Events
for 2003-2004
Karl Erik Schollhammer
Date:
October 18, 2003
to October 26, 2003
Time: NA
Building:
NA
Room: NA
Co-Sponsors: NA
Professor Schollhammer visits our campus prior to attending the BRASA Executive Committee Meeting
BRASA Executive Committee Meeting
Date:
October 25, 2003
Time: 9:00am - 6:00pm
Building:
ICIS
Room: 108
Co-Sponsors: N/A
Dr. Jeffrey Lesser hosts the 2003 Executive Committee meeting of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA).
Reinaldo Roman, Assistant Professor of Latin American History, University of Georgia: “Governing Spirits: The 'New Gods' of the New Cuban Republic”
Date:
November 06, 2003
Time: 4:00 pm
Building:
White Hall
Room: Room 200
Co-Sponsors: Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, CHT, Hightower Lecture Fund
Reinaldo Roman, Assistant Professor of Latin American History, University of Georgia
Governing Spirits: The 'New Gods' of the New Cuban Republic.
Serving Two Masters at the Same Time: Presidential Dilemmas in Latin America
Date:
December 04, 2003
Time: 4:30pm
Building:
White Hall
Room: 208
Co-Sponsors: Department of Political Science, Hightower Lecture Fund, The Carter Center; Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, GSU; Political Science Department, GSU
Jamil Mahuad,
President of Ecuador, 1998 - 2000/
Visiting Fellow,
John F. Kennedy School of Public Policy,
Harvard University/
Former President Mahuad was removed from office in a coup led by indigenous protestors and mid-ranking military officers in January 2000 in the wake of an economic crisis. He is currently writing two books on Latin American politics in the late 20th Centery. The frist deals with the Peru-Ecuador border war; the second focuses on the premature removal of Latin American presidents.
Globalization and Barrio Culture in Lima
Date:
December 09, 2003
Time: 1:00pm
Building:
White Hall
Room: 208
Co-Sponsors: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Hightower Lecture Fund
Daniel Alarcsn,
Visiting Writer/
MFA, Creative Writing,
University of Iowa/
Daniel Alarcon is an up-and-coming writer born in Peru, but living and working in the United States. He graduated from Columbia University and spent a year doing research and social work in his native country while on a Fulbright Scholarship. Mr. Alarcon's work has appeared in The New Yorker and other magazines. A collection of his stories will be published by Harper and Collins in 2004.
Latin American & Caribbean Studies Research and Dissertation Lunch Series
Date:
February 03, 2004
Time: 12:00pm
Building:
ICIS
Room: 108
Co-Sponsors: NA
LACS sponsors a Graduate Student Lunch Series intended to share the ongoing research and dissertation work of Latin Americanist and Caribbeanist graduate students.
The Maya Movement and National Culture in Guatemala
Date:
February 05, 2004
Time: 4:00pm
Building:
Candler Library
Room: 207D
Co-Sponsors: Race and Comparative History Group, Hightower Lecture Fund; Center for Hispanic Studies, Kennesaw State University
Shelton H. Davis
World Bank, 1986 - Present/
Sector Manager,
Social Development Unit,
Latin America and Caribbean Region/
Since 1992, Dr. Davis has been on the Faculty of the Center for Latin American Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He has written extensively on indigenous peoples, environmental, poverty and development issues in Latin America. His book Victims of the Miracle: Development and the Indians of Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 1977) is considered a classic in the field.
Latin American & Caribbean Studies Research and Dissertation Lunch Series
Date:
March 02, 2004
Time: 12:00pm
Building:
ICIS
Room: 108
Co-Sponsors: NA
The second LACS Graduate Forum Luncheon features Tanya Weimer who will present her work on the cultural production of the Cuban Diaspora in Mexico.
