by the newly elected Mayor of Salvador in March 2005 with the goal of transforming the tagged city walls into colorful and educational graffiti art pieces. The Project created salaried positions for 43 local graffiti artists - some of whom had been the city's most notorious taggers. The Project addresses multiple challenges that cities the world over confront - such as contention of public space, young and poor people who feel marginalized, and lack of jobs and access to education. In the words of a member of Brazil's Hip Hop movement - which was responsible for conceptualizing the project with the government, the project feeds two entities - "that of the stomach and that of the sou!."

In its second year, Projeto Salvador Graffita has grown from ten to forty-three graffiteiros and pichadores. It opens up a space for artists to have their work displayed throughout the streets of Salvador. By hiring these artists, the government is, in a sense, legitimizing and revolutionizing society's image of "taggers" and "graffiti artists" (those who spray paint walls of the city). The project has generated income for artists' families and has fostered civic participation. As a result of the Project, today Salvador beams a new artistic face - with colorful images on the cities walls, bridges, garbage cans and trucks, trains and public spaces that are laced with positive social messages. The enhanced aesthetics have lead to the project's immense popularity among city residents.

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

March, 6

"Que sean ejecutados inmediatamente todos,": The Lo Cañas Massacre and the Chilean Civil War of 1891.

Mark Rice, History Department, Cornell University

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

February, 27

Water Governance and Campesino Water Rights in Bolivia

Tom Perreault, Geography Department, Syracuse University

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

February, 20

Latin American Studies Free Lunch Event

Free Lunch-Free Exchange-Come Join Us!

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

February, 13

Bleeding Mexico White: Race and Nation on the Border

Mark Overymyer-Velazques, History Department, University of Connecticut

153 Uris Hall
1:00PM

February, 6

Simon Bolívar’s After-Lives

Jose M. Rodriguez-García, Romance Studies, Cornell University
Juan Antonio Hernández, Romance Studies, Cornell University
David Block, Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

January, 30

Training and Monitoring for Biodiversity Conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Eduardo E. Iñigo-Elias, Neotropical Bird Conservation Program, Cornell University

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

November, 21

One Thousand and One Argentine Nights: Storytelling During the Dirty War

Annette Levine, Department of Modern Languages, Ithaca College

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

November, 14

Policing and Prisons in the Americas: The Bratton Connecction

Micol Siegel, Liberal Studies, University of California Los Angeles, Society for the Humanities Fellow 06-07, Cornell University

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

November, 7

Paramilitary demobilization in Colombia and the impact of urban neighborhoods in Medellin

Aldo Civico, Center for Conflict Resolution, Colombia University

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

October, 31

Indigenous Autonomy and Democracy in Southern Mexico

Matthew Cleary, Department of Political Science, Syracuse University

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

October, 24

Changes in Inequality and Poverty in Latin America:Looking Beyind Income to Health and Education

Stephen Younger, Department of Nutritional Science, Cornell University

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

October, 3

The Making of a New Constitution in Bolivia

Edmundo Paz-Soldan, Department of Romance Studies

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

September, 26

Cuba After Fidel

Maria Christina Garcia, Department of History

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

September, 19

Virtual Tour of Vicos, Peru

Billie Jean Isbell, Emeritus, Department of Anthropology

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

September, 12

The 2006 Mexican Election, One Unlike Any Other

Ray Craib, Department of History
Ken Roberts, Department of Government

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

April, 25

LASP Seminar: The impact of "indigenismo" in twentieth century Colombia

153 Uris
12:15PM

April, 18

LASP Seminar: The Complex Landscape of Post-Conflict Justice

Naomi Roht-Arriaza is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. She holds law and public policy degrees from the University of California. She has written extensively on human rights and environmental law topics, and is the author of Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice (Oxford, 1995) and The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights (U. Pennsylvania Press, 2005). She has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Spain, and has received fellowships from the Macarthur Foundation and the U.S. Institute of Peace.

153 Uris
12:15PM

April, 11

LASP Seminar: Municipal Politics, National Citizenship and Indigenous Identities in Veracruz during Mexico's First Federal Republic, 1824-1835

153 Uris
12:15PM

April, 4

LASP Seminar: Constructing Heritage in Honduras: "Stakeholders" and the Present Past at Copan

153 Uris
12:15PM

March, 28

LASP Seminar: Fiscal Crisis, Welfare Legacies and Social Policy in Latin America, East Asia, and East Central Europe: Regional Modalities of Welfare Reform

153 Uris
12:15PM

March, 14

LASP Seminar: REVIVING THE PARACAS NECROPOLIS: Recent discoveries in Peru's National Museum

153 Uris
12:15PM

March, 7

LASP Seminar: Indigeous Rights in Nicaragua

153 Uris
12:15PM

February, 28

LASP Seminar: "Fractalizing Power: Foodscapes and the Construction of the Yucatecan Gastronomic Field"

