STONE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Events Archive
2000 - 2001

Symposia & Conferences

Global Commerce and it's Impact on Central America, Threats and Opportunities, Tulane-CIAPA Symposium, San Jose, Costa Rica, June 12-14, 2000

Opening Addresses:

• Samuel Stone, Director, CIAPA

• Scott Cowen, President, Tulane University

• Miguel Angel Rodríguez Echeverría, President of Costa Rica

Panel 1:  The Dimensions of Global Commerce. Moderators:  Constantino Urcuyo, Rafael Villegas

• The Globalization Phenomenon.  Scott Cowen

• The Commercial and Financial Aspects.  Ennio Rodríguez, Interamerican Development Bank

• The Political Response Aspects.  Florisabel Rodríguez, PROCESOS

• The Institutional Capacity Aspects.  Leticia Salomón, Centro de Documentación de Honduras

• The Environmental and Natural Resource Aspects.  Pedro León, Universidad de Costa Rica 

Panel 2: Responses from Organizations. Moderators:  Rodolfo Cerdas, Daniel Masís

• Multilateral Organizations.  Samuel Laird, World Trade Organization (WTO)

• Non-governmental Organizations.  Manuel Orozco, Interamerican Dialogue

• Our Perspective.  Preston Scott, World Foundation for Environment and Development

• Government Representatives.  Mark Siegelman, US Department of Commerce

• International Organizations.  Carlos Bossio, International Labor Organization (ILO)

• Integration Organizations.  Rodolfo Trejos Donaldson, Secretaría de Integración Centroamericana (SIECA)

Workshops: Session 1

COMMERCE AND FINANCE

• Coordinator: Scott Cowen, President, Tulane University
• Facilitators:  Germán Creamer, Freeman School of Business;Carmen Urizar, CIEN Guatemala

POLITICAL RESPONSE

• Coordinator:  Edward Sherman, Dean, Tulane Law School
• Facilitators:   Brian Potter, Political Science; Carlos Sojo, FLACSO Costa Rica

Workshops: Session 2

INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY

• Coordinator: Don Gatzke, Dean, Tulane School of Architecture

• Facilitators:  Assaf Abdelghani, Public Health, Tulane; Sylvia Saborío, Overseas Development Council

ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES

• Coordinator: Ann Anderson, Dean, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

• Facilitators:  Preston Scott, World Foundation for Environment and Development;  Jorge Jiménez, Organización de Estudios Tropicales (OET)

Workshop:  Concluding Session. Coordinators:  Thomas F. Reese, Director, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University; Ludovico Feoli, CIAPA

Law & Peace: Insights from Latin America,  ILSA Conference on International Law: Approaching the New Millennium, October 7, 2000

• Introduction: Thomas Reese, Director of Stone Center for Latin American Studies

• Moderator: Adeno Addis, Tulane Law School

• Ambassador George Jones; Judith Maxwell, Anthropology; Raxché, Maya Activist

Sponsors: Stone Center for Latin American Studies and International Law Society of America

Creolization in the Academy and the Community, November 4, 2000

Stories Without End:  Creolization and the Caribbean. J. Michael Dash, New York University

Creolization and Visual Representation.  Ulrick Jean-Pierre, Artist

Creolization and the Role of the Academy and the Community in preserving cultural heritages. Panel Discussion and Workshop

• Tom Klinger, Department of French and Italian

• Sybil Kein, Creole Writer and Scholar, University of Michigan

• Tola Mosadomi, African Linguist and Writer, Department Head at Louise S. McGehee School, New Orleans

• Cecile Accilien, Department of French and Italian

• Dixon Abreu, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

• Bill Reaves, President, Louisiana Historical Society

Sponsors: Special Collections Department, French and Italian Department, African and African Diaspora Studies Program, Interdisciplinary Scholars Network, and Stone Center for Latin American Studies. 

