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Fall 2006

September 2006

Fri 15

12:00pm, Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

Latin American and Iberian Studies Brown Bag Lunch

Graduate students from FLACSO-Mexico (FacultadLatinoamericana de CienciasSociales)speak about their research.

Cristina Herrera, Argentina, “Domestic Violence Against Women as a Political Problem: Social Discourse and Symbolic Repertoires In the Design of Health Policy and in the Provision of Medical Services”

Paula C. Mussetta, Argentina, “The Moralization Project as Social Government: The Case of Extra-Judicial Mediation Programs in Córdoba, Argentina”

Valeria F. Falleti, Argentina, “Efforts to Overcome Subjective Social Damage to Middle Class Residents of Buenos Aires: Cacerolazo and Neighborhood Assemblies”

Presentations will be in English. Drinks and dessert provided.

Frid & Sat 15 & 16

Latin American and Iberian Studies and the Beinecke Library
present

Mapping the Worlds of Sixteenth-Century Mexico
A Conference

Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street

Mon 18

5:30pm, Luce Hall Common Room, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

Latin American and Iberian Studies
Fall Reception

7:00pm, HGS 217A, 320 York Street

The Forgotten Village
Directed by Herbert Kline, 1941 (USA)

Made-in-Mexico Good Neighbor docudrama about state efforts to modernize rural life. Written by John Steinbeck, photographed by Alexander Hackensmid, and narrated by Burgess Meredith.

Part of the Fall Film Series México/Mexico presented in conjunction with Professor Seth Fein’s class, Idea of the Western Hemisphere. For more information, please contact the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies: 432-3422 or latin.america@yale.edu.

Thurs 21

4:30pm, Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhosue Avenue

Development Studies Policy Seminar

Nora Lustig, Director of the Poverty Group, United Nations Development Program
“Health and Development: Recommendations from the Mexican Commission on Macro and Health.”

Co-sponsored by International Affairs.

Mon 25

7:00pm, HGS 217A, 320 York Street

María Candelaria
Directed by Emilio Fernández, 1944 (Mexico)

The iconographic statement of Golden Age Mexican Cinema’s indigenismo set in Xochimilco. Awarded the grand prize at Cannes, 1946. Stars Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz; photographed by Gabriel Figueroa.

Tues 26

4:30pm, Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Latin American and Iberian Studies presents

Carlos Ocke-Reis, State University of Rio de Janeiro and School of Management, Yale
“The 2006 Presidential Election and the Path Forward for Healthcare in Brazil”

Thur 28

Latin American and Iberian Studies and the MacMillan Center present

Patricipatory Approaches to Ecological Restoration Projects in Rural Communities
Conference

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St.
New Haven, Connecticut

Conference Details

Organized by Florencia Montagnini, School of Forestry, and co-sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund at Yale.

4:30pm, Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Elizabeth Dore, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
“Living the Revolution: Cubans’ Oral Histories”

Co-sponsored by Agrarian Studies

October 2006

Mon 2

7:00pm, HGS 217A, 320 York Street

The Fugitive
Directed by John Ford, 1947 (Mexico/USA)

Based on Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory, Ford’s independently produced, Mexico-made cold war allegory crosses Hollywood and Golden Age Mexican Cinema (Emilio Fernández was Associate Producer). Stars Henry Fonda, Dolores del Río, and Pedro Armendáriz; screenplay by Dudley Nichols, photographed by Gabriel Figueroa.

Thurs 5

4:30pm, Room 103, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Ileana Fuentes, Red Feminista Cubana
“The Woman, the Rifle, the Child y Los Cinco Héroes Cubanos: On Surviving Machismo-Nihilismo”

Mon 9

5:00pm, Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, 130 Wall Street

Lily Guerra, Yale University
“Cuba and the Cinematic Imagination in the Work of David Stone and Andrew St. George”

Exhibit “Portraits of Revolution in Cuba”

Part of the Margaret Mead Traveling Film & Video Festival at Yale.

