Below is a list of events that ILAS organized in the Fall
2006 academic semester. More information on past events
will be archived here.
Academic Year 2007-2008
September
2007
Title:
The Promotion of Labor and Environmental Standards in MNCS:
Brazilian Perspectives from the Instituto Observatório Social
Speaker:
João Paulo Veiga
Date/Time: Monday, September 10, 2007, 12:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
This is a Center for Brazilian Studies Event
Title:
Environment policy in Brazil and Latin America; part of his book
tour for "Walking in the Amazon with Chico Mendes”
Speaker:
Gomercindo Rodrigues
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at 4pm
Location: IAB Room 802
This is a Center for Brazilian Studies Event
Title:
“Bolivia Hoy: Constructive Perspectives”
Speaker:
Delegation of Bolivian Academics
Date/Time: Thursday, September 13, 2007, 4:30 pm -6:30 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
Title: “In the Company of Fear: Peace Brigades Defending Human Rights
in Mexico and Colombia” Co-Sponsored by the Conflict Resolution
Program at SIPA
Speakers: Jamie Wick, Peace Brigade Volunteer, Bogota, Colombia
and Liza Smith, Peace Brigade Volunteer, Guerrero, Mexico
Date/Time: Thursday September
20, 2007, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: IAB, Room 802
Title: “Saving Lives: The Effect of Social Programs on Reducing
Infant Mortality Rates”
Speaker: Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Stanford University
Discussant: Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Columbia University
Date/Time: Wednesday September 26,
2007, 12:15pm - 2:00 pm
Location: IAB, Room 707
Title: “Latinoamérica Hoy: Perspectivas y Desafíos”
Speaker: Enrique V. Iglesias, Secretary
General of the Ibero-American Secretariat and Former President of
the Inter-American Development Bank
Date/Time: Wednesday September 26, 2007, 5:30
pm - 7:00 pm
Location: IAB, Room 802
Title:
Reel Migrations: Latinos, Migration and Film
Film:
Nueba Yol (1995) by
Angel Muñiz (Dominican
Republic)
Date/Time: Thursday, September 27, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location: 516 Hamilton Hall
Presented by Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race & Institute for
Latin American Studies
October 2007
Title: "Health and human rights in Northwest Mexico: "The
work of Centro Mujeres in La Paz, Baja California Sur."
Speaker: Monica Jasis, Co-Director, Centro Mujeres
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 2, 2007, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location: IAB, Room 802
Title: "Brazilian Indigenous Peoples and their Struggle"
Speaker: Lourdes Alcantara, Visiting Scholar, Center for
Brazilian Studies
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 12:00 pm
Location: IAB, Room 802
This is a Center for Brazilian Studies Event
Title: “Investing in Brazil Today: Opportunities and Pitfalls in
an Emerging Market –Part I”
Speaker: Eike Batista, Founder and CEO of MMX and EBX
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 6:00 pm
Location: IAB, Room 802
This is a Center for Brazilian Studies Event
Title: “Guatemala: Maya Farmers, Markets and Moralities”
Speaker: Dr. Ted Fischer, Director, Center
for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Vanderbilt University
Date/Time: Thursday, October 4, 2007, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: IAB, Room 802
Title: Walter Moreira Salles Lecture Series: Lecture I: Under
the Malicious Eye of Tropics: The Historical Roots of a Baroque Country
and the Mystery of Brazil’s High Growth Years (Winning the know-how of
growth)
Speaker: Prof. João Paulo dos Reis Velloso
Date/Time: Thursday, October 4, 2007, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1510
This is a Center for Brazilian Studies Event
Title: "Tough on Punishment: Deliberation, Legal Alienation and
Community" a Seminar on Human Rights and Legal Theory
in Latin America
Speaker: Roberto Gargarella, Visiting Scholar, Columbia
University
Date/Time: Friday, Oct. 5, 2007, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: IAB, Room 802
Title:
“The State of the Media in Latin America – A discussion with the Four
Distinguished Cabot Prize Winners”
Speakers: The 2007 Cabot Prize Winners
Alfredo Corchado, Mexico Bureau Chief, The Dallas Morning News
Gary Marx, Latin American Correspondent, Chicago
Tribune
María Teresa Ronderos, Editorial Advisor, Revista
Semana (Colombia)
José Ramón Vales, Latin American Correspondent,
El
Universal (Mexico)
Date/Time: Monday, October 8t, 2007, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: IAB, Room 1219
Title: Walter Moreira Salles Lecture Series: Lecture II: How
Green was my Valley: The Mystery of Brazil’s Low Growth Years (Why the
Know-How of Growth was Lost—and not Recovered Yet) and The Emergence of
the New Runners
Speaker: Prof. João Paulo dos Reis Velloso
Date/Time: Monday, October 8, 2007, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 802
This is a Center for Brazilian Studies Event
Title: Walter Moreira Salles Lecture Series: Lecture III:
Brazil, A Country of the Future? Underdevelopment is not fate but the
country has to make options (the political system, the social options,
the macroeconomic syndrome) and Is Brazil still a BRIC?
Speaker: Prof. João Paulo dos Reis Velloso
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 6:00 pm – 8:00
pm
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1510
This is a Center for Brazilian Studies Event
Title: Walter Moreira Salles Lecture Series: Lecture IV:
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner: The “Brazil Project” and the
Development Strategy to Restore Long Term Growth and the Opportunity for
the Generation that Never Saw Brazil Grow.
Speaker: Prof. João Paulo dos Reis Velloso
Date/Time: Thursday, October 11, 2007, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1510
This is a Center for Brazilian Studies Event
Title:
II Annual LASA Academic Conference
Keynote Speaker: President Fernando Henrique Cardoso,
Former President of Brazil
Date/Time: Friday, October 12, 2007, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Location: IAB 417, Altschul Auditorium
This is a Latin American Student Association event. For more information
visit,
http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/students/lasa/
Title: "Guerrillas,
Organized Crime and Petroleum"
Speaker: Carlos Saenz, Exclusive Analysis Ltd.
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 16th, from 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: IAB, Room 802
Title: "Dynamic and Contextual Factors in the Brazilian
Presidential Election of 2002"
Speaker: Barry Ames,
University of Pittsburgh
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 17th, from 12:15pm to 2:00pm
Location: IAB, Room 707
Title:
Political Economy of Latin America Seminar
Speaker:
Barry Ames (University of Pittsburgh)
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
Title: "Actors,
Institutions and Regime Resiliency: New Challenges to Democracy From Old
Sources" - Celebrating the
work of Alfred Stepan
Speakers: several
Date/Time: Friday and Saturday, October 19 and 20, 2007
Location: Kellogg Center, IAB 15th Floor
Co-sponsored by The School of International and Public Affairs (CU),
The Institute of Latin American Studies (CU), The Department of
Political Science (CU), & the Kellogg Institute of International Studies
of Notre Dame University.
Title:
Reel Migrations: Latinos, Migration and Film
Film:
Balseros (2002) by
Carles Bosch
and
Josep M Domenech
(Cuba)
Date/Time: Thursday, October 18, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location: 304 Barnard Hall / Held Auditorium
Presented by Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race & Institute for
Latin American Studies
Title:
The Future of Mexican Democracy
Speaker:
Luis Carlos Ugalde
Date/Time: Monday, October 22, 2007, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 1501
Co-sponsored by the Mexican Initiative and the Latin American Student
Association.
Title:
Monetary Policy in Chile: The Lessons
Speaker:
Vittorio Corbo, Governor of the Central Bank of Chile
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 1501
Title: Reel Migrations: Latinos, Migration and Film
Film: Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'que Tu Lo Sepas
(2006) by Rosie Perez
(Puerto Rico)
Date/Time: Monday, October 29, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location: 304 Barnard Hall / Held Auditorium
Presented by Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race & Institute for
Latin American Studies
Title:
Political Economy of Latin America Seminar00
Speaker:
Erik Wibbels (Duke University)
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 31, 2007, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
Title: Brazil and the Multilateral Financial Institutions
Speaker: Otaviano Canuto, Vice President, Inter-American
Development Bank
Date/Time: Wednesday, October
31, 2007, 6:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
This is a Center for Brazilian Studies Event
November 2007
Title:
Ties Unbound: Membership and Community during the Wars
of Independence. The Thirteen North American Colonies (1776-1783) and
New Spain (1808-1821)
Speaker:
Erika Pani,
Research Professor in the History Division at Mexico City's Centro de
Investigación y Docencia Económicas
Date/Time: Thursday, November 8th, 2007, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
Title:
Urban Space and the City in Brazilian Cinema, Film
Screening Series: O Invasor (,
2001), DirecThe Intruderted
by
Beto Brant
(English Subtitles)
Speaker:
Maite Conde,
Columbia University
Date/Time: Thursday, November 8th, 2007, 6:30 pm
Location: 201 CASA HISPANICA
Sponsored by The Department of Spanish and Portuguese, with the
support of the Institute for Latin American Studies
Title:
Summer Internships in Latin America, Part I
Speaker:
ILAS Internship Travel Grants Recipients
Date/Time: Monday, November 12, 2007, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
Title:
Summer Internships in Latin America, Part II
Speaker:
ILAS Internship Travel Grants Recipients
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
Title: “An Introduction to the Work of the Brazil
Foundation in Brazil” and “Equity,
Skin Color and Educational Exclusion in Brazil”
Speaker:
Leona Forman,
President, Brazil Foundation and Paulo Silva, Ph.D. candidate, Teachers
College
Date/Time: Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 6:00pm
Location: IAB Room 802
This is a Center for Brazilian Studies Event.
Title: “An Introduction to the Work of the Brazil Foundation
in Brazil” and “Equity, Skin Color and Educational Exclusion in Brazil”
Speaker: Leona Forman, President, Brazil Foundation and Paulo
Silva, Ph.D. candidate, Teachers College
Date/Time: Wednesday, November
14, 2007, 6:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
This is a
Center for Brazilian Studies Event
Title: (ILAS Research Travel Grant Recipients Brown Bag Series)
Speaker: ILAS Research Travel Grant Recipients of the
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental
Biology (E3B)
Date/Time: Thursday, November 15, 2007, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
Title:
Urban Space and the City in Brazilian Cinema, Film
Screening Series: Edificio Master
(2002), Directed by
Eduardo Coutinho
(English Subtitles)
Speaker:
Prof. Marta Peixoto,
New York University
Date/Time: Thursday, November 15th, 2007, 6:30 pm
Location: 201 CASA HISPANICA
Sponsored by The Department of Spanish and Portuguese, with the
support of the Institute for Latin American Studies
Title:
Reel Migrations: Latinos, Migration and Film
Film:
Wetback
(2005) by
Arturo Perez Torres
(Nicaragua)
Date/Time: Thursday, November 15, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location: 207 Warren Hall
Presented by Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race & Institute for
Latin American Studies
Title:
HIV/AIDS and Health Policy in Latin America
Speaker:
Mario Pecheny, Former Visiting Tinker Professor
and
Mark Padilla,
Assistant Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education, University of
Michigan
Discussant: Richard G. Parker, Professor and Chair, Department of
Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia
University
Date/Time: Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
Title: “The Economy of Brazil Today: A View from the
Financial Markets”
Speaker:
Ricardo Amorim, Economist and Head of Latin American
Research- WestLB AG, New York Branch
Date/Time: Wednesday, November
28, 2007, 6:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
This is a Center for Brazilian Studies Event
Title: Urban Space and the City in Brazilian Cinema, Film Screening
Series: O ano em que meus pais sairam de ferias (2006) Directed by
Cao Hamburguer (English Subtitles)
Speaker: Prof. Erin Graff Zivin, Pittsburgh University
Date/Time: Thursday, November 29th, 2007, 6:30 pm
Location: 201 CASA HISPANICA
Sponsored by The Department of Spanish and Portuguese, with the support
of the Institute for Latin American Studies
December 2007
Title: Reel Migrations: Latinos, Migration and Film
Film: Made in LA (2007) by Almudena Carracedo and The
Sixth Section (2003) by Alex Rivera
Date/Time: Tuesday, December 4, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location: 301 Philosophy Hall/GSAS Lounge
Presented by Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race & Institute for
Latin American Studies
Title: “Historical Perspectives: Politics and Culture in
Brazil”
Speaker: James Green, Professor of History, Brown University
Date/Time: Wednesday, December
5th, 2007, 6:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
This is a
Center for Brazilian Studies Event
Academic Year 2006-2007
Lunchtime Brown Bag
Lectures
“Which Way Bolivia? Reflections on the Country’s
Future” by the Chamber of Industry, Commerce, Services
and Tourism of Santa Cruz (CAINCO).
