Fall 2009

Occasional Lecture

Racial Policies in Brazil
Matilde Ribeiro
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 • 5:00pm • WEB DuBois Library 2610

Occasional Lecture

Renegotiating Gender and Relocating the Nation: Zapatista Discourse of Indigenous Women
Margara Millan
Monday, November 9, 2009 • 4:00-6:00pm • Thompson 519

Lecture Series

50 Years Out: Lessons from the Cuban Revolution
Roundtable #1 - Contested Visions of Domestic & International Revolutionary Practices featuring: Damian Fernandez (SUNY Purchase), Lillian Guerra (Yale University), and Carlos Moore (Independent Scholar)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 • 4:00-6:00pm • UMass Campus Center 174-176

*This event will be followed by the Fall 2009 CLACLS Reception, 10th Floor, Campus Center

Roundtable #2 - Racial Questions in Contemporary Cuba: Demographics, Rights & Culture featuring, Jafari Allen (Yale University), Odette Casamayor (University of Connecticut), Alejandro de la Fuente (University of Pittsburgh), and Mark Sawyer (UCLA)
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 • 4:00-6:00pm • UMass Campus Center 174-176

Spring 2009

Occasional Lecture

"El Sueño de Bolívar: Challenges and Paradoxes of the New South American Left"
Marc Saint-Upéry, Journalist, Translator, Political Analyst and Author of El Sueño Bolívar
Thursday, April 23, 2009 • 4:00pm • 519 Thompson

Research Colloquium Series

"Playing Someone Else's Music: The Transnational Performance of Andean Music"
Michelle Bigenho, Social Science, Hampshire College
Monday, February 23, 2009 • 4:00pm

"From Colonial Encounters to Transnational Media Flows: The Making of Visual Culture in the Greater Yucatan Peninsula"
Henry Geddes, Communication, UMass
Monday, March 9, 2009 • 4:00pm

"Transgressive Body, Transgressive Scholarship: A Fragmented Life in so Many Acts"
Claudio Moreira, Communication, UMass
Monday, April 13, 2009 • 4:00pm

“Reconsidering Méndez : Mexican-American Segregation and the Constituent Power of the Excluded”
Angelica Bernal, Political Science, UMass
Monday, May 11, 2009 • 4:00pm

Alternative Spring Break in Dominican Republic

March 13th - 22nd

Others

Blueprints for a Nation on the Road
Exhibit and Artist's Talk with ADÁL
Friday, April 17, 2009 • 3:00-5:00 pm • Herter Hall 601

"Constructing White Mexicans in Time of Détente: Race and Migration in Transnational Perspective"
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, History, University of Connecticut
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 • 4:00pm • Herter 601, UMass Amherst

"The Practice of Theory: The Case of Communitarian Feminism, the Feminist Assembly, and Processes of Change in Bolivia"
Maria Elena Martinez-Torres, Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology-Southeast Campus (CIESAS-Sureste), Chiapas, Mexico
Thursday, April 2, 2009 • 7:30pm • Third Floor Conference Room, Gordon Hall

 

Fall 2008

Reconfigurations of Racism and New Scenarios of Power After 2001

December 8 & 9, 2008 • Campus Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst
• Conference Program

Research Colloquium Series*

"Autos & Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity"
Joel Wolfe, History, UMass
Monday, September 22, 2008 • 4:00pm

A New Neg Mawon: Charlemagne Peralte Commemorated in Haiti & the U.S. Diaspora
Yveline Alexis, History, UMass
"Missioners, Interpreters, and Language Policies in the Jesuit Province of Paraguay"
Ana Rona, HL & L, UMass
Monday, October 27, 2008 • 4:00pm • Herter 301

"Intercultural Policy and the Educational Paradox in Perufian Indigenous Schools"
Laura Valdiviezo, Education, UMass
Monday, November 17, 2008 • 4:00pm

Occasional Lectures

"The Role of the Mass Media in U.S. Latino Politics: Lessons From the Past 20 Years to Help Better Understand the 2008 Campaign"
Professor Federico A. Subervi-Velez
(School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Texas State University San Marcos)
Friday, September 12, 2008 • 3:00pm • Campus Center, Reading Room

"Evaluating the Durban Agenda Against Racism in the Americas: A Report From the Latin American and Caribbean Prep Com, Brasilia, June, 2008"
Agustín Lao-Montes (Sociology, UMass), Humberto Brown (Alianza Estrategica Afrolatinoamericana)
Friday, September 19, 2008 • 4:00pm • Campus Center 168

"Ethnicity, Symbolism and Policy in the Indigenous Movements of Latin America "
Alvaro Bello Maldonado , Anthropology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Monday, November 10, 2008 • 4:00pm • Thompson 519

 

Spring 2008

Research Colloquium Series*

A Brief History of Mexican Expulsions, Deportations, and Repatriations ca. 1830s - 1950s
José A. Hernández (History, UMass Amherst)
Monday, February 25, 2008 • 4:00pm

Spanish in the US: Multidialectal Variety or Neutral Dialect?
Patricia Gubitosi (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, UMass Amherst)
Monday, March 13, 2008 • 4:00pm

Staging the Incas in Bourbon Lima
María S. Barbón (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, UMass Amherst)
Monday, May 12, 2008 • 4:00pm

Alternative Spring Break in Argentina

March 14 - 23, 2008

Civil Society Conference

April 24-25 & 27, 2008

Conference Program

 

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