Spring 2019 Events

A street scene in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Hernán Piñera.)

Urbanization, Land, and Urban Policies: An Updated Agenda of Issues and Research for Cities in Argentina and Latin America

Cynthia Goytia
January 23, 2019

Image promoting The Feminist Resistance to the Radical Right in Brazil, January 2019.

The Feminist Resistance to the Radical Right in Brazil

Talíria Petrone, Sâmia Bomfim, Jô Cavalcanti, and Fernanda Melchionna
January 28, 2019 | Panel Discussion

Charles Ferguson wearing a black sweater standing in front of the audience

Screening: Watergate

Directed by Charles Ferguson
January 30, 2019 | Film screening and Live Q&A with Director

Francesca Rubino wearing a white blouse seating talking to the audience and pointing toward her slides

2018 Tinker Summer Field Research Presentations I

Part I
February 4, 2019 | Student Research Presentations

Butterfly

2018 Tinker Summer Field Research Presentations II

Part II
February 5, 2019 | Student Research Presentations

Five students seating at a round table talking

2018 Tinker Summer Field Research Presentations III

Part III
February 6, 2019 | Student Research Presentations

Mural painting that reads Respect the work, Domestic workers united, and that makes all other work possible

Intersectional Histories, Overdetermined Fortunes: Understanding Mexican and U.S. Domestic Worker Movements

Chris Tilly
February 6, 2019 

Frog close up

2018 Tinker Summer Field Research Presentations IV

Part IV
February 7, 2019 | Student Research Presentations

A fair to promote local products, necklaces being displayed

Fragile Governance and Local Economic Development: Theory and Evidence from Peripheral Regions in Latin America

Karen Chapple and Sergio Montero
February 12, 2019

Ana Raquel Minian seating in front of a table with more people, talking and looking at her slides

Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration

Ana Raquel Minian
February 14, 2019 | Part of the Spring 2019 Bay Area Latin America Forum

Video

Patricia de Santana Pinho standing up talking with her arms up

Mapping Race, Gendering Place: African American Roots Tourism in Bahia, Brazil

Patricia Pinho
February 15, 2019 | Part of the Spring 2019 Bay Area Latin America Forum

Video

Elena Schneider starts off her presentation talking about her book, seating with both her hands up

The Struggle for Cuba: Race and Empire in the 18th-century Atlantic World

Elena Schneider
February 19, 2019 | Part of the Spring 2019 Bay Area Latin America Forum

Djamila Ribeiro (right) of the Movimento de Feministas Negras, standing up

Anti-Black State Violence in the Americas: Power and Struggle in Brazil and the U.S.

Conference 
February 20, 2019

María Inclán discussing facing the photo

The Zapatista Movement and Mexico’s Democratic Transition

María Inclán 
February 26, 2019

CLAS Visiting Scholar Elize Massard present the research on generic pharmaceuticals and regulation she undertook during her time at CLAS

Regulating Pharmaceuticals in Latin America

Elize Massard da Fonseca

February 28, 2019 | Brown Bag

Video

Artwork by Dominique Blain

Art as Critique

Conference
March 1, 2019

Gael García Bernal standing in front of a blue wall with a cube on top of his head

CineLatino: Museo

Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios (Mexico, 2018)
March 6, 2019 | Part of the Spring 2019 CineLatino Series

Cidinha da Silva seating at a recording studio

Leitura em português

Cidinha da Silva
March 6, 2019

Still from the film Birds of Passage

Cine Latino: Birds of Passage

Directed by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra (Colombia, 2018)
March 13, 2019 | Part of the Spring 2019 CineLatino Series

An altar with a framed photo of Marielle Franco

A Tribute to Political Activist Marielle Franco

Cidinha da Silva, Tianna Paschel and James N. Green
March 13, 2019 | Round Table Conversation

James Green, a professor of History at Brown University, seating next to a screen, speaking about Herbert Daniels

The Life and Times of a Gay Brazilian Revolutionary

James N. Green
March 14, 2019

Colombia at the Crossroads

Sergio Fajardo
March 18, 2019

Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Walter Belik seating in a table discussing hunger in Brazil and the U.S.

The Taboo of Hunger and the Policies of Food Security: Discussions about Brazil and the U.S.

Walter Belik and Nancy-Scheper Hughes

March 19, 2019 | Roundtable Discussion

Video

Woman standing at the end of a hallway, behind her there is a round table with four woman playing cards

CineLatino: The Heiresses

Directed by Marcelo Martinessi (Paraguay, 2018)
March 20, 2019 | Part of the Spring 2019 CineLatino Series

Director Rick Tejeda standing up in front of the seating audience, answering their questions during Q&A

Screening: My Bolivia: Remembering What I Never Knew

Directed and Produced by Rick Tejada Flores (USA, 2018)
April 3, 2019 | Film Screening and Director's Talk

Associate Justice Salgado presenting to the audience, speaking from a podium

The Venezuelan Supreme Court in Exile and the Violations of Human Rights

Jose Sabino Zamora, Domingo Salgado, and Tamara Suju
April 10, 2019 | Panel Discussion

Professor Beatriz Manz standing in the left, introducing the panel of speakers who are seating in a table facing the audience

Chilean Education Today: New Regulations, Social Movements, and Uncontested Emergencies

Daniel Leyton, Alejandra Falabella, Cristobal Mandero and Maria Teresa Rojas
April 15, 2019 | Panel Discussion

Black and white image of dancers with guns

Dancing Loyalty: Revolutionary Movements in Cuba after 1959

Elizabeth Schwall

April 16, 2019 | Part of Spring 2019 Bay Area Latin America Series

President Bachelet with UC Berkeley faculty and CLAS friends, including UC Regent John A. Pérez (back row, second from right)

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in Conversation at CLAS

Michelle Bachelet 

April 17, 2019

Film’s poster that reads La Negociación

Screening: The Negotiation

Directed by Margarita Martínez (Colombia, 2018)
April 18, 2019 | Film Screening and Director's Talk

Word Cloud

Inaugural Conference on Right Wing Studies: Thursday

Conference 
April 25, 2019

A complicated urban transportation illustration scene on a hillside in Medellín

Metropolitan Governance: Local, National and Global Entanglement of Urban Policies in Colombia

Diego Silva Ardila
April 29, 2019

A commuter train waits in a Mexico City station

Diagnosis and Prospects for Transport Infrastructure in Mexico

Cedric Iván Escalante Sauri
May 3, 2019

Colorful flyer with the event’s name

Interactive Quechua Language Workshop

Workshop
May 4, 2019

Mexican dancer wearing a colorful dress

BEYOND ARCHETYPES: Examining the Roles of Women in Folk Music and Dance from Latin America and the Caribbean

Panel Discussion
May 6, 2019

Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo kiss on the scaffolding at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1932

Rivera and the Detroit Murals: A Personal Journey

Harley Shaiken
May 15, 2019 | Part of the Spring 2019 Bay Area Latin America Forum

A group of eight California farm workers harvest corn

Immigration Reform in Californian Agriculture and the Tech Industry

Workshop
June 7, 2019

Red and black mask from Mexico, 20th Century, Polychrome paint on wood.

The Mexican Masks

Art Exhibition
June 7, 2019