Friday, October 12, 2012

[RED DEMOCRATICA] ilas ILAS Digest: Week of October 15, 2012

 

Institute of Latin American Studies – ILAS Weekly Digest: October 15, 2012

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

ILAS Announcements
ILAS Events
Affiliated Talks/Conferences/Screening
CLACS/NYU Talks/Conferences/Screening
Outside Talks/Conferences/Screening
Calls for Papers
Fellowships/Prizes/Grants
Programs and Classes
Jobs

 

 

ILAS Announcements

 

Call for Proposals for the Dr. Ruth Cardoso Visiting Chair at the Center for Brazilian Studies

The Center for Brazilian Studies is pleased to announce a call for proposals for The Dr. Ruth Cardoso Visiting Chair at Columbia University.  The Cardoso Chair is aimed at Brazilian teachers and researchers with proven experience in the humanities and social sciences, with an emphasis on Contemporary Brazil history, anthropology, political science and sociology.

 

Deadline of applications: November 30th, 2012.

 

Application Requirements:

-Must have completed doctorate in 2006 or earlier;

-Must have Brazilian nationality and not have U.S. citizenship

-Must be accredited as a teacher and mentor in a graduate program recognized by Capes;

-Must have been engaged under full academic activities, which must include teaching, guidance or co-supervision of dissertations or theses and / or participation in research projects in areas of Brazil's contemporary history, anthropology, political science and sociology;

-Have fluency in English, compatible with the proper performance in the activities planned, which includes classroom lectures;

-Must not have scholarship or receive financial benefit from other Brazilian agencies or entities toward the same goal;

-Must be living in Brazil at the time of application and throughout the selection process

 

Obligations:

-Devote full academic and research to the activities listed in the syllabus;

-Be able to teach a course each semester. The expectation is that one discipline has format of lectures and another presented in seminars;

-Return to Brazil within thirty days of the conclusion of the program;

-Send a final report, a minimum of fifteen (15) pages through the link "Send unattached document", available on the Program page Catedra Dr. Ruth Cardoso, located on CAPES’ website within thirty (30) days after the end of the scholarship. The report must contain a summary of activities undertaken during the period of the scholarship in the United States, and should be signed by the grantee;

-Reimburse FAPESP, CAPES and the Fulbright Commission of any investment made in the scholarship, with the incidence of default interest on the amounts to be repaid in the event of occurrence of revocation of the concession, motivated by willful act or omission or negligence of the awardee;

-Accept the scholarship at Columbia University for 1 semester (September 2013 to December 2014; January 2014 to May 2014) or two consecutive semesters (September 2013 to May 2014).

 

Benefits:

-Monthly stipend of $ 5,000, for up to nine months

-Assistance with moving costs, up to $ 2,000

-Health insurance

-Round-trip airfare

-On-campus Housing at no charge to the recipient and access to services and facilities of Columbia University, in accordance with the standards of Columbia University visiting faculty

 

If you have further questions, please contact Esteban Andrade (eaa2127@columbia.edu) at Columbia’s Center for Brazilian Studies

URL: http://www.fulbright.org.br/content/view/111/160/

 

ILAS Welcomes Second Tinker Visiting Professor for Fall 2012

ILAS would like to welcome our second Tinker Visiting Professor for the fall semester – Professor Juan Antonio Morales from Bolivia. 

 

Juan Antonio Morales is full Professor and Senior Researcher at the School of Economic and Financial Sciences at the Catholic University of Bolivia, where he returned after being president of the Central Bank of Bolivia. His tenure as president, from 1995 to 2006, was the longest in the history of the Central Bank of Bolivia since its creation in 1928. Dr. Morales had been visiting professor in several European, American, and Latin-American universities. Mr. Morales has written over forty scientific books and articles. He also contributes regularly to the Bolivian press.

 

He obtained his Master and Doctorate degrees in Economics at the Catholic University of Louvian – Belgium in 1967 and 1971 respectively.  He is fluent in Spanish, English and French.”

 

Prof. Morales was previously appointed a Tinker Visiting Professor at ILAS in the spring semester of 2009.

 

NEW Mini Course Announcement

Professor Juan Antonio Morales will be teaching a mini course, starting on October 17.  Please see the details before:

 

Course Number and Title:

REGN U6330: POST NEOLIBERAL POLICIES IN THE ANDES

 

Time/Date: Wednesdays 11:00AM -12:50PM

Location: 802 IAB

Instructor: Juan Antonio Morales, Tinker Visiting professor Fall 2012

 

**This is a seven week course, starting Wednesday, October 17 through Wednesday, December 5, 2012.  1.5 credits

 

Description:

The purpose of the course is to examine the origins and the scope of the post neoliberal policies adopted in the Andean region, particularly in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela.  The post neoliberal policies surged as a reaction to the policies of free markets and globalization encapsulated in the Washington Consensus and in the structural adjustment recommendations of the international financial institutions. Opposition to the neoliberal model is the signpost of the post-neoliberal policies together with a rejection of political parties and other institutions of representative democracy. The neoliberal model is blamed for the increase in inequality and the worsening of poverty in the 1990s.

 

The boldness of the current anti-market policies in the Andean region, e.g. nationalizations, would not have been possible without the windfall income brought by the abnormally high international prices for hydrocarbons and metals. We will discuss the management of natural wealth in the new policy setting, the redistribution issues, the efforts to include indigenous peoples, and the fight against corruption.

 

***Registration for this course will be done in person at SIPA’s Office of Students Affairs, located on the 6th Floor IAB. 

 

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ILAS Events

 

DATE/TIME: Thursday, October 25/ 9:00am – 3:00pm

LOCATION:  Faculty House, 2nd Floor, Columbia University

 

SPONSOR(S):  The Institute of Latin American Studies

 

EVENT – First Joint Multidisciplinary Workshop, Free University of Berlin: GLOBALIZATION AND THE PRODUCTION OF SPACES 

 

SPEAKER(S):

Marianne Braig, The Free University of Berlin

Sergio Costa, The Free University of Berlin

Barbara Fritz, The Free University of Berlin

Ingrid Kummels, The Free University of Berlin

Stefan Rinke, The Free University of Berlin

Maja Horn , Columbia University

Claudio Lomnitz, Columbia University

Graciela Montaldo, Columbia University

Pablo Piccato, Columbia University

Pablo Pinto, Columbia University

Caterina Pizzigoni, Columbia University

 

Description:

This symposium will bring together faculty and students of Latin America from the Free University of Berlin and their Columbia counterparts. We will discuss common research agendas around the general theme of globalization and the social, cultural and historical production of spaces. After a plenary discussion the group will break up into panels by themes and discipline, in which participants will discuss their current work and research agendas.

 

This meeting is a product of the new exchange program for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Students between the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University and the Latin American Institute at the Free University of Berlin.  The purpose of this agreement is to support research and education of the highest academic quality on topics about Latin America in the areas of social sciences and cultural studies, provide for the doctoral and postdoctoral students international experience, and facilitate international networks among students and faculty.

