News
Lemman Institute for Brazilian Studies inauguration
Organized by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Joseph Love, Jorge Paulo Lemann and Andrew Orta meeting at CLACS
October 15, 2009
- Advisory Committee Meeting & Lemann Fellowship award pictures
-BRAZIL’S RISING STATUS IN THE 21st CENTURY, Roundtable Discussion pictures
-INAUGURATION CEREMONY pictures
-RECEPTION pictures
Lemann Institute Inauguration pictures from L. Brian Stauffer, UI News Bureau, Photographic Specialist.
Media coverage...
02/24/09- The News Gazette: "Family gives UI $14 million for Brazilian studies"
02/20/09- News Bureaw: "Donors pledge $14 million for Brazilian studies institute at Illinois"
10/06/09- News Bureaw: "Brazil experts to take part in roundtable at Lemann Institute inauguration"
10/08/09- Daily Illini: "New institute opens door for Brazilian studies"
10/14/09- The News Gazette: "Brazilian beer magnate donates $16.5 million to UI"
10/14/09- Chicago Tribune: "UI gets $16.5 million in beer cash to study Brazil
10/15/09- O Globo: "Com doação de Lemann, Illinois abre centro de estudos brasileiros. Saiba como trabalham os brasilianistas"
10/16/09- Daily Illini: "$14 million gift ushers in Brazilian Studies Institute"
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Werner Baer, has been ranked as one of the top 20 "Most productive authors in economics and econometrics in SSCI by U.S. based Authors " as of July 2008.
The EconometricLinks.com, by the Royal Economic Society, offers a comprehensive list of rankings of economists and economics departments and journals.See: http://www.feweb.vu.nl/econometriclinks/rankings/
Congratulations Werner!
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Article: The Wall Street Jornal. Oct. 5, 2009
Rio Faces Olimpic Hurdles as id Girds for Games
by Matt Moffett
“I feel there might be a little bit of naiveté that an event is going to be able to transform patterns of politics that have been in place many, many years”
quotation from Jose Antonio
Cheibub,
faculty affiliate of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and member of the advisory committee of the newly created Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies.
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Approved Official CLACS Graduate Minor
The graduate minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies is designed to provide UIUC graduate students both at the Master’s and doctoral levels in any discipline training in Latin American Studies and is taken in conjunction with students’ primary fields of study. The minor’s purpose is to complement and supplement major work undertaken by students in their primary disciplines. The minor is intended to develop students’ knowledge of the region through interdisciplinary course training and Latin American and Caribbean language study.
For more information, please go to the Graduate Minor page: http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/grad/minor/
Nelly Gonzalez awarded a honorary membership to SALALM
We are very pleased to announce that NELLY GONZALEZ, long-time Head Librarian of the Latin American Library has been awarded a honorary membership to SALALM (Seminar on the Acquisition on Latin American Library Materials). Those who recommended Nelly for this honor highlighted, among many other achievements, her many years of service to SALALM and to the profession, her distinguished record of publishing, as well as her dedication to mentoring.
Congratulations on obtaining this well-deserved this award, a testament to a lifetime of personal and professional achievements, with many more to come for sure!
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Engaging The World
U.S. Global Competence Videos for the 21 st Century
Peter Rohloff (Former CLACS- FLAS student)
Director, Wuqu' Kawoq Strengthening
Mayan Language and Medicine
Peter Roholoff's video: http://www.usglobalcompetence.org/videos/rohloff_large.html
The American Council on Education and Coalition for International Education are pleased to announce the launch of www.usglobalcompetence.org. This new website highlights the urgent need for international and foreign language education to become part of the core mission of the U.S. education system from K-12 through graduate school. It was created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of HEA-Title VI and Fulbright-Hays with the generous support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Titled "Engaging the World: U.S. Global Competence for the 21st century," the site demonstrates through videos and highlights of a recent symposium the importance of strengthening U.S. global competence in the 21st century. Whether it's global engagement abroad or global/cultural understanding at home, our success in this century will depend on it. http://www.usglobalcompetence.org/videos/index.html
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NEW BOOKS
Queen of the Virgins: Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean
ISBN-13/EAN: 9781604732429
Price: $50.00 (US)
Pages: 224
Available: 8/1/2009
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Binding: Book - Hardback
Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women opportunities to demonstrate talent, style, the values of black womanhood, and the territory's social mores.
Queen of the Virgins: Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean is a comprehensive look at the centuries-old tradition of these expressions in the Virgin Islands. M. Cynthia Oliver maps the trajectory of pageantry from its colonial precursors at tea meetings, dance dramas, and street festival parades to its current incarnation as the beauty pageant or "queen show."
For the author, pageantry becomes a lens through which to view the region's understanding of gender, race, sexuality, class, and colonial power.
Focusing on the queen show, Oliver reveals its twin roots in slave celebrations that parodied white colonial behavior and created creole royal rituals and celebrations heavily influenced by Africanist aesthetics. Using the U.S. Virgin Islands as an intriguing case study, Oliver shows how the pageant continues to reflect, reinforce, and challenge Caribbean cultural values concerning femininity.Queen of the Virgins examines the journey of the black woman from degraded body to vaunted queen and how this progression is marked by social unrest, growing middle-class sensibilities, and contemporary sexual and gender politics.
For More Info: www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1180
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Brazil Under Lula: Economy, Politics, and Society under the Worker - President
by Joseph Love and Werner Baer
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Tiqaq'omaj qi': Plantas medicinales y enfermedades comunes
by Peter Rohloff and Magda Sotz Mux
Publication cosponsored by CLACS
Medicinal Plants and Common Plants
This book is the result of our work in the altitudes of Kaqchikele in Guatemala. For two years we lived among "comadronas", naturalists, Mayan spiritual guides, and sick patients.
This Book is written with the desire to promote the study of traditional Mayan medicine, one of the ancient riches of this constant and living culture. This will be useful for "comadronas", promotors, and any other person working who works for the health of their community. Also, becuase it is written in two languages, spanish and faqchikell, it could be used in clases of kaqchikel alphabetization.Editor: Wuqu' Kawoq
ISBN: 978-0-615-23932-3
Pages: 180
book available at CLACS
Price: $15 ( or $17 including shipping)
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Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist, visited UIUC
On October 29th Naomi Klien presented her book "Shock Doctrine" at the Smith Memorial Hall Auditorium.
Naomi Klein will outline a provocative interpretation of how the neoliberal project in Latin America was imposed, starting with the Pinochet regime in Chile, conceived as the first laboratory of the ideas of Milton Friedman and his “Chicago Boys.” She then discusses Argentina and the impact of the Falklands War on economic policies, as well as Bolivia’s meltdown in the 1980s. Klein’s argument will show how military coups and neoliberal ideologues in these countries guided the path for the imposition of a new economic model.
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CLACS Newsletter 2008
Director Nils Jacobsen returns after a year sabbatical at Harvard, among other places, certain of the outstanding work on Latin America and the Caribbean here at Illinois. To find out more about his observations, catch up with alumnae Eric O'Rourke at University of Pittsburgh and professor emeritus in anthropology Norman E. Whitten, and read articles on second-generation Evangelicals in the Andes and the state of Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian revolution, click here.
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Latin American Film Festival to feature award-winning movies
SECOND ANNUAL LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
April 4-10, 2008
Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Some of the best new films from Latin America will be screened locally during the second annual Latin American Film Festival April 4-10.. The film festival is organized by the U. of I.’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies with the generous support and collaboration of the Boardman’s Art Theatre in Champaign and several departments in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Parkland College. Find out more!
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CLACS TA wins award for excellence in teaching
Luis Eduardo Herrera has won the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants. He will also be forwarded to campus for competition at that level. This year Eduardo came out on top of our very strong team of Teaching Assistants for Latin American Studies 170. Over the past two years, he has contributed much to improve the instructional quality of our important introductory course. The Award is well deserved. It shows what good work we do at CLACS! Congratulations Eduardo! ¡Que viva la música electrónica!
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'puyo runa' rooted in Nearly 40 years of ethnography in ecuador
The Andean nation of Ecuador derives much of its revenue from petroleum that is extracted from its vast Upper Amazonian rain forest, which is home to ten indigenous nationalities. Professors Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Dorothea Scott Whitten have lived among and studied one such people, the Canelos Quichua, for nearly forty years. In Puyo Runa- Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia, they present a trenchant ethnography of history, ecology, imagery, and cosmology to focus on shamans, ceramic artists, myth, ritual, and political engagements. Canelos Quichua are active participants in national politics, including large-scale movements for social justice for Andean and Amazonian people. Puyo Runa offers readers exceptional insight into this cultural world, revealing its intricacies and embedded humanisms. For more details or to order Puyo Runa, go to
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/76nxe3hd9780252032394.html
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Quechua Manual Available at CLACS
The third edition of Quechua - Manual de Enseñanza, revised and adapted to the official Quechua alphabet established in 1985, can be now purchased online. The manual was written by our own Prof. Clodoaldo Soto with the goal of promoting and strengthening Quechuan language and the Quechua people.
Editor: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
Autor: Clodoaldo Soto Ruiz
ISBN: 9972-51-161-8
Pages: 442
Price: $25 (or $27 to include shipping)
For more information or if you would like to order a copy, send us a check made to "University of Illinois" or contact Gloria Ribble at ribble@uiuc.edu or (217) 333-3182.
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CLACS MUGS are available now
Show your pride of being a Latin Americanist and support the Center by purchasing our new mug! The mug costs $8, and the money raised will go toward CLACS activities.
To order it now, please contact Secretary Gloria Ribble at ribble@uiuc.edu or (217) 333-3182, or talk with any CLACS staff.
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