'Home' Away from 'Home': The Migration Journey in Selected West Indian Fiction by Women
Date:
March 04, 2004
Time: 12:00pm
Building:
Goizueta Business School
Room: 500
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Hightower Lecture Fund, Global Perspectives Program, Women's Studies Department
Evelyn O'Callaghan,
Associate Professor, University of the West Indies/
Dr. O'Callaghan, born in Nigeria to Irish parents, was educated in Jamaica. She received a Master's degree in English from Oxford University where she was a Rhodes Scholar and completed her PhD at the University of the West Indies. Dr. O'Callaghan has written extensively on West Indies Literature and specializes in West Indian fiction by women.
Evocations of a Caribbean
Date:
March 05, 2004
Time: 12:00pm
Building:
Candler Library
Room: 125
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Hightower Lecture Fund, Global Perspectives Program, Women's Studies Department
Annalee Davis, Caribbean Artist; MFA, Rutgers/
Ms. Davis lives and works in the Caribbean, dividing her time between Barbados and Trinidad. She has worked as an artist, teacher, workshop and exhibit organizer and participant, curriculum developer, and writer. Ms. Davis has exhibited her work at the Havana and Sao Paulo Biennials as well as in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Spain, South Africa, and the United States, among other places. Her inspiration is the Caribbean archipelago, a region that has a five hundred year history of forced and voluntary migrations, invasions, settlements and emigrations, resulting in the ambivalent nature of what it means to be Caribbean.
"Entangled Diasporas": Transnational Perspectives on Afro-Brazilian Identities
Date:
March 15, 2004
Time: 4:00pm
Building:
White Hall
Room: 100
Co-Sponsors: NA
Silke Hensel, Adjunct Professor, Department of Iberian and Latin American History, University of Cologne, Germany/
Dr. Hensel conducts a graduate seminar on a new research project which intends to explore the contacts and links Afro-Brazilians had with other black communities in the Black Atlantic.
Looking for Feminism in Movement: Views from Latin America
Date:
March 24, 2004
Time: 4:30pm
Building:
White Hall
Room: 205
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Hightower Lecture Fund, Center for Teaching and Curriculum, Crossing Borders Program, Global Perspectives Program, Women's Studies Department
Sonia E. Alvarez, University of California, Santa Cruz/
Sonia Alvarez is the author of numerous ground-breaking books and articles on feminisms, social movements and democratization in Latin America. She is Professor of Politics at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she is also affiliated with the Latin American and Latino Studies and Women's Studies Departments and the Chicano/Latino Research Center. She has been a visiting fellow at the State University of Campinas and the Federal University of Santa Catarina, both in Brazil. In 2003, Sonia Alvarez became Vice-President (and President-elect) of the Latin American Studies Association, the largest professional association in the world for scholars of Latin America, with over 5,500 members in countries spanning the globe.
Future of Area/Latin American Studies
Date:
March 25, 2004
Time: 12:30pm
Building:
Goizueta Business School
Room: 500
Co-Sponsors: NA
Sonia Alvarez, University of California, Santa Cruz/
Dr. Alvarez conducts a workshop for the LACS Program faculty and graduate students.
The Local in the Global: The World Social Forum Process
Date:
March 25, 2004
Time: 4:30pm
Building:
Goizueta Business School
Room: 500
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Hightower Lecture Fund, Center for Teaching and Curriculum, Crossing Borders Program, Global Perspectives Program, Women's Studies Department
Sonia E. Alvarez, University of California, Santa Cruz/
Sonia Alvarez is the author of numerous ground-breaking books and articles on feminisms, social movements and democratization in Latin America. She is Professor of Politics at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she is also affiliated with the Latin American and Latino Studies and Women's Studies Departments and the Chicano/Latino Research Center. She has been a visiting fellow at the State University of Campinas and the Federal University of Santa Catarina, both in Brazil. In 2003, Sonia Alvarez became Vice-President (and President-elect) of the Latin American Studies Association, the largest professional association in the world for scholars of Latin America, with over 5,500 members in countries spanning the globe.