 

More info:

AGENDA:

9:00am – 10:00am:

Plenary meeting (Seminar Room 1)

 

10:00am – 1:00pm:

History Panel: (Seminar Room 1)

Political Economy Panel: (Seminar Room 2)

Indigenous Societies Panel: (Seminar Room 3)

Literary/cultural studies panel: (Seminar Room 4)

 

1:00pm – 3:00pm:

Lunch Break

 

3:00pm – 4:00pm:

Closing Remarks (Seminar Room 1)

 

If you are interested in participating in the panels and general meeting please contact Esteban Andrade at eaa2127@columbia.edu

 

 

DATE/TIME: Friday, November 2, 2012/ 3:30pm – 5:30pm

LOCATION:  201 Casa Hispanica (612 West 116th Street)

 

SPONSOR(S):  Center for Brazilian Studies, the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures

 

EVENT – Symposium:  ‘ERASING OR ERECTING BOUNDARIES?’: A CONVERSATION ABOUT BRAZILIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (NEW)

 

SPEAKER(S):

Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha, Anthropology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

“Concepts Are Nothing but Tools': On letters from the field(work)”

 

Peter Wade, Anthropology, University of Manchester

“Blackness, Indigeneity, Multiculturalism and Genomics in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico”

 

Yuko Miki, History, Washington University

“Slave and Citizen in Black and Red: Rethinking the Racial Narratives of Brazil?s Postcolonial History”

 

Ori Preuss, History, Tel Aviv University

“Discovering ‘Os Ianques do Sul’: Toward an Entangled Luso-Hispanic History of Latin Americanism”

 

COMMENTATOR(S): Barbara Weinstein, History, New York University

 

MODERATOR(S): Marc Hertzman, Latin American & Iberian Cultures, Columbia University

 

More info:

Reception to follow

 

 

DATE/TIME: Thursday, December 6, 2012/ 4:00pm – 6:00pm

LOCATION:  802 IAB (420 West 118th Street, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  The Institute of Latin American Studies

 

EVENT – Book Presentation:  DECENTRALIZATION AND POPULAR DEMOCRACY: GOVERNANCE FROM BELOW IN BOLIVIA (NEW)

 

SPEAKER(S):  Jean-Paul Faguet, Reader in the Political Economy of Development, London School of Economics. 

 

MODERATOR(S):  Juan Antonio Morales, Tinker Visiting Professor, Columbia University.

 

Description:

Decentralization is meant to deepen democracy, improve public services, and make government more accountable. But evidence from across the globe is contradictory. Is it all empty fashion? A giant mistake? Jean-Paul Faguet uses the remarkable case of Bolivia to investigate reform over a generation. Public investment shifted dramatically towards primary services and resource distribution became far more equitable. Change was driven by Bolivia's smaller, poorer municipalities prioritizing their needs. Many municipalities responded to decentralization with transparent, accountable government, but others suffered ineptitude, corruption or both. Why? Faguet combines broad econometric data with deep qualitative evidence to plumb the social underpinnings of governance. He shows how civic groups and firms interact to determine the quality of local decision-making. To understand decentralization, Faguet argues, we must understand governance from the ground up. He concludes with a discussion of the potential benefits of decentralization and recommendations for structuring successful reform.

 

 

DATE/TIME: Friday, December 14, 2012/ to be announced

LOCATION:  Faculty House, Columbia University

 

SPONSOR(S):  The Institute of Latin American Studies

 

EVENT – Symposium:  FRANK TANNENBAUM AND LATIN AMERICA STUDIES: A HISTORICAL SYMPOSIUM

 

SPEAKER(S):

Pablo Piccato, Columbia University

Marc Hertzman, Columbia University

Chris Brown, Columbia University

Seth Fein, Columbia University

Alan Knight, Oxford University

Elisa Servin, INAH- Mexico

Servando Ortoll, Universidad de Mexicali

Alejandro de la Fuente

Maria Pallares-Burke

Stuart Schwartz

 

Description:

More information to come

 

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Affiliated Talks/Conferences/Screening

 

DATE/TIME: Wednesday, October 17/ 5:00pm – 7:00pm  

LOCATION:  420 Hamilton Hall (1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

 

EVENT – Gallery Inauguration:  SUPERHEROES

 

SPEAKER(S): Dulce Pinzon

 

More info:

For more information, please contact CSER at cser@columbia.edu

 

 

DATE/TIME: Wednesday, October 17/ 7:00pm – 9:00pm  

LOCATION:  Milbank Chapel, Teachers College (525 West 120th Street, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  Teachers College

 

EVENT – QUIERE Seminar Series:  TEACHING YOUNG ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS

 

SPEAKER(S): Eugene Garcia, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University

 

Description:

Do you have English Language Learners in your classroom?

Do you want to learn more about teaching young English Language Learners?

 

Come to our QUIERE Seminar

 

What is QUIERE?

Quality Universally Inclusive Early Responsive Education (QUIERE) is a federally funded program to prepare early childhood teachers to teach fully inclusively...come learn more!

 

Bio:

Dr. Eugene García is Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University and the University of California, Berkeley. He served as Professor and Vice President for Education Partnerships at ASU from 2006-2011 and as Dean of the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education from 2002-2006. He has served as an elected member of a local school board and a Senior Officer in the US Department of Education.  He has published extensively in areas of early learning, bilingual development and equal educational opportunity.

 

More info:

RSVP: http://QUIERE.eventbrite.com

www.tc.edu/QUIERE/

 

For additional assistance, contact Nicole Fleming at QUIEREproject@gmail.com

To request disability-related accommodations contact: oasid@tc.edu, (212) 678-3689,

 

 

DATE/TIME: Wednesday, October 24/ 5:00pm – 7:00pm  

LOCATION:  Earl Hall Center Auditorium (2980 Broadway, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER), the Kraft Family Fund for Intercultural and Interfaith Programming, and Office of the University Chaplain.

 

EVENT – CSER Symposium:  2012 RACE AND THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

 

SPEAKER(S):

Maria Hinojosa, National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting System (PBS)

“Vote Aqui:The 2012 Latino Vote”

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Harvard University
“How Racist Are We? Ask Google”

Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary
“Race and Empire in the Age of Obama"

Description:

Welcome to Earl Hall Center
    Chaplain Jewelnel Davis
    University Chaplain
    Director, Earl Hall Center

Welcoming Remarks
    Professor Frances Negrón-Muntaner
    Director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

 

More info:

Please click here to register: Click to Register

 

 

DATE/TIME: Wednesday, October 24/ 6:00pm – 8:00pm 

LOCATION:  Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall (3900 Broadway at 117th Street, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  Forum on Migration

 

EVENT – Seminar: TRANSNATIONAL MUSICIANSHIP: A 1930’S CUBAN ALL WOMEN BAND IN HAVANA, NEW YORK CITY, PARIS, AND MEXICO

 

SPEAKER(S): Ingrid Kummels, Freie Universitat, Berlin

 

Description:

This presentation explores the contribution of Anacaona, a Cuban all-women jazz band founded in 1932,  to the “son revolution” and the “jazz craze” of the 1930s and 1940s, to the transnationalization of these genres, and to their shaping though modern performances. A theoretical approach that analyzes the attitudes and actions of individual band members and their international networks of musicians allows for assessing the band’s  creative dimensions.

Bio:
Ingrid Kummels is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Latin American Institute at the Freie Universität in Berlin.  She is a prolific filmaker and author, and recently co-authored Queens of Havana: The Amazing Adventures of Anacaona, Cuba's Legendary All-Girl Dance Band (New York, 2007).

 

More info:

http://barnard.edu/events/transnational-musicianship

 

 

DATE/TIME: Thursday, October 25/ 6:00pm

LOCATION:  Room 523 Columbia University’s Butler Library (535 West 114th Street, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

 

EVENT – Launch:  JACK AGUEROS – THE AGUEROS ARCHIVE: PRESERVING NEW YORK’S LATINO HERITAGE

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’S ACQUISITION OF THE PAPERS OF PIONEERING NEW YORK COMMUNITY ACTIVIST AND WRITER JACK AGUEROS

 

SPEAKER(S):  N/A

 

Description:

This event will mark the launch of the “Latino Arts and Activism Archive,” a joint initiative of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library.

