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This talk will explore the social, environmental, and economic legacies of plywood across the Americas, focusing on Honduras and the U.S. South. During and after World War II, demand for southern pine lumber created patterns of inequality that continue to shape the contemporary world. In 1964, the Georgia Pacific Corporation invented a process to create glued plywood from southern pine, transforming the political economy of forests across the hemisphere. Using ethnographic and archival research in rural Honduras, Arkansas, and Florida, this talk will explore how the search for building materials transformed and connected places across the Americas in surprising ways.

Daniel Reichman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Rochester. A specialist in contemporary Latin America, he earned his PhD from Cornell and has conducted anthropological research in Honduras and Brazil. He is the author of two books, The Broken Village: Coffee, Migration, and Globalization in Honduras and Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil. In addition to his academic writing, he writes for popular media outlets and has spoken on immigration policy at the White House, United Nations, and the Interamerican Development Bank. He is co-editor of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, the longest running anthropology lecture series in North America, which is published by Duke University Press.

"Controvérsias e Breve História Sobre a Linguagem Inclusiva no Brasil"

by

Brume Dezembro Iazzetti

​Ph.D. Student in Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Cornell University

WHEN: April 17, 2026 at 12:20PM (EST)

WHERE: Uris Hall G08

Lecturer in Portuguese.

In person.

Open to the public. Everybody is welcome.

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Contact:

Dr. Denise Osborne

dmo67@cornell.edu

Senior Lecturer

Romance Studies

Cornell University

Bartels World Affairs Lecture

In this year’s Bartels lecture, Ambassador Samantha Power examines the causes and consequences of dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). While reductions in United States foreign assistance have inflicted harm on millions of people, the principal beneficiaries of the cuts, Power contends, are the People’s Republic of China and other governments that prefer to operate without scrutiny or accountability.

Join us as Power outlines a strategy for revitalizing a broad bipartisan coalition to support foreign assistance. To succeed in building resilient aid structures, politicians and stakeholders will need to demonstrate the effectiveness of aid programs to the public. U.S. resources should be used as leverage to secure new commitments from partner countries and mobilize additional investments from allied governments, the private sector, philanthropy, and members of the diaspora.

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Speaker

Ambassador Samantha Power served in the Biden-Harris administration as the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the world’s premier international development agency. She was the 28th U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Obama-Biden administration. Her first book, "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide, won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

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About the Bartels World Affairs Lecture

The Bartels World Affairs Lecture is a signature event of the Einaudi Center for International Studies. This flagship event brings distinguished international figures to campus each academic year to speak on global topics and meet with Cornell faculty and students, particularly undergraduates. The lecture and related events are made possible by the generosity of Henry E. Bartels ’48 and Nancy Horton Bartels ’48.

A roundtable discussion on centering Indigenous voices in Abiayala (Latin America) with Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, María de los Ángeles Aguilar Velásquez, and Polly Lauer, addressing questions about Indigenous representation both in the media and the field of Latin American Studies. Hosted by the Romance Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, History, the Klarman Program, and the Language Resource Center.

Dr. Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante is a scholar who belongs to the Mapuche people. He is currently president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) and an Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. Cárcamo-Huechante is also a founding member of the Comunidad de Historia Mapuche, a collective of engaged Mapuche researchers based in southern Chile. In 2007, he published his first book, Tramas del mercado: imaginación económica, cultura pública y literatura en el Chile de fines del siglo veinte (Santiago: Editorial Cuarto Propio). His most recently published book is Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference (Duke UP, 2025).

Dr. María de los Ángeles Aguilar Velásquez is a Guatemalan Maya K´iche´ historian, whose research centers on the policing and criminalization of Maya Spirituality in Guatemala during the second half of the 20th century. She has worked on collaborative research projects centered on historical memory, collecting testimony from Indigenous communities and genocide survivors. For over nine years, Dr. Aguilar was a columnist in Guatemala’s newspaper elPeriodico, where she wrote about the country’s social and political issues and denounced repressive policies that affected the Maya population. She received her Ph.D. in History from Tulane University in 2021. From 2021 to 2024 she was a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) at Yale University, where she taught courses on Latin America Studies and Political Violence in Latin America.

Dr. Polly Lauer is an allied scholar who works collaboratively with Maya K'iche' media makers in Guatemala. Her book project, Struggling for Air: The Politics of Resilience in a Maya K’iche’ Radio Station, 1959-2020, documents the history of the oldest Maya K’iche’ radio station in Guatemala. This interdisciplinary project illustrates how Indigenous actors wielded communications technologies to defend language, community, and autonomy through periods of crisis. She holds a Ph.D. in Latin American History from Yale University and is an incoming assistant professor of Native American Studies at the University of Montana in Missoula, MT.

Pedro X. Molina is an internationally acclaimed editorial cartoonist who has won a host of prestigious awards for his work, including the Vaclav Havel Award for Creative Dissent (International), the Gabo Award for Excellence in Journalism (Latin America), the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University (USA), The Courage in Cartooning award from Cartoonists Rights Network (International), and the Excellence in Journalism Award granted by the Inter-American Press Association. His work appears in many prestigious newspapers and news websites throughout Latin America, the United States, and Europe.

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