First World Congress on Mixed Jurisdictions
November 06-09, 2002
Co-sponsored by the Tulane Latin American Law Institute, this historic world congress will feature lawyers, judges, and academics from Louisiana, Scotland, South Africa, Israel, Quebec, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and some twenty other countries will be represented. 

The program will feature renowned speakers, including the Chief Justice of Puerto Rico, the Chief Justice of Israel, and a Lord Justice of the House of Lords, who will conference theme Salience and Unity in the Mixed Jurisdiction Experience. For more information, visit their website at http://www.law.tulane.edu/cdo/inst/easwein

First Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshop: Archaeology, Astronomy, and Texts from the Northern Maya Lowlands
November 01-03, 2002
Join archaeologists and epigraphers at Tulane University in New Orleans for an in-depth exploration of current excavations and decipherments from the Yucatan Peninsula.  Saturday, November 2nd will feature a series of lectures on topics ranging from astronomy in the Maya codices, new discoveries at Mayapán, and astronomical orientations in site planning and architecture.  Click here for complete schedule and registration information.

Symposium on Neotropical Historical Ecology
October 18-19, 2002
Take advantage of this rare opportunity to participate in the discussions and attend the presentations of distinguished visiting ecologists and anthropologists who are conducting research on ecological processes that have taken place—from decades to millennia ago—in the Tropics of the Americas.  Click here for a copy of the program schedule. 

Environmental Law and Sustainable Development in 21st Century Cuba
August 12-16
Havana, Cuba
Tulane's Institute for Environmental Law and Policy, in cooperation with Cuba's Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment and in partnership with the Environmental Defense, is proud to offer this rare opportunity to participate in part two of this research dialogue on Cuba's development challenges and environmental future. Participants will study the challenges facing Cuban environmental leaders and examine their responses. Participants will be encouraged to critically analyze policy options in context-and to consider policy alternatives for Cuba in light of comparative examples from the wider Caribbean Basin. results and recommendations will be published in a volume designed to shed light on development challenges and alternatives for Cuba. 

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Seminar & Film Series 

Latin American Film Series
Spring 2003
Latin American Studies Annual Film Series continues this year with many new and noteworthy films and documentaries. The LAS Film Series is scheduled every Tuesday at 7pm in the Greenleaf Conference Room at the Stone Center. For more information and a list of upcoming films visit the LAS Film Series web page.

Caribbean Film Series
Spring 2003

EL PODER DEL JEFE (THE POWER OF THE CHIEF) 1996. Dominican Republic
Monday, February 10, 2003, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Jones Hall, Room 102
Directed by: Rene Fortunato. This prize-winning documentary is the final
part of a trilogy chronicling the political, economic and social
conditions surrounding the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the
Dominican Republic. This installment covers the most important events
that occurred in the Dominican Republic from August 16, 1952, to
November 18, 1961, the day that Trujillo's family left the country.
Among the events recounted in this part are Trujillo's trip to Spain,
the invasion of June 14th, the kidnapping of Columbia University
professor Jesus Galindez, the murder of the dictator, and the death of
those who participated in the plot against Trujillo. Film will be shown
in Spanish vith English subtitles. Admission is free of charge. This
event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Debbie Ramil at 504.862.8629 or cuba@tulane.edu respectively. The event is
being hosted by: Latin American Studies, and is sponsored by: Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute

12 HORAS (12 HOURS) 2001. Puerto Rico
Thursday, February 13, 2003, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Jones Hall, Room 102
 Directed by Raúl Marchand. This critically acclaimed ensemble comedy follows several characters in five interwoven storylines through 12 hours of nightlife on a Friday night in San Juan. The five parallel stories feature a cab driver, a gigolo, three co-workers looking for men, a young woman out to lose her virginity and a TV reporter, all intertwining during a single night. This trendy comedy provides a wise, urban treatment of living on the edge and intensely experiencing the rush of life. The film is in Spanish with English subtitles. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Debbie Ramil at 504.862-8629 or dramil@tulane.edu respectively. The event is being hosted by: Latin American Studies, and is sponsored by: Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute.

A Caribbean Film Series Event
Monday, February 17, 2003, 5:00 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall
The Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute of Tulane University is
pleased to announce a lecture by Prof. Mary Leonard from the University
of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez. Prof. Leonard will discuss the various
filmic discourses that developed in the Dominican Republic and Puerto
Rico over the course of the twentieth century. She will compare how
filmmakers from these neighboring Caribbean islands have responded to
the cultural specificities of these two societies and will address how
this is particularly reflected in the films of René Fortunato in the
Dominican Republic and the film "12 Horas" by Raúl Marchand in Puerto
Rico. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
For further information, call or e-mail Debbie Ramil at dramil@tulane.edu. The event is being sponsored by the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute.

Cuban Culture Film Series
Fall 2002
The Cuban Culture Film Series is scheduled every Wednesday at 7pm in the Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall.   Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Ted Henken at 504.865.3147 or t_henken@yahoo.com respectively. 

September 04: Calle 54 Latin Jazz Explosion with Tito Puente and Chucho Valdez.
September 18: Guantanamera (Film); P.M. (Documentary) & Por Primera Vez (For the first time) (Documentary).
September 25: Madagascar (Film).
October 02: Alicia en el pueblo de las maravillas (Alice in Wonderland) (Film).
October 09: La vida es silbar (Life is Whistling) (Film).
October 16: 90 Miles (Documentary).
October 23: For Love or Country (Film).
October 30: La Ultima Cena (The Last Supper) (Film).
November 06: Voices of the Orishas (Documentary); Ache Moyuba Orisha (Documentary) and La Rumba (Documentary).
November 13: Before Night Falls (Film) and Improper Conduct (Documentary).
November 20: Strawberry and Chocolate (Film).
December 04: Women of Latin America: Cuba (Documentary).   

The Sawyer Seminar Series
Crisis, Choices, and Changes: The Microfoundations of the Neoliberal turn in Latin America
Fall 2002/Spring 2003
This year long series on neoliberalism in Latin America is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information and seminar dates, please visit the Sawyer Seminar Events page.

Ethnobotany Lunch Series
Fall 2002
All meetings Wednesdays at noon in the Chastant Room, University Center.  Please see the Ethnobotany Lunch link for details on dates and topics.  These events are open to the Tulane Community only. For more information, call or e-mail Anne Bradburn at 504.865.5191 or abradbu@tulane.edu respectively.

September 11: Planning Session
September 18: Iffy Ali, Anthropology, "Detection of Genetically Modified Crops"
October 2: Christopher Brown, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, "Shotguns and Accordions: Music of the Marihuana Growing Regions of Colombia." A 53 minute video.
October 16: Video, "Hidden India; The Kerala Spicelands"
October 23: James Welch, Anthropology, "Starchy Staples from the Pomo Cuisine"
October 30: Meredith Dudley, Anthropology, "A Pictorial Journey through Bolivia"
November 6: Steve Darwin, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, "Plants of Old Hawaii"
November 13:  Samantha Gerlach, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,  "A
Trip to Bocas del Toro, Panama"
November 20:  Christopher Brown. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
"Shotguns and Accordions:  music of the marihuana growing regions of Colombia"
November 27:  No meeting ... Thanksgiving Holiday
December 4:  Anne Bradburn, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, "On Ginger"

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Student Events 

SURVIVING FIELD RESEARCH: INTERVIEWING, OBSERVING AND ETHICS
Saturday, March 22, 2003
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
204 Jones Hall and Greenleaf Conference Room
SCHEDULE: There will be three presentations by faculty and students in the morning and three in the afternoon, followed in each case by a discussion. During the lunch period, for which lunch will be provided, there will be discussion of student and/or faculty research in progress. Please bring your work so that we can discuss it together. This could be a proposal, interviews in progress, data being analyzed, you decide. Work on Latin America is especially encouraged.

