[mobglob-discuss] Fwd: Marta Harnecker seminar

[michael a. lebowitz]

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> >Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:34:48 -0700
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> >From: John Brohman <brohman at sfu.ca>
> >Subject: Marta Harnecker seminar
> >
> >Friends and Colleagues,
> >
> >The renowned Latin American scholar, activist, and prolific author, Marta
> >Harnecker, will deliver a seminar on Monday, Sept. 9, 7-10 p.m. in the
> >Fletcher Challenge Theatre (Room 1900) of the Harbour Centre, Downtown
> >Campus of SFU.
> >
> >The event is being sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program, the
> >Office of International Cooperation, the Department of
> >Sociology/Anthropology, and the Department of Political Science of SFU. The
> >seminar will include lectures, a video presentation, and discussion. It
> >will focus on Marta Harnecker's just-completed book on the coup and other
> >recent events in Venezuela (based upon extensive interviews with President
> >Hugo Chavez), as well as her recent book on the Landless Movement (MST) in
> >Brazil (published in April), within the overall context of contemporary
> >change on the Latin American Left.
> >
> >Marta Harnecker, a Chilean who was a student of Louis Althusser, edited the
> >weekly magazine Chile Today during the period of the Popular Unity under
> >Allende in Chile, and has lived in Cuba since 1973.  She has published some
> >fifty books and is especially widely known among the Latin American Left
> >for her book, "The Elemental Concepts of Historical Materialism", a book
> >published by XXI Century (Siglo XXI) with 62 editions, and more than one
> >million copies sold in the Spanish-speaking world, which introduced many in
> >the region to Marx and Althusser.
> >
> >During the last few years, she has researched national liberation
> >movements, as well as the alternative experiences of the Latin American
> >Left as it searches for opportunities to gain political support and achieve
> >state power via the institutional route in Brazil, Venezuela and Uruguay.
> >This work especially considers the experiences of local governments of
> >popular participation led by the PT (Workers Party) in Brazil, those of ex
> >CausaR  (R Cause) in Venezuela, and the Frente Amplio (United Front) in
> >Uruguay, as well as Cuban community-based initiatives.
> >
> >The seminar is open to all members of our academic communities, as well as
> >the Greater Vancouver Latin American community and general public. Please
> >circulate widely.
> >
> >John
> >
> >
> >John Brohman
> >Associate Professor, Department of Geography
> >Director, Latin American Studies Program
> >Associate, Community Economic Development Program
> >Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6
> >tel: 604/291-4412, fax: 604/291-5841, e-mail: brohman at sfu.ca
> >
> >

Michael A. Lebowitz
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