Noticias de la Semana
Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies Program Weekly News
Thursday, April 12, 2007
9th Annual Undergraduate Symposium
Come and see this wonderful celebration of undergraduate talent. Students will present more than 150 projects on a wide range of topics: politics, education, mathematics, business, women’s studies, molecular biology, health, anthropology, geology, psychology, history, literature, and more.
9:45am-4pm
Great Hall, Memorial Union
Attendance is free and open to the public.
Please visit website for more details.
Sponsored by Brittingham Trust and the Office of the Provost, through the stewardship of the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, Center for Biology Education, the Morgridge Center for Public Service, The Writing Center and the Wisconsin Union.
Promoting environmentally-sound pest management in Central American small-scale agriculture: The (interdisciplinary) way forward
Dr. Kris Wyckhuys, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota
3:30pm
462 Moore Hall
Sponsored by the Agroecology Program.
Contemporary Haitian American Art: The Work of Rejin Leys
Rejin Leys is a Haitian-American mixed-media and book artist. She received a BFA from Parson’s School of Design in 1988 and an MFA from Brooklyn College in 2000. Her books, prints, drawings and installations explore such themes as labor, migration, and social and environmental justice. Leys participated in such artists’ collectives as Coast-to-Coast, National women artists of Color, and Kouran, a New York based group of young Haitian artists. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
4pm
L150 Elvehjem
Co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian, LACIS, African Diaspora and the Atlantic World Research Circle, Visual Culture, and the Art History Department. Organized by Guillermina De Ferrari.
The Geography of Observation: Questions about Place and Visibility in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire
Daniela Bleichmar, Assistant Professor of Art History, and Spanish and Portuguese, University of Southern California
6pm
L150 Chazen Museum of Art
Free and Open to the Public.
Sponsored
by the Art History Grad Forum, the Department of Art History, the Latin
American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, the Center for
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese, and the Visual Culture Cluster.
2007 Wisconsin Film Festival
Below you will find a summary of some films at the WI Film Festival that were either produced in Latin America, Spain or the Caribbean , or deal with LACIS related themes. All information in this guide is from the program guide on the website.
Film Screening Schedule:
Thursday, April 12th
7:00 pm Cinematheque (4070 Vilas Hall): The Spirit of the Beehive (
Spain)
8:15 pm Stage Door Theatre: Family Law (Argentina )
Friday, April 13th
7:15pm Frederic March Play Circle Theatre: Muxes: Intrepid Seekers of
Danger (Mexico )
11:45pm Cinematheque (4070 Vilas Hall): El
Topo (Mexico/Spain)
Saturday, April 14th
6:45 pm Stage Door Theatre: The Great Match (Spain )
9:45 pm
Cinematheque (4070 Vilas Hall): The Holy Mountain (Mexico)
Sunday, April 15th
11:00 am Stage Door Theatre: The Great Match (Spain )
1:00 pm
Stage Door Theatre: Family Law (Argentina )
1:30 pm Overture
Center Capitol Theater: Madienusa (Peru)
5:15 pm
Cinematheque (4070 Vilas Hall): El Topo (Mexico/Spain)
5:45
pm Frederic March Play Circle Theatre: Muxes: Intrepid Seekers of
Danger ( Mexico)
7:00 pm Wisconsin Historical Society: Border
(US)
7:45 pm Orpheum Main Theatre: The Ghosts of Cite Soleil
( Denmark)
7:45 pm Cinematheque (4070 Vilas Hall): The Holy
Mountain (Mexico )
7$ (4$ for students)
Advance Ticket Sales begin at noon on Saturday,
March 17, and continue through Wednesday, April 11. Tickets can be
purchased at the box office in the Annex Room on the 2nd Floor of
Memorial Union, online, or at the door. Please refer to the website
for more information.
Friday, April 13, 2007
What does the Third Food Regime (or Corporate Food Regime) look like in Developing Countries?
Jenny Wiegel, a research proposal focusing on Nicaragua
12:10-1:30pm
8108 Sewell Social Science
Sponsored by the Sociology of Economic Change and Development Program (SECD).
LACIS Graduate Student Conference
The first annual LACIS Graduate Student Conference, entitled "Flexible Topographies: Movement and Identity in Latin America is intended as a way for UW Students from diverse fields to share research with one another and with LACIS-affiliated faculty, with the goal of forging cross-disciplinary connections.
8:30am-4:30pm
206 Ingraham Hall
Keynote Address and Lunch:
Mark Harris of St. Andrews
University, Scotland.
"Imaginative Frontiers and Mobile Identities
in Portuguese (Colonial) Amazonia."
12pm
8417 Social Science
For more information about submissions, please check website.
Workshop with Art History Gradforum Visiting Scholar
Daniela Bleichmar, Departments of Art History and Spanish and Portuguese, USC.
10am-12pm
Chazen Museum of Art
Registration required.
For information or to register and receive
the advanced readings: bazinsli@wisc.edu
Racial Classification and Affirmative Action in Brazil
Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
4pm
8417 Social Science Building
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Department of Rural Sociology, the Global Studies Program, the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, and the Department of Sociology. Funding Courtesy of the Kemper K. Knapp Bequest.
The Tony Castaneda Latin Jazz Sextet and Dando Mambo Dance Co
A benefit for Centro Hispano's food pantry.
7:30pm
Middleton Performing Arts Center-Middleton High School,
2100
Bristol Street, Middleton.
$18 adults; $14 seniors/students
For more information, please contact website.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Mexico's Son Jarocho workshop by Son del Centro
Son Jarocho is traditional music from the Vera Cruz region of Mexico. Los Angeles based group Son del Centro will demonstrate basic rhythms and singing of this musical style.
1pm
Orton Park
601 South Ingersoll Street (corner of Jenifer and
Ingersoll)
Rainsite: Wilmar Center 953 Jenifer Street).
Donations
suggested!
Information: Mike Moon, noon@justcoffee.net or 608-772-4386
Monday, April 16, 2007
Colloquium on Minority Languages and the Prevention of Social Exclusion
This two day conference explores indigenous languages and education.
Monday lecture: "Indigenous Languages Revitalization: The Contribution
of Collaborative Sociolinguistic Work."
Professor José
Antonio Flores Farfán, CIESAS-México (Centro de Investigaciones
y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social) and ACLC, University of
Amsterdam.
4pm-5:30pm
Tuesday: "Mourning Over Language Slavery – The Recognition of Creole in
French West Indies Education"
Professor Christian Alin, IUFM
de Lyon, France
12pm-1:30pm
Discussions will take place throughout the day.
Free and open to the
public.
For more information, please contact website.
Sponsored by Curriculum & Instruction, Global Studies, LACIS, European Studies, and the WI Center for Education Research, among others.
Line Breaks
Rafael Casal and Dahlak Brathwaite, Youth Speaks Spoken Word Stars
A lecture and Preformace series on spoken word and hip-hop featuring Marc Bamuthi Joseph and friends
7pm
Wisconsin Historical Society
Free and open to the public.
For more information, check website.
Presented by OMAI & The UW Arts Institute.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
European Models for the Prevention of Social and School Exclusion
Danielle Zay, Professor Education Sciences, Charles de Gaulle University, Lille, France
4pm
On Wisconsin Room, Red Gym
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, the
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, the School of Education
International Education Committee, the Department of Educational
Policy Studies, the Department of English, the Center for
European Studies, the Department of French and Italian, the Global
Studies Program, the Division of International Studies, the Latin
American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program, the Department
of Spanish and Portuguese.
Funding
Courtesy of the Kemper K. Knapp Bequest.
The War on Human Rights
Larry Cox, the executive director of Amnesty International USA (AIUSA), will deliver the Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture. He promotes human rights as the basis for peace and security in the post-September 11 era. Mr. Cox believes the U.S. has abdicated its role as a leader in human rights. A veteran human rights advocate, Mr. Cox was senior program officer for over ten years at the Ford Foundation’s Human Rights unit, focusing on the promotion of international justice and the advancement of domestic human rights. He has also served as the executive director of the Rainforest Foundation, an international organization that works with indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon to protect their rights.
4pm
Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center,
702 Langdon St.
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the UW-Madison Division of International Studies and the Global Legal Studies Center of the Law School
Constructing Women's Suffrage in Ecuador's 1944-1945 Constituent Assembly
Marc Becker, Associate Professor of History, Truman State University
12pm
206 Ingraham
Coffee provided by Just Coffee Cooperative of Madison
LACIS Brownbag Series
Thursday, April 19, 2007
El Clan Destino
Join us for two evenings of Afro-Cuban Jazz!
Thursday, April 19th
5pm-7pm
Overture
Center's After Work Music
Free!
Saturday. April 21st
9:30pm
Restaurant
Magnus
120 East Wilson
$5 cover
Friday, April 20, 2007
Chichen Itza: Artistic Innovation and Interregional Contacts during the Epiclassic to Early Postclassic Period in Mesoamerica
Dr. Jeff Kowalski, Nave Visiting Scholar Talk, Department of Art History, Northern Illinois Univeristy
12pm-1pm
Room 5230
Archaeology Brown Bag Series. Cosponsored by the LACIS Program.
“Connecting Schools and Communities - An Assessment of a Program in Brazilian Schools Using Propensity Score Analysis”
Ana Cristina Collares, Sociology, and Elaine Vilela, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
12-1:30pm
Ed Sciences, 13th Floor Boardroom
Interdisciplinary Training Seminar in Education Sciences.
Responses to Atrocity: International and Domestic Judicial Mechanisms
This all day conference will addres Judicial Reponses to Atrocities. Hosted by Professors Heinz Klug (UW Law School) and Scott Straus (Political Science, UW-Madison),
Speakers at the conference include:
* Ronald Atkinson,
Professor, Department of History, University of South Carolina, Columbia
*
Doug Cassel, Lilly Endowment Professor of Law, University of
Notre Dame Law School
* Thierry Cruvellier, a consultant with
the International Center for Transnational Justice, Bogota, who reported
on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the war in
Sierra Leone, including the Special Court and the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission
* Victor Peskin, Professor, School
of Global Studies, Arizona State University
* Lars Waldorf,
former director of the Human Rights Watch field office in Rwanda from
2002-04, and who covered genocide trials at the United Nations
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2001.
* Rebecca
Wittmann, Assistant Professor, Historical Studies, University of
Toronto. Her research focuses on the Holocaust, postwar German trials of
Nazi perpetrators, and German legal history.
9am-noon
3250 Law Building
1pm-5pm
7200 Law Building (Lubar Commons)
Freee and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Sumudu Atapattu, Associate Director, Global Legal Studies Center, UW Law School, (608) 890 1395, saatapattu@wisc.edu
Sponsored by the Global Legal Studies Center and the Humanitarianism
and World Order Research Circle, with support from the Division of
International Studies, the International Institute and Global Studies.
Performing Brazil
This two day interdisciplinary conference seeks to examine why several elements of Brazilian culture seem to lend themselves so well to performativity. Are these elements inherently performative or are they made to be so? If so, how, why, and by whom? As participants redefine performance and recast it in a new light, other, key issues will inevitably be drawn into the discussion, foremost among them ethnicity, nationality (and nationalism), gender and identity politics, the nature of escapism and illusion, and the relationship between ideology and performance.
Continues on April 21
For more information, please contact website.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Socio-economic Residential Segregation in Mexico City
Landy Sanchez
12:10-1:30pm
8108 Sewell Social Science
Sponsored by the Sociology of Economic Change and Development Program (SECD).
Monday, April 23, 2007
Rebels and Molecules:The unexpected consequences of the search for medicinal plants in Oaxaca, 1949-1977
Gabriela Sotolaveaga, Assistant Professor in Latin American history at UC, Santa Barbara
In 1941 an American chemist discovered that synthetic steroids could be derived from a wild Mexican yam. Within a few years several international pharmaceutical laboratories had set up headquarters in Mexico. The labor network set into place in rural Mexico to extract the yams would persist unchanged for nearly three decades. In 1970 the populist president Luis Echeverría sided with campesinos and publicly contested the right of foreign laboratories to extract wild yams. The unanticipated social consequences of Echeverría's actions form the basis of this talk.
12pm
206 Ingraham
LACIS Brownbag Series
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Shamanic Tourism in Iquitos, Peru
Evgenia Fotiou, Anthropology PhD student
12pm
206 Ingraham
Coffee provided by Just Coffee Cooperative of Madison
LACIS Brownbag Series
US Immigration Policies, Sending Country Realities: A View from Mexico
Come learn more about the impacts of recent US immigration policies on migrants and migrant-sending communities in Mexico. The discussion will be led by Jessa and Brent Valentine, who recently spent a year working in various migrant-sending communities in the Oaxacan countryside. Awareness about the challenges and injustices faced by immigrants living in the United States is rising. Less is known about the conditions prevailing in sending countries that lead people to migrate in the first place, and about the positive and negative impacts of migration on the development and social fabric of migrant-sending communities. This talk aims to link US immigration policies to migrant-sending country realities, with a focus on Mexico.
7pm
Rainbow Bookstore
426 W. Gilman
Sponsored by CALA.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Disaster in Darfur: Sudan’s Defiance of International Human Rights
The two-day symposium (April 27-28) will bring together leading Sudan scholars from Wisconsin and other universities, as well as international lawyers, investigative journalists, government officials, and human rights activists, all of whom have played prominent roles in addressing the human rights disaster in Darfur. Conference will specifically address the role of the International Criminal Court, the United Nations' lack of success in deploying a peace-keeping force, the role of oil wealth in the conflict, and the State of WI's responses.
For complete schedule of the event, please contact website.
Sponsored by the African Studies Program, the International Institute, the Division of International Studies, Global Studies, and the Humanitarianism and World Order Research Circle.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
26th Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Labor History Society
Please join us for this conference on Labor history in the 20th century! Our keynote speaker, NYU historian Professor Greg Grandin, will deliver a speech "Reaganism's Perfect Storm: The War on the Working-Class at Home and Abroad."
Keynote Address
11:10 a.m.
Union South
227 North Randall Avenue
Full conference
9am-3pm
Union South 227
North Randall Avenue
$25 includes lunch, materials; $15 for students, unemployed. (Free for those wishing to audit conference.)
For more information, please contact info@wisconsinlaborhistory.org.
Cosponsored by Co-Sponsors: Wisconsin State AFL-CIO; the University
of Wisconsin History Dept.; the UW Extension School for Workers; the
South Central Federation of Labor; the Center for Latin American,
Caribbean and Iberian Studies (LACIS) and the NAVE Fund at the UW
Madison and the Harvey Goldberg Center for the Study of Contemporary
History at UW-Madison. The conference is also funded in part by a grant
from the Wisconsin Humanities Council, with funds from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the State of Wisconsin.
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Film: ¡Salud!
This feature documentary is directed by Academy Award nominee Connie Field and co-produced by Gail Reed. The film spans three continents to look at the philosophy and health professionals placing Cuba on the map in the worldwide movement to make health care a global birthright. Today, Cubans are among the world's healthiest people, despite the island's poverty.The film's cameras reach into the Gambia, rural South Africa, coastal villages of Honduras and river settlements in the Amazon, where a Cuban is often the first doctor a poor community has ever seen. In some nations they staff entire health systems.
Time TBA
Anderson Auditorium
Edgewood College
Additional Information to follow in April. For more information, please contact film website.
Cosponsored by the Wisconsin Medical Project.
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Struggle for Rights in Latin America
Professor Angel Oquendo, Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of Law at University of Connecticut School of Law.
12pm
7200 Law School (Lubar Commons)
Sponsored by Global Legal Studies Center.
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Hispanic Health Disparities
Leo Morales, MD, who practices with UCLA and RAND will lecture about Hispanic health disparities and his work addressing these disparities. His talk will be captured digitally and made available thru this link.
12pm
1335 HSLC
Sponsored by CDH.
