will be explored in public forum
The challenges, liabilities and potential of the government of Venezuela
under the leadership of President Hugo Chávez will be explored at a
public forum taking place at Yale on Friday, Nov. 30.
The event — titled “Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution at Home
and Abroad: A New Geometry of Power?” — will take place 11 a.m.-6
p.m. at the Yale Law School, 127 Wall St. It is free and open to the public.
Scholars, politicians and filmmakers from across the political spectrum will
speak at the event, which is sponsored by The Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for
International Human Rights at Yale Law School and The Council on Latin American
and Iberian Studies at Yale.
“We’ll go beyond the mainstream obsession with the controversial
Chávez to consider the sources of his growing popular support, the successes
and failures of his government at home and abroad, and prospects for the future,” says
Gil Joseph, the Farnam Professor of History and International Studies at Yale,
who is co-organizing the conference with Greg Grandin, professor of history at
New York University.
There will be a morning panel discussion on Venezuelan foreign affairs, featuring
a presentation by Bernardo Alvarez Herrera, Venezuela’s ambassador to the
United States, and an afternoon panel discussion on Venezuelan domestic policy.
At 4 p.m., there will be a screening of the documentary film “Puedo Hablar?
(May I Speak?)” — a chronicle of the 2006 presidential elections
in Venezuela. A question-and-answer session will follow.
Other featured speakers will be Sujatha Fernande of Queens College, City University
of New York; Greg Grandin and Alejandro Velasco of New York University; Christopher
Moore, film director at Sol Productions; Francisco Rodriguez of Wesleyan University;
Miguel Tinker Salas of Pomona College; Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic
and Policy Research; and Yale faculty members Thad Dunning, Seth Fein and Gil
Joseph.
For more information, including the complete schedule, visit www.yale.edu/macmillan/lais.
The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law
School, founded in 1989 to honor the late Orville H. Schell Jr., coordinates
a diverse program of human rights activities that serve students and scholars
at Yale and contribute to the development of the human rights community locally
and internationally.
The Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan
Center for International and Area Studies) seeks to enhance the understanding
of Latin America, Spain and Portugal. It works to strengthen ties with institutions
throughout those countries. The council organizes a weekly lecture and film series,
sponsors research abroad, coordinates outreach programs, convenes international
conferences and edits conference results for scholarly publication.
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