Calendar
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Monday, March 4-7:
Co-sponsoring a Film Festival with Hispanic Languages:
"(Re)turning to Ruins: Nostalgia and Film"
6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Humanities 1006
Refreshments will be provided
Friday, March 15-17:
The Latino/a Philosopher: A National Symposium
Co-sponsored with Philosophy Dept.
Harriman Hall, Room 214
FRIDAY, March 15th
2:00-2:30 pm Eduardo Mendieta: Welcome and Introduction
2:45-3:45 pm Jorge J. E. Gracia, "The Impact of Ethnicity and Race on Latino/a Philosophy" Chair: Jeff Epstein
3:45-4:45 pm Grant J. Silva, "The Revolt of the [Lation/a] Masses: On the Nature of Democracy with a Nonwhite Majority"
Chair: Nathifa Green
5:00-6:00 Reception
7:00-9:00 Dinner: Mirabelle Tavern
SATURDAY, March 16th
8:30-9:00 am –COFFEE and BAGELS
9:00-10:00 am José Jorge Mendoza, "The Curious Case of Latino/as in the United States"
Chair: Adam Israel
10:00-11:00am Manuel Vargas, "Implicit Bias, Philosophy, Latinos?"
Chair: Francisco Gallegos de Castillo
11:15-12:15pm Rocío Zambrana, "Latino/a Philosopher and the Case of Puerto Rican Identity"
Chair: Kevin Jobe
12:15-1:15 pm Ofelia Schutte, "Latinas/os Roots in Philosophy: From Authenticity to Intersectionality"
Chair: Rolando Perez
1:15-2:30 pm LUNCH –Room 211
2:30-3:30 Mariana Ortega, "De las otras: On Intersections, Internal Exclusions and Queer Latinidad"
Chair: Roberto Sanchez
3:45-4:45 Gregory Pappas, "The 'demographic challenge' in philosophy and the quest for a philosophy sensitive to context:
some lessons from Latin American Philosophy and Latin Jazz
Chair: Adam Israel
4:45-6:00 Linda Martín Alcoff, "Decolonizing Philosophy"
Chair: Lori Gallegos de Castillo
6:00-8:00 Dinner: Curry Club
Tuesday, March 26:
The Stony Brook Initiative for Historical Social Sciences (IHSS) presents:
Adam McKeown, Dept. of History, Columbia University
"The Big Picture in Migration History, and Why it Matters"
2:30-4:00 pm - LACS Conference Room
@ Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320
Papers will be posted on the IHSS website:
http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/sociology/ihss/ihssindex.html
Wednesday, April 3:
SYMPOSIUM: "Coca at the Crossroads: A Systemic Assessment of the Environmental, Social, and Policy Dimensions of Andean Coca"
This symposium will, for the first time, include both social and natural science experts seeking to understand the systemic impact of the illegal coca trade on the recent history of the region by bringing together scholars and policy experts from the Americas to discuss historical and current issues surrounding coca cultivation and illegal drug trafficking.
Sponsored by FAHSS (Faculty in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) Grant.
1:00 - 6:00 pm
@ Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N318
Refreshments will be provided
Friday, April 12:
Latin American & Caribbean Studies Center's 12th Annual Graduate Conference
Commodities, Capitalism and Culture: Latin America and Global Links
at Stony Brook Manhattan Campus (387 Park Avenue South, 3rd Floor)
9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Keynote Speaker: MARCY NORTON, George Washington University
"Hemispheric Brazil Conference"
Brazilian Studies from a Trans-American Perspective. New perspectives on an ongoing dialogue.
Lecture by Prof. Ulla Berg (Rutgers Univ, Dept of Anthropology)
"Mediated Migrations: Peruvians between the Andes and the US"
Monday, April 29. 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm. Melville Library, Room W4550
Guest in Prof. Firbas HUS 254. Co-sponsored with Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Ulla Berg is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Anthropology at Rutgers University. Click here for more information on her work.
Wednesday, May 1:
"Revisiting Latin America in the 1960s: A Conversation with Vania Markarian"
Vania Markarian, Professor of History at Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay) is currently a Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia University
Prof. Markarian has published widely on Latin American contemporary history, including Left in Transformation: Uruguayan Exiles and the Latin American Human Rights Networks, 1967-1984 (2005) and most recently El 68 uruguayo: El movimiento estudiantil entre molotovs y música beat (2012)
Wednesday, May 1
1:00-2:20 pm (campus lifetime)
Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg, Room N320
Refreshments will be provided
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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.
Time: Fridays, 11am-1pm
Location: CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, New York City
Friday, January 25: Ernesto Pimentel, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, “Crime and Education in Brazil: Imperial Past and Current Debate”
Friday, February 22: Luis Herran Avila, New School University, “Fighting the ‘conjura roja’: The Anticommunist Crusades in Mexico (1952-1972)”
Friday, March 22: Bruno Carvalho, Princeton University, “Founding Fathers, Forgotten Mothers: Race, Relationships, and American Icons”
Friday, April 19: Vania Markarian, Universidad de la República, Montevideo/ Columbia University, “Cultura y política en el movimiento estudiantil uruguayo de 1968”
To join the NYCLAHW e-list and receive electronic papers, e-mail: ajd2128@columbia.edu
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