Calendar

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SPRING 2012:

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14th
The Stony Brook Initiative for Historical Social Sciences (IHSS) presents:
"A World of Many Flags: Privateering and the Strange Sovereignty of the Provincia Oriental"
Lauren Benton, New York University
1:00-2:15 PM ~ LACS Conference Room
@ Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320
Papers will be posted on the IHSS website: http://www.stonybrook.edu/sociology/ihss/events.shtml

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15th
Film Series: "Black in Latin America"
A documentary series created by world-renowned Henry Louis Gates, seeking to explore the experience of Afro-descendents in various Latin American countries. The Office of Diversity and Affirmative Action is offering the opportunity to view portions of the series and discuss some of the themes that Gates explores in this docu-series in regards to racism, visibility and denial related to the Black Diaspora in Latin America.
12:50-2:10 PM ~ LACS Conference Room
@ Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21st
Oneka LaBennett, Fordham University will be giving a presentation on her new book: She's Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn
11:30 AM-1:30 PM ~ Africana Studies Library
@ Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., Room S204

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd
"Andean Air Farce? The Limitation of the 'Imitation' in Early Peruvian Aviation, 1919-1930"
Willie Hiatt, Dept of History, Long Island University
12:50-2:10 PM ~ LACS Conference Room
@ Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320
Refreshments will be served.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14th
"Body Worship in Contemporary Western Societies: a sociological view of Brazil" and "The Body in Contemporary Brazilian Culture"
Marta Peres, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ); Dance and Theatre Direction Departments;
José Otávio Pompeu e Silva, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, (UFRJ); Faculdade de Medicina
4:00-5:30 PM ~ LACS Conference Room
@ Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320
Refreshments will be served.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21st
"Latinamerica's Linguistic Emancipation and the Problem of Language Academies"
José del Valle, Dept of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, The Graduate Center, CUNY
12:50-2:10 PM ~ LACS Conference Room
@ Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320
Refreshments will be served.  

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18th
"Romania Nova: Romance Languages in the Americas"
Francisco Ordóñez, Stony Brook Univ, Dept of Hispanic Languages & Literature
12:50-2:10 PM ~ LACS Conference Room
@ Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320
Refreshments will be served.

FRIDAY, APRIL 20th
Our 11th Annual Graduate Student Conference: "Trans-nationalizing Popular Culture"
One day conference at Stony Brook Manhattan
(387 Park Avenue South, 3rd Floor)
9:00 am - 6:30 pm ~ Free admission and open to all.
Keynote Speaker: Anne Rubenstein, York University
Experience the brilliant research and cross-disciplinary projects of Stony Brook (and nation-wide) Graduate students, organized and performed by themselves.

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New York City Latin American History Workshop (NYCLAHW), an inter-university scholarly project which meets at New York University, on Fridays, 11am-1pm, followed by lunch. A joint project of the graduate programs in Latin American History at Columbia, CUNY, NYU, The New School, and Stony Brook.

Location: CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, New York City

FEB. 3: Louise Walker, New School -(Room 9206)
"Spying at the Dry Cleaners: Economic Crisis and Cold War Politics in 1970s Mexico"

MARCH 9: Alessandra Russo, Columbia University -(Room 9205)
"A New Antiquity. Literatures of Art and Iberian
Expansion in Early Modernity"

APRIL 20: Willie Hiatt, LI University, CW Post -(Room 8304)
"Peruvians in High Places: Aerial Modernity's Surprise Landing in the Andes, 1910-11"

To join the NYCLAHW e-list and receive electronic papers,
e-mail: ajd2128@columbia.edu

NEWS & EVENTS:

APRIL 20th
"Trans-nationalizing Popular Culture"
11^th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Stony Brook Manhattan
387 Park Avenue South, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10016

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