CLACS Events- Fall 2012

               (Click here for a printable version of the Fall 2012 calendar.)

 

September 2012

Thursday, September 13- McKinney, 5:00 PM

“Wartime Rape: How It Happens, When It Doesn't,” Elisabeth Wood (Yale University)

Presented by the CLACS - Watson Joint Lecture Series on New Security Challenges in the Americas.

                                       

Monday, September 24- Joukowsky Forum, 3:00 PM

"Depictions of Conflict: Documenting Violence in Colombia"

Presented by the CLACS - Watson Joint Lecture Series on New Security Challenges in the Americas.

                                                     

A conversation, reading and book signing with journalist Sibylla Brodzinsky and Max Shoening '09, researcher at Human Rights Watch, co-editors of Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives from Colombians Displaced by Violence.

                           

This event also will feature a slide show and presentation by photographer Stephen Ferry '83, photojournalist and author of Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict.

                                 

The discussant will be César Rodríguez-Garavito, Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies at Brown University.

 

October 2012

Monday, October 1- Conference

“Democratization: Lessons from Leaders”

    

Featuring:

Leonel Fernández, former President of the Dominican Republic

Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile and Professor-at-Large, Brown University

Sergio Bitar, former Minister and Senator of Chile

Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Abraham Lowenthal, Brown University

Alfred Stepan, Columbia University

Laurence Whitehead, University of Oxford

 

Location: List Art Center, 64 College Street

Panels will run from 1:30-2:30, 3:00-4:45, and 5:00-7:00 PM. 

Click here for a printable version of the event schedule.

 

Thursday, October 4- Colloquium

“New Middle Income Countries and Emerging Middle Classes”

Featuring:

José Antonio Ocampo, former Minister of Finance, Colombia; former Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile and Professor-at-Large, Brown University

Location: Metchem/Friedman Auditorium, Metcalf 101, 190 Thayer St.

Time: 4:00-5:30 PM

 

Tuesday, October 9- Colloquium

Tribute to Carlos Fuentes

Location: Joukowsky Forum

Time: 10:30 AM – 5:00 PM

Co-sponsored with Dept. of Hispanic Studies and the Office of International Affairs.

 

Wednesday, October 10-

CLACS Fall Welcoming Reception

Location: North Common Room, Watson Institute

Time: 4:00 PM

 

Thursday, October 18-  

Talk on Latin American Intellectual History

 

Location: McKinney Conference Room

Time: 2:00-3:30 PM

Co-sponsored with the Dept. of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.

 

Wednesday, October 24-

Launch of the Brasiliana Collection at Brown University

A display including highlights of the Brasiliana Collection and items from the Thomas E. Skidmore Papers and the new companion website to Dr. Skidmore's textbook Brazil: Five Centuries of Change (Oxford University Press), developed with Brown students over the last two years, will be on view. Dr. Skidmore came to Brown in 1988, where for 13 years he taught the history of Latin America, specifically Brazil, and served as the director of CLACS.

This event, exhibit, and reception are free and open to the public.

Location: Reading Room, John Hay Library

Time: 6:00 PM

 

Thursday, October 25-

 

Leah Carroll, UC Berkeley

“Violent Democratization: Social Movements, Elites & Politics in Colombia’s Rural War Zones, 1984-2008”

              

Wine and cheese reception to follow.

Location: McKinney Conference Room

Time: 5:00 PM 

Presented by the CLACS - Watson Joint Lecture Series on New Security Challenges in the Americas.

 

November 2012

 

Thursday, 11/1-

Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University

Location: McKinney Conference Room

Time: 5:00 PM

 

Thursday, 11/15-

Anthony DePalma, Columbia University & Former Bureau Chief in Mexico for The New York Times

Location: McKinney Conference Room

Time: 5:00 PM

 

Thursday, 11/29-

Marcus Kurtz, Ohio State University

Location: McKinney Conference Room

Time: 5:00 PM

 

December 2012

 

Thursday, 12/6- Timothy Kessler, Independent Consultant, Mexico

Location: McKinney Conference Room

Time: 5:00 PM

 

 

 

 


"The Politics of Development & Accountability in Post-Earthquake Haiti"

April 16 at 6:00PM
Watson Institute for International Studies. 111 Thayer Street. Providence. 02912. T.: 401.863.2645

Michele Pierre-Louis, former Prime Minister of Haiti and executive director of the Knowledge and Freedom Foundation, and Robert Maguire, a former specialist at the United States Institute of Peace, will speak on "The Politics of Development and Accountability in Post-Earthquake Haiti" in the Joukowsky Forum from 6:00 to 9:00 pm.

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