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2007

Saul Landau Guest Lecture: Inside the Cuban Revolution and the Mayan Uprising – Film as an Eye on REvolution

Wednesday, November 14th – Rocky 300, 5:30 PM

Tuesday, November 13th: Cuba

Monday, November 12th: Mexico

Films to be presented:

1st Looking South Film and Lecture Series

Featuring 4 documentaries and a lecture by Emmy-award filmmaker, author, and activist Saul Landau

November 12th and November 14th at Rockefeller Hall 300

Program Celebration of Día de los Muertos / Día de los Difuntos / Dia de Finados

November 2nd, 2007 – New England Hall 101, 12:00 – 1:30 PM

Join LALS faculty members, majors, correlates, and friends of the program over good food and hot drinks.

Prof. Iván Jaksic to present his book entitled "The Hispanic World in American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880" (Forthcoming in English, Palgrave/MacMillan)

Monday, October 22nd, 2007 at Rockefeller Hall 200, 7:00 PM

Iván Jaksic is Director of Stanford University Program in Santiago and professor of history at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. A Guggenheim fellow for 2002-2003, he has taught at Berkeley, Stanford, Wisconsin, and Notre Dame, and has held research appointments at the Rockefeller Center at Harvard and St. Antony's College at Oxford. He is the author of Academic Rebels in Chile (1989), Andrés Bello: Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (2001) and numerous volumes and essays on Latin American history, culture, and politics.

Prof. Adrian Burgos presents his new book entitled "Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line" (University of California Press)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 at Rockefeller Hall 200, 5:30 PM

A Vassar graduate, Prof. Burgos is currently Assistant Professor of History at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His most recent book Playing America's Game has already met with tremendous praise including the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) award for the best Latino Studies publication of this year.

CUBA: Photographs by Rick Miller

Photo Exhibit at Palmer Gallery, College Center from Sept. 26th to Oct. 12th, 2007. The exhibition will be followed by a lecture entitled "A Photographer Looks at Cuba" on Monday, October 1st, 2007 at 7:00 PM at Sanders Hall 200.

Rick Miller received his M.F.A in photography from Long Island University and his B.A. in history at New York University. In 2001 he traveled as the official photographer for MADRE, an international women's human rights organization that works in partnership with women's community-based groups worldwide to address issues of health, education, economic development.

2006

Victoria Sanford, associate professor of anthropology at Lehman College, CUNY, will give a lecture titled "From Genocide to Feminicdio: Impunity and Human Rights in 21st Century Guatemala" on Wednesday, October 25, in Rocky 200 at 5:00 p.m. Her book, Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala (Palgrave Macmillan 2003), has received much acclaim. Sanford was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute on Violence and Survival at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. She is a Fulbright Scholar and has been a Bunting Peace Fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, a Rockefeller Fellow, a Fulbright-Hays Fellow, and a MacArthur Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. Sanford has worked with Maya refugees since 1986. She co-authored the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation's report to the Commission for Historical Clarification and is also the author of Violencia y Genocidio en Guatemala (2003).

Dr. Diego von Vacano will give a lecture on Thursday, November 16 in Rocky 300 at 5:00 p.m.. Dr. von Vacano is the author of The Art of Power: Machiavelli, Nietzsche and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, November 2006) and a forthcoming edited volume on writings on race in the Latin American political thought tradition. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M University, Dr. von Vacano served on the faculties of Hunter College, CUNY, Vassar College, and Williams College. He was also a Visiting Scholar in Latin American Studies at Columbia University. Professor von Vacano has been the recipient of an NEH faculty grant in Latin American philosophy; the University Center for Human Values Graduate Fellowship at Princeton University (where he received his doctorate); and grants from the Spencer Foundation, Tinker Foundation, and Mellon Foundation as well as from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he received a Master's in Public Policy.

Dr. von Vacano's current research focuses on the problem of racial identity in relation to citizenship in Latin American political thought. Other areas of interest are the politics of democratization in Latin America, especially Bolivia, as well as the ethics of immigration policy in developed democracies. We have asked von Vacano to deliver a public lecture on Bolivia and the Latin American Left in Global Perspective.

2005

Wendy Wolford, Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a Fellow this year at the Yale Program in Agrarian Studies, and co-author with Angus Wright of To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil (2004), spoke on “The Politics of Becoming a Peasant,” drawing on her work with the Landless Workers Movement (MST-Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra) in Brazil (April, 2005)

Margarita López-Maya, Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and a visiting Edward Laroque Tinker Professor at Columbia University, lectured on contemporary Venezuelan politics. (April, 2005)

Greg Grandin, Associate Professor of History, New York University, gave a lecture entitled “The Camel Not in the Koran: The Latin American Roots of the Bush Doctrine” (March, 2005)

Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, spoke on “’Wavering on the Horizon of Social Being’: The Mexican, the Indian, and the Southwest” (March, 2005)

Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Puerto Rican and Hispanic Studies at Rutgers University, spoke on “Between Cultural Excess and Racial Invisibility: The Politics of Race and Space among Brazilians and Puerto Ricans in Newark” (February, 2005)

Javier Urcid, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University, who lectured on “Towards Reading a Cultural Code: The Uses of Writing in Ancient Oaxaca” (February, 2005)

2004

John Dinges, distinguished investigative journalist and Associate Professor of Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, spoke on his most recent book The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents (October, 2004)

Graciela de Marco, coordinator of the Programa de Democratización de las Relaciones Sociales, Escuela de Posgrado at the Univerisdad Nacional de General San Martin, San Martín, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, spoke on the topic “Gender and Social Movements in Argentina” (September, 2004)