Tuesday, March 23. 1965
University Daily Kansan
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Politics Featured in Latin Seminar
The Director of Studies of the American Universities Field Staff, Prof. Kalman H. Silvert, will give a series of lectures on Latin American politics at KU during the next eight days.
Prof. Silvert, a professor of political science at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., has had an avid interest in political science and Latin America ever since his undergraduate years at the University of Pennsylvania where he received his doctorate in 1948.
The lecture series m which Prof. Silvert will speak while at KU is the Latin American Studies Seminar. It is open to all students and will meet every day this week and next Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in 207 Blake Hall.
THE THEME of the lectures is
Sculpture Club Plans Meeting
"The Relationship between Sculpture and Architecture" will be the topic of a discussion sponsored by the Sculpture Club at 7:30 p.m. to tomorrow night in the Sculpture Studio in Bailey Annex.
The discussion will be conducted by Bernard Frazier, sculptor in residence, and Eugene George, chairman of the department of architecture. The discussion will be of particular interest to sculpture students or those interested in the field.
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"Comparative Developmental Politics of Latin America." Prof. Silvert is the third of four lecturers to come to KU this year on the American Universities Field Staff (AUFS) program.
The purpose of AUFS is to do academic reporting on underdeveloped countries, Prof. Silvert said. It is an American organization of 14 staff members who are experts in the study of underdeveloped countries. The experts give four reports a year to each of its 12 member universities, he continued. KU is a member.
The organization is financed by its member universities and various foundation grants, Prof. Silvert said.
Prof. Silvert has done intensive research on Latin America. During a conversation last night, he did not accredit his deep interest in Latin America to any specific reason, but he said, "The more involved I get in the work, the more I want to know about it."
Prof. Silvert's first major research in Latin America was in Chile, 1947-48, as a recipient of a Penfield Traveling Scholarship.
As he became more identified with Central American affairs, he participated in three field trips and made an intensive study of Guatemalan society with emphasis on political structure. This was the basis
for his two volume work, "A Study in Government; Guatemala."
He is author of "The Conflict Society: Reaction and Revolution in Latin America," "Chili Yesterday and Today," "The Politics of Development" and "The Expectant People: Nationalism and Development." He is also editor of an AUFS staff-written book, "Freedom and Development," to be completed in 1965.
Commenting on the political and social atmosphere of Latin America, Prof. Silvert said, "I think things are more peaceful now than they used to be. The people are more responsible. They are determined to improve living conditions now that they realize that development is a difficult thing."
Another reason that Prof. Silvert gave for Latin Americans' increasing interest in peace and improvement is that they have already seen
the result of Cuba and they don't want to pay that type of a price. They favor democracy.
Speaking on Prof. Silvert's mission here, KU Associate Professor Robert Nunley, associate chairman for the Latin American area, said Prof. Silvert will lecture in a very general nature on the politics of Latin America, and that he would visit classes filling in for regular professors.
"Each lecture will last for about two hours," he said. "The purpose of the seminar is not to crusade for any specific action as such, but to inform the students and to stimulate them to think."
Prof. Silvert is a brilliant and internationally known expert on Latin American affairs." Prof. Nunley said. "This seminar promises to be a very concentrated study of the political structure of Latin America."
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