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Spring 2008
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14
Stony Brook Philosophy Book Panels:
Global Fragments: Globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and Critical Theory (SUNY Press, 2007)
Eduardo Mendieta, Wolf Schäfer and Samuel A. Butler discuss the philosophical explorations of the processes of globalization, particularly in the context of Latin America.
4:00-6:00 PM ~ Harriman, Room 214
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
“Bolivia and Colombia: Re-thinking Revolution in Our Time”
Forrest Hylton, NYU
From his book Revolutionary Horizons, Hylton discusses an age of military neo-liberalism, social movements and center-left coalition governments across South America, sparking hope for radical change in a period otherwise characterized by regressive imperial and anti-imperial politics.
12:50-2:10 PM - LACS Seminar Room
Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320
DEADLINE: MONDAY, MARCH 3
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 online: www.stonybrook.edu/lacc
TUESDAY, MARCH 11
“Hugo Chavez: Brutal Dictator or Crusading Democrat?”
Bart Jones, Newsday
Currently a reporter for Newsday, Bart will talk intimately about Chávez’s impoverished childhood, his military career and the decade of clandestine political activity that ended in a failed attempt to seize power in 1992, his election campaign for Presidency and the dramatic reversals of fortune that have marked it the struggle to reform the Venezuelan economy.
11:30 am -1:30 PM - LACS Seminar Room
Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320
THURSDAY, MARCH 6
ART OPENING & RECEPTION: “MORABEZA”
Elisa Schneble
An autodidact visual artist and painter that uses self-expression and a musical eye to improvise visual pieces that conveys impressions and thoughts about social life, people and situations.
4:00-6:00 pm - LACS Gallery
Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 14-15
Our 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference:
“Inventing the Americas”
Keynote Speaker: Walter Mignolo, Duke University
Experience the brilliant research and cross-disciplinary projects of Stony Brook (and nation-wide) Graduate students, organized and performed by themselves.
Stony Brook Manhattan (401 Park Ave. South at 28th Street)
Refreshments provided.
THURSDAY, APRIL 10
ART OPENING & RECEPTION: “La Otra Mirada ~ The Other Look”
Carlos Jacanamijoy, a Colombian native, offers a surrealistic vision of his interior landscape. His work is informed as much by his memories of the colors, light, and sound of the tropical rainforest of southwestern Colombia as by the urban cityscape of his home in NY.
4:00-6:00 pm - LACS Gallery
Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, APRIL 18-19
Conference: “Violence in Latin America:
New Realities, Emerging Representations”
A two-day conference in which scholars from Stony Brook and Smith College collectively analyze the increasing violence in Latin American societies.
Stony Brook Manhattan (401 Park Ave. South at 28th Street)
Refreshments provided.
Stony Brook’s New LACS Faculty Colloquium:
The Latin American & Caribbean Studies Center invites you to meet and welcome some of our newest faculty at Stony Brook. Refreshments will follow lectures:
- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20
Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Africana Studies
Areas of interest are Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and Latin America; Gender and Development; Intersectionality; Women and Informal Economies; Race and Race Relations in the United States; Sociology of the Body; Black Feminism; Social Research; Feminist Research Method.
12:50-2:10 pm - Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320 - TUESDAY, MARCH 25
Paul Firbas, Hispanic Languages & Literature
Areas of interest are Colonial Latin American Literature, Modernity in Perú, Textual Criticism.
4:00-6:00 pm - Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320 - MONDAY, APRIL 14
Rachel Price, Hispanic Languages & Literature
Areas of interest are modern Latin American and Caribbean
Literature, The Atlantic and Critical Theory.
4:00-6:00 pm - Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320 - THURSDAY, MAY 1
Jennifer Anderson, History Department
Areas of interest are Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean in the early modern period, exploring the history of colonialism, imperialism, slavery, issues of labor, race, and gender, and the rise of nationalism and revolutionary movements.
2:00-4:00 pm - Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320
FEB 1…….. James Woodard (Montclaire State)
MARCH 7... Lila Camaira (Visiting Fellow, Columbia)
APRIL 11.…Aldo Lauria-Santiago (Rutgers)