More info:

For more information, please contact CSER at cser@columbia.edu

 

 

DATE/TIME: Thursday, November 1/ 7:00pm – 9:00pm 

LOCATION:  Room 802 IAB (420 West 118th Street, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  University Seminar on Latin America and the Institute of Latin American Studies

 

EVENT – Seminar: THE INDIGENOUS EMERGENCE: FROM UNDERCLASS TO NEW POLITICAL ACTORS

 

SPEAKER(S): Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, El Colegio de Mexico

 

Description:

The rise of indigenous movements stems from a long history of colonization, social exclusion and cultural assimilation endured by indigenous communities, and can also be seen as a by-product of the process of democratization that occurred in Latin American countries over the latter part of the twentieth century. New actors in these events were the Miskitos in Nicaragua, the Mapuche in Chile, the Maya in Guatemala, the Zapatistas in southern Mexico, the Quechua in Ecuador, and the election of an Aymara indigenous president in Bolivia. These movements challenge the mainstream view, widely held among academics a few decades ago, that indigenous peoples would disappear under the impact of modernization and state indigenist policies. Marxist analysis, on the other hand, projected the transformation of traditional Indian communities into a revolutionary class poised to overthrow existing power structures. Neither of these scenarios worked out as predicted. The new indigenist  movements adopted the language of human rights and cultural identities and worked at the national and international levels to obtain a number of significant constitutional reforms, the recognition of their cultural heritage and increased participation in the public affairs of their countries. The concepts of cultural diversity, multiculturalism and inter-cultural education penetrated the new political discourse. International human rights law has increasingly been invoked in the defense and protection of indigenous peoples. This progress notwithstanding, they continue to be the victims of major human rights violations especially in relation to territorial and land rights, the use of natural resources, the administration of justice, as well as, more recently, within the framework of the war on drugs and questions of national security.

 

Bio:

Rodolfo Stavenhagen is professor emeritus of sociology at El Colegio de Mexico. He was trained at the University of Chicago (BA), the National School of Anthropology in Mexico (MA) and the University of Paris (PhD). In 2001-2008 he was the first United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples. He has also been Assistant Director General of UNESCO, in charge of social sciences and their applications. He has also been visiting professor at the Universities of Chicago (2011), Harvard (2000-2001) and Stanford (1990-1993). Among his books in English:

Making the Declaration Work: the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2009; Ethnic Conflicts and the Nation-State, 1996; The Ethnic Question: Development, Conflict and Human Rights, 1990; Social Classes in Agrarian Societies, 1975. Three volumes of his essays are being published by Springer Publications in the series Briefs on Pioneers of Science and Practice (2012).

 

More info:

For more information, please contact Laura Vargas at lxv2000@columbia.edu.

The meetings will begin with dinner at 6 pm in the Faculty House with the seminar following at 7 pm in the Tannenbaum Room 802 International Affairs Building. The University Seminars Office has asked that all payments from those who confirm that they would like to have dinner prior to the Seminar that checks be made out to Columbia University in the amount of $25 – NO CASH will be accepted – The seminar rapporteur Laura will collect your checks prior to dinner that day.

 

 

DATE/TIME: Friday, November 2/ 11:00am – 1:00pm 

LOCATION:  Room 513 Fayerweather (1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  Latin American and Caribbean History Workshop

 

EVENT – Workshop:

 

SPEAKER(S): Nina Schneider, Visiting Scholar in the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University

 

Bio:

Nina Schneider is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Study  of Human Rights (ISHR) at Columbia.  She holds a Ph.D. in History  from the University of Essex, U.K., and worked at the Department of  European and Extra-European History at the Open University of  Germany.  Her research interests focus on the history of  (post-)authoritan Brazil, politics of memory and human rights, and  propaganda.  She has received grants from the European Union, the  Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the German  Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).  Recent publications include: "Breaking the Silence of the Military Regime: New Politics of  Memory in Brazil?" in Bulletin of Latin American Research (2011;  "The Supreme Court's recent Verdict on the Amnesty Law: Impunity in Post-authoritarian Brazil" in European Review of Latin American and  Caribbean Studies (2011); "Truth no more? The Struggle over the  National Truth Commission in Brazil" in Iberoamericana (2011).

 

More info:

Papers will be sent out in advance.  To obtain a copy, please contact the coordinators Elizabeth Schwall at ebs2159@columbia.edu or Ariel Lambe at aml2160@columbia.edu

 

 

DATE/TIME: Thursday, November 8/ 5:00pm – 7:00pm  

LOCATION:  Horace Mann 140, Teachers College (525 West 120th Street, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  Latina/o and Latin American Faculty Working Group, the Institute of Latin American Studies, and Teachers College Office of Alumni Relations

 

EVENT – Round Table: A CONVERSATION ON EDUCATION ACROSS THE AMERICAS

 

SPEAKER(S):

Ryan Burgess, Education Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank

Veronica Cabezas, Assistant Professor, Universidad Catolica de Chile

Paulo da Silva, Visiting Professor, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development

Adrian Franco, Director of Economic Education, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Milagro Nores, Assistant Research Professor, National Institute for Early Education Research

Adriana Vilela, Senior Education Specialist, Office of Education and Culture, Organization of American States

 

Description:
Join us in the university-wide celebration of 50 years of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. A roundtable of exceptional Teachers College alumni will share insights on their active engagement with research and policy in various aspects of education throughout the Americas.

 

More information:

For more information or to register, please visit www.tc.edu/events/11443

Reception to follow

 

 

DATE/TIME: Wednesday, November 14/ 5:00pm – 7:00pm  

LOCATION:  420 Hamilton Hall (1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

 

EVENT – CSER Latino Speaker Series:  ANTI-LATINO RACISM

 

SPEAKER(S):  Linda Martin Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College

 

More info:

For more information, please contact CSER at cser@columbia.edu

 

 

DATE/TIME: Friday, November 30/ 11:00am – 1:00pm 

LOCATION:  Room 513 Fayerweather (1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  Latin American and Caribbean History Workshop

 

EVENT – Workshop:

 

SPEAKER(S): Tanya Harmer, Academic Director, London School of Economics and Columbia University Dual Degree Program

 

Bio:

Tanya Harmer is a specialist on the Cold War in Latin America who  earned her Ph.D. in International History from the London School of  Economics, where she now teaches.  She is the Academic Director of  LSE's dual Master's degree program with Columbia in International  and World History.  Her book Allende's Chile and the Inter-American Cold War (University of North Carolina Press, 2011) focuses on the  international history of Chile during the presidency of Salvador  Allende with particular reference to Chile's foreign relations with  Cuba, the United States, and Brazil during this period.