153 Uris
3:30PM -to- 4:30PM

February, 28

LASP Seminar: "Writing as Difference: The Politics of Written Music and the Troy World in Yucatan"

153 Uris
12:15PM

February, 21

LASP Seminar: Indigenous Community Radio

153 Uris
12:15PM

February, 14

LASP Seminar: Indigenous Cartography and Representational Politics

153 Uris
12:15PM

February, 7

LASP Seminar: The Early History of Chocolate

153 Uris
12:15PM

January, 31

LASP Seminar: Roundtable Discussion on Current Bolivian Politics

153 Uris
12:15PM

November, 29

"Os Sem Terra do MST: From the Land Occupation to the Exercise of Citizenship"

Abdurazack Karriem, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

November, 15

"Infant-Feeding Practices and Their Relationship With Diarrheal and Other Diseases in Huascar (Lima), Peru"

Hillary C Kanashiro, Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima, Peru

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

November, 8

"The Fourth Sword: Shining Path's Abimael Guzman, The Most Lethal Latin American Terrorist Ever"

Santiago Roncagliolo, Peruvian novelist, Investigative Reporter and Translator

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

November, 1

"Urban Transport in Brazil and Other Developing Countries: Challenges for the Poor"

Prof. Eduardo Vasconcellos, Director of the ANTP (National Association of Public Transportation), Sao Paulo, Brazil

"South America's largest and most populous country. Approximately 100,000 buses are in operation in Brazil, providing 60 million passenger trips per day. While much of the character of Brazil's bus service is similar to that of many urban areas in the United States, Brazil has been a leader in the development of high-performance bus services. In particular, the city of Curitiba has received international recognition for its exclusive bus corridors, and has helped spur the Federal Transit Administration's recent interest in Bus Rapid Transit applications in the United States.It is not generally known that more buses are produced in Brazil than in any other country in the world. Over the years, the Brazilian bus industry has been a leader in offering new vehicles with high capacity and comfort."


full article at: http://www.apta.com/services/intnatl/intfocus/brazil2.cfm

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

October, 25

"Memoria Viva: A Participatory Research Project on Collective Memories in Vicos, Peru"

Florencia Zapata, Visitor Scholar, LASP, Cornell University
Living Memory Project: Research project on participatory methods and action-oriented project on collective remembering.
Vicos Community, LASP - Cornell University, The Mountain Institute, and Urpichallay Association.

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

October, 18

"Local Development and Alternatives to Violence in Colombia"

John Henry Gonzalez Duque, community leader from the Community of Cajibío, Colombia.

Priest and community activist, Gonzalez has long been an esteemed leader in his community, representing tens of thousands of campesinos from Southern Colombia at national negotiations, participating in various regional and national coalitions, and helping design the Plan de Vida (Plan for Life), the blueprint for local development in Cajibío.

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

October, 4

"Current Ethnic Politics in Bolivia"

Herb Klein, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University

Herbert S. Klein, Professor of History, specializes in Latin American history. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1957 and his Ph.D. from Chicago in 1963. For thirty five years he taught at Columbia University and was the Gouverneur Morris Professor of 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. Among these books are four comparative studies of slavery, the most recent of which are African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (1986), The Atlantic Slave Trade (1999), and Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo, 1750-1850 (co-author) (2003), as well as four books on Bolivian history, the latest of which is Haciendas and Ayllus: Rural Society in the Bolivian Andes in the 18th and 19th Centuries (1993) and A Concise History of Bolivia (2003). He has also published on such diverse themes as The American Finances of the Spanish Empire, 1680-1809 (1998) and A Population History of the United States (2004). His long-term interests are in comparative economic and social history, and he is currently working on 20th century social change in Latin America and the United States. Aside from courses on Latin America, he teaches methodology classes on Quantative Methods in Historical Research and Demographic History. He is currently Professor of History, and a Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

September, 27

"Modeling National Capitalims Across History and Politcal Geography"

Leslie Armijo, Department of Political Science, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
http://www.mindspring.com/~leslie.armijo/

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

September, 20

"Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico"

Anthony F. Aveni is the Russell B. Colgate Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology, serving appointments in both Departments of Physics and Astronomy and Sociology and Anthropology at Colgate University, where he has taught since 1963.

Featured in Rolling Stone magazine's 1991 list of the ten best university professors in the country, Aveni was also voted 1982 Professor of the Year by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, Washington, D.C. Channel and in numerous American and European universities as well. Recent interviews include The New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, NPR, CNN, The Larry King Show, NBC's Today Show and Unsolved Mysteries. Having received a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Arizona, Aveni helped develop the field of archaeoastronomy and now is considered one of the founders of Mesoamerican archaeoastronomy, in particular for his research in the astronomical history of the Maya Indians of ancient Mexico.

