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

Brown Bag Calendar for Fall 1998

LACS cosponsors a public lecture series, "After the American Century? 1898-1998," September 15 through September 18, 1998. All lectures will be held at 4 pm in Room 1636 International Institute Building (1080 South University):

Lectures (4 to 6 pm) are open to the public. Attendance at the associated workshops (10 am to 12 noon) is by registration only. For more information contact Latin American and Caribbean Studies, (734) 763-0553 / lacs@umich.edu.

On Wednesday, September 23, Professor John Vandermeer, Biology will give a LACS Brown Bag on "Natural Resources and Ethnic Conflict on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua" at noon in room 2609 International Institute Building.
 On Tuesday, September 29, Florencia Quesada Avendaño, Investigator at the Centro de Investigaciones Historicas of the Universidad de Costa Rica, and Lara Putnam, History, will give a LACS Brown Bag on "Status, Self-Assertion, and the Occupation of Public Space: A comparison of popular and bourgeois strategies in turn-of-the-century Costa Rica" at noon in room 2609 International Institute Building.
 On Thursday,October 1, Pedro Monreal Gonzalez, Senior Research Associate at the Centro de Investigaciones de Economia of the University of Havana will give a LACS Brown Bag on "Cuba in the Global Economy: Comments on Policy Making" at noon in room 2609 International Institute Building.
 On Wednesday, October 7, Professor Sabine MacCormack, Classics, will give a LACS Brown Bag on "The Incas and Rome" at noon in room 2609 International Institute Building.
 On Sunday, October 11, the LACS Brown Bag Series will hold a Sunday pot-luck dinner in honor of Steve Fagin, video artist and Professor of Visual Arts at UC-San Diego, following the screening of Fagin's 1997 video "TropiCola" on life in contemporary Havana at noon in room 2609 International Institute Building. Time and place TBA.
 On Wednesday, October 14, Paul Eiss, Anthropology and History, will give a LACS Brown Bag on "Indian Work: Plots and Archives in Yucatán" at noon in room 2609 International Institute Building.
 On Wednesday, October 21, Professor Julian Adams, Biology, will give a LACS Brown Bag on Human population genetics in Northwestern Argentina at noon in room 2609 International Institute Building.
 On Thursday, October 22, Fernando Lara, Architecture, will give a LACS Brown Bag on "Modernism before Modernization: The Dynamics of Brazilian Modernism, 1930s-1950s" at noon in room 2609 International Institute Building.
 On Wednesday, October 28, David Pedersen, Anthropology, will give a LACS Brown Bag on "Money, Movement, Meaning: US and El Salvador since the 1980s" at noon in room 2609 International Institute Building.
 On Wednesday, November 11, Visiting Professor Anthony Berkley, Anthropology, will give a LACS Brown Bag on "Maya Discourse and Society" at noon in room 2609 International Institute Building.
 On Thursday, November 12, Adrian Burgos, American Culture, will give a LACS Brown Bag on "Beisbol en Cienfuegos: National Culture (in Formation) During the Late Nineteenth Century" at noon in room 2609 International Institute Building.
 On Wednesday, November 18, Krista Van Vleet, Anthropology, will give a LACS Brown Bag on "'Now my daughter is alone': Marriage, Intimacy, and Domestic Violence in the Bolivian Andes" at noon in room 2609 International Institute Building.
 On Thursday, November 19, Professor Sueann Caulfield, History, will give a LACS Brown Bag on "Honor, Status and Law in Latin America: New Research Directions" at noon in room 2609 International Institute Building.

 

This page updated August 26, 1998, by David Frye. Copyright 1998, Regents of the University of Michigan.