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CLACS Lecture Series take place in an informal, friendly, and supportive setting where you share any selected aspect of your academic research with graduate and undergraduate students and faculty. Our aim is not only to promote students but also to involve faculty to participate and share their work.

PLACE: 101 International Studies Bldg, 910 S. Fifth St. Champaign
TIME: All sessions begin at NOON or as announced

Lecture Series Spring 2012

Thursday, February 2

Irene Small, Assistant Professor, Art History

Passion of the Same: Cacique de Ramos and the Multitud

 

Tuesday, February 7 - 100 Gregory Hall on February 7 from 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Clemencia Rodriguez, Communications. University of Oklahoma

Disrupting Violence: The Production of Resilient Visual Culture in Embattled Colombia

Tuesday, February 21, 2:00-3:30pm

Júlio Emílio Diniz-Pereira, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil; Associate Professor, Visiting Associate Professor at University of Washington

The Impact of the Landless Workers Movement on the Development of Brazilian Activist Educators' Identities

 

Thursday, February 23

Eduardo Coutihno, Distinguished Lemann Visiting Professor

Multiculturalism and Miscegenation in the Construction of Latin America`s Cultural Identity

 

Tuesday, February 28, 2:00-3:30pm

Elana Zilberg, Associate Professor, Communication Department. University of California

Gangster, Guerilla, Soldier, Cop: The Many Faces of Transnational Violence between the U.S.and El Salvador

 

Thursday, March 1

Ariel de la Fuente, History. Purdue University

Sex and Eroticism in Jorge Luis Borges's Literature

 

Thu-Sat, March 1-3, Levis Faculty Center

2012 Joint Area Centers Symposium: Cities and Inequalities in a Transnational World 

 

Thursday, March 8

Erica Vogel, Korea Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois

Global Conversions: Money, Migration and Work for Peruvian Laborers in South Korea

 

Thursday, March 15

Deborah Cohen, History. University of Missouri at St. Louis

Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico

 

Thursday, March 29. 12:00pm, Room 126 Library  & Information Science Building

Greg Grandin, History. New York University

Toward a Rump Monroe Doctrine:  US-Latin American Relations on the Eve of the 2012 Elections

 

Thursday, April 5

Carolina Sternberg, Ph.D. Candidate. Department of Geography

Buenos Aires and Chicago: A Tale of Two Evolving Neoliberal Redevelopment Governances Through Four Dimensions of Analysis

 

Thursday, April 5. 101 ISB, 4 pm

Deborah Poole, Anthropology, John Hopkins University

Different Forces: Cultural topographies and the liberal state in Oaxaca, Mexico

 

Thursday, April 12

Kate Grim-Feinberg, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology

Embodying Respectful and Respectable Citizenship at the Intersections of Educational Policy, Classroom Practice, and Child Rearing: Children in Post-Conflict Rural Ayacucho, Peru

 

Thursday, April 19

Rosario Montoya, Independent Scholar

Nuevo titulo Rural Nicaragua under the new Sandinista Government: A Report from the Field

Thursday, April 26 * canceled *

Ryan Jones, Ph.D. Candidate. Department of History

Tomb of the Pacific”—The Islas Marías Penal Colony and Mexican Male Homosexuality in the 1930s

 

Friday, April 27. 101 ISB, 3:00 pm

Donald Sawyer, Visiting Lemann Professor at Harvard

Saving South America's Ecosystem Functions

 

Monday, April 30. 101 ISB, 2:00 pm

Manuel Glave, GRADE, Peru

TBA

 

** check for CLACS Lecture Series 2011 **

 

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CLACS VIDEOS

  • CLACS VIDEOS 2011-2012
    Comparative Literature in Brazil: Aspects and Problems. Eduardo F. Coutinho, Distinguished Lemann Institute Visiting Professor.Nov. 10, 2011

    The Alliance for Progress: Social Science and Hemispheric Hegemony. Peter Smith, Distinguished Professor of Political Science. UC San Diego.Oct. 27, 2011

  • Sand-key, Pant-keys: Colonial Discourse, Tourism and Male Prostitution in Caribbean Film. Kristina Medina, PhD Candidate Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Dec. 1, 2011

  • Passion of the Same: Cacique de Ramos and the Multitude. Irene Small, Assistant Professor, Art History. Feb. 2, 2012

  • Multiculturalism and Miscegenation in the Construction of Latin America`s Cultural Identity. Eduardo F. Coutinho, Distinguished Lemann Institute Visiting Professor. Feb. 23, 2012

  • Gangster, Guerilla, Soldier, Cop: The Many Faces of Transnational Violence between the U.S.and El Salvador. Elana Zilberg, Associate Professor, Communication Department. University of California. Feb. 28, 2012

  • Global Conversions: Money, Migration and Work for Peruvian Laborers in South Korea. Erica Vogel, Korea Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois. March 8, 2012

  • Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico. Deborah Cohen, History. University of Missouri at St. Louis. March 15, 2012

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Lecture Series FALL 2011

 

