Latin
American & Caribbean StudiesLatin
American & Caribbean StudiesThursday, January
18, 1 pm -2 pm, International Institute/SSW building,
room 2609
Brownbag Series
A talk by Aims McGuinness (Ph.D. candidate, Department
of History, University of Michigan): "Everyday Struggles
over U.S. Expansion and the Emergence of a Latin America."
Thursday, January
18, 4 pm, 4th Floor Commons,
Modern Language Building
Esther Gabara, candidate for position in Mexican literature
and culture, will speak on "Engendering Nation: 'Las bellas
artes públicas' and the Mexican Photoessay, 1920-1940."
Presented by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
Thursday, January
18, 8 pm-10 pm, room 2609
Caribbean Studies Evening Seminar Series
Discussion of a pre-circulated paper by Dr. Lara Elizabeth
Putnam (Centro de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad
de Costa Rica): "Social Networks, Migration, and Gender:
Itinerant Laborers in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1890-1960." For
a copy of the paper contact LACS at 763-0553 or bmartins@umich.edu.
Friday, January
19, 1 pm - 4 pm, Tisch Hall, Room 1014
Race, Nation, and Imperial Encounters: New Research in Latin
American History
Panel 1: Imperial Encounters
Panel 2: Microhistories
Friday, January
26, 8 pm, International
Institute/SSW building, room 2609
The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean Series
"Adio Kerida: A Cuban Sephardic Journey."
A short version of this film in progress will be screened, and
director Ruth Behar (Department of Anthopology, University
of Michigan) will speak about the film and the process of making
it. Comments by Umi Vaughan (graduate student, Department
of Anthropology, University of Michigan). For more information
about the film, see Professor Behar's web site: www.ruthbehar.com
Wednesday,
January 31,
4 pm, 4th Floor Commons, Modern Language Building
Javier Durán, candidate for position in Mexican literature
and culture, will speak on "Narrating Mexico: Mysticism,
Marginality and the Re-Writing of History in Three Mexican Women
Writers." Presented by the Department of Romance Languages
and Literatures.
Thursday, February
1, 7 pm, at the Michigan
Theater, 603 East Liberty
Film Showing: Kamikaze Taxi (1994)
Free screening of Japanese independent filmmaker Masato
Harada's KAMIKAZE TAXI (Pony Canyon Films, 1994), followed by
Q and A with the director. The film's protagonist is a
taxi driver who has recently returned to Japan after living for
decades in South America. (Rated for mature audiences only.)
Friday, February
2, 11:30 am - 1 pm, room
K1310 of the Business School
Manuel Madrid-Arias (Center for Labor Research, Florida
International University) will deliver a lecture on "The
Cuban Economy: Past and Future Changes." This is part of
the William Davidson Institute Latin American Seminar Series.
Friday, February
2, noon-2 pm, International
Institute/SSW building, room 2609
The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean Series
"(Re) Creating Brazilian National Identity: Jewish Ehnicity
on the Brazilian Frontier." Discussion of a pre-circulated
paper by Professor Jeffrey Lesser (Emory University). For
a copy of the paper, contact LACS at 763-0553 or bmartins@umich.edu.
Co-sponsored by the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.
Friday, February
2, 4 pm - 6 pm, International
Institute/SSW building, room 1636
Roundtable
Japanese filmmaker Masuto Harada will join U of M faculty
Markus Nornes (Film and Video/Asian Languages and Cultures), Catherine Benamou
(American Cultures/Film and Video/Romance Languages and Literatures),
and Professor Jeffrey Lesser of Emory University to engage in
a lively public panel discussion of the film Kamikaze Taxi,
its Japanese context of production and release, and the legacy
of Japanese migration to Latin America.
Monday, February
5, 4 pm, 4th Floor Commons,
Modern Language Building
Silvia Bermúdez (Latin American and Iberian Studies
Director, University of California-Santa Barbara) will speak on
"La Habana para un exiliado gallego: Manuel Curros Enríquez,
La tierra gallega y la modernidad nacional transatlántica."
Presented by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
Thursday, February
8, noon-1 pm, International
Institute/SSW building, room 2609
Brownbag Series
A talk by Patricia Vila (producer/bureau manager at
CNN, Havana): "An American Journalist Working in Cuba."
Friday, February
9, noon-2 pm, International
Institute/SSW building, room 2609
The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean Series
A talk by Dr. Judith Elkin (Frankel Center for Judaic
Studies): "Argentina's Jews: Equal Citizens or a Tolerated
Minority?" Co-sponsored by the Frankel Center for Judaic
Studies.
Thursday, February
15, noon-1 pm, International
Institute/SSW building, room 2609
Brownbag Series
A talk by Flavio Limoncic (Ph.D. candidate in History,
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and Associate Professor,
Laboratório de Estudos do Tempo Presente, UFRJ): "The
State and Labor Regulations in the 1930s United States and Brazil:
A Comparison of the New Deal and the Estado Novo."
Thursday, February
15, 8 pm-10 pm, International
Institute/SSW building, room 2609
Brazilian Studies Evening Seminar Series
"Memory, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century
Brazil: The Disappearance of Antonio Pereira Rebouças."
Discussion of a pre-circulated paper by Dr. Keila Grinberg
(UFF, Brazil). For a copy of the paper, contact LACS at 763 0553
or bmartins@umich.edu.
Friday, February
16, 12:00-2 pm, International
Institute/SSW building, room 2609
The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean Series
A talk by Dr. Keila Grinberg (UFF, Brazil): "The
Jewish Community in Contemporary Rio de Janeiro, Brazil."
Co-sponsored by the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.
Friday February
16, noon to 1 pm, in MLB
Auditorium 2
Visiting Guest Speaker Professor Charles Ramirez Berg (University
of Texas, Austin) will give a brown bag presentation on "How
to Read a Movie Poster." Based on his study of classical
posters from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema (1936-1956), Charles
Ramirez Berg will discuss how to "read" a movie poster
to glean information on the film and its narrative, as well as
genre, stars and their careers.
Sunday, February
18, 3 pm, Michigan Theatre,
603 East Liberty, FREE!
The Center for World Performance Studies Film Series presents
Black Orpheus (1959, 100 min, dir. by Marcel Camus). Professor
Catherine Benamou will introduce this classic film. The story
of Orpheus and Eurydice is set against the backdrop of Carnival
in Rio and the samba score by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfa.
Wonderful haunting visuals and incredible energy. (See also Orfeu
on February 25.)
Wednesday,
February 21, 4-6 pm, International
Institute/SSW building, room 1636
A talk by Dr. Quirico Samonte, Professor of Education at
Eastern Michigan University, "Some Reflections on Cuba's
Achievement in Public Education: Prospect and Dilemma for Other
Developing Countries." Cosponsored by the UM Philippine Study
Group.
Thursday, February
22, noon-1 pm, International
Institute/SSW building, room 2609
Brownbag Series
A talk by Javier Sanjinés (Department of Romance
Languages and Literature, University of Michigan): "Because
We Are 'Janiwa': Representing the non-Nation in Bolivia."
Sunday, February
25, 3 pm, Michigan Theatre,
603 East Liberty, FREE!
The Center for World Performance Studies Film Series presents
Orfeu (2000, 112 min., dir. Carlos Diegues). This remake
of Black Orpheus tells the tragic story of Orfeu, a man
who leads a Carnival dance troup in Brazil and falls in love with
Euridice, a girl from a rural area who comes to visit her aunt.
The story has been updated to involve tension between the police
and Rio's hill dwellers, whose ghetto is poor but overflowing
with life and energy.
Friday, March
9, noon - 2 pm, West Conference
Room, 4th floor Rackham
Indigenous Political Movement Speaker Series
"A Colloquium: The 'Fierce Science'? Recent Controversies
in Anthropology and the Amazon." With Alcida Ramos
(University of Brasilia), Conrad Kottak (University of
Michigan) and Terence Turner (University of Cornell).
Friday, March
9, 4 pm-6 pm, International
Institute/SSW building, room 1644
Indigenous Political Movement Speaker Series
Professor Alcida Ramos (Universidade Nacional de Brasilia
and President of the NGO Pro-Yanomami Commission): "Brazilian
Indians and the Law."
Thursday, March
15, noon-1 pm, International
Institute/SSW building, room 2609
Brownbag Series
Talk by Carolina Brunstein (Universidad de Buenos Aires,
Argentina): "Immigration, Racism and Ethnic Conflicts in
Latin America."
Thursday, March
22, 8 pm-10 pm, International
Institute/SSW building, room 2609
Brazilian Studies Evening Seminar Series
A talk by Professor Peter Beattie (Michigan State University):
"'Every Man Carries Within His Own Sexual Tragedy': Conceptions
of Male Sexuality and Institutional Disciplinary Practices in
Brazil, 1870-1935."
Thursday, March
22, noon-1 pm, International
Institute/SSW building, room 2609
Brownbag Series
A talk by Professor Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola (Department
of Romance Languages and Literature, University of Michigan):
"A Case for Censorship: The Politics of Publishing and the
Latin American Novel."
Thursday, March
22, 4 pm - 6 pm, International
Institute/SSW building, room 2609
Indigenous Political Movement Speaker Series
Professor Kay Warren (Anthropology, Harvard University):
"Voting Against Indigenous Rights: Lessons from Guatemala."
Thursday, April
5, noon-1 pm, International
Institute/SSW building, room 2609
Brownbag Series
A talk by Eduardo Junqueira (assistant editor, ÉPOCA,
Brazil. ): "How Journalism Can Play a Role in Education."
Friday, April
6, 4 pm-6 pm, International
Institute/SSW building, room 2609
Indigenous Political Movement Speaker Series
Lilikala Kame’eleihiaw (Professor and Director
of the Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai'i-Manoa):
"Hawaiian Sovereignty: A 100 Year Search for Peace and Justice."