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

September, 13

"Military Conscription in Argentina"

Jonathan Ablard
Department of History
Ithaca College

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

September, 6

"Interpreting Latin America's Left Turn"

Ken Roberts
Department of Government
Cornell University

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

May, 3

LASP Seminar Series: "Black Brazilian Politics of Identity in the Municipal Council for the Black Community of Campinas, Sao Paulo"

Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa
Graduate Student
Department of Development Sociology
Cornell University.

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

May, 3

LASP Seminar Series: “Why is the Protestant Anti-Racism Movement Growing in Brazil” Seminar Postponed!

Seminar Postponed!

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

April, 26

LASP Seminar Series: “Marx and Freud in the Pampas: The Philosophy of Leo'n Rozitchner”

Bruno Bosteels, Assistant Professor of Spanish. PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Pennsylvania (1995; MA 1992), AB in Romance Philology from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (1989). Before coming to Cornell, he held positions as an assistant professor at Harvard University and at Columbia University. He is currently preparing two book manuscripts, After Borges: Literature and Antiphilosophy and Badiou and Politics (under contract with Duke University Press). He is also translating and introducing two books by Badiou: Can Politics Be Thought? followed by An Obscure Disaster: Right, Politics and the State and What Is Antiphilosophy? Essays on Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Lacan (both for Duke University Press). He is the author of over two dozen articles on modern Latin American literature and culture, and on contemporary European philosophy and political theory. His research interests further include the crossovers between art, literature, theory and cartography; the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s; decadence, dandyism and anarchy at the turn between the 19th and 20th centuries; cultural studies and critical theory; and the reception of Marx and Freud in Latin America.

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

April, 19

LASP Seminar Series: “Puritan Conquistador: Toward a Pan-American Atlantic History”

Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, who received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995, is a Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research focuses on the intellectual and cultural exchange in the Iberian/Atlantic World from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. His many publications include a major article, "New World, New Stars: Patriotic Astrology and the Invention of Indian and Creole Bodies" in American Historical Review and a book on the historiography of the New World in the early modern period, How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Stanford UP, 2001).

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

April, 11

LASP Seminar Series: “Becoming Argentines: Jewish Women, Education, and State Formation in the Countryside, 1889-1945”

Sandra McGee Deutsch is a professor of history at the University of Texas- El Paso. She is the author of Counterrevolution in Argentina, 1900-1932: The Argentine Patriotic League (Lincoln, 1986) and Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890-1939 (Stanford, 1999). Co-editor of The Argentine Right: Its History and Intellectual Origins, 1910 to the Present (Wilimington, 1993), she also has written articles on rightist groups, anti-Semitism, women, and gender issues in Latin America. Presently, she is working on a history of Argentine Jewish women.

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

March, 15

LASP Seminar Series: “The World Social Forum and the Spirit of Porto Alegre”

Linda Rabben is an anthropologist, human rights advocate, and independent consultant to nongovernmental organizations. She has written widely on Brazilian society and culture, including "Unnatural Selection: The Yanomami, the Kayapo and the Onslaught of Civilisation",
"Brazil's Indians and the Onslaught of Civilization: The Yanomami and the Kayapo", among others.
She received a Ph.D. in anthropology and Latin American studies from Cornell University.

153 Uris Auditorium
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

March, 1

LASP Seminar Series: "Caught between the Sea and the Stars: Crime, Politics, and Violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”

LASP seminar Series.

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

February, 15

LASP Seminar Series: “Race-War and Nation in Caribbean Colombia: Caragena, 1810 – 1832”

Marixa Lasso received his PhD from the University of Florida at Gainesville in 1992. She is an Assistant Professor in the History Department, California State University, LA.
Marixa teaching interest:
Nineteenth-Century Latin America, Atlantic History, Race Relations, Age of Revolution

Marixa research interest:
2003: “Revisiting Independence Day: Afro-Colombian Politics and Patriot Narratives, Cartagena, 1809-1815,” in Andrés Guerrero and Mark Thurner (eds.) After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas. Durham: Duke University Press.
2003: “A Republican Myth of Racial Harmony: Race and Patriotism in Colombia, 1810-1812,” in Historical Reflections, Vol. 29, no 1, 2003.
2001: “Haiti as an Image of Popular Republicanism in Caribbean Colombia, Cartagena Province (1811-1830),” in David Geggus (ed.) The International Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, Charleston: University of South Carolina Press.
2003: “Race and Republicanism in Caribbean Colombia, 1810-30,”American Historical Association,Chicago.
2003: “The 1830 ‘Revolución de Castas:’ Racial Constructs, Revolution, and Politics in Panamá and Colombia,” Latin American Studies Association.

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

February, 8

LASP Seminar: "La Beata Laura Vicuña: the nun's version, corrective of García Márquez's"

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

February, 1

LASP Seminar Series: “Dismodernities and Desmadre: Gender, Citizenship, and Cultural Politics in Mexico's Insurgencia Obrera, 1965-1982”

Stephen Batchelor was born in Dundee, Scotland, on April 7, 1953 and grew up in Hertfordshire, north west of London. After completing his schooling at Watford Boys Grammar School, he travelled overland to India in February, 1972, at the age of eighteen.

