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.
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
View listing of other events
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 TradicionesAmaruc 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 TradicionesJune 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 InstituteCindy 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