Thursday, September 8

Moacir Miranda, Professor of Business Administration. School of Business (FEA). University of São Paulo

Cultural Differences and Management Styles: The Experience of Brazilian Corporations Abroad

 

Friday, September 9

Jeffrey Gould, Professor of History. Director of the Center for Latin American Studies. Indiana University

Marxism and Liberation Theology: Notes from Morazan

 

Thursday, September 15

John Collins, Associate Professor of Anthropology. Queens College. CUNY

Futures Entombed: Properly Historical Subjects, Living Human Treasure, and the Materialization of Heritage in a Brazilian World Heritage Zone

 

Friday, September 16, 5:00-8:00p.m., 101 ISB

CLACS Reception. 101 International Studies Building

 

Thursday, September 22

Markus Schulz, Assistant Professor. Sociology

Development Innovation Outcomes and Global Imaginaries?

 

Friday, September 23-Thursday, September 29

2011Latin American Film Festival. Art Theater, Champaign

 

Thursday, September 29

Prof. K. David Jackson, Yale University

Concrete Poetry: 'Augusto Fingers': dacto, grypho, grama, clip

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6

Wail Hassan, Associate Professor. World Comparative Literature

Alberto Mussa and the Translation of Arabic Poetry in Brazil

 

Thursday, October 13

Maria Tapias (Assoc.iate Professor of Anthropology. Grinell College) and Xavier Scandell (Associate Professor of Sociology. University of Northern Iowa)

Anxieties of Ascent: Middle Class Aspirations among Bolivian Return Migrants from Spain

 

Ibero-Latin American Visualities Speakers Series. Krannert Art Museum Auditorium, 5:30 pm

Shinpei Takeda, Japanese independent artist based in Tijuana, Mexico

Downloading Memories of Post-Conflict Diasporas: Art and Ethnography as Public Scholarship

Thursday, October 20

Marcelo Kuyumjian, Graduate Student, Music

The Impact of the American Cultural Influence in Samba

 

Thursday, October 27

Peter Smith, Distinguished Professor of Political Science. UC San Diego

The Alliance for Progress: Social Science and Hemispheric Hegemony

 

Friday-Saturday, October 28-29, 101 International Studies Building

Tinker Workshop

 

Thursday, November 3

Daniella Gandolfo, Assistant Professor Anthropology. Wesleyan University

Formless: A Day in "The Hole"

 

Thursday, November 10

Eduardo F. Coutinho, Distinguished Lemann Institute Visiting Professor

Comparative Literature in Brazil: Aspects and Problems

Thursday, December 1

Kristina Medina, PhD Candidate Spanish, Italian and Portuguese

Sand-key, Pant-keys: Colonial Discourse, Tourism and Male Prostitution in Caribbean Film

 

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LECTURE SERIES SPRING 2011

TH January 27 - Angharad Valdivia. Media and Cinema Studies

  • The Chilean Earthquake: The Failure of New Media and the Endurance of Radio Technology

TH February 3- Julia Bello & Francisco Seufferheld. Office of Hispanic Outreach and International Engagement ACES

  • Scientific Animations without Borders: An International Online Approach for Building Practically Applicable Scientific Educational Materials for Use on Cell Phones in Developing Nations

TH February 10 - Tania Ionin (Linguistics), Silvina Montrul (SIP and Linguistics), Hélade Santos (SIP)

  • The acquisition of generic reference in Brazilian Portuguese as a Third Language

TH February 17 - Ruth Aguilar, Luiz Ricardo. Business Department

  • Uncertainty Awareness and Ownership Structure: Evidence from Latin America

TH February 24- Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld. Anthropology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

  • Rafael Correa’s Multi-Colored Shirt

TH March 3 - Pilar Eguez, Ph.D. Candidate. Department of Anthropology

  • Defining Cuban Women: "Good Manners", Dance and Sexuality in late 19th Century Cuba

TH March 10- John Tofik Karam. Assistant Professor Latin American /Latino Studies Program. De Paul University

  • Anti-Semitism from the Standpoint of its Muslims Arab Victims in a South American Border Zone

TH March 17 - Flavia Andrade, Margarita Teran-Garcia, Marcela Rafaelli &Angela Wiley, Department of Kinesiology and Community Health

  • UP-Amigos Research Project on Obesity Related Factors in Mexico: Selected Findings?

SAT April 16  - CLACS Latin American Teachers Workshop

TH April 21 - Jose Peralta, Ph.D. Candidate. Department of Sociology

  • From Flesh to Flour: The Globalization of Tortilla and Gourmet Response in Mexico

WED April 27. 4pm-6pm, 101 ISB - Jo –Marie Burt, Associate Professor Political Science. George Mason University

  • Guilty as Charged: The Fujimori Trial and the struggle against impunity in Peru

TH April 28 - Terry McCoy. CLACS Affiliated Research Scholar

  • The 2011 Latin American Business Environment – Has the Region Turned the Corner?”

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If you have any questions, please contact Angelina Cotler, Assoc. Director (cotler@illinois.edu)