Events
Upcoming:
Title: TBA
Alicia Schmidt Camacho
Sarai Ribicoff
Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University
December 1st, 2008.
12 noon.
Location: TBA
"Comparing Migrant Transnationalism in Mexico and El Salvador"
Katrina Burgess
Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy - Tufts University
November 13, 3008
12 noon
303 Lauder-Fischer
(co-sponsored by The Lauder Institute and Penn Lauder CIBER)
Title: TBA
Dr. Nathan Wachtel
Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology
College de France
November 3, 2008
4:30pm
Location: TBA.
Title: TBA
Denise Oliver-Velez
Former Black Panther & Young Lords
Professor of Cultural Anthropology SUNY
Bobby Seale
Former Co-founder of the Black Panther Party
Alex Hsing
Former Red Guard Member
October 27, 2008
Time: TBA
John M. Huntsman Hall
(co-sponsoring with La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc.)
Title: TBA
Rafael Perez Torres
Professor of English at UCLA
October 27, 2008
12 noon.Center for Africana Studies
3401 Walnut Street
Room 330A
The Polemics of Possession in Spain and America
Rolena Adorno
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University
October 21st, 2008
5:00 p.m.in the Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room
McNeil Center for Early American Studies
www.mceas.org3355 Woodland Walk
(34th and Sansom Streets)
A free buffet supper follows at 6:30 p.m.
(co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Latin American and Latino Studies Program)
Scholarly Roundtable on the African Presence in Mexico
October 2nd, 2008
Time: 5:00-7:00pmPanelist include: Joan Bristol and Herman Bennett/Chaired by Tamara Walker
Location:
The African American Museum
701 Arch Street/Philadelphia, PA.
Free Admission
For more information:
www.aampmuseum.org
Latino Catholics, Protestants, and the 2008 Election
Gaston Espinosa, Ph. D.
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Claremont McKenna College
Monday, September 15th, 2008
3401 Walnut Street-Suite 330A
12:00 noon
Brazilian Education at the Crossroads
Simon Schwartzman, Ph.D.
Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade in Rio de Janeiro
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
303 Lauder-Fischer
12:00 noon
Brazilian education expanded in the 1990s, and today most children are able to get to school and remain there for several years. Illiteracy is also falling, and is mostly restricted now to the poorer and older population. However, a large number of youngsters leave school at ages 13-15, secondary education has stagnated, and the quality of basic education, as measured by national and international assessments such as PISA, is very low, and many students remain functionally illiterate in spite of years of schooling. Several policies have been tried in the last several years to deal with this situation, but none seems to be working. In the presentation, some of these policies will be discussed, and some better approaches will be suggested.
Recent Events:
With Our Bodies and Our Souls: Thinking Feminism from the Andes
Julieta Paredes
Friday, April 25, 2008
1:30pm-3:30pm
Fireside Room
(2nd floor of the Arch Building at 3601 Locust Walk)
There has been a long debate about the politics of feminisms and the tensions within this movement spanning issues of race, class and colonial legacies. Between and within these movements, indigenous women have often been spoken for/about, but seldom our bodies, our voices, our struggles, our thoughts, our hopes have been taken into account. In my presentation I want to discuss our efforts to decolonize feminism, decolonize our bodies, and share our experiences of how we are working towards forging progressive feminist agendas in Bolivia. These experiences are taking place in the context of the hopes and promises for radical change since the election of the first indigenous president of Bolivia. We see this as an opportunity to forge critical alliances across borders in a manner that we can learn from our differences and our desires.
Puerto Ricans and the Problem of Recognition
Dr. Lorrin Thomas
Rutgers University
Friday, April 18th, 2008
12:00pm
3401 Walnut Street-Suite 330A
Lorrin Thomas is writing a book called "Puerto Rican Citizen", which examines Puerto Ricans political identities and political projects in the United States in the twentieth century. In this talk she will explore some of the ways that recent debates in history and political theory might be used to illuminate Puerto Ricans exceptional position as forced citizens of the United States.