He settled in Dharamsala, the capital in exile of the Dalai Lama, and studied at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives with Ven. Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey. He was ordained as a novice Buddhist monk in 1974. He left India in 1975 in order to pursue his Tibetan Buddhist studies under the guidance of Ven. Geshe Rabten, who had been appointed abbot of the Tibetan Monastic Institute in Rikon, Switzerland. In 1977 he moved to Le Mont Pelerin, Switzerland, where Geshe Rabten founded Tharpa Choeling (now Rabten Choeling). The following year he received full ordination as a Buddhist monk. In 1979 he moved to Germany as a translator for Ven. Geshe Thubten Ngawang at the Tibetisches Institut, Hamburg. In April 1981 he travelled to Songgwangsa Monastery in South Korea to train in Zen Buddhism under the guidance of Ven. Kusan Sunim. He remained in Korea until the autumn of 1984, when he left for a pilgrimage in Japan, China and Tibet.

He disrobed in February 1985 and married Martine Fages in Hong Kong before returning to England and joining the Sharpham North Community in Totnes, Devon. During the fifteen years he lived at Sharpham, he became co-ordinator of the Sharpham Trust (1992) and co-founder of the Sharpham College for Buddhist Studies and Contemporary Enquiry (1996). Throughout this period he worked as a the Buddhist Chaplain of HMP Channings Wood. From 1990 he has been a Guiding Teacher at Gaia House meditation centre in Devon and since 1992 a contributing editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review .

In August 2000, he and his wife moved to Aquitaine, South-West France. He works as a writer and photographer and travels worldwide to lead meditation retreats and teach Buddhism. He is the translator and author of numerous books and articles on Buddhism including the bestselling Buddhism Without Beliefs. He has published sixty colour and black and white photographs in Martine Batchelor’s Meditation for Life (Frances Lincoln/Wisdom, 2001) and is currently writing a book that will develop the concept of an agnostic Buddhism as introduced in Buddhism Without Beliefs.

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:30PM

November, 30

LASP Seminar Series: "Peronism: A Story of Invention and Reinvention"

153 Uris Hall
12:00PM -to- 1:00PM

November, 23

Seminar: (title TBA)

153 Uris Hall
12:00PM -to- 1:00PM

November, 16

LASP Seminar Series: "Cuban Posters -- A Window into the Revolutionary Process"

153 Uris Hall
12:00PM -to- 1:00PM

November, 9

LASP Seminar Series: Strategies of Resistance and Campesino Organization in a Context of Conflict and Illegality: The Construction of Citezenship in the Framework of Antidrug Policies and Alternative Development in Putamayo, Colombia

For an updated list of events, please consult our website and calendar of events at:
http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/latinamerica

153 Uris hall
12:00PM -to- 1:00PM

November, 2

LASP Seminar Series: "Their Only Right: Slavery and the Law in Cuba"

For an updated list of events, please consult our website and calendar of events at:
http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/latinamerica

153 Uris Hall
12:00PM -to- 1:00PM

October, 19

LASP Seminar Canceled!: "Designing a Refugee Policy: Mexico's Response to Central American Migratioon, 1979-2004"

Event have been canceled.
For an updated list of events, please consult our website and calendar of events at:
http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/latinamerica

153 Uris Hall
12:00PM -to- 1:00PM

October, 19

LASP Seminar: "Fascism, Nationalism and Dictatorship in Argentina: The Myth of Uruburu"

LASP weekly seminar series.

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:15PM

October, 5

LASP Seminar Series:"Gender, Race, and the 'Culture of Poverty': The Politics of Transnationalism and Scholarship in the Americas"

153 Uris Hall
12:00PM -to- 1:00PM

September, 28

LASP Seminar Series: Fulcrums and Philanthropy: Collaboration between the Rockefeller Foundation and the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture, 1949-1962

153 Uris Hall
12:00PM -to- 1:00PM

April, 27

"Fighting Collective Amnesia in Chile"

Pedro Alejandro Matta was a law student of the Santiago de Chile University, and a member of the Socialist Youth, a juvenile branch of the Socialist Party, when he was arrested and tortured in May 1975, and then imprisoned for over 13 months. He is one of the 5000 people that were imprisoned in the Chilean capital's torture center known as Villa Grimaldi. Matta was released from prison on the occasion of the Organization of American States meeting in Santiago, in July 1976. Approximately 120 political prisoners were set free by the Chilean Military Junta as a gesture of good will. Matta was among those prisoners and three days after he was freed, he fled to the United States were he already had been acknowledged as a political prisoner and granted asylum. Matta testified before the United Nations Commission of Human Rights, 1976.