It’s Like Medicine to Me:  Performance and Healing in the African Diaspora, December 1-2, 2000

Health’s Cultural Context, Bethany Bultman and Gabou Mendy

Healing with Musical Words, Kalamu ya Salaam, Fred Moten, & Brenda Marie Osbey

Healing in the Streets, Allison “Tootie” Montana, Gregg Stafford, & Ronald Lewis

Mellon Lecture, Barbara Browning, New York University, Visiting Mellon Professor

Spiritual Healing, Karen McCarthy Brown, Jason Berry, & Adeline Masquelier

Film: Odo Ya!  Life With AIDS

Choreographies of Healing, Panel with Cynthia Oliver, Jason Finkelman, Kathy Randels, Roscoe Reddix, Jr., Curtis Pierre, & Ausettua Amor Amenkum

Sponsors: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Woldenberg Art Center, and Stone Center for Latin American Studies.

Indigenous Amazonia in the Millennium: Politics and Religion Conference, January 12-13, 2001

Introductory Remarks. Thomas Reese, Director, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Rick Barton, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, University of New Orleans; William Balée, Department of Anthropology, Jeffrey Ehrenreich, Department of Anthropology, University of New Orleans.

Session 1:

• Keynote Address: Being a Headman: In Memory of Grompes.  Kenneth M. Kesinger

• Prehispanic Rituals, Alignments, Roads, and Power in the Bolivian Amazon.  Clark L. Erickson, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

• The Aesthetic of Immediate: Poetic Engagements and Ecological Knowledge Among the Runa of Amazonian Ecuador.  Eduardo O. Kohn, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Guesting, Feasting, and Warfare in the Northwest Amazon.  Janet M. Chernela, Department of Sociology/ Anthropology, Florida International University

• Place is the Space:  Rethinking Memory and Embodiment in Native Amazonian Death Rituals.  Beth A. Conklin, Vanderbilt University

Session 2: 

• Animism as Cannibalism:  Relations of Consumption Among the Guajá Indians.  Loretta A. Cormier, Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

• The Politics Behind Cultural Productions and Indigenous Voices:  Conflict and Consensus Among the Makushi Amerindians of Guyana.  Mary Riley, Department of Liberal Education, Columbia College – Chicago 

• Grief and the Witch-Killer’s Rage:  Religion and the Explanation of Waorani Emotion.  Clayton and Carole Robarchek, Wichita State University

• Alcohol, Worms, and the Purged Body:  The Politics of Ritual and Medicinal Practices of the Ecuadorian Awá.  Judith Kempf, Worldwide Epidemiology, Smithkline Beecham Pharmaceuticals; Jeffrey David Ehrenreich, Department of Anthropology, University of New Orleans

• Film:  Mending Ways:  The Canela Indians of Brazil; Discussant: William Crocker.

• Discussion:  Ethics in Ethnographic Research and the Tierney Book “Darkness in El Dorado”

Session 3:

• Hierarchy, Political Economy, and the “Other” Within:  Symbolic Foundations of the State in Amazonia.  Michael Heckenberger, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida

• Western Amazonian Ethnoregionalism.  Donald Pollock, State University of New York at Buffalo

• Marubo Demographic Politics.  Javier Ruedas, Department of Anthropology

• Colombia’s Amazonian Indigenous Communities and the Civil War.  Jean Jackson, Department of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Contrasting Lives and Shared Vision:  William Brett and John Peter  Bennet Among the Lokono of Guyana.  María del Carmen Moreno

• Fine Lines:  The Interface Between Indigenous and Caboclo Narrative Traditions in Today’s Amazon.  Candace Slater, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, U.C. Berkeley

Session 4: 

• The Northwest Amazon:  “La Vorágine” Revisited.  Arthur P. Sorensen

• The Religion and Politics of Anthropology in the Amazon:  A Critical Analysis Focused on the Yanomami and Ye’kuana.  Leslie E. Sponsel, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii

• Aesthetics and Politics in Chilean Mapuche Autobiographical Shamanic Discourse.  Lydia N. Degarrod, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California at Berkeley

• Changes in Social Identity with Regard to Intravillage and Transnational Relationships among the Waiwai of Guyana.  Stephanie Huelster, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Waiwai Transitions II or the Glorious Tyranny of Silence.  George Mentore, University of Virginia

