Workshop on Political Exile in Latin America  

15-16 April 2008

Tuesday 15 April

9:00-9:15: Opening of the workshop. Greetings by Dean Debbie Best

9:15-10:45 First session - Johnson Room, Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Chair: Judit Bokser Liwerant, UNAM Mexico

Luis Roniger, Wake Forest University

Historical origins and development of political exile in Latin America

Mario Sznajder, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Political exile, the nation-state and globalization

Coffe break

11:15-12:45 Second session - Johnson Room, Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Chair: Benedetta Calandra, University of Bergamo, Italy

Judit Bokser, UNAM – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Argentinean exiles and their impact on Mexican social sciences

David Weinstein, Wake Forest University

German intellectual exiles and their impact on Western ideas

Lunch break

3:00-5:30PM Third and fourth sessions – Tribble A-302

Session on political institutions and political culture and session on the optic of exile and exclusion, with students and panel discussion

Third session: Political institutions and political culture in Latin America

Chair: Luis Roniger, WFU

Panel with Mario Sznajder, Hebrew University &

 Peter Siavelis, Wake Forest University

Fourth session: Exile and Institutional Exclusion

Luis Roniger, Wake Forest University

Latin American presidential exile

Wednesday 16 April

9:00-10:30 Fifth session – Johnson Room, Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Chair: Mario Sznajder, HUJI Israel

Benedetta Calandra, University of Bergamo, Italy

Argentineans and Chileans in the USA: Networks of Solidarity

Pablo Yankelevich, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México:

La dictadura argentina y el exilio mexicano/ Argentine dictatorship and Mexican exile (in Spanish)

Coffee break

11:00-11:45 Sixth session - Johnson Room, Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Chair: Pablo Yankelevich, INAH Mexico

Patricia Dixon, Wake Forest University

Los músicos del exilio / Musicians in exile (in Spanish)

Patricia Caicedo, Colombian soprano and musicologist, is an international concert and recording artist and leading interpreter of Latin American and Spanish art song. Singing in Spanish, Portuguese, Quechua and Catalan, she delights listeners with a voice that is known for its “tonal beauty and communicative strength”. Dr. Caicedo has performed in the United States, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Puerto Rico and Latin America to public and critical acclaim, and she has earned highest honors in numerous festivals and competitions, including a prize awarded by Sony Music for best classical soloist in 1998 in Colombia and first prize in the “Concurso Nacional del Bambuco” competition, also in Colombia, in 1993. Patricia Caicedo’s book, The Latin American Art Song: A Critical Anthology and Interpretative Resource for Singers (Edicions Tritó, 2005), is a highly acclaimed reference in the field. A recent review in the NATS Journal of Singing states: “Colombian soprano and musicologist Patricia Caicedo has done both her own region and the rest of the world a great favor in researching, compiling, writing commentary for, and editing forty-eight songs by twenty-one composers representing ten countries—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Chile, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela.” Patricia Caicedo is the founder and artistic director of the Barcelona Festival of Song a summer course and a concert series dedicated to the study of the history and interpretation of the Latin American and Spanish Art Song.  This past summer a WFU voice student, Rebecca Anne Henriques (’08), was chosen to be a participant in the 2007 Barcelona Festival of Song.

Patricia Caicedo, Colombian soprano and musicologist, is an international concert and recording artist and leading interpreter of Latin American and Spanish art song. Singing in Spanish, Portuguese, Quechua and Catalan, she delights listeners with a voice that is known for its “tonal beauty and communicative strength”. Dr. Caicedo has performed in the United States, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Puerto Rico and Latin America to public and critical acclaim, and she has earned highest honors in numerous festivals and competitions, including a prize awarded by Sony Music for best classical soloist in 1998 in Colombia and first prize in the “Concurso Nacional del Bambuco” competition, also in Colombia, in 1993. Patricia Caicedo’s book, The Latin American Art Song: A Critical Anthology and Interpretative Resource for Singers (Edicions Tritó, 2005), is a highly acclaimed reference in the field. A recent review in the NATS Journal of Singing states: “Colombian soprano and musicologist Patricia Caicedo has done both her own region and the rest of the world a great favor in researching, compiling, writing commentary for, and editing forty-eight songs by twenty-one composers representing ten countries—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Chile, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela.” Patricia Caicedo is the founder and artistic director of the Barcelona Festival of Song a summer course and a concert series dedicated to the study of the history and interpretation of the Latin American and Spanish Art Song.  This past summer a WFU voice student, Rebecca Anne Henriques (’08), was chosen to be a participant in the 2007 Barcelona Festival of Song.

