Events
for 2007-2008
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.
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Faculty Social
Date:
August 26, 2007
Time: 3:30PM
Building:
MATH AND SCIENCE CENTER
Room: E200
Co-Sponsors: Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program invites its faculty, staff, graduate students, and their families to the first annual Faculty Social. We will meet and welcome Dr. David Nugent, the new Director of LACS, and Dr. Robert Goddard, our new Lecturer.
By invitation only! Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Ricardo Agurcia: “The Maya Sun Kings of Ancient Copán”
Date:
September 04, 2007
Time: 7:00PM
Building:
CARLOS MUSEUM
Room: Reception Hall
Co-Sponsors: Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Department of Art History, Michael C. Carlos Museum
A native of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Ricardo Antonio Agurcia Fasquelle, received his Masters degree in Anthropology and Archaeology from Tulane University. He is presently Vice-President and Executive Director of Asociación Copán, a non-profit organization founded in 1990 by leaders in Middle American research. It is dedicated to the research and conservation of Honduras' national heritage.
Free and open to the public. Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Claudia Kedar: “The Dear Price of Neutrality: The Case of Argentina's Exclusion form the Bretton Woods Conference”
Date:
September 06, 2007
Time: 3:00PM
Building:
BOWDEN HALL
Room: 323
Co-Sponsors: Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Professor Claudia Kedar, Institute for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Tel Aviv University, will discuss The Dear Price of Neutrality: The Case of Argentina's Exclusion from the Bretton Woods Conference with faculty and graduate students attending this seminar.
Free and open to the public. To request a copy of the pre-assigned paper and for further information, contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562).
Susan Socolow: “Geographic Information Systems Workshop”
Date:
September 17, 2007
Time: 9:00AM
Building:
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Room: 314
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Led by Dr. Susan Socolow, Samuel Dobbs Candler Professosr of History, this LACS Graduate Student Forum workshop will meet five times during the Fall semester. Graduate students will learn to use the Georgraphic Information systems software now avaiable at the Robert W. Woodruff Library to creat interactive maps for research purposes.
Contact Fabricio Prado at fprado@emory.edu for further information.
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Faculty Meeting
Date:
September 21, 2007
Time: 12:00PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 200
Co-Sponsors: Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
The LACS faculty gathers for its Fall 2007 meeting.
By invitation only! Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Jeffrey Needell: “Seminar Presentation”
Date:
September 27, 2007
Time: 1:00PM
Building:
BOWDEN HALL
Room: 323
Co-Sponsors: Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Dr. Jeffrey Needell will participate in Dr. Jeffrey Lesser's Race and Ethnicity in Modern Latin America graduate seminar that meets weekly.
By invitation only! Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Jeffrey Needell: “Party of Order: The Conservatives, the state, and slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831 - 1871”
Date:
September 27, 2007
Time: 4:30PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 200
Co-Sponsors: Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Jeffrey D. Needell received his PhD in Latin American history from Stanford University in 1982. He has taught modern Latin American history at the University of Florida since 1987. Dr. Needells first book, A Tropical Belle Epoque: Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro, was published in 1987 in the Cambridge Latin American series. His second publication, The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871, , was published in 2006 by Stanford University Press. Dr. Needell's articles have appeared in the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Journal for Latin American Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, the American Historical Review, and the Latin American Research Review, among others.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
El INMIGRANTE
Date:
September 27, 2007
Time: 7:00PM
Building:
HARLAND CINEMA
Room: EMORY CAMPUS
Co-Sponsors: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stipe Fund; Institute for Comparative and International Studies, the Hightower Family Fund, The John and Susan Wieland Center for Ethics, Theory Practice Learning, Transforming Community Project
The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program cordially invites you to join us for the first of the three screenings that make up this Fall's IMMIGRATION MATTERS FILM SERIES. El Inmigrante is a documentary that examines the Mexican and American border crisis by telling the story of Eusebio de Haro, a young Mexican migrant who was shot and killed during one of his journeys north. The film examines the perspectives of a diverse cast of players that includes the de Haro family, the community of Brackettville, Texas - where Eusebio was shot, members of the vigilante border militias in Arizona, the horseback border patrol in El Paso, and migrants en route to an uncertain future in the United States.
Our guest panelists for this screening are:
Uriel Castañeda, President, Latino Student Organization, Emory University;
Paul Ficklin-Alred, Assistant Administrative Director, the John and Susan Wieland Center for Ethics, Emory University;
Teodoro Maus, Former Consul General of Mexico in Atlanta, 1989-1994 and 1995-2001.
Free and open to the public. Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Susan Socolow: “Geographic Information Systems Workshop”
Date:
October 01, 2007
Time: 9:00AM
Building:
ROBERT W. WOODRUFF LIBRARY
Room: 314
Co-Sponsors: Instittute for Comparative and International Studies
Led by Dr. Susan Socolow, Samuel Dobbs Candler Professosr of History, this LACS Graduate Student Forum workshop meets for the second time this semester. Graduate students will learn to use the Georgraphic Information systems software now avaiable at the Robert W. Woodruff Library to creat interactive maps for research purposes.