Currently Matta is writing a history of Villa Grimaldi based on a day-by-day reconstruction of what actually transpired in this torture center during the dictatorship, reconstructing its torture apparatus and the names that were behind it

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

April, 20

"Modeling Language Death and the Decline of the Quechua Language"

The world's languages have been vanishing at an alarming rate: 50-90% of them are expected to disappear in the coming century. In this presentation, Abrams proposes a mathematical model of two languages competing for speakers, and asks under what conditions one or the other will go extinct. The surprising answer, according to the model, is that one language will always dominate in the long run--two languages cannot coexist within a single population. Abrams also shows how the model accurately accounts for the observed dynamics of language decline in many Quechua speaking communities, as well as several other endangered-language communities from around the world.

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

April, 6

"Alternatives to Violence in Colombia"

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM -to- 1:00PM

March, 30

" Memoria Viva: Reflections on Collective Memories in Vicos, Peru "

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

March, 9

“Organizing an Inter-Ethnic Resistance Movement Against Hydroelectric Dams on Brazil’s Xingu River”

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

February, 24

"Coffee, Orchids and Honey: Diversifying Production and Organizing for Autonomy in Chiapas"

Angel Alvarez and Miguel Gonzalez Hernandez, members of the Northern Chiapas Coffee Network, will discuss the impacts of the Zapatista movement, global coffee crisis and low-intensity war-fare on coffee production and development. They will also address their struggles with land recuperation and crop diversification, and their organizing and education initiatives with coffee producers in the region.

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

February, 17

“Finding Latin American Things on the Internet"

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

April, 11

Drug Corruption, Urban Spaces, & Public Policy in Latin America

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

April, 6

El Espacio Intelectual Chileno en los 1990

G08 Uris Hall
12:15PM

March, 28

A Mapuche Perspective on Human Rights in Chile: Past, Present, and Prospects for the Future

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

March, 14

Planificacion Participativa Municipal: Un Caso del Tropico Boliviano

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

March, 7

Contemporary Cuban Cinema in Context

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

March, 7

Una Perspectiva Cubana Sbre el Caso de Elian Gonzalez

G08 Uris Hall
4:30PM

February, 29

Performing Neoliberalism: The Theatre of Politics in Mexico

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

February, 28

An Indigenous Perspective on Recent Events in Ecuador

G08 Uris Hall
4:30PM

February, 22

Indigenous Medicine in Ecuador

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

February, 15

Indigenous Political Representation in Bolivia's Municipal Elections: A Work in Progress

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

February, 8

Government and Sustainability Politics in Brazil in the 1990s

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

November, 30

Nation Building and Democratic DevelopmentL: Nicaragua 1838-1936

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

November, 23

Shifting Frontiers: The Relationship between Hews, Spain, and Latin America

153 Uris Hall

November, 16

Illiquidity and Crisis in Emerging markets: Theory and Policy

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

November, 16

Ventura y Aventura de la Literatura como creacion

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

November, 9

Native Americans and Archeologists: Claims for a Post-Colonial Archeology

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

November, 2

Security of Children in the Streets: Examples from Latin America

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

October, 26

Development, Conservation and Indigenous Affairs in Colombia

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

October, 19

Latin American Film Exhibitions in Latin America and the World

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

October, 5

Latin America on the Internet: A Hands-on Demonstration

106 Olin Library
12:15PM

September, 28

Economics of Biodiversity: Challenges in El Salvador

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

September, 21

Oil Spills in Venezuela: The New Penal Code and its Environmental Implicaitons

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

September, 14

La Conquista como Trauma Elegido: de Atahualpa a Tupac Amaru II

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

September, 7

Ecotourism in Latin America: An Alternative? or Development as Usual?

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

April, 27

Thinking about Postcoloniality in Latin America

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

April, 20

Economic Reform, State Formation, and Democracy in Latin America and Eastern Europe

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

April, 13

Democracy in Latin America: Theory and Practice

G08 Uris Hall
12:15PM

April, 6

Magical Realism in the Maya Zapatista Movement

153 Uris Hall
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March, 30

Rethinking the Origins of the Chilean Left

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

March, 16

The Role of Indigenous People in International Affairs: Examples from the Amazon

153 Uris Hall
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March, 8

Contesting Citizenship: Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge in Latin America

153 Uris Hall
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March, 2

Poverty Again? Is Chile Sustainable?

