Can we produce theoretical knowledge without embodying it ourselves? This talk reflected on and reconsidered what counts as knowledge-making, how it is practiced, spoken, and embodied, where, and by whom. When our bodies stand by our ideas, we write the world with our bodies. We learn through our bodies when we step into the world, and in the process, we write the world with our bodies. It is one of those spaces of publication that is intangible to metrics and rankings, yet that is unforgettable to...
In the sixteenth-century Americas, conquistadors, missionaries, and Indigenous elites and commoners organized spectacles for religious feasts and civic celebrations. This presentation centered on those that mixed plot elements from the Siege of Tenochtitlan with plot elements from battles taking place in the greater Mediterranean. It argued that by envisioning conflict in this corner of the world and relating it back to the invasion of the Valley of Mexico, participants created foundational narratives of New Spain...
In recent decades, an explosion of critical interventions from multiple fields has emphasized the return to the archive as one of the key axes from which central problems of the culture and history of the Americas are thought about, read, and discussed. However, studies on critics and artistic practices have, to different extents, always been anchored in and in conversation with the archive.
This set of presentations sought to reflect on the way in which Latin American studies have positioned themselves...
Join us on Monday, Sept. 16 for an Authors Meet Critics panel on the book Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex, by Juana María Rodríguez, Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Professor Rodriguez will be joined in conversation by Clarissa Rojas, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis; Courtney Desiree Morris, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at...
Omar Gómez Trejo received his law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and holds a Master's Degree from FLACSO. He worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for 12 years in Mexico and Central America. He was the Executive Secretary of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI...
Latin America is the most unequal region in the world. This acute inequality affects virtually all aspects of political, economic and social life, yet it has received very little attention from social scientists. This lecture examines why inequality has been so persistent, why it is so difficult to address and what its implications are for the quality and durability of democracy in Latin America. Democratization, it posits, may have proved easier and yet far less consequential than analysts once thought in the context of extreme inequalities.
During his last 40 years as anthropologist, Prof. Varese has followed, accompanied and witnessed the ethnopolitical struggle of the indigenous peoples of Latin America for their self-determination, autonomy and cultural sovereignty. He is now revisiting these years of political struggle and professional engagement in an attempt to reach some conclusions on the role of committed Latin American anthropology in the hemispheric indigenous movement for social, economic and cultural justice.
Stefano Varese is a professor in the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis...
Charlie Kernaghan is Executive Director of the National Labor Committee, an independent human rights organization. He is prominent in the labor movement for drawing attention to and helping correct the overseas labor practices of U.S. corporations. The New York Times calls him “the labor movement’s mouse that roared.”
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Maria Echaveste, attorney and consultant in Washington D.C. MS. Echaveste served as Deputy Chief of Staff in the Clinton White House, from 1998 to 2000. Upon leaving government service, she formed her own consulting firm, the Nueva Vista Group, focusing on public policy, strategy and advocacy.
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Vinod Aggarwal is Professor in the Department of Political Science, Affiliated Professor of Business and Public Policy in the Haas School of Business, and Director of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Aggarwal has been a consultant to the Mexican Government, the U.S. Department of Commerce, OECD, the Group of Thirty, and the World Bank. Professor Aggarwal will present with Ralph H. Espach, a doctoral student in political science.
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