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Maria Jimena Valdez-Tappata
Title:
Graduate Student, Government
Email:
mjv83@cornell.edu
Upcoming Events
Berger Lecture: "Pachamama (Mother Earth): from object to subject, Nature's rights in the Ecuadorian Constitution," by Justice Ramiro Avila Santamaria, Constitutional Court of Ecuador
04/24/2019
In 2008, the new Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador included, for the first time, some non-western institutions. Among these global south inspired institutions are: the Sumak Kawsay (the good way
LASP Special Seminar: "Corruption Type and Income Inequality in Latin America," Viridiana Rios, Visiting Assistant Professor, Government, Harvard
04/25/2019
Viridiana Rios will contribute to understanding an unresolved schism between scholars who have observed that inequality increases as corruption increases and those who have found the opposite. We
LASP Seminar: "Socialist Domestic Infrastructures and the Politics of the Body: Bucharest and Havana" by Iulia Statica
05/06/2019
Iulia Statica's presentation explores the role of domestic infrastructures in the constitution of gendered subjectivities through the concrete examples of two socialist cities: Bucharest and Havan
Leading Families, Sustaining Enterprises
05/13/2019
Family enterprises represent nearly 90 percent of all businesses in Latin America. The management of these companies goes through difficult times when mixing two fundamental elements: love and money.