UPCOMING
EVENTS - 2009-2010
The Carney Latin American Solidarity Archive (CLASA) invites you to the
following event:
October 2009
October 26-30, 2009
"Congo Week"
CLASA is proud to co-sponsor a student-led initiative, "Congo Week".
The week's events include documentaries, speakers, and fundraisers. The week is
organized by the students of Hispanic American Student Association (HASA). View the event flyer for more information.
November 2009
View the November event flyer
Note: The Marnia
Lazreg talks for Nov. 3
have been canceled. All apologies for any
inconvenience
Monday, November 9, 2009
Ron Hirschbein
California State University, Chico
- 11 a.m., Fountain Lounge:
“Peace on Earth Without Goodwill Toward Men: Nuclear
Deterrence Doctrine”
- 7 p.m., Life Sciences 113:
“Through the Looking Glass: Nuclear Strategists in
Wonderland”
This event co-sponsored by Peace Action of Michigan
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Carlos Euceda,
Mexico Solidarity Network
- 11:20 a.m. Commerce & Finance 209
"Mexico's Security State"
This event is co-sponsored by Hispanic American Student Association (HASA).
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPEAKERS AND TALKS:
NOVEMBER 9: Ron Hirschbein, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at California
State University Chico, has also served as a visiting professor at University of
California campuses in San Diego and Berkeley, and at the United Nations
University in Austria. His teaching and research involves peace and conflict
studies. He also served as President of Concerned Philosophers for Peace.
Currently he teaches and mentors graduate students in Walden University's
School of Public Policy and Administration. He has a Ph.D. in Social Science
from Syracuse University. His publications include numerous papers, articles,
and four books offering interpretive approaches to controversial international
and domestic issues. These book include What If They Gave a Crisis and Nobody
Came? (a book in which the author analyses the Cuban Missile Crisis in order to
understand more fully how U.S. government actors frame “crises” and foreign
threats by reference to past crisis narratives in order to resolve issues of
meaning and identity), and Massing the Tropes: The Metaphorical Construction of
American Nuclear Strategy (where the author shows how nuclear strategists used
familiar, old metaphors from ancient Greece, now taken out of context, to help
contemporary people assimilate nuclear weapons to a familiar conceptual world;
however, these misunderstood metaphors are now used to misguide long term
nuclear weapons policy making).
In his talk at 11 a.m., Dr. Hirschbein will focus on conceptual and strategic
problems in the U.S. dependence on deterrence thinking when it comes to nuclear
defense. In his evening talk at 7 p.m., he will analyze the language games and
fallacious arguments of nuclear strategists from the Cold War to current times
(finding parallels to the classic Alice in Wonderland). He’ll also offer a
cultural analysis of Americans who have normalized and even celebrate the
nation’s nuclear arsenal.
NOVEMBER 12: Carlos Euceda works with Mexico Solidarity Network to help the
Mexican immigrant community in Chicago. His past projects involved working with
the Lenca people for their indigenous rights, and defending the rights of
indigenous and Afro-Honduran people with the Confederation of Indigenous People
of Honduras (CONPAH). He has studied law at the Autonomous University of
Honduras. He will speak about the Merida Initiative, known as Plan Mexico,
which is a security cooperation initiative between the US and Mexico. With its
budget of $1.4 billion, the US has recently expanded its anti-terror and
anti-narcotics budget tenfold. The stated goal of this initiative is to combat
organized crime and drug trafficking. However, Euceda is concerned that these
resources are stifling social protest in Mexico. Due to the results of the North
American Free Trade Act (NAFTA), people are suffering displacement, poverty, and
natural resource depletion. As violence increases between the Mexican police and
drug cartels, Plan Mexico is impacting people's lives in both Mexico and the
U.S. Euceda's work is to try to support people's aspirations for a sustainable
life.
These talks are free and open to the public, and are held at UDM’s McNichols
Campus (4001 W. McNichols at Livernois). CLASA gratefully acknowledges support
from the Jesuit Community at UDM. For more info call CLASA Director Dr. Gail
Presbey, 313-993-1124, or write her at presbegm@udmercy.edu.
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