University of Wisconsin-Madison
Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program

Noticias de la Semana

Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies Program Weekly News

Friday, April 13, 2007

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.

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.

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).

Thursday, April 12, 2007

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Story

Join us for a discussion with Director Henry Chalfant and co-producer Elena Martines afterwards.

7:30pm
TITU

Sponsored by Union Puertorriquena.

A New Face of Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean

Enrique Vega, MD, Regional Advisor on Aging and Health for the Pan American Health Organization

5-6pm
750 Highland Ave.
1309 Health Sciences Learning Center

For more information, please email teigland@wisc.edu

Sponsored by the Center for Global Health Spring Seminar Series.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

The Globalized Farmer-to-Farmer Movement

John Kinsman of Family Farm Defenders will highlight the efforts of farmers to make partnerships across borders as a response to global trade issues. John has travelled in Latin America and the rest of the world with the message that farmers everywhere and their crops are threatened by the corporatization of agriculture.

7pm
Rainbow Bookstore
426 W. Gilman

Sponsored by CALA.

How to Read La Firme: A Look at Socialist Comic Books in Allende's Chile

Elisa Shoenberger, LACIS Masters

12pm
206 Ingraham

Coffee provided by Just Coffee Cooperative of Madison

LACIS Brownbag Series

Monday, April 09, 2007

Line Breaks

Lauren Whitehead, Spoken Word Artist

Part of a Lecture and Performance Series on Spoken Word and Hip-Hop featuring Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Friends

7pm
Wisconsin Historical Society
816 State Street

Free and open to the public

For more information, please check website.

Presented by OMAI & The UW Arts Institute.