Past PLACA Seminar and Speaker Series
Spring 2011
SPA 600.01/LIT 600.01 “Nation(s) and Citizenship(s) in Latin America”
Professor Alicia Ríos
Syllabus
List of Speakers:
March 10th - Abril Trigo, Distinguished Humanities Professor of Latin American Cultures, Ohio State University
March 24th - George Yúdice, Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Latin American Studies, University of Miami
April 14th - José Rabasa, Long Term Visiting Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Spring 2010
SOC 700: Latin American Migration and Transnationalism
February 24, 2010: Alfredo Lopez, Physician and former migrant worker
March 2, 2010: Maria Cristina Garcia, Professor of History at Cornell University
April 12, 2010: Jorge Durand, Professor of Anthropology at the Universidad de Guadalajara
April 21, 2010: Robert Courtney Smith, Professor of Sociology at Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center
Fall 2008
AAS 400/600 Race and Gender in Latin America: Comparative Perspectives
Professor Kwame Dixon
Syllabus
List of Speakers:
September 8, 2008: Harry Vanden (Vanden@chuma1.cas.usf.edu), Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of South Florida, Tampa
October 7, 2008: Juliet Hooker (juliethooker@mail.utexas.edu), Assistant Professor of Government at The University of Texas at Austin
October 14, 2008: Kiesha-Khan Perry, PhD (Keisha-Khan_Perry@brown.edu) Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Anthropology at Brown University
November 11, 2008: Blas Jimenez (isisviajes@codetel.net.do), Afro/Dominican poet and essayist
Fall 2007
ANT 600 Anthropology of Race in Latin America and the Caribbean
Professor John Burdick
Syllabus
List of Speakers:
September 27, 2007: Isar Godreau
October 8, 2007: Jeffrey Lesser
October 22, 2007: Diane Nelson
October 25, 2007: Patricia Pinho
November 1, 2007: Ariana Hernandez-Reguant
November 27, 2007: Peter Wade
Spring 2007
PSC 780 Latin American Politics
Professor Matthew Cleary
Syllabus
List of Speakers:
February 13, 2007: Lisa Baldez, Political Science, Dartmouth
March 6, 2007: Ernesto Stein, Economics, IABD and Harvard
April 10, 2007: Rick Snyder, Politician Science, Brown University
April 17, 2007: Javier Auyero, Sociology, SUNY-Stonybrook
Fall 2005
GEO 700 Indigenous Political Movements in Latin America
Professor Tom Perreault
Syllabus
List of Speakers:
September 14, 2005: Donna Lee Van Cott, Tulane University
September 21, 2005: Suzana Sawyer, University of California, Davis
October 5, 2005: June Nash, City University of New York
October 19, 2005: Carlos
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November 16, 2005: Bjorn Sletto, Cornell University