STONE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Events
of the Roger Thayer Stone Center
for Latin American Studies

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Please visit the on-line calendar for the most up-to-date listings of events sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies.  This calendar is updated daily. 

Current Events 2001-2002

Please note that we will be updating this section periodically. If you have any questions regarding information not listed here, feel free to contact the Stone Center.

Symposia & Conferences

Brazil Week 2001, September 10-13, 2001

Panel on Contemporary Brazilian Politics, September 10, 5:00pm, Greenleaf Conference Room, Jones Hall 100A 

• The Military Under Collor, Franco, and Cardoso.  Jorge Zerverucha

• Reforms and Elections in Brazil:  1998-2000-2002.  David Fleischer

Film: The Hour of the Star, directed by Suzana Amaral, September 11, 5:30pm, Greenleaf Conference Room, Jones Hall 100A

Panel on Culture, Society, and Science in Brazil, September 12, 5:00pm, Greenleaf Conference Room, Jones Hall 100A

• Science, Nature and Race:  A Comparative Analysis of Two Projects sponsored by UNESCO in Brazil (1946-1952), Marcos Chor Maio

• Gender and Sexuality Among Youth From a Favela in Rio, Simone Monteiro

Film: Tudo e Brasil, directed by Rogerio Sganzerla, September 13, 7:00pm, Greenleaf Conference Room, Jones Hall 100A

Sponsors:  Tulane's Global Village, Newcomb College for Research on Women, Tulane's History Department, Brazilian Studies Council of Tulane, and Stone Center for Latin American Studies.

The Centenary of the Famous 41:  Sexuality and Social Control in Latin America, 1901, November 15-17, 2001

 

On November 17, 1901, Mexico City police raided a private party, arresting its 41 attendees, all men, many of them dressed as women.  The resulting scandal incited an explosion of the nascent discourse on homosexuality in Mexico at a time when, throughout Latin America, decadent modernist poets and naturalist novelists, positivist criminologists and psychiatrists, scandal sheet journalists and illustrators, along with their readers, had become fascinated with issues of sexuality.  The schedule is as follows:

Exhibition: The Centenary of the Famous 41, Michelle Nasser, Curator.  November 15-17, Special Collections Gallery, 210 Jones Hall

Thursday, November 15th

Opening Reception: Introductions, Ed McCaughan, Loyola University.  4:30pm, Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall  

Performance: Tito Vasconcelos, Mexico City. 6:00pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

Friday, November 16th 

Opening Remarks, Thomas Reese, Executive Director, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, and Robert McKee Irwin, Spanish Department, Tulane University. 9:00am, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

Sexual Outlaws: Bohemian Demi-monde, Man-Boy Love, The Famous 41.  Moderator: Josefa Salmon, Loyola University. 9:15am, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

• Cronica hemerografica de un baile prohibido.  Alejandro Garcia, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico

• Journalists and Dandies: Bohemian Male Sociability in Rio de Janeiro, 1870-1920.  James Green, California State University, Long Beach

• Creative Misreading: Caminha's "Bom-Crioulo" as the First Novel of Man-Boy Love?  Daniel Balderstein, University of Iowa, and Jose Quiroga, George Washington University

Sexuality and Reclusion: Conjugal Visits, Sex in Prison, Resistance.  Moderator: Justin Wolfe, Tulane University. 10:45am, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

• Without Women it is Impossible to Govern Fernando [de Noronha]: Concepts and Practices of Discipline and Sexuality in Brazilian Barracks and Prisons, 1865-1935.  Peter Beattie, Michigan State University  

• Interpretations of Sexuality in Mexico City Prisons During the Porfiriato: A Critical Version.  Pablo Piccato, Columbia University

• Reclusion, Sexuality and Gender in Early 20th Century Argentina.  Debora D'Antonio, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Public Sex: A Woman's Book on Marti Porfirio Diaz in a Chorus Line.  Moderator: Alessandra Luiselli, Tulane University.  1:45pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

• Blanca Z. de Baralt: "El Marti que you conoci."  Oscar Montero, Lehmann College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

• Cursed Celebrity: Scandal Sheets and Delmira Agustini.  Luis Pena, Magdalena Maiz-Pena, Davidson College

• Masculine and Political Imagery in Mexican Public Opinion, 1898-1900: The Dawn of the Famous 41.  Lilia Granillo Vazquez, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco

Female Questions/Masculinist Nations: Syphilis, Sexual Inversion, Women Talking Back.  Moderator Henry Sullivan, Tulane University.  3:15pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

• Law of Desire: Legal Representations and Gendered Interpretations of Sexual Practice, Sexual Promiscuity and Sexual Commerce in Late Porfirian Mexico City.  Katherine Bliss, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Aunt Medea: Politics and Female Sexuality in 19th Century "Fin-de-Siecle" Argentina.  Pablo Ben, University of Chicago

• Knowledge and Sex: Porfirian Doctors Investigate the Female Question (and Women Answer Back).  Cristina Rivera Garza, San Diego State University

Keynote Speech: Sentimental Excess and Gender Disruption: The Case of Amado Nervo.  Sylvia Molloy, New York University.  Moderator:  Hope Glidden, Tulane University.  5:00pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

Saturday November 17th

Keynote Speech: The Invention of Homosexuality in Mexico.  Carlos Monsivais, Mexico City.  Moderator: Nicasio Urbina, Tulane University.  9:30am, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

Emergent Homophobias and Nation Building: Working Class Masculinities, Feminoid Cultural Pathogens, The Threat of Homosexual Compulsion.  Moderator:  Idelber Avelar, Tulane University.  10:45am, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

• Homophobia and the Construction of Working-Class Masculinities: Mexico City, 1890-1910.  Robert Buffington, Bowling Green State University

• Masculine Culture, Feminoid Moderism: Jose Asuncion Silva and "El mal metafisico."  Alfredo Villanueva Collado, Hostos Community College, City University of New York

• Exploiting Homosexual Panic in "Los invertidos."  Scott Cooper, Hanover College

Utopia and Revolution: Tolstoyan Celibacy, Zapatistan Transsexualism.  Moderator: Maureen Shea, Tulane University.  12:15pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

• Gay Utopia: The Chilean Tolstoyan Colony.  Hector Dominguez, Denison University

• The Intimate Joy of Colonel Robles: Photography and the Transsexual Body in the Mexican Revolution.  Gabriela Cano, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa

Homotexts, Homosexual Consumption, Homosexual Rhetorical Tradition.  Moderator:  Christopher Dunn, Tulane University.  2:30 pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

• Spaces of Desire (Short Fragments for a History of Brazilian Homotextual Literature).  Denilson Lopes, Universidade de Brasilia

• The "Lagartijo" at "The High Life": Masculine Consumption and Homosexuality in Porfirian Mexico.  Victor Macias Gonzalez, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

• Representations of Male Homosexuality in 19th Century Hispanoamerican Poetry: The Case of Julian del Casal.  Wilfredo Hernandez, Allegheny College

Sex Crimes: Rape, Sexual Violence, Witchcraft.  Moderator: Marline Otte, Tulane University.  4:00pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

• Rape and the Politics of masculine Silence in Argentina.  Donna Guy, Ohio State University

• "Rapto" and "Estupro" in Porfirian Mexico.  William French, University of British Columbia

• Race, Gender, and Crime in Fernando Ortiz, "Los negros brujos" (1906).  Licia Fiol-Matta, Barnard College

Sponsors: Tulane University's Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies; Tulane University Center for Scholars; Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Department of History's Georges Lurcy Fund; Office of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Life; Office of the Provost; The Graduate School; Loyola University Women's Resource Center and Women's Studies Committee.

17th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies:  Reaching Underserved Trauma Survivors Through Community-Based Programs, December 6-9, 2001

 

The 2001 Annual Meeting of the ISTSS in New Orleans will focus on reaching underserved trauma survivors through community-based programs. A major aim of the meeting is to feature and encourage collaborations at all levels. This effort will further our scientific and applied knowledge toward the goals of preventing and reducing exposure to traumatic experiences and of improving the lives of trauma survivors worldwide.

 

The current epidemic of trauma on every continent demands a better understanding of those community-based trauma interventions that are most effective for preventing and ameliorating the impact of traumatic exposure among large groups of survivors. How best to deliver these services, given the context of myriad obstacles that typically confront both trauma survivors and those who attempt to serve them, are important issues that need to be addressed. Such knowledge necessarily comes from collaborations between community-based service providers, researchers, advocates, policymakers, and trauma survivors themselves.  The events of September 11th will be highlighted. Check back soon for the entire schedule.

The Postcolonial: Literature, Theory in Africa and the African Diaspora, December 7-8, 2001

Friday, December 7th

Panel: Moderator: Felipe Smith, Director, African and African Diaspora Studies, Tulane University.  10:00am-12:00pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

• Inside the Whale, Circa 2001: the Discipline of Postcolonial Studies in a Postcolonial World. Biodun Jeyifo, Cornell University

• Prequel: Four Disconnects and the Issue of the Post-Colonial  Elaine Savory, New School University

• To Be Announced. Adeline Masquelier, Tulane University

Mellon Lecture:  What is Africa to Me?: Africa in the Black Diaspora Imagination. F Abiola Irele 4:30pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

Saturday, December 8th

Panel: Moderator: Adeline Masquelier, Tulane University. Discussant: Niyi Afolabi. 10:00am-12:00pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

• Globalization, Diaspora and the Old World Order. Gaurav Desai, Tulane University

• Beyond Categories. Christiane Fioupou, University of Toulouse

Poetry Recital:  Lorna Goodison, University of Toronto.  Chair: Roseanne Adderley 5:00-6:30pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

Dinner and African Night: 7:00pm, 4519 S. Galvez St., Mellon House

The First Symposium on the International Human Rights of Women, February 22, 2002

 

The symposium will focus on two important and timely topics: 1) how economic development affects the human rights of women and 2) asylum and immigration law in relation to violations of women's human rights. Political asylum expert Irena Lieberman, Director of Legal Services for the Tahirih Justice Center, Washington, D.C., will be the keynote speaker for the free symposium. Other speakers include Catherine Lampard, Director of Tulane Law School's Immigration Law Clinic; Lawrence B. Fabacher II, Senior Partner of Lawrence B. Fabacher II law firm, Professor of Immigration Law at Tulane and Loyola Law Schools; Sue Headlee, Assistant Professor of Economics at American University, Washington, D.C., author of The Cost of Being Female Barbara Major, Executive Director of the St. Thomas Health Clinic, Core Trainer for the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond in New Orleans; Leslie Snider, Director of the Mental Health and Anthropology Track in the Department of International Health and Development, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine; Brooke deMontluzin, Attorney for Catholic Charities Legal/Resettlement Services in New Orleans.

 

Sponsored by the International Law Society, Human Rights Law Society, and Law Women's Association of Tulane University Law School.

 

Mellon Symposium: Harnessing the Cosmic Beat: How the Ancient Maya Wrote & Built What They Saw in the Sky, February 28, 2002, 7:00pm-12:00pm, Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium

 

In this illustrated lecture Anthony Aveni, Visiting Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Tulane, will focus on the contributions of Archaeoastronomy to our understanding of Ancient Maya Culture.  His talk brings together evidence from both the written and the unwritten record that attests to the long Maya love affair with the cosmos and the remarkable intellectual achievements that stemmed from it among Mayan astronomers.  Innovations detailed in his overview are a mathematical system that used a zero long before their European counterpart and the construction of specialized sacred buildings, with alignments that followed the course of the planet Venus to an accuracy of one day in 500 years. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call Public Relations Office at 865-5210. The event is being hosted by: Latin American Studies.

Deciphering & Dating the Madrid Codex, a Pre-Columbian Maya Document, March 1-2, 2002, 8:30am-5:00pm, Diboll Conference Center

 

This conference, organized by Mellon Visiting Professor of the Humanities, Dr. Anthony Aveni (Anthropology) and Tulane Anthropology Tulane Ph.D. graduate, Gabrielle Vail.  Papers will deal with such topics as: how the structure of Pre-Columbian almanacs marks important ritual events and offers prognostications; parallel or cognate almanacs from other parts of Mesoamerica: similarities between Maya and central Mexican "books", and advances in reading the enigmatic Maya hieroglyphic texts.

 

Friday, March 1st

 

Opening Remarks, Anthony Aveni and Gabrielle Vail, 8:20-8:30am

 

Intervalic Structure and Cognate Almanacs in the Dresden and Madrid Codices, Tony Aveni, 8:30-9:15am

 

Tayasal Provenience for the Madrid Codex: A Critical Review of the Theory, Merideth Paxton.  Commentary by C. Hernandez. 9:30-10:30

In Extenso Almanacs in the Madrid Codex, Bryan Just, Tulane University.  Commentary by D. Hixon.  10:45-11:45am

"Haab" Dates in the Madrid Codex, Gabrielle Vail and Victoria Bricker.  Commentary by M. Paxton.  1:30-2:25pm

A Reinterpretation of Tzolk'in Almanacs in the Madrid Codex, Gabrielle Vail.  Commentary by Anthony Aveni.  2:15-3:15pm

Saturday, March 2nd

Opening Remarks, Anthony Aveni and Gabrielle Vail.  8:50-9:00am

Yearbearer Pages and their Connection to Planting Almanacs in the Borgia Codex, Christine Hernandez.  Commentary by Bryan Just.  9:00-10:00am

The Inauguration of Planting in the Borgia and Madrid Codices, Christine Hernandez and Victoria Bricker.  Commentary by Gabrielle Vail.  10:00-11:15am

The Paper Patch on Page 56 of the Madrid Codex, Harvey Bricker.  Commentary by John Chuchiak.  1:30-2:30pm

Papal Bulls, Extirpators and the Madrid Codex: The Context and Probable Provenience of the M 56 Patch, John Chuchiak.  Commentary by Victoria Bricker.  3:15-3:30

Sponsored by the Tulane's Department of Anthropology and Stone Center for Latin American Studies.

• Monique Harden, Attorney/Community Liasion Director, Earthjustice, New Orleans
• Bradford C. Mank, James B. Helmer Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
• John J Park, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, State of Alabama, Montgomery, AL

• Frank C. Allen, Special Counsel, Jones, Walker, et al., LLP, New Orleans
• Randall K. Ashe, Resident Agent in Charge, Criminal Investigation Division, EPA, Baton Rouge, LA

 

Beau Brock, Regional Criminal Enforcement Counsel, Criminal Investigation Division, EPA, Baton Rouge, LA

• Eileen G. Clabault, Assistant Chief, Environmental Crimes, Department of Justice, Washington DC
• Shaun G. Clark, Shareholder, Liskow & Lewis, APLC, New Orleans
• Robert N. Habans, Jr., Manager, Habans & Carriere, APLC, Slidell, LA
• Stan A. Millan, Special Counsel, Jones, Walker, et al., LLP, New Orleans

• James J. Friloux, Small Business Ombudsman, Department of Environmental Quality, Baton Rouge, LA
• Robert Holden, Shareholder, Liskow & Lewis, APLC, New Orleans
• Pat Melancon, President, St. James Citizen Group, St. James Parish, LA
• Melissa Toffolon-Weiss, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
• Adam Babich, Director, Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, New Orleans

• Panel 1: Sustainable Cities: Rebuilding the Urban Environment, Collette Creppell, Executive Director, City Planning Committee, New Orleans; Patricia H. Gay, Executive Director, Preservation Resource Center, New Orleans; Dennis Hughes, Associate, Holland & Knight, LLP, Washinton DC
• Panel 2: Sustainable Countryside: The New Rural Environment and Lousiana Communities, Griff Blakewood, Assistant Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA; Andrew Jones, Permacultural Specialist, FullCIricle, LLC, Bronx, NY; Charles Reith, Department Head of Renewable Resources, University of Louisiana Lafayette, LA
• Panel 3: Sustainable Coastlines: Coastal Zone Management: Damages and Restoration, Gladstone N. Jones, Partner, Jones, Verras and Freiberg, LLP, New Orleans; David N. Schell, Jr., Partner, Milling, Benson, Woodward, LLP, New Orleans; William W. Goodell, Jr., OfCounsel, Murray Law Firm, New Orleans

• Gunther Handl, Eberhard Deutsch Professor of Public International Law, Tulane Law School, New Orleans
• Deborah Schaaf, Staff Attorney, Indian Law Resource Center, Helena, Montana
• Marco Simons, International Human Rights Fellow, EarthRights International, Washington, DC
• Maria A. Junco, Professor of Law, Instituto Technologico, Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico City

• Reed Benson, Executive Director, Water Watch of Oregon, Portland, OR
• Andrew Morriss, Dean, Academic Affairs, Case Western Reserve School of Law, Cleaveland, OH
• Todd Votteler, Director of Water Policy, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority, Sequin, TX

• Christy Herig, Principal Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO
• Doug Howell, Strategic Advisor, Seattle City Light, Seattle, WA
• Philip D. Radford, Executive Director, Power Shift, Washington, DC
• Paul L. Zimmering, Partner, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittman & Hutchinson, LLP, New Orleans

• Rachel Kyte, Ombudsman for International Finance Corporation, World Bank, Washington, DC
• Alberto Ninio, Assistant Executive Secretary, World Bank Inspection Panel, Washington, DC
• Eva Thorne, Assistant Professor of Politics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Theme 4: Wetlands Mitigation Banking: A Fair Rate of Return?  4:00-5:30pm

• Derb Carter, Senior Attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center, Chapel Hill, NC
• John Ettinger, Environmental Protection Spec., EPA, New Orleans
• Nelwyn McInnis, Florida Parish Program Manager, The Nature Conservancy, Covington, LA
• Robert M. Anderson, General Counsel, US Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC

Theme 5: The Proposed Millennium Port - Energy Transportation and the LA Coast.  4:00-5:30pm

• Thomas Sands, Interim Executive Director, Millenium Port Commission, Baton Rouge, LA
• Dr. Len Bahr, Executive Assistant, Governor's Office on Coastal Activities, Baton Rouge, LA
• Gary P LaGrange, Executive Director, The Port of New Orleans, New Orleans

Point/Counterpoint: The Army Corps of Engineers: Environmental Steward for the 21st Century?, Robert M. Anderson, General Counsel, US Army Corps of Engineers, and Brent Blackwelder, President, Friends of the Earth.

Sponsored by the Tulane Environmental Law Society, the Tulane Institute for Environmental Law and Policy, and the Tulane Center for Ethics in Public Administration.

Performances of the Caribbean Symposium, March 13 &14, 2002

Speakers and performers consider performances as act,
masquerade and intervention and address how it communicates social and religious values, elicits identification and forges a sense of community in the Caribbean and the Caribbean Diaspora.

Wednesday, March 13th

Political Performance and the Carnival of 2002, Rawle Gibbons, University of West Indies, 5:00pm, Jones Hall 102

Oh, Scary Monster, huh?  John Leguizamo’s Queer Affair with Freakery and Abjection, Prof. Alberto Sandoval, Mount Holyoke University, 6:00pm, Jones Hall 102

Reception: Woodward Way, Woldenberg Art Center

Special Performance from Trinidad and Tobago: Scenes from Shades of I-She, Eintou Pearl Springer, Trinidadian poet, and Mavis John, Trinidadian singer, 8:00pm Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Hall  

Thursday, March 14

Culture and the Information Age: Documenting our Heritage for Future Generations, Eintou Pearl Springer, poet/cultural activist, Trinidad and Tobago, 2:00pm Norman Mayer 200-A

Traces of the Caribbean in Cuban Theatre, Omar Valiño (Revista Tablas, Cuba, 3:30pm Stone Auditorium.  Woldenberg Art Center

Cubanidad’s Sentimental Attachments: Listening to Bola de Nieve, Prof. José Munoz, New York University, 4:15pm Stone Auditorium,  Woldenberg Art Center

Sponsored by the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute at Tulane
University.

First International Congress of the Bolivian Studies Association, March 14-16, 2002

Topics include globalization, postnationalism, neoregionalism, Indigenous movement, Colonial Studies, politics of race, gender and ethnicity, cultural politics in educational reforms, indigneismo, genre studies in literature, cultural theory, popular culture (film, music, radio, television), urban and environmental studies, linguistics, architecture, photography, and any aspect of natural history and biomedical sciences.  Bolivianists include: Jesús Urzagasti, Xavier Albo, Ana Rebeca Prada, Elizabeth Monasterios, Mario Miranda Pacheco, Zues Tapia, Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Hugo Pope, Marcia Stephenson, Kevin Healey, Guillermo Delgado, Carlos Arrien.  The schedule is as follows.

Thursday, March 14th

Conference Registration. 3:30 - 9:00 pm, Danna Center Lobby, Loyola University

Bolivia, 1825-1952: Un escenario de conquista ciudadana. Revaluación historiográfica y propuesta teórica. Marta Irurozqui, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2:00pm, Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall

Reception, 7:30pm, Danna Center Library, Loyola University

• Welcome by the Provost of Loyola University, Dr. Lydia Voigt

• Introductions. Guillermo Delgado and Edmundo Paz-Soldán

• Bolivian Music by Rumisonko.  Members: Sidulfo Ibarra (Fito), Rene Deheza, Alberto Lora, Carlos Arrien, and Mariano Arrien.

• Introduction. Stephen Paul Jacobs, Tulane University

• Bolivian Dance. Cynthia Garza, Tulane University

• Introduction. Maureen Shea, Tulane University

Textile and Book Exhibits. Debbie Danna, Loyola University and Kevin Healy, Inter-American Foundation, Danna Center Lobby, Loyola University

Friday, March 15th

Conference Registration. 8:00 am - 9:00pm, Danna Center Lobby

Social, Ethnic and Foreign Policies, Moderator: Pat Scallen, Tulane University.  Discussant: Eduardo Gamarra, Florida International University, USA. 8:45 - 10:15am,  Octavia II, 2nd floor Danna Center

• Bolivian Foreign Policy in the 21st century: A Review of Theory, Issues and Constraints, Trudi Morales, University of Central Florida, USA

• La rivalidad germano-norteamericana en Bolivia en el periodo 1935-1945, Leon E. Bieber, Colegio de Mexico, Mexico

• Federations and Foreign Aid in Bolivia: Four Pathways to Prominence and Grass Roots Development, Kevin Healy, Inter-American Foundation, USA

Cuestiones de género y salud. Moderator: Eileen Doll, Loyola University. Discussants: Estelle Tarica, University of California, Berkeley and Brian B. Johnson, Columbia University, USA.  8:45 - 10:15am, Audubon Room, 2nd floor, Danna Center

• La educación formal y la defensa de los derechos laborales como instrumento de liberación de género (1900-1952), Ana María S. Capra, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia

• The Beauties and the Beast: Women's Education during the Belzu Era 1848-1855, Heather Thiessen-Reily, Western State College, USA

• Gender Roles and its Impact on Women's Health in Multicultural Bolivian Context, Antonio Cisneros, Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, Bolivia

Economic Policies and the State. Moderator: Bradley Boovy, Tulane University. Discussant: Joseph Ganitsky, Loyola University.  8:45 - 10:45am, Octavia I, Danna Center

• Patterns of Social Protest in the Mercosur Member and Associate Member Countries in Response to Economic Reform and Integration, Roberta Rice, University of New Mexico, USA

• Reflections on the Impacts of Microcredit in Bolivia, Mónica Delgado, University of New Mexico, USA

• El nuevo rol del Estado en la expansión de los servicios de electricidad, Roxana Alcoba Arias, Independent scholar, Bolivia

El Potosí de Arzans: la Virgen, los caníbales y un historiador. Moderator: Margarita Becerra, Tulane University. Discussant: Guillermo Mariaca, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia. Organizer: Mauricio Souza, St. Louis University, USA. 11:00 a.m. - 12:15pm, Octavia II, Danna Center

• Historiografía e identidad regional en la Historia de Arzans, Mauricio Souza, Saint Louis University, USA

• Al servicio de la Patria: El milagro mariano en la historia, Virginia Ruiz, Boston College, USA

• Criollos y españoles en Potosí: Relaciones canibalísticas de amor y odio, Leonardo García Pabón, University of Oregon, USA

Cultural and Identity Politics. Moderator: Maureen Shea, Tulane University. Discussant: Robert Albro, Wheaton College, USA. 11:00 - 12:15pm, Octavia I, Danna Center

• Performing to Face our Roots: Constructing Cultural Identity and Heritage at the Festivity of the Virgin of Urkupiña, Isabel Scarborough, Universidad de Aquino de Bolivia

• Identity Politics and the Pursuit of Tierras Comunitarias de Origen (TCO's): The Political Ecology of the Aguachile Lecos of Apolo, Meredith Dudley, Tulane University

• Guarani Language Politics, Bret Gustafson, Harvard University, USA

• Symbolic Discourse and the Creation of a new order in the Great Rebellion of 1780-82 in Upper Peru, Nicholas Robins, Duke University, USA

Primer Panel con sandwichitos. Moderator: Roberto Ortiz, Tulane University. 12:30-2:00pm, Senior Commons Room, 2nd floor, Danna Center

• El uso de dualismos y género sexual en la formulación del discurso indianista de Fausto Reinaga, Marcia Stephenson, Purdue University, USA

• Ensayos cholos, Guillermo Mariaca, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia

Indian Movements and Ideologies. Organizer and moderator: Marcia Stephenson, Purdue University, USA. Discussant: Xavier Albó, Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado, Bolivia. 2:15 - 3:45pm, Octavia I, Danna Center

• Movimiento Indio del Qullasuyu y colonialismo, Ramón Conde, Taller de Historia Oral Andina, Bolivia

• Propuestas indígenas al debate sobre las geopolíticas intelectuales, Liz Monasterios, State University of New York at Stonybrook, USA

• Entre multicultarismo e interculturalidad: propuestas indígenas al debate sobre las geopolíticas intelectuales, Frexa Shiwy, Duke University, USA

• Why Warisata is not what it seems: The 'escuela ayllu' and the development of indigenous education in Bolivia, Marten Brienen, University of the Netherlands, the Netherlands

Thiefs, Bandits and "Beatas."  Moderator: Maurice Brungardt, Loyola University. Discussant: Trudi Yeager, Tulane University.  2:15 - 3:45pm, Octavia II, Danna Center

• Corruption and Unreliable Statistics, Helmut Waszkis, Independent researcher, USA

• Political Banditry on the Cinchona Bark Frontier: the Case of Juan José Pérez, Carlos Pérez, California State University Fresno, USA

• Beatas, Visionaries and Ecclesiastical Imperialism: María de Pizarro, Fray Francisco de la Cruz and Other Inquisitions, Daniel Castro, Southwestern University, USA

• East is West and West is East: Ficción del Oriente boliviano, Keith Richards, Wake Forest University, USA

Entre dos mundos: La doble condición del escritor latino/latinoamericano.  Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Cornell University, USA.  Introductions and comments: Uriel Quesada,Tulane University and Josefa Salmón, Loyola University. 2:15 - 3:15pm, Jones Hall, Greenleaf Conference Room, Tulane University

Readings by Bolivian Writers. 4:00 - 5:30pm, Octavia I, Danna Center

• Poetry, Luis Morató-Lara, Earlham College, USA

• Narrative, Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Cornell University, USA and Claudio Ferrufino, USA

Reception and Keynote Address. Welcome by Tom Reese, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University. Introduction by Maureen Shea, Tulane University. 6:00 - 7:30pm, Jones Hall, Room 204,Tulane University

Todos aymaras, pero !qué distintos! Laymis y Qaqachakas, Victor Hugo, Evo y el Mallku, Xavier Albó, Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado, Bolivia

Recent Discoveries and Trends in Andean Archaeology, John Verano, Professor of Anthropology, Tulane University. Music by Rumisonko. 8:00pm, Audubon Room, Danna Center, Loyola University

Saturday, March 16th

The Urban Andean and Bolivian Culture(s). Organizer: Robert Albro, Wheaton College, USA. Moderator: Ed McCaughan, Loyola University. Discussant: Guillermo Delgado, University of California,
Santa Cruz, USA.  8:45 - 10:15am, Octavia II, Danna Center

• Periurban Bolivian Masculinities: Machismo, Corruption and Llunkerío, Robert Albro, Wheaton College, USA

• Leaving Nothing to Chance in El Alto, Bolivia: Considering the Aymara 'Urbanismo', Jerome Crowder, University of Houston, USA

• From the Shores of Titicaca to the Halls of the UNSTP: Popular and State Ideologies around Bolivia's Indigenous Languages, Aurolyn Luykx, Programa de Formación en Educación Intercultural Bilingue para los Paises Andinos, Bolivia

Poéticas y Políticas. Moderator: Sonia Valle, Tulane University. Discussant: Elizabeth Monasterios, State University of New York at Stonybrook, USA.  8:45 - 10:15am, St. Charles Room, Danna Center

• La paradógica historia de una mujer olvidada en Bajo el oscuro sol de Yolanda Bedregal, Willy Muñoz, Kent State University, USA

• Modernidad e interculturalidad: crítica de las diferencias culturales en Bolivia, Victor Hugo Quintanilla, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia

• Travels to Rocks and Ruins: Visions of the Valley from Inkallajta to La sima fecunda, Estelle Tarica, University of California, Berkeley, USA

• La narrativa minera en Bolivia, Mario Miranda Pacheco, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico

Panel on Jesu's Urzagasti's Work. Moderator: Blanca Anderson, Loyola University. Discussant: Edmundo Paz Soldán, Cornel University, USA. 10:45am - 12:15pm, Audubon Room, Danna Center

• Volver a region: Poéticas y políticas en El país del silencio, Norma Klahn, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

• Notas en torno a muerte y política en El país del silencio y De la ventana al parque, Ana Rebeca Prada, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia

• La corografía en El país del silencio: El espacio estriado entre el Chaco y el Altiplano, Guillermo Delgado, University of California Santa Cruz, USA

State Politics and Bolivia's Resources. Moderator: Marten Brienen, University of the Netherlands. Moderator: Marten Brienen, University of the Netherlands. Discussants: Marten Brienen, University of the Netherlands and Marta Irurozqui, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, España.  10:45 a.m. - 12:15 pm, Octavia II, Danna Center

• Bolivia's Coca Eradication Plan in the Yungas: Whose Modernity?, Caroline S. Conzelman, University of Colorado, USA

• The Mining Industry and the Bolivian State, 1946-1952, John Hillman, Trent University, Canada

• Tradiciones y rupturas en la historia del movimiento minero, Magdalena Cajías, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia

• Los Parias de la Patria, Wolf Gruner, Technical University in Berlin, Germany

Acercamientos a procesos de cambios y politica estatal Ultimo panel con sandwichitos.  Moderator: Bret Gustafson, Harvard University, USA 12:30 - 1:30 pm, St. Charles Room, Danna Center

• Did Bolivia win the Drug War? An Evaluation of Plan Dignidad, Eduardo Gamarra, Florida International University, USA. Discussant: Luis Tapia

• Indios Patriotas en la 'guerra de civilización'. La participación indígena en la revolución boliviana de 1870, Marta Irurozqui, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain.
  Discussant: Eduardo Gamarra

• Abigarramiento y ambiguedad morfológica, Luis Tapia, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia.
  Discussant: Marta Irurozqui

Vino de clausura, 1:30 pm, St. Charles Room, Danna Center

Organized by: Josefa Salmón, President of the Bolivian Studies Association, Associate Professor of Spanish, Loyola University
Patricia Dorn, Associate Professor of Biology, Loyola University
Steve Jacobs, Professor of Architecture, Tulane University
Maureen Shea, Associate Professor of Spanish, Tulane University.

Sponsored by: The Bolivian Studies Association, Loyola University's: Office of the Provost, College of Arts and Sciences, Biever Guest Lecture Series, Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, Latin American Studies Committee, International Student Association; Tulane University's: Stone Center of Latin American Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Latin American Graduate Student Organization, Graduate Students of Spanish and Portuguese.

Title VIA Meeting: Cultural Heritage and Preservation - Challenges in the New Millennium, March 26, 2002

Welcome, Christine Corey, US Department of Education, IEGPS; and Thomas F. Reese, Executive Director of the Stone Center for Latin American Studies.

Keynote Address: Case Studies in Historic Preservation - The World Monuments Fund, Bonnie Burnham, President of the World Monuments Fund, 12:30-1:45pm, Diboll Conference Room

Break-Out Sessions, 2:15-3:30pm

• Historical Sites, Museums & National Monuments.  Facilitator: Thomas F. Reese, Center for Latin American Studies and Art History Department, 108 Jones Hall

• Monuments of Conscience.  Facilitators: Sylvia Frey, History Department, and Rebecca Mark, English Department, 102 Jones Hall

• History and Counter-History.  Facilitators: Heidi Feldman, Center for Latin American Studies, and Tom Klingler, French & Italian Department, 204 Jones Hall

• Diasporic and/or Transnational Communities.  Facilitator: Judith Maxwell, Anthropology Department, Greenleaf Conference Room, Jones Hall 100A

Conclusions, 3:30-4:30pm, 102 Jones Hall

Special Presentations, 4:30-5:30pm

• Hidden Treasures and Special Collections of the Latin American Library, Bill Nanez, Director; and Paul Bary, Curator of Special Collections, Latin American Library, Tulane University

• Studying Latin America: From MARI to Merle Green Robertson, David Dressing, History Department; and Markus Eberl, Anthropology Department, Tulane University

• Tulane Campus Tour

Reception featuring Los Vecinos, 5:30-7:00pm, Jones Hall Patio

Sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University and the US Department of Education.

Reclaiming the Spirits: Art and Healing in Haitian Vodou, April 3, 2002

Spirituality and Healing in Haitian Vodou, Margaret Armand, 5:00-6:00pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

Those wandering spirits in Edouard Duval
Carrie's Art Work, Edourd Duval Carrie, 6:00-7:00pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

Generously sponsored by the GRADUATE SCHOOL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION (GSSA), Committee on Visual Culture, Newcomb Art Gallery, the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Program in Africa and Diaspora Studies

5th Annual Cultural Encounters Conference: Identities, Borders and Gender, April 4-6, 2002

This conference will explore issues of identity, borders, and gender in all areas and periods of Latin American culture, society, politics, language and literature in both Latin America and the U.S.  The schedule is as follows:

Thursday, April 4th

Homo: ssexualidade, sexualidad, sexuality. Chair: Camilo Gomides. 2:30 - 3:45pm, Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel 

• O Desejo Engendrador: Sexualidade, Identidade e o ato de narrar em Grande Sertao: Veredas.  Joyce Baugher, Tulane University

• Género, Homofobia Interiorizada y Falocentrismo en la sociedad costarricense contemporánea a través de la obra La Mujer Oculta de José R. Chávez.  Jhon Valencia, Tulane University

• Zumbi: The sexuality debate. Michelle Nasser, Tulane University   

Latin, Latino, American: Split States and Global Imaginaries, Roman de la Campa.  4:00-6:00pm, Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel

Friday, April 5th

Lentes y miradas filmicas. Chair: Rosana Blanco-Cano. 9:00  - 10:15 am, Stibbs Room B, University Center

• Las formas de representación de la mujer en los carteles de publicidad de películas mexicanas en la primera mitad del sigo XX. Aida Toledo y Michael Raines, University of Alabama

• Las imágenes pictóricas como temática fílmica recurrente. Eduardo Pacheco, University of Alabama

Identidades genericas en la zona Maya. Chair: Maureen Shea. 10:30 - 11:45 am, Stibbs Room B, University Center

• Staying Feminine in Public Space: the Kaqchikel (Maya) Strategy.  Judith M. Maxwell, Tulane University

• Fronteras identitarias en Guatemala desde la óptica indígena de las novelas de Gaspar Pedro González.  Ana Yolanda Contreras, Tulane University

• La soledad de las mujeres de Balún Canaan. Ana Cox 

Cruzando fronteras: the US Latino connection.  Chair: Christina Sisk. 12:30 -1:45 pm, Stibbs Room B, University Center

• Contested Spaces of Hybridity in Luis Alfaro's Bitter Homes and Gardens.  Linda, Saborio, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Beyond Borders of Genre, Gender, and Geography: Manuel Ramos Otero's Queer Identification with Julia de Burgos.  Betsy A Sandlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Desenmascarando la sexualidad femenina en dos cuentos puertorriqueños de la Generación del Setenta:  "Letra para salsa y tres soneos por encargo" de Ana Lydia Vega y "Cuando las mujeres quieren a los hombres" de Rosario Ferré.  Maria Gaztambide, Tulane University

Estrategias discursivas para un perfil femenino. Chair: Rosana Blanco-Cano. 2:00 - 3:45 pm, Stibbs Room B, University Center

• Con la pinga parada: The use of language in the novel I gaveYou All I Had by Zoe Valdés.  Reine Turcato, Florida State University

• La metaficción como recurs: la deconstrucción del binomio escritura-poder masculino en Solitario de Amor de Peri Rossi y Los Vigilantes de Eltit.  Inmaculada Alvarez, Tulane University

• Mujer callada, mujer silenciada: los casos de Asalto al paraíso, Arráncame la vida y La casa de los espíritus.  Carmen Munoz, Tulane University

Perspectivas lacanianas. Chair: Isabel Crespo. 3:30 - 4:45pm, Stibbs Room B, University Center

• Síntoma y literatura: aproximaciones al análisis psicoanalítico en literatura.  Felipe Victoriano, Tulane University

• The Lacanian Body/ Organism Distinction and Renaissance, Anatomical Dissection.  Henry Sullivan, Tulane University

Identidades, cultura y frontera, Jose Manuel Valenzuela Arce.  5:00-6:00pm, Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel

Saturday, April 6th

Pluralidades identitarias de construccion generica. Chair: Felipe Victoriano.  9:00 - 10:45 am, Stibbs Room B, University Center

• Estrategias de construcción de identidad en las obras de Claribel Alegría y Marcela Serrano.  Rosana Blanco, Tulane University

• La relación entre Los vigilantes y El infarto del alma. Miriam Hokanson, University of Alabama

• Los espacios intrauterinos de la palabra: una lectura semiótica de El Cuarto Mundo de Damiela Eltit. Sonia Valle, Tulane University

Imagenes de encuentros identitarios. Chair: Bradley Boovy. 10:30 -11:45 am, Stibbs Room B, University Center

• Bananalogy, the paintings of Moises Barrios. Rossie Stoops

• US Volunteers in Dominican Republic: Solidarity and the Documentary Project.  Matthew D'Agostino, Tulane University

Genero e identidad en el Modernismo Latinoamericano. Chair: Inmaculada Alvarez. 1:00 -2:45 pm, Stibbs Room B, University Center

• Poética y desplazamiento en Exilios de Pablo Antonio Cuadra. Nicasio Urbina, Tulane University

• Historias de prepucios y de penes.  Ari Zighelboim, Tulane University

• Un paraíso femenino: La  visión utópica en Las lenguas de diamantes de Juana de Ibarbourou.  Dennis Miller, Jr., Florida State University

Apuntes sobre la diaspora africana. Chair: Omoniyi Afolabi.  2:30-3:45pm, Stibbs Room B, University Center

• Of Harmony and Dissonance: The Historical Development and Nationalization of Samba Culture in Brazil. Michael Skinkus, Tulane University

• Afro-Brazil: Special Topics in Brazilian Studies.  Charles Heath, Tulane University

• El matrimonio es una novela de Mozambique  Geoff Mitchel, Tulane University

Reflexiones Peninsulares. Chair: Bradley Boovy. 4:00 - 5:15 pm, Stibbs Room B, University Center

• De lo divino y lo humano: la obra de Remedios Varo en el contexto de la deshumanización del arte.  Sacramento Rosello, Johns Hopkins University

• (Titulo pendiente, sobre Edad Media).  Bradley Boovy, Tulane University

• Escritoras españolas del Siglo de Oro: "scribo ergo sum."  Isabel Crespo, Tulane University

Sponsored by Tulane University's Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies.

First Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshop: Archaeology, Astronomy, and Texts from the Northern Maya Lowlands, November 1-3, 2002

Join archaeologists and epigraphers at Tulane University in New Orleans for an in-depth exploration of current excavations and decipherments from the Yucatan Peninsula.  Saturday, November 2nd will feature a series of lectures on topics ranging from astronomy in the Maya codices, new discoveries at Mayapán, and astronomical orientations in site planning and architecture.  Click here for complete schedule and registration information.

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Seminar & Film Series 

Argentine Film Screening 2001, Fall 2001 and Spring 2002

• Nueve reinas (Nine Queens). Directed by Fabian Bielinsky (2000), September 21, 7:30pm, Jones Hall 204

• Argentina Film Series: Alma Mia. Starring Araceli Gonzalez and Pablo Echarri, Spanish no subtitles, October 26, 7:30pm, Jones Hall 204

• Los Pasos Perdidos.  Directed by Manane Rodriguez (2001), February 14, 7:30pm, Jones Hall 102

Complex Emergency Disaster Management Series, Fall 2001

• What Makes Technical Action a Humanitarian Act? Understanding the Political Context of Humanitarianism, Jorge Castilla, MD, MScPH, Doctors Without Borders, November 12, 2001, 12:00-1:00pm, 1440 Canal Street, Tidewater Building 2200-46 (Sponsored by the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the Department of International Health and Development)

Cuban Film Series, Fall 2001

• 90 Miles.  Directed by Steve Davidson (2000), Presented by the Cuban Studies Institute, Tulane University and the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, October 4, 7:00pm, Freeman Auditorium

Dreyfous Lecture Series, Fall 2001

• The Savage as the Wolf: The Legal History of Racism Against Indian Tribes Under United States Law. Robert A. Williams, Jr., Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and American Indian Studies, University of Arizona, September 24, 6:00pm, 110John G. Weinmann Hall

Embracing the Market: Origins and Consequences of Latin America's Economic Reforms Guest Seminar Series, Spring 2002

• Macroeconomic Reforms and Economic Growth: Lessons from the Mexican Case. Juan Carlos Moreno Brid, Regional Advisor, Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean, Mexico. Sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Charles E Dunbar Fund of the Department of Political Science, The Center for Scholars, Murphy Institute of Political Economy, January 28, 10:30am - 12:00pm, Greenleaf Conference Room, Jones Hall 100A

• Embracing the Market. Carlos Augusto Santos Neves, Brazilian Consul General, Houston. Sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Charles E Dunbar Fund of the Department of Political Science, The Center for Scholars, Murphy Institute of Political Economy, February 25, 10:30am - 12:00pm, Greenleaf Conference Room, Jones Hall 100A

• The Hegemony of US Economic Doctrines in Latin America. Paul Drake, Dean of Division of Social Sciences, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego. Sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Charles E Dunbar Fund of the Department of Political Science, The Center for Scholars, Murphy Institute of Political Economy, March 18, 10:30am - 12:00pm, Greenleaf Conference Room, Jones Hall 100A

• Globalization of Aquaculture as Development Strategy: The Human and Environmental Consequences in Latin America. Susan Stonich, Professor and Chair of Environmental Studies, Professor of Anthropology and Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science, University of California, Santa Barbara. Sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Charles E Dunbar Fund of the Department of Political Science, The Center for Scholars, Murphy Institute of Political Economy, April 22, 10:30am - 12:00pm, Greenleaf Conference Room, Jones Hall 100A

Ethnobotany Luncheon Series, Fall 2001

• Documentary: In Good Hands: Culture and Agriculture in the Lacandon Rainforest. Hosted by Dr. James Nations, Sponsored by the Department of EE Biology, October 3, 12:00pm, Chastant Room, University Center

• Changing Subsistence Strategy Among the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau of Brazil. James Welch, Anthropology Department, Tulane University, Sponsored by the Department of EE Biology, October 10, 12:00pm, Chastant Room, University Center

• What is Sustainability?:  Agricultural Development in Panama. Nina Muller-Schwarze, Anthropology Department, Tulane University, Sponsored by the Department of EE Biology, October 17, 12:00pm, Chastant Room, University Center

• Terraces, Gardens, and Orchards of the Great City of Calakmul.  Christopher Brown, Department of EE Biology, Sponsored by the Department of EE Biology, October 24, 12:00pm, Chastant Room, University Center

• Views along the Amazon.  Anne Bradburn, Department of EE Biology, Sponsored by the Department of EE Biology, November 7, 12:00pm, Chastant Room, University Center

• Bananas,Coming and Going.  William Balee, Sponsored by the Department of EE Biology, November 14, 12:00pm, Chastant Room, University Center

• Main Ingredients: Plant Products in a New Orleans Vietnamese Grocery.  Janna Rose, Department of Anthropology, December 5, 12:00pm, Chastant Room, University Center

• Rice Paper: Nice Paper.  Steve Darwin, Department of EE Biology, January 30, 12:00pm, Chastant Room, University Center

• Panama Hats Are Not From Panama: A Visit to the Hat Makers of Becal, Campeche.  Christopher Brown, Department of EE Biology, February 6, 12:00pm, Chastant Room, University Center

• Why not Amaranthus?.  Anne Bradburn, Department of EE Biology, February 20, 12:00pm, President's Room A, University Center

• Traditional Coca Use among the Muinane of the Colombian Amazon.  James Welch, Department of Anthropology, February 27, 12:00pm, Chastant Room, University Center

• Medicinal American Plants.  Samantha Gerlach, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, April 3, 12:00pm, Chastant Room, University Center

• A Touch of Mustard. Anne S. Bradburn, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, April 17, 12:00pm, Chastant Room, University Center

 

Faculty Luncheon Seminar Series, September 2001-April 2002

Monthly presentations of Latin American Studies faculty members’ research.

• Elizabeth Boone, Chair of the Latin American Studies Art History Department; Bill Balee, Anthropology Department, September 24

• James D. Huck, Latin American Studies Department; Duncan Irschick, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, October 29

• Carlos Augusto Santos Neves, Brazilian Consul General, Houston, February 25

LARC Fall Film Series, Fall 2001

• The detailed listing of the films for this series is included under professional development below.  Although designed for teachers, faculty, and TA's, students are welcome to attend.

Latin Americanist Book Club, Fall 2001