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Home > About LACC > Calendar > Donations Calendar WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 TINKER APPLICATION WORKSHOP 12:50-2:10 PM (Campus Lifetime) Social & Behavioral Sciences, Room N-320 LACS Director takes prospective graduate applicants through the process of applying for Tinker Field Research travel grants for Summer 2009. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 “Liberalism without State or Nation” 12:50-2:10 PM (Campus Lifetime) Social & Behavioral Sciences, Room N-320 Refreshments will be served. The Stony Brook Initiative for Historical Social Sciences (IHSS) presents NEW PERSPECTIVES IN HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES: Miguel Centeno, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, The paper will be posted on the IHSS website. http://www.stonybrook.edu/sociology/ihss/events.shtml DEADLINE!! MONDAY, MARCH 2 TINKER FIELD RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANT Stony Brook MA and Doctoral students studying in any field of Latin American and Iberian Studies. Detailed information and applications available on-line (sidebar) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25 LACS FACULTY BOOK SIGNING 4:00-5:30 PM Social & Behavioral Sciences, Room N-320 Refreshments will be served. A presentation of Paul Gootenberg stimulating new book in Latin American History, ANDEAN COCAINE: THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL DRUG (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15 NEW LACS FACULTY “Revisiting Economic Populism: Peru and Chile in the seventies" 12:50-2:10 PM (Campus Lifetime) Social & Behavioral Sciences, Room N-320 Refreshments will be served. Sílvio Rendon, a new Professor in Stony Brook’s Economics Department will discuss some of his latest research. FRIDAY, APRIL 24 Our 8th Annual Graduate Student Conference: “Latin America: A People Without Boundaries?” One day conference at Stony Brook Manhattan (401 Park Ave. South at 28th Street, 2nd Floor) Free admission and open to all. Keynote Speaker: Barbara Weinstein, New York University Experience the brilliant research and cross-disciplinary projects of Stony Brook (and nation-wide) Graduate students, organized and performed by themselves. THURSDAY, APRIL 30 FORUM “Hate Crimes and Immigration on Long Island” TIME and LOCATION to be announced. Anti-immigrant sentiments have recently intensified violent hate crimes targeting Latinos on Long Island. A group of experts come together to discuss and mobilize us about this alarming social and human rights issue in our own backyard. Guest Speakers: Prof. Maggie Gray, Politics, Adelphi University Nadia Marin-Molina, Workplace Project /Centro de Derechos Laborales Christina Iturralde, Legal Fellow, Latino Justice Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund NEW YORK CITY LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY WORKSHOP (NYCLAHW) is a joint project of the graduate programs in Latin American history at Columbia, CUNY, NYU, and Stony Brook. To join our e-list and receive electronic papers, write to: ajd2128@columbia.edu FRIDAYS at 11AM in Stony Brook MANHATTAN 401 Park Ave, 2nd Floor (Park and 28th St.) Papers are: FEB. 13: Marcela Echeverri, College of Staten Island, CUNY "Popular Royalists and Revolution in Colombia: Nationalism and Empire, 1808-1825" MARCH 13: James Dunkerley, St. Mary’s, University of London "Continuity and Rupture in Bolivian History" APRIL 17: Pilar Zazueta, Columbia University “Beyond Corn and Beans: The Development of Nutritional Sciences in Mexico, 1930-1952”