Announcements
CLAS Working Papers Series now available online
The Center for Latin American Studies Working Papers series is now available through our website! The Working Papers series seeks to provide rapid dissemination of high quality, previously unpublished research first presented at the University of Chicago by CLAS-affiliated students, faculty, and visiting scholars in the social sciences and humanities. In the coming months, we hope to expand this online archive, which currently features the original ten papers in the series, all funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation from 1999 to 2001. Faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars affiliated with the Center for Latin American Studies are invited to submit their work, provided that it contains original ideas and research, and be of publishable quality. Faculty members are also encouraged to invite scholars who present papers at CLAS-sponsored workshops, seminars, or conferences, to submit papers for publication. Click here to visit the archive.
Conference on Environmental Policy, Social Movements, and Science for the Amazon
November 5-6, 2009
The University of Chicago Center for Latin American Studies and the Program on the Global Environment present an interdisciplinary conference organized to evaluate twenty years of environmental policy in the Amazon region. Environmental scientists, policy-makers, anthropologists, economists, and leaders of non-governmental organizations will convene to assess what development opportunities are created by science, technology, traditional knowledge, and markets for environmental services, within the framework of preserving the standing forest. This conference is convened by Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, along with colleagues Mauro Barbosa de Almeida and Mary Helena Allegretti.
Click here to visit the conference website.
The Center for Latin American Studies is organizing this conference with the generous support of the Tinker Visiting Professor program and a US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center grant. The support of the Program on the Global Environment is made possible by a grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation. The Center for International Studies is providing additional conference support.
For more information please contact the Center for Latin American Studies at 773-702-8420
