Events

14-16 March 2006

Tuesday, 14 March
Run-up to the Walter Gordon Massey Symposium ­Award-winning documentary The Revolution Will Not be Televised, a film on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the attempted coup against him in
April 2002. Viewing at Innis Town Hall 8.00 p.m.

Wednesday, 15 March -- Walter Gordon Massey Symposium: Mr. Danger and the Socialism for the New Millenium: A Discussion of the Current State of Venezuela.
Moderated by Senior Fellow, Bernie Lucht, panellists are: Mr. Santiago Canton of the Organization of American States, Dr. Maria Victor Paez, Sociologist and Policy Analyst and Dr. Victor Rivas of Spanish and Portuguese, UofT.
Isabel Bader Theatre 8.00 p.m. More information on reservations and tickets will be sent closer to the time.

Thursday, 16 March -- Follow-up Round Table discussion
9.30 a.m ­ 11.30 a.m. in the Upper Library, Massey College.
Join invited guests for further discourse on the subject of Venezuela and Latin America.

The Symposium has been organized by Junior Fellows Sylvie Lamoureux, Joshua Nichols and Laura Esmail. Hope you will spread the word and come out and support their fine work. Here are some short bios of the panellists:

Santiago A. Canton, Executive Secretary, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Santiago A. Canton is the Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS). Previously he was the OAS Special Rapporteur for Freedom of
Expression. Mr. Canton holds a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a Masters degree in International Law from the Washington College of Law of the American University. In 1998, he was Director of Public Information for the OAS. From 1994 to 1998, Dr. Canton was Director for the Latin America and the Caribbean division of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), a democratic development institute based in Washington, D.C. Mr. Canton was a political assistant to Mr. Carter in the election monitoring processes in El Salvador and Dominican Republic.

Dr. Maria Páez Victor Sociologist and Public Policy Analyst
Dr. Páez-Victor holds an MA in Sociology from the University of Kent at Canterbury and a PhD in Sociology from York University. She has taught courses on the sociology of health and medicine and environmental policy in the departments of Sociology at the University of Toronto and York University. Aside from her academic work, Dr. Páez-Victor has held several advisory roles in the areas of environmental policy and public health, and
participated in several international research projects. She currently acts as the Principal of Victor Research, a research consulting company that carries out research, public consultation, and policy analysis in the health, environment, and communication areas.

Dr. Victor Rivas Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, UofT
Dr. Rivas received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto. His research interests include contemporary Latin American literature, film, and cultural studies; nineteenth-century Latin America and the ideological legacy of SimónBolívar; cultural resistance, non-canonical, subaltern, and testimonial literature; issues of representation in Transamerican texts; US Latino/a texts; the politics of culture and media; and postmodern and postcolonial
theory and criticism.

For more information please contact:

Anna Luengo -- anna.luengo@utoronto.ca
College Administrator
Massey College
4 Devonshire Place
Toronto ON M5S 2E1
ph: 416 978 6606
fx: 416 971 3032