LACS	Latin American & Caribbean Studies International Institute, University of Michigan

Friday, September 8
Sabine MacCormack, Professor of History and Classical Studies, will present a lecture on "Social Conscience and Social Practice: Poverty and Homelessness in Early Colonial Peru" in honor of her appointment to the Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Professorship for the Study of Human Understanding. At 4:10 in the Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union.

TUESDAY, September 26, 8:00-10:00 pm, International Institute/SSW Building room 2609
LACS / Caribbean Studies Evening Seminar Series: Ethnicity and Migration in the Caribbean. Discussion of a pre-circulated paper by Professor Richard Turits: "A World Destroyed, A Nation Imposed: The 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Republic." For a copy of the paper, contact LACS at 763-0553 or bmartins@umich.edu.

THURSDAY, September 28, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, International Institute/SSW Building room 2609
LACS Brown Bag talk by Luisa Campuzano, "Narradoras y Crisis en los 90 en Cuba." Professor Emerita Luisa Campuzano has played a seminal role in the women's literary movement in Cuba. Her publications include five university books on Latin and Latin American literatures. Her commitment to women's writings sees published fruition in her most recent historical and literary study, Mujeres latinoamericanas del siglo XX: historia y cultura.

MONDAY, October 16, 8:00-10:00 pm, International Institute/SSW Building room 2609
LACS / Caribbean Studies Evening Seminar Series: Ethnicity and Migration in the Caribbean. Discussion of a pre-circulated paper by Professor Jorge Duany: "Portraying the Other: Puerto Rican Images in Two American Photographic Collections." Jorge Duany is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras. His paper explores how two contrasting sources of visual images allow one to reconstruct how Americans represented Puerto Ricans around the turn of the 20th century. For a copy of the paper, contact LACS at 763-0553 or bmartins@umich.edu.

TUESDAY, October 17, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, followed by a reception, History Department Meeting Room, 1014 Tisch Hall
LACS / Caribbean Studies Roundtable: "Ethnicity and Migration in the Caribbean." A discussion will follow. Participants include:

Kevin Gaines (UM, History), Chair
Ruth Behar (UM, Anthropology), "Nightgowns from Cuba: Writing Race and Diaspora"
Richard Turits (Princeton, History), "Transnationalism, Biculturalism, and the State: Haitian Migration to the Dominican Republic and the 1937 Massacre"
Jorge Duany (University of Puerto Rico, Anthropology), "Mobile Livelihoods: The Social Cultural Practices of Circular Migrants between Puerto Rico and the United States"
Silvia Pedraza (UM, Sociology), "Political Disaffection: Cuba's Revolution and Exodus"
Winston James (Columbia University, History), "Explaining Afro-Caribbean Social Mobility in the United States: A Critique of Thomas Sowell"

THURSDAY, October 19, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, International Institute/SSW Building room 2609
LACS Brown Bag talk by Ana Cristina Ostermann (Ph.D. candidate, Linguistics) on discourses relating to violence against women in Brazil. Ostermann is investigating the discursive practices of two parallel institutions created to address violence against women in Brazil: an all female police station (Delegacia de Defesa da Mulher) and a feminist activist crisis intervention center (CIV Mulher).

FRIDAY, October 27, 4:00-5:30 International Institute/SSW Building room 1636, reception from 5:30-7:00pm.
LACS Special Event. Professor Lucía Suárez will interview the artistic director of the Balé Folclórico da Bahia. Founded in 1988, the Balé Folclórico da Bahia is Brazil's only professional folk dance company presenting the region's most important cultural traditions under a contemporary theatrical vision that reflects its popular origins. Niedja Fedrigo (Romance Languages and Literatures Department) will provide translation.

Tuesday, October 31, 7:30 pm, Michigan Union, Anderson D
"Human Rights and Militarization in Chiapas and Southern Mexico." Marisol López Menéndez (Human Rights Worker, National University, Mexico) and Jason Wallach (Mexico Solidarity Network).

FRIDAY, November 3, 1:00 pm -5:30 pm, followed by a reception, International Institute/SSW Building room 2609
LACS Co-sponsored Conference, "Negotiating Borders: The Apparel Industry, Trade, and Human Rights among the Disciplines." LACS co-sponsors this conference with the Rackham Summer Interdisciplinary Institute a conference on sweatshops, focusing on Central America and the University of Michigan's policies. Participants include:

Ian Robinson (UM- Residential College)
Larry Root (UM - ILIR)
Katherine Terrell (UM - Business School)
Robert House (UM - Law School)
Peter Romer Friedman (UM student activist - SOLE)
Julio Cesar Guerrero (UM -ILIR)
Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly (Princeton University, Anthropology)
Mark Anner (Cornell University, Government)
Marina Gutierrez (Federacion internacional de trabajadores de textiles, vestuario, cuero, y calzado, Honduras)

FRIDAY, November 3, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Shaman Drum Bookshop
Book launching party at Shaman Drum for the new volume edited by Rebecca Scott, Fred Cooper, and Tom Holt, Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies. Other works generated in the Post-emancipation Societies Project will also be on display, such as Laurent Dubois's Les esclaves de la Republique. From 4 - 6 pm, Shaman Drum Bookshop.

TUESDAY, November 7, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm, History Conference Room, 2nd Floor, University Towers (South University Street)
LACS / History Conference: "War, Race, and Nation in Late Nineteenth-Century Cuba: An Archive-Based International Collaboration." For more information and copies of the papers, please contact bmartins@umich.edu. Participants include:

Michael Zeuske (University of Cologne, Germany), "Lux veritatis, vita memoriae, magistra vitae: 16 vidas y la historia de Cuba (1880-1910)." (text available in Spanish; oral presentation will be in English)
Rebecca Scott (UM), "Three Lives, One War: Rafael Iznaga, Bárbara Pérez and Gregoria Quesada between Emancipation and Citizenship" (text available in English; oral presentation in English)
Orlando García Martínez (Archivo Provicial de Cienfuegos, Cuba), "Paisito: Tierra de familia en una comunidad afrocubana" (oral presentation in Spanish, with translation)
Comment: Ada Ferrer (New York University), José Amador (UM)

TUESDAY, November 14, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, International Institute/SSW Building room 2609
LACS Brown Bag. Professor Gustavo Verdesio (Romance Languages) will speak on "Forgotten Territorialities. In Search of Material Culture."

THURSDAY, November 16, 8:00 pm -10:00 pm, International Institute/SSW Building room 2609
LACS / Caribbean Studies Evening Seminar Series: Ethnicity and Migration in the Caribbean. We will discuss a paper by Professor Silvia Pedraza (Sociology), "Cuba's Latest Exodus: Political Refugees or Economic Immigrants?" From 8 - 10 pm, in 2609 SSWB. For a copy of the paper, contact LACS at 763-0553 or bmartins@umich.edu.

TUESDAY, December 5, 12:00 pm -1:00 pm, Assembly Hall - Rackham Building, 4th floor (note special location!)
LACS Brown Bag. Pianist Gabriela Lena Frank will give a lecture, punctuated with live performances, on the question of the piano's changing role in "high" and "low" art musics such as the Argentinian tango, the Venezuelan waltz, the Peruvian huayno and the Mexican prelude and fugue a la Bach.

Tuesday, December 5, 12 noon, 1524 Rackham
Fernando Lara will give an Institute for the Humanities Brown Bag Lecture on "Popular Modernism." Fernando Lara (Ph.D. candidate, Architecture) has studied the reception of Modernist architecture in Brazil.

THURSDAY, December 7, 8:00 pm -10:00 pm, International Institute/SSW Building room 2609
LACS / Caribbean Studies Evening Seminar Series. Discussion of a pre-circulated paper by Professor Myriam J. A. Chancy, title TBA. For a copy of the paper, contact LACS at 763-0553 or bmartins@umich.edu.