Senior representatives of Bolivia’s Cámara de Industria,
Comercio, Servicios y Turismo de Santa Cruz speak about
their viewpoints on Bolivia’s future.
“Mechanisms of Direct Democracy in Uruguay: Legitimate
Political Control in the Hands of the Citizenry”,
David Altman, PhD Associate Professor at the Political
Science Institute of the Universidad Católica de Chile
Student Panels
“Make a Difference While Studying: Social
Entrepreneurship in Latin America”, Jamie Koppel
shared how she runs a non-profit while studying at SIPA.
“There and Back Again – Summer Internship Experiences
in Latin America”, Kelly Desy and Liz Weiss, and LASA
2006 Summer Internship Grant Recipients share their summer
experiences.
“Internships in Latin America: Tales from Last
Summer”, Steve Perez, Joshua Berger, Sara Rioff, Aimee
Sostowski, Janina Franco share their summer internship
experiences abroad and offer advice and suggestions on how
to conduct a successful – and ultimately rewarding –
internship search.
“Mexican 2006 Elections: Historical Perspectives”,
John Coatsworth, Claudio Lomnitz, John Tutino discuss.
“Police and Military Violence against Women in Mexico’s
Volatile Political Climate”, Andrea De La Barerra
Montppellier and Miriam Ruiz Mendoza, two of the eleven
human rights leaders from the Global South and marginalized
communities in the United States.
“The Economy of Puerto Rico: Restoring Growth”,
Results of the most exhaustive study of the economy of
Puerto Rico in the past 75 years
Distinguished Speaker Series
“Voice and Light: Political Competition and
Partisanship in the Reform of Argentine Telecommunications
and Electricity.” Victoria Murillo’s discussion on the
political competition and partisanship ramifications of the
market reforms to telecommunications and electricity, which
swept over Latin America in the 1990s, using the Argentine
experience in comparative perspective.
“Kallari: We Bring the Amazon to You, Ecuadorian
Chocolate and International Cocoa Markets”, Judy
Logback, Founder of Kallari Association, a coalition of
Amazon artists and organic cocoa producers,
explainsEcuadorian varieties of cocoa, fair trade versus
free trade, industry demands and how niche markets and
local processing can help small farmers earn a living wage.
“Divergent Political Routes in 21st Century Latin
America", Marcelo Cavarozzi, Chairman of the
Department of Politics and Government at the National
University of General San Martin, Argentina discusses the
current political and economic environments in Latin
America.
“The Social Justice of Weather: Hurricane Management
for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean”,
Eric Holthaus share the results of his research on the
risks of hurricane-related mortality in Latin America and
the Caribbean and indicators of underlying social
vulnerability (e.g. life expectancy and literacy).
“Bolivia: Extractive Industries and Indigenous People’s
Human Rights” , Jorge Cortez, Regional Coordinator,
CEADES Bolivia discussed recent Hydrocarbon Sector Law
reforms in Bolivia; the process and outcomes.
“A City in Hygienist Thought: Bogotá 1880-1930,”
Constanza Castro discusses the characteristics, limitations
and later consequences of hygienist thought in Bogotá’s
urban development at the beginning of the 20th century.
“Conservation Challenges in Chile”, Juan Armesto,
Professor in the Department of Ecology, Pontificia
Universidad Catolica de Chile discusses some of the issues
related to the conservation of endemic-rich temperate
forest ecosystems in rural environments of southern South
America.
“Colombia: Voicing the Conflict”, Two women
displaced from their homes by the violence in Colombia and
a young woman kidnapped as a child by the FARC will share
their experiences as victims of the Colombian Conflict.