7:00pm, HGS 217A, 320 York Street

Río Escondido
Directed by Emilio Fernández, 1948 (Mexico)

Officialist melodrama about state-led modernization. Stars María Félix, cameo by President Miguel Alemán; photographed by Gabriel Figueroa. [no subtitles]

Thurs 12

7:00pm, Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Latin American and Iberian Studies presents

John Womack, Harvard University
“Mexican Labor History: Social Relations, Industrial Relations, Technical Relations, and Power, 1890-1958”

Mon 16

7:00pm, HGS 217A, 320 York Street

Enamorada
Directed by Emilio Fernández, 1946 (Mexico)

Transports Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew to the Mexican Revolution. Stars María Félix and Pedro Armendáriz; photographed by Gabriel Figueroa. [no subtitles]

Thurs 19

4:00pm, Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Development Studies Policy Seminar

Janice Perlman, Founder and President, The Mega-Cities Project Inc.
“The Myth of Marginality Revisited Continuities and Changes in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1969-2005”

Co-sponsored by International Affairs

Mon 23

7:00pm, HGS 217A, 320 York Street

The Torch
Directed by Emilio Fernández, 1950 (Mexico/USA)

English-language, Mexican remake of Enamorada, starring Paulette Goddard in role created by Félix.

Thurs 26

5:30pm, Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Latin American and Iberian Studies presents

June Nash, City University of New York, Graduate Center and City College
“Revolutions Past and Present”

Mon 30

7:00pm, HGS 217A, 320 York Street

Border Incident
Directed by Anthony Mann, 1949 (USA)

Cross-border star Ricardo Montalbán is a Mexican undercover agent working side-by-side with an INS colleague to combat exploitation of undocumented Mexican workers in this MGM social-problem film noir.

Tues 31

6:00pm, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Brazilian Halloween Party

“At Midnight I will Take Your Soul,” directed by José Mojica Marins

Co-sponsored by The Department of Spanish and Portuguese and The Malcolm Batchelor Fund. Refreshments provided.

November 2006

Thurs 2

7:00pm, Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Latin American and Iberian Studies presents

Desmond Rochfort, University of Canterbury
“The Serpent, The Virgin, The Sickle and the Scythe - Murals from the Mexican Revolution”

Fri 3 & Sat 4

POEM / ART
50 Years of Brazilian Concrete Poetry in the São Paulo Modern Art Museum 1956-2006

An International Conference
Yale University
November 3-4, 2006

POEM / ART features “Verbivocovisual,” an exhibit of selected books, manuscripts, and art works by Brazilian concrete and neovanguard artists on display in Sterling Memorial Library, curated by Irene Small, graduate student in the History of Art Department, with the assistance of K. David Jackson and Cesar Rodríguez, October 31-November 30, 2006.

Session I: Concrete Poetry and Art
Friday, November 3 @ 3:00 p.m.
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Introduction to POEM / ART
K. David Jackson
Yale University

Marjorie Perloff , Stanford University
“Writing as Re-Writing: Concrete Poetry as ‘Arrière Garde’ ”

Claus Clüver, Indiana University
“The Noigandres Poets and Concrete Art”

Willard Bohn, Illinois State University
“Exploring the Concrete Labyrinth”

Reception, Mezzanine, 5:00-6:00 p.m.

Session II: Dialogues in Concrete Poetry and Art
Saturday, November 4 @ 9:30 a.m.
Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS), 421 Temple Street

Gonzalo Aguilar, Universidad de Buenos Aires
“En la selva blanca: el diálogo velado entre Hélio Oiticica y Augusto y Haroldo de Campos”

Antônio Sérgio Bessa, The Bronx Museum
“The ‘Image of Voice’ in Augusto de Campos’s Poetamenos”

Irene Small, Yale University
“The Folded and the Flat”

Chris Funkhouser, New Jersey Institute of Technology
“Augusto de Campos, Digital Poetry, and the Anthropophagic Imperative”

Sponsored by Malcolm Batchelor Fund for Portuguese, Department of Spanish & Portuguese; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library; Sterling Memorial Library; Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies; Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; History of Art Department

Mon 6

7:00pm, HGS 217A, 320 York Street

Espaldas mojadas
Directed by Alejandro Galindo, 1955 (Mexico)

Mexican censors banned this internationally controversial melodrama about undocumented labor in the United States for two years, before approving its release amidst Washington’s Operation Wetback. Stars David Silva and Carolina Barret. [no subtitles]

Thurs 9

4:30pm, Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Latin American and Iberian Studies presents

Deborah Yashar, Princeton University
“Coercion and Democracy: Policing and Courting Crime in Latin America”

Mon 13

7:00pm, HGS 217A, 320 York Street

Salt of the Earth
Directed by Herbert J. Biberman, 1954 (USA)

Docudrama about New Mexico labor conflict, independently produced by blacklisted Hollywood radicals, and featuring the Hispano and Anglo miners who were themselves blacklisted by the CIO. Costars Mexico’s Rosaura Revueltas.

Mon 27

7:00pm, HGS 217A, 320 York Street

¡A toda máquina!
Directed by Ismael Rodríguez, 1951 (Mexico)

Pedro Infante’s iconic role as an urban charro, a motociclista cop, in this Mexico City-set comedy.

Thurs 30

4:00pm, Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

The Chronicle: On Understanding a Misunderstood Non-fiction
With the Epilogue: How to Make Enemies Doing a Non-Fiction Magazine

Julio Villanueva Chang, Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Etiqueta Negra Magazine (Peru)

Reception to Follow

December 2006

Fri 1

4:00pm, Yale College Writing Center, 35 Broadway, New Haven

On Writing Profiles: Can You Really Ever Know Someone Else?

A Workshop for Spanish-speaking journalists

Dinner provided.

Advance Registration Required. Contact: Julia.Urrunaga@yale.edu

Mon 4

7:00pm, HGS 217A, 320 York Street

Beyond All Limits
Directed by Roberto Galvadón, 1959 (USA)

English-language version of the director’s cross-border love triangle, Flor de mayo. Stars Jack Palance, María Félix, and Pedro Armendáriz. Shot in widescreen color by Gabriel Figueroa.

Thurs 7

4:00pm, Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Latin American and Iberian Studies presents

Claudio Lomnitz, Columbia University
“The Nationalization of Death in Mexico”

Fri 8

Latin American Series at Yale Law School
presents
The Future of Cuba: Crossroads or Continuity?

Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street

Program:

10.30 am to 12.30 pm “Cuba from Within”

An overview of post-Fidel’s Cuba. Are there going to be elections? Is there a dormant political opposition? Will it be able to rise? What will happen with prisoners arrested for the books/articles that they wrote? What are the challenges and opportunities that the Cuban press will face?

- Mauricio Font, Professor, CUNY - NY
- Lillian Guerra, Assistant Professor, Yale History Department
- Oswaldo Payá (videoconference or teleconference)
- Eduardo Peñalver, Professor, Cornell Law School

1.00 pm – 2.15 pm: Lunch Talk “The History of Havana by R. Hernandez & R. Cluster”

Rafael Hernández
Book presentation by one of the co-authors

Rafael Hernandez is editor of Temas, a Cuban quarterly in the field of history, culture, economics, and politics. Has oriented, guided, and taught many American visitors to Cuba and been visiting professor and researcher at Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, the Woodrow Wilson Center, Tulane, and the University of Puerto Rico, and lectured at numerous other schools and academic conferences. His essay collection: Looking at Cuba won the Cuban Critics Award in 2000. He is currently Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies Center for International Development at Harvard University.

2.30 – 4.30 pm “US Policy towards Cuba: A Foreseeable Future?”

How will the US government entertain post-Fidel Cuba? How will trade, political and legal reforms be promoted? Should a new constitution be adopted? If so, which should be the US role? How will civil society organizations face post-Fidel Cuba? Is it a ‘transitional’ scenario in which to deploy resources such as other countries that move from authoritarian regimes to democratic systems? Is Cuba different? Why?

