SubscribeThirty-seven paintings and drawings from Fernando Botero’s “Abu Ghraib” series, donated by the artist to UC Berkeley three years ago, are on display at Chile’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights through June 24.
Tag: CLAS
Latin America scholars on Chavez’s death, new Pope
March 21, 2013:
What does the death of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, and the election of an Argentinian cardinal as Pope, mean for Latin America? Experts from the Americas offer commentary, in English and Spanish, via the Center for Latin American Studies’ online video series “Critical Insights.”
CLAS interviews probe Mexican elections
July 3, 2012:
The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) has conducted interviews on the 2012 Mexican elections with leading Mexican public intellectuals, a journalist and an iconic political leader. The interviews are available on the CLAS Facebook page and Youtube channel.
Teachers: Free CLAS institute on César Chávez and UFW, July 19
June 25, 2012:
“Supply, Demand, and César Chávez” is the title of a daylong workshop, free for teachers, offered by the campus’s Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS). The July 19 summer institute will look at circumstances surrounding the organization of the United Farm Workers, as well as forces that continue to shape U.S. farm workers’ experience today.
Chilean student-protest leader speaks at Berkeley
December 1, 2011:
A leader of the massive student-protest movement, ongoing in Chile, shared insights on the 2011 “Chilean Winter” in a Nov. 30 talk at Berkeley. Giorgio Jackson said university students in his country seek an overhaul of the system for financing public education.
