International Conference
Towards a Culture for Democracy in Paraguay
April 17-19, 1994
The Latin American Studies Center will hold an interna-
tional conference on ``Towards a Culture for Democracy in
Paraguay,'' April 17-19, 1994. This is the fifth and
closing conference of LASC's ``Cultural Repression and
Re-Democratization in the Southern Cone'' series designed
to analyze the repression of culture under the military
regimes and the role of culture at various stages of re-
democratization. The Conference is co-sponsored by the
Direccion de Cultura de la Municipalidad de Asuncion and
the Ministerio de Educacion of Paraguay.
For additional information, please contact the Latin
American Studies Center at (301) 405-6459.
Participants include:
Augusto Roa Bastos
Domingo Rivarola (Centro paraguayo de estudios sociologicos)
Guido Rodriguez Alcala (historian, essayist, novelist, and
columnist, Diario Noticias)
Bartomeu Melia, S.J., (anthropologist; Director of the magazine
Accion, published by Centro paraguayo Antonio Guasa)
Carlos Colombino (artist; founder and director of the Museo
paraguayo de arte contemporaneo; Director of the Centro
Cultural de la Ciudad; Cultural Vice-Director of the
City of Asuncion)
Line Bareiro (political scientist; coordinator for the Women's
Area, Centro de Documentacion y Estudios)
Gloria Rubin (psychologist; co-director, Radio %anduti)
Osvaldo Salerno (artist, architect; Director of the Museo
del barro)
Marcial Antonio Riquelme (Director of the Latin American Program,
Kansas State University)
Jose Felix Fernandez Estigarribia (lawyer; Ambassador of Paraguay
to the United Nations)
Diana Serafini (Coordinator of Communication, DECIDAMOS)
Lorena Ocampos (Economic Analyst, Banco Central del Paraguay)
Raul Sapena Brugada (lawyer, former Minister of Education)
Ticio Escobar (art critic; Cultural Director of the City of
Asuncion; Director of the Museo de arte indigena;
Director of the Art Gallery Artesanos)
Jose Carlos Rodriguez (sociologist, essayist; Director of
the Social Statistics Area at the Centro de Documentacion
y Estudio; Executive Director of SAKA; columnist, ULTIMA
HORA)
Juan Andres Cardozo (philosopher, op-ed writer, Ultima Hora)
Ramiro Dominguez (lawyer; founder and current Vice-President of
the Centro de estudios antropologicos, Universidad Catolica
de Asuncion)