Noticias de la Semana
Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies Program Weekly News
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).
Friday, April 20, 2007
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
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
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
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.
Monday, April 16, 2007
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.
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.
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