The Spanish Civil War in Motion Pictures
Date:
April 07, 2004
Time: 7:00pm
Building:
White Hall
Room: 208
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Hightower Lecture Fund, History Department
Raanan Rein, Visiting Professor, Emory University; Director, Institute of Latin American History and Culture, Tel Aviv University, Israel/
Professor Rein is the editor of the journal Estudios Interdisciplinarios de Amirica Latina y el Caribe. He is the author of five books and editor of an additional five. His most recent publications are Peronismo, populismo y polmtica (Buenos Aires, 1998), Spain and the Mediterranean since 1898 (London, 1999), and Entre el abismo y la salvacisn: el pacto Franco-Persn (Buenos Aires, 2003). His Argentina, Israel and the Jews: Persn, The Eichmann Capture and After (Bethesda, MD, 2003) won the Latin American Jewish Studies Association Award for Outstanding Research.
Current US/Panama Relations
Date:
April 14, 2004
Time: 5:00pm
Building:
White Hall
Room: 205
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Hightower Lecture Fund, Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning, Office of International Affairs
Linda E. Watt, United States Ambassador to Panama, 2002-Present/
Linda E. Watt was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Panama on December 6, 2002. A career Foreign Service Officer, Ambassador Watt has served overseas in London, Moscow, and in the Central American and Caribbean region in Managua, Nicaragua; San Jose, Costa Rica; Quito, Ecuador; and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She has also served in Washington in the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs and the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. Most recently she was Foreign Policy Advisor at U.S. Southern Command in Miami prior to being appointed Ambassador to Panama. She was born in Tokyo, Japan and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a double major in history and Spanish, and received a Master of Arts degree in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico. Ambassador Watt is married to Leo Duncan, a retired U.S. Foreign Service information management officer. She has two children, Airman First Class Thomas Crosby, and Laurie Crosby, a criminal justice major at Florida International University in Miami.
Peronista Nationalism and the Hispanic Heritage in Argentina
Date:
April 16, 2004
Time: 12:00pm
Building:
White Hall
Room: Room 200
Co-Sponsors: NA
Raanan Rein, Visiting Professor, Emory University; Director, Institute of Latin American History and Culture, Tel Aviv University, Israel/Dr. Rein conducts a luncheon seminar for the LACS faculty and graduate students.
Inter-American Summitry and the Organization of American States
Date:
April 19, 2004
Time: 4:00pm
Building:
White Hall
Room: 103
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Hightower Lecture Fund, Political Science Department
Irene Klinger, Executive Secretary, Summits of the Americas Secretariat/
As Executive Secretary, Dr. Klinger is charged with the responsibility of supporting the Summit follow-up mechanisms established in the Third Summit in Quebec City, as well as working with the 34 countries that
participate in the Summit Process in the preparation of the fourth Summit in Argentina in 2005, and the Special Summit on January 12-13, 2004 in Mexico. Prior to joining the Summits Secretariat, she was the Chief of the Office of External Relations of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and was PAHOs focal point for all summit-related activities. Dr. Klinger, a native of Chile, obtained her Bachelors Degree in Economics from the University of Chile. She completed her postgraduate training in the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where she obtained a Doctorandus Degree in Economics, with specialization in Development Economics.
Brazilian Studies
Date:
April 21, 2004
Time: NA
Building:
NA
Room: NA
Co-Sponsors: NA
Dr. Jerry Davila visits the Emory campus in preparation for the Brazil Study Abroad Program to take place this summer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the Pontifmcia Universidade Catslica.
Symposium on Mexican Immigration to the U.S. Southeast: Impact and Challenges
Date:
May 07, 2004
Time: 9:00am
Building:
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Room: Jones Room
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Hightower Lecture Fund, Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning, Office of International Affairs; The Consulate General of Mexico in Atlanta, Georgia State University, Instituto de Mexico, Kennesaw State University, and the University of Georgia
Emory is part of a three day symposium that provides scholars from Mexico and the United States the opportunity to share their studies, experience and opinions on the trends that characterize Mexican Immigration to the Southeast.
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