Events
for 2006-2007
Latte-n-America: An Early Morning Discussion Group
Date:
September 21, 2006
Time: 8:00AM
Building:
ICIS
Room: 108
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Organized by the LACS Graduate Student Forum, this multi-disciplinary reading group focuses on the history of Latin America. It meets five times (every other Thursday beginning September 21st) during Fall 2006. Each session covers specific topics such as slavery, gender, populism, and periodization. Discussion of selected readings will include theoretical an historiographical issues. Coffee and breakfast pastries are served.
For further information contact Fabricio Prado (fprado@emory.edu)
or Uri Rosenheck (urosenh@emory.edu).
LACS Fall Semester Faculty Meeting
Date:
September 29, 2006
Time: 12:00PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 200
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies
The LACS faculty gathers for its Fall 2006 meeting.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Latte-n-America: An Early Morning Discussion Group
Date:
October 05, 2006
Time: 8:00AM
Building:
ICIS
Room: 108
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Organized by the LACS Graduate Student Forum, this multi-disciplinary reading group focuses on the history of Latin America. It meets five times (every other Thursday beginning September 21st) during Fall 2006. Each session covers specific topics such as slavery, gender, populism, and periodization. Discussion of selected readings will include theoretical an historiographical issues. Coffee and breakfast pastries are served.
For further information contact Fabricio Prado (fprado@emory.edu)
or Uri Rosenheck (urosenh@emory.edu).
Graduate Student Forum: “LACS 2006 Summer Field Research Grants Reception”
Date:
October 13, 2006
Time: 3:00PM
Building:
Goizueta Business School Bldg
Room: 500
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
In April, 2006, with generous support from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, LACS awarded Summer Field Research Travel grants to eleven graduate students doing research in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Mr. Alex Borucki (History), Mr. Daniel Domingues da Silva (History), Ms. Amanda Hillman (Anthropology), Ms. Colleen McClean (Epidemiology), Ms. Alicia Monroe (History), Mr. Fabricio Prado (History), Mr. Uri Rosenheck (History), Ms. Sarahh Scher (Art History), Ms. Sasha Schlicher (Global Health), Ms. Amy Seitz (Global Health), and Ms. Jhaqueline Valle Palominos (Global Health) will present summaries of their field work at this reception of the Graduate Student Forum.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Dr. Timothy J. Power: “LAS 101 Great Minds Lecture Series”
Date:
October 17, 2006
Time: 11:30AM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 112
Co-Sponsors: Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Dr. Timothy J. Power, University Lecturer in Brazilian Studies, Oxford University, Oxford, England, will participate in the Great Minds Lecture Series that is part of LAS 101, Dr. Barry Levitt's Introduction to Latin American Studies course.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Dr. Timothy J. Power: “The October 2006 Elections in Brazil”
Date:
October 17, 2006
Time: 4:00PM
Building:
GOIZUETA BUSINESS SCHOOL
Room: 500
Co-Sponsors: Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Timothy J. Power is University Lecturer in Brazilian Studies and a Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford. Dr. Power is the author or co-editor of several books on Brazilian politics, including The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil (Penn State University Press, 2000) and Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions, and Processes (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000). His articles on democratization and political institutions in Latin America have appeared in outlets such as Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and Political Research Quarterly. His most recent book (co-edited with Nicol Rae), is Exporting Congress? The Influence of the U.S. Congress on World Legislatures (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006). Power is the current president (2004-2006) of the Brazilian Studies Association (www.brasa.org).
The October 2006 Elections in Brazil
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Latte-n-America: An Early Morning Discussion Group
Date:
October 19, 2006
Time: 8:00AM
Building:
ICIS
Room: 108
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Organized by the LACS Graduate Student Forum, this multi-disciplinary reading group focuses on the history of Latin America. It meets five times (every other Thursday beginning September 21st) during Fall 2006. Each session covers specific topics such as slavery, gender, populism, and periodization. Discussion of selected readings will include theoretical an historiographical issues. Coffee and breakfast pastries are served.
For further information contact Fabricio Prado (fprado@emory.edu)
or Uri Rosenheck (urosenh@emory.edu).