 

More info:

Papers will be sent out in advance.  To obtain a copy, please contact the coordinators Elizabeth Schwall at ebs2159@columbia.edu or Ariel Lambe at aml2160@columbia.edu

 

 

DATE/TIME: Thursday, December 6/ 6:30pm  

LOCATION:  James Room, 4th Floor, Barnard Hall (3009 Broadway, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) and the Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees

 

EVENT – Panel: HUMAN RIGHTS DAY PANEL: SONIA PIERRE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR CITIZENSHIP IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (NEW)

SPEAKER(S):

Manuela (Solange) Pierre, Founder of Grupo Afrodescientes
Ninaj Raoul, Executive Director of Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees

Monisha Bajaj, Associate Professor of International and Comparative Education at Teachers College

Miriam Neptune (moderator) is a video producer of Birthright Crisis

 

Description:

Sonia Pierre (1963-2011), mobilized communities in the Dominican Republic to advocate for citizenship and human rights for Dominicans of Haitian descent. At age 13, Pierre led strike to improve working conditions for sugar cane cutters in the batey where she was born. As the director of Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitiana (MUDHA), she used legal challenges in domestic and international courts to defend the citizenship rights of first and second generation children born on Dominican soil. This panel will highlight the activism of young women who are moving forward with Sonia Pierre’s work on behalf of Dominicans of Haitian descent, and address the question of how international pressure impacts efforts by marginalized groups to demand recognition.

 

Bio: 
Manuela (Solange) Pierre is Sonia Pierre’s eldest daughter and founder of Grupo Afrodescientes, a cultural group dedicated to raising awareness about the experience of Black Dominicans.

Ninaj Raoul is the Executive Director of Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, a Brooklyn-based group that collaborated closely with MUDHA for 15 years to organize disaster relief efforts in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Monisha Bajaj is Associate Professor of International and Comparative Education at Teachers College. She is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Peace Education and the author of a teachertraining manual on human rights education written while she was a Fulbright scholar in the Dominican Republic

Miriam Neptune (moderator) is a video producer who documented collaborations between Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees and the Movement of Haitian Dominican Women from 2004 to 2010. Her video Birthright Crisis is an award-winning documentary depicting the cycle of deportation and violence faced by Dominicans of Haitian descent. She is currently an Instructional Media Specialist at Barnard College.

More info:
http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/human-rights-day-panel-sonia-pierre-and-the-struggle-for-citizenship-in-the-dominican-republic/

 

 

DATE/TIME: Thursday, December 6/ 7:00pm – 9:00pm 

LOCATION:  Room 802 IAB (420 West 118th Street, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  University Seminar on Latin America and the Institute of Latin American Studies

 

EVENT – Seminar: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GOVERNANCE

 

SPEAKER(S): Juan Antonio Morales, Professor of Macroeconomics, Catholic University of Bolivia and Tinker Visiting Professor, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University

 

Description:

Bolivia has been experiencing one of the most radical shifts in economic policy in Latin America under the government of Evo Morales. Two themes dominate the agenda of change:  first, rejection of  conventional development policies and market-based approaches and, second, measures for a full inclusion of the indigenous people that are the majority in Bolivia. For this, a new constitution was promulgated. Morales’ development model is state-led and inward-looking. Despite this, Bolivia has been following more orthodox fiscal and monetary policies than the other countries grouped in the  Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América  (ALBA). Bolivia shares with the ALBA countries the same anti-capitalist, anti-globalization view.  Bolivia´s economic performance indicators are the best in ALBA. 

 

Bio:

JUAN ANTONIO MORALES is currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia and professor of macroeconomics in the program Maestrías para el Desarrollo at  the Catholic University of Bolivia, La Paz. In 2008 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Financial Sciences, Catholic University of Bolivia. He has also served as President of the Central Bank of Bolivia from September 1995 to April 2006. He holds the title of Docteur en Sciences Economiques from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium in 1971.  As a visiting professor, he has taught in universities in Latin America, Europe and the United States. He has published extensively in Spanish, English and French.

 

More info:

For more information, please contact Laura Vargas at lxv2000@columbia.edu.

 

The meetings will begin with dinner at 6 pm in the Faculty House with the seminar following at 7 pm in the Tannenbaum Room 802 International Affairs Building. The University Seminars Office has asked that all payments from those who confirm that they would like to have dinner prior to the Seminar that checks be made out to Columbia University in the amount of $25 – NO CASH will be accepted – The seminar rapporteur Laura will collect your checks prior to dinner that day.

 

 

DATE/TIME: Thursday, February 6/ 7:00pm – 9:00pm 

LOCATION:  Room 802 IAB (420 West 118th Street, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  University Seminar on Latin America and the Institute of Latin American Studies

 

EVENT – Seminar: UNDERSTANDING CUBAN MACROECONOMIC REALITIES IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

 

SPEAKER(S): Ricardo Torres, Professor of Economics, Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy, Universidad de Habana, and Adjunct Research Scholar, Institute of Latin American Studies

 

More info:

For more information, please contact Laura Vargas at lxv2000@columbia.edu.


The meetings will begin with dinner at 6 pm in the Faculty House with the seminar following at 7 pm in the Tannenbaum Room 802 International Affairs Building. The University Seminars Office has asked that all payments from those who confirm that they would like to have dinner prior to the Seminar that checks be made out to Columbia University in the amount of $25 – NO CASH will be accepted – The seminar rapporteur Laura will collect your checks prior to dinner that day.

 

 

DATE/TIME: Thursday, March 7/ 7:00pm – 9:00pm 

LOCATION:  Room 802 IAB (420 West 118th Street, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  University Seminar on Latin America and the Institute of Latin American Studies

 

EVENT – Seminar: SOCIAL MEDIA FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: THE CUBAN STORY

 

SPEAKER(S): Mirta Ojito, Professor, School of Journalism, Columbia University

 

More info:

For more information, please contact Laura Vargas at lxv2000@columbia.edu.

 

The meetings will begin with dinner at 6 pm in the Faculty House with the seminar following at 7 pm in the Tannenbaum Room 802 International Affairs Building. The University Seminars Office has asked that all payments from those who confirm that they would like to have dinner prior to the Seminar that checks be made out to Columbia University in the amount of $25 – NO CASH will be accepted – The seminar rapporteur Laura will collect your checks prior to dinner that day.

 

 

DATE/TIME: Thursday, April 4/ 7:00pm – 9:00pm 

LOCATION:  Room 802 IAB (420 West 118th Street, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  University Seminar on Latin America and the Institute of Latin American Studies

 

EVENT – Panel: HUMAN RIGHTS: CHALLENGES OF THE PAST/ CHALLENGES OF THE FUTURE

 

SPEAKER(S):

Katherine Hite, Vassar College

Mark Ungar, CUNY

Cynthia Arnson, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Monique Segarra, Bard

 

More info:

For more information, please contact Laura Vargas at lxv2000@columbia.edu.

 

The meetings will begin with dinner at 6 pm in the Faculty House with the seminar following at 7 pm in the Tannenbaum Room 802 International Affairs Building. The University Seminars Office has asked that all payments from those who confirm that they would like to have dinner prior to the Seminar that checks be made out to Columbia University in the amount of $25 – NO CASH will be accepted – The seminar rapporteur Laura will collect your checks prior to dinner that day.

 

 

DATE/TIME: Thursday, May 2/ 7:00pm – 9:00pm 

LOCATION:  Room 802 IAB (420 West 118th Street, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  University Seminar on Latin America and the Institute of Latin American Studies

 

EVENT – Seminar: POLITICOS, PROSTITUTES, AND SCROUNDELS: RETHINKING LATIN AMERICAN MYTHS

 

SPEAKER(S):

Adriana Perez, CUNY

Anne Hayes, CUNY

Alejandro Quintana, St. John’s University

Ilan Ehrlich, Bergen Community College

 

More info:

For more information, please contact Laura Vargas at lxv2000@columbia.edu.

 

The meetings will begin with dinner at 6 pm in the Faculty House with the seminar following at 7 pm in the Tannenbaum Room 802 International Affairs Building. The University Seminars Office has asked that all payments from those who confirm that they would like to have dinner prior to the Seminar that checks be made out to Columbia University in the amount of $25 – NO CASH will be accepted – The seminar rapporteur Laura will collect your checks prior to dinner that day.

 

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CLACS/NYU Talks/Conferences/Screening

 

For events at CLACS:

For more information on other CLACS events, please access the website: http://clacs.as.nyu.edu/page/events

 

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Outside Talks/Conferences/Screening

 

DATE/TIME: Monday, October 15/ 12:00pm – 1:30pm 

LOCATION:   (1615 L Street, NW, Suite 250, Washington, DC)

 

SPONSOR(S):  Americas Society/ Council of the Americas

 

EVENT – Roundtable: BUSINESS REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS IN MEXICO (NEW)

 

SPEAKER(S):

Dr. Alejandro Ibarra-Yunez, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Monterey Institute of Technology

 

*other speakers to be confirmed

 

Description:

Mexico’s Supreme Court is set to decide a land-mark case in telecom regulation that will largely determine whether recent, positive trends toward more independence and consumer-welfare-based regulation will continue or be reversed.  This decision is expected to have important ramifications for Mexico’s telecom sector and regulatory environment, with implications for the new administration.

 

Please join the Council of the Americas for a roundtable discussion on recent business regulatory developments in Mexico and a forecast of what to look for, and what to expect in the near future.

 

 More info:

To Register: Please email Jorge Merino at jmerino@as-coa.org.

Please RSVP no later than 3:00 p.m. the day before the event

 

 

DATE/TIME: Wednesday, October 17/ 3:00pm – 5:00pm 

LOCATION:  The Graduate Center, Segal Theater (365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies at CUNY

 

EVENT – Seminar: MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY IN BRAZIL

 

SPEAKER(S):

Fernando Lattman-Weltman, Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

 

Lucas Ferraz, Folha de Sao Paulo

 

Description:

For some time now Brazil’s social communication system has had regulatory problems. With the election of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) to the federal executive in the 2002 elections, the time seemed to have arrived when long-standing demands in sectors of the social movement allied with the party’s broad and diverse base would be implemented. This was the backdrop to the emergence, in the early years of the first Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva government (2003-2007), of policy projects designed to broaden and qualify public intervention in the communication field. Due to a bad reception of this measures, however, in a particularly complicated context of governments and media relations in Latin America, but most important of all, a dubious commitment of the PT's Federal administration to such policies, they have not been enacted until now. Relating these policies with the present day technological revolution, but most of all with the overall functioning of democracy in Brazil today, we will address the following question: has the long standing Brazilian debate on media regulation become, in a certain sense, obsolete?

 

More info:

Please RESERVE by sending an email to bildner@gc.cuny.edu

 

 

DATE/TIME: Thursday, October 18/ 6:00pm – 8:00pm     

LOCATION:  Theresa Lang Center, The New School (55 West 13th Street, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  Americas Society/ Council of the Americas, Futuro Media Group, Latino USA, The New School Center for New York City Affairs, and Feet in 2 Worlds

 

EVENT – Panel: THE ECONOMY VS. IMMIGRATION: WHAT WILL UNLOCK THE LATINO VOTE IN 2012?

 

SPEAKER(S):

Chung-Wha Hong, Executive Director, New York Immigration Coalition

Mark Hugo Lopez, Associate Director, Pew Hispanic Center

Jordan Fabian, Political Editor, Univisión News

Fernand Amandi, Managing Partner, Bendixen & Amandi International

 

MODERATOR(S):

Maria Hinojosa, President and CEO, Futuro Media Group; Executive Producer and Anchor, Latino USA

 

Opening Remarks:

John Rudolph, Executive Producer, Feet in 2 Worlds

Jason Marczak, Director of Policy, AS/COA

 

Description:

Latino voters are expected to play a pivotal role in the U.S. presidential election, especially in several key battleground states. Join us for a town hall event that brings together journalists, pollsters, and policy experts to explore the complex relationship between the Latino electorate and the candidates. Will economic concerns such as unemployment and housing foreclosures guide Latinos at the voting booth? Will the candidates' immigration policies dominate? Or will large numbers of Latinos simply sit out this election? Understanding the political cross-currents buffeting Latinos today will provide valuable insight on the probable outcome of the election, as well as political and policy implications for the nation over the next four years.

 

More info:

The event will be webcasted live and will form a segment on National Public Radio’s “Latino USA” program to be broadcasted at a later date.

 

Event Information: Ryan Berger at rberger@as-coa.org or 1-212-277-8393.
Press: Adriana La Rotta at
alarotta@as-coa.org or 1-212-277-8384.

 

http://www.as-coa.org/events/economy-vs-immigration-what-will-unlock-latino-vote-2012

 

 

DATE/TIME: Friday, October 19/ 11:00am – 1:00pm   

LOCATION:  CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9207 (365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  CUNY Graduate Center Doctoral Program in History, the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University, the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, the SUNY-Stony Brook University History Department, and the New School University Historical Studies.

 

EVENT – New York City Latin American History Workshop: ACROSS SEAS AND BORDERS: CHARTING THE WEBS OF RADICAL INTERNATIONALISMS AND EXILE IN THE GREATER CIRCUM-CARIBBEAN, 1918-1940

 

SPEAKER(S): Barry Carr, LaTrobe University

 

More information:

Free and open to the public.  Discussions are based on pre-circulated papers prepared by each presenter. Please contact ajd2128@columbia.edu to be placed on the mailing list to receive the papers, which are circulated one week prior to each meeting.

 

 

DATE/TIME: Saturday, October 20/ 1:00pm – 6:00pm, Performance: 8:00pm  

LOCATION:  Baruch Performing Arts Center (55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  TeatroStageFest and the Latino International Theater Festival of New York

 

EVENT – Conference: IMMIGRATION IN THE U.S. TODAY (NEW)

 

SPEAKER(S):  Various

 

Description:

•1PM 1:15PM: Welcome address by Jose W.Fernandez, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Energy & Business Affairs in President Obama's Administration.

•1:15PM-3PM: U.S. Latino Artists Reinterpret the Border. Screening of Alex Rivera’s documentary The Sixth Section and Panel Discussion with Margarita Espada (Teatro Yerbabruja) and German Jaramillo (IDStudioNY), who have developed theater productions with professional actors and new immigrants.

•3PM-3:30PM: Screening of La Patrona, a short documentary about Mexican women who voluntarily provide food to immigrants traveling by train to the border. Q&A with LeonilaVasquez, a Patrona featured in the film.

•3:30PM-4PM:

TeatroStageFest Lounge: Networking and Coffee Break.

•4PM-6PM:

At the Crossroads of a Dream: The Impact of the deferred action status and the DREAM ACT on a new generation of young Americans. Panel discussion with Fatima Shama (NYC Commissioner on Immigrant Affairs), AllanWernick (CUNY’s Citizenship and Immigration Project Director), Oscar Chico (New School student/Make the Road NewYork), Joel Magallan (Director of community-based organization Tepeyac).

