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Fall 1996
Wednesday, October 2: The Department of English sponsors a talk by CAROLYN COOPER of the University of the West Indies (Jamaica), titled "A Tale of Two States: Language, Lit/Orature and the Two Jamaicas" at 3 pm, Rackham West Conference Room. Carolyn Cooper is the author of Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the 'Vulgar Body' of Jamaican Popular Culture (Duke, 1995). In addition to her public lecture on Wednesday, Cooper will present a video and lecture entitled "'Performance Criticism': The Video Version of Noises in the Blood," on Friday from 2-4 PM in the English Dept. lounge, 7629 Haven Hall.
Friday, October 4: GINA ULYSSE, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, will speak on "Seeking Some Truths to Demystify Some Myths: The Social Politics of Color and Class in Kingston, Jamaica." Her talk is part of the CAAS Graduate Student Brownbag Series. In the Robert E. Hayden Lounge (111 West Hall).
Monday, October 28: Everyone is invited to the presentation of the 1996-97 Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Award in the Sciences to Professor JOHN VANDERMEER of the Department of Biology. Prof. Vandermeer is well known for his work on tropical ecology in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. At the presentation, he will lecture on "Maintenance of Biological Diversity in Neotropical Rainforests." The lecture and award presentation will take place at 4:00 pm in the Rackham Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School. Reception to follow. (For information, call 764-1125.)
Friday, November 1: The University Library has scheduled a special INTERNET CLASS focused on LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES. This class, which will explore internet resources of interest to all Latin Americanists, will be held at the UGL computing site (that's 2054 Undergraduate Library). For more information or to register, call Graduate Library Reference at 763-1539, or send your e-mail to: jdlapp@umich.edu. Class size is limited, so register early.
Tuesday, November 12: Assistant Director General of UNESCO for Culture and Global Change (Paris) and Professor of Anthropology at UNAM (Mexico City), LOURDES ARIZPE will deliver the UN Report on the World Commission for Culture and Development at 3 pm in room 6050 ISR (the large seminar room). Afterwards she will discuss her book, Culture and Global Change: Social Perceptions of Deforestation in the Lacandona Rain Forest in Mexico (University of Michigan Press, 1996). The talk is sponsored by U-M's Culture and Cognition Program. The first part of the talk (as tentatively planned) will concern world trends and policies related to the human dimensions of global change. The second part will speak to the respective contributions of the international community, local government, indigenous peoples and immigrants to the problems of rain forest sustainability and to possible solutions.
Wednesday, November 13: The CSST colloquium will feature SUEANN CAULFIELD, "'For King Albert to See': Gender Politics and the 1920 Visit of Belgian Monarchs to Rio de Janeiro." When King Albert and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium visited Rio de Janeiro in 1920, exorbitant government investments in urban beautification and attempts by the police to enforce "civilized" norms of public decorum provoked tremendous controversy. The focus on family values and sexual morality in debates over how to best represent the city and the nation to European royalty illuminate the ways that conflicts over appropriate gender norms were inseparable from broader battles over the authority to define the city's social characteristics and the nation's cultural traditions and political future. At 4pm, 4051 LS&A.
Thursday, November 14: MIGUEL CENTENO will give a talk entitled "War and State-Making in Latin America" at 4 pm, room 4050 LSA. Centeno is Professor of Sociology at Princeton and candidate for a tenured position in Sociology and in the Residential College, and he is the author of Democracy Within Reason: Technocratic Revolution in Mexico, now entering a second edition, with a Spanish language edition out soon as well.
Thursday, November 14: DEBORAH TUCKER, a Cherokee and African American woman and Multicultural Librarian at WSU will discuss "A Braided History," on the common roots of African and Native Americans, based on 20 years of research into their interactions. In the Kuenzel Room of the Michigan Union, 7 pm; followed by reception with food. Sponsored by the Students of Color of Rackham Graduate Organization and the African and Native American Programs Task Force as part of Celebrating Native American Heritage Month.