- Geoff Thale, Program Director and Senior Associate for Cuba and Central America, Washington Office on Latin America
- Julia Sweig, David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
- Sam Gejdenson, Former Connecticut Democrat Representative.
- Eduardo Gonzalez, Senior Associate, International Center for Transitional Justice

Spring 2006

January 2006

Wednesday, January 11, 4:30pm

Priests and Shamans: Spiritual Power, Ritual, and Knowledge
Cynthia Radding, Department of History, University of New Mexico

Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

January 13 - March 15, 2006

Cuba, Myth & Masquerade
An Exhibit of Paintings by a Renowned Cuban Artist

Inauguration & Reception
5:00 PM, Friday, January 13, 2006

Gallery Talks with curator Lillian Guerra
2:30 PM, Sunday, January 15, 2006
2:30 PM, Saturday, February 4, 2006

John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art, 51 Trumbull Street, New Haven
Regular Hours: Wednesdays - Fridays, 11:00 to 4:00PM
Saturdays and Sundays, 2:00 to 5:00 PM

Sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, Yale Center for International & Area Studies, the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies, the John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art. Exhibit curated by Lillian Guerra with the collaboration of Arelys Hernández Plasencia.

Sunday, 1/15, 2:30pm

Cuba from Within Series
Lillian Guerra, curator
“Manuel López Oliva: Cuba, Myth and Masquerade Gallery Talk”

Co-sponsored by the Kempf Fund, and John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art

John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art, 51 Trumbull Street

Monday, January 23, 7:30pm

Film
¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!
by Fernando de Fuentes (Mexico, 1936)

Linsly-Chittenden, Room 101, 63 High Street

Tuesday, January 24, 7:30pm

Cuba from Within Series
Film
Alicia en el pueblo de las marvillas [Alice in Wonderland]

Discussion with Laura Redruello

Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Wednesday, January 25, 4:30pm

Cuba from Within Series
Spectacles of Substance: Performing National Identity in Cuba
A Panel Discussion with Jill Lane, Robert Nasatir, and Laura Redruello

Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Monday, January 30, 7:30pm

Film
Sicario
by José Novoa (Venezuela, 1994)

Linsly-Chittenden, Room 101, 63 High Street

February 2006

Monday, February 6, 7:30pm

Film
Waiting for the Messiah
by Daniel Burman (Argentina, 2000)

Linsly-Chittenden, Room 101, 63 High Street

Tuesday, February 7, 7:30pm

Cuba from Within Series
Film
Suite Habana

Discussion with Arsenio Cicero

Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Wednesday, February 8, 4:30pm

Cuba from Within Series
Images of Power and the Revolutionary Order
A Panel Discussion with Arsenio Cicero, Ileana Fuentes, and Lillian Guerra

Linsly-Chittenden, Room 317, 63 High Street

4:30pm, Monday, February 13

Asians in the Caribbean and Latin America
A look at labor migration, gender roles, inter-racial/inter-ethnic
relationships, and connections with the Asian-American experience.

Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Professor of History, Brown University
Viranjini Munashinghe, Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University

Linsly-Chittenden, Room 101, 63 High Street

Monday, February 13, 7:30pm

Film
Por la libre
by Juan carlos de Llaca (Mexico, 2000)

Linlsy-Chittenden, Room 101, 63 High Street

Thursday, February 16, 4:30pm

Among the Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas
A Reading by Jamaica Kincaid

Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High Street

Friday, February 17, 1:30pm

“Truth and Reconciliation in Peru”

Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University

77 Prospect St., Room A001

Friday, February 17, 4:10pm

Inter-American Human Rights Institutions in Argentina

Juan F. Gonzalez, Palermo University Law Schoo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Yale Law School, Room 128, 127 Wall Street

Monday, February 20, 7:30pm

Film
Pantaleón y las visitadoras
by Francisco J. Lombarda (Perú, 2000)

Linsly-Chittenden, Room 101, 63 Wall Street

Tuesday, February 21, 7:30pm

Cuba from Within Series
Film
La Vida is Silbar [Life is to Whistle]

Discussion with Lillian Guerra

Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Wednesday, February 22, 4:30pm

Re-Evaluating the Verisimilitude of Sixteenth-Century Andean Population Counts
David Noble Cook, Department of History, Florida International University

Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Monday, February 27, 7:30pm

Film
Perder es cuestión de método
by Sergio Cabrera (Colombia, 2004)

Linsly-Chittenden, Room 101, 63 High Street

March 2006

Monday, March 20, 7:30pm

Film
Favela Rising
by Matt Mochary (Brasil, 2002)

Discussion with Lidia Santos

Linsly-Chittenden, Room 101, 63 High Street

March 23-25

Conference
Portuguese World Music: Luso-AfricanForms and their Diaspora

Thursday, March 23
4:30pm, Master’s Tea, Ezra Stiles College
“Brazilian Duo”, Luciano Lima, guitar, Aglae Frigeri, voice

Friday, March 24
4:00pm, Keynote presentation OISS Main floor (421 Temple)
Followed by Reception (Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies Spring 2006 Celebration)

7:00pm Concert, Dwight Chapel
Samuel Araújo, guitar; Luciano Lima, guitar; Andre Mah, guitar; Joan Harrison, cello

Saturday, March 25
9:30am – 4:30pm, Conference Sessions, Luce Hall

8:00pm, Concert, Great Hall, Jonathan Edwards College
Chorus, Institute of Sacred Music (Goan music; medieval cantigas)
Victor Coelho, lute (music of Luys Milan, El Maestro 1536, vihuelist to the Portuguese Court)
Cello Ensemble, Hart School of Music (Villa-Lobos)

Yale string ensembles, Cape Verdian music of Vasco Martins
Emma Walker, voice (music of Jobim)

Katharina Jackson, piano (Villa-Lobos, Ernesto Nazareth)
Followed by Reception

Monday, March 27, 7:30pm

Film
Bus 174
by José Padilha (Brasil, 2002)

Discussion with Lidia Santos

Linsly-Chittenden, Room 101, 63 High Street

Tuesday, March 28, 4:30pm

The Making of a New Public Intellectual: Memory, Identity, and Documentary
Film in Buenos Aires, 1989-2006

Jessica Stites, Yale doctoral candidate

Luce Hall Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Wednesday, March 29, 4:30pm

The View From Tijuana:
Bordering Cultural Studies

Josh Kun
Writer, Critic
University of California, Riverside

Luce Hall Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

April 2006

Monday, April 3, 7:30pm

Film
Julio comienza en julio
by Silvio Caiozzi (Chile, 1977)

Linsly-Chittenden, Room 101, 63 High Street

April 7-8

Conference
In the Name of Democracy:
US Electoral Intervention in Latin America

View Program

Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Monday, April 10, 7:30pm

Film
Una historia común
by Sonia Fritz (Puerto Rico, 2004)

Linsly-Chittenden, Room 101, 63 High Street

Monday, April 17, 7:30pm

Film
Crónicas
by Sebastián Cordero (Ecuador, 2004)

Linsly-Chittenden, Room 101, 63 High Street

Tuesday, April 18, 4:30pm

Mazagão, the city that crossed the Atlantic: From Morroco to Amazonia (1769-1783)
Laurent Vidal, Department of History, Université de la Rochelle, France

Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 101, 63 High Street

Monday, April 24, 7:30pm

Film
Secuestro exprés
by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Venezuela, 2005)

Linsly-Chittenden, Room 101, 63 High Street

May 2006

Monday, May 1, 7:30pm

Film
Cachimba
by Silvio Caiozzi (Chile, 2004)

Linsly-Chittenden, Room 101, 63 High Street

Fall 2005

September, 2005

Monday, September 12, 7:00pm
Latin American Film Series
La Batalla de Chile
W.L.Harkness Hall, room 119

Wednesday, September 14, 4:30pm
Susan Deeds, Northern Arizona University
“Weaving, Unraveling, and Reconstituting Ethnic Communities:
Jesuit Missions in Mexico’s Colonial North”
Luce Hall, Room 202

Monday, September 19, 7:00pm
Latin American Film Series
Viva Zapata!
W.L.Harkness Hall, Room 119

Wednesday, September 21, 4:30pm
Jose “Chencho” Alas, Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America
“Earth and Eco-Justice in El Salvador”
McDougal Center, Room 119A

Monday, September 26, 7pm
Latin American Film Series
Zapatista
W.L.Harkness Hall, room 119

Wednesday, September 28, 4:30pm
Max Cameron, Visiting Scholar
“Democratic Instability and Crony Presidentialism in Latin America
Luce Hall, Room 202

October 2005

Monday, October 3, 7pm
Latin American Film Series
Rojo Amanecer
W.L.Harkness Hall, Room 119