•8PM:

Amarillo by Teatro Linea de Sombra from Mexico (Closing Night performance)

 

More info:

Conference Admission: $25 Students: $15

*** Amarillo: $30 Students: $15

 

SPECIAL DISCOUNT: Conference + Amarillo performance: Faculty $45 / Students: $25

To buy tickets: www.teatrostagefest.org

 

 

DATE/TIME: Friday, October 26/ 4:00pm – 6:00pm 

LOCATION:  The Graduate Center, Room 9206/07 (365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  Bildner Center at CUNY

 

EVENT – Seminar: SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATIONS: CUBA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE 

 

SPEAKER(S):

Armando Nova, University of Havana

Planning and Market in the Cuban Economy*

 

David Jancsics, PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center

Revisiting Eastern European Transformation

 

MODERATOR(S): Mauricio Font, Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies

 

Bio:

Armando Nova is a senior researcher and professor at the Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy at the University of Havana. He earned his doctorate degree in economics at the University of Havana in 1989 and his BA in economics at the University of Havana in 1969. He has conducted more than 84 research studies on the Cuban economy and has published more than 65 articles in different Cuban and international journals. He is the author of La agricultura en Cuba: evolución y trayectoria, 1959-2005 (Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2006), Aspectos económicos de los cítricos en Cuba (Editorial Científico-Técnica, 1988) and a third book as well as co-authored two other volumes.

 

David Jancsics is a PhD candidate in sociology at the City University of New York, Graduate Center. His research interests include corruption, organizational networks, social and political changes in Eastern Europe, and elite groups. His dissertation examines how people at different organizational and social class levels view and deal with corruption in post-communist Hungary.

 

Mauricio Font is director of the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies and professor of sociology at The Graduate Center and Queens College, City University of New York. His research examines problems of development and reform in Brazil, Cuba and Latin America as well as international cooperation in the Western Hemisphere.

 

More info:

Please RESERVE by sending an email to bildner@gc.cuny.edu

 

*Armando Nova's presentation will be in Spanish with a translated PowerPoint presentation

 

 

DATE/TIME: Friday, November 2/ 4:00pm – 6:00pm    

LOCATION:  CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9206/07 (365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  The Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies

 

EVENT – Seminar: RAUL CASTRO’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC REFORMS IN CUBA: EVALUATION OF RESULTS

 

SPEAKER(S): Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh

 

MODERATOR(S): Mauricio Font, Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies

 

Bio:

Carmelo Mesa-Lago is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and has been a visiting professor or researcher in Argentina, Germany, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, United Kingdom and the United States, as well as a lecturer in 39 countries. Author of 82 books/phamplets and 275 articles/chapters published in 7 languages in 34 countries, on the Cuban economy, social security and comparative economic systems; founder/editor for 18 years of Cuban Studies. His most recent books: Market, Socialist and Mixed Economies: Comparative Policy and Performance (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), Cuba's Aborted Reform: Socioeconomic Effects, International Comparisons and Transition Policies (with J. Perez-Lopez, University Press of Florida, 2005), Reassembling Social Security (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Cuba en la era de Raul Castro: Reformas economico-sociales y sus efectos (Editorial Colibri, 2012). He has worked throughout Latin America as regional advisor for ECLAC, consultant with most international financial organizations, several U.N. branches and national/foreign foundations. Was President of the Latin American Studies Association, is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and has received the ILO International Research Prize on Decent Work, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Senior Prize, two Senior Fulbrights, Arthur Whitaker and Hoover Institution Prizes, the Distinction of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, the Bicentennial Medallion of the University of Pittsburgh, Homage for his life work on social security (OISS, CISS) and the Cuban economy (Revista Encuentro) and other awards/grants; was finalist in Spain's Prince of Asturias Prize on Social Sciences 2009.

 

Mauricio Font is director of the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies and professor of sociology at The Graduate Center and Queens College, City University of New York. His research examines problems of development and reform in Brazil, Cuba and Latin America as well as international cooperation in the Western Hemisphere.

 

More information:

Please reserve by sending email to bildner@gc.cuny.edu

 

 

DATE/TIME: Thursday, November 8 to Tuesday, December 11   

LOCATION:  Carnegie Hall

 

SPONSOR(S):  Carnegie Hall

 

EVENT – Performances: VOICES FROM LATIN AMERICA

 

SPEAKER(S): N/A

 

Description:

From the irresistible rhythms of Afro-Cuban jazz to the sophistication of Brazilian samba, from the passionate intensity of Mexican rancheras to the infectious joy of Venezuela’s El Sistema social-action movement, Latin American culture has captured the world’s imagination. In Voices from Latin America—from November 8 through December 11, 2012—Carnegie Hall pays tribute to these cultures that have fueled the world’s imagination in a citywide festival.

 

Under the guidance of Osvaldo Golijov (holder of this season’s Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair), Carnegie Hall has invited three internationally acclaimed performers to curate series of concerts that spotlight their vibrant musical cultures—singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil and Brazilian popular music, pianist-composer Chucho Valdés and Afro-Cuban jazz, and conductor Gustavo Dudamel and El Sistema in Venezuela.

In addition, a citywide celebration of Mexican music and culture will be presented in partnership with Celebrate México Now, culminating in a tribute to legendary singer Chavela Vargas at Carnegie Hall.

With more than 60 events, the festival includes music, dance, film, art, photography, and more. Voices from Latin America includes four weeks of events and exhibitions at Carnegie Hall and partner organizations throughout the city.

 

For more information:

So see the complete list of events, please click the link: :

http://www.carnegiehall.org/ch/pages/1-3-1-3-1-3-1.aspx?pageid=10737418903

 

 

DATE/TIME: Wednesday, November 14/ 4:00pm – 6:00pm 

LOCATION:  The Graduate Center, Skylight Room (365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies at CUNY

 

EVENT – Seminar: MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN BRAZIL

 

SPEAKER(S): David Fleischer, Professor Emeritus. University of Brasilia

 

MODERATOR(S): Mauricio Font, Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies

 

Description:

A review and analysis of the 2012 municipal elections in Brazil – 1) the results for Mayor broken down by party for the 5,568 municípios; 2) for the 26 state capitals; and 3) the 83 cities with over 200,000 voters (that could have 2nd round runoff elections) – plus the results of those runoff elections. The reelection of Mayors and the number of women elected Mayor or to city councils are examined. The 2012 results are compared with previous municipal elections (2008, 2004 and 2000). The results by party are projected regarding the election for deputies in 2014.

 

Bio:

David Fleischer (Ph.D. University of Florida) joined the faculty of the University of Brasília (UnB) in 1972, where he was Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations (1985-1989) and member of the University Council (1985-1993). He was Director of the School of Social and Political Science at UniDF – Centro Universitário do Distrito Federal. Fleischer has published widely on Brazilian politics (Congress, elections, political parties, and political corruption), and North-South Relations.
His more recent publications are: “Government and Politics” IN: Brazil: A Country Study, (1998); Corruption in Brazil, (2002); “Political Reforms: Cardoso’s Missing Link”, IN: Reforming Brazil, (2004); “Brazil: From Military Regime to a Workers’ Party Government”, IN: Latin América: Its Problems and its Promises, (2010); “Brazil”, IN: Freedom House, Countries at the Crossroads – An Analysis of Democratic Governance, (2010); and “Political Reform: A never-ending Story,” IN: The Brazilian State: Debate and Agenda, (2011). Currently, Fleischer serves on the advisory board with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Brazil as well as the board of the Harvard University program in Brazil.

 

More info:

Please RESERVE by sending an email to bildner@gc.cuny.edu

 

 

DATE/TIME: Friday, November 16/ 11:00am – 1:00pm   

LOCATION:  CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9207 (365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  CUNY Graduate Center Doctoral Program in History, the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University, the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, the SUNY-Stony Brook University History Department, and the New School University Historical Studies.