IMMIGRATION IN A LAND OF IMMIGRANTS

Preliminary Planning Document

October 3: 2.00-4.00 pm                          Pre-event film screening

Crossing Arizona

Director: Dan DeVivo

October 4, 2007    Explaining Migration and Its Consequences

Session 1: 9:00-10:30--Placing current immigration flows in time and space

Speakers to compare current immigration flows (volume and character) with past immigration into the United States, and with contemporary migration flows elsewhere in the global system

1. Michele Wucker, The World Policy Institute, The New School

2. Mark Miller, University of Delaware

Session 2: 11:00-12:30--The Mexican experience of migrating north

Speakers to examine the history and present character of Mexican migration to the USA, and the impact of that migration on Mexican social and political life back in Mexico and here in the United States

1.  Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California

2.  Gary Segura and Luis Fraga (Universities of Washington and Stanford)

Session 3: 2:00-3:45--The political economy of contemporary migration

Speakers to examine pull and push factors behind contemporary migration into the United States, and the impact of migration on US domestic economic conditions

1. Gordon Hanson, University of Southern California, San Diego

2. Alejandro Portes, Princeton University

Session 4: 4:00-5:30--The local impact of Mexican migration

Speakers to examine the impact of Mexican migration on the North Carolinian economy and welfare system, and the nature of the Mexican experience of Carolinian life and politics

1.Marisol Jiménez McGee, Advocacy Director & Lobbyist, El Pueblo, Non-profit immigrant advocacy group.

2. José Isasi, CEO, Que Pasa Media Network, Board Chair, Makin´ It Work Pronto! Hispanic Marketing and Communications.

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.  Film Screening of Crossing Arizona and Q&A with Director Dan DeVivoAn award-winning documentary about illegal immigration and border security on the U.S./Mexico border.

October 5, 2007                The Politics of Immigration Reform

Session 5: 9:00-10:30--Deportation Policy and Immigration Reform

Speakers to examine the impact of current immigration and deportation legislation on existing Latino and other immigrant communities, and the consequences of any failure to reform

1. Patricia Fernández Kelly, Princeton University

2. Margaret Taylor, Wake Forest University

Session 6: 11:00-12:30--The Policy Choices in Play

Speakers to lay out the academic argument for each major strand in the current policy debate      

1.      Robert Rector, The Heritage Institution

2.      Daniel Griswold,  The Cato Institute

3.      Ross Eisenbrey , The Economic Policy Institute

FIESTA has become a true Winston-Salem tradition with an average attendance of over 20,000 people, making it the largest one-day popular street event in the Triad. Most importantly, it is a key community event celebrating diversity, Hispanic/Latino heritage and cross-cultural understanding among all people of the community.

Fiesta is seeking volunteers. Volunteers will be asked to work three hour shifts on the day of the Fiesta, which will be held on Saturday, September 24, from between 11:00am to 7:00pm.  Volunteers can work in: setup/takedown, children´s area, entrance, beer garden, info booth, or in one of the vending booths. For more information, contact Dr. Peter Siavelis in the Political Science Department at ext. 5451 or e-mail siavelpm@wfu.edu.

Protest and Rebellion in Latin America

A Film Series
Wednesdays at 7:30pm
Tribble B117

7 September
La última cena / The Last Supper
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba, 1976
A master and slaves in 18th-century Cuba.

21 September
Deus e o diabo na terra do sol / Black God, White Devil
Glauber Rocha, Brazil, 1964
Bandits in the 19th-century Brazilian backlands.

5 October
Sub terra / Underground
Marcelo Ferrari, Chile, 2003
Miners in Chile in 1897.

19 October
¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! / Let´s Go with Pancho Villa!
Fernando de Fuentes, Mexico, 1936
The Mexican Revolution.

2 November
Canoa
Felipe Cazals, Mexico, 1975
Villagers confront outsiders in Mexico in 1968.

16 November
No habrá más penas ni olvido / Funny Dirty Little War
Hector Olivera, Argentina, 1983
Peronists in an Argentine village in the 1970s.

