PAST EVENTS

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Spring 2006

"From the Mines to the Prisons to the Streets: an Activist's History of Bolivia." 

"La Tradición sibilina en la pintura colonial de la America del Sur"

Ha sido restaurado recientemente en la ciudad de Buenos Aires un conjunto de 12 cuadros con las representaciones de las sibilas que habrian, de acuerdo con la tradicion, anunciado la llegada de Cristo a los paganos.  Se trata de 12 lienzos pintados probablemente en el Cuzco, en la segundad mitad del siglo XVIII. El trabajo de restauracion-conservacion ha permitido replantear y estudiar el significado religioso y social que pudo haber tenido ese tema en el contexto de la cultura colonial sudamericana en visperas de la Independencia.

"Latino Practices of Freedom: Reclaiming U.S. Latino History in the Academy"

What does it mean to designate oneself as a "Latino" or "Latina" in the United States today? This presentation proposes that understanding the cultural participation of peoples born out of the colonization of the Americas under the rubric of "Latina/o" confronts an ethos of national amnesias and motivated forgettings that require historical accounting in the academy.  As a political and cultural project, "Latina/o studies", emerges out of the need to understand why the country's largest "minority" is also the most politically disenfranchised.  Not surprisingly, Latinos and many social justice allies are claiming a political, historical, and cultural identity that demands that the social mirror, and the educational systems that reproduce it, account for this absence through practices of freedom that posit inclusion and institutional representation.  

"Analyzing Legislative Success in Latin America"

"Ethnic Cleansing L.A. Style: Repatriation, Internment, and Other Population Removals"

 This paper will link together three critical examples of forced movement of peoples from the same geographic area in East Los Angeles, over a fifteen-year time span. Usually discussed separately by academic scholars, the repatriation of Mexican Americans in the 1930s, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the forced removal of urban residents to make way for public housing and freeway construction all occurred within similar neighborhoods made up of a mixed racial population. A certain mindset developed among city leaders and urban planners linking racial depravity and urban space that stretched across local politicians and bureaucrats on both the conservative and liberal sides of the political spectrum. This ideology associated specific areas with slum conditions and urban decay, and prompted local officials to consider residents of these neighborhoods as utterly (re)movable to make way for their plans for improved social conditions and urban progress.

Fall 2005

"Real Politic or Imperial Hubris: Lessons from the Latin American Drug War"

"Rethinking the Immigration Act of 1965: Oscar Handlin and the Politics of Symbolic Pluralism"

"A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Conversion to Venezuelan Evangelicalism: How Networks Matter"

"Al Aguilera and His Ensemble"  (cuban jazz performance) "National Voices: Lo Andino in Peruvian National Imagery" "Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture"

SPRING 2005

"Representaciones  de la cultura escrita en el mundo hispanico de los siglos XVI y XVII"

"Diaspora and Disappearance: Political and Cultural Erotics in Cuban America" 

"Electoral Coalitions and Fiscal Adjustment in Brazilian States" 

"Policymakers, Agency Under Globalization Pressures: Liberalizing Public Utilities in Latin America"

  o Maxwell A. Cameron  May 18   Location: Forum Rm, Stiteler Hall Time: 12-1:30pm

"Constitutions and the Rule of Law: The Debate on Presidentialism"

FALL 2004

"The History and Power of Images of the Mexican Revolution"

"Pancho Villa Meets Sunyat Sen: Third World Revolution and the History of Hollywood Film"

"Royal or Real? A Brief History of the Incas"

"Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic: Alphabetic Literacy, Indigenous American Media, and Communicative Pragmatics"

(co-sponsored by Romance Languages Dept.)

"The Mexico City Riot of 1692 and the Dialectics of Colonial Memory"

(co-sponsored by Romance Language Dept.)