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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University 2014 – 2016 nexo Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University 2014clacsnyublog.com – 2016 CLACS at NYU 1 Contents 2 Director’s Note Director’s Note 3 50 Years of CLACS Saludos, he stressed, a mere sentiment of sympathy 4 Research In 2014, CLACS or special interest in the lives of others. 8 Events & Outreach was awarded a Rather, it is a concerted practice “to be Title VI National sensitive to the worlds of others, to permit Indigenous & Diasporic Language Consortium 12 Resource Grant and one’s own world to be influenced by 14 Publications: NACLA & LAND a Foreign Language others, and to affect others in determinate 15 Museum Studies & K-12 Outreach and Area Studies and deliberate ways” (36). Empathy is, in 16 Faculty Publications grant. These awards other words, a foundational methodology affirm CLACS’s contributions to area for area studies. 18 When Rights Ring Hollow studies and language training and its Through our strong orientation to 19 In Memoriam: Juan Flores longstanding commitment to public engaged scholarship, our work at CLACS 20 MA at CLACS outreach and scholarship. This issue has been guided by this same conviction. of Nexo documents key projects and In 2016 we hosted a historic meeting of all nexo accomplishments of the first two years of the key social actors of the 1991 peace of this four year grant. We are especially process in El Salvador to reflect together Nexo embodies the Center’s mission to proud of the introduction of Haitian on why and how peace prevailed. Bringing serve as a nexus, a network of people and information, a meeting place where Kreyòl training as part of a newly formed together former military, guerrilla, knowledge and understanding are created Indigenous and Diasporic Language government, and diplomatic members, and exchanged. Consortium between NYU, Columbia our goal went beyond a historical interest Cover image by Anthony Louis-Jeune (a.k.a. University, and Lehman College. in El Salvador’s difficult past. The public Aton), a Haitian visual artist and creator Because 2016 marks the 50th conversation between former combatants of the first Haitian comic-book super hero, anniversary of CLACS’s founding, I and adversaries offered insight into the Djatawo. The cover depicts Djatawo, whose have been reading the work of CLACS’s work of empathy now as much as then in stories have been published in Haitian Creole, French and English. Aton presented founder, the formidable Kalman Silvert, the ongoing process of peace. his artwork at CLACS in Fall 2015. a field-building, engaged scholar of In this same spirit, we invite you to enormous influence both in and beyond join CLACS in the years to come — as a the academy. One passage in his Man’s student, scholar, or interested public. Our nexo Staff Power (1970) caught my attention. In it, doors are open. Omar Dauhajre (Assistant Director), Silvert proposes two elements necessary Belem Destefani (Program Administrator), to intellectual work in area studies: Jill Lane, Isabelle Hazel (Administrative Aide). competence and empathy. Empathy is not, Director at CLACS Michael Cary, Arlean Dawes, Brendan Fields, Vladimir Penaloza, Gretchen Shaheen (Graduate Associates), Christopher Looft, Laura Weiss (Contributors). Bon Voyage, Amalia With pride, and some sadness, we bid strength to our farewell this summer to our Assistant programming. She Connect with CLACS Director Amalia Córdova. Amalia will be fostered community transitioning to a great career as Curator and institutional clacs.as.nyu.edu of Latino Digital Media at the Smithsonian. relations, and brought clacsnyublog.com facebook.com/CLACS.NYU Over the last three years, her work has a comprehensive facebook.com/QuechuaatNYU significantly impacted the scope of CLACS’ focus on the affairs of vision and she has inspired many students indigenous people in 53 Washington Square South, 4W with her mentorship. our continent. Amalia New York, NY 10012 As a film scholar and one of the foremost will be greatly missed, and her legacy and P: 212-998-8686 F: 212-995-4163 authorities on indigenous cinema in the contributions to CLACS will remain. We E: [email protected] country, her vision and advocacy gave wish you all the best! 2 CLACS at NYU clacs.as.nyu.edu 50 Years of CLACS In 2016-17, CLACS celebrates 50 years since to promote sound understandings of Latin its founding. I have been thinking about American societies were sorely challenged the legacy of Kalman Silvert, the founding by increased US military intervention director of CLACS and a towering presence and rising authoritarianism in the region. in the formation of Latin American Studies. Silvert was especially incensed by the 1965 Silvert spent the last years of his life in counterinsurgency “Project Camelot” based New York City, working simultaneously as at American University and funded by the US professor of politics at NYU and as senior Army, which aimed to conduct a large scale program adviser to the office of Latin America