Monday, November 18: At noon, the Women's Studies Program presents "The Guatemala Accompaniment Project: A Seed of Hope in the Refugee Return," a slide presentation and discussion with ANDREA WALSH, U-M Linguistics '84. Andrea Walsh lived and worked in Guatemala and southern Mexico for three years. In her presentation she will describe the background of Guatemalan refugee's situation in Mexico, their return process, as well as discuss the current struggle and the need for accompaniment. Please join the discussion and learn more about Guatemala and ways to work to help in an international human rights effort. 12 noon-1pm, Women's Studies Lounge, 234 West Hall.
Monday, November 18: At 7:30 pm, come hear RANDALL SHEA give an inside look at one Guatemalan community's efforts to rebuild their lives, "There is Nothing Hidden That Will Not Be Disclosed: A United States Citizen Accompanies a Guatemalan Community as They Remember Their Past and Start Life over after Twelve Years in Refuge." Shea has worked with Witness for Peace among a community of displaced Guatemalans since 1991. In 1994 Mr. Shea accompanied the people of this community as they returned to their rainforest village in northwestern Guatemala, where he is now director of the secondary school. In 1995 he wrote and directed a play based on the survivors' testimonies describing their community's traumatic history. Shea will be joined in his presentation by Andrea Walsh. Afterwards he will show a 20-minute Spanish language video based on the play, The Past Is With Us. This talk and slide presentation is cosponsored by the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, and the Overseas Development Network. 7:30 PM in the Parker Room, on the second floor of the Michigan Union
Saturday, December 7: DOMINICAN CULTURAL NIGHT. Come to a showing of the Dominican film Nueba Yol and a demonstration of Dominican cuisine, with samples for everyone. Sponsored by Alianza, M-Flicks, LACS, and other departments. Dominican Cultural Night begins at 6 pm in room 173 of Lorch Hall. Nueba Yol, the biggest box office hit this year in the Dominican Republic, is a comedy in Spanish with English subtitles and a running time of 104 minutes. It will be shown at 8 pm in Lorch Hall Auditorium. Admission is free, with a suggested $1.00 donation for a scholarship for a continuing Latino Student at UM.
EL MARIACHI MICHICANO cordially invites you to attend their end of term concert performance. Tuesday, December 10, 1996, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pendelton Room of the Michigan Union. El Mariachi Michicano will be joined by university foklorico dancers for this festive occasion. We hope you will come help celebrate this evening of traditional Mexicano musics. For more information, please contact: michicano@umich.edu.
Tuesday, December 17: There will be a Population Studies Center Brownbag talk at noon, presented by Dr. LUIZ RAMOS, professor Gerontology at the Center for the Study of Aging, Federal University of São Paulo. The topic of Professor Ramos's talk will be: "Mortality Risk Factors in a Two-Year Follow-up of Community Elderly Residents in São Paulo, Brazil." Large Conference Room, Population Studies Center, 1225 S. University Ave.
Winter 1997
Saturday, January 11: Zion Lutheran Church (1501 W. Liberty) will host a meeting entitled "2005 AD: Building that Bridge, One Microloan at a Time." Join Congresswomen Debbie Stabenow and Lynn Rivers, and Michigan microcredit borrowers, in a public forum about an international plan to alleviate poverty. (The organizer of this event has worked with microcredit–very small business loans–in El Salvador). From 2 to 4 pm, in the Piper Hall fellowship room.
Thursday, January 23: The Archeology Brown Bag will be on "The Use of Artificial Intelligence to Analyze Hunter-Gatherer Living Floors in Oaxaca, Mexico," by ROBERT REYNOLDS and KENT FLANNERY; noon to 1 pm, 2009 Ruthven Museums.
Thursday, January 23: Renowned U.S. Puerto Rican poet MARTIN ESPADA will visit UM in commemoration of Martin Luther King Day. Author of five collections of poetry, including Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover's Hands and his latest, Imagine the Angels of Bread, Espada teaches Creative Writing and U.S. Latino poetry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He will read from his poetry at 7:30 pm in the Kuenzel Room of the Michigan Union. In addition, Espada will offer a brown bag presentation from 11:30 to 1 pm in the 4th Floor Commons Lounge, Romance Languages, MLB, and will be signing books from 2 to 4 pm at Shaman Drum Books on South State Street.
Friday, January 24: Latino MLK Dialogue. The Cuban American Student Association is sponsoring an "Informal Dialogue with Dolores Prida," at 7 pm in the Kuenzel Room of the Michigan Union. Cuban American Playwright and University of Michigan visiting Professor Dolores Prida has published several works, including Beautiful Señoritas, Coser y Cantar, and her most recent work, Botánica. "Prida has mapped the urban landscape and covered most of the important topics of her time- feminism, racism, classism, and bilingualism-biculturalism." She will speak on the African presence in Cuban culture, the Cuban presence in the US, as well as her works as a playwright.
Monday, January 27: Professor JOHN RICKFORD of Stanford University will speak on "African American Language and Culture: Roots & Branches," at 3:00 pm in the Rackham Assembly Hall. Refreshments will be served. Born in Guyana, Prof. Rickford (Ph.D., Pennsylvania) is well known for his work on Creole languages. He has edited several volumes on Creole linguistics, and is the author of "Dimensions of a Creole Continuum" (Stanford 1987). Among his current projects is a book for Cambridge University Press, African American Vernacular English. Preceding the afternoon colloquium, Professor Rickford will present a workshop on the morning of Monday, January 27. The workshop, titled "Decreolization, Divergence, and Other Issues in the Study of African-American Vernacular English," will be held from 10:15 to 11:45 in 3050 Frieze. Please contact Bonny Sands (bsands @umich.edu) for the workshop or if you are interested in attending a pay-yor-own-way lunch with John Rickford at Zanzibar. This event, co-sponsored by LACS, Linguistics, and Anthropology, is the first in the LACS Winter 1997 Colloquium Series on "The Politics of Language." From the latest Chronicle of Higher Ed (Jan. 17, 1997, p. A16): "'There has been so much public discussion that is just uninformed about the nature of African-American Vernacular English, or ebonics," says John Rickford, a professor of linguisitics at Stanford University.... (The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who had quickly condemned Oakland's decision, changed his mind after meeting with several linguists, including Dr. Rickford.)
Wednesday, January 29: The CSST colloquium will feature JULIE SKURSKI, who will speak on "Inseminating the Nation: Masculine Desire and State Power in Venezuela"; at 4 pm in the seminar room, 4010 LS&A.
Monday, February 3: Portuguese architect JOÃO CARRILHO DA GRAÇA will deliver the opening lecture for the Slusser Gallery exhibition of recent develpments in Portuguese architecture, "Portugal of Sea, Stone, and Cities." Okay, so it's not Latin American, but some of you may be interested. The exhibit was highly praised by the New York Times; it will be at the Slusser Gallery, Art and Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd., through February 15 (open 11 am - 4 pm), before moving on to Brasilia.
February 1-8: Xicano History Week. For more information, contact <xikano@umich.edu. Here are a couple of the events scheduled:
Thursday, February 6: LACS and Romance Languages will sponsor a "Brazilian Festinha" in the MLB from 10 am to 5 pm, with talks by U-M professors and students and screenings of Brazilian films.
The speaker series, at the Commons, rooms 4308-4310 on the 4th floor of MLB, begins at 1:00 pm with a talk and slide presentation by Barbara Cervenka, lecturer in the School of Art and award winning artist, on "O Pelourinho! An Exhibition of Popular Art from the Historic Heart of Brazil," a recent, unique exhibition curated by Barbara.
Film and documentary screenings, at the Video Viewing Room next to the Language Lab (2nd Floor MLB), begin at 10 am with a news broadcast, followed at 10:30 with "Carnaval da Bahia," at 11 with "Brasil Cultural," & at noon with "Red, Hot, Rio." After an afternoon break, films resume at 5 pm with the Brazilian hit O Quatrilho, followed at 7 with Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands. The Festinha will also feature a few samplings of Brazilian cuisine, based on Afro-Native Brazilian-European influences, with a combination of Brazilian and not-so-typical appetizers and desserts.
Thursday, February 6: The Museum of Archeology Brown Bag talk will be "Body of Evidence: Excavating Argentina's Desaparecidos" presented by ZOE CROSSLAND. From 12 noon to 1 pm, in 2009 Ruthven Museums.
Saturday, February 8: "CARIBFEST '97, A Celebration of Caribbean Culture." From 1:30 to 4 pm, in the Kuenzel Room of the Michigan Union. Free to the public. "Come out and see the Caribbean contribution to Black History, and enjoy some island culture, arts, and entertainment."
February 8 - 22: Cuban Dance Classes; Saturdays in February at the Dance Gallery (111 Third St. between Huron and Washington). Performer, Teacher, Ethnologist and Choreographer, Ms. Pérez has focused on the unique styles of her native Oriente province in Eastern Cuba. Oriente offers a particularly rich cultural heritage due to the introduction of Afro-Haitian influences to an already vibrant Afro-Cuban context. This heritage includes dances such as Gaga. Vodu, Tajona, Haitian Bembe, Tumba Francesa, as well as Rumba, Comparsa, and Chanceltas. Remaining classes are on Saturday, February 8, 5:30 - 7 pm; February 15, 3 - 4:30 pm; and February 22, 3 - 4:30 pm. Single Class, $9; three class card, $21. For more information, call 764-1122 or (313) 345-5667.
Wednesday, February 12: Romance Languages announces a lecture by RENATA WASSERMAN, Professor of English at Wayne State University, on "Ideas across the Atlantic: Two Brazilian Naturalist Novels." Prof. Wasserman is the author of Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in Brazil and the United States, 1830-1930; numerous articles on Brazilian literature; and coeditor of Reading with a Difference: Gender, Race, and Cultural Identity.
Friday, Feb. 14: In celebration of Chicano History Week, the Women's Studies Program and La Voz Mexicana present ANA CASTILLO, reading from her work, at 1 pm in the Women's Studies Lounge, 232D West Hall. Ana Castillo is a celebrated Chicana writer and co-founder of the literary magazine Third Woman. Her work has been critically acclaimed and widely anthologized. Her novels include So Far From God, The Mixquiahuala Letters, and Sapogonia; poetry includes Women Are Not Roses and My Father Was a Toltec.
Saturday, February 15: For kids and chocolate lovers: "The Natural History of Chocolate," at the Exhibit Museum of Natural History (1109 Geddes), from 9 am to 5 pm. Special guests include Rand Turner of El Rey Chocolates of Venezuela, and culinary historian Maricel Presilla. Kids' activities, door prizes, samples.
Friday-Saturday, February 21-22: Students of Color of Rackham (SCOR) 7th Annual Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference, "Voices in a Mosaic: Creating Multicultural Communities in the Academy." Rackham 4th Floor Assembly Hall. Several LACS graduate students are presenting papers at this conference. More details at LACS office.
Saturday, Feburary 22: SALVADOR BALCORTA (Executive Director, Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe) and LUCILA NERENBERG, MD (UM Medical School), will speak on "Strengthening Our Bonds: Working Together To Improve the Health of Our Community" at 7 pm, Michigan Union-Kuenzel Room. Lucila Nerenberg has done extensive work in the field of migrant health. Salvador Balcorta is a prominent community activist; he will also do a brown bag discussion, "Empowering Our Communities," at 12:30 pm the same day, School of Public Health II, Room M1138.
Monday, February 24: The Research Seminar in International Economics presents GORDON H. HANSON (U. Texas), who will speak on "Illegal Immigration, Border Enforcement, and Relative Wages: Evidence from Apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico Border." (Paper coauthored with Antonio Spilimbergo, InterAmerican Development Bank). At 11:40 am (note special time), in Room B0205, Business Administration. The paper will be available in Foster Library and on the web: http://www.spp.umich.edu/
Monday, February 24: JAVIER SANJINES (Duke University in the Andes) will speak on "From the Letter to the Real: Political Culture in Bolivia" at 5 pm, Fourth Floor Commons - MLB. Prof. Sanjines is the author of "Estetica y Carnaval: Ensayos de Sociologia de la Cultura" and "Literatura contemporanea y grotesco social en Bolivia" and edited (with Jose Rabasa and Robert Carr) "Dispositio/n 46: Subaltern Studies in the Americas." His current research is on the metaphors of the skeletal, the carnal and visceral as modes of writing "little histories." He is a candidate for the position of Latin American Literature (Andean Literature).
Tuesday, February 25: Womens Studies, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and Political Science present a talk by MONSERRAT SAGOT (Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Women's Studies Graduate Program, University of Costa Rica) at 4 pm in 5638 Haven Hall. Professor Sagot, a long-time activist in the women's movement in Central America and a consultant on gender issues to the Pan American Health Organization, the International Labor Organization, and CARE International, will speak on "Women's Citizenship and the Construction of Democracy in Central America."
Thursday, February 27: "Methodological Reflections on Culture and History Conference Workshop," 8:30 am - 6 pm, East Conference Room of Rackham. During this day-long event, several LACS graduate students will give papers on El Salvador, Brazil, Martinique, Curacao, and more. Complete program from LACS or Theresa Lynn Truax <ttruax@umich.edu
Thursday-Friday, February 27-28: Special CRSO visiting lectuer CAROL BENGLESDORF (Hampshire College) will give two talks. First the 4 pm CRSO brownbag on "Opening and Closing in Cuban Intellectual Life," Thursday in 4051 LSA. Then a lecture on Friday at 4 pm titled "Cuba: Machismo, Nationalism and the Racial Construction of Sexuality," in 4050 LSA. A reception immediately follows the talk.
Friday, March 14: RACHEL ALBALAK will defend her dissertation, "Cultural Patterns and Exposure to Air Pollution from Indoor Biomass Cooking: Effects on Respiratory Health and Nutritional Status among the Aymara Indians of Bolivian Highlands," 2 pm at the Commons of the Ctr. for Human Growth & Development, 10th floor of 300 N. Ingalls Bldg.
Friday, March 14: LOUISE BURKHART will speak on "Nahua Christianity: Documenting a Colonial Religion," at 4:10 pm in the Executive Conference Room (2553 LSA). Reception to follow. Prof. Burkhart is a renowned scholar of the religion in central Mexico and the author of "The Slippery Earth: Nahua-Christian Moral Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico" (Arizona, 1989) and "Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico" (Pennsylvania, 1996).
Friday-Sunday, March 14-16: UOMARA, a Capoeira teacher from New York City who studied for 7 years with mestre Joao Grande, will give a series of five Capoeira workshops. He will also hold a mass meeting about Capoeira for the Ann Arbor Capoeira Club on Tuesday, March 11th from 7 to 9 pm in the Michigan Union, room TBA. There is a fee for the Sat. and Sun. workshops. For more info, contact Zilia C. Estrada, e-mail: zestrada@umich.edu.
Saturday, March 15: U-M hosts the 20th Annual Midwest Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology and Ethnohistory. West Conference Room, Rackham Building, 8 am - 5 pm.
Thursday March 20: At 7 pm,Venezuelan composer/singer IRENE FARRERA will appear at Trotter House (1443 Washtenaw) as a part of Latin American Week Celebration.
Friday, March 21: Women's Studies "Celebrating Women's History Month" presents MONSERRAT SAGOT, Chair of the Women's Studies Graduate Program and Assoc. Prof. of Sociology at the University of Costa Rica, "The Critical Route of Women Affected by Domestic Violence in Central America." 12 noon, WS Lounge, 232D West Hall [aka West Engineering]. For more information, please contact Women's Studies, 763-2047.
Friday-Saturday, March 21-22: LACS and a host of co-sponsors present an international conference on music in Latin(o) America, "THE RHYTHMS OF CULTURE: DANCING TO LAS AMERICAS." This conference will promote dialogue among scholars from various disciplines who work on U.S. Latino and Latin American popular musics. For more information, contact: <latino.popular.musics@umich.edu; phone: 763-1460 or 764-9934. The conference keynote speakers are:
Saturday, March 22: At the conclusion of the RHYTHMS OF CULTURE conference LACS will host our annual reception and party. Beginning at 8:30 pm in the Michigan Room of the Michigan League. Food, music!
Tuesday, March 25: SUEANN CAULFIELD will give a talk at 8 pm in the History Faculty Meeting Room, 1014 Tisch Hall (still better known as the Angell Hall Connector). The title of her talk is "Single Mothers, Modern Daughters, and the Politics of Freedom and Virginity in Rio de Janeiro, 1920-1940."
Friday, March 28: ALEXANDRA STERN (History, U. Chicago) will talk on "The Politics of Somatic Control: Eugenics and the Construction of the US-Mexican Border, 1910-1930," in the Sawyer Seminar, 10 am - 12 noon, 361 Lorch Hall.
Friday, March 28: ANDREW DARLING will defend his thesis, "Obsidian Distribution and Exchange in the North-Central Frontier of Mesoamerica," 1 pm, at 2009 Museums Bldg.
Friday, March 28: LACS and the Department of History will present the Aiton Lecture, given this year by distinguished Argentine historian TULIO HALPERIN DONGHI, who will speak on "The Changing Past of a Nation in Crisis: The Trajectory of Argentine Revisionismo Historico." Prof. Halperin is the author of many books on the history of Latin America, including "The Contemporary History of Latin America," "The Aftermath of Revolution in Latin America," "Politics, Economics and Society in Argentina in the Revolutionary Period," and "Sarmiento, Author of a Nation," to mention only those published in English translation. The Aiton Lecture is sponsored by History and LACS and will be held at 4 pm in the Executive Conference Room (2553 LSA).
Saturday, March 29: In the CSST graduate student conference "Seen Worlds and Worlds of Being: Questions of Appearance and Experience," 9 am at Rackham's Assembly Hall, the following LACS students will present papers:
PAUL EISS, "Santiago Pacheco Cruz, Propaganda Agent: From Theaters of Power to the Powers of Theater in Yucatán, Mexico, 1914-1924" and ELLEN MOODIE, "Single Image, Multiple Visions: The Police Uniform as Icon of Authority and Symbol of Crime" (both in session beginning at 11 am); SAMIRI HERNÁNDEZ-HIRALDO, "Negotiations of Religious Identifications as Strategies for Interreligious Conflict Management (Puerto Rico)" (session beginning at 2 pm).
Thursday-Saturday, April 3-5: The School of Dance sponsers an international conference on MUSIC AND DANCE OF AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA. Of special interest to LACS is the session on Thursday, 4 - 5:30 pm, "Music and Identity in the African Diaspora," with readings by Jamaican poet LORNA GOODISON and papers on music in Curaçao, Jamaica, and Brazilian Capoeira; and the lecture/presentation by ISAURA OLIVEIRA, Federal University of Bahia School of Dance, at 9 am on Friday April 4. For registration or more info, contact Sam Cronk <leftfld@umich.edu, 936-1443.
Friday, April 4: The Mid-Michigan Seminar for Colonial Studies presents MARY HEDBERG (Saginaw Valley State U) leading a discussion of her paper, "And Here is Owed -- yxu hati minvantsqua: The Politics of Language/The Language of Politics in Sixteenth Century Mexico," 3:30 in the Clements Library; reception follows.
Saturday, April 5 through Sunday, April 12: The Latin American Film Festival at the Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty. All films are in Spanish or Portuguese with English subtitles:
Tuesday, April 8: You are invited to an informal discussion with Professor CLIVE THOMAS at 4 pm in Rm 122 Tyler, East Quad. Professor Thomas is Director of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Guyana, and was recently appointed George L. Beckford Distinguished Chair of Caribbean Economy at the University of the West Indies. He was co-founder with the late Walter Rodney of the Working People's Alliance of Guyana, in which he continues to be active, and has authored several influential books on the economics and politics of Caribbean dependency and poverty, decolonization, and social transformation. Prof. Thomas will be passing through Ann Arbor en route to the Caribbean conference at MSU and has kindly agreed to share some of his thoughts regarding his current book project on alternatives to neoliberalism in the Caribbean. A copy of a recent paper by Thomas, "Globalisation, Structural Adjustment and Security: The Collapse of the Post-Colonial Developmental State in the Caribbean," is available at CAAS.
Thursday, April 10: Romance Languages at Wayne State presents a lecture by Chicano Novelist ROLANDO HINOJOSA, at 3:30 pm in the African American Room, 91 Manoogian Hall, Wayne State University (just 45 minutes down I 94). Prof. Hinojosa (University of Texas - Austin) will read from his works and discuss Latina/o urbanization in his native Texas. He is the author of thirteen published novels, and the first U.S. citizen to win the prestigious Casa de Las Americas prize. Reception to follow.
Friday, April 11: PEDRO PICK will speak on "Challenges for Latin America's Managers and Policy Makers in the Global Economy," from 10 to 11:30 am in Room B1276 of the Business School. Pedro Pick is the former Senior Vice President of Arthur D. Little, Inc. in charge of Latin America, currently Director of Reditus in the Czech Republic and member of numerous boards of European companies.
Friday-Saturday, April 11-12: The 1996-7 Sawyer Seminar, "Aftermath of Empire," will culminate with the conference "Projecting Colonialism: Disciplines, Desires, Designs." Highlights for LACS will be the keynote address by Dr. JUAN FLORES, director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, "The 'Lite Colonial'? Puerto Rico and the Diversions of Empire," Friday at 1 pm in the Henderson Room, Michigan League; and a premiere showing of Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, the new film by British director Isaac Julien on the life and work of Frantz Fanon, followed by a discussion with producer Mark Nash, at 7:30 pm in the Natural Sciences Auditorium.
On Tuesday, April 15, the King/Chavez/Park Visiting Professor Program "Indigenous Healing: Alive and Well?" begins with a brown bag lecture/discussion on "Rain Forest Therapeutics" by MARK J. PLOTKIN, noon- 1:30 pm, School of Nursing, Rm. 1334, 400 N. Ingalls. A public symposium follows, "Traditional Healing in the Diaspora," by CRISTINO B. PEREZ, and "Odyssey into Healing: Perspective of a Shaman's Apprentice," by Mark J. Plotkin, 3 - 5:30 pm, Pendleton Room, Michigan Union. A reception/book signing follows. Sponsored by the U-M School of Nursing & Office of the Vice Provost for Academic and Multicultural Affairs.
Thursday, April 17: Archaeology Brown Bag, "Contexts of Vertebrate Use at Tikal, Guatemala" by HATTULA MOHOLY NAGY, at noon in 2009 Ruthvens Museum.
Tuesday, April 22: EL MARIACHI MICHICANO will celebrate the season with an End of the Term Concert at 7:30 pm in the East Quad, South Cafeteria Area.
Saturday-Sunday, April 26-27: Asst. Profs. of Dance SANDRA TORRIJANO DE YOUNG and EVELYN VELEZ-AGUAYO will do two of the seven new dance performances featured in Ann Arbor Dance Works' 13th Annual Spring Concert. In the Betty Pease Studio Theater (adjacent to CCRB), 1310 North University Court; Saturday at 8 pm and Sunday at 2 pm. Info: Michigan League Ticket Office, 764-0450.
Wednesday, April 30: Shaman Drum Bookshop will hold a reception and book signing for Prof. JEFFREY PAIGE to celebrate his new book Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America (Harvard). "Mr. Paige, a sociologist at the University of Michigan specializing in the study of revolutions, sets forth a sweeping historical analysis of the encouraging yet still fragile emergence of democracy in Central America" (from the review in last Sunday's New York Times Book Review). From 4 to 6 pm, at 311 South State St.
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University of Michigan.