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NewsMacalester students at the Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association conference - February 5-7, 2009On February 5-7, 2009, Andrew Mueller, Jen Vail, Amy Hill, Laura Spencer,and Cybele Kotonias presented their senior theses at the 29th annual Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association conference at the University of Texas at Austin. The conference consisted of panels on a wide range of Latin American issues ranging from literature to human rights to the arts. The five Macalester seniors were the only undergraduates at the conference which was mostly made up of doctoral students from around the Americas. Macalester scholars at the North Central Council of Latin Americanists - October 31-November 1, 2008 Macalester graduate Brendan Duke ('08), students Fiorella Ormeņo Incio ('09) and Nicole Kligerman ('10), and Professor Paul Dosh presented papers at the North Central Council of Latin Americanists (NCCLA) conference, held at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. Fiorella and Nicole were awarded NCCLA travel grants and Brendan won the NCCLA Student Research Award for best conference paper. All three students drew praise from many faculty at the conference, as well as from the UW-Whitewater Chancellor. Most of the papers were presented by faculty, with a smaller number of presentations by graduate students. Brendan Duke's award-winning paper, "Unequal Votes and the Unequal Branch: Congressional Behavior and Neo-liberalism in Argentina," drew upon his 2008 Honors Thesis (which had also won the Political Science department's 2008 Award for Scholarly Writing). Brendan will now submit his article manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal. Fiorella Ormeņo Incio's paper, "Venezuela's Civil Society: The Making of a Battle Field," was based on field research undertaken in Venezuela in 2007 and 2008. Fiorella's presentation included short video excerpts from the documentary film that she produced earlier this year. Paul Dosh and Nicole Kligerman presented a paper, "Presence, Status, Respect, Voice: Gender Dynamics and Anti-Privatization Movements in Bolivia and Ecuador," based on their field research in the Andes. Their research was recently accepted for the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, and they will present the final version of their findings in Rio de Janeiro in 2009. Paul and Nicole will also make a campus presentation on Tuesday, November 18, 11:45 am, in Carnegie 304, as part of the Pi Sigma Alpha lecture series at Macalester. The presentation will include images by documentary photographer James Lerager, as well as an overview of Paul and Nicole's "Complementary Collaboration" approach -- a new model of research supported by an Associated Colleges of the Midwest grant for innovative faculty-student scholarship. Previous EventsHector Aristizabal, actor and human rights activist Hector is a native from Medellin Colombia and currently lives in Pasadena CA. Hector's commitment to the human rights work forced him to leave his country in 1989 due to death threats. Hector holds an MA degree in Psychology from the Antioquia University in Medellin, Colombia and a degree as a Marriage Family Therapist from Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena. He is also a theater director and actor and a practitioner of the techniques known as Theater of the Oppressed, developed by Brazilian Augusto Boal. Hector has worked with youth at risk in several capacities as a therapist, as an artist and as a community organizer. As an artist Hector has been the recipient of several grants from Los Angeles' Cultural Affairs Department, California Arts Council and many others, to develop original theater work with special constituencies. He is the co-founder of CITYSCAPE, an Art Therapy program and works as a consultant for several organizations in the Los Angeles area. Hector has also traveled extensively offering workshops both within the United States as well as other countries such as: Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Cuba, India, The Netherlands, England, Palestine and Israel. Hector is also a member of The Colombia Peace Project, which aims to educate Americans on the U.S. role in war torn Colombia and build up grassroots solidarity with the millions of Colombians who support a peaceful, negotiated solution to the conflict. During the last 15 years Hector's main work and interest has been on the use of Theater of The Oppressed techniques, traditional myths and story telling as a way to combine theater, drumming, and dance with psychotherapy in the creation of “modern rituals” as a way to address the healing needs of many of our communities. He develops this work mostly with youth at risk, The Victims of Torture Program where he is in charge of “The healing Club,” inside prsions with the California Youth Authority, through Children’s Institute International, among other agencies. (cited from Mr. Aristizabal's biography on the ImaginAction website) |
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