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latin american and latino studies
2005-2006 events
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Slavery, Enlightenment, and Revolution in Colonial Brazil and Spanish America
2006 LALSI conference. For more information on this event, please click on the link above or follow the link at left.
Fordham College at Rose Hill
5 May 2006
"Antonia Pantoja: Opening Avenues, Abriendo Camino" a film and talk by
filmmaker Lillian Jiménez . (This event is sponsored by the Women's
Studies Program, the Latin American and Latino Studies Institute, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology).
1 May 2006
Daniel Richter, (University of Pennsylvania), "Native Americans in the Colonial Atlantic World." Sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta , the History Honor Society.
10 April 2006
Felíx Muruchi Poma, "Urban Social Movements as Agents of Political Change in Bolivia." Bolivia's contemporary political profile has been transformed radically since 2000, with the mobilizations of popular and indigenous forces. Speaking from first-hand experience as a labor and university organizer in El Alto, Felíx Muruchi Poma addresses the rise of the new urban movements that have captured international attention.
6 April 2006.
"The Impact of War: Photographs and Testimony from Nicaragua." A presentation by photojournalists Pam Fitzpatrick and Paul Dix on the effects of the Nicaraguan civil war in the 1980s and U.S. intervention on the Nicaraguan people even today.
3 April 2006.
Mónica de la Torre (Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University), spoke on Maruch Sántiz Gómez, a Tzotzil photographer from Chiapas known for her style of combining photography and language in her works. In her indigenous hometown, Sántiz Gómez gathers her people's oral traditions and then records them in writing, illustrating them with photographs. Thus her work rises above mere documentation to become a species of conceptual art.
23 March 2006.
LALSI' Series on Brazilian Culture
Joshua Roth, (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Mt. Holyoke College). Professor Roth will give a presentation on his book, Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan , following a screening of the Brazilian film Gaijin II, by Tizuka Yamasaki. (This event is co-sponsored by the Faculty Seminar "Peripheral Orientalisms: Asia and Latin America")
This event was canceled. For more information on Joshua Roth and his publications, please click on the links above.
Marta Peixoto , (Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, NYU). Professor Peixoto has worked on contemporary Brazilian literature and published on major literary figures such as Clarice Lispector and João Cabral de Melo Neto. Shespoke on representations of poverty in Brazilian literature and film. Her lecture was titled, "Claiming the Real in Rio de Janeiro:Representing Poverty in Recent Fiction and Film."
21 April 2006.
Nicolau Sevcenko , (University of São Paulo; Visiting Professor, Harvard University). Professor Sevcenko is a highly respected cultural historian who works on urban history, race relations, Brazilian Modernism and popular culture. His talkis titled, "Searching for the Grail in the Backlands: Archaic Themes in Brazilian Popular Culture."
7 April 2006
Barbara Browning , (Chair, Performance Studies, Tisch School for the Arts, NYU). Dr. Browning spoke on the choreography of sex and labor in Brazilian dance, "'She Attempted to Take Over the Choreography of theSex Act': The Movement Vocabulary of Sex and Labor in Contemporary Brazilian Dance."
3 March, 2006
James Fernández and Susan Martin-Márquez discussed Interpreting Spanish Colonialism: Empires, Nations, and Legends, a new book edited by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara and John Nieto-Phillips. 17 February 2006
Ann Stoler (Chair of Anthropology, New School) "Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule" Faculty Seminar "Peripheral Orientalisms: Asia and Latin America." 14 December 2005
Paul Kobrak, "The Cold War and the Guatemalan Civil War," 13 December 2005
Laura Balbuena, "Cuando el terror tiene rostro de mujer: las mujeres del Sendero Luminoso" Presentation in Spanish. Cynthia Vich's Seminar, "Violence in the Andes: the case of Peru" 1 December 2005.
Ana Maria Dopico, (Spanish and Portuguese, New York University), "Revisiting Macondo"
Robert D'Amato (FCRH alumnus) spoke to Dr. Penry's Andes II class on his experience living in Bolivia. 28 November 2005
Louis E. Perego Moreno "Contemporary Latinas Speaking Their Minds in New York and Los Angeles," (lecture and documentary). 21 November 2005
T.J. Desch-Obi (History, Baruch College), "Martial Arts and the African Diaspora." 3 November 2005
Hispanic Heritage Month
Dr. Hugo Benavides (Anthropology), "Seeing Telenovelas: The revolution Will Be Televised." Dr. Benavides discussed how as a result of the postmodern turn, Latin America is more than ever a crossroads of local-global interaction and how the cultural problematic that results plays host to the reworking and representation of identity. It is in this context that popular media such as soap operas (telenovelas) play a dramatic role in the on-going reconfiguration of social identitites, hegemonic constraints, and popular culture in Latin America today.
1 November 2005
Dr. Monica Rivera-Mindt (Psychology), "Sociocultural Predictors of Neuropsychological Test Performance Among HIV+ Hispanics." 20 October 2005
Dr. Barbara Mundy (Art History), "Vistas: New Views on Latin America's Colonial Past." Dr. Mundy, Chair of Art History and Music, introduced her new CD-Rom and website http://www.smith.edu/vistas/ on the visual culture of Latin America from 1520 to 1820.
Jonathan Schorsch, (Religion, Columbia University); Discussion of his new book Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2004). 22 September 2005
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