LATIN
AMERICAN STUDIES
2007-2008
Spring 2008 Talks and Events
April 11, 9am 102 Kern
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and political activist, graduate seminar/discussion
March 28, 4pm Weaver 102
Kim Butler, Associate Professor of History Africana Studies at Rutgers University "Interrogating African Silence in Brazil"
March 21, 4pm, 107 Carpenter
Steve Houston, Dupee Family Professor of Social Science/Professor of Archaeology at Brown University, will give a colloquium. Steve is a famous archaeologist and one of the world's few experts on ancient Maya epigraphy.
February 21, 10:30am 102 Weaver
Kris Lane, Associate Professor of History, College of William and Mary, A Perfect Green: Notes on the Early Modern Global Emerald Trade
January 23, 12pm 102 Weaver
Amy Bushnell, Department of History, Brown University, Invited Research Scholar, The John Carter Brown Library. "In Times of Hunger, All Men Quarrel and All Have Reason: The Politics of Food Shortage in Late Seventeenth-Century Florida."
Fall 2007 Talks and Events
Spanish and Latin American Film Series, September 11-December 4, Sponsored by the Department of Women's Studies and the International Programs Office
Fall 2007 Latin American Film Series
Spring 2007
Talks
February 12, 2007, 3:00
p.m.
Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library.
The fourth in the Latina/o Studies Initiative "Engaging
Latina/o America" speaker series.
Junot Díaz,
Associate Professor of Writing, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology "Love in the War Years: A Reading: A
reading about love, cheating, sex, immigration, tourism, and the Dominican
Republic."
Film Series,
Fall 2006
All screenings begin at 7:00
p.m.
Thursday, November 30, 117
Osmond Building. El Collejón de
los milagros [Midaq Alley]. Dir.
Jorge Fons, 1995 (Mexico). Spanish
with English subtitles, 140 min.
Thursday, November 9, 117
Osmond Building. Dues e o Diabo
na Terra do Sol [ Black God, White Devil].
Dir. Glauber Rocha,
1964 (Brazil). Portuguese with English subtitles, 120 min.
Thursday, November 2,
113 Carnegie Building. Memorias del
Subdesarrollo [Memories of Underdevelopment]. Dir.
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1968 (Cuba). Spanish with
English subtitles, 97 min.
All screenings are free and
open to the public. Please spread the word!
For more information
about the Americanist focus group for interdisciplinary study of the Americas
see our webpage (which currently works only with Internet Explorer).
Graduate Student Conference, Fall 2006
Saturday, November
4, 102 Weaver Building
"Exclusion and
Belonging: Historical Challenges to Community"
9:30-10:50 a.m.
"Mapping Memory, Writing Identities: Colonial and National Community in Latin
America"
Fall 2006 TALKS
October 27, 2006, 12 noon, 102 Weaver
Building. James Sweet,
author of Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and
Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770, will be giving a
talk entitled,
"Mistaken Identities?: Olaudah Equiano, Domingos Alvares, and the Methodological
Challenges of Studying the African Diaspora."
SPRING 2006 TALKS
April 28th, 3:30 pm, 102 Weaver.
Kris Lane, a Colonial Latin American historian at the College
of William and Mary, will be giving a talk sponsored by the Latin American
Studies Program entitled,
"Pirates, Privateers, Paramilitaries: Unlucky
Englishmen in the Colombian Choco during the War of Spanish Succession."
The year will end with the
Second Annual Latin American Studies Books Reception (April 28th, 5-7pm, 102 Weaver). This year the reception will be held in
conjunction with the Latino/Latina Studies program and Penn State University
Press; we will display books published this year by PSU faculty, dissertations
filed by PSU graduate students, and books published by the press, all on Latin
American and Latino/Latina studies topics.
April 13th, 4pm, 102 Weaver.
James Brooks, award-winning author of Captives and Cousins:
Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands, will present a
paper as part of the Transnational History Speaker Series. His paper is titled,
"Archaeology, Prophecy, and the Ghosts of Awat'ovi
Pueblo."
March 23rd, 4:00-5:00 pm, 102 Weaver. Penn State Press author
Elizabeth Kiddy will talk about her new book
Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas
Gerais, Brazil.
February 7, 3:00-4:30 p.m.,124 Sparks Building
John Lipski, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, will be
giving a talk as part of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities Spring 2006
Lecture Series entitled,
"A Picture from Life's Other Side: Afro-Bolivians
Then and Now."
January 27, 2006, 4-5 p.m., 22 Deike Building.
Dr. Melissa W. Wright will be giving a talk as part of the Geography
Coffee Hour series. The title is:
"Profit, Prostitutes and Protest: Reflections from
the Mexico-US border."
SPRING 2005 TALKS
April 28th, 2005, 4.30, in Weaver 102
Annual Latin Americanists New Books Reception, celebrating
recent
publications by PSU professors Cohen, Costantino,
Evans,
Greenberg, Hirth,
McClennen, Restall, and Vinson.
April 14th, 2005, 4pm, in Weaver 102
Jerry Davila, Assistant
Professor of History at UNC Charlotte, on "Race
Mixture in the Land of the Future: State Policy and Brazil's Place in the
African Diaspora."
April 14th, 2005, 12 noon, in the Robeson
Library, HUB
Liv Thorstensson,
Dean of the Concordia English Language Village & ESL
instructor at Central Piedmont Community College (Charlotte), on
"Adult Latina ESL Learners: Empowerment, Transformation
and Language Learning."
March 28th, 2005, 12.15 (talk at 12.40), in Kern 102
Debra Castillo, Professor of
Romance Studies and Comparative Literature, Cornell University, on
"American Dreams: New Latino Literature and the
Curriculum" Comp- Lit Lunch Talk, co-sponsored by
Latin American Studies.
March 23rd, 2005, 5pm, in Weaver 102
John F. Schwaller, Professor
of History and Vice-Chancellor, University of Minnesota at Morris, on
"Aztec Poetics, Christian Psalms."
March 21st, 2005, 12.15 (talk at 12.40), in Kern 102
Carmelo Esterrich, Associate
Professor of Spanish Literature,
Columbia College Chicago, on "Tearing Mother Apart:
The Films of Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego"
Comp Lit Lunch Talk, co-sponsored by Latin American Studies.
March 16th, 2005, 5pm, in Weaver 102
María Inclán, Political
Science department, PSU, on "¡Zapata Vive! ¡La
Lucha Sigue! Social mobilization under adverse conditions."
February 14th, 2005, 12.30pm, in Kern 102
James Dunkerley, Director of
the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, on
"Americas plural: Old Wine in New Bottles?"
Comp Lit Lunch Talk, co-sponsored by Latin American Studies.
January 20th, 2005, 4pm, in Weaver 102
Melissa Wright, Assistant
Professor of Geography and Women's Studies, PSU, on
"Paradoxes, Protests and the Politics of Femicide in
Northern Mexico."
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