On Friday, April 10, from 9:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., a one-day seminar will be held to review the recent reports prepared by the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution, the Americas Society, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from the perspective of Latin Americans. These reports were prepared in the United States with few genuine Latin American voices in the process. This seminar seeks to include these Latin American voices in the discussion.

Speakers will include: Jorge Argüello, permanent representative of Argentina to the United Nations; Ariel Bergamino, presidential advisor to President Tabaré Vázquez of Uruguay; Torcuato Di Tella, former secretary of Culture in Argentina; María Fernanda Espinosa, permanent representative of Ecuador to the United Nations; Joao Feres, Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas do Río de Janeiro; Professor Greg Grandin, a historian of US-Latin American Relations, New York University; Bernardo Kliksberg, chief advisor, UNDP. Latin American Bureau; Jaime Sorín, dean of the faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires and one of the founders of the Carta Abierta Movement; and Pablo Solón, permanent representative of Bolivia to the United Nations.

This conference is jointly held by the Observatory on Latin America with the Janey Program at The New School. It takes place in Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor. Admission is free, but seating is limited and reservations are required by emailing ola@newschool.edu.