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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
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Scott
Cowen, President, Tulane University
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Miguel
Angel Rodríguez Echeverría, President of Costa Rica
Panel
1: The
Dimensions of Global Commerce. Moderators:
Constantino Urcuyo, Rafael Villegas
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The
Globalization Phenomenon. Scott
Cowen
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The
Commercial and Financial Aspects.
Ennio Rodríguez, Interamerican Development Bank
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The
Political Response Aspects. Florisabel
Rodríguez, PROCESOS
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The
Institutional Capacity Aspects. Leticia
Salomón, Centro de Documentación de Honduras
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The
Environmental and Natural Resource Aspects.
Pedro León, Universidad de Costa Rica
Panel
2: Responses from Organizations.
Moderators: Rodolfo
Cerdas, Daniel Masís
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Multilateral
Organizations. Samuel
Laird, World Trade Organization (WTO)
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Non-governmental
Organizations. Manuel
Orozco, Interamerican Dialogue
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Our
Perspective. Preston
Scott, World Foundation for Environment and Development
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Government
Representatives. Mark
Siegelman, US Department of Commerce
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International
Organizations. Carlos
Bossio, International Labor Organization (ILO)
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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
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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
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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
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Introduction:
Thomas Reese,
Director of Stone Center for Latin American Studies
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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
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Tom
Klinger, Department of French and Italian
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Sybil
Kein, Creole Writer and Scholar, University of Michigan
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Tola
Mosadomi, African Linguist and Writer, Department Head at Louise S.
McGehee School, New Orleans
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Cecile
Accilien, Department of French and Italian
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Dixon
Abreu, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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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.
Its
Like Medicine to Me: Performance
and Healing in the African Diaspora,
December
1-2, 2000
Healths
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:
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Keynote
Address: Being a Headman: In
Memory of Grompes. Kenneth
M. Kesinger
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Prehispanic
Rituals, Alignments, Roads, and Power in the Bolivian Amazon.
Clark
L. Erickson, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
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The
Aesthetic of Immediate: Poetic Engagements and Ecological Knowledge
Among the Runa of Amazonian Ecuador.
Eduardo
O. Kohn, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Guesting,
Feasting, and Warfare in the Northwest Amazon.
Janet
M. Chernela, Department of Sociology/ Anthropology, Florida
International University
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Place
is the Space: Rethinking
Memory and Embodiment in Native Amazonian Death Rituals.
Beth
A. Conklin, Vanderbilt University
Session
2:
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Animism
as Cannibalism: Relations
of Consumption Among the Guajá Indians.
Loretta
A. Cormier, Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama at
Birmingham
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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
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Grief
and the Witch-Killers Rage: Religion
and the Explanation of Waorani Emotion.
Clayton
and Carole Robarchek, Wichita State University
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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
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Film:
Mending Ways:
The Canela Indians of Brazil; Discussant:
William Crocker.
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Discussion: Ethics in
Ethnographic Research and the Tierney Book Darkness in El Dorado
Session
3:
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Hierarchy,
Political Economy, and the Other Within:
Symbolic Foundations of the State in Amazonia.
Michael
Heckenberger, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
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Western
Amazonian Ethnoregionalism. Donald
Pollock, State University of New York at Buffalo
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Marubo
Demographic Politics. Javier
Ruedas, Department of Anthropology
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Colombias
Amazonian Indigenous Communities and the Civil War.
Jean
Jackson, Department of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
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Contrasting
Lives and Shared Vision: William
Brett and John Peter Bennet
Among the Lokono of Guyana. María
del Carmen Moreno
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Fine
Lines: The Interface
Between Indigenous and Caboclo Narrative Traditions in Todays
Amazon. Candace
Slater, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, U.C. Berkeley
Session
4:
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The
Northwest Amazon: La
Vorágine Revisited. Arthur
P. Sorensen
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The
Religion and Politics of Anthropology in the Amazon:
A Critical Analysis Focused on the Yanomami and Yekuana.
Leslie
E. Sponsel, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii
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Aesthetics
and Politics in Chilean Mapuche Autobiographical
Shamanic Discourse.
Lydia
N. Degarrod, Center for Latin American Studies, University of
California at Berkeley
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Changes
in Social Identity with Regard to Intravillage and Transnational
Relationships among the Waiwai of Guyana.
Stephanie
Huelster, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Waiwai
Transitions II or the Glorious Tyranny of Silence.
George
Mentore, University of Virginia
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A
Language of Dreaming: Dreams
of an Amazonian Insomniac. Waud
H. Kracke, Department of Anthropology, University of
IllinoisChicago
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
Mexicos
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
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Our
Lord Entered His Body: Miraculous
Healing and Childrens Bodies in New Spain.
Martha Few, University of Miami
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Language
of Body and Body as Language: Religious
Thought and Cultural Transference in Mexico.
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Carleton University
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Solicitation
in the Confessional: Women
and Salvation in Early Seventeenth Century Mexico City.
Linda Curcio-Nagy, University of Nevada, Reno
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Nahua
Christian Marriage Ceremonies in Sixteenth Century New Spain. Lisa
Sousa, Occidental College
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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
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Ambivalent
Responses to Christianity in Early Colonial Oaxaca.
Kevin Terraciano, University of California, Los Angeles
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Voices
from a Living Hell: Blasphemy
and Violence in a Colonial Mexican Obraje.
Javier Villa-Flores, University of California, San Diego
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Inquisitor
as Physician: Scrupulosity,
Community, and the Case of Sor María de la Natividad.
Jacqueline Holler, Simon Fraser University
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The
Solicitantes in the Colonial Diocese of Yucatan and the Sexual
Conquest of the Yucatec Maya, 1570-1770.
John Chuchiak, Assumption College
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En
manos de Dios padre: Idolatry,
Extirpation Campaigns, and Native Resistance in Villa Alta, Oaxaca,
1679-1704. David Tavárez,
Bard College
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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
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Limpieza
de sangre in Spain: An
instrument of Group Identity, Late Sixteenth Century.
Stafford Poole, C.M., Vincentian Studies, Los Angeles
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Interrogating
Blood Lines: The
Inquisition and the Juridical Process of Claiming Limpieza de sangre
in Colonial Mexico. María Elena Martínez, University of Chicago
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La
justicia eclesiástica y los indios en el arzobispado de Mexico,
1550-1660. Jorge E.
Traslosheros, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de
Monterrey
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Apostles
of Reform: Local Elites
and Patronato Real in Chiapas. Michael
Polushin, University of Southern Mississippi
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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
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Canonizing
a Cult: A Wonder-Working
Guadalupe Icon for Seventeenth Century Mexico.
Jeanette Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara
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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
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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
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The
Nahuas Mary. Louise
Burkhart, State University of New York at Albany
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Remedios.
Linda Curcio-Nagy, University of Nevada, Reno
-
Images
of Mary. Jeanette
Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara
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The
Guadalupe Controversy. Stafford
Poole, C.M., Vincentian Studies, Los Angeles
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Totlaconantzin.
Lisa Sousa, Occidental College
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The
Mixtec Mary. Kevin
Terraciano, University of California, Los Angeles
Organizer:
Susan Schroeder, Department of History. Sponsors: Deans 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
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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
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Authority,
Violence & Adulthood: The
War with Kenyas Mau Maus Fight for Freedom in Kenya, 1950-1960.
John Lonsdale, Trinity College Cambridge
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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
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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
Orchestras 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. Andrews University
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Affirmative
Action Controversy. Nancy
McLean, Northwestern University
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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 Tulanes 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
1011, 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
(Tinas 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
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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
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Political
Science. Anthony
Pereira and Brian Potter, November
1
-
Art
History. Thomas Reese, Director, Stone Center for Latin American
Studies, November
8
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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 Americas 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.
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Moises
Arce, Political Science, Louisiana State University: The Political Ramifications of Market Reforms in Peru, 1990-2000, November
6.
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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 Americas Trade
Strategy at Centurys 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
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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
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Koch
Lecture. Isabel Rigol
Savio, Architect and Professor, ISP JAE Havana, and President, ICO MOS
Cuba, October 30
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Building
the Panama Canal Museum in Panama City: Challenges in a Latin American
World Heritage Site, Eduardo Tejeira-Davis, Universidad de Panamá,
March 9
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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
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George
Odlum, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of St. Lucia
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Elizabeth
Charles-Soomer, General Manager, St. Lucia National Development
Corporation
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Kent
Hippolyte, Consul General of St. Lucia in Miami
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Lucilla
Recai, Vice Consul of St. Lucia in Miami
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Elma
Gene Isaac, Senior Foreign Service Officer
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Agnex
Francis, Chairperson, St. Lucia National Development Corporation
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Dwight
Ramsey, President, United Nations Association of New Orleans
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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
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V.
Manuel Rocha, US Ambassador to Bolivia,
December 7
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James
Cheek, former U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, January
29
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Mary
Ryan,Assistant Secretary of State, March
8
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Oliver
P. Garza, U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua, March
19
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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
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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
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Thoughts
on Addressing Environmental Conflicts.
Tom Sherry, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, March
7
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The
Contributions of Ecological Research to Policy, Conservation, and
Economies in Costa Rica.Lee Dyer, March
14
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KanaimaAssault
Sorcery and Modernity in the Amazon.
Neil Whitehead, March
23
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Male-Juvenile
Interactions of Wild Mantled Howling Monkeys, Doug Arden; Volcanic
Debris Avalanche at Sierra Las Navajas, Hidalgo, Mexico, Bruce
Sherman, March
28
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Cooperation
or Capture: The Paradox
of Co-mangement and Community Participation in Environmental Policy
Making. Sara
Singleton, April
11
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Environmental
Communications in the TropicsLoyola Style.
Robert Thomas, April
18
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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.
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I,
Worst of All
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The
Mission
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Zoot
Suit
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Central
Station
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Who
the Devil is Yuliet?
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Death
and the Maiden
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Yepeto.
Directed by Eduardo Calcagno (1999). September
20
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El
mismo amor, la misma lluvia.
Directed by Juan Jose Campanella (1999). September
27
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Pizza,
birra y faso (Pizza, beer, and smokes).
Directed by Adrián Caetano and Bruno Stagnaro (1997). October
9
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Borges:
sus libros, sus noches. Directed
by Tristán Bauer (1999). November
1
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Garage
Olimpo. Directed by
Mario Bechis (1999). November
15
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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 Departments Silverstein Lecture Fund
Guillermo
Gómez-Peñas 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
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A
la media noche y media (At Midnight and a Half).
Directed
by Mariana Rondón, Venezuela, and Marite Ugáz, Peru, (1999). January
29.
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El
Jardín del Eden (The Garden of Eden).
Directed
by Maria Novaro, Mexico, (1994), February
5.
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Huelepega:
ley de la calle (Glue-Sniffing).
Directed
by Elia Shneider, Venezuela (1999), February
12.
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Mariposas
en el andamio (Butterflisd in the Scaffold).
Directed
by Margaret Gilpínand & Luis Felipe Bernanza, Cuba (1996), February
19.
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