EVENTS - SPRING 2013

Spring 2013 Research Colloquium Series

Monday, February 11, 4:00 p.m., 2601 W.E.B. DuBois Library
 “The Sense of Sound: Translating Robert Frost into Portuguese”
Marcus Vinicius de Freitas
Brazilian Fulbright Chair

Monday, March 11, 4:00 p.m., 519 Thompson
 “The Photographer’s Two bodies:
The Press, Populism, and the Politics of Split Vision in Venezuela”
Robert Samet, Political Science

Monday, April 8, 4:00 p.m., 519 Thompson
“The Revival of Shamanism and Identity Politics in Colombia: A Case Study"
Esther Jean Langdon
Santa Catarina Federal University, Brazil

Monday, April 29, 4:00 p.m., 519 Thompson
“Viver Brasil: Afro-Bahian Dance and Tourism”
Lucia Suarez, Associate Professor of Spanish
Amherst College

Sexualities Symposium
Monday, March 4, 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. (tentative), Herter 301
Program Forthcoming
Co-Sponsors:
Department of Political Science
Women, Gender, Sexualities Studies

On Protest Symposium
Friday, April 12, Time (TBD) Campus Center (Room TBD)
Program Forthcoming
Co-Sponsors:
 Department of Political Science
 Five College Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies Council

EVENTS - FALL 2012*

Program of UMass and Five Colleges Events
For
Angel Quintero-Rivera
2012-2013 Distinguished Latin American Visitor
Five College Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies Council (FCLACLSC)

Monday, October 29, 4:00-7:00 PM
Amherst Room, 10th Floor Campus Center, UMass

Caribbean Cultural Studies:
Their Political and Socio-economic Backgrounds

Dance Performance by Cayena
Reception to Follow
****
Tuesday, October 30, 8:30 AM
Amherst College

Danza, sexualidad y la “barbarización” del otro
Representaciones culturales del género en las ínter-relaciones diplomáticas y
culturales de América Latina con los Estados Unidos y Europa Occidental
****
Tuesday, October 30, 6:30 PM
Chenoweth Lab 108, UMass

Narratives on Puerto Rican History
Working class and popular culture perspectives
****
Wednesday, October 31, 11:00 AM
Andreola Room, Willits-Hallowell Center
Mount Holyoke College

Afro Latin American Cultural Studies and Music

Brining the Social Science and the Humanities in the
struggle against the coloniality of knowledge
****
Thursday, November 1, 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Neilsen Browsing Room, Smith College

Problems and Perspectives on Working Class
Historical Sociology of the Hispanic Caribbean

Specially focusing on Puerto Rico and its US Diaspora
****
Friday, November 2, 2:30 – 3:20 PM
Flint Lab 201, UMass

Historical Sociology of Slavery Studies in the Americas

Lecture Series on Undocumented Migration and Criminalization in the Americas

Thursday, September 27: Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

"Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children"

*

Monday, November 5: M. Brinton Lykes, Boston College

"Transnational and Mixed-Status Guatemalan & Salvadoran Families Post-9/11: Critically Engaging Migration, Detention, and Deportation Through Participatory Action Research"

Research Colloquium Series

Monday, December 3:

Silvia Goldman, North Central College, Naperville, Illinois

"The Double Thread: Cecilia Vicuña and the Poetics of Memory"

Monday, November 19:

Summer Pre-Dissertation Research Awardees Reports

from the Field

Savannah Carroll, fFro-American Studies

"Creating the Ideal Mexican: 20th Century Racial and National Identity Discourses"

Flavia Araujo, Afro-American Studies

"together but Not the Same: (Re)Mapping the African Diasporic Space in the Writings of Audre Lorde (US) and Miriam Alves (Brazil)"

Elva Orozco, Political Science

"On Human Rights and the Feminicde Factory in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua"

Monday, October 22: Cora Fernandez Anderson, Five College Post-Doctoral Fellow in Comparative Reproductive Politics

"Ni una muerte mas por aborto clandestino" Successes and Failures of the Campaigns to Decriminalize Abortion in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay

Monday, October 1: Laura Briggs, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Program

"Neoliberal Reproductive Governance in the Americas: Bodies, Race, Politics"

Occasional Lectures

Thursday, October 11: Maria Isabel Berbes Ribeaux

"Afro-Cuban Faith: Women in the Genesis of Santeria in Santiago de Cuba"

On Protest Lecture Series (Co-Sponsored by the Department of Political Science)

Tuesday, October 2: Marina Sitrin

"Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina, Comparative Perspectives from Greece to Occupy"

Tuesday, October 30: Jeffrey Juris

"Occupy Everything and the 2011 Global Uprisings"

Tuesday, November 20: Martha Ackelsberg

"Does Politics Matter Anymore? Indignados, Occupy, and the Economic Crisis"

Friday, December 7: Jodi Dean

"The Communist Horizon"

*More programming will be posted soon. Please contact the Center at las@econs.umass.edu for the most current list of Fall 2012 events.

