Public Lecture
Lt.
General Roméo Dallaire
O.C., C.M.M.,
M.S.C., C.D.
(Retired)
“Shake Hands
with the Devil”
Tuesday,
February 15,
2005 at 7:30
PM
Love Auditorium,
Colgate
University
A decorated
Lieutenant
General, Roméo
Dallaire served
for 35 years
with the
Canadian Armed
Forces. A
best-selling
author, his
recently
released book,
Shake Hands
With the Devil,
is a stirring
account of his
experience as
the Force
Commander of the
United Nations
Mission to
Rwanda and
exposes the
failure by
humanity to stop
one of the worst
genocides of the
20th century.
Co-sponsored by
the Peace
Studies Program.
Peace Studies/ENST/CEWS
Brown Bag Lunch
Seminar
Dr. Glen Kuecker
Associate
Professor of
History, De Pauw
University
“To
Be 'Buen Bravo':
Grassroots
Resistance to
World Bank
Mining Projects
in Ecuador”
Friday, February
4,
2005 at 12:15 PM
Alana Cultural
Center
'Buen Bravo'
(steadfast
brave) is one of
the most used
phrases in
communities
resisting mining
in Ecuador.
This
presentation
examines the
concept of 'Buen
Bravo' by
looking at the
process of
consciousness
formation within
the communities
threatened by
mining. It
focuses on the
development of
an ecological
ethic among
people whose
primary identity
was defined by
their experience
as colonists in
a remote part of
Ecuador's Andean
Mountains. The
presentation
highlights the
macro-structures
of neoliberal
economic reforms
in Ecuador, how
mining came to
Ecuador, and the
conflicts it has
caused on the
micro-level of
society. Glen
David Kuecker is
an Associate
Professor of
Latin American
History at
DePauw
University,
Greencastle,
Indiana. He
received the
doctorate in
Latin American
and Comparative
Global History
from Rutgers
University.
Professor
Kuecker served
as Coordinator
of DePauw
University's
Conflict Studies
Program, and
teaches courses
ranging from
Latin American
Revolutions,
Globalization,
and a Management
Program Freshmen
Seminar. He
works on two
central research
projects. The
first examines
how the Mexican
port city of
Tampico became a
modern urban
space during the
last third of
the 19th
Century. The
second compares
grassroots
resistance to
globalization in
today's Ecuador
and Mexico.
Professor
Kuecker serves
on the Advisory
Board of the
Mexico
Solidarity
Network and is
co-founder of
the Ecuador
Solidarity
Network.
Public
Lecture
Marguerite
Feitlowitz
Professor of
Literature
Bennington
College
“'The
Only Safe Words
Are Our Words':
Admirals,
Generals,
Torturers,
and Other
Philologists”
Monday, March 7,
2005 at
4:30 PM
Persson Hall
Auditorium
Feitlowitz is
the author of A
Lexicon of
Terror:
Argentina and
the Legacies of
Torture.
Acclaimed
internationally,
it was a New
York Times
Notable Book of
1998 and Notable
Paperback of
1999, as well as
a finalist for
the 1999 PEN New
England-L.L.
Winship Prize.
Her fiction,
poetry, essays,
art criticism,
and translations
have appeared in
Bomb,
TriQuarterly,
Salmagundi, Les
Temps Modernes,
el viejo topo,
City Lights
Review, The
Literary Review,
and numerous
other journals
and anthologies
in the Americas,
Europe, and
Israel. She has
held two
Fulbright
Fellowships to
Argentina
(including a
1999 Senior
Scholar Award),
a Bunting
Fellowship in
nonfiction, and
a Harvard
Faculty Research
Grant. In spring
1994 she was a
visiting scholar
at Hebrew
University in
Jerusalem. She
has published
three volumes of
literary
translations
from French and
Spanish.
Feitlowitz
previously
taught at
Harvard
University. BA,
Colgate
University;
Université de
Dijon. She has
taught at
Bennington since
2002.
Public Lecture
David Campbell
"Self-Portraits
of Atrocity:
Reflections on
Photographs of
Torture"
Wednesday, March
30, 2005 at 7:00
PM
105 Lawrence
Hall
David Campbell,
Professor of
Cultural and
Political
Geography at the
University of
Durham will
speak on
"Self-Portraits
of Atrocity:
Reflections on
Photographs of
Torture." In the
wake of the
scandal prompted
by the
photographs of
abuse and
torture at Abu
Ghraid, this
talk will
examine a series
of issues
concerned with
the imaging of
atrocity. Why do
people take
self-incriminating
images? How do
those images
function once
they start to
circulate
publicly? What
impact do they
have on the
representation
of the event?
What critical
analysis can we
offer of images
of atrocity
taken by those
commiting the
atrocities?
Co-sponsored by
the Peace
Studies Program
Public Lecture
Kate Manzo
"Baby
Face: Images of
Suffering in
Social Justice
Campaigns"
Monday, April 4,
2005 at 7:00 PM
217 Lathrop Hall
Professor
Kathryn Manzo,
Lecturer in
International
Development,
Univeristy of
Newcastle will
speak on:Baby
Face Images of
Suffering in
Social Justice
Campaigns." She
will focus on
the dominate
images of
Africa, which
remains that of
the starving or
suffering
stranger,
manifested most
often as the
face of a baby.
Can the use of
such heavily
critiqued
imagery ever
serve the cause
of social
justice? This
talk
interrogates
that question
via analysis of
two campaigns
originating in
the 1980's --
the UNICEF
"Adjustment with
a Human Face"
campaign and the
Band Aid/Live
Aid phenomenon.
Co-sponsored by
the Peace
Studies Program