 

EVENT – New York City Latin American History Workshop: DID OIL EXPROPRIATION KILL AGRARIAN RADICALISM?:  LAND REFORM AND THE POLITICAL CONTROL OF 1930S VERACRUZ

 

SPEAKER(S): Julia del Palacio, Columbia University

 

More information:

Free and open to the public.  Discussions are based on pre-circulated papers prepared by each presenter. Please contact ajd2128@columbia.edu to be placed on the mailing list to receive the papers, which are circulated one week prior to each meeting.

 

 

DATE/TIME: Friday, January 25/ 11:00am – 1:00pm   

LOCATION:  CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9207 (365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  CUNY Graduate Center Doctoral Program in History, the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University, the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, the SUNY-Stony Brook University History Department, and the New School University Historical Studies.

 

EVENT – New York City Latin American History Workshop: CRIME AND EDUCATION IN BRAZIL: IMPERIAL PAST AND CURRENT DEBATE

 

SPEAKER(S): Ernesto Pimentel, Universidade Federal da Paraiba

 

More information:

Free and open to the public.  Discussions are based on pre-circulated papers prepared by each presenter. Please contact ajd2128@columbia.edu to be placed on the mailing list to receive the papers, which are circulated one week prior to each meeting.

 

 

DATE/TIME: Friday, February 22/ 11:00am – 1:00pm   

LOCATION:  CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9207 (365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  CUNY Graduate Center Doctoral Program in History, the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University, the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, the SUNY-Stony Brook University History Department, and the New School University Historical Studies.

 

EVENT – New York City Latin American History Workshop: FIGHTING THE ‘CONJRA ROJA’: THE ANTICOMMUNIST CRUSADES IN MEXICO, 1952-1972

 

SPEAKER(S): Luis Herran Avila, New School University

 

More information:

Free and open to the public.  Discussions are based on pre-circulated papers prepared by each presenter. Please contact ajd2128@columbia.edu to be placed on the mailing list to receive the papers, which are circulated one week prior to each meeting.

 

 

DATE/TIME: Friday, March 22/ 11:00am – 1:00pm   

LOCATION:  CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9207 (365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  CUNY Graduate Center Doctoral Program in History, the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University, the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, the SUNY-Stony Brook University History Department, and the New School University Historical Studies.

 

EVENT – New York City Latin American History Workshop: FOUNDING FATHERS, FORGOTTEN MOTHERS: RACE, RELATIONSHIPS, AND AMERICAN ICONS

 

SPEAKER(S): Bruno Carvalho, Princeton University

 

More information:

Free and open to the public.  Discussions are based on pre-circulated papers prepared by each presenter. Please contact ajd2128@columbia.edu to be placed on the mailing list to receive the papers, which are circulated one week prior to each meeting.

 

 

DATE/TIME: Friday, April 19/ 11:00am – 1:00pm   

LOCATION:  CUNY Graduate Center, Room 8301 (365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY)

 

SPONSOR(S):  CUNY Graduate Center Doctoral Program in History, the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University, the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, the SUNY-Stony Brook University History Department, and the New School University Historical Studies.

 

EVENT – New York City Latin American History Workshop: CULTURA Y POLITICA EN EL MOVIEMIENTO ESTUDANTIL URUGAYO DE 1968

 

SPEAKER(S): Vania Markarian, Universidad de la Republica, Montivideo

 

More information:

Free and open to the public.  Discussions are based on pre-circulated papers prepared by each presenter. Please contact ajd2128@columbia.edu to be placed on the mailing list to receive the papers, which are

circulated one week prior to each meeting.

 

 

DATE/TIME: Monday and Tuesday, May 10 and 11/   

LOCATION:  Yale University

 

SPONSOR(S):  Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies at Yale University

 

EVENT – Conference: NORTHEASTERN GROUP OF NAHUATL STUDIES 2012-2013

 

SPEAKER(S): To be announced

 

Description:

Northeastern Group of Nahuatl Studies 2012-13

Annual meeting at Yale

On May 10 and 11, 2013, the Northeastern group of Nahuatl Studies will host the Third Annual Conference and Workshop at Yale.  The schedule will include advanced Nahuatl study, group document translation, and papers by scholars.

As with past meetings, the conference will include two sessions. In one session, scholars will gather to work collectively on the translation of documents which will be shared before the meeting. Please contact the organizers if you wish to present a document for study, to make arrangements for its distribution.

The second session will include the presentation of papers on aspects of the Nahuatl language and linguistics, Nahuatl texts, or Nahua ethnohistory.  Scholars interested in offering a paper should contact the organizers for inclusion.  Papers may deal with any aspect of Nahuatl or Nahua studies, from pre-contact up to the modern era.

Please consider joining us in this exciting weekend, with a document for study, with a paper, or simply by attending.  More details will be forthcoming as plans are made final.

In addition in the week following the conference, Dr. John Sullivan is offering intensive courses on Nahuatl.  These will include both introductory and intermediate courses on colonial and modern Nahuatl.  Please contact him for further details.

The organizers include:
Caterina Pizzigoni (
cp2313@columbia.edu)
John Sullivan (
idiez@me.com)
Louise Burkhart (
burk@albany.edu)
John F. Schwaller (
schwallr@potsdam.edu)

 

 

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Calls for Papers

International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2013 (NEW)

Deadline: November 1, 2012

 

The 4th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2013 wil be held in Orlando, Florida, on March 19 – 22, 2013.

 

Submissions for face-to-face and virtual presentations are both accepted. Details about the following issues have also been included at the URL given above:

 

•   Pre- and post-conference virtual session

•   Virtual participation

•   Two-tier reviewing combining double-blind and non-blind methods

•   Access to reviewers comments and evaluation average

•   Waiving the registration fee of effective invited session organizers

•   Best papers awards

•   Publication of best papers in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, which will be indexed in EBSCO, Cabell and Goggle Scholar (All papers to be presented at the conference will be included in the conference printed and electronic proceedings)

 

For more information, please access the website: http://www.2013iiisconferences.org/imcic

 

 

Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures

Deadline: November 2, 2012

 

Please mark your calendars and plan on being with us for the 10th Annual Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures (SECCLL). 

In honor of our 10 year Anniversary, the conference will be held at the Hilton DeSoto Hotel in Savannah, Georgia, March 28 - 29, 2013.

 

The deadline for proposal submission is November 2, 2012. Please note, that we are only accepting electronically filed submissions.

Please follow this link to submit your paper - http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/seccllpapers.html

 

Remember that those whose proposals are accepted and who present in person at the conference are eligible to submit an article for The Coastal Review.  Details about our online journal are also available through the conference website - http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/flseccll/index.html

 

Once again, remember to mark your calendars and we appreciate your willingness to forward this information to your colleagues!

 

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Fellowships/Prizes/Grants

 

Pre/Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Lehigh University

Deadline: November 28 for first consideration

 

The College of Arts and Sciences and the Latin American Studies Program at Lehigh University invite Ph.D. candidates specializing in Latin America, with a clear contemporary Latin American cultural studies focus, to apply for a two-year predoctoral / postdoctoral fellowship, beginning Fall 2013. Applications are welcome from candidates whose research concentrates in any of the following areas: social movements, identity (gender, ethnic, religious, etc.), transnational migration, and/or urbanization. Successful candidates will also demonstrate breadth and depth of cultural and Spanish language experience, and ability to create and offer a Latin American Studies introductory course.