• A Language of Dreaming:  Dreams of an Amazonian Insomniac.  Waud H. Kracke, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois–Chicago

Organizers:  William Balée, Department of Anthropology; and Jeffrey David Ehrenreich, University of New Orleans. Sponsors: Stone Center for Latin American Studies; Department of Anthropology; Office of the Provost, University of New Orleans; Office of the Dean of Liberal Arts, University of New Orleans and the Department of Anthropology, University of New Orleans

Bourbon Louisiana: Reflections of the Spanish Enlightenment, The Historic New Orleans Collection Sixth Annual William Research Center Symposium, January 20, 2001

Moderator:  Guillermo Náñez-Falcón, Moderator

Louisiana Under Bourbon Spain:  Commercial and Economic Policy, 1763-1803.  Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr., Texas Christian University

Canary Islands in Louisiana.  Gilbert C. Din, Fort Stewart College, Colorado (retired)

The Valencian Background of Some Louisiana Families.  Vicente Ribes, Universidad de Valencia

This Vast and Restless Population:  Spanish Views on Anglo-Americans in the Mississippi Valley, 1763-1803.  Sylvia Hilton, Universidad Complutense, Madrid

Sources for Spanish Louisiana History at the Williams Research Center.  Alfred E. Lemmon, The Historic New Orleans Center

Painting in Bourbon Spain, 1760-1800.  Dr. Leticia Ruiz, The Prado    José Francisco Xavier de Sálazar:  Spanish Colonial Painter in Louisiana.  Judith H. Bonner, The Historic New Orleans Collection

The Cultural Legacy of the Bourbon Enlightenment.  Javier Morales, Conservador del Patrimonio Nacional

Sponsors: Bank One,  Dorian M. Bennet Realtors, Inc., Milling Law Firm, Consul General of Spain in Louisiana, U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Delta Air Lines Inc., Associated Office Systems, Louisiana Binding Service, the Kemper and Leila Williams Foundation, Latin American Library, and Stone Center for Latin American Studies

Association of Academic Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean 2001 Conference, March 7-10, 2001

Trial by Fire:  Workshop for Study Abroad Directors.

Facilitator:  George Ann Huck, Central College in Mérida; Speakers: Helen Stellmaker, St. Olaf College; Hilda López Laval, Chadron State College

Trans-Atlantic and Labor-Ethnic Relations in Patagonia and Pennsylvania: A Cross-Cultural, Collaborative, Faculty-Student Immersion Program.  Marcelos Borges, Susan Rose and Brian Whalen, Dickinson College

A Dynamic, Community-based Model to Train Students in Environmental Problem-solving in Costa Rica and México.  Edward Stashko, The School for Field Studies, and Carlos Alba, Center for Coastal Studies, Puerto San Carlos, Baja, México

'Nunca lo sabía': Enriching the Cultural Experience Abroad with Regional Resources.  Lucinda Mayo and Caroline Zodrow, Cultural Experiences Abroad, Universidad de Guadalajara

How to Become a Foreign Visitor with Style.  Flora Breidenbach and Susan Rhee, College of DuPage

Establishing Meaningful Relationships in a Cross-cultural Context. Lorie and Juan Miguel Espinoza, Directors of Andean Study Programs

Nuts and Bolts:  A Roundtable on Organizing and Running Programs

Throwing Pebbles into Ponds: An Overview of the Effects of Study Abroad Programs.  Dawn Slack, Kutztown University

Exile and Expertise: Narratives of Teaching Abroad.  Kathleen McInerney, Chicago State University

Students with Disabilities.  Catalina Colaci

From Learning to Action.  Lejeune Lockett, Center for Global Education, Augsburg College 

A Different Breed of Study Abroad Program: NetCorps Americas. Amy Kunz, Georgetown University

e-Recruitment Trends and Techniques.  Cheryl Darrup-Boychunk, US Journal of Academic Options for Non-US Students

Sponsors: Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Spanish Department, Center for International Study in the Office of Academic Affairs

Mexico’s Transformative Church: Colonial Piety, Pogroms, and Politics, The First Scholes Conference on Colonial Latin American History, March 30-31, 2001

