Democracy Interrupted: Public (Mis)Trust in the Modern Latin American State - Thurs, March 30, 3 pm
Three leading experts on Latin America, including the deputy assistant secretary for Inter-American affairs in the Clinton administration, will discuss the volatile state of democracy in Latin America, a region with vast economic and cultural ties to the United States, at the Tulane University Presidential Symposium March 31 at 3 p.m. in the Freeman Auditorium of the Woldenberg Art Center. The event is free and open to the public.
"Democracy Interrupted: Public (Mis)Trust in the Modern Latin American State" will examine the intense economic and political reform that took place in Latin America in the 1990s, its painful side effects and the mistrust it engendered among the region's citizenry who are now mobilizing for change.
The symposium will consider the future of democracy in the region and the implications Latin America's process of economic and political reform holds for the United States and world.
Symposium speakers include Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development and former senior associate and director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, former executive vice-president of the Inter-American development bank and former director of the Policy Research Department at the World Bank; Arturo Valenzuela, professor of government and director of the Center for Latin American Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and former deputy assistant secretary for Inter- American Affairs in the Department of State under Bill Clinton; and Eugenio Raýl Zaffaroni, director of the Department of Penal Law and Criminology at the National University of Buenos Aires and minister of the Supreme Court of Argentina.
For more symposium information visit http://www2.tulane.edu/president_symposium.cfm
posted by Erica Roggeveen @ 8:47 PM
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On March 30th I attended the Democracy Interrupted talk in the Freeman Auditorium. This talk was introduced by President Cowen, who described the influence respected and intelligent speakers have on the Tulane community. He was followed by THonas Reese who talked about the background of the speakers. Then the moderator Ludovico Feoli added some comments about the topic of the lectures.
The general theme was discusing the state of Latin America, if it was one that was hopeless or one in a phase of econmic mobility. The three speakers, all very distinguished in their fields. Each one discussed the influence on politics and economy on the growth of Latin America, presenting positive and negative sides and solutions that should be investigated.
I think that attending lectures like this are of extreme importance to high school students. early exposure to current events in politics and the world economy will help spark an interest for future citzenship. From these sort of lectures lesson can be designed using graphs and statistics. Students could look at the amount of education in comparison to income. They could take a look at poverty rates and poverty lines, to decide if they are fair which could open a world of discussion for them. Interest rates and tarrifs and exports and concepts that can be modified and simplified for high school students can be used to begin their exploration of US influence on other cultures. Students could compare all this information to US information to help build a picture of life in LAtin AMerica.
Reply to Miriam's post:
Good comments - it would have been nice if you had described the general theme of each talk. Again, great ideas for bringing other cultures into the math classroom.
Miriam,
I agree with you that it is important to expand the learning potential of students by having them attend these sorts of events. You can also expand on this and have the students create a panel discussion of thier own. As a class, you could possibly have the students attend an event like this and have them mimic the format. I think it's great to challenge these students on multifacet level, i.e. through visual stimulation, lectures, audio. These presenters displayed but one version of this, you can certainly expound upon that in the classroom.
Regards
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