spring 2012 LLiLAs EVEnTs

spring 2012 LLILAS EVENTS
February
March
Conference
Lecture
ILASSA32 Annual Student Conference
on Latin America
Metropolitan Areas as Units of Social and Environmental Governance: The Case of Curitiba
Brazil Center Lecture
Wed., March 7, 12:00 noon
Hackett Room, SRH 1.313
Thurs.–Sat., Feb. 2–4
student activities center
Cidadãos letrados e a emergência da imprensa
negra no Brasil durante o século XIX
(in portuguese)
Ana FlÁvia MagalhÃes Pinto, PhD
candidate, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Edson L. Peters, UT-Fulbright Visiting
Professor in Environmental Sciences and Policy
SpokFrevo Orquestra
Brazilian Frevo Music: From Carnaval
to the Concert Hall
(Panel, workshops, and performance)
Fri., Feb. 10, 12:00 noon
Hackett Room, SRH 1.313
Wed.–Sat., March 21–24
Times and Locations TBC
Photo Exhibit Opening
Brazil Center Lecture
Muriel Hasbun: Archive and Memory
Wed., Feb. 22, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
LLILAS, SRH 1, 3rd floor
2012 Lozano Long Conference
Central Americans and the Latino/a Landscape:
New Configurations of Latina/o America
Wed.–Sat., Feb. 22–25
blac, llilas, and sac
Roundtable
Images, Devotions, and Indigenous Identities in
Colonial Mexico
Jaime cuadriello, Art historian, IEE/UNAM
William B. Taylor, Emeritus Professor,
University of California, Berkeley
Ilona Katzew, Senior Curator of Latin American
Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Mon., Feb. 27, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
GAR 4.100
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Políticas de ação afirmativa: Estudos e debates
sobre o acesso da população afrodescendente
ao ensino superior – experiências entre Brasil
e Texas (in portuguese)
Ricardo Janoario, PhD candidate,
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Fri., March 23, 12:00 noon
Hackett Room, SRH 1.313
Lecture
Genealogías indígenas del discurso colonial
(Siglo XVI) (in spanish)
David Solodkow, Lozano Long Visiting
Professor
Tues., March 27, 12:00 noon
ben 2.104
Mexican Center Lecture
El papel de los intelectuales en
la transición a la democracia
en México (in spanish)
April
Jacinto Rodríguez, Journalist and Coordinator of the Prensa
y Democracia Program, Universidad Iberoamericana
wed., April 4, 4:00 p.m.
benson 2nd floor conference room, srh unit 1
Brazil Center Lecture
Legal Pluralism and Political Thuggery: The Paradoxes of
Grassroots Organizing in Rio’s Mid–20th Century Favelas
Brodwyn Fischer, Northwestern University
Thurs., April 12, 12:00 noon
BEN 2.104
¡A Viva Voz !
Celebration of Latino Culture
Ricardo Domínguez, UC San Diego; Co-founder, Electronic
Disturbance Theater
NAO BustamAnte, Performance and video artist; Associate
Professor of New Media and Live Art, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Thurs., April 12, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Benson Latin American Collection Main Reading Room
LLILAS Faculty Book Talks
The Transformation of the Workers’ Party in Brazil, 1989–2009
Wendy Hunter, UT Dept. of Government
Mon., April 16, 12:00 noon
Hackett Room, SRH 1.313
mexican center lecture
The Challenges for the New Mexican and U.S. Administrations
Gustavo vega, Matías Romero Visiting Professor
Thurs., April 19, 3:00 p.m.
benson 2nd floor conference room, srh unit 1
Roundtable
The Architecture of Latin American Democracy
Fri., April 27, 12:00 noon
benson 2nd floor conference room, srh unit 1
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All events free and open to the public
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