Contact Fabricio Prado at fprado@emory.edu for further information.
Nathan Wachtel: “Marrano Memory, Past and Present”
Date:
October 11, 2007
Time: 6:00PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 200
Co-Sponsors: Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
A world-renowned scholar of the Andes, Dr. Nathan Wachtel is the ICIS Visiting Professor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Emory University this semester. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the region, including The Vision of the Vanquished: The Spanish Conquest of Peru through Indian Eyes, 1530 - 1570. Dr. Wachtels interest in cultural ambiguity and mestisaje led to his work on the history and anthropology of the Marranos, the so-called secret Jews of the Iberian world. Most recently, Dr. Wachtels research on Marranism has focused on present day Brazil.
Free and open to the public.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Susan Socolow: “Geographic Information Systems Workshop”
Date:
October 15, 2007
Time: 9:00AM
Building:
ROBERT W. WOODRUFF LIBRARY
Room: 314
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Led by Dr. Susan Socolow, Samuel Dobbs Candler Professosr of History, this LACS Graduate Student Forum workshop meets for the third time this semester. Graduate students will learn to use the Georgraphic Information systems software now avaiable at the Robert W. Woodruff Library to creat interactive maps for research purposes.
Contact Fabricio Prado at fprado@emory.edu for further information
THE GUESTWORKER
Date:
October 18, 2007
Time: 7:00PM
Building:
HARLAND CINEMA
Room: EMORY CAMPUS
Co-Sponsors: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stipe Fund; Institute for Comparative and International Studies, the Hightower Family Fund, The John and Susan Wieland Center for Ethics, Theory Practice Learning, Transforming Community Project
LACS cordially invites you to join us for the second of the three screenings that make up this Fall's IMMIGRATION MATTERS FILM SERIES.
Filmed over a two-year period in North Carolina and Mexico, The Guestworker: Bienvenidos a Carolina del Norte (http://theguestworker.com/) tells the story of Don Candelario González Moreno, a 66 year old Mexican farmer who has worked as a farm laborer in the United States since the 1960s. His story is most relevant to the current national debate on who should do our farm work and under what conditions. Don Cande's trials and tribulations also humanize many of the complex issues that have emerged in the US debate on immigration.
The panelists for The Guestworker are:
Jerry González, Executive Director, Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) & the GALEO Latino Community Development Fund.
América Gruner, President, Coalíción de Líderes Latinos (CLILA).
Maeve Howett, Clinical Assistant Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University.
Free and open to the public. Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Susan Socolow: “Geographic Information Systems Workshop”
Date:
October 22, 2007
Time: 9:00AM
Building:
ROBERT W. WOODRUFF LIBRARY
Room: 314
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Led by Dr. Susan Socolow, Samuel Dobbs Candler Professosr of History, this LACS Graduate Student Forum workshop meets for the fourth time this semester. Graduate students will learn to use the Georgraphic Information systems software now avaiable at the Robert W. Woodruff Library to creat interactive maps for research purposes.
Contact Fabricio Prado at fprado@emory.edu for further information
Daniel Caño Domingo: “Class Presentation”
Date:
October 23, 2007
Time: 10:00AM
Building:
CALLAWAY CENTER
Room: S105
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Dr. Daniel Caño Domingo is professor of contemporary Maya culture, languages and politics at the Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales at the Universidad Rafael Landívar in Huehuetenango and at the Centro Maya de Idiomas in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. He will make a class presentation in Dr. Susan Tomasi's Languages of the World course.
By invitation only!
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Daniel Caño Domingo: “Class Presentation”
Date:
October 24, 2007
Time: 2:00PM
Building:
CARLOS HALL
Room: 211
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Dr. Daniel Caño Domingo is professor of contemporary Maya culture, languages and politics at the Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales at the Universidad Rafael Landívar in Huehuetenango and at the Centro Maya de Idiomas en Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. He will make a class presentation in Dr. Mary Odem's and Dr. Regine Jackson's New Immigrants in the New South course.
By invitation only!
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Ben W. Fallaw: “Bartolomé García Correa and the Politics of Maya Identity in Postrevolutionary Yucatan, 1915 - 1933”
Date:
October 25, 2007
Time: 4:30PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 102
Co-Sponsors: Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
Ben W. Fallaw received his PhD in Latin American history from the University of Chicago (1995) and lived in Mexico City and Merida while a Fulbright fellow. Dr. Fallaw's articles have appeared in the Hispanic American Historical Review and the Latin America Research Review. His first book, Cardenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatan, was published in 2001 by Duke University Press. Dr. Fallaw is currently finishing a manuscript tentatively entitled "Between Salvation and Revolution: Catholics and Postrevolutionary State Formation in Mexico, 1929-1940." His lecture is free and open to the public.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
O. Nigel Bolland: “Crossing Borders in the Caribbean: Culture, Nation, and Race”
Date:
October 29, 2007
Time: 4:30PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 111
Co-Sponsors: Center for the Study of Public Scholarship, the Institute for Comparative and International Studies, the Hightower Family Fund
Dr. O. Nigel Bolland taught in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and in the Africana and Latin American Studies Program at Colgate University from 1972 to 2005. He is the author of several books on Belize, Central America, and the Caribbean, the most recent being The Birth of Caribbean Civilization: A Century of Ideas about Culture and Identity, Nation and Society (Ian Randall Publishers, 2004). In 2004 Dr. Bolland also received the Sydney J. and Florence Felton French Prize for excellence in inspirational teaching from Colgate University. His current interests include Caribbean social and cultural organizations, colonialism and development, slavery and emancipation in the Americas. His lecture is free and open to the public.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
José Antonio Lucero: “Critical Junctures and Colonial Legacies: Deconolization and Democracy in Bolivia and Peru”
Date:
November 01, 2007
Time: 4:30PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 207
Co-Sponsors: The Hightower Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
José Antonio Lucero is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Temple University. His research on indigenous politics, social movements, and representation in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Institute of International Education, the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Professor Luceros articles have been published in the Journal of Democracy, Comparative Politics, Latin American Perspectives, Latin American Research Review His book on indigenous movements, Voices of Struggle, Struggles of Voice: Indigenous Representation and Social Movements in the Andes, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press. His lecture is free and open to the public.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
María Elena García: “Decolonizing Knowledge?: Intercultural Education and Indigenous Professional Training in the Andes”
Date:
November 02, 2007
Time: 4:30PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 111
Co-Sponsors: The Hightouer Family Fund, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
María Elena García is a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at Tufts University. She has previously taught at Sarah Lawrence College and will be joining the faculty in the Comparative History of Ideas Program at the University of Washington upon completion of her fellowship. Dr. Garcías book, Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Development, and Multicultural Activism in Peru (Stanford University Press, 2005), examines the paradoxes and possibilities of Quechua community protests against intercultural bilingual education, official multicultural policies implemented by state and non-state actors, and the training of authentic indigenous leaders far from their home communities. Her work has appeared in multiple edited volumes and journals such as Latin American Perspectives, Anthropological Quarterly, and the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Her lecture is free and open to the public.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
LACS Graduate Student Forum: “2007 Summer Field Research Presentations”
Date:
November 09, 2007
Time: 3:00PM
Building:
ROLLINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Room: RITA ANNE ROLLINS ROOM (8TH FLOOR)
Co-Sponsors: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Institute for Comparative and International Studies
The recipients of the 2007 Summer Field Research Travel awards will make brief presentations of their research, followed by a discussion of questions, curiosities, and problems (methodological, topical, theoretical, etc) that they encountered this past summer.
The award recipients are Mr. Alex Borucki (History), Ms. Aisha Cort (Spanish and Portoguese), Mr. Brad Lange (History), Mr. Leonardo Marques (History), Mr. Michael Ritter (Global Health), Mr. Uri Rosenheck (History), Ms. Emily Rowlinson (Global Health), Ms. Kathryn Schmidt (Epidemiology), Ms. Anna Summer (Global Health), and Ms. Jennifer Warpinski (Global Environmental Health). The presentation and discussion are free and open to the public.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Mark Becker: “ROMÁNTICO”
Date:
November 14, 2007
Time: 7:00PM
Building:
HARLAND CINEMA
Room: EMORY CAMPUS
Co-Sponsors: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stipe Fund; Institute for Comparative and International Studies, the Hightower Family Fund, The John and Susan Wieland Center for Ethics, Theory Practice Learning, Transforming Community Project
LACS cordially invites you to join us for the final of three films that make up this Fall's IMMIGRATION MATTERS FILM SERIES.
Romántico (http://www.meteorfilms.org/) is a documentary about Mexican musician Carmelo Muñiz Sánchez, who returns home to his beloved daughters after years spent playing San Francisco's taquerías and hipster joints. But, once Carmelo arrives in his hometown - over a thousand miles south of the border - he finds himself immediately confronted with the struggles that led to his first border crossing. Despite working the mariachi circuit (weddings, funerals, quinceañeras) and at bars that cater to prostitutes and their clients, Sánchez soon realizes he can't adequately support his family and plots a return to the U.S. At the age 60, another border crossing begins to seem absurd, but Carmelo has not given up.
Free and open to the public. Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
Raanan Rein: “Not Invisible Anymore: Inidividual and Collective Identities of Latin Americans in Israel”
Date:
November 15, 2007
Time: 4:30PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 207
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies, the Hightower Family Fund, the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
Raanan Rein is Professor of History and Vice-Rector at Tel Aviv University. He is the editor of the journal Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, the author of five books and editor of an additional five. Dr. Reins latest book on Peronist Argentina will be published by Stanford University Press in 2008. His Argentina, Israel and the Jews: Perón, The Eichmann Capture and After (Bethesda, MD, 2003) won the Latin American Jewish Studies Association Award for Outstanding Research.
Free and open to the public.
Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
LACS Faculty Meeting
Date:
February 22, 2008
Time: 12:00PM
Building:
WHITE HALL
Room: 100
Co-Sponsors: Institute for Comparative and International Studies
The LACS faculty gathers for its Spring 2008 meeting.
By invitation only! Contact Rebeca Quintana (rquinta@emory.edu, 404-727-6562) for further information.
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