EVENTS - SPRING 2012

Mellon Mutual Mentoring Initiative:

February 10, 102 Thompson, 3:00 p.m.

Mary Louise Pratt, Silver Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University

"Indigeneity and Other Planetary Constructs"

*

March 12, Thompson 102, 4:00 p.m.

Super Guinea Pigs, Werner Herzog, and Other Stories of Cultural Politics in Peru: A Panel Discussion

María Elena García, University of Washington, “Transnational Guinea Pigs: Animal Bodies and Culinary Ethics in Peru”

José Antonio Lucero, University of Washington, “Extracting Culture: Resisting Filmmaking, Mining and Extractive Industry in Peru”

*

April 27, Gordon Hall, 3:00 p.m.

Carmen Deere, Distinguished Professor of Latin American Studies and Food and Resource Economics, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida

"Gender, Asset Ownership and Wealth in Ecuador"

*******

Distinguished Careers in Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies

(Series Complimentary to the Mellon Mutual Mentoring Initiative)

Monday, April 2, at 4:00 p.m., Herter 301

Brook Thomas, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and

Oriol Pi-Sunyer, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

"Unlikely Encounter: Two Career Paths Converge in the Tourist Playland of Quintas Roo"

*

Tuesday, April 17 at 4:00 p.m., 301 Herter

Jane Rausch, Professor Emeritus of History

"Take Pride in What You Have Done. Have Faith in What You Can Accomplish" or How a High School Spanish Teacher Became a Historian of the Llanos Orientales of Colombia"

*******

Occaisional Lectures

February 24, 301 Herter, 3:00 p.m.

Claudia de Lima Costa

"Feminism, Translation, and the Decolonial Turn in Latin America"

April 18, 519 Thompson, 12 Noon

Mirta Rodriguez Calderon

"The Cuban Revolution and Cuba's Feminists"

*

Emergent Struggles of Afrodescendant Peoples in the Americas Series

March 5, 26th Floor - Du Bois Library, 4:00 PM

James Early

"Transnational Black Activism in the Americas: An Analysis from 40 Years of Political Partnership Between Afro-Latin@s and African Americans"

******

Co-Sponsored Events

February 27-March 9

Transforming Threads of Resistance: Political Arpilleras & Textiles by Women from Chile and Around the World

EVENTS - FALL 2011

Reserach Colloquium Series

September 26
Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge, English
Reimagining the Transatlantic, 1780-1890: Mapping the Pan-Atlantic
W.E.B. Du Bois Library - Room 2601, 4:00 p.m.

October 17
Nina Siulc, Legal Studies/Political Science
Deportation and Reverse-Stepped Migration among Dominican Families
Thompson 519, 4:00 p.m.

November 7
Felipe Salles, Music
South American Suite: From Brazilian Music Tradition to
 Contemporary Jazz Writing
Thompson 519, 4:00 p.m.

December 5
Pre-dissertation Research Awardees/Reports from the Field
519 Thompson, 4:00 p.m.

Carmen Cosme, Spanish
Honoring Eleggua: Uncovering Jan Francisco Manzano’s Path

Ellen Correa, Communications
Bootstrap Boricuas: Exploring and Performing Cultural Assimilation

Judy de Oliveira, Spanish
A Quantitative Analysis of Puerto Rican Morphological and Peripharastic Future

Mellon Mutual Mentoring Initiative

October 7
3:00 p.m., Herter 301
Reception to Follow

Renato Rosaldo, New York University
Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences
Professor of Anthropology, Social and Cultural Analysis
“Reflections on Ethnography and Poetry”

November 14, 2011
3:00 p.m., Room 2601-W.E.B. Du Bois Library

Alicia Schmidt-Camacho, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University

"When Human Beings Become Illegal"
and

Stephen Pitti, Professor of history and American Studies and Director of the Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program, Yale University

"The World of Manuel Gamio"

December 2, 2011
3:00 p.m., Thompson 104

Robert Stam, Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University

"From Revolution to Resistance; Alternative Aesthetics in Brazilian Film and Popular Culture"

Robert Stam, Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University and one of the foremost film critics and theorists in the US, will be a guest lecturer at the University of Massachusetts on Friday, December 2, where he will be speaking on Brazilian film.

Other Events

October 14
3:00-5:00 p.m., Herter 301

Silvina A. Montrul, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor, Departments of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese and Department of Linguistics
Director of the University Language Academy for Children
Director of Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab (SLAB)
“Attrition and Incomplete Acquisition in Spanish, Hindi and Romanian as Heritage Languages”

SPRING 2011

Book and Multimedia Presentation
Salsa Music and Dance: Transnational Histories, Scholarly & Popular Debates
Alejandro Ulloa
Professor & Director, Communications, University of El Valle Cali, Colombia
April 29 •2 pm - 4pm• Herter Hall 301

Roundtable: Social Movements and Participatory Governance in Latin America
Ana Claudia Teixeira, Universidade Estatual de Campinas
Daniel Altshuler, Fellow, Amherst College
Moderated by Sonia E. Alvarez, UMASS-Amherst
Discussant: Alper Yagci, UMASS-Amherst
Thursday, April 21, 4 pm Room 2601, W.E.B. DuBois Library

Interrogating the Civil Society Agenda, Reassessing Un-Civic Contention
Sonia E. Alvarez, UMASS; Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Brown University; Agustin Lao-Montes, UMASS; Jeffery Rubin, Boston University
Monday, April 11, 4pm Thompson 519

Occasional Lecture
Racism and Racial Politics in Contemporary Cuba
Tomas Fernandez Robaina
Researcher, National Jose Marti Library in Havana, Cuba
April 8•Noon• Shirley Graham Reading Room/New Africa House

Roundtable: Black Women's Leadership in the Struggle for
Land Rights in Latin America
Libia R. Grueso, Proceso de Communidades Negras
Cristina da Silva Caminha, Amigos de Gege dos Moradores de Gamboa de Baixo
Moderated by Dr. Keisha-Khan Perry, Africana Studies, Brown University
April 5, 2011•4 PM• 903 Campus Center

Documentary Screening: Cuba's TV Serrana
US Spring 2011 Tour
April 4, 2011•4 PM• 102 Thompson Hall

Occasional Lecture
"State Capture and State Failure: Drug trafficking, Violence and Corruption in Mexico"
Carlos Flores, Ph.D. University of Connecticut
March 28, 2011•4 PM •Thompson 519

Spring 2011 Research Colloquium Series

"Black is Black?: Rethinking Diaspora, Blackness, and Gender in Central American Literary and Cultural Production"
Dorothy Mosby, Ph.D.
Spanish, Latina/o, Latin American Studies, Mount Holyoke College
Monday, February 7, 4pm Thompson 519

"Muse of the South": Simon Bolivar as Romantic Hero in the James Scott Walker's THe south American
Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge, Ph.D.
English Department, UMASS Amherst
EVENT RESCHEDULED DATE:TBA

Interrogating the Civil Society Agenda, Reassessing Un-Civic Contention
Sonia E. Alvarez, UMASS; Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Brown University; Agustin Lao-Montes, UMASS; Jeffery Rubin, Boston University
Monday, April 11, 4pm Thompson 519

"Latina Testimonio: Theory In Flesh"
Judith Flores Carmona, Ph.D.
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Literacies and Pedagogy, Hampshire
Monday, April 25, 4pm Thompson 519

Alternative Spring Break: March 10-March 19 2010
A Visit to Lamas, Peru: Ecology, Community, and Indigenous Spirituality
for more information click here

Fall 2010

Research Colloquium Series

" Mapping 'the Popular' in Community Media Policy and Practice in Venezula"
Martha Fuentes-Bautista, Communication Department, UMASS-Amherst
Monday, December 6, 4pm Thompson 519

Reports from the Field: Pre-Dissertation Research Award Grantees
Monday, November 15, 4pm
Thompson 519

Adaptation of Ethnic Latino and Asian Crps to Massachusetts:Grafting Vegetables, Krystian Madrid, Plant Soil and Insect Sciences

Pedagogies of the Plantonistas: Frictions Between Social Movements, Educational Reform and Classroom Practices in the Mexican Southeast
Stephen Sadlier, Language, Literacy and Culture

Book Presentation: Latin America in Movement by Raul Zibechi
Nov 9, 2010 4pm
519 Thompson
Raúl Zibechi is an Uruguayan intellectual, editor of the weekly magazine, "Brecha", author of a syndicated column and of several books about social movements and political perspectives in Latin America. Mr. Zibechi is now touring Canada and the U.S. presenting the English translation of his book "Latin American in Movement". He is considered to be one of the best political analysts of Latin America, and maintains active relations with social movements throughout the region.

Film Screening: Imaging Mina presented by award-winning documentarian Alfredo Béjar.
November 8, 2010 7pm
Herter 231
Imaging Mina is a documentary about a now forgotten 1960s boxing "champion without a crown" from Peru. Mauro Mina Baylon, an Afro-Pervuvian, rose from obscurity to become a national hero and international boxing sensation. The film deals with racism and interracial relationships (among blacks, Andeans, and whites), migration, the role of the media, social mobility, and the boxing business.

