New Lectures 2012

02/03/12 Políticas de la reforma educativa en Chile

• Gregory M. Elacqua, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile/TCLA
  Lugar: CEDLA, a las 15.30h
  
  Gregory M. Elacqua es Director del Instituto de Políticas Públicas de la Facultad de Economía y Empresa de la Universidad Diego Portales. Durante su carrera ha trabajado y publicado diversos estudios sobre políticas educativas y políticas públicas tanto en Chile como en el extranjero. También participa activamente en el debate público y el diseño de políticas educativas en Chile. Actualmente es asesor del Presidente de la Comisión de Educación en el Senado, Senador Ignacio Walker.

16/03/12 Industrías extractivas y consulta previa en Bolivia, Perú y Ecuador: Avances, limitaciones y conflictos

• Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, GIGA (Hamburg)
  Lugar: CEDLA, a las 15.30h
  
  Almut Schilling-Vacaflor es doctorada Ph.D. en Antropología Social y Cultural en el campo de la Antropología del Derecho de la Universidad de Viena, Austria. Actualmente es investigadora en GIGA, Institute of Latin American Studies. Recientemente ha publicado el estudio Democratizing Resource Governance through Prior Consultations? Lessons from Bolivia's Hydrocarbon Sector, GIGA Working Papers, 184, January 2012 (Abstract & full article).
  
  

30/03/12 Latin America in the New World Order: Extractive industries and the Global South

• Daniel C. Hellinger, Webster University (St. Louis)
  Venue: CEDLA, at 15.30h
  
  Daniel C. Hellinger is Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Relations program at Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri. He has published widely on Latin American politics, and regularly comments on Latin American politics for the InterAmerican Dialogue’s Latin American Advisor. In 2011 his book Comparative Politics of Latin America: Democracy at Last? (Routledge) was released, as well as his co-edited volume Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics, and Culture Under Chávez (Duke University Press).

20/04/12 Una ‘nación mestiza’: La construcción de la identidad del Paraguay

• Ignacio Telesca, CONICET - Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Universität zu Köln
  Lugar: CEDLA, a las 15.30h
  
  Ignacio Telesca se doctoró en Historia por la Universidad Torcuato di Tella en Buenos Aires. Desde el 2003 se desempeñó como miembro de equipos de investigación y en la docencia universitaria. Perteneció al Equipo Nacional de Misiones de la Conferencia Episcopal Paraguaya, al Centro de Estudios Paraguayos Antonio Guasch, y a la Comisión de Verdad y Justicia, entre otros organismos. Desde el 2007 se halla a cargo de la Colección Bicentenario del Centro de Estudios Antropológicos de la Universidad Católica (CEADUC).
  

11/05/12 Land holding and grabbing in today’s Latin America: A debate




• Annelies Zoomers, Utrecht University; IS-Academy LANDac
  Jun Borras, Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
  
  Venue: CEDLA, at 15.30h
  
  
  
  
  Annelies Zoomers is Professor of International Development Studies (IDS) at Utrecht University and chair of the IS-academy on land governance (LANDac). She has published extensively about sustainable livelihoods; land policies and the impact of privatization, tourism and international migration. Her research project 'Land market liberalization, land grabbing and sustainable space' aims to explore current processes of land 'foreignization' (the ownership of land by foreign buyers).
  
  Jun Borras is Associate Professor in Rural Development, Environment and Population at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, Netherlands. Jun is also Adjunct Professor, COHD at China Agricultural University, Beijing; a Fellow for Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy in California, Coordinator for Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS), and Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS). Saturnino 'Jun' M Borras Jr. is a political activist and academic who has been deeply involved in rural social movements in the Philippines and internationally since the early 1980s. Borras was part of the core organising team that established the international peasant movement La Via Campesina and has written extensively on land issues and agrarian movements.

08/06/12 Popular, Catholic and National: Our Lady of Aparecida and the making of a Brazilian Devotion


• João Rickli, PUCRS (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul)
  Venue: CEDLA, at 15.30h
  
  



• During the Brazilian presidential elections of 2010, the two most voted candidates visited the so-called National Shrine, a huge Catholic Basilica in the state São Paulo, dedicated to Our Lady of Aparecida, the patron saint of Brazil. These visits could be understood as the most recent chapter of a century-long history of the cult of Aparecida as a critical junction linking the Catholic Church, Brazilian national politics and popular Catholic devotional practices.
  
  This lecture will address the relationships between politics and religion in different moment of the history of the devotion to Our Lady of Aparecida. It will analyse the transformations occurred in the iconography of Aparecida as a way to access the complex relationships between the Catholic Church and the State in Brazil. It will also analyse how Aparecida’s transitional identity – from a white European depiction of the Immaculate Conception to a black Brazilian manifestation of the Virgin Mary – reflects the forging of a Brazilian national identity, under the auspices of the Catholic Church and the Brazilian State.
  
  
  

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