study of Latin American “revolutionary” and the Caribbean at the Ford Foundation. behaviors with the aim of learning how best Kalman Silvert Just as we do, Silvert prized the opportunity to eradicate them. The Project’s first study to undertake area studies in the “purposeful of Chile ended prematurely with Chilean neighbors. [...] the nations of the region are not disorder” of New York City, marked by “the accusations of American duplicity and homogenous. [...] They are not, and need not serendipitous emergence of varied ways of espionage. His 1965 “American Academic be, replicas of our country, nor do they require looking at the world.” Kalman Silvert died Ethics and Social Research Abroad” our tutelage.” unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1976, at age excoriated both the participating scholars Today we are beneficiaries of Silvert’s 55. of Project Camelot and the US academy for abiding vision for the field, and of the former The picture that emerges from “ethical incomprehension, cavalier attitudes, directors who have built on that legacy. remembrances is a gregarious, erudite and tolerance of ignorance”; the essay remains CLACS continues as a Title VI National man with passion for building intellectual a powerful manifesto for Latin American Resource Center and is a recipient of a institutions and fields; a man of strong Studies at the crossroads of politics and the Foreign Language and Area Studies grant, integrity devoted to the larger cause academy. now funded under the Higher Education of democracy; a man of loyalties and The lessons of Camelot guided Silvert’s Act of 1965. Activist scholarship is a core commitment who spent his final years—as work in New York. He was founding principle and guides our graduate program one eulogist writes—“running a one-man Director of NYU’s Ibero-American Language curriculum and the extensive programs we rescue service for persecuted intellectuals from and Area Center (IALAC, later CLACS) sponsor every year, including conferences, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and elsewhere … funded by Title VI of the National Defense lectures, roundtables, film screenings, keeping open house… for stray academics Education Act (NDEA), and directed a artist talks, workshops and more. Students from any land who yearned for a respite of corresponding graduate program. Also in have realized that principle in their own amistad and asylum.” His impact on the field 1966 Silvert became founding director of the engaged scholarship during and beyond the was formidable, and our work here at NYU is Latin American Studies Association (LASA), program—from creating the first US based stamped by his vision. an organization that, 50 years later, boasts Quechua language radio and TV station, or Silvert championed activist scholarship— more than 12,000 members from across the creating the Latin American News Dispatch, one that lent the most careful, rigorous hemisphere. He influenced policy makers, a much-needed online English language social science methods to an abiding desire university administrators, and broader news source. The CLACS MA program is to “repair the world.” He named himself an publics through his work on the Council of centered around student-designed field engaged scholar: “By ‘engaged’ I mean that Foreign Relations, the Social Science Research research, which we believe—like Professor I am personally concerned about the course Council, the American Council on Learned Silvert before us—is a necessary complement of social events; by ‘scholar’ I mean that I Societies, and the Center for Inter-American to the theoretical and methodological tools attempt not only to use objective procedures, Relations. Through the latter he participated honed in graduate education. From its but also to take care that the specific questions in the Linowitz Commission, whose 1974 beginnings in 1966, CLACS has grown to I ask are theoretically determined and not the report had significant impact in policy circles, include over 100 affiliated faculty members fruit of passion.” Through his long association including within the Carter Administration. from across the university who represent with the Ford Foundation, Silvert worked to The report concluded with recommendations NYU’s strong presence in the national and strengthen social science institutions across whose wisdom is no less relevant today: international field. We hope our current work Latin America and build Latin American “The approach we suggest is based on the and accomplishments would make Dr. Silvert Studies as a discipline in the US and proposition that the United States cannot proud. Europe. As the Cold War set in, his efforts neglect, exploit, or patronize its hemispheric -Jill Lane clacsnyublog.com CLACS at NYU 3 Research from Nicaragua to Colombia With support from the Title VI NRC program and the Tinker Foundation, CLACS awards annual summer research and language study grants to affiliated faculty and graduate students investigating issues related to the region.
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