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Karen Richman, Ph.D. Director, Migration and Border Studies (Unit of ILS); Associate Professional Specialist, Institute for Latino Studies; Concurrent Associate Professional Specialist, African-American Studies Biography Karen Richman is a cultural anthropologist. Her areas of research, scholarship, and teaching are immigration, culture, and religion in Haitian and Mexican transnational communities. She is the author of Migration and Vodou (2005), a multisided ethnography of a transnational Haitian community and of numerous articles and book chapters on Haitian and Mexican migration, family, religion, and expressive culture. Richman won the 2009 Heizer award for the best article in the field of ethnohistory for her article, “Innocent Imitations? Mimesis and Alterity in Haitian Vodou Art.” She is director of Academic Affairs in Latino Studies, a member of the Anthropology Department, and a Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Lectures Categories Social Concerns, Spirituality The Earthquake and Religion at the Epicenter: Facts and Fables The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 took a devastating toll on property, resources, and human life. An estimated 230,000 people died, 300,000 were injured and 1,000,000 made homeless. The impacts of the earthquake on religious faith and practice are less clear. The lack of data on the religious implications of the earthquake, however, has not hampered the production of speculative claims about the role of Vodou in Haitians’ experience of the catastrophe. This lecture explores how Haitians’ religious beliefs have influenced their perceptions of the earthquake. The discussion will also consider whether and to what extent the earthquake has affected their religious beliefs and practices. Immigrants, Social Investments, and Social Capital: A Mexican Immigrant Case Study Mexican immigrants have lower savings and pension participation than any other major demographic cohort in the U.S. This lecture presents results of an in-depth study of the social and cultural factors influencing Mexican immigrants’ economic, savings, and consumption behavior. Through its innovative combination of anthropological and economic theories and methods, the study enhances conventional theories of retirement savings and explains how underappreciated, non-economic factors affect Mexicans’ savings in general and savings for retirement in particular. A More Powerful Sorcerer? Magic and Conversion in a Haitian Transnational Community The popular religion of Haiti, known to outsiders as Vodou, is a complex, dynamic blend of European, African , and Creole religious ideologies and practices centered around the material reality of spiritual affliction, sorcery, and magic. Haitian migrants have been publicly disavowing this religion and joining ethnic evangelical churches, the repatriated, indigenized offspring of North American mission. Yet underneath the evangelical’s modern, ascetic cloak, representations of instant money and private ambition – the illicit rewards of sorcery and magic – remain at the heart of their instrumentalist rhetoric. Religion conversion may not entail the radical break that separatist Protestants, and some believing scholars, assert it to be. Run From the Earthquake, Fall into the Abyss: A Léogane Paradox Koridò, (Corridor), is a hamlet in the rural community of Ti Rivyè, Léogane, Haiti and the anchor of a transnational community. The home base of Koridò lies closer to the epicenter of the earthquake on January 12, 2010, than the capital city, Port-au-Prince, to the east and the town of Léogane to the west. Whereas losses in the capital and the town were catastrophic, the people of Koridò survived the cataclysm almost unscathed. This lecture explains how the everyday practices of the people of Koridò got them out of the way of the earthquake and why, despite both their survival of the cataclysm and their intimate and intricate ties to migrants “outside,” they are nonetheless standing precariously at the edge of the abyss. The Hesburgh Lecture Series, 2012 Program 95
Juan Rivera Associate Professor, Accountancy; Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies Biography Juan Rivera is a certified public accountant. His areas of expertise are international financial reporting, foreign exchange risks and hedging mechanisms, and international taxation. He has been the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, one from Panama in 1986 and one from Mexico in 2001. In 2004 he received a three-year grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to promote entrepreneurship and markets for small-scale agricultural producers in Mexico. He also is the lead editor of the book NAFTA and the Campesions: The Impact of NAFTA on Small Agricultural Producers in Mexico and Prospects for Change, published by Scranton University Press in December of 2008. Rivera will be spending the fall of 2011 in Australia as the visiting faculty in the University of Notre Dame semester abroad program at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle. Lectures The Adoption of IFRS by Public Corporations in the World Since 2005, the EU countries require public corporations to prepare their financial statements according to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), which are now applied in over 120 countries. While the international trend is to adopt IFRS, U.S. corporations still have to follow accounting principles issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Currently, there is a concerted effort to converge IFRS with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and in 2011 the SEC is scheduled to decide on the matter. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is a U.S. federal law that prohibits U.S. corporations from paying bribes to foreign officials and political parties to bring favors or benefits to the bribing company. The SEC and the U.S. Department of Justice are the agencies in charge of enforcing compliance with this federal law, which prescribes severe penalties for its infringement. In recent years, other countries have followed the example of the U.S. in trying to eliminate the practice of bribes and illegal payments by their business in foreign countries. The Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) of 2001 and Transparency in Corporate Financial Reporting The SOX Act was a response by Congress to accounting and corporate scandals of the 1990s (Enron, Adelphia, Worldcom, etc.). It created the Public Corporations Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), an SEC recognized agency that monitors corporate financial reporting and oversees the work of U.S. public accounting firms. The SOX legislation and the PCAOB it created aim to protect U.S. investors through mechanisms to prevent corporate financial fraud and accounting misrepresentation. 96 The Hesburgh Lecture Series, 2012 Program Categories Business, Ethics, Government
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