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