MORNING SESSION (9:30-12:00) , 204 JONES HALL Professor Joel Devine, Chair of the Department of Sociology, Tulane University, "Maintaining Panel Survival Among High Risk Populations: The Case of Homeless Drug Abusers." Nubia Uruena, Professor of Public Administration, School of Business, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota Colombia "Researching and Exposing Police Corruption in Colombia: Strategies and Outcomes" Carl Kendall, Professor of Medical Anthropology and International Health, Department of International Health and Development, Tulane University "Anéctodas: A Conversation about 32 Years of Fieldwork" Discussant/Rapporteur: Arnulfo Valdivia-Machuca, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University

AFTERNOON SESSION (2-4:30), GREENLEAF CONFERENCE ROOM (100 JONES HALL) Arnulfo Valdivia-Machuca, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University "Interviewing Elites: Few Confusing Short Answers." Kathy Rito, Undergraduate in Sociology and Latin American Studies, Tulane University. "Studying Environmental and Land Rights: An Undergraduate Researcher Gets 'Gendered In'" James Huck, Assistant Director and Graduate Advisor, Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies "Getting in, Earning Respect, and Getting Answers" Discussant/Rapporteur: Martha K. Huggins, Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Sociology, Union College and Tulane University Visiting Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail James Huck at 504-865-5164 or jhuck@tulane.edu respectively.

Grant Writing Workshop
Saturday Feb.8, 10:30 - 12:30 PM
Location TBA
The purpose of this workshop is to prepare students for summer research opportunities and for general grant writing skill building. We will be joined by guest speakers from the Latin American Studies Dept, History dept, Psychology dept, and the Payson Center who will speak on grant research, writing, etiquette, follow-up, university procedure and also share their personal grant experiences. This event is open to the Graduate Student body. Please RSVP to blazgut@hotmail.com by Thursday at 5pm. This event is sponsored by LAGO.

Impressions of Brazil: A Students' Roundtable
Monday, November 04, 2002, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Norman Meyer 118
The Brazilian Studies Council would like to invite you to a friendly and unique gathering where students would freely share their recent study experiences in Brazil. Admission is free of charge. This event is open only to members of the Tulane Community. For more information, call or e-mail Omoniyi Afolabi at 865-5518 or afolabi@tulane.edu respectively.

Planned City, Shrinking State: Cuidad Guayana's State Led Industrialization and its Transition to the Neoliberal Model
Thursday, October 10, 2002, 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall
Public Presentation of Dissertation Defense Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail James Huck at 504.865.5164 or jhuck@tulane.edu respectively.

Brown Bag Series
Fall 2002
Student presentations discussing summer Tinker Fund travel grants. All presentations will be held in the Greenleaf Conference Room, 100 Jones Hall. Please see Brown Bag web page for details.

Tuesday, Sept. 17
Pat Scallen (LAST), "The Other Americans: U.S. Solidarity Workers in Sandinista Nicaragua"
Michael Skinkus (LAST), "Translations of Sacred Song Texts of Santería Worship in Cuba"
Michelle Nasser (LAST), "Simpatizantes: Brazil's Heterosexual Women in Male Homosexual Spaces"

Tuesday, Sept. 24
Markus Eberl (Anthropology), "Transition of Power: The Early and Middle Classic at Aguateca Guatemala"
Claudia Vallejo (Political Science), "Peace Process: Role of Mediators in Latin America"

Friday, Sept. 27
Kari White (Public Health), "Rehabilitation Services in Nicaragua"
Cristina Alonso (Public Health, "Perceptions of Reproductive Health in Honduras"

Tuesday, Oct. 01
Beth Manley (History), "The Role of Women in Post- Dictatorship Dominican Republic"
Jim Dugan (Anthropology), "Maya Hieroglyphic Vocabulary in Modern Chorti"

Friday, Oct. 18
Jeremy Coon, "Impact of Plan Puebla Panama in Southern Mexico"
Lisa Bennett (Anthropology), "Tone in Yucatec-Maya
Willie Hiatt (LAST), "Indigenous Voice, Indigenismo and the Press in Cuzco, Peru, in the 1920s"

Tuesday, Oct. 22
Carlos Perez-Brito (LAST), "Plan Puebla- Panama"
Marna Walthall (LAST), "Cherry Gumapas Street Kids and HIV in Northeastern Brazil: Reaching Marginalized Youth with Antiretroviral Therapy, HIV/AIDS in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil"