153 Uris Hall
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February, 23

Spatial Identity in Carpentier's Narrative: Reflections on Valparaiso, Chile

153 Uris Hall
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February, 16

Reconstruction after Hurricane Mitch: Challenges and Research Opportunities

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

February, 9

Farmers Rights and Social Actors in Mexico

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

February, 2

Market and Government Reform in Bolivia: Global Trends and Local Responses

153 Uris Hall
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December, 1

Economic Reform, State Formation, and Democracy in Latin America and Eastern Europe

153 Uris Hall

November, 24

Disputed Environments: The Human Consequences of Large Dam Projects in Brazil

153 Uris Hall
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November, 10

Democracy and Development in Rural Colombia

153 Uris Hall
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November, 3

The Functioning of Urban Land Markets in Latin America

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

October, 29

Environmental Education and the Mass Media in Cuba

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October, 27

Environmental Education and the Mass Media in Cuba

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

October, 20

Perceptions and Construction of Uban Identities in Valpataiso, Chile

153 Uris Hall
12:15PM

October, 6

ECOnomics, ECOtourism, ECOlogy in the Tropical Forest, Ecuador

153 Uris Hall
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September, 29

Democratizing Democracy: Civil Society and Public Sphere in Argentina

153 Uris Hall
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September, 22

Video in the Villages of Indigenous Brazil

153 Uris Hall
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September, 17

LASP Welcoming Reception

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September, 15

Latin American on the Internet - A Hands-on Demonstration

106 Olin Library
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September, 8

The Relevance of Feminist, Post-Colonial and Queer Theory for Latin American Feminist Politics

153 Uris Hall
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April, 28

Medicine and Law in Turn of the Century Argentina

153 Uris Hall

April, 21

Globalization and Child Labor in Brazil

153 Uris Hall

April, 14

Relations between NAFTA, MERCOSUR, and the European Economic Community

153 Uris Hall

April, 7

Environmental Politics, Social Actors, and Democratization

153 Uris Hall

March, 31

Building Cultural Bridges

153 Uris Hall

March, 24

All that Has Value: Biodiversity, Intellectual Property Rights, and Structural Adjustment in Latin America

153 Uris Hall

March, 24

They Eat the Gold: Behind the Minerals Boom in Latin America

153 Uris Hall

March, 10

Democratization of Education in Mexico: An Agenda for School Reform or Political Struggle?

153 Uris Hall

March, 3

Cuban Writers in a Changing Society

153 Uris Hall

February, 27

Transnationalism and Cultural Encounters: Peruvians in Patterson, NJ

157 East Sibley

February, 24

TV News Reception in Mexico: From Duty to Pleasure

153 Uris Hall

February, 17

Lives on Hold: Cervantes, Garcia Marquez and a Personal Testimony

153 Uris Hall

February, 11

The Power of the Word: Indigenous Writers and Mayan Social Movements in Guatemala

G08 Uris Hall

February, 3

From Macondo to McOndo: The Latin American Writer in the Age of Mass Media

153 Uris Hall

November, 18

The Trauma of Conquest

153 Uris Hall

November, 11

Sweater Knitters and the Politics of Development in Bolivia

153 Uris Hall

November, 4

Risk Proliferation and Environmental Discourse: Industrial Pollution in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic

153 Uris Hall

October, 28

Initial Period Pottery Production and Ecomony in the Lurin Valley, Peru

153 Uris Hall

October, 21

Community Fairs in the Dominican Republic

153 Uris Hall

October, 7

Sexuality and Human Rights in Cuba

153 Uris Hall

September, 30

Beginnings of Village Life in Mesoamerica

153 Uris Hall

September, 23

Latin American Resources on the Internet

106 Olin Library

September, 23

Latin America - Cornell Abroad

153 Uris Hall
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September, 16

Taino Ascendant, Extinction, Continuities and Reassertions

153 Uris Hall

September, 9

Estrategias Metodologicas Utilizadas en Estudios Sobre HIV/AIDS en Poblociones Especificas en Mexico: Hombres con Practicas Homosexuales y Bisexuales y Mujeres Dedicadas a la Prostitucion

153 Uris Hall

September, 3

International Open House

153 Uris Hall

April, 29

A Brief Analysis of Rural Energy Problems in Peru

153 Uris Hall

April, 22

Populism as a Historican Category: Democracy and Development Stategies in Latin America

153 Uris Hall

April, 15

Recycling Inca Garcilaso: The European Fascination with Peru

153 Uris Hall

April, 8

The Neighborhood as an Urban Workshop: Popular Participation and Environmental Action in Havana

153 Uris Hall

April, 1

Beyond Structural Adjustment: Development Paths and Open Regionalism in Latin America

153 Uris Hall

March, 25

Imprints of Exclusion and Autonomy on the Atlantic Seaboard Coast of the Americas

153 Uris Hall

March, 11

Educational Policy: A Reflection on Brazil and the United States

153 Uris Hall

March, 4

Protest Quechua Songs and Transnational Protest Art from Peru

153 Uris Hall

February, 25

La Transformacion de las Relaciones Industriales: El Caso de Brazil

153 Uris Hall

February, 18

Dollars, Darts, and Desire

153 Uris Hall

February, 7

Mexican Industrial Relations in Transtion

153 Uris Hall

February, 4

Female Prostitution in Tijuana

153 Uris Hall

December, 10

Caribbean Cities on the Edge

153 Uris Hall

December, 3

Civil Society and Political Institutionalization in Argentina: A Critique of O'Donnell's "Delegative Democracy" Argument

153 Uris Hall

November, 19

One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four: Potato Cultures

153 Uris Hall

November, 12

Macroeconomic Adjustments: Effects on the Venezuelan Agricultural Sector

153 Uris Hall

November, 5

Speaking with the Devil: Controlling Police Abuses Under the Pinochet Dictatorship in Chile

153 Uris Hall

October, 29

Education in Brazil: Contemporary Problems and Prospects

153 Uris Hall

October, 22

Construccion de los Espacios Urbanos: El Caso de Willa Juana, Santo Domingo

153 Uris Hall

October, 8

Class and Culture on the Ethnic Frontier: Stories from Equadorian Amazon

153 Uris Hall

October, 1

Informal Discussion with Cesar Gaviria, President of the Organization of American States and Former President of Colombia

G08 Uris Hall

September, 17

Latin American Library Resources on the Internet

106 Olin Library

September, 10

A Feasible Anti-Drug policy in Peru

153 Uris Hall

April, 25

Who Rules Mexico?: The Old Political Elite, the New Political Elite, and US Interests in Mexico

153 Uris Hall

April, 16

Una Experiencia de la Gestion Urbana en Caracas

153 Uris Hall

April, 9

Whither Latin American Studies

153 Uris Hall

April, 9

Great Depression, Rural Protests, and the Origins of Colombian Revolutionary Agrarianism

153 Uris Hall

March, 26

Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic: The Agony of Democracy in Venezuela

153 Uris Hall

March, 12

Center-Right Coalition Politics and the New Assault on Indigenos Land Rights in Brazil

153 Uris Hall

March, 5

Labor and Management in Brazil and Mexico: Transformations & Industrial Conflicts

153 Uris Hall

February, 27

A Critical Assessment of Modernization Theory in Latin America

153 Uris Hall

February, 20

An Indigenous Women's Perspective on Land Rights, Cultural Identity and Globalization

153 Uris Hall

February, 13

An Artists's Journey from the Brazilian Sertao to the Florida Gold Coast

153 Uris Hall

February, 6

The Social Spread of Disease: The Cases of HIV/AIDS in Mexico and Argentina

153 Uris Hall

November, 28

Democratization and Juridification: Civil Society and Law in Argentina

153 Uris Hall

November, 21

Privatization Through Expropriation: The Costal Ejido of La Poza, Guerrero in Mexico

153 Uris Hall

November, 14

Colonization, Violence and Cultural Differences in Uraba, Colombia

153 Uris Hall

November, 7

The Archaeological Mysteries of Venezuela: Past, Present and Future

153 Uris Hall

October, 31

Investigating the Origins and Diversity of Oca, an Andean Tuber Crop

153 Uris Hall

October, 24

Estrategias para el Activismo Ambiental: Acompanamiento Redefinido

153 Uris Hall

October, 17

El Arte de la Narracion Oral en Colombia

153 Uris Hall

October, 5

The Development of the Export Sector in Colombia

153 Uris Hall

October, 4

Low Intensity Conflict in Chiapas

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September, 26

Public Transportation in LAtin America: Challenges Facing the State and the Private Sector

153 Uris Hall

September, 19

Dona Marina/Malintzin: The Captive as Improvisor

153 Uris Hall

September, 12

Exploring the Amazonas of Venezuela y Peru for "Una de Gato" Medicines

153 Uris Hall

April, 25

The Impact of the Third World on Trends in International Environment Law

153 Uris Hall

April, 18

National Emergent: The Contestation of Puerto Rican Identity

153 Uris Hall

April, 11

The Legitimacy of NGO's as Environmental Actors: Four Dominican Cases

153 Uris Hall

April, 4

The Tranformation of Rural Mexico: Restructuring or Destabilization?

153 Uris Hall

March, 28

The Current Mexican Economic and Political Crisis

153 Uris Hall

March, 28

Causas y Caracter de la Emigracion Cubana Actual

153 Uris Hall

March, 14

The Internally Displaced: Human Rights in Peru and Colombia

153 Uris Hall

March, 14

Women and Shining Path: Who Joins, Who Doesn't?

153 Uris Hall

March, 7

Training Programs for Traditional Midwives in Mexico: Proposed Reforms

153 Uris Hall

February, 28

Democracy, State Power and Economic Reform in Latin America

153 Uris Hall

February, 21

Intensive Indigenous Agricultural Practices: Snapshots from Bolivia

153 Uris Hall

February, 14

Biology of Latin American Forests

153 Uris Hall

February, 7

The Body Politic: Guaman Poma and the Idols of Cuzco

153 Uris Hall

November, 29

Ecological Interactions Between Agricultural and Natural Ecosytems in Latin American Landscapes

153 Uris Hall

November, 22

Labor Standards and International Trade

153 Uris Hall

November, 15

From Environmentalism to Political Ecology: Towards a Framework for Understanding Changes at Agricultural Rain Forest Borders in Mexico

