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SPRING 2010 Calendar of Events
TUESDAY, FEB. 9th ~Tinker Graduate Fellow Application Workshop
12:30–1:30pm at Social & Behavioral Sciences, Room N-320
LACS Director Paul Gootenberg takes Grad students from all disciplines and interests through the process of applying for 2010 Tinker summer travel research grants to Latin America and Iberia.
THURSDAY, FEB. 18th ~Lecture
12:30– 2pm at Social & Behavioral Sciences, Room N-320
Michael L. Dorn, Temple University; Research Assistant Professor, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Brook School of Medicine; Visiting Assistant Professor of History
"Disability Activism in the Anglophone Caribbean"
New perspectives on this relevant emerging field and social movement.
Co-Sponsored: Occupational Therapy, Dept. of History
TUESDAY, FEB. 23rd ~LACS Book Presentation
4-6 pm at Social & Behavioral Sciences, Room N-320
Timothy P. Moran, Sociology Department, Stony Brook Univ.
"Inequality and Social Mobility in Three Dimensions:
Implications for Latin America"
The LACS-affiliated co-author of the important new book Unveiling Inequality: A World Historical Perspective (Russell Sage Foundation, 2009) broaches its findings for students of Latin America.
Co-Sponsored: Initiative in Historical Sociology (IHHS), Sociology Department
Refreshments Served
FRIDAY, FEB. 26th ~Lecture
2:30 pm in Melville Library, Room N3060
Benigno Trigo, Dept. Spanish & Portuguese, Vanderbilt Univ.
An interpretation of two detective novels by the Puerto Rican author Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá.
Co-Sponsored: Latin American & Caribbean Studies Center
MONDAY, MARCH 1st ~Application DEADLINE 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, go here: http://naples.cc.stonybrook.edu/CAS/lacc.nsf/pages/tinker
TUESDAY, MARCH 9th ~Workshop
12:50-2 pm at Social & Behavioral Sciences, Room N-320
Pablo Piccato, History and ILAS Director, Columbia University
"Murder and Politics in 20th-Century Mexico"
An interdisciplinary foray into the timely and often sensationalized topic of criminality in Mexico.
Papers will be posted on the IHSS website:
http://www.stonybrook.edu/sociology/ihss/events.shtml
Co-Sponsored with the Initiative in Historical Social Sciences (IHSS) and Dept. of History
Refreshments Served
FRIDAY, APRIL 9th ~Our 9th Annual Stony Brook LACS Graduate Student Conference, “Two Hundred Years of Post-Colonial Futures: Latin America, 1810-2010”
Keynote Speaker: (12-1:30) Fernando Coronil, CUNY Graduate Center
9 am-6 pm at Stony Brook Manhattan (401 Park Ave. South at 28th Street, 2nd Floor)
The conference, organized by our multi-talented graduate students from many countries and fields, uses the bicentennial of Latin American independence to debate rupture and continuity across the region’s two centuries of post-coloniality. Refreshments Served
For more information, go here: http://naples.cc.stonybrook.edu/CAS/lacc.nsf/pages/conf
TUESDAY, APRIL 20th ~FORUM
2-4 pm at Location TBA
"The Stony Brook Community and the Struggle for Latino Immigration Rights"
A Workshop with: Margarita Espada, Theater Dept., and Teatro Experimental Yerbabruja Inc, Luis Valenzuela, Immigration Alliance, Long Island Wins, Lynda Perdomo-Ayala, Dept. Of Pharmacology and Unión Universitaria Latinoamericano (UUL).
A public forum on the role of the university in Long Island immigration conflicts, taking off on Espada’s provocative recent (NYT’s lauded) play "What Killed Marcelo Lucero?"
Co-Sponsored: Theater Dept., Hispanic Languages & Lit., UUL, History Dept., Latin American Student Organization (LASO)
NYC LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY WORKSHOP(NYCLAHW)
(FRIDAYS, 11am-1pm, New York University, King Juan Carlos Center, Room 607, 53 Washington Square South)
Papers under discussion are circulated to the NYCLAHW mailing list one week in advance of the session. To join the mailing list or for more information, contact Julia del Palacio at ajd2128@columbia.edu
Jan. 29th, Jocelyn Olcott, Duke/Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University,
“Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Sexual Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women’s Year Conference”
Feb. 26th, Natasha Lightfoot, Columbia University,
“Mashing Ants: Black Resistance and Survival in Antigua’s Post-1846 Sugar Crisis”
March 26th, Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Univ. of Pennsylvania,
“A Visual Argument: Liliana Angulo’s Photography and Afro-Colombian Cultural History”
April 23rd, Ricardo Salvatorre, Universidad Torcuato di Tella,
“Worldly Sociology: Edward E. Ross and the Societies South of Panama (1913-1950)”