The First Amazonian Rebellion in Peru by Rodrigo Montoya
When: Thursday, October 23, 2008 from 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Where: Deutz Room, Copley International Conference Center, The Institute of the Americas Complex, UCSD Campus

Peru once seemed like an exception to the indigenous movements that have taken place in Ecuador and Bolivia until two months ago, when the Amazonian Indians decisively opposed the decrees of President Garcia to sell the lands of the native communities. They painted their faces as a signal of combat, occupied an oil company's installations, and threatened to cut off the flow of gas. The government was unprepared for such a response and lost. How do we explain these actions? What implications do they have?

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Mexican Oral Traditions and Cultural Identity
When: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 3:30 p.m.
Where: Deutz Room, Copley International Conference Center, The Institute of the Americas Complex, UCSD Campus

Beatriz Mariscal Hay, Literature, El Colegio de México and Visiting Fellow, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. Joint seminar with the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies.

El Norte Presented by Greg Nava
When: Monday, November 17, 2008 from 7:00-9:30 p.m.
Where: Price Center Theater

Director Greg Nava presents "El Norte", the Academy Award Nominated film depicting the plight of Guatemalans working illegally in the United States . Greg Nava will introduce the film and take questions at the conclusion about the film and his other works.

Essentially Indigenous by Michelle McKinley
When: Thursday, November 20, 2008 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Where: Deutz Room, Copley International Conference Center, The Institute of the Americas Complex, UCSD Campus

The Amazon is a region of the world that is excessively talked about, very rarely are the people listened to. How are globally driven health, development, and environmental policies experienced by rural, indigenous women in Amazonian communities on the periphery of formal political power? As with other global development processes, reproductive health programs are actively resisted,
modified, and accepted by the families being planned, and who are their intended targets. Through an inquiry of the interface between strategic indigeneity and the feminist discourse of empowerment and reproductive rights, the presentation will explore the impact of international development programs on local identity politics in the Peruvian Amazon.

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Dis-assembling Partnering: The Kayapo of the Brazilian Amazon and Conservation International by Janet Chernela
When: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Where: Deutz Room, Copley International Conference Center, The Institute of the Americas Complex, UCSD Campus.

This presentation considers the case of a partnership between the Kayapo, an Indigenous community of the Brazilian Amazon, with a long record of militant protection of their autonomy, and Conservation International, the world's largest environmental NGO. The presentation examines this unlikely alliance, considering the differing perspectives of the constituents, and the struggle by them to achieve common ground.

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