153 Uris Hall

November, 8

Participatory Communication for Rural Development

153 Uris Hall

November, 1

The Role of Nutrition in the Development of Human Capital in Rural Guatemala

153 Uris Hall

October, 25

Cuban Culture in a Changing World

153 Uris Hall

October, 18

Inhabited Women

153 Uris Hall

October, 4

Mulch Based Agriculture: A Sustainable Solution for Reducing Poverty and Environmental Degradation

153 Uris Hall

September, 27

The Indian in Marti: Indigenous Thinking and Issues in the Writing of Cuban Poet Jose Marti

153 Uris Hall

September, 20

Signifyin', Testifyin': Memoirs of Mexican Loose Women

153 Uris Hall

September, 13

Latin America on the Internet

104 Carpenter Hall

September, 6

Agrarian Institutions and Development in the Iberian-American Frontier

153 Uris Hall

April, 26

The Middle Class City: Transportation Planning in Sao Paulo

153 Uris Hall

April, 19

Reviving Indigenous Agricultural Practices: Raising Beds in Bolivia

153 Uris Hall

April, 12

Dr. Barros de San Millan: A Defender of the 'Natural Lords' of the Andes

153 Uris Hall

April, 5

The Culture of Agricultural Researchers and the Needs of Small Farmers

153 Uris Hall

March, 29

Cuban Migration: Problems and Prospects for the Future

153 Uris Hall

March, 15

Coca and Cocaine: Administration of Justice in Bolivia

153 Uris Hall

March, 8

The Yanomami and the Politics of Indigenous Rights in the Brazilian Amazon

153 Uris Hall

March, 1

The Indigenous Caribbean: Persistence of Culture

153 Uris Hall

February, 22

Gender, Neighborhood, Women's Organizations and the Politics of 'Development' in Ecuador

153 Uris Hall

February, 15

Latin America on the Internet

153 Uris Hall

February, 8

Children's Cultural Construction of Illness: A Comparative Study between USA and Argentinian Cases

153 Uris Hall

May, 4

Development Through Preservation

153 Uris Hall

April, 27

Political Discourse in Latin America from 1750 to 1810

153 Uris Hall

April, 20

Political Culture and Social Change in Venezuela

153 Uris Hall

April, 13

NGOs: We Know What They are Not, But What are They? Questions and Reflections on the Bolivian Case

153 Uris Hall

April, 6

Trends in Mexico State Labor Relations: What Difference will NAFTA Make?

153 Uris Hall

March, 30

Social Change in Mexico: Complexity and Diversity

153 Uris Hall

March, 16

Violence and Colonization in Colombia 1945-1953

153 Uris Hall

March, 9

Ten Years of Structural Adjustment in Latin America: An Evaluation

153 Uris Hall

March, 2

United States Government Perspectives on Democracy in Latin America

153 Uris Hall

February, 23

Bolivia Information Session

153 Uris Hall

February, 16

Talking Back

153 Uris Hall

February, 9

Towards a New International Environmental Order? Reflections on Rio '92

153 Uris Hall

December, 1

What Does Spain Want? Colombus Commemorations and Cover Up, 1492 to 1992

153 Uris Hall

November, 24

The Legal Situations of Central American Refugees in Belize

153 Uris Hall

November, 17

Sostenibilidad en Proyectos de Desarrollo en Bolivia

153 Uris Hall

November, 10

Are Community Organizations in Favor or Against Conservation? The Case of Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic

153 Uris Hall

November, 3

Synergistic Development in Nahuat Community

153 Uris Hall

October, 27

Economic Adjustment and Democracy in Venezuela, After the Failed Coup d' e-tat, February 1992

153 Uris Hall

October, 20

Shanty Town Protests Before and After Pinochet

153 Uris Hall

September, 22

Socialism in One Century? Cuba and the New World Order

153 Uris Hall

September, 15

The Week of the Paro Armado en Lima

153 Uris Hall

April, 7

From 'Cavern' to 'Tavern': Hegemony and the Philosophy of Colonialism in a Spanish-Quechua Etymology

153 Uris Hall

March, 31

Railroad Stations in Mexico

153 Uris Hall

March, 24

The Construction of Gender Identity Through the Use of Collective Creation in Theatre: Examples from Cuba and Nicaragua

153 Uris Hall

March, 10

Reflections on Honduras

153 Uris Hall

March, 3

Environment, Wealth and Poverty - Sustainability for Whom?: Lessons from the Brazilian Experience

153 Uris Hall

February, 25

Colombian-Social Pacts, Economic Openings and Prospects for Peace

153 Uris Hall

February, 11

Andean Ethnomedicine: Women as Medical Theorists

153 Uris Hall

February, 4

Lord Siwina's Magic Herd: Mythic Transformations and Representations of the Sacred, The Wild and The Tame in Andean Narrative

153 Uris Hall

November, 5

Democracy? Repression and Human Rights in Peru

153 Uris Hall