 

TERMS

The two-year award carries a stipend of $25,000 in the first year. It is renewable for the second year, with a $40,000 salary, provided the fellow completes his/her Ph.D. in time to meet all requirements for the home institution’s spring graduation. The fellowship also provides health benefits, carries up to $1,500 in moving expenses, and $1,500 in research/travel support in the first year and $3,000 in the second year.

 

ELIGIBILITY

Completion of all requirements for the Ph.D., except the dissertation, by May 15, 2013. Demonstrated potential to complete all Ph.D. requirements in time for Spring 2014 graduation.

 

CONDITIONS

                Renewal of award

Renewal of the award depends on the predoctoral fellow’s completion of all Ph.D. requirements in time for Spring 2014 graduation and meeting all expectations below.

Residence and employment

The fellow must be in residence at the University for the duration of the award period. He/she may accept no employment, fellowships, or consulting obligations during the term of the fellowship.

Teaching load

- One course during the first year as a doctoral candidate and 2 courses during the second year as a postdoctoral fellow.

- The fellow is expected to design and teach an introductory course to Latin American Studies each year.

 

Other expectations

- Contribution to programming of Latin American Studies events and lectures.

- Active presence on campus and establishment of links with faculty and students.

- Periodic presentations of the fellow’s research to the larger Lehigh academic community.

 

APPLICATION MATERIALS

-              Letter of application stating reasons for interest in the program and indication of objectives to be accomplished during the fellow’s time at Lehigh.

-              CV, including the following: personal information; date(s) and location(s) of degree(s) earned; honors and awards; lectures and conference presentations; publications; courses taught; names and telephone numbers of referees.

-              Project description, NOT TO EXCEED THREE DOUBLE-SPACED PAGES. This should include a dissertation abstract, dissertation outline, and schedule for completion.

-              Three confidential letters of reference to be sent directly by persons qualified to evaluate the candidate. (Original only)

-              Send application materials to:

 

Latin American Studies Program

Predoctoral/Postdoctoral Fellowship

C/O Office of Interdisciplinary Programs

Maginnes Hall, Suite 490

Lehigh University

9 W. Packer Avenue

Bethlehem, PA 18015

 

Address inquiries to:

Matthew Bush

Director, Latin American Studies Program

matthew.bush@lehigh.edu

 

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Programs and Classes

CLIMATE AND CULTURE CHANGE IN THE ANDES Intersession Dec. 26th 2012 – Jan. 13th 2013

The Center for Social Well Being celebrates 12 years offering our 3 week training program in interdisciplinary qualitative field methods, as well as Spanish and Quechua language classes, in the Peruvian Andes. The combined undergraduate and graduate level seminar is held at the center's rural base, an adobe lodge on an ecological ranch in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range of the Callejón de Huaylas, 7 hours northeast of Lima. Coursework provides in-depth orientation to theory and practice in field investigation that emphasizes methods in Participatory Action Research and Andean Ethnography centered on themes of Climate Change with respect to Ecology, Health, Education, Community Organization and related topics. Students have the opportunity to actively engage in ongoing investigations in local agricultural communities to develop effective field research techniques, and to acquire language skills. In addition, the program provides excursions to museums, archaeological sites, glacial lakes and hotsprings; optional recreational activities include hiking, mountain biking, rafting, kayaking, rock climbing and trekking. Total cost is $3,500 US dollars. This includes all in-country travel, food and accommodations at the rural center, and course materials. The program is under the direction of Applied Medical Anthropologist, Patricia J. Hammer, Ph.D., and Ecologist, Flor de María Barreto Tosi.  Program dates: New Year’s Intersession December 26th 2012 through  January  13th 2013

Please contact us for other potential program dates for 2013.

 

Request an application: phammer@wayna.rcp.net.pe

Center for Social Well Being-Peru www.socialwellbeing.org

 

 

Duke in the Andes program is accepting applications for Spring 2013

The "Duke in the Andes" program takes an interdisciplinary approach to area and cultural studies, centered around a core seminar that encompasses sociological, anthropological, historical, and cultural aspects of globalization and colonial legacies in the Andean region. In addition to the mandatory core seminar(s), students choose their remaining courses from program courses and selected regular course offerings at the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana or the cursos abiertos at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)

 

If you can, we would like to ask you to advertise our program in your department. The deadline for Spring 2013 is October 1. Here is the link for our website so that you can read more about "Duke in the Andes." http://studyabroad.duke.edu/home/Programs/Semester/Duke_in_the_Andes  


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Jobs, Internships, Volunteer Opportunities

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Internship Opportunity in Peru through Vive Peru (Posted on September 21)

Want to Visit Peru this Winter? Volunteer and Make a Difference!


Vive Peru is in need of volunteer interns experienced in the areas of Clinical Medicine, Social Work, Teaching Music, Teaching English and Engineering to support our partner organizations and adopted communities in Northern Peru! Work side-by-side with doctors in local clinics and hospitals, volunteer with underprivileged children, share your love for music or languages with the children of Peru. In your free time, explore one of the most ecologically diverse and historically rich countries in the world.  Interested? Apply by September 29, 2012 for the experience of a lifetime! Applications available online at 
www.viveperu.org/apply.php

 
Winter 2012   December 20, 2012 - January 6, 2013. Program Fee $1500
**Summer, Fall and Spring Program Dates available online at 
www.viveperu.org/costs.html

 

What is Vive Peru? Why do I have to pay to volunteer?
Vive Peru is a nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to fostering understanding of Latin American and Peruvian culture and providing much-needed aid to Peruvian communities. We work to promote cultural understanding and implement innovative and self-sustainable programs in the areas of health, education, social work and engineering. Our programs, outreach work and direct donations are funded completely through volunteer donations, which allow our work to continue and our program to be self-sustainable. In the past 18 months, 173 university students from across the country have joined us to donate 17,660 volunteer hours and over $20,700 in donated materials and outreach programs to communities in need in Peru. At local medical campaigns on the coast and in the Andes, we were able to attend to 1431 patients with medical consultations and medications.

Contact Us!
Online at 
www.viveperu.org

 

 

Videography Internship Available (Posted on September 21)

World Can’t Wait was founded in 2005, World Can't Wait is a national movement formed to halt and reverse the terrible program of war, repression and theocracy that was initiated by the Bush/Cheney regime and the ongoing crimes that continue to this day.

 

We are currently seeking an intern to work under the auspices of our War Criminals Watch project.

 

What? Intern needed to help fund and create an amazing new publication project. Individual will work on producing an interactive, media-rich ebook entitled Redact This! Artists Against Torture.

 

Duties will include:

·               scheduling and coordinating interviews with artists, activists, writers,

and other individuals involved in the struggle to create awareness about torture.

·               creating small video documentary for use in crowd-funding campaign.

 

Experience required:

·               video editing experience

·               crowd-funding experience

·               experience in After Effects a plus

 

To apply for this position, please send your resume to Stephanie@worldcantwait.org.

 

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TO:

Eliza Kwon

Student Affairs Coordinator

Institute of Latin American Studies

Columbia University

Email: ek2159@columbia.edu

 

ILAS ListServ Policy:

Due to the high volume of requests for the distribution of notices to our faculty and student listservs, the Institute  produces a weekly  Listserv Digest that is distributed on Friday afternoons.  THE FORMAT MUST BE TEXT ONLY DOCUMENT ON THE FORMAT SHOWN ON THIS LIST DIGEST.  All notices must be received no later than 5 p.m. on THURSDAY to be included in that week's distribution.  Notices received later than that will be included the following week.  No notices are distributed separately unless requested by a member of the department's faculty.

 

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