Past Events
04/21/08 to 04/23/08: Rethinking Poverty: Making Policies that Work for Children, sponsored by the Graduate School in International Affairs at The New School and UNICEF
The New School, Theresa Lang Center, 55 W. 13th Street.
This is the fourth International Conference organized by the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School and UNICEF. The specific aim of the 2008 Conference is to review and mobilize the agenda on child poverty and disparity. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mark an international commitment to eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, and to fostering global collaboration. Despite some progress towards the MDGs targets, millions of children remain outside of the policy agenda and unaffected by the progress. The Conference will create a space for peer consultation among UNICEF international staff, New School faculty and students, other academic and research institutions, NGO practitioners, and other external experts. Further, the Conference will include and extend work being done by UNICEF’s Global Study on “Child Poverty and Social Disparities.”
For more Information: contact Amy Paul, Conference Coordinator (childpoveryconference08@gmail.com) and Alberto Minujin, Conference Director (minujin@gmail.com).
For more Information about the upcoming or the previous conferences: visit Equity For Children (www.equityforchildren.org).
4/11/2008: Janey Program Annual Conference, with keynote speaker Mr. Gustavo Guzmán Saldaña, Ambassador of Bolivia to the United States of America, and special guest Estela Carlotto.
The Latin American region has witnessed a mounting opposition to neo-liberalism over the course of the last decade. Particularly the most recent developments in Bolivia and Venezuela raise questions with critical implications for various fields of study, from political economy to political theory. With keynote speaker Mr. Gustavo Guzmán Saldaña, Ambassador of Bolivia to the United States of America, and special guest Estela Carlotto, President of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo and recipient of the New School University in Exile Award in 2006, these questions will be addressed by a panel of experts including Sujatha Fernandes, Greg Grandin, Bernardo Kliksberg, Philip Oxhorn, Fred Rosen and David Schneiderman.
Conference organizers
The Janey Program in Latin American Studies & Observatory on Latin America, The New School
Conference date & time
Friday April 11, 2008, 9:45 am – 6:00 pm
Location
79 Fifth Ave, Room 906
04/11/2008 to 04/17/2008: Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY)
The HFFNY is an internationally recognized film festival celebrating Latin American cinema. In its 9th year, HFFNY features the most current cinematic talent alongside the familiar from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and the United States.
- To get information about tickets and screenings: www.hffny.com
02/27/2008: Religion and politics in Argentina. From Catholic hegemony to plurality of the religious field
A conversation with Verónica Giménez Beliveau, a researcher in Social Sciences at the CONICET and adjunct associate professor at University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Social Sciences.
11/06/2007: Documenting Latin America’s Political Changes. “A closer look at Cocalero”
A panel with Alejandro Landes and Simone Duarte, Moderated by Carlos Gutierrez with opening remarks by Michael Cohen.
10/23/2007: Presentation of Pino Solana’s award winning documentary film “Memoria del Saqueo
Followed by a conversation with Alejandro Olmos.
9/25/2007: “Youth, Drugs, and the Struggle for Social Inclusion in Metropolitan Buenos Aires”
A conversation with the Argentine Congressman Fernando Navarro.
4/26 & 27/2007: “Social Democracy in a Globalized World”
A Conference organized by the Janey Program in Latin American Studies and the Observatory on Latin America (OLA).
2/2/2007: “Political Systems of Argentina, Brazil and Chile Compared”
By the Argentine political scientist Torcuato Di Tella.
9/19/2006: Roundtable Discussion
A panel with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Senator of Argentina and President of the Commission on Constitutional Affairs at the Senate of Argentina; David Choquehuanca Céspedes, Foreign Minister of Bolivia; Marco Aurelio García, Presidential Advisor of the President, Brazil; Heraldo Muñoz, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations; Bernardo Alvarez Herrera, Ambassador of Venezuela to the United States. Introduction and final remarks by Michael Cohen and presentation by Margarita Gutman.
