Events Archive:  January-February 1999 - Fall 1998 - Winter 1997 - Fall 1997 - 1996-97

Thursday, March 11: A panel discussion on "Doing Business in Latin America," at 4:30 pm in room D1270, William Davidson Hall, Business School. Guest panelists: Carlos Costa (Dean of the Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais, one of Brazil's leading business schools), William Jones (Senior Engagement Partner of McKinsey Brazil), and David Perez (Latin America Business Services Manager for Exxon). Part of the U-M Business School's "Latin Week."

Friday, March 12: Erling Lorentzen (Chairman of Aracruz Celulose) will speak on "Brazil: Current Crisis and Sustainable Development," from 11 am to 12:30 pm in room K1310, Kresge Bldg, Business School. Aracruz, a Brazilian corporation, is an international leader in pulp making and forestry technology and research, which endorses the concept of sustainable development through its management practices. Part of the U-M Business School's "Latin Week."

Friday and Saturday, March 12-13: Special LACS event
Marcos Loayza, Bolivian film maker, will give a Friday workshop on Screenwriting, and will be present on Saturday for the Midwest premier of his prizewinning comedy,  Cuestion de Fe ("A Question of Faith," Bolivia, 1995, 88 min., in Spanish with English subtitles).

The Screenwriting Workshop (in Spanish with English translation available) will be held on Friday in room 2035 Frieze, 3 to 5 pm.
Cuestion de Fe will be shown on Saturday at the Michigan Theater, 7 pm.
A question-and-answer session with the director will follow at 8:30 pm.

Saturday, March 13: Elvia Alvarado will speak on the nature of poverty and conflict in Central America and the role of women in the struggle for justice. "Voices of Honduras," 4 to 6 pm in Lecture Room 1, MLB. Elvia Alvarado has spent 3 decades organizing for human rights and land reform in Honduras. She is the subject of the bestselling book, "Don't be Afriad, Gringo," and currently heads the International Relations for the Union Rural Workers.

Tuesday, March 16: Institute for the Humanities Brown Bag. Paul Eiss (Anthropology), speaking on "Redemption's Archive: States and Indians in Twentieth-Century Yucatan." At noon in the Osterman Common Room, 1524 Rackham.

Thursday, March 18: Professor William Hanks, Milton H. Wilson Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University
"Dialogue and Doctrina in Colonial Yucatan"

Friday, March 19, at 2 pm in room 2609 International Institute: Andean scholar Maria Eugenia Choque will speak on the position of indigenous women in Bolivia and Peru today.

The Public Health Students of African Descent and La Salud cordially invite you to attend the 13th Annual Minority Health Conference, "Facing the Public Health Challenges of Tomorrow: Fresh Perspectives for a New Millennium." March 19 and 20 at Pierpont Commons (North Campus). On Friday the conference will begin with a student poster exhibit representing various health disciplines, and a community service fair; conference lectures and seminars will take place on Saturday. Contact Alisa Bennett <alisab@umich.edu> or Chekesha Kidd <kiddc@umich.edu> for more information.

Wednesday, March 24: Professor Catherine Julien, Anthropology, Westerm Michigan University
"Who is Capac? Dynastic Descent and Succession in Early Spanish Cuzco"

Overseas Development Network, Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice, and the U of M Women's Studies Department are bringing Harvard trained lawyer and human rights activist Jennifer Harbury to Ann Arbor on March 25 to speak on "Human Rights in Guatemala: U.S. Cover-up and Complicity." In Angell Hall Auditorium C at 7:30 pm.

Friday, March 26: Aims McGuinness, History
"Panama 2000: The Nation and the Canal."

The U-M Chapter of the International Society for Tropical Foresters will host a symposium on "Biodiversity Conservation and Globalization: Are They Compatible?" The symposium will be held at Hale Auditorium in the Business School on Monday, March 29. We have four great speakers coming in for the event, two of whom work in Latin America: Dr. David Kaimowitz and Dr. Gary Hartshorn.

Professor Frances Santiago (University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez) will deliver a paper at the Africa Workshop on Tuesday, March 30, at 7 pm in 1644 International Institute. The title of her paper is "Voices, Sounds and Echoes of Africa in Francophone Caribbean Literature."

Wednesday, April 7: Professor Ivette Perfecto, Natural Resources
"Coffee Certification in the Context of Sustainable Development in Central America and Mexico"

On Wednesday, April 7, Prof. Jeff Parsons will give a Dept. of Anthropology Works in Progress talk on "'Agave' pastoralism in ancient Mesoamerica?" At noon in the Haber Conference Room, on the second floor of LSA, directly across the hall as you leave the stairwell.

Wednesday, April 7: Special LACS lecture
Professor Maria de los Angeles Torres, Political Science, DePaul University
"The Cold War and the Politics of Refugee Children: the Peter Pan Operation."
Professor Torres was brought from Cuba to the United States as a small child as part of "Operacion Pedro Pan," an organized attempt to "free" Cuban children from the Revolution. In recent years she has made Peter Pan a focus of her research, and has been instrumental in suing for the right to view U.S. government documents relating to this Cold War maneuver.
At 3 pm, room 2609 International Institute Building.

On Thursday, April 9, Silvana Paternostro will give a talk about women's issues in Latin America today, drawing in part from her recently published book, "In The Land of God and Man: Confronting Our Sexual Culture" (Dutton, 1998). At noon in room 2609 International Institute. (Paternostro, a U-M graduate, will also be reading from her book at Shaman Drum on April 8 at 8 pm)

April 8-11: "LSRL 29," the 29th Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages, will be held at the Michigan League, University of Michigan, this year.

In conjunction with the Symposium, LACS will hold our annual Party on Friday, April 10. Details to be announced.

Wednesday, April 14: María Elena Cepeda, Romance Languages
"El vallenato colombiano acá y allá: Migrations and Representations"

Thursday, April 15: Leticia J. Marteleto, Sociology and Population Studies
"Schooling and Family Structure in Brazil"

Friday, April 16: Special LACS lecture
Professor Marisol de la Cadena, Anthropology, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
"Intellectuals, Identities and the Politics of Race in the Andes (Peru, 1900-1990)"
At 4 pm, room 2609 International Institute Building.

January & February 1999 events

Wednesday, January 13: Professor Jeffrey Parsons, Anthropology
"Roots of the Inka Empire: Herders and Cultivators in the Peruvian Sierra Central, A.D. 1100-1500"

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