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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 8
th 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”