Introduction:  Dean Teresa Soufas, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Thomas Reese, Director, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Linda Pollack and Susan Schroeder, History Department

Session 1:  The Colonial Church and Piety. Moderator:  Trudy Yeager, Department of History

• Our Lord Entered His Body:  Miraculous Healing and Children’s Bodies in New Spain.  Martha Few, University of Miami

• Language of Body and Body as Language:  Religious Thought and Cultural Transference in Mexico.  Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Carleton University

• Solicitation in the Confessional:  Women and Salvation in Early Seventeenth Century Mexico City.  Linda Curcio-Nagy, University of Nevada, Reno

• Nahua Christian Marriage Ceremonies in Sixteenth Century New Spain.  Lisa Sousa, Occidental College

• Death and the Colonial Nahua.  Louise Burkhart, State University of New York at Albany

Session 2:  The Colonial Church and Pogroms. Moderator:  Guillermo Náñez, Director of Latin American Library

• Ambivalent Responses to Christianity in Early Colonial Oaxaca.  Kevin Terraciano, University of California, Los Angeles

• Voices from a Living Hell:  Blasphemy and Violence in a Colonial Mexican Obraje.  Javier Villa-Flores, University of California, San Diego

• Inquisitor as Physician:  Scrupulosity, Community, and the Case of Sor María de la Natividad.  Jacqueline Holler, Simon Fraser University

• The Solicitantes in the Colonial Diocese of Yucatan and the Sexual Conquest of the Yucatec Maya, 1570-1770.  John Chuchiak, Assumption College

• En manos de Dios padre:  Idolatry, Extirpation Campaigns, and Native Resistance in Villa Alta, Oaxaca, 1679-1704.  David Tavárez, Bard College 

• Between Toleration and Persecution:  The Relationship of the Inquisition and Crypto-Jews on the Northern Frontier of New Spain, 1589-1663.  Stanley Hordes, Sante Fe, New Mexico

Session 3:  The Colonial Church and Politics. Moderator:  Justin Wolfe, Tulane University

• Limpieza de sangre in Spain:  An instrument of Group Identity, Late Sixteenth Century.  Stafford Poole, C.M., Vincentian Studies, Los Angeles

• Interrogating Blood Lines:  The Inquisition and the Juridical Process of Claiming Limpieza de sangre in Colonial Mexico.  María Elena Martínez, University of Chicago

• La justicia eclesiástica y los indios en el arzobispado de Mexico, 1550-1660.  Jorge E. Traslosheros, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

• Apostles of Reform:  Local Elites and Patronato Real in Chiapas.  Michael Polushin, University of Southern Mississippi

• Institutional and Popular Dimensions of Canonization:  Bishop Juan de Plafox y Mendoza and the Cultural Politics of Power in Colonial Mexico.  Michael M. Brescia, State University of New York at Fredonia

Session 4:  The Colonial Church and More Piety. Cheryl Martin, University of Texas, El Paso:

• Opus Dei – The Work of God:  Franciscan and Jesuit Music in Colonial Mexico.  Kristin Mann, Northern Arizona University

• Priests and the Provincial Social Order in Tlaxcala, 1650-1792.  James Riley, Catholic University

• Canonizing a Cult:  A Wonder-Working Guadalupe Icon for Seventeenth Century Mexico.  Jeanette Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Female Visionaries and Spirituality in New Spain.  Asunción Lavrin, Arizona State University

• The Indigenous Nuns of Corpus Christi:  Race and Spirituality in Colonial Mexico.  Mónica Díaz, Indiana University

• A Chapel Divided Cannot Stand:  Cofradías and Devotion at the Capilla de San José de los Naturales, Querétaro.  Brian Belanger, OFM, Siena College Friary

• Martyrs and Idols:  Ritual Warfare and Indigenous Resistance on Northern Missionary Frontiers.  Maureen Ahern, Ohio State University

Session 5:  Colonial Mary. Moderator:  Stafford Poole, C.M., Vincentian Studies, Los Angeles

• The Nahuas’ Mary.  Louise Burkhart, State University of New York at Albany

• Remedios.  Linda Curcio-Nagy, University of Nevada, Reno

• Images of Mary.  Jeanette Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara

• The Guadalupe Controversy.  Stafford Poole, C.M., Vincentian Studies, Los Angeles

• Totlaconantzin.  Lisa Sousa, Occidental College 

• The Mixtec Mary.  Kevin Terraciano, University of California, Los Angeles

Organizer: Susan Schroeder, Department of History. Sponsors: Dean’s Office of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Georges Lurcy Fund of the Department of History, Latin American Library, and Stone Center for Latin American Studies

Freedom Struggles in the Atlantic World: Tulane/Cambridge Conference on Civil Rights 2001, April 5-7, 2001

Reconstructing the Struggles

Session 1:  The Global Context

• South Africa & the Caribbean in Comparative Perspective.  Winston James, Columbia University

• Brazil, the Caribbean & the U.S. in Comparative Perspective.  Kim Butler, Rutgers University

Session 2:  The Civil Rights Movement in the Southern Seaboard Cities

• New Orleans.  Adam Fairclough, University of East Anglia

• Savannah.  Stephen Tuck, Gonville and Caius

• Mobile.  Nahfiza Ahmed, University of Kent

Session 3:  The Role of Violence in Freedom Struggles

• Freedom Struggles in Cuba.  Aline Helg, University of Texas at Austin

• Authority, Violence & Adulthood:  The War with Kenya’s Mau Mau’s Fight for Freedom in Kenya, 1950-1960.  John Lonsdale, Trinity College Cambridge

• Eye for an Eye:  The Role of Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement.  Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University

Session 4:  Black Power and Black Nationalism

• SNCC in the Mississippi Delta.  Nan Woodruff, Penn State

• Brazil.  Michael Hanchard, Northwestern University

• Cuba.  Alejandro de la Fuente, University of Pittsburg

Performance:  Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra’s Fannie Lou Hamer.  Hannibal Lokumbe, Artist in Residence at the Contemporary Arts Center.

Birmingham Church Work.  John Scott, Sculptor

Assessing What the Freedom Struggles Achieved, Where They Failed

Session 1:  Education in the United States

• African-American Expectations at Little Rock.  John Kirk, Royal Holloway College London

• Legacy of the Brown Decision.  James T. Patterson, Brown University

• National Park Service.  Marie Tyler McGraw, National Park Service

• DuBois Institute.  Pat Sullivan, Dubois Institute, Harvard

Session 2:  Jobs and Affirmative Action in the U.S.

• Integration/ Discrimination in the Textile and Paper Industries.  Tim Minchin, St. Andrew’s University

• Affirmative Action Controversy.  Nancy McLean, Northwestern University

• Race and Economic Development in the South.  Gavin Wright, Stanford University 

Lunch Session:  Performance as Resistance:  Political Messages in Gospel Music

Session 3:  Comparative Issues

• Education, Politics, & Labor in Brazil.  George Reid Andrews, University of Pittsburgh

• Electoral Despotism in Kenya:  Land, Patronage, & Resistance in a Multi-Party Context.  Jacqueline Klopp, Political Science, McGill University

• The English Speaking Caribbean.  Hilary Beckles

Session 4:  Comparative Politics

• Post-Civil Rights Southern Politics.  A.J. Badger, Paul Mellon Professor of American History, University of Cambridge

• Black and Indigenous Social Movements in Central America.  Edmund T. Gordon, Anthropology, University of Texas

• The U.S. Civil Rights Movement in Pan-African Perspective:  Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Trinidad.  Michael West, Political Science, UNC

Seminar:  Memorializing the Civil Rights Movement 

• Civil Rights Monuments in the Gulf South.  Dell Upton, Berkeley 

• Memory as a Transnational Political Resource in the Black Americas.  France Winddance Twine, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Roundtable:  Freedom Riders . Moderator:  Ray Arcenault

Sponsors: Cambridge and Tulane Universities including Tulane’s Department of History, Amistad Research Center, Deep South Regional Humanities Center, and Stone Center for Latin American Studies

Colloquium in Cultural Studies:  Performance, Cultural Studies, and Literature, April 10–11, 2001

Memoria del pasado en la comunidad del genocidio. Nicolás Casullo, University of Buenos Aires.  Respondent:  Nelly Richard, Revista de Crítica Cultural.

Pensar la crítica:  Saberes académicos, estrategias crítico-intelectuales.  Nelly Richard, Revista de Crítica Cultural.  Respondent:  Idelber Avelar, Tulane University.

Imagining Cuba: A Symposium, Tulane University, April 20-21, 2001

April 20, 2001

Session 1:

• Cuba: A Possible Architecture. Eduardo Luis Rodríguez, Architect 

• Una casa, un barrio, una ciudad (A House, a Neighborhood, a City).Llilian Llánez, Art Critic/Curator.

• Exile, Diaspora, Performance. Lillian Manzor, University of Miami.

• Screening:  La vida es silbar (Life is to Whistle). Directed by Fernando Pérez (1998).

Session 2:

• Cyberexiles: Wired into Nostalgia.  Cristina Venegas, Tulane University/University of Southern California.

• The United States in the Cuban Imaginary. Alfredo Prieto, editor of Temas.

• Feeling Cuba(n):  Elián as the Metaphor of (Cuban) American Romance.  Damián Fernández, Florida International University.

• En la lucha (In the Struggle). Rufo Caballero, Instituto Superior de Arte, La Habana. 

Special performance by the Cuban band “Maraca” at Café Brazil.

April 21, 2001

Session 3

• Radio Taino and the Cuban Quest for Identi…qué? Ariana Hernández-Reguant, University of Chicago.

• Una lectura. Manuel Cachán, Valdosta State University.

• Screening:  Momentos de Tina (Tina’s Moments). Directed by Mayra Vilasís (1988).

• Cuerdas en mi ciudad (Strings in My City). Directed by Mayra Vilasís (1995).

Session 4: 

• Culture, Gender and Identity in the Contemporary Cuban Cinema.  Mayra Vilasís, Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos, ICAIC.

• The Trials and Tribulations of  Being a Cuban Musician Today. Issac Delgado, Cuban musician, and Elena Peña, music promoter.

• Cuba helenística: el problema de la reconfiguración moral (Hellenistic Cuba:  The Problem of Moral Reconfiguration). Emilio Ichikawa, philosophy professor/journalist.

• Cuban Exotica and Post-Socialist Nostalgia. Román de la Campa, State University of New York at Stony Brook. 

• Round Table Discussion /Mesa Redonda

This symposium is sponsored by the Cuban Studies Institute at Tulane University with the generous support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. 

Seminar & Film Series

Faculty Luncheon Seminar Series, September 11, 2000-April 27, 2001

Monthly presentations of Latin American Studies faculty members’ research.

• Lance Query, University Librarian, September 11

• Anthony Pereira, Political Science; Justin Wolfe, History, October 2

• John Verano, Anthropology; Robert Irwin, Spanish and Portuguese, November 7

• Emilson Silva, Latin American Studies and Economics; Laura Murphy, School of Public Health, December 5

• Gerardo Otero, Sociology, January 29

Sponsor: Stone Center for Latin American Studies 

Latin American Studies Core Seminar Series, September 20, 2000-November 15, 2001

• Communication.  Ana López, September 20

• Public Health.  Jane Bertrand, September 27

• Sociology.  Timmons Roberts, October 4

• History.  Gertrude Yeager, October 11

• Anthropology.  Judith Maxwell, October 18, 2000

• Geography, Development, and Regional Planning.  Alex Coles, Payson Center, and Laura Murphy, October 25, 2000

• Political Science. Anthony Pereira and Brian Potter, November 1

• Art History. Thomas Reese, Director, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, November 8

• Cultural Studies, Literature. Christopher Dunn, Spanish and Portuguese, November 15

Organizer: Gene Yeager. Sponsor: Stone Center for Latin American Studies

Ethnobotany Fall Seminar Series, October 4, 2000-April 27, 2001

• Plants Used as Popular Treatments for Leprosy in Brazil.  Cassandra White, October 4

• The Human Side of Deforestation: Report from Chum Pich.  Christopher Brown, October 25

• Ethnobotany and Plant Diversity in Bolivia's Madidi Park.   Meredith Dudley, Department of Anthropology, November 15

• Q'eqchi' Plant Names.  Darron Collins, Anthropology Department, December 6

• Saffron.  Steven Darwin, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, February 7

Sponsors: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Neotropical Institute, and Stone Center for Latin American Studies 

Globalization and Its Discontents:  Movements of Capital, Goods, and People in Latin America’s New Political Economy, October 12, 2000-April 27, 2001

• James Petras, Sociology, Binghamton University, New York: Globalization and Latin America, October 12; Social Movement Challenges to Neoliberalism, October 13; Building Democratic Relations Between the University and the Community to Generate Social Change, October 14; Peasant Movements in Latin America, October 16.

• Moises Arce, Political Science, Louisiana State University: The Political Ramifications of Market Reforms in Peru, 1990-2000, November 6.

• Marc R. Rosenblum, Department of Political Science, UNO: Fox Across the River:  Immigration, NAFTA, and the Future of US-Mexican Relations, December 4.  

• Bruce Bagley, School of International Studies, University of Miami: Globalization, Drug Trafficking, and Organized Crime:  Hemispheric Implications, January 22.

• Miguel Orozco, Program Director, Central America Program, Inter-American Dialogue: Globalization and Migration: The Impact of Family Remittances in Latin America, February 12.

• Carol Wise, Associate Professor, Program on Western Hemisphere Studies School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University:  Latin America’s Trade Strategy at Century’s End, March 12.

Organizers: Brian Potter and Anthony Pereira, Political Science. Sponsors: Stone Center for Latin American Studies; the Charles E. Dunbar Fund of the Department of Political Science, Center for Scholars, and the Murphy Institute of Political Economy 

Seminar Series on Cuba and Panama, School of Architecture, October 18, 2000-March 9, 2001

• The Value of the City: Cultural Heritage and Urban Development in Havana, Colón, Panamá, and New Orleans.  Mario Coyula Cowley, Architect and Professor, ISP JSAE, Havana, October 18

• Koch Lecture.  Isabel Rigol Savio, Architect and Professor, ISP JAE Havana, and President, ICO MOS Cuba, October 30

• Building the Panama Canal Museum in Panama City: Challenges in a Latin American World Heritage Site, Eduardo Tejeira-Davis, Universidad de Panamá, March 9

• Panama: The Making of an Inter-oceanic City, Alvaro Uribe and Patrick Dillon, Urbio, Panama, March 9

Organizer: Carol McMichael Reese. Sponsor: School of Architecture

Beyond Bananas and Tourism: The Economic and Political Future of the Small Caribbean States. October 26, 2000

• George Odlum, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of St. Lucia

• Elizabeth Charles-Soomer, General Manager, St. Lucia National Development Corporation

• Kent Hippolyte, Consul General of St. Lucia in Miami

• Lucilla Recai, Vice Consul of St. Lucia in Miami

• Elma Gene Isaac, Senior Foreign Service Officer

• Agnex Francis, Chairperson, St. Lucia National Development Corporation

• Dwight Ramsey, President, United Nations Association of New Orleans

• Lawrence Marion, World Trade Center of New Orleans

Organizer: John Salazar, Diplomat-in-Residence. Sponsor:  Stone Center for Latin American Studies

Latin America:  Current Perspectives and Thoughts on the Future. December 7, 2000-April 27, 2001

• V. Manuel Rocha, US Ambassador to Bolivia, December 7

• James Cheek, former U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, January 29

• Mary Ryan,Assistant Secretary of State, March 8

• Oliver P. Garza, U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua, March 19

• Frank Almaguer, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, April 16

Organizer: John Salazar, Diplomat-in-Residence. Sponsors: Department of Political Science and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies 

Lunch in the Tropics:  Bridging Disciplines in the Study of the Environment, February 14, 2000-April 27, 2001

• Population and Environmental Relationships:  A Look at Research in the Field Around the World.  Laura Murphy, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, February 14

• Thoughts on Addressing Environmental Conflicts.  Tom Sherry, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, March 7

• The Contributions of Ecological Research to Policy, Conservation, and Economies in Costa Rica.Lee Dyer, March 14

• Kanaima—Assault Sorcery and Modernity in the Amazon.  Neil Whitehead, March 23

• “Male-Juvenile Interactions of Wild Mantled Howling Monkeys, Doug Arden; Volcanic Debris Avalanche at Sierra Las Navajas, Hidalgo, Mexico, Bruce Sherman, March 28

• Cooperation or Capture:  The Paradox of Co-mangement and Community Participation in Environmental Policy Making.  Sara Singleton, April 11

• Environmental Communications in the Tropics—Loyola Style.  Robert Thomas, April 18

• The Historical and Political Ecology of Madini National Park, Bolivia:  Interactions with Local Indigenous Communities.  Meredith Dudley, Anthropology, April 25

Sponsors: Neotropical Ecology Institute and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies

Latin American Studies Film Series, Fall 2000

Graduate Instructors of introductory course on Latin America present and discuss Latin American films or films with Latin American content.  Geared toward undergraduate students enrolled in the course.

• I, Worst of All

• The Mission 

• Zoot Suit

• Central Station

• Who the Devil is Yuliet?

• Death and the Maiden

• Men with Guns

Sponsor: Stone Center for Latin American Studies

Films from Brazil: A Symposium, September 8, 2000-November 17, 2000

Baile Perfumado (The Perfumed Ball).  Directed by Paulo Calda and Lirío Ferreira (1997), September 8

• Baile Perfumado in Context: Christopher Dunn, Spanish and Portuguese, Ana López, Communication, Anthony Pereira, Political Science.

Terra em Transe (Anguished Land).  Directed by Glauber Rocha. (1967), October 24 

• Terra em Transe in Context:Christopher Dunn, Spanish and Portuguese, Idelber Avelar, Spanish and Portuguese, Anthony Pereira, Political Science

Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus).  Directed by Marcel Camus (1959), November 10

Orfeu (Orpheus).  Directed by Carlos Diegues (1999), November 17 

• Orfeu in Context: Christopher Dunn, Spanish and Portuguese,  Ana López, Communication, Anthony Pereira, Political Science

Sponsors: Brazilian Studies Program and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies 

Films from Argentina, September 27-November 29, 2000

• Yepeto.  Directed by Eduardo Calcagno (1999). September 20

• El mismo amor, la misma lluvia.  Directed by Juan Jose Campanella (1999). September 27

• Pizza, birra y faso (Pizza, beer, and smokes).  Directed by Adrián Caetano and Bruno Stagnaro (1997). October 9

• Borges: sus libros, sus noches.  Directed by Tristán Bauer (1999). November 1

• Garage Olimpo.  Directed by Mario Bechis (1999). November 15

• Mundo grúa. Directed by Pablo Trapero, November 29

Sponsors: Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Casa Argentina – New Orleans, and the Argentine Embassy in Washington D.C.

The Other Conquest, Special Film Screening with Writer-Director Salvador Carrasco. November 8, 2000

Sponsors: Stone Center for Latin American Studies, TUCP, GSSA, and Communication Department’s Silverstein Lecture Fund

Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s Border Brujo Performance Video Presentation, December 6, 2000

Border Brujo Discussion: Robert Irwin

Sponsors: CANIBAL, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Stone Center for Latin American Studies 

Women Behind the Camera: Recent Films from Latin America, January 29-March 12, 2001

• A la media noche y media (At Midnight and a Half).  Directed by Mariana Rondón, Venezuela, and Marite Ugáz, Peru, (1999). January 29.

• El Jardín del Eden (The Garden of Eden).  Directed by Maria Novaro, Mexico, (1994), February 5.

• Huelepega: ley de la calle (Glue-Sniffing).  Directed by Elia Shneider, Venezuela (1999), February 12.

• Mariposas en el andamio (Butterflisd in the Scaffold).  Directed by Margaret Gilpínand & Luis Felipe Bernanza, Cuba (1996), February 19.