Anthropological Collaborations in Colombia
Joanne Rappaport
Georgetown University
Friday, April 11th, 2008
12:00 noon
Graduate School of Education-Room 203
Sponsored by: Educational Linguistics Forum and the Center for Native American Studies
Domesticating the Pachuca
Catherine Ramirez
Assistant Professor
Department of American Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz
April 4th, 2008
12:00 noon
3401 Walnut Street-Suite 330A
Drawing from archival sources and oral history, this paper explores the myriad meanings that Mexican-American women have ascribed to the figures of the pachuca and pachuco (female and male zoot-suiter). It also offers evidence of the participation of Mexican-American girls and women in the Sleepy Lagoon incident and trial, Zoot Suit Riots, and World War II-era zoot subculture. As it renarrates the familiar tales of these important events, it removes Mexican-American women from the margins of Chicano historiography and foregrounds their redefinitions of contested cultural categories.
Whenever Wednesday:
Carlos Motta & Ann Farnsworth-Alvear
Historian Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Director of Penn's Program in Latin American & Latino Studies, and artist Carlos Motta discuss their respective explorations of Latin American history and politics.
Wednesday, February 27
7:00 pm
Institute of Contemporary Art
University of Pennsylvania
118 S. 36th St. Philadelphia, PA 19104-3289
Telephone: 215.898.7108
This event is co-sponsored by the Latin American & Latino Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Liliana Angulo
Liliana Angulo is a Colombian-born photographer whose works were recently shown for the first time in the United States at Brookline's GASP Gallery.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
12:00 noon
3401 Walnut Street - Suite 330A
Co-sponsored by: The Romance Language Department, Women's Studies Program, Penn Visual Studies, and the Du Bois College House.
Cave, City and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey Through the Rediscovered Mexican Codex-Mapa de Cuauhtinchan
David Carrasco, Harvard Divinity School Rainey
Hosted by DuBois College House and the Office of the Chaplain
December 5, 2007 at 4:30 p.m.
Reception: 5:30 p.m.
Rainey Auditorium
Research Presentation
'He outfitted his family in notable decency': Slavery, Honor, and Dress in Eighteenth-Century Lima, Peru
Tamara Walker
Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow
Department of History
December 4, 2007 4:00pm
3401 Walnut Street
Suite 330A
For elite men in eighteenth-century Lima, elegant clothing provided a language for expressing their wealth, status, and honor. By outfitting their wives and children in impressive finery, elite men showcased their patriarchal authority over all the goods and people in their households. Their authority extended in many cases to servants and slaves, who formed part of the public pageantry that was in service to these masculine ideals. By mapping the study of material culture onto the study of slavery, this paper brings into relief the social meanings clothing contained for slaves and the individuals who sought to control them, and highlights the possibilities urban life contained for the creation of social identities that fell outside the social lines and color lines drawn by the colonial state.
Coco Fusco
Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer. She has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the world since 1988. She is the author of English is Broken Here, The Bodies That Were Not Ours and Other Writings and the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self. Fusco is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. She is an associate professor in the Visual Arts Division of Columbia University's School of the Arts.
November 16, 2007
12:00 noon-College Hall 209
DARICE POLO
Assistant Professor and
Coordinator of the Drawing Program at Kent State University
“Casting a Shadow”
Darice Polo will speak about her recent paintings and drawings as well as chronicle her development as an artist. Her current work is based on a collection of black-and-white family photographs that document the years following her ancestors move from Puerto Rico to New York in 1927. She will talk about growing up hispanic and how it has affected her professional development and life.
