Events and Lecture Series

2012-2013 Lecture Series

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

Patricia Zavella
Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz

"Gender, Migration and Poverty: Mexicans' Struggles in Daily Life""

Wednesday, September 12, 2012
7:00pm
Masters Hall, Mara Auditorium Event is co-sponsored with Women Gender, and Sexuality Studies                                            

 

  

 


Hispanic Heritage Month
Pa'lo Monte Concert 
 

 

Friday, September 21, 2012
8:00pm
The Attic

Event is co-sponsored with Spanish Department

 



Russell Crandall
Associate Professor of Political Science
Davidson College

“Dirty War in Salvador: The United States counterinsurgency and nation-building in El Salvador, 1977-1992”

Monday, September 24, 2012
6:30pm
McCreary Hall, Bowen Auditorium, Room 115

 

 
"Los niños de la memoria" 
A documentary film project about children who disappeared during the war in El Salvador 
Followed by a conversation with the director

Monday, October 15, 2012
7:00 pm 
The Majestic

Second showing also followed by a conversation with the director

Tuesday, October 16, 2012  
7:00 pm 
Breidenbaugh Hall Room 201, Joseph Theater

Event is co-sponsored by the Spanish Department

 


Carmelo Esterrich
Associate Professor of Spanish, Humanities, and Cultural Studies
Columbia College Chicago

"Singing the City, Documenting Modernization: Cortijo y su combo and the Insertion of the Urban in 1950s Puerto Rican Culture"

Monday, November 12, 2012
6:30pm
McCreary Hall Room 115, Bowen Auditorium

 

 

Mara Loveman
Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Department of Sociology
University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Racial Classification and the State in Latin America.”

Monday, February 4, 2013
6:30pm
McCreary Hall Room 115, Bowen Auditorium

 

Deborah Poole
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Johns Hopkins University

"Territory, Utopia and the Politics of Scale in Neoliberal Peru"

Monday, April 8, 2013
6:30pm
McCreary Hall Room 115, Bowen Auditorium