Latte-n-America: An Early Morning Discussion Group
Date:
November 02, 2006
Time: 8:00AM
Building:
ICIS
Room: 108
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Organized by the LACS Graduate Student Forum, this multi-disciplinary reading group focuses on the history of Latin America. It meets five times (every other Thursday beginning September 21st) during Fall 2006. Each session covers specific topics such as slavery, gender, populism, and periodization. Discussion of selected readings will include theoretical an historiographical issues. Coffee and breakfast pastries are served.
For further information contact Fabricio Prado (fprado@emory.edu)
or Uri Rosenheck (urosenh@emory.edu).
Juan Javier Pescador: “Sunday Heroes: Mexican/Chicano Soccer Associations and Transnational/Translocal Communities, 1930 - 2005”
Date:
November 08, 2006
Time: 4:00PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 102
Co-Sponsors: Department of History, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Dr. Javier Pescador (Ph.D., University of Michigan 1998) is an associate professor in the History Department and the Chicano/Latino Studies Program at Michigan State University. His current research focuses on sports, recreational life, and religion in Mexican barrios in the U.S., and the history of folk saints and religious rituals in the Mexico/U.S. Borderlands. He is finishing a book on Borderland folk saints since the colonial era, Seeking the Holy Child of Tierra Adentro: the Historical Origins of the Santo Niño de Atocha. He is author of The New World Inside a Basque Village: The Oiartzun
Valley and Its Atlantic Emigrants, 1550 - 1800 (2004) and co-author of The Early History of Greater Mexico (2002).
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Juan Pescador: “LAS 101 Great Minds Lecture Series”
Date:
November 09, 2006
Time: 11:30AM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 112
Co-Sponsors: Department of History, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Dr. Javier Pescador (Ph.D., University of Michigan 1998) is an associate professor in the History Department and the Chicano/Latino Studies Program at Michigan State University. His current research focuses on sports, recreational life, and religion in Mexican barrios in the U.S., and the history of folk saints and religious rituals in the Mexico/U.S. Borderlands. He is finishing a book on Borderland folk saints since the colonial era, Seeking the Holy Child of Tierra Adentro: the Historical Origins of the Santo Niño de Atocha. He is author of The New World Inside a Basque Village: The Oiartzun
Valley and Its Atlantic Emigrants, 1550 - 1800 (2004) and co-author of The Early History of Greater Mexico (2002). Dr. Pescador will present one of the Great Minds Series lectures that are part of LAS 101, Dr. Barry Levitt's Introduction to Latin American Studies course.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Dr. Frank Graziano: “Cultures of Devotion: Folk Saints of Spanish America”
Date:
November 13, 2006
Time: 4:00PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 103
Co-Sponsors: Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Frank Graziano is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Hispanic Studies at Connecticut College. His most recent books, all published by Oxford University Press, are The Millennial New World (1999), Wounds of Love: The Mystical Marriage of St. Rose of Lima (2003), and Cultures of Devotion: Folk Saints of Spanish America (2006). Dr. Grazianos research and writing have been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays programs, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, among many others.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Dr. Frank Graziano: “LAS 101 Great Minds Lecture Series”
Date:
November 14, 2006
Time: 11:30AM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 112
Co-Sponsors: Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Frank Graziano is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Hispanic Studies at Connecticut College. His most recent books, all published by Oxford University Press, are The Millennial New World (1999), Wounds of Love: The Mystical Marriage of St. Rose of Lima (2003), and Cultures of Devotion: Folk Saints of Spanish America (2006). Dr. Grazianos research and writing have been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays programs, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, among many others, He will present one of the Great Minds Series lectures that are part of LAS 101, Dr. Barry Levitt's Introduction to Latin American Studies course.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Latte-n-America: An Early Morning Discussion Group
Date:
November 16, 2006
Time: 8:00AM
Building:
ICIS
Room: 108
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Organized by the LACS Graduate Student Forum, this multi-disciplinary reading group focuses on the history of Latin America. It meets five times (every other Thursday beginning September 21st) during Fall 2006. Each session covers specific topics such as slavery, gender, populism, and periodization. Discussion of selected readings will include theoretical an historiographical issues. Coffee and breakfast pastries are served.
For further information contact Fabricio Prado (fprado@emory.edu)
or Uri Rosenheck (urosenh@emory.edu).
Kirk Bowman: “LAS 101 Great Minds Lecture Series”
Date:
November 30, 2006
Time: 11:30AM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 112
Co-Sponsors: Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Dr. Kirk Bowman, Assistant Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech Univeristy, will participate in the Great Minds Lecture Series that is part of LAS 101, Dr. Barry Levitt's Introduction to Latin American Studies course.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
LACS Spring Semester Faculty Meeting
Date:
January 26, 2007
Time: 12:00PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 200
The LACS faculty gathers for its Spring 2007 meeting.
By invitation only!
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
CHCS & GHI - LACS Faculty Mixer
Date:
January 26, 2007
Time: 2:00PM
Building:
Rollins School of Public Health
Room: 860
Co-Sponsors: Center for Health , Culture and Society, Global Health Institute
The faculty and graduate students of the Center for Health, Culture and Society, the Global Health Institute, and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program gather to share information on resources at Emory and to explore opportunities for collaborative research.
By invitation only!
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Latte 'n America: An Afternoon Discussion Group
Date:
January 29, 2007
Time: 3:00PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 100
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Affairs
Organized by the LACS Graduate Student Forum, this multi-disciplinary reading group focuses on the history of Latin America. It meets five times (every other Monday beginning January 29th) in Spring 2007. Each session covers specific topics such as slavery, gender, populism, and periodization. Discussion of selected readings will include theoretical an historiographical issues. Coffee and breakfast pastries are served.
For further information contact Alex Borucki (aboruck@emory.edu)
or Uri Rosenheck (urosenh@emory.edu).
Gabriel Di Meglio: “Urban Popular Politics in the Independence of Latin America: The Case of Buenos Aires (1810-1830)”
Date:
January 29, 2007
Time: 4:30PM
Building:
Callaway Center
Room: 501S
Co-Sponsors: Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Gabriel Di Meglio received his PhD from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) where he is now a lecturer of Argentinean history from colonial times to the early independent decades. Dr. Di Meglio is a researcher at the Ministry of Education's Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and at UBA's Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana "Dr. Emilio Ravignani". He is the author of the forthcoming ¡Viva el bajo pueblo! La plebe urbana de Buenos Aires y la política entre la Revolución de Mayo y el Rosismo (2007) and co-founder of Eternautas, a tourism company that specializes in historic tours of Buenos Aires.
2007 Area Studies Reception
Date:
February 02, 2007
Time: 3:00PM
Building:
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Room: J. W. Jones
Co-Sponsors: Center for Russian and East European Studies, East Asian Studies Program, Emory-Tibet Partnership, Institute of African Studies, Irish Studies Program, Department Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies, South Asian Studies Program
The ICIS Area Studies faculty and staff cordially invite you to attend our first annual joint reception. Join us as we extend a hearty thank you to all those who support the work of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, the East Asian Studies Program, the Emory-Tibet Partnership, the Institute of African Studies, the Irish Studies Program, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, and the South Asian Studies Program.
By invitation only! Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Julia Paley: “Indigenous Movements and Aid Agencies: Tensions and Collaborations in Ecuador”
Date:
February 12, 2007
Time: 4:30PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 102
Co-Sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and Internal Studies
Julia Paley's primary research interests focus on the multiple meanings and practices of democracy in various geographic contexts. Her book, Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), won the 2001 Sharon Stephens award of the American Ethnological Society for the best first book by a junior scholar. Dr. Paley's presentation of Indigenous Movements and Aid Agencies: Tensions and Colloborations in Ecuador is the first lecture in Dr. David Nugen'ts Lecture Series, States, Nations and Democracies: the Andes During the 'Long' Twentieth Century.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Latte 'n America: An Afternoon Discussion Group
Date:
February 12, 2007
Time: 3:00PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 100
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Organized by the LACS Graduate Student Forum, this multi-disciplinary reading group focuses on the history of Latin America. It meets five times (every other Monday beginning January 29th) in Spring 2007. Each session covers specific topics such as slavery, gender, populism, and periodization. Discussion of selected readings will include theoretical an historiographical issues. Coffee and breakfast pastries are served.
For further information contact Alex Borucki (aboruck@emory.edu)
or Uri Rosenheck (urosenh@emory.edu).
Julia Paley: “Class Lecture”
Date:
February 13, 2007
Time: 2:00PM
Building:
CALLAWAY CENTER
Room: S102
Co-Sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and Internal Studies
Professor Paley will deliver today's class lecture in Dr. Juan del Aguila's and Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat's Politics and the Culture of Dictatorship in Latin America course.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Latte 'n America: An Afternoon Discussion Group
Date:
February 26, 2007
Time: 3:00PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 100
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Organized by the LACS Graduate Student Forum, this multi-disciplinary reading group focuses on the history of Latin America. It meets five times (every other Monday beginning January 29th) in Spring 2007. Each session covers specific topics such as slavery, gender, populism, and periodization. Discussion of selected readings will include theoretical an historiographical issues. Coffee and breakfast pastries are served.