Wednesday, October 5, 4:30pm
Susan Stokes, Professor of Political Science
“Democracy and the Culture of Skepticism: Political Trust in Argentina and Mexico”
Luce Hall, Room 202

Monday, October 10, 7pm
Latin American Film Series
La Ley de Herodes
W.L.Harkness Hall, Room 119

Wednesday, October 12, 4:30pm
Maria Eugenia Hernandez Sanchez, University of Ciudad Juarez
“Deported Children in Ciudad Juarez”
Luce Hall, Room 202

Monday, October 17, 7pm
Latin American Film Series
Motorcycle Diaries
W.L.Harkness Hall, Room 119

Wednesday, October 19, 4:30pm
Teresa Caldeira, University of California, Irvine
“Hip-hop, inequality, and urban segregation in São Paulo”
Luce Hall, Room 202

Monday, October 24, 7pm
Latin American Film Series
El Silencio de Neto
W.L.Harkness Hall, Room 119

Wednesday, October 26, 4:30pm
Jean-Frederic Schaub, Visiting Scholar
“Nation(s) and State Discordances in Long-Term Spanish History”
Luce Hall, Room 202

Thursday, October 27, 4:30pm
Policy Seminar
Andres Bianchi, Chilean ambassador
“Learning from the Past: Chile’s Path to Sustained Development”
Rosenfeld Hall (at Grove & Temple – use Temple St. entrance)
Reception to follow
For more information, contact sydney.frey@yale.edu.

Monday, October 31, 7pm
Latin American Film Series
Pictures from a Revolution
W.L.Harkness Hall, Room 119

November 2005

Wednesday, November 2, 4:30pm
Catherine Benoit, Connecticut College
“AIDS, Stigmatization, and Culture in Haiti:
Implementing Antiretroviral Therapies in a Context of Medical Pluralism”
Luce Hall, Room 202
**cosponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition**

Thursday, November 3
Latin American Policy Seminar
Robert Pastor, American University
“A North American Community”
Time and location to be announced.

Monday, November 7, 7pm
Latin American Film Series
The World Stopped Watching
W.L.Harkness Hall, Room 119

Wednesday, November 9, 4:30pm
Natalia Sobrevilla, Professor of International Studies
“Guano and Caudillos: Conflict and Instability in mid-19th Century Peru”
Luce Hall, Room 202

Thursday, November 10 and Friday, November 11
The Initiative on Race, Gender and Globalization (IRGG)
presents
New Paradigms for the Caribbean in the Age of Globalization
1st Annual International Conference
Room 211, Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), 320 York Street.
Visit www.yale.edu/ycias/lais/IRGG for conference schedule.

Monday, November 14, 4:30pm
Miguel Tinker-Salas, Pomona College
“The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Society, and Citizenship in Venezuela”
Luce Hall, Room 203

Wednesday, November 16, 4:30pm
Carolina Belalcazar, CLAIS Outreach Director
“Conceptions and Measures of Drug Control Policy and Implementation: A Case in Colombia”
Luce Hall, Room 202

Monday, November 28, 7:00pm
Latin American Film Series Revolutionary Change in Latin America
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
W.L.Harkness Hall, Room 119

December 2005

Thursday, December 1, 12:00pm
Fujimori: From Fugitive to Candidate?
A round table discussion

featuring
Enrique Mayer, Yale University; Julio Carrion, University of Delaware, Newark; Steven Levitsky, Harvard University; Susan Stokes, Yale University; Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, Yale University; Julia Maria Urrunaga, Yale University, Andres Mejia Acosta, University of British Columbia; Maxwell Cameron, Yale University; and Fabiola Bazo, Yale University
Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, Room 128

Sponsored by Latin American and Iberian Studies, the Latin American Forum at the Yale Law School, the Canadian Studies Committee, and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.