Tuesday, Nov. 5
Rosana Blanco (Spanish), “Representation of Subjectivity in Cuban Women Writers”
Nina Muller (Anthropology), “Non-sustainability”
Heather Smith (Public Health), “Infectious Diseases in Nicaragua”

Friday, Nov. 15
Myriam Huet (Anthropology), “Creativity and Identity in the French Antilles:
The Work of the Hand as Cultural Decolonization Among Rastafarian Artisans”
Dylan Clark (LAST), “Creating, Re-creating and Communicating the Maya Past:
Archeology and the Public in Mexico”
Jennifer Liu (Law), “The Sustainability of the Current Cuban Legal Framework
for Ecotourism”

Tuesday, Nov. 19
Matthew Moriarty (Anthropology), “Indigenous Soil Classification in San José,
Petén, Guatemala”
Amy George-Hirons (LAST), “Language Usage and Numeral Classifier Change in
Sanahcat, Yucatán”
James Welch (Anthropology), “Jupaú Trekking”
Christopher Jones (Anthropology), “Maya Cultural Politics in Contemporary
Guatemala”

Tuesday, Nov. 26
Troy Foote (LAST), “Disaster Management in Guatemala”
Jaret Dunn (LAST), “Plan Puebla-Panama in Chiapas”
Carmen Muñoz-Fernández (Spanish and Portuguese), “Bridging the Gap: In Search of Contemporary Yucatecan Women Writers from the Mexican Caribbean”

New Graduate Student Orientation
August 26-27, 2002

Please see schedule for more information or contact the Stone Center.

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Lectures 

The Politics of Race and Gender in National Narrative: The Lost Story of the Cuban Woman Soldier of the American Civil War
Thursday, April 17, 2003, 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall
Lecture by Maria Agui Carter The Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute invites you to attend this lecture by Maria Agui Carter, a Charles Warren Fellow for Studies in American History at Harvard University. She is also an award-winning filmmaker who will discuss her new film in progress, REBEL, about Loreta Janeta Velazquez, a Cuban woman from New Orleans who fought disguised as Lieutenant Buford in the American Civil War. Reception to follow. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Debbie Ramil at 504.862.8629 or dramil@tulane.edu respectively. The event is being hosted by: Latin American Studies, and is sponsored by: Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute.

Geographies of Crime, Race, and 'Other': Constructed Invisibilities in Brazil's Urban Homicides
Wednesday, April 16, 2003, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
President's A, University Center
Martha Huggins LectureAdmission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call Department of Sociology at 504.865.5820. The event is sponsored by: Department of Sociology.

Metaphorical Violence and Violence as Metaphor- Jaoã Camillo Pena Lecture and Presentation
Tuesday, April 15, 2003- 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall
The talk will be followed by a screening of the controversial Brazilian film The Rap of the Little Prince against the low-down Punks [O rap do pequeno príncipe contra as almas sebosas] (2000), by Marcelo Luna and Paulo Caldas (90 minutes). Synopsis: This documentary film traces the lives of two young men both born and raised in Camaragibe, a poor suburb of Recife in the North East of Brazil; Helinho (Hélio José Muniz, nicknamed "Little Prince"), 21, an inmate at the Pernambuco Penitenciary, condemned for more than 70 homicides; and the rapper Garnizé, leader of the music group "Faces do Subúrbio" [Faces of the Suburbs]. Sharing a similar background of poverty and disenfranchisement, the film closely examines Helinho and Garnizé's opposite, but parallel life paths. The documentary interviews the naïve Helinho, a vigilante hero in his neighbourhood, whose liberation has been frequently petitioned by people who feel that he was able to bring them the justice the morose, corrupt and inept Brazilian judicial and police system is unable to provide. Garnizé, on the other hand, an admirer of Che Guevara, Malcolm X and Zumbi of Palmares (Black slave leader) transforms into music the anger and desperation which his counterpart practices. The documentary is narrated throughout by local as well as nationally known rappers (such as Mano Brown from the "Racionais MCs"), providing a rich sound as well as visual counterpoint to the stark images it displays. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Tatjana Pavlovic at 504.865.5518 or pavlovic@tulane.edu respectively. The event is being hosted by: Latin American Studies, and is sponsored by: Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Virgil Suarez Lecture
Stone Auditorium of the Woldenburg Art Center, Room 210
Friday, March 21, 2003, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
He'll probably be reading from his latest collections, which include In the Republic of Longing, Banyan, and Guide to the Blue Tongue. The "opening act" of sorts will be Todd Pierce, who will be reading from his new novel (just published this year), The Australia Stories. Virgil's poems deal a lot with his Cuban identity, his exile from his country, and relocation to Miami and then Tallahassee, Florida. He teaches in the Creative Writing Department at Florida State now. Although his newest book, Guide to the Blue Tongue, is a collection of poems about Prospero. Quite fascinating. And there will be a reception to follow. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call Peter Cooley at 504.862.8174.

