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Noticias de la Semana
Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies Program Weekly News
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.
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.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
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.
Shamanic Tourism in Iquitos, Peru
Evgenia Fotiou, Anthropology PhD student
12pm
206 Ingraham
Coffee provided by Just Coffee Cooperative of Madison
LACIS Brownbag Series
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