Thursday, December 1, 5:30pm

Land Protection and People in South America

Margo Burnham
Director of Conservation Operations for The Nature Conservancy (TNC)

Contact rachelle.gould@yale.edu with questions

Sage Hall Room 24 (205 Prospect St)

Monday, December 5, 4:30pm
Talking about Colombia - Lecture and a Movie

Maria Teresa Ronderos, Journalist, Semana Magazine, Colombia
“The Challenges on the Ground of Colombia’s Democratic Security Policy”
Luce Hall Auditorium

7:00pm
Latin American Film Series
La Sierra
Luce Hall Auditorium

** Reception between events **

Spring 2005

January, 2005

Thursday, January 20
Spring 2005 Interdisclipinary Lecture Series
Irene Silverblatt
Professor, Cultural Anthropology and Associate Professor, History, Duke University
“Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World”
4:30pm, Room 102, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Monday, January 24
Brazilian Film Mini-Series: “500 Years of Tomorrow”
“How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman”
Directed by N. Pereira dos Santos 1973
7:00pm, Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
French and Tupi with English Subtitles
Films are shown in coordination with HIST 361: “History of Brazil: 500 Years of Tomorrow”

Wednesday, January 26
Spring 2005 Interdisclipinary Lecture Series
Greg Grandin
Assistant Professor, Latin American History, New York University
“The Latin American Cold War as Revolution and Counterrevolution”
4:30pm, Room 102, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Monday, January 31
Spring 2005 Film Series
“Maria Full Of Grace”
Directed by J. Marston 2004
7:00pm, Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Spanish with English Subtitles

February, 2005

Tuesday, February 1
Latin American Policy Seminars
Marcus Kurtz
Assistant Professor, Political Science, Ohio State University
“Markets and Democracy in Latin America”
4:30pm, Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Monday, February 7
Spring 2005 Film Series
“Fitzcarraldo”
Directed by W. Herzog 1982
7:00pm, Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
English and German with English Subtitles

Thursday, February 10
Carlos Iván Degregori
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
“Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Questions of Violence and Racism in a Diverse Society”
4:30pm, Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Reception Immediately Following the Lecture, Luce Hall Common Room
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School, Genocide Studies Program and the Institute for Social and Policy Studies

Saturday, February 12

The Subtle but Important Difference of Public Space
Transitions from Latin America and the United States, Our Daily Lives

How do we move through and interact in public space - in streets, buildings, transportation systems, neighborhoods, social gatherings and with each other?
How is public space regulated and given form in various societies?
To what extent does this determine who we are and how a culture defines itself?

You are invited to a three-session workshop, including first-hand testimonies, comparing how daily lives in Latin America and the United States are understood and transformed in public space.

Setha M. Low, City University of New York

On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Everyday Lives in San Jose, Costa Rica and New York City, New York.

Professor Low has worked extensively on the relationship of public space and culture in both the United States and Latin America. Her presentation will comparatively address the relationship of social life and public space in Latin America and the U.S. (e.g. New York). She will make references to her work On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture where she discusses the cultural and political significance on the design and meaning of the plaza in a contemporary Latin American city. (Includes mailing a reading on her book On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture).

Filming the Political and Cultural Meaning of Public Space:

Memories of Underdevelopment (Cuba, 1968; Director: Tomas Gutiérrez Alea).

Panel:

“And that is how my adventure in this country began. One of the main differences between New York and Colombian cities, besides language and size, is the speed of people walking in the streets” (from the novel Cartas Cruzadas, Dario Jaramillo Agudelo)

Testimonies from Latin American and U.S. students comparing their daily lives in the midst of another culture that organizes and perceives public space differently. (Includes mailing a reading on “Space Speaks,” The Silent Language, by Edward Hall).

Location: Environmental Science Center, 21 Sachem St., Room 110, Yale University.
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Lunch will be provided.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will be awarded for 6 hours/ .6 CEUS
Fee: $30

For more information & registration please contact PIER-CLAIS Outreach Director, Carolina Belalcázar at carolina.belalcazar@yale.edu, 203-432-5605 or 230-432-3422

Sponsored by the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, and the U.S. Department of Education through a Title VI National Resource Center grant.