All films are subtitled in English.

For more information contact Prof. Jennifer Ottman, History, x3092 or ottmanj@wfu.edu.

The Department of Political Science and Latin American Studies Invite you to the CH Richards lecture on

Democracy in Latin America: Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Peru and Mexico

Carlos A. Forment is director of the Center for Research and Documentation of Public Life in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His two-volume work, Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900: Civic Selfhood and Public Life (University of Chicago Press) provides a Tocquevillian account of democracy in Latin America, and a Latin American account of Tocqueville. Forment is now studying the emergence of democratic practices in contemporary Argentina.

Respondents:
Judit Bokser Liwerant is director of the Graduate School of Political and Social Sciences at the UNAM University in Mexico, where she also holds the position of Senior Professor at the Center for Social Theory. A member of the Mexican Academy of Science, she has published seven books and numerous articles on political theory and collective identities.

Mario S. Sznajder, Leon Blum associate professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, is renowned for his studies of political ideologies, particularly European fascism, and the study of political democratization and human-rights in Latin America.

The Annenberg Forum (Carswell 111)
April 27, 2005   6:30pm - 8:00pm

If you have any questions please contact the Department of Political Science at 336-758-5449 or vargasem@wfu.edu Please call at least two weeks prior to the event if you will need special assistance, so that if necessary we can make reasonable accommodations

Linda Barnes, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health, Boston University School of Medicine.

This talk will address intersections between petitions, vows, and sacrifice, as core aspects of human religiosity. It will explore how objects signifying these phenomena give material form to relationships between human and divine identities. From both a comparative and tradition-particular focus, we will look at the nature of the exchanges represented in ex-votos, milagros, and retablos. It will concentrate on Latin America, but will draw some comparative examples from other parts of the world.

Dr. Barnes received her M.T.S., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her dissertation is entitled "Alternative Pursuits: A History of Chinese Healing Practices in the Context of American Religions and Medicines with an Ethnographic Focus on the City of Boston." Since 1999, Dr. Barnes has been Director of the Spirituality and Child Health Initiative, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, Director of the Field Site Placements of Harvard Divinity School Students in the Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, and since 2000, Director of The Boston Healing Landscape Project, Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine. The lecture is supported by the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the Divinity School, American Ethnic Studies, and the Departments of Psychology and Sociology.

This event is free and will occur in the Museum of Anthropology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. The Museum is open Tuesday-Saturday 10:00-4:30. Call (336) 758-5282 for directions and information.

Tokens of Thanks: Ex-votos from Brazil and Mexico (Ofrendas de agradecimiento: exvotos de Brasil y México) is a new bilingual exhibit in the Museum of Anthropology. Featuring more than two hundred objects made of wood, metal, wax, and cloth, the exhibit includes offerings that people afflicted by injuries, diseases, or other problems made during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in gratitude for healing. The exhibit opened August 7 and runs through January 15, 2005.

Brazil and Mexico have strong traditions of petitioning God directly or through the intercession of saints for relief from troubles. A petitioner typically vows to undertake a pilgrimage or to place an object that represents the problem in a sacred place in exchange for healing.

Votive objects are known as milagres in Portuguese or milagros in Spanish, both meaning miracles. Some ex-votos are wood, metal, cloth, or wax representations of parts of the body, often showing in detail what injury or lesion afflicted a person. Others are paintings on tin showing what events caused a person to seek relief.

The exhibit explores the process of petitioning to the supernatural, the ways in which people keep their vows, and the roots of ex-voto traditions in Catholic Europe, pagan Europe, the pre-Hispanic Americas, and Africa.

Four free public events are scheduled in association with the exhibit. Dr. Linda L. Barnes, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at the Boston University School of Medicine, will talk about Sacred Reciprocity: Miracles, Sacrifices, and Vows at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 28. Families are invited to learn about and then make their own ´milagros´ at Milagros: Symbols of Hope on Saturday, October 16 at 10 a.m. Martha Egan, Santa Fe-based author will be present to sign copies of her books on Mexican ´milagros´ and her new novel, and will lecture on Milagros: Votive Offerings at the Altars of Faith on October 28 at 4:00 p.m. Fatima Bercht, Chief Curator at El Museo del Barrio in New York City will lecture about Brazilian ex-votos at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 13.