PLACA Summer Research Grants are awarded to graduate students to support summer field research for MA thesis or doctoral research projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.
2012-13 Ray Smith Symposium : "Moving Borders: The Culture and Politics of Displacement in and from Latin America and the Caribbean"
“Moving Borders” is divided into four thematic clusters: “Borders,” “Homeland,” “Citizenship,” and “Movement.” Each cluster spans several days, and features two keynote lectures, a mini-seminar, and other events and activities. Everything is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required for the mini-seminars.
The schedule is as follows:
Borders
Screening: “Sin Nombre” (2009)
Thursday, Sept. 20, at 6 p.m.
Newhouse 3 (141)
Keynote Lecture I: “Political Equators: Migrant Urbanizations of Retrofit”
Teddy Cruz, professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego
Keynote Lecture II: “Border Re-Creations: Art, Culture, and Identity at the U.S./Mexican Border”
José Manuel Valenzuela Arce, professor of cultural studies at Universidad de la Frontera Norte (Mexico)
Thursday, Sept. 27, at 6 p.m.
Maxwell Auditorium
Art Exhibition: “Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena: A Graphic History,” featuring live music and dance
Thursday, Sept. 27, at 8:30 p.m.
La Casita Cultural Center (109 Otisco St., Syracuse)
RSVP at elcarras@syr.edu
Mini-Seminar: Teddy Cruz and José Manuel Valenzuela Arce
Friday, Sept. 28, at 10 a.m.
Bowne Hall (308)
RSVP at elcarras@syr.edu
Screening: “Postcards from Leningrad” (2007)
Thursday, Oct. 11, at 6 p.m.
Eggers Hall (220)
Homeland
Screening: “Diario de uma busca” (2010)
Thursday, Oct. 25, at 6 p.m.
Newhouse 3 (141)
Keynote Lecture I: “Culture Works: On the Trials of Building a National Latino/a Museum”
Arlene Dávila, professor of anthropology and of social and cultural analysis at New York University
Thursday, Nov. 8, at 6 p.m.
Maxwell Auditorium
Keynote Lecture II: “Exiles Within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary”
James Green, professor of history and Brazilian Studies at Brown University
Friday, Nov. 9, at 10 a.m.
Eggers Hall (220)
Mini-Seminar: Arlene Dávila and James Green
Friday, Nov. 9, at 2:30 p.m.
Maxwell Hall (204)
RSVP at mygarcia@syr.edu
Exhibition Opening and Reception: “Angels on the Border”
Friday, Nov. 9, at 7:30 p.m.
La Casita Cultural Center
Citizenship
Keynote Lecture I: “Can Immigrants and Native People Be Citizens? Critical Race Theory, the Law, and the State”
Gerald Torres, the Bryant Smith Chair of Law at The University of Texas at Austin
Keynote Lecture II: “Moveable Citizenship? Latino/a Dialects of ‘Citizenship’ and ‘Belonging’”
Suzanne Oboler, professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Thursday, Jan. 31, at 6 p.m.
Maxwell Auditorium
Mini-Seminar: Suzanne Oboler and Gerald Torres
Friday, Feb. 1, at 10 a.m.
Maxwell Hall (204)
RSVP with safetta@syr.edu
Performance: “Border Beasts"
Carmelita Tropicana, Cuban-American performance artist
Friday, Feb. 1, at 7:30 p.m.
La Casita Cultural Center
Screening: “City of Men” (2007)
Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 6 p.m.
Eggers Hall (220)
Screening: “Los Rubios” (2003)
Thursday, March 21, at 6 p.m.
Eggers Hall (220)
Movement
Screening: “Mirror Dance” (2005)
Thursday, March 28, at 6 p.m.
Eggers Hall (220)
Keynote Lecture I: “Afro-Atlantic Aesthetics, Migrations, and Musical World-Visions”
Ángel Quintero Rivera, professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico
Keynote Lecture II: “Indicios, or, the Politics of Place”
Milagros de la Torre, conceptual photographer
Thursday, April 4, at 6 p.m.
Maxwell Auditorium
Mini-Seminar: Ángel Quintero Rivera and Milagros de la Torre
Friday, April 5, at 10 a.m.
The SU Humanities Center, Tolley Building (304)
RSVP at aorr@syr.edu
Brazilian Dance Workshop: The Dance Migration (Toronto)
Friday, April 5, at 2:30 p.m.
Venue TBA
Brazilian Dance Performance: The Dance Migration with Samba Laranja (the SU Brazilian Ensemble)
Friday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m.
Venue TBA
An exciting array of courses with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean are being offered this Spring (2012).
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