Monday, February 14
Brazilian Film Mini-Series: “500 Years of Tomorrow”
“The Mission”
Directed by R. Joffé 1986
7:00pm, Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Films are shown in coordination with HIST 361: “History of Brazil: 500 Years of Tomorrow”

Thursday, February 17
Spring 2005 Interdisclipinary Lecture Series
Marifeli Pérez-Stable
Vice President, Democratic Governance, Inter-American Dialogue and Professor, Sociology and Anthropology,
Florida International University
“Looking Forward: Cuba’s Democratic Transition”
4:30pm, Room 102, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Monday, February 21
Spring 2005 Film Series
“La Virgen de los Sicarios (Our Lady of the Assassins)”
Directed by B. Schroeder 2001
7:00pm, Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Spanish with English Subtitles

February 25 - 26
US Colombia Policy at the Crossroads:
Recent Experience and Future Challenges
Yale University Law School
For more information, please contact: Ryan Calkins at
ryan.calkins@yale.edu or (425) 387-0785
A Conference Sponsored by The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights,
Yale Law School; The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; and
The Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies

Monday, February 28
Brazilian Film Mini-Series: “500 Years of Tomorrow”
“O Quatrilho: Um Jogo de Fascínio e Seducao
(O Quatrilho: A Game of Fascination and Seduction)”
Directed by F. Barreto 1994
7:00pm, Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Portuguese with English Subtitles
Films are shown in coordination with HIST 361: “History of Brazil: 500 Years of Tomorrow”

March, 2005

Thursday, March 3
Colloquium Discussion on Elisabeth Wood’s new book (Professor, Political Science, Yale)
Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador
Commentators: Jeff Goodwin, Professor, Sociology, New York University; Richard Synder, Associate Professor, Political Science, Brown University and Deborah Yashar, Associate Professor, Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
4:30pm, Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Monday, March 21
Spring 2005 Film Series
“Memories of Underdevelopment”
Directed by T. Gutierrez Alea 1971
7:00pm, Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Spanish with English Subtitles

Thursday, March 24
Spring 2005 Interdisclipinary Lecture Series
Jose Luiz Ligiero Coelho
Chair, Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Teatro,
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
“Afro-Brazilian Oral Tradition”
4:30pm, Room 102, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Monday, March 28
Brazilian Film Mini-Series: “500 Years of Tomorrow”
“Black Orpheus”
Directed by M. Camus 1958
7:00pm, Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Portuguese with English Subtitles
Films are shown in coordination with HIST 361: “History of Brazil: 500 Years of Tomorrow”

Thursday, March 31
Spring 2005 Interdisclipinary Lecture Series
Seth Meisel
Associate Professor, History, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater and
Post-doctoral Associate, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
“Black Soldiers and the Politics of Emancipation in Early Republican Argentina”
4:30pm, Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

April, 2005

Monday, April 4
Spring 2005 Film Series
“La Noche de los Lapices (The Night of the Pencils)”
Directed by H. Olivera 1986
7:00pm, Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Spanish with English Subtitles

Tuesday, April 5
Latin American Policy Seminars
Diane Davis, Professor, Political Sociology, Massachusetts Institute for Technology
“Discipline and Development: Middle Class and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America”
4:30pm, Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Wednesday, April 6
Spring 2005 Interdisclipinary Lecture Series
Marilda Aparecida Menezes
Visiting Fellow, Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale and Professor, Sociology, the Graduate Program, Federal University of Campina Grande
“Land Reform Settlements in Sugar Cane Area of Northeastern Brazil:
Economic, Social and Political Impacts”
4:30pm, Room 102, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Monday, April 11
Brazilian Film Mini-Series: “500 Years of Tomorrow”
“Bye Bye Brazil”
Directed by C. Diegues 1980
7:00pm, Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Films are shown in coordination with HIST 361: “History of Brazil: 500 Years of Tomorrow”

Thursday, April 14
Roundtable Discussion
Earl Fitz
Director, Comparative Literature; Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and
Elizabeth Lowe, Associate Director, Distance Learning and Program Development; Director, Translation
Certificate Program, University of Florida
“Translation, Reception Theory and the Rise of Inter-American Literature”
4:30pm, Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Monday, April 18
Spring 2005 Film Series
“All About My Mother”
Directed by P. Almodóvar 1999
7:00pm, Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Spanish with English Subtitles

Thursday, April 21
Spring 2005 Interdisclipinary Lecture Series
Abril Trigo, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, Ohio State University
“Latin American Cultural Studies”
4:30pm, Room 102, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue