Events

2007

February

Mexico Solidarity Network

Mexican Communities Confronting Globalization

Tuesday 27, 12 - 1 pm, Student Union Room 320

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Human Rights

Since the Zapatista uprising began on January 1, 1994, (the first day NAFTA went into effect) the Mexican military and paramilitaries have waged a counter insurgency war against Zapatista communities. Thirteen years after the uprising, human rights abuses continue and the entire state of Chiapas is heavily militarized.  The Mexico Solidarity Network presents a speaker from the Red de Defensores Comunitarios por los Derechos Humanos (Community Human Rights Defenders Network) to discuss the impact of this "low-intensity" warfare, and what is being done on the ground to resist.

www. mexicosolidarity .org

March

Inti-Illimani, Chilean World Music

Thursday 15, 8 pm, Jorgensen Center

Sponsored by The Jorgensen Center and the Puerto Rican and Latin American Cultural Center

 

Sonia Nazario, Author of Enrique's Journey

Tuesday 27, 4:30 pm, Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center

Co-sponsored with The Puerto Rican and Latin American Cultural Center

Nazario, author and journalist who covers Latinos in the U.S. and immigration issues, will discuss the harrowing journey that an estimated 48,000 immigrant children take each year to enter the United States from Central America and Mexico. Her most recent book, Enrique's Journey, is an astonishing true story that recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.

 

April

Professor Claudia Brittenham, Yale University

Research on Mesoamerican Art

Tuesday 10, 12 - 1 pm, CUE 134

 

Undergraduate and Graduate Latin American & Caribbean/Latino(a) Studies Student Symposium

Thursday 12, 10 - 2 pm, CUE 134

Registration on-line at http:/clacs.uconn.edu/index.htm

 

Dr. Sonia Alvarez

Human Rights and Political Mobilization in Latin America

Friday 27 , 12 - 1 pm, Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center

Co-sponsored with the Institute for Human Rights and the Institute for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies.

Faculty Dinner and Collaborative Workshop on Latino/a and Latin American/Caribbean Studies with Dr. Sonia Alvarez

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2006

September

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Fordham University, History
"Columbus and Camagüey: The Nation's Remains in Late-Nineteenth-Century Spain and Cuba."

Class of 1947 Room, Homer Babbidge Library
Monday, 25 September, 4:00 p.m.

Organizers: Noether Chair , Latin American & Caribbean Studies , European Studies

October

Amaruc Lucas Hernández
Visiting Scholar
(El Colegio de Michoacán,México)
"Seminario para Estudiantes Graduados
La experiencia de un doctorado: Una perspectiva desde México"
PRLACC Conference Room, SU 437
October 18, 2006, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Sponsored by the Insitute for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies
El Colegio de Michoacán, Centro de Estudios de las Tradiciones

Amaruc Lucas Hernández
(El Colegio de Michoacán,Mexico)
"A Study of the Seven Deadly Sins in 1575, Mexico"
Humanities Institute, CLAS 301
October 19, 2006
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Insitute for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies and
the Center for Latin America and Caribbean Studies
El Colegio de Michoacán, Centro de Estudios de las Tradiciones

June Nash
(The City College & Graduate Center, CUNY)
"Consuming Interest: Water, Liquor, and Coca Cola: From Ritual
Integration to Corporate Expropiation in Highland Chiapas"
Robert G. Mead, Jr. Lecture
Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center
October 25, 2006
4:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by The President's Committee on Corporate
Social Responsability and The Human Rights Institute

Cindy Pope
Central Connecticut State University, Geography.
"Medical Geography's Cultural Turn: Negotiating HIV Risk and
Transmission in the Caribbean"

CLAS 434
Friday, 20 October, 12:00 p.m.

Organizers: Department of Geography

 

December

Nicholas De Genova
Columbia University, Anthropology
"Latin(o) American Ethnographic Oral History Conference."

Class of 1947 Room, Homer Babbidge Library
Wednesday, 6 December, 12:00- 6:00 p.m.

Organizers: Center for Oral History, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies