Riding HIGH!

Alucinados (Riding High)
Screening of Brazilian film "Alucinados" (2007), directed by Roberto Santucci.

Wednesday, June 04, 2008
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theatre
Melnitz Hall 1409
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Alucinados (Riding High) is a psychological thriller about a crime that has become common in today’s Rio de Janeiro. The film takes us into the most dramatic day in the life of Julia, a housewife who is kidnapped in her armored car by Case and Sapeca, two young men from Rio’s slums. What seems at first sight to be a conflict between rich and poor turns into a much more complex plot linking the characters’ past and present.

Cost: Free and open to the public

Special Instructions

Screening followed by a Q & A with Director Roberto Santucci.

Parking available in structure 3 for $8.00

For more information please contact

Diliana Peregrina
Tel: (310) 825-4571
dperegri@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/lac/

Sponsor(s): Latin American Institute, Consulate General of Brazil - Los Angeles

Family, Poverty and Social Policies in Latin America: How have Oportunidades (Mexico) and Bolsa Familia (Brazil) Met the Challenges?

Monday, June 02, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Young Research Library
Conference Room
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Poverty has had devastating effects on families in Latin America throughout the region's history. Since the 1990s, some Latin American governments have begun to design public policies that combat poverty while preserving families. At the same time, these programs seek to go beyond assistance and become active tools of social and economic transformation. Brazil, through its program Bolsa Familia, and Mexico, through Oportunidades, have been at the forefront in designing such anti-poverty policies and between them, currently enroll 17 million families.

Speakers:

Maria Helena Lavinas de Morais is an Associate Professor of Social Policy at the Institute of Economics (IE), at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil and Secretary at the Municipality of Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro in charge of assessing social programs outcomes.

Agustín Escobar Latapí is a Professor at CIESAS Occidente (Center for Higher Research in Social Anthropology), Guadalajara, MX. He also serves on the following boards: The Advisory Board of the Center for Latin American Social Policy (CLASPO), at the Teresa Lozano Institute for Latin American Studies, at the University of Texas; the International Advisory Board of the Center for U.S. – Mexican Studies, at the University of California – San Diego and the International Advisory Board of the Institute for the Study of International Migration, at the University of Georgetown. I was elected to the Board of Directors of the State Science and Technology Council in 2001, for a one-year period, as representative of all the private universities and Research Centers of Jalisco.

Cost: Free and open to the public