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Commentary:
Art in a Time of Violence
CLAS
Chair Harley Shaiken introduces this issue of the Review.
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Botero
at Berkeley
A
Special Section of the Review on
Fernando
Botero's
"Abu Ghraib" at
Berkeley in 2007 |
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Fernando
Botero (left)
talks with Robert Hass.
(photo by Jan Sturmann)
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A
Conversation with the Artist
Fernando
Botero in conversation with UC Berkeley Professor
and former Poet Laureate Robert Hass.
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Fernando
Botero,"Abu Ghraib 79," 2005, watercolor
on paper. (Image courtesy of Fernando Botero) |
Fernando
Botero: Abu Ghraib
Selections
from the paintings and drawings in the exhibit.
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Fernando
Botero, Abu Ghraib 37, 2005, pencil on paper.
(Image courtesy of Fernando Botero) |
Art
and Violence
Three
UC Berkeley professors, Francine Masiello, Tom Laqueur
and T.J. Clark, place Fernando Botero’s “Abu
Ghraib” series in historical and artistic context. Download
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The
Stanford Prison Experiment led to behaviors
strangely similar to treatment of Iraqi detainees.
(photo courtesy of Philip Zimbardo)
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Torture
in a Time of Terrorism
Leading
figures from the fields of human rights, law, art
and psychology--Aryeh Neier, José Zalaquett, Jenny
Martinez, and Philip Zimbardo--discuss
the role of torture from the Middle Ages to the present.
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Mr. Botero inspects the
exhibit
prior to opening night.
(photo by Jan Sturmann) |
Figures
in Light and Shadow
Colombian
journalist and CLAS Senior Scholar Daniel Coronell
interviews Fernando Botero.
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Fernando
Botero outside the Free Speech Movement
Cafe. (photo by David R. Léon Lara) |
Bringing
Botero to Berkeley
Jean
Spencer reveals the inside story of how this remarkable
exhibition and series of events came about.
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Contents
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A
crowded Transantiago subway station.
(photo: Daniel Ebensperger)
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The
Sorcerer’s Apprentice
CLAS
Senior Scholar Kirsten Sehnbruch discusses the
rocky implementation of Chile’s Transantiago
transport system and its effect on Michelle Bachelet’s
presidency.
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A
sign in English and Spanish outside a polling
place in San Antonio, Texas.
(photo: Associated
Press) |
Who
Is the Latino Voter?
CLAS
Senior Scholar Maria Echaveste performs a close
analysis of the 2006 election results and what
they reveal about Latino voters.
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A
Nicaraguan brigadista holds a
test tube containing larvae of Aedes aegypti
mosquitoes, which transmit dengue virus. (photo
courtesy of Eva Harris) |
Science,
Sustainability and the South
UC
Berkeley Public Health Professor Eva Harris builds
community and capacity in her efforts to control
the spread of dengue.
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Supporters
of Daniel Ortega celebrate his victory.
(photo:
Getty Images) |
El
Comandante Returns
Carlos
Chamorro provides a perspective on the recent election
of Sandinista Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua.
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KB .pdf) |
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Lázaro
Cárdenas (who nationalized Mexico's
oil industry) remains part of that country's
landscape.
(photo by Melanie Bateman) |
Black
Rain: Veracruz 1900-1938
Professor
Myrna Santiago describes “the ecology of
oil” created by oil barons in Veracruz early
in the last century.
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Argentine
presidents Néstor Kirchner and
(mouseover photo)
Juan Domingo Perón.
(photos:
Associated Press and Getty Images) |
The
Persistence of Peronism
More
than 60 years after Juan Perón was first
elected president of Argentina, his party continues
to dominate Argentine politics. Torcuato
Di Tella of
the University of Buenos Aires looks at this continuity.
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Brazilian
workers march for an increase in
the minimum wage.
(photo: Getty Images) |
Labor’s
Love Lost?
Kjeld
Jakobsen discusses the challenges facing the Brazilian
labor movement.
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Mexican
legislators brawl in the Congress
building, just prior to the inauguration
of Felipe Calderón.
(photo:
AP Wide World) |
My
Life in the Clouds
Graduate
student and Tinker Summer Research Grant recipient
Christian DiCanio describes his research into the
Trique language of western Oaxaca state.
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Stealing
From the People or
Stealing People?
Graduate
student Joshua Jelly Schapiro reviews the film
"Manda Bala."
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Cover
art from Lost City Radio.
(image courtesy of HarperCollins) |
Locating Lost
City Radio
Graduate
student Meredith Perry reviews Daniel Alarcón’s Lost
City Radio.
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Parque Pumalín,
Chile.
(photo courtesy of the
Foundation for Deep Ecology.) |
Measure
A
poem by Robert Hass.
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