RESEARCH COLLOQUIM SERIES FALL 2010

"Facing Unseen Violence: Ex-Combantants Painting War in Colombia"
Maria Rueda, Department of Spanish & Potuguese, Smith College
Monday, September 27 •4:00 pm • Thompson 519

"Mass Tourism on the Mexican Caribbean: Pervasive Changes and Profound Consqeunces for Society and the Environment"
Oriol pi-Sunyer, Department of Anthroplogy, UMASS-Amherst
R. Brooke Thomas , Department of Anthropology, UMASS-Amherst
Henry Geddes, Department of Communication, UMASS-Amherst
Monday, October 18 •4:00 pm • Thompson 519

Pre-Dissertation Research Award Grantees: Reports from the Field
Krystian Madrid, Plant Soil and Insect Sciences, UMASS-Amherst
Stephen Sadlier, Language, Literacy and Culture, UMASS-Amherst
Monday, November 15 •4:00 pm • Thompson 519

"Mapping 'the Popular' in Community Media Policy and Practice in Venezuela"
Martha Fuentes-Bautista, Department of Communication, UMASS-Amherst
Monday, December 6 •4:00 pm • Thompson 519

Spring 2010

“DO I LOOK ILLEGAL TO YOU?"
A Week of Protest Against Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Law (SB 1070)

Monday May 3rd                   “Kick-off Event”
                   Meet at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies after Monday's colloquium to receive your “Do I look Illegal to you?” T-Shirt and to make posters.  Please bring poster-making material and if possible donations to defray costs of shirts

Tuesday May 4th                  “Silent Demonstration”
                 We will meet at noon in front of the UMASS Student Union to stage a silent demonstration from the Union to the Campus Center.  Please bring your posters and come wearing your t-shirt.

Wednesday May 5th           “Teach-In”
   Teach-In featuring a roster of speakers including faculty and local activists beginning at NOON.  Location: Outside in front of the Student Union.  Rain Location: Cape Cod Lounge

Friday May 7th                      “Media Memorial”
Video/ Photographic memorial and testimonial of week's events to be distributed virally via YouTube and Facebook.

Saturday May 8th                “Mass Rally: A Community Call to Action”
Mass Rally at W.E.B. DuBois Library Lawn (between Library & Student Union) beginning at 1:20-3 pm.  Will feature roster of speakers, music, and please bring poster and t-shirt.


Please Note:  If you have any questions, comments, additions and input please email Prof. Bernal at abernal @polsci.umass.edu .

Research Colloquium Series

La Vida 44 Years Later
Roberto Márquez, Latin American Studies, Mt. Holyoke
Monday, May 3, 2010 • 4:00pm • Thompson 519

White Mexicans: Negotiating Racial Privelege and Ethnic Loyalty
Carleen R. Basler, Sociology & American Studies, Amherst College
Monday, April 26, 2010 • 4:00pm • Thompson 519

Beyond Brown Gold and Green Revolutions: History via the Metaphors of Costa Rican Coffee Coop Founders
Lowell Gudmundson, Latin American Studies & History, Mt. Holyoke
Monday, April 12, 2010 • 4:00pm • Thompson 519

REPORTS FROM THE FIELD

Afro-Peruvians and Intercultural Education
Luis Valdiviezo, Education, UMass

Colonial Treasures at AGI: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Lima, N.1 and Quito, N.1
Antonia Carcelén, Comparative Literature, UMass

Monday, March 29, 2010 • 4:00pm • Thompson 519

 

"Gringos, Perros, y Cabrones: Mormon Colonization, Nationalism and Historiography in Revolutionary Mexico"
José Angel Hernández, History, UMass
Monday, February 8, 2010• 4:00pm • Thompson 519

Conference - Black/AfroDescendent Feminisms in the Americas

International Symposium (CLICK HERE FOR PROGRAM)
Friday, 4/2 - 9:00am - 6:00pm
UMass Amherst, Campus Center Room 917

Special Event Series - Solidarity with Haiti

Community Fundraiser
Celebrating International Women's Day & Re-Building Haiti through supporting FONHOH to build a school in Lagoun-Plato Santral, Haiti

Please Join Us at The Bangs Community Center, 70 Boltwood Walk in Amherst, MA

Monday, March 8, 2010 from 6-8pm

First-Hand Narratives ~ Food ~ Music ~ Dance ~ Art

Haiti: Not (just) a Natural Disaster
Bill Strickland, Afro Am, UMass Amherst
Roberto Marquez, Mount Holyoke
Agustín Lao-Montes, Sociology, UMass Amherst
Carolyn Shread, French, UMass
Friday, January 29, 2010• 4:00pm • CC 174-76

Cuba Lecture Series

Cubans and Cuban-Americans Confronting a New Millennium
Jorge Domínguez, Harvard University
Susan Eckstein, Boston University
Moderator: Agustín Lao-Montes, Sociology, UMass Amherst
Monday, February 22, 2010 • 4:00pm • W.E.B. Du Bois Library, Room 2601 • Reception to Follow

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

Consortium Website

 

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