"Out of Place: From Exile to Flexible Citizenship"

I attended "Out of Place: From Exile to Flexible Citizenship" presented by Maria Gabriela Nouzeilles. After sitting through it, I wished I had been able to listen to a different one. For the majority of her presentation I could not understand a word she was saying. I personally didn't find her to be a good presenter. I kept having to ask the people next to me what she was saying and talking about. Her presentation was about her perspective on the diversity of citizenship in Latin America. One point I was able to grasp was that she presented the fact that issues like satellite communications, the internet, global markets and travel have made our world into a global society. She continued to say that conflicts are created through the world as a consequence of globalization’s threat to the identity of longstanding cultures. In conclusion to her presentation she showed us a brief video of an old woman from a particular latin culture traveling on a train through different country. The train employee gave her a hard time with her passport and identification because she was not from there. Nouzeilles mentioned that these cultural divisions and the world's globalization issues are coming out and being presented through the media.

And that's all I could make out through the entire hour.