For further information contact Alex Borucki (aboruck@emory.edu)
or Uri Rosenheck (urosenh@emory.edu).
Matthew C. Gutmann: “The Concealment of Public Space: Neoliberalism, AIDS, and the Regulation of Healing in Oaxaca”
Date:
March 08, 2007
Time: 4:30PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 206
Co-Sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Matthew Gutmann received his PhD in Anthropology (1995) and his Masters in Public Health (1997) at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies change in a variety of contexts, with special emphasis on gender/sexuality, militarization, ethnicity-race-nationalism, and health in the Americas, especially Mexico and among Latinos in the United States. In addition to his research in Mexico City on changing male identities and on popular politics, Dr. Gutmann has worked in Oaxaca, Mexico, where he has conducted research on men's reproductive health and sexuality through ethnographic fieldwork in two vasectomy clinics, a government AIDS clinic, and among indigenous midwives, doctors, and healers. Dr. Gutmann's public lecture is entitled The Concealment of Public Space: Neoliberalism, AIDS, and the Regulation of Healing in Oaxaca and is part of Dr. David Nugent's States, Nations and Democracies: the Andes During the 'Long' Twentieth Century Lecture Series.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Matthew Gutmann: “Classroom Lecture”
Date:
March 09, 2007
Building:
COX HALL
Room: 230B
Co-Sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Professor Gutmann will deliver today's class lecture in Dr. Vialla Dr. Hartfield-Méndez Writing, Context, and Community course.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Latte 'n America: An Afternoon Discussion Group
Date:
March 12, 2007
Time: 3:00PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 100
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Organized by the LACS Graduate Student Forum, this multi-disciplinary reading group focuses on the history of Latin America. It meets five times (every other Monday beginning January 29th) in Spring 2007. Each session covers specific topics such as slavery, gender, populism, and periodization. Discussion of selected readings will include theoretical an historiographical issues. Coffee and breakfast pastries are served.
For further information contact Alex Borucki (aboruck@emory.edu) or Uri Rosenheck (urosenh@emory.edu).
Dreaming Cows, An Exhibtion of Paintings by Betty LaDuke
Date:
March 19, 2007
to August 15, 2007
Time: Ongoing
Building:
ROBERT W. WOODRUFF LIBRARY
Room: SCHATTEN GALLERY
Co-Sponsors: Center for Women at Emory, Department of Women's Studies, Emory International Student Nurses Association, Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Institute of African Studies, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, and Theory Practice Learning
Becoming involved with issues of cultural diversity and world hunger, artist Betty LaDuke's paintings, photographs and drawings reflect her deeply felt experiences as she visits Heifer International's "Not a Cup But a Cow" project sites around the world. The twenty-two paintings in this exhibit were inspired by trips to Cambodia, Ecuador, Peru, Poland, Rwanda, Uganda and Vietnam.
Heifer International is a nonprofit, humanitarian organization dedicated to ending world hunger and saving the earth by providing livestock, trees, training and other resources to help poor families around the globe become self-reliant.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra: “Innovative Approaches to Latin American and Comparative Colonialism in Undergraduate Education”
Date:
March 21, 2007
Time: 2:00PM
Building:
ICIS
Room: 108
Co-Sponsors: The Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Dr. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, professor if History, University of Texas at Austin, will conduct a workshop organized by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Student Forum. To kick off the workshop, Dr. Cañizares-Esguerra will deliver a lecture entitled The Iberian Roots in the Atlantic World, 1550 -1700: The Puritans.
Opening Reception with Betty LaDuke of Dreaming Cows Exhibition
Date:
March 23, 2007
Time: 4:30pm
Building:
ROBERT W. WOODRUFF LIBRARY
Room: J B JONES ROOM
Co-Sponsors: Center for Women at Emory, Department of Women's Studies, Emory International Student Nurses Association, Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Institute of African Studies, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, and Theory Practice Learning
Becoming involved with issues of cultural diversity and world hunger, artist Betty LaDuke's paintings, photographs and drawings reflect her deeply felt experiences as she visits Heifer International's "Not a Cup But a Cow" project sites around the world. The nearly seventy paintings, pen drawings and color photographs in this exhibit were inspired by trips to Cambodia, Ecuador, Peru, Poland, Rwanda, Uganda and Vietnam.
Heifer International is a nonprofit, humanitarian organization dedicated to ending world hunger and saving the earth by providing livestock, trees, training and other resources to help poor families around the globe become self-reliant.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Latte 'n America: An Afternoon Discussion Group
Date:
March 26, 2007
Time: 3:00PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 100
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Organized by the LACS Graduate Student Forum, this multi-disciplinary reading group focuses on the history of Latin America. It meets five times (every other Monday beginning January 29th) in Spring 2007. Each session covers specific topics such as slavery, gender, populism, and periodization. Discussion of selected readings will include theoretical an historiographical issues. Coffee and breakfast pastries are served.
For further information contact Alex Borucki (aboruck@emory.edu)
or Uri Rosenheck (urosenh@emory.edu).
Greg Grandin: “Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of New Imperialism”
Date:
March 27, 2007
Time: 4:30PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 103
Co-Sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Greg Grandin is Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of The Blood of Guatemala (Duke, 2000), which won the Latin American Studies Association's Bryce Wood Book Award for best book on Latin America; The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War (Chicago, 2004); and Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (Metropolitan, 2006). He has served on the United Nations Truth Commission for Guatemala, and has published in the Hispanic American Historical Review, the AHR, Harper's, The Nation, the Boston Review, and the New York Times. He has most recently been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, Ryskamp Fellowship Program.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Greg Grandin: “Classroom Lecture”
Date:
March 27, 2007
Time: 2:00PM
Building:
CALLAWAY CENTER
Room: S102
Co-Sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Professor Grandin will deliver today's class lecture in Dr. Juan del Aguila's and Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat's Politics and the Culture of Dictatorship in Latin America course.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Andrés Rozental and Guadalupe González: “Mexico in the Global Era: Mexican Perspectives on National Identity and International Engagement”
Date:
April 10, 2007
Time: 4:00PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 110
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Hightower Family Fund, Consulate General of Mexico in Atlanta, Instituto de Mexico
The Eminent Ambassador Andrés Rozental, Council for International Affairs (COMEXI), and Guadalupe González, Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE), in Mexico will present new research on Mexican perspectives on national identity and international engagement in today's era of globalization.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
George Sanchez: “Latinos, the American South, and the Future of U. S. Relations”
Date:
April 16, 2007
Time: 4:30PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 102
Co-Sponsors: Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Office of the Provost
Professor Sanchez researches historical and contemporary topics of race, gender, ethnicity, labor, and immigration. He is currently working on two projects: a book on the impact of contemporary Mexican migration on the culture and politics of Los Angels at the end of the 20th century, and a historical study of the ethnic interaction of Mexican-Americans, Japanese-American and Jews in the Boyle Heights area of East Los Angeles. Professor Sanchez is the author of Becomng Mexican American: Ethnicity, Cutlure and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900 - 1945, Oxford University Press, 1993.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Sophia A. McClennen: “Truth, Trauma, and Testimonials in Ariel Dorfman's 'Death and the Maiden'”
Date:
April 19, 2007
Time: 4:30PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 103
Co-Sponsors: Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Dr. Sophia A. McClennen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University - University Park, where she teaches inter-American literature, women's world literature, media studies, and comparative cultural studies. Widely published, she is the author of The Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time Language and Space in Hispanic Literature (Purdue 2004), a comparative study of exile literature from Spain and Latin America. Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Dr. Mc Clennen is co-editor of Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America (Purdue 2004) and Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror (Forthcoming Purdue 2007). She has received research grants from Fulbright, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Tinker Foundation, and Harvard University.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Lesley Gill: “The Coke Side of Life: Coca-Cola, Labor Restructuring and Political Violence in Colombia”
Date:
April 26, 2007
Time: 4:30PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 103
Co-Sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Professor Lesley Gills current research in Colombia focuses on how political violence and free-market economic policies are transforming work, unionism, and collective action among Coca-Cola workers. She is the author of Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class and Domestic Service (Columbia University Press, 1994), Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State (Columbia University Press, 2000), and The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence (Duke University Press, 2004). Her anthropology courses focus on racism, U.S. state policy, Andean Latin America, and political violence.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
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