Date: Wednesday, May 7 2008
Location: CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S-010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Time: 5:00 - 6:30 pm
Steve Reifenberg, Author; Program Director, Chile Regional Office, DRCLAS
In this memoir, Steve Reifenberg recalls his two years at the Hogar Domingo Savio, a small orphanage in a poor neighborhood in Santiago, Chile. His descriptions of his experience create indelible portraits of a dozen remarkable children and the determined single mother trying to create a stable home for them. As Reifenberg learns more about the children's circumstances, he begins to see the bigger picture of life in Chile at a crucial moment in its history.
Introduction by:
Merilee Grindle, Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development, Kennedy School of Government.
Commentary by:
Paul Farmer, Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University; Attending physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital