Fall 2007

Occasional Lecture

September 15
Combating Racism and Racist Sexism in a 'Racial Democracy'
Minister Matilde Ribeiro
(Special Secretary for Policies to Promote Racial Equality in Brazil)

November 13
Art and Agency: Creation as Social Intervention
Doris Sommer
(Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Profesor of Romance Languages and Literatures and in African and African American Studies, Harvard University)

November 27
Women Movements After Genocide: The Act of Memory The Argentine Case
Nora Strejilevich
(Independent Writer and Human Roghts Researcher and Five College Women's Research Center Associate)

December 12
Contesting Politics as Usual: Black Social Movements, Globalization, and Race Policy in Latin America.
Mark Q. Sawyer
(Political Science, UCLA)

Research Colloquium Series*

October 15
Reports From the Field
Julie Skogsbergh (UMass Amherst)
Erika Marquez (UMass Amherst)
Graciela Monteagudo (UMass Amherst)

Novenber 5
Migration and Mexican Women: Is a Solidarity Economy a Solution?
Ann Ferguson (Philosophy & Women's Studies, UMass Amherst)

December 3
Gender Roles as Social Policy Instruments? Evaluating Government Cash Transfer Policies in Latin America and Africa
Melissa Gonzalez-Brenes (Economics, UMass Amherst)

 

Spring 2008

Research Colloquium Series*

February 25
A Brief History of Mexican Expulsions, Deportations, and Repatriations ca. 1830s - 1950s
José A. Hernández (History, UMass Amherst)

March 31
Spanish in the US: Multidialectal Variety or Neutral Dialect?
Patricia Gubitosi (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, UMass Amherst)

May 12
Staging the Incas in Bourbon Lima
María S. Barbón (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, UMass Amherst)

Alternative Spring Break in Argentina

March 14-23

Civil Society Conference

April 24-25 & 27

Conference Program

 

*The colloquium series will take place in Thompson Hall, room 519.