Ethnic Conflict in Central America
Monday, March 17, 12:00 PM-1:30 PM
UC President's A&B Mestizaje
A lecture by Dr. Jeffrey Gould, Profess of History, Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Gould s presentation is the last in this year s History and Identity in Latin American and the Caribbean series. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, the LAS Center for Scholars, the Department of History and the Department of Communications. The event is free and open to the public.


Scars of Memory: El Salvador, 1932
Monday, March 17, 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Jones Hall 102 
A film presentation and discussion with Dr. Jeffrey Gould, Professor of History, Indiana University, Bloomington. The film is Dr. Gould s documentary of survivors of one of the most brutal periods in El Salvador s history. In response to a peasant uprising in 1932, government troops executed at least 10,000 people, mostly Indians. This presentation is co-sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, the LAS Center for Scholars, the Department of History and the Department of Communications. The event is free and open to the public.

Olga Fernandez Rios Lecture
Wednesday, March 19, 2003, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hal
Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Debbie Ramil at 504.862.8629 or cuba@tulane.edu respectively. The event is being hosted by: Latin American Studies, and is sponsored by: Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute.

Race, Ethnicity & Medical Community in Colonial British Guiana
Friday, February 7, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall
Professor Juanita DeBarros, Department of History, University of Western Michigan will present on Race, Ethnicity and Medical Community in Colonial British Guiana. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Rosanne Adderley at 504.865.8631 or adderley@tulane.edu

Gendered Modernities: Being Maasai Men and Women
Friday, January 31, 2003, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall
Professor Dorothy L. Hodgson, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University will speak as a part of the Gender and Modernity in Africa Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Adeline Masquelier at 504.862.3594 or amasquel@tulane.edu respectively. This event is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.

Sex, Lies, and Prevarication: Women Studying Latin American Police--Cross-Gendered Research on Secrecy
Friday, January 17, 2003, 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall
Dr. Martha Huggins, Union College Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Sociology and Visiting Professor in Sociology and Latin American Studies at Tulane "Sex, Lies, and Prevarication: Women Studying Latin American Police--Cross-Gendered Research on Secrecy" and Michelle Nasser, Graduate Student in Latin American Studies “Bicha Preta: The Construction of Afro-Brazilian Homosexuality” Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Jeff Betz at 504.723.9710 or jefftulane@yahoo.com respectively. The event is co-sponsored by TULASO.

Political Struggle and Utopian Consciousness: Themes of Resistance in Capoeira Angola
Friday, January 17, 2003, 3:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall
This talk addresses some of the ways in which capoeira is perceived in Brazil and internationally as a tool of liberation both historically and in the present day. With excerpts from Carlos Diegues film, "Quilombo," and personal photos of Mestre João Grande s academy in New York City, the presenter examines both literal and metaphoric themes of "resistance" in the mythology, history, and canon of capoeira angola and its contribution to Marxist theory.

Fabiola Orquera Lecture
Friday, January 17, 2003, 3: 00 PM - 4: 00 PM
Newcomb Hall, Room 316A
"Los "historiófagos" y la formación del sistema de memoria dominante en la colonia" Fabiola Orquera is ABD at Duke University. The title of her dissertation is "Writing and History during the early Spanish colonization of the Americas", under Walter Mignolo. She received a M.A. degree from Rutgers (1997) and another one from Universidad de Tucumán. She has published Los castillos decrépitos o la Historia verdadera de Bemal Díaz (Tucumán Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 1996), as well as several articles. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call Claudia St. Marie at 504.865.5518. This event is co-sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

The Cuban Health System: Past, Present, and Future
Thursday, January 16, 4:00-5: 00 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room Jones Hall
The Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute of Tulane University is pleased to announce a lecture by Dr. Isora Ramos Valle. Dr. Ramos is an epidemiologist and professor at Cuba's National School of Public Health. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. For further information, contact the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute at 862-8629 or cuba@tulane.edu.

Quilombo Kalunga: African Disapora in Brazil
Thursday, January 16, 6:00-8:00 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall
Prof. Mari Baiocchi, Dept. of Anthropology Universidade Federal de Goias, Brazil Quilombos will discuss settlements established throughout Brazil by runaway slaves in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Professor Baiocchi will present and discuss videos of her 15 years of work with the Kalunga people who have preserved a unique African lifestyle in the heart of Brazil for 300 years. The present day issues facing Quilombos throughout Brazil will be discussed.

Bate Papo
Thursday, January 09, 2003, 7:00 PM - 12:00 PM
1217 Philip Street
A lecture and slide presentation by Jacqueline Bishop on paintings inspired from 10 years of travel in Brazilian Amazonia. RSVP Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call Sylvia at 504.834.4554. The event is being hosted by Latin American Studies and is sponsored by the Brazilian-American Cultural Institute of New Orleans.

HIV/AIDS in Central America
Wednesday, January 8, 2003, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Tidewater Building, 1440 Canal Street
12th Floor, Room 1201
Dr. Stanley Terrell, Technical Advisor in HIV/AIDS and Child Survival (TAACS), will discuss USAID/Guatemala - Central America Program. This lecture is free and open to the public.

The 1994-95 Mexican Peso Crisis
Wednesday, December 04, 2002, 01:00-01:50 PM
23A Newcomb Hall (Basement)
Paco Scanlan, Resident Diplomat at Tulane, will be talking about his experience during the1994-95 Mexican Peso crisis, which unleashed the 1995 "Tequila Effect" in financial markets all over the world. Paco headed the Mexico Desk of the Department of State during those critical times, and will give us an insider's view of the US$40 Billion package that the U.S. put together to rescue the Mexican economy. At the time, that was the largest rescue package ever granted to any nation. Be sure to attend.

Janice Bossart Lecture
Wednesday, December 04, 2002, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
President's A&B, University Center
Bossart is an Ecology and Evolutionary Biology candidate. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Shae Heath at 504.865.5191 or sheath@tulane.edu respectively.

International Anti-slavery in the Caribbean: The Anglo-Spanish Commission of Havana & Cuba’s Liberated Africans
Monday, November 25, 2002, 07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Woldenberg Art Center, Stone Auditorium, Room 210
Dr. Luis Martínez-Fernández is with the Department Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies of Rutgers University and his areas of expertise include modern and colonial Latin American history, Caribbean history, comparative slave systems, U.S.-Latin American relations, as well as national history of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. He will be discussing the court of British and Spanish judges known as the "Havana Mixed Commission for the Suppression of the Slave Trade" who ruled over cases pertaining to illegal slave trading activities; and on so-called “emancipados” (liberated Africans). This lecture is part of the Amistad Research Center’s Historical Amistad Incident Lecture Series and is being sponsored by the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute. A reception for the presenter will follow. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Debbie Ramil at 504.862.8629 or cuba@tulane.edu respectively.

Visual Ecology and Species Diversity in Tropical Lizards
Monday, November 25, 2002, 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
President's A&B, University Center
Manuel Leal is an Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Candidate. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Shae Heath at 504.865.5191 or sheath@tulane.edu respectively.

Plant Performance in Heterogeneous Light Environments: Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives from Costa Rica and Hawaii
Friday, November 22, 2002, 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
President Rooms A and B, University Center
Rebecca Montgomery is an Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Candidate. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Shae Heath at 504.865.5191 or sheath@tulane.edu respectively.

The Witch, the Virgin and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre
Thursday, November 21, 2002, 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall
Professor Maria Elena Santiago Diaz is from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Rosanne Adderley at 504.865.8631 or
adderley@tulane.edu respectively.

Roundtable: Interpreting the 2002 Elections in Brazil
Wednesday, November 20, 2002, 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Norman Mayer 106
Participants: Niyi Afolabi, Spanish and Portuguese Department; Idelbar Avelar, Spanish and Portuguese Department; William Balée, Anthropology Department; William Lennon, Center for International Students; Ana Lopez, Communication Department; Anthony Pereira, Political Science Department; Emilson Silva, Economics Department; Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Anthropology Department
(Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro)

Come to hear a discussion about the implications of the historic 2002 elections for Brazil and the region. The participants’ remarks will discuss the meaning and consequences of the elections from a variety of perspectives, including culture, politics, the party system, macroeconomics and economic development, indigenous people’s rights, race, the environment, and poverty.

Amazonian Cosmologies: Some Implications of Perspectivism
Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 05:00 PM
100 Jones Hall
Brazilian anthropologist today Prof. Eduardo Viveiros de Castro will conduct a free and open to the public lecture on Cosmology in the Amazon region.

Lecture by Jocelyn Viterna
Monday, November 18, 2002, 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
University Center, Stibbs A
Sociology Candidate.  Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call Donna at 504.865.5820.

Remembering Color, Nation, and Race in a Transnational Family
Wednesday, November 13, 2002, 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Multimedia Room, Monroe Library Loyola University
Martha Hodes Lecture.  Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call Rosanne Adderely at 504.865.5162.

Touting Microenterprises, Harrassing Microentrepreneurs: A Contradiction of State Policy in Port of Spain, Trinidad
Monday, November 11, 2002, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
University Center, Hunt Andersen Room
Marina Karides is a Sociology Candidate. Reception to follow lecture in Stibbs B. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call Donna at 504.865.5820.

A Missionary for a New Brazilian Art: Lasar Segall and the Paradoxes of Brazil's Nationalist Modernism
Monday, November 11, 2002, 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Woldenberg Art Center, Room 209
Edie Wolfe lecture.  Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call Pamela Franco at 504.865.2227.

Ecological Controls over Net Ecosystem Production in a Central Amazon Forest
Friday, November 08, 2002, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
President's A&B, University Center
Dr. Jeffrey Chambers is a candidate for the faculty position in Tropical Biology. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call Shae Heath at 504.865.5191.

Globalization and the Race to Cross-Border Links by Corporations and Environmentalists
Thursday, November 07, 2002, 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall
Lecture by J. Timmons Roberts.  Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail James Huck at 504.865.5164 or jhuck@tulane.edu respectively.

U.S. Involvement in the War on Drugs
Monday, November 04, 2002, 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall
Lecture by Daniel García- Peña.  Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Claudia Vallejo at 504.864.0479 or cvalley@tulane.edu respectively.

Oba Ernesto Pichard Lecture
Friday, November 01, 2002, 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
105 Hebert Hall
This is the santeria 'priest' whose church became involved in a controversy with the City of Hialeah, Florida over their right to practice their religion freely. The case went all the to the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled in favor of Pichardo and the Church protecting their freedom of religious practice. Oba Pichardo is in New Orleans on a personal visit but very kindly offered to sit down and chat with any of us who were interested in his story or in broader issues around the practice of santeria in the North America and Cuba today. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call Rosanne Adderley at 504.865.5162.

Contemporary Architecture in Guatemala; Design, Methods and Practice: The Peter Giesmann and Pelayo Llarena Experience
Friday, October 25, 2002, 04:00 PM
School of Architecture, Room 201
Professor Peter Giesemann and Pelayo Llarena will present on the architectural design, methods, and practice in Guatemala. This lecture is a collaboration between Tulane University, School of Architecture and Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala.

Inequity: The Root of Conflict in Colombia. Discussing Ceramics, Economics and Gender in La Chamba, Colombia
Thursday, October 24, 2002, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
MARI, 4th Floor Dinwiddie Hall
Dr. Ronald J. Duncan, Oklahoma Baptist University Lecture.  Part of the Visiting Speaker for the Anthropology Graduate Student Colloquium Series. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call Department of