CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [audio]

A talk by Malcolm Bush, President of the Woodstock Institute. From the International Child Welfare Conference, co-sponsored by The Center for International Studies' Norman Wait Harris Fund, School of Social Service Administration, SSA International Social Welfare Group, and Chapin Hall Center for Children.

A roundtable discussion with Maria de los Angeles Torres (Chicago), Norma del Rio (Mexico), and Irene Rizzini (Brazil) from the International Child Welfare Conference, co-sponsored by The Center for International Studies' Norman Wait Harris Fund, School of Social Service Administration, SSA International Social Welfare Group, and Chapin Hall Center for Children.

Remarks by and honoring Dr.Harold Richman, Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor of Social Welfare Policy Emeritus in the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration and College and founding Director and current Research Fellow at the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago; from the International Child Welfare Conference, co-sponsored by The Center for International Studies' Norman Wait Harris Fund, School of Social Service Administration, SSA International Social Welfare Group, and Chapin Hall Center for Children.

A talk by Irene Rizzini, Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio, Department of Social Work). From the International Child Welfare Conference, co-sponsored by The Center for International Studies' Norman Wait Harris Fund, School of Social Service Administration, SSA International Social Welfare Group, and Chapin Hall Center for Children.

A lecture by María Amparo Casar, Centro de Investigacíon y Docencia Económicas, A.C. Sponsored by the Katz Center for Mexican Studies.

A talk by Mark Siderits, Professor of Philosophy, Illinois State University. From the South Asia Seminar.

A talk by Sallie Hughes, Asst. Prof. in the School of Communication at the Univ. of Miami, on her book, Newsrooms in Conflict: Journalism and the Democratization of Mexico. The book examines the dramatic changes within Mexican society, politics, and journalism that transformed an authoritarian media institution into many conflicting styles of journalism with very different implications for deepening democracy in the country. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.

A talk by Tariq Ali, editor, New Left Review. Since 1998, the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo Chávez to world attention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal consensus and American foreign policy. While Chávez's radical social-democratic reforms have brought him worldwide acclaim among the poor, he has attracted intense hostility from Venezuelan elites and Western governments. Drawing on first-hand experience of Venezuela and meetings with Chávez, Tariq Ali shows how Chávez's views have polarized Latin America and examines the hostility directed against his administration. Ali discusses the enormous influence of Fidel Castro on both Chávez and Evo Morales, the newly-elected President of Bolivia, and contrasts the Cuban and Venezuelan revolutionary processes. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.

A talk by Ira Chernus, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado-Boulder on his book, Monsters to Destroy. In an ambitious effort to clarify a complicated issue, Ira Chernus tackles the question of why U.S. foreign policy aimed at building national strength and security has the paradoxical effect of making the country less safe and secure. His answer: The 'war on terror' is based not on realistic appraisals of the causes of conflict, but rather on 'stories' that neoconservative policymakers believe about human nature and a world divided between absolute good and absolute evil. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.

A lecture by Lorenzo Meyer, El Colegio de Mexico.

Sponsored by the Katz Center for Mexican Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies Latin American Briefing Series, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan.