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Calendar of Current and Upcoming Events
Winter 1998 Events:
Film Series - January - February - March - AprilEvents Archive:
Events, Fall 1997 - Events, 1996-97Latin American Cinema, Culture and Society (Spanish 485.002). The series is free (except as noted) and open to the U-M public, so please drop in! Films are subtitled in English. There are two weekly screenings:
Wednesdays, 4 to 6 pm, at 1400 Chemistry
Thursdays, 5 to 7 pm, at 1300 Chemistry
Jan 21 & 22 LA HORA DE LOS HORNOS (The hour of the furnaces, Argentina, 1969, F. Solanas-O. Getino)
Jan 28 & 29 LA TIERRA PROMETIDA (The promised land, Chile, 1973, M. Littin)
Feb 4 & 5 EL CORAJE DEL PUEBLO (The courage of the people, Bolivia, 1971, J. Sanjinés)
Feb 11 & 12 LA MUERTE DE UN BUROCRATA (Death of a bureaucrat, Cuba, 1966, T. Gutiérrez Alea)
Feb 13-15 Special showing at the DIA (Note: This is not a free showing.) GUANTANAMERA (Cuba, 1996, T. Gutiérrez Alea)
Feb 18 & 19 LA ULTIMA CENA (The last supper, Cuba, 1976, T. Gutiérrez Alea)
Feb 25 & 26 LUCIA (Cuba, 1968, H. Solas)
Mar 11 & 12 UN HOMBRE CUANDO ES HOMBRE (A man when he is a man, Costa Rica-Chile-France, 1982, V. Sarmiento)
Mar 18 &19 FRIDA (Mexico, 1984, P. Leduc)
Mar 25 &26 YO, LA PEOR DE TODAS (I, the worst of all, Argentina, 1993, M. L. Bemberg)
Apr 1 & 2 TANGOS: EL EXILIO DE GARDEL (Tangos: The Exile of Gardel, France-Argentina, 1985, F. Solanas)
Apr 8 & 9 DANZON (Mexico, 1992, M. Novarro)
ALSO: Watch for the 1998 Latin American Film Festival, coming to the Michigan Theater in April!
January
On Monday, January 12, Visiting Prof. Luis E. Marin (prof. of Geophysics, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) will speak on "Did the Chicxulub Impact Cause the Extinction of the Dinosaurs?" The Chicxulub Impact Crater, located in Yucatan, Mexico, is recognized as one of the largest impact structures on earth. Dating to 65 million years ago, it is contemporaneous with one of the largest mass extinctions in our planet's history.
On Friday, January 16, Prof. Don Winford (Linguistics, Ohio State University) will present a bag lunch workshop on "Creoles and Contact Linguistics." 11 am to 1 pm, 3050 Frieze. This MLK symposium is co-sponsored by Linguistics and LACS. Prof. Winford will also give a colloquium at 4 pm in the Rackham Assembly Hall on "Continuity vs. Change in the History of African American Vernacular English."
The Latin & Argentine Tango Club of Detroit joins the Argentine Tango Club at the U of M to present an Argentine Tango workshop and party, Saturday, January 17, at the Michigan League Ballroom. Workshop with Tango Master Paul Milligan, noon to 4 pm -- two 90-minute classes, $7 per class. Party with DJ Chris Jerzylo, 8 pm to midnight, gen. Admission $8, students $5. Les esperamos! (Tango addicts will also look forward to seeing the new film "Tango Lesson" at the International Institute of Art in Detroit on January 30, 31 and February 1, 1998. For further information and tickets contact Amy Calio at 313 561-3236 and Paul Milligan at 248 244-8865.)
On Tuesday, January 20, Andrés Reséndez (Yale) will give a talk, "Caught between Profits and Rituals: National Contestation in Texas and New Mexico, 1821-1848," at 4 pm in the History Dept., 1014 Tisch Hall (between Angell and Haven). Prof. Reséndez is a job candidate in History and Latino/a Studies. His dissertation focuses on economic and cultural interactions among Hispanics, Anglos, and Indians in Texas and New Mexico in the years leading up to the Mexican-American War.
On Wednesday, January 21, the MLK Symposium presents Dolores Huerta, co-founder and Secretary-Treasurer of the United Farm Workers of America. Dolores Huerta grew up in California's central valley, to become an unyielding advocate for the rights of women, immigrants, and people of color. Her efforts have brought about major changes including collective bargaining for farm workers, the banning of dangerous pesticides, and an increase in the Federal minimum wage. At 6 pm in the Mendelssohn Theatre.
On Friday, January 23, the Latino Psychological Association and the Psychology Department's Committee on the Study of Culture, Class and Mental Health are proud to present, as part of the week-long MLK Day celebration, the talk "Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Latino Children in an Urban Setting," by Ana Margarita Cebollero, Director, Latino Team, Children's Hospital - Boston. At 4 pm in 4448 East Hall.
On Friday, January 23, at 4:30 pm, Ramón Soto-Crespo will lecture on "'The Navel of Dreams': Mourning Queer and Ethnic Closets in contemporary Caribbean Cultural Historiography." Prof. Soto-Crespo teaches Caribbean and Latin American literature and culture at the Univ. of Wisconsin - Green Bay, and is currently working on a book on retromodernisms in Puerto Rican culture. In the 4th Floor Commons, MLB.
From 4 to 6 pm on Thursday, January 29, Shaman Drum Bookshop hosts a reception for Prof. Frances Aparicio in honor of her two new books: Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad (University Press of New England) and Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures (Wesleyan University Press). "Tropicalizations" (coedited with Susan Chávez-Silverman) gathers together many voices to discuss "Latinidad," that imaginary colony somewhere to the south of America's cultural hegemony. "Listening to Salsa" combines sociology with musicology in its approach to the music of Puerto Rico and the pan-Caribbean.
Chicano History Week Events:
On Thursday, Feb. 5, at 4 pm in 1014 Tisch (History Dept.), in celebration of Chicano History Week, Latina/o Studies presents David G. Gutierrez (History, University of California, San Diego), "Mexican Migration and the Fragmenting of American Citizenship: Reflections on Recent History." Professor Gutierrez is a nationally-renowned scholar whose recent book Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity was awarded the 1997 W. Turrentine Jackson Award from the Western History Association. He is also the editor of Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigration in the United States and author of a book manuscript in progress, tentatively titled Ethnic Minorities and the "Nation": The Debate Over Citizenship in Recent American History.
On Thursday, Feb. 5, Barbara Yngvesson (Hamphsire College) will speak on ""Un Nino de Cualquier Color" (A Child of Any Color): Differences and Identity in Intercountry Adoption." Noon to 1:30 pm, 4051 LSA.
On Friday, Feb. 6, the MLK Film Series presents "Mi Familia" (Gregory Nava, 1995) at 5:30 pm, Chrysler Center Auditorium (near Media Union). This film traces an immigrant family's trials and triumphs in East L.A.from the 1930s to 1990s. Free film, free pizza, free pop.
Several LACS Graduate students are featured in the Eighth Annual Graduate and Professional Student Conference, "Across the Spectrum: Highlighting the Multidisciplinary Scholarships of Students of Color," organized by Students of Color of Rackham (SCOR) and held on Friday & Saturday, February 6 & 7, 1998, East & West Conference Rooms, 4th Floor, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies:
At noon on Thursday February 12, Alicia Beckford (PhD candidate in Linguistics and CEW Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellow) will present "A Tale of Two Tongues: Jamaican Creole and Jamaican English," at the Center for the Education of Women, 330 E. Liberty. Beckford's work examines the differences in the sounds of Jamaican Creole and English, within the social context that affects language structure and use. Her research is described by one expert as "crucial to programs for assisting Creole speakers in school, as well as in national efforts to develop an appropriate writing system for Jamaican Creole."
Friday, Feb. 13, noon: Enid L. Logan (Sociology) will talk on "Racial Formation in Early 20th Century Cuba: Black Political Activism and The Partido Independiente de Colo in Pinar del Rio, 1906-1912" in the CAAS Graduate Student Brownbag Series. CAAS Seminar Room, 109 West Hall.
Friday, February 13, Jane Hill, U. Arizona, "Where do Whorfian Effects Happen?" 4 pm, 4560 LSA.
On Friday, Feb. 13, the University Musical Society presents Juan-José Mosalini and His Grand Tango Orchestra at 8 pm in the Rackham Auditorium. Tickets: University Musical Society.
Rosa Merchand-Arias (Anthropology) will defend her dissertation on women's shelters in Puerto Rico on Monday, February 16, 4 pm, in 2033 LSA.
On Wednesday, Feb. 18, Associate Provost & Prof. of Music Lester P. Monts will speak on "A Journey of Rhythm (from Africa to America)" at 7 pm in the Coman Lounge, Bates II, North Campus. Dr. Monts is the Vice Provost for Academic & Multicultural Affairs. He has done research in the field of Ethnomusiology and will share his findings on the various forms of music originating from African culture, including African rhythms, Carribean music, hip-hop, R&B, and Gospel music. Free food will be served.
At noon on Thursday, Feb. 19, DuBois-Mandela-Rodney Fellow Mimi Sheller will give a CRSO brown-bag talk in the Sociology Dept. on "The Political Sociology of Afro-Caribbean Societies: A Cultural Perspective." The talk will concern comparative historical perspectives on processes of democratization and de-democratization in the post-emancipation Caribbean, with special emphasis on the cultural analysis of political claim-making. Room 4051 LSA.
Caribfest '98, "Caribbeans' contribution to Black History," is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 21 from 12 noon to 4 pm in the Michigan Union U-Club. It will feature lecturers, storytelling, a Caribbean dance troup, poetry, Caribbean drama, art work, free food, and the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band! In conjuction with Caribfest, the Caribbean People's Association invites you to participate in their annual Poetry and Essay Contest. For fellow students who are of Caribbean descent, topics of poetry, prose, or essays may highlight a) your caribbean lifestyle; b) Carribean themes. For fellow students who are not of Carribbean descent, poetry, prose or essays should highlight African-American experience. Entries are due Wednesday, February 18 in room 4341 of the Union by 5 pm.
On Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 4 pm in 4633 Haven Hall, Catherine Benamou (Duke) will speak on "Inter-American Media in the Age of Nafta: Towards a Culture of Ambivalence." Benamou has published on Latin American women's cinema, inter-American representation during World War II, and Philippine cinema. In 1993, she was assistant producer of IT'S ALL TRUE, based on an unfinished film by Orson Welles. She is now researching Spanish-language television and the transcultural dynamics of media transmission and reception in Los Angeles.
On Thursday, Feb. 26, Marta Tienda (Princeton Univ.) will speak on "Color and Opportunity." Using Chicago as a case study, Prof. Tienda will examine how economic inequality is produced and maintained, by analyzing the welfare and work behavior of Black, white, Puerto Rican and Mexican parents in poor inner-city neighborhoods. At 4 pm in the Clements Library; reception follows.
On Friday, February 27, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program is sponsoring a Brown Bag on "The Latin American City and Globalization," featuring ALEJANDRO FLORIAN BORBON (Colombia), an expert on social policy, housing rights, and the building of Latin American cities, and JUAN CARLOS TREJO JIMENEZ (Mexico), who will speak on the polarizing effects that globalization has had on Mexican cities. Noon to 1 PM in room 2222 Art and Architecture Building (North Campus). This brown bag, sponsored by LACS and the International Institute, is being held in conjunction with the international symposium on "The City, Space and Globalization."
There will be several Latin Americanists participating in the symposium on the City and Globalization, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Feb. 26-28, in the Art and Architecture Building (North Campus):
The Symposium will also feature the following poster exhibits on Latin American cities:
Wednesday, Mar. 18, 8 pm: Los Muñequitos de Matanzas. Power Center. Tickets: University Musical Society.
On Friday, March 20, at 2 pm in 1040 Dana (Natural Resources), Mac Chapin (Director, Native Lands) will speak on "Defending Indigenous Lands and Natural Resources in Central America." From 1967 to 1970, Dr. Chapin (PhD, Anthropology, U. Arizona) lived with the Kuna Indians of Panama, and since then has been working with indigenous peoples throughout Central America. He directed the Central America Program at Cultural Survival from 1987 through 1993, then formed the Center for the Support of Native Lands, a non-profit affiliated with the Tides Center in San Francisco, California. Native Lands works with indigenous organizations in Central America to protect their lands, their natural resources, and their cultural and political autonomy. In 1995, Dr. Chapin was awarded a Pew Fellowship in Biodiversity Conservation. If you want to meet with Dr. Chapin, please contact Helda Morales <hmorales@umich.edu>. Dr. Chapin will be available March 20, 8 am - 1 pm and 4 to 6 pm, and March 21, 8 am - noon.
Wed, March 25, the Dept. of Anthropology Work in Progress series presents David Frye, "Mexico: Maps and Territories," at noon in 3058 LSA.
On Thursday, March 26, Martha Ojeda, Executive Director of the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, will speak on "Organizing across Borders: Sweatshops in Mexico and the U.S.," at 7:30 pm in Room 2105 Michigan Union, 2nd Floor. This is the keynote address for the 1998 Women's History Month celebration.
Dancer Ruben T. Ornelas will present, as his MFA Thesis Dance Concert, a group piece entitled "Siren Tears" which draws on images from Mexican folklore. This dance theater work is based on a whimsical tale about lost love and is performed to the recorded music of the "hotter-than-jalapeno" bandleader Juan Garcia Esquivel. Thursday through Saturday, March 26-28, at 8 pm in the Betty Pease Theater, Dance building (at Geddes and Washtenaw, right next to CCRB). Admission $5.
Thursday, Mar. 26. CSST Faculty Seminar: Nancy Hewitt. Discussion of pre-circulated book chapter: "Forging Activist Identities: Latin, African American and Anglo Women in Tampa, Florida, 1880-1940." SSWB Rm 2609, 8 pm.
Friday, March 27, noon: Edward A. Fergus (Education), Tiffany Lightbourn (Social Psychology), and Sherri-Ann Butterfield (Sociology) will speak on "Caribbean Immigrants at Home and Abroad: Discrimination, Adaptation, and Perceptions of Opportunity," in the CAAS Graduate Student Brownbag Series. CAAS Seminar Room, 109 West Hall.
Saturday, Mar. 28, 8:30 am - 3:30 pm. Global Education Workshops for Teachers on Religions in the World: Latin America and the Caribbean. For more information, contact David Frye (dfrye@umich.edu).
This Saturday, March 28, the graduate students of Romance Languages will present the Seventh Annual Charles F. Fraker Conference, from 8:30 am to 6:30 pm at Canterbury House (721 East Huron St.) The program (available at Romance Languages) deals with both Spanish and Latin American literature, languages, and art.
At 7 pm on Saturday, March 28, the Theatre Company "Estraperlo," formed by students in Spanish 373, is pleased to announce the performance of the play: "No moleste, calle y pague, Senora." This 25-minute performance will take place in MLB, Aud 4; it is in Spanish, with a brief introduction in English. The play is concerned with the discrimination and mistreatment of women. Three women are presented, each faced with a personal dilemma. Upset with their situation, they fight out against their abuse and try to find solutions to their problems. Unfortunately their society is not yet ready to hear their pleas.
Saturday, Mar. 28, 8 pm. Paco de Lucía and His Flamenco Orchestra. Hill Auditorium. Tickets: University Musical Society.
Sunday, 29 March, at The Ark (316 S. Main, downtown Ann Arbor), storyteller Aurora Levins Morales gives a dramatic reading of her original prose poetry retelling the history of working women around the world. "Remedios: Medicine Stories from the Lives of Puerto Rican Women and Our Kin." At 1 pm; $5 at the door. 761-1451. Levins Morales is the nationally known author of "Getting Home Alive" and other poems and stories.
Sunday, March 29, the Women's History Month Film Series will show two documentaries, "Labor Beat: Women Visit a Gap Store" and "The Face Behind the Label." In the first, two young women from a Guatemalan maquiladora visit a Chicago Gap store that sells the shirts they make, and explain how their labor is exploited; in the second, we see the exploitative maquiladora first-hand. 7:30 pm, Angell Hall Auditorium D.
April
Artist Patricia Ruiz-Bayon has an ongoing sculpture exhibition, through April 14 in the Slusser Gallery (Art and Architecture Building, North Campus), open Mon-Sat 11 am to 4 pm. Ruiz-Bayon writes: "Esta es la parte de la primera fase de mi investigacion en el departamento de Antropologia que estoy ligando al departamento de Arte y tiene raices e inspiracion en las figuras femeninas Pre-Colombinas."
Wed, April 1. Center for European Studies Keynote Speaker and CSST Colloquium. Tzvetan Todorov, Centre de Recherche Nationale, Paris. "The Memory of Violence." Alumni Center, 1636 SSWB, 4 - 6 pm.
At the Noon Archaeology Brown Bag on Thursday, April 2, Prof. Maria Dulce Gaspar of the Natural History Museum of Rio de Janeiro will speak on "Prehistoric Shell Mounds of Brazil." Room 2009, Museum of Natural History. Supported by Anthropology and LACS.
Thu, April 2. Tzvetan Todorov will lead a graduate seminar from 2 to 5 pm in the Comparative Lit seminar room (contact Herman Rust, German, for info); and the CSST Faculty Seminar on "Rethinking Humanism" (a discussion of his pre-circulated paper), 2609 SSWB, 8 pm.
Dr. David Bray, Chair of Environmental Studies at Florida International University, will speak on Friday, April 3, from 2-3 PM in 1040 Dana (School of Natural Resources). His talk is entitled "Alternatives to Deforestation in Southern Mexico? Community-based forest management and organic coffee production." Dr. Bray served from 1989 to 1997 as Inter-American Foundation Representative for Mexico, and he co-edited "Timber, Tourists and Temples: Conservation and Development in the Maya Forest" (Island Press, 1997).
On Monday, April 6, during a session on "Gender and Intersecting Identities" by Institute for Research on Women and Gender graduate fellows, JOCELIN STITT (English) will speak on "Gender in the Contact Zone: Early Nineteenth Century British Women Imagine the Caribbean."
Tuesday, April 7 at 7:30 pm in the Anderson Room of the Michigan Union, the U-M Campaign to Ban Land Mines is showing a film, "Terror in the Minefields" (which I am told deals with land mines in Central America). Jeff Surfas of the Disarmament working group of the Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice will answer questions and speak about the Ottawa Treaty to ban land mines, and what can be done to get the US to sign it.
On Wednesday, April 8, Prof. Frank Thompson will speak on "Where Cuba is Going Now: An Eyewitness Report," at 7 pm in Room 124 East Quad, Residential College. Lecturer in Economics and Head, RC Social Sciences Program, Dr. Thompson has just returned from lecturing on development and markets at the Departmento Desarrollo Eonomico, Facultad de Economia, and Universidad de la Habana.
Friday, April 10, at noon: Gina Ulysse (Anthropology) "Bandalu Business in the Streets? Drug Trading & Its Impact on the Policing of Higglering," in the CAAS Graduate Student Brownbag Series. CAAS Seminar Room, 109 West Hall.
Among the papers to be presented at the 3rd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student and Faculty Forum (CLIFF), April 10-11, in the Anderson Room, Michigan Union, is the following: David Rojinsky, "The Fetish of Alphabetic Writing in Early-Modern Mexico," during the 11:20 am - 1 pm panel on Saturday.
Next Monday, April 13, Professor John Coatsworth will deliver the Arthur Aiton Memorial Lecture for 1998, "Central America: Dependence, Destruction, and (?) Deliverance" at at 4 pm in the Clements Library. Followed by a reception. Author of three books and numerous articles on Latin American economic and international history, Coatsworth is Professor of History and of Latin American Affairs at Harvard University and President of the American Historical Association. His research and publications have focused on the social and economic history of Mexico and the international history of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. His most recent book, The United States and Central America: The Clients and the Colossus (New York: Twayne, 1994), surveys U.S.-Central American relations since World War II. *Prof. Coatsworth's lecture opens a series of events on the history of Central American-US relations.
On Tuesday, April 14, the video "The Panama Deception" (written and edited by David Kasper, directed by Barbara Trent, 1993) will be shown at 10 am in 196 Dennison Hall, in conjunction with History 477. Open to UM students and faculty only.
On Tuesday, April 14, Professor Michael Schroeder will lecture on "Deep Continuities? Localismo, Personalismo, and Caudillismo in Central American and Nicaraguan Political Culture," at 4 pm in the History Dept. Meeting Room, 1014 Tisch Hall. Prof. Schroeder (Ph.D., U-M, 1993) is Assistant Professor of History at UM-Flint. His research and publications, including the influential article, "Horse Thieves to Rebels to Dogs" (Journal of Latin American Studies, May 1996), focus on Central American history and U.S. imperialism. He is currently working on a book manuscript, "Tragedy, Redemption, Power: The Sandino Rebellion in Las Segovias and Nicaragua, 1926-1934."
Wednesday, April 15 at 7:30 pm in the Anderson Room of the Michigan Union, the campus chapter of Amnesty International is hosting Mary Anne Perone, who will talk about her fact-finding trip to El Salvador and Guatemala. She visited the sites of mass graves and new communities and spoke to many people about the impact on Central America of the US-supported and US-trained brutal governments and armies that controlled El Salvador and Guatemala during the 1970s and 1980s.
On Thursday, April 16, Aims McGuinness (Ph.D. Candidate, History) will lecture on "Invading Panama, 1856-1989," at 10 am in 196 Dennison Hall. In conjunction with History 477. Open to UM students and faculty only.
Wayne State University will host a conference on Friday, April 17, 9 am - 4:30 pm, on "Perspectives on Caribbean Labor and Politics: Legacies of Cheddi Jagan and Michael Manley." The conference is to commemorate the lives and work of these two stalwarts of labor and politics in the Caribbean. Professor Orlando Patterson (Harvard) will give the keynote address at lunch on "At the Crossroads: Race and Ethnicity in the United States and the Caribbean." Also speaking will be Professor Clive Thomas (University of Guyana), Norman Girvan (Director of theConsortium of Graduate Schools, University of the West Indies, Jamaica), Professor Lynn Bolles (University of Maryland), and Professor Ivelaw Griffith (Florida International University). A reception will follow the conference in the Reuther Library and Archives on the Wayne State University campus. Registration for the conference is $20, and can be sent to Caribbean Labor conference, Attn: Alma Young, CULMA, 3198 F/AB, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202. For more information, call Sabrina Williams, 313-993-8045.
Saturday, Apr. 17, 9 pm - 1 am: Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, Grand Baile Final, Michigan Union Ballroom.
Looking ahead: on Friday, May 29, the Minister of Foreign Relations of Chile, who is a U-M graduate, will be in Ann Arbor for a full day of meetings and discussions; details TBA.
Announcements
NEW COURSE: The Spring half term of Linguistics 385 will consist of an interdisciplinary class which will introduce you to the major issues in teaching English as a second language and the history and culture of migrant workers in Michigan. Summer half term will be spent in a community service practicum: team-teaching basic English to Spanish-speaking migrant workers, as well as learning from this undervalued and marginalized community. The class will meet once a week in Spring (6-9 pm, Wed) to hear presentations from a range of experts, with an additional 1-hour discussion session. In Summer, students will team teach English on-site for two hours a week and meet with fellow student-instructors to discuss lesson plans. Interested? Contact Holly Cashman (hcashman@umich.edu) or Katie McGee (kfm@umich.edu). Class space is limited.
Anthropology 458-001, "Discourses and Society in Mesoamerica," will be taught in Winter 1998 only, by a visitor, Tony Berkley, a new PhD from Chicago who works on Mayan linguistic ideology and politics today. Description: "This course explores hybrid, colonial discourses and their relationship to contemporary Mayan communities. Both the language of native discourse and the representations of culture and society emergent from it display multiple voicings. This is partly because these texts were and are deeply responsive to the bilingual institutional frameworks in which they are produced and received. By reading historical and ethnographic evidence as discursive in this double sense, we will analyze the persistence, reinvention, and manipulation of Mayan cultures and languages. Topics addressed include: Genre, naming and colonial knowledge; the discursive construction of authority; reported speech, archaism, and parallelism; regional identity; narratives of continuity (rupture); and purism in Pan-Mayanism. Readings center upon colonial and postcolonial Yucatan and include other related areas as well. Students will have considerable opportunities for introducing their own perspectives through discussion and class presentations. Evaluation will be based upon participation and a final paper.
History 691, Studies in Latin American and Caribbean History (Rebecca Scott). This graduate course examines Latin American and Caribbean history in the "long nineteenth century," encompassing the period 1791-1914. We will place a particular emphasis on the linkages between economic and social history, on the one hand, and popular mobilization, on the other. We will also pay special attention to the evolution of ideologies of nationality, and to the place of questions of race and ethnicity within them. The format is that of a seminar, in which shared readings will be discussed and students will report individually on supplementary readings. Mondays, 1-3 pm, 1603 Haven Hall.
"Latin American Cinema, History, and Society," Spanish 485, section 002. Tues, Thurs, 11:30-1, with film screenings Weds 4 - 6, 1400 Chemistry. The course covers the New Latin american cinema, the social documentary, the industries of Mexico, Argentia and Brazil, and more recent productions, including comedies, musicals and epics. The extra meeting time for this course (Wednesdays from 2pm-3pm in B116 MLB) also satisfies Language Across the Curriculum credits. This section meets as UC 490, section 002. Overrides will be issued for this meeting time by LS&A once they receive a listing of the students who need the overrides. Students must then register for UC 490-002 in order to get the additional credit hour. No prerequisites.
FELLOWSHIP AND JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Announcing the 1998 LACS Summer Grant competition. Grants of $250 to $1000 are available on a competetive basis to graduate students undertaking preliminary research in Latin America and the Caribbean. Application deadline: March 16, 1998.
FELLOWSHIP. The Smithsonian Institute's Center for Museum Studies, in collaboration with the Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR), announces a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship Program, "Latino Cultural Research in a National Museum Context: Issues of Representation and Interpretation." The fellowships, a mix of residencies for scholars and museum professionals, will be interdisciplinary and will support Latino/a focused scholarship using the extensive cultural, archival, historical and professional resources which only the Smithsonian can offer. Projects will link art and the politics of public display, encompass in-depth and advanced research in the museum and curatorial fields, and contribute much-needed Latino focused perspectives and interpretations to topics within many Smithsonian collections. A different theme will be explored each year:
The third annual seminar on the History of the Atlantic World will meet for ten days at Harvard University in August. Theme for 1998: "Cultural Encounters in Atlantic Societies, 1500-1800." Applications are invited from recent PhD's or advanced doctoral students engaged in creative research on aspects of Atlantic history. Members of the Seminar, for whom travel and accommodation will be provided, will present work in progress, discuss the theme of the Seminar, and exchange views with senior scholars. It is hoped that some of the expenses of the US participants will be defrayed by their own universities. For application forms, to be returned by April 15, or information, contact Pat Denault, Administrator, International Seminar,Robinson Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. Telephone: 617-496-3066; Fax: 617-496-8869; E-mail: atlantic@fas.harvard.edu.
POSITIONS OPEN. We have information at the LACS office about the following positions:
* Two full time professor/researcher positions, one in political ecology and the other in the anthropology of religion, at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (CIESAS)-Sureste, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas.
* Post-doctoral position in Global Health Studies, University of Iowa, Center for International Studies. PhD in any health-related discipline required. Deadline Feb. 10, 1998.
* Latin American Art Historian. Tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting August 1998. The University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT).
* Augustana College (Rock Island, Illinois). Tenure-eligible appointment in Dept of Spanish for Latin Americanist specializing in culture and civilization. PhD required for tenure consideration; ABD's welcome to apply.
* For more job information, you can view the weekly H-Net Job Guide at http://www.h-net.msu.edu/jobs.
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender will select 9 graduate students to compile annotated bibliographies as part of a project on "Redefining Censorship: Gender-Based Restraints on Expression and Communication." The principal task will be to research scholarship on gender-based censorship in the following areas: law; public policy and political science; sociology and social work; psychology; feminist theory and philosophy; visual & performing arts; education; economics; and information technology. The selected students will receive a stipend of $1000. They will begin work in May, meet occasionally with program director Domna Stanton, and complete their annotated bibliographies by July. Applications should include a Vita (with e-mail and phone numbers), a brief statement of scholarly and research experience in one of the designated fields, and the names and contact information for two referees. Applications should be submitted by March 16 to IRWG, 460 West Hall. For questions contact Domna Stanton, DCS@umich.edu.
CAAS, the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the U-M, announces the 1997-98 Walter Rodney Student Essay Prize Competition. The contest is intended to encourage, in the spirit of Dr. Rodney, the Guyanese scholar, activist, and author of "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa," excellence in graduate and undergraduate scholarship on the experience of the African diaspora. Two prizes (one for graduate, one for undergraduate students) of $300 will be awarded for the best original essay on any topic in Afroamerican, Caribbean, and/or African studies by any U-M undergrad enrolled in a CAAS course during the Spring-Summer 1997, Fall 1997, or Winter 1998 terms, or any U-M grad student working on Afroamerican, Caribbean, or African topics. Papers written for courses are eligible. Essays should be no more than 6,000 words in length, and should be typed double-spaced on 8.5" by 11" paper. The title page should include name, anticipated date of graduation or candidacy status, address, and telephone. Undergraduates, include the CAAS course in which you were or are enrolled during 1997-98. Submit the original and two copies to the CAAS office, 200 West Hall, by 5 pm, Friday, March 13, 1998. For further information call 764-5513.
CAAS also announces the 1998-99 Program Theme of the Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellowship Program: "Health, Public Policy, and Communities in the African Diaspora." Historically the health needs of the black community have been ignored or considered marginal in the formation of public policies. The Center seeks applications from scholars in the social sciences and policy or health-related fields whose work addresses key health and policy issues facing black peoples in the African diaspora. This is a residential fellowship for 1998-99 academic year, at a stipend of $30,000. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in hand and be no more than ten years beyond the completion of their degree. A complete application (full curriculum vitae; three letters of recommendation, direct from referees; research prospectus and schedule of completion; writing sample) must be received by January 16, 1998. Candidates will be notified of the decision by March 15. Please respond to: Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Fellowship, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, 200 West Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092. Tel: (734) 764-5513.
The Library of Congress is accepting applications for its Mellon Foreign Area Fellowship Research Awards. The post-doctoral fellowships are designed to support research that uses the Library's unrivalled foreign-language and area-studies collections. This is the second of three years that the Mellon fellowships will be offered. Application deadline: January 15, 1998. Requirements: U.S. citizenship or permanent residency; possession of a doctoral degree; proposed second major research project with a focus on foreign-language materials. Fellowships may last from five to 11 months and can begin no sooner than August 1, 1998. Stipends: $3,000 per month, to a maximum of $33,000 for 11 months. Application forms and further information may be obtained from the Office of Scholarly Programs, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540-4860; tel. (202) 707-3302; fax (202) 707-3595; email scholarly@loc.gov.; website http://lcweb.loc.gov. Applications may be submitted by mail, fax, or e-mail.
The U-M School of Public Health is committed to increasing the opportunities in health services management for members of minority groups. As part of this commitment, the Department of Health Management of Policy offers a summer adminstrative internship program, which provides paid placements in hospitals and other health care organizations in the Detroit/Ann Arbor area. Minority students entering their junior or senior year of undergraduate study are eligible to apply. Successful applicants will show evidence of academic excellence (GPA of 2.8 or above) and a potential for leadership. Deadline for applications is March 10. Interested students should contact Joy Lindsey or Rhonda Augustine at 936-3296 (or, *for info only,* via e-mail at um_sep@umich.edu).
RESEARCH TRAINING OPPORTUNITY in Mexico for minority students and faculty. The purpose of the Fogarty International Research Program is to provide research training to undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty members who are members of underrepresented ethnic minority groups (American Indian, African-America, Latino/a) and who have Spanish communication skills. The training will take place at the Instituto Mexicano de Psiquiatria (IMP) and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, and El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) in Chiapas. Participants will work on research projects with investigators from one of the three sites and will learn about adapting available research methods for community and clinical samples of Mexicans and persons of indigenous background. For more info or to submit applications, visit the Fogarty website, http://www.lifesci.ucla.edu/psychology/Resources/fogarty/, or contact: lopez@psych.ucla.edu, valzam@ucla.edu, or bcaldero@ucla.edu. Application deadline: February 15.
CALL FOR PAPERS. For the interdisciplinary conference "When Languages Collide: Sociocultural and Geopolitical Implications of Language Conflict and Language Coexistence," November 13-15, Ohio State Univ - Columbus. Conference Themes: State-imposed linguistic unity and its implications; the linguistic legacy of colonialism; international languages, their positive and negative consequences; contentious issues regarding national or local languages; race-, ethnic-, gender-, and class-based dialects under siege by the dominant linguistic paradigm; diglossia; orthographies in competition; conflicting romanizations of languages. One page abstracts due by May 15. For more information call 614-292-8770 or write to: wolf.5@osu.edu.
The International Symposium on Indigenous Languages and Intecultural Communication (Encuentro Internacional Sobre Lenguas Indigenas e Interculturalidad) invites proposals on bilingual education; language maintenance and revitalization; indigenous rights; language, culture and the environment; and diasporas and migration. The Symposium will take place May 21-23 in Creel, Chihuahua, Mexico. Send abstract of 200 words (maximum) in English or Spanish to Prof. Manuel Suarez, Coordinacion Estatal de la Tarahumara, Calle Allende 1912, Colonia Centro, Chihuahua, Chih., 31000, Mexico; Preferably by fax: (52) (14) 29-34-66 or email: enah@infosel.net.mx. Deadline for abstracts: February 28.
The Radical History Review is currently soliciting articles and essays for a thematic issue on "Islands in History: Perspectives on U.S. Imperialism and the Legacies of 1898." Submission deadline: April 15. Send submissions to Managing Editor, Radical History Review, Tamiment Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012. Inquiries to Pennee Bender or Yvonne Lassalle at: pbender@email.gc.cuny.edu, or to the RHRoffice at 212-998-2632.
If you have recently written a paper on the city that you want to share with grad students and experts from around the world, you will have an opportunity at the International Symposium "City, Space and Globalization" on February 26-28, sponsored by the College of Architecture and Urban Planning. The Symposium will focus on: 1) Architectural Design, Physical Planning and Internationalization; 2) Cultural Heritage, Revitalization and Development, and 3) Gender, Class, Ethnicity and Globalization. Graduate students will have a space to display their work as a poster and will be scheduled to present it. Additionally, they will be allowed to attend the symposium, and a registration waiver will be granted. The work does not need to be a finished or publishable paper. The participation may range from a 1000-3000 words document to architectural, urban or landscape design projects, artwork, audiovisual materials or other displayable ideas. Every discipline is welcomed. A one paragraph abstract must be submitted by January 26, describing the work. The final work must be submitted by February 20. If you want to participate or need further information, please contact Catalina Velasco-Campuzano, velasco@umich.edu.
The 7th Annual Charles F. Fraker Conference on Hispanic Studies at Michigan will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on March 28, 1998. The goal of this conference is to offer graduate students an open forum to present their papers and research on any topic related to Hispanic Culture. Presentations may be in English or Spanish and will be limited to 20 minutes. Deadline for submissions is February 20. Please submit a one page-abstract, including name and affiliation, to: Fraker Organizing Committee, 4009 MLB, Dept of Romance Languages and Literatures, Ann Arbor, MI 40109-1275. Email address: ammon@umich.edu.
The Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) is an annual conference sponsored by the graduate students of the Program in Comparative Literature and is designed to promote increased awareness of research being conducted in various language and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Michigan. The 3rd Annual CLIFF Conference will be held on April 10-11. All faculty and students in Comparative Literature and other departments are invited and encouraged to submit proposals. Abstracts of 250 words or less on ANY SUBJECT will be accepted until February 26 in the main office of the Program in Comparative Literature, 2015 Tisch Hall. Proposals for panels are also welcome.
THE DOROTHY GIES McGUIGAN PRIZES FOR 1998 will be awarded for the best undergraduate and graduate essays on women written at the U of M during the calendar year of 1997. Essays will be evaluated by an interdisciplinary committee for their contribution to our understanding of some aspect of women's lives or roles, as well as for their originality and clarity of presentation. Students must have been enrolled at U-M when they wrote the essay, but it need not have been written for a class. Open to all fields, but personal stories, fiction and poetry are not eligible. Only one entry per author; no longer than 30 pages, typed and double-spaced; author's name, address, phone, student ID number, and present enrollment status should appear ONLY on a separate title page. Prize: $100 per winner. Submit 4 copies by February 27, 1998 to the Women's Studies Program, 234 West Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092.
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
The University Library now provides networked access to a wide variety of useful databases through the OCLC/FirstSearch system, including Dissertation Abstracts, Books in Print, and WorldCat. You can reach these files from any campus workstation by modem (213-7970). Links are available from the Digital Resources section of the Library homepage (http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/digital.html) and from the History Gateway page (http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/rrs/histgate.html).
AID REQUEST. "El Nino"-related weather has caused up to $2 billion in damage to Peru, destroying houses, livelihoods, and entire towns. We have received this request for aid: "La Colonia Peruana de Massachusetts, esta preparando un dia especial, para colectar fondos y bienes para ayudar a los Peruanos que han sido castigados por las fuertes lluvias y huaycos en el Peru. El consulado Peruano en New York, junto a otras asociaciones de Peruanos en todos los Estados Unidos, nos sugirieron el organisar esta ayuda, para el 15 de Marzo. Quisiera pedirte que nos des la mano para esta actividad en cualquier forma que te sea posible. He hecho una pagina con mayor informacion, que procede de nuestra pagina principal en el Internet. Si tienes un par de minutos por favor danos una visita a: http://eol.grolen.com/arista. Tambien puedes ir directamente a la pagina de Donaciones para los Damnificados, que acabo de hacer esta semana.: http://www.importers-exporters.com/x-donations.htm"
INFOLING is a moderated mailing list which distributes information about Spanish linguistics - research projects, Ph.D. dissertations, congresses, workshops, new publications (books, reviews), etc. The language of the list is Spanish, but English is also welcome. If you would like to subscribe to INFOLING you may send e-mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES with the BODY of the mail containing the single line: SUB INFOLING yourfirstname yourlastname. (For example: sub INFOLING Carlos Herrero.)
If anyone is interested in creating a webpage for a course, the following address makes it simple. You just pick from a menu of items you want to include, enter such things as the meeting times and place, your office hours, where the text or coursepack is available, and the page is created for you. You can even copy and paste your syllabus onto your webpage. You can go back and edit the page at any time:
http://www.umie.umich.edu/course-homepage-builder/index.htm
El Archivo General de la Nacion (Mexico) ha puesto a disposicion de los usuarios de Internet su catalogo ARGENA II. El sistema de busqueda no es exactamente el mismo que el del CD-Rom (tiene menos opciones), pero permite obtener la informacion requerida y el tiempo de respuesta es realmente breve. La direccion es: http://biblioweb.dgsca.unam.mx/argena/
Media Watch: In the context of the coverage of the Pope's visit to Cuba, one of our own, Prof. Silvia Pedraza, was featured on the front page of USA Today on Wednesday, January 21. We read her biographical account of the Cuban diaspora with interest. The same day, Prof. Ruth Behar contributed an op-ed piece to the Los Angeles Times, "The Wait Bears Fruit; What of Hope?"
This page updated March 4, 1998, by David Frye. Copyright 1998, Regents of the
University of Michigan.