September 14, 2007
12:00 noon-College Hall 209
Co-sponsor by the History Department
LUNCH BOX SERIES 2006-2007 « more info »
January 17 - April 18 2007
January 17th, 2007
Johny Irizarry - Lighthouse
Maria Mills-Torres - Department of Education
Stanton Wortham - University of Pennsylvania
Lunch Box Series
12:00 pm
3401 Walnut Street Suite 331A
Title: "Learning from the Challenges: Latino Youth and Education in the Philadelphia Area "
Sponsored by: The Latin American and Latino Studies Program
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February 21st, 2007
Ana Maria Ochoa
New York University
Associate Professor of Music
Lunch Box Series
12:00 pm
3401 Walnut Street Suite 331A
Title: “Latin America Aurality and the Lettered City"
Sponsored by: The Latin American and Latino Studies Program
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March 23, 2007
Gloria D. Prosper-Sanchez
University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras
12:00 pm
Carriage House, 3907 Spruce St
Title: “Transing the Standard: The Case of Puerto Rican Spanish "
Co-sponsored by: Department of Romance Lamguages, Penn's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center, Festival Latino, La Casa Latina, QPenn, the Linguistic Consortium and The Latin American and Latino Studies Program
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March 26th, 2007
Dr. Raphael Reygadas
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City
10:00 am
100 Arch Building
Title: “Democratic Processes, Activism, and Civil Society in Mexico"
Sponsored by: The Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium and The Latin American and Latino Studies Program
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April 3rd, 2007
Film screening
7:00 pm
Class of 55 Conference Room
Van Pelt Library
Title: “Scars of Memory (Cicatriz de la Memoria) ”
Sponsored by: The Latin American and Latino Studies Program
Co-sponsored by: History Department
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April 18th, 2007
Amparo Yolanda Padilla
University of Pennsylvania
English Department
Lunch Box Series
12:00 pm
3401 Walnut Street Suite 331A
Title: “The Genres of Ambivalence: Revolution, Assimilation, and the Cold War in Luis Perez's ‘El Coyote, the Rebel’ ”
Sponsored by: The Latin American and Latino Studies Program
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September 20 - December 31 2006
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Title: "Tesoros/Treasures/Tesouros: the Arts in Latin America, 1492-1821"
For more info: http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/special/109.html
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September 20, 2006
Robert Smith
Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
Associate Professor, Sociology, Immigration Studies and Public Affairs
Lunch Box Series
12:00pm
3401 Walnut Street Suite 331A
Title: “Transnational Life among Children of Immigrants”
Sponsored by: The Latin American and Latino Studies Program
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September 23 - February 26
University of Pennsylvania Museum
Title: "Under European Eyes: Conquistadors and Indigenous Arts of Latin
America"
For more info: http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/exhibits_looking.shtml
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September 22, 2006
James Mahoney
Northwestern University
James Mahoney is a comparative-historical researcher with interests in national development, qualitative methodology, and macro theory.
12:00pm Stiteler Hall Forum, 208 S. 37th Street
Title: "Colonialism and Economic Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective."
Sponsored by: Comparative Politics Workshop
Co-sponsored by: The Latin America and Latino Studies Program
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October 10th, 2006
Achy Obejas University of Chicago
4:30 pm
Carriage House (3907 Spruce Street)
Title: "Identity and Dislocation"
Sponsored by: Romance Language Department
Co-sponsored by: the Latin America and Latino Studies Program
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October 17th, 2006
Alejandro de la Fuente
University of Pittsburgh
5:00 pm
Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil
Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk
Title: “Slaves and the Creation of Legal Rights in Cuba: Coartacion and Papel”
Sponsored by: the Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies
Co-sponsored by: the Latin America and Latino Studies Program
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October 17, 2006
Robin D. Moore
5:15pm
Music Building
201 S. 34th Street, Room 302
Title: "Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba (Music of the
African Diaspora)"
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November 9-11, 2006
Time and Location: TBA
Title: “Power of Images Symposium”
Sponsored by: History Department
Co-sponsored by: the Latin America and Latino Studies Program
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November 15th, 2006
Adriana Brodsky
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Assistant Professor of History
Lunch Box Series
12:00 pm
3401 Walnut Street Suite 331A
Title: “Celebrating the State: Sephardim and the uses of "lo Argentino" in intra-community politics”
Sponsored by: The Latin American and Latino Studies Program
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December 6th, 2006
Licia Fiol - Matta
Associate Professor
Department of Latin American & Puerto Rican Studies
Lehman College New York
Lunch Box Series
12:00 pm
3401 Walnut Street Suite 331A
Title: "Chencha's Gait: Latin Popular Music and Normativity in Mirta Silva"
Sponsored by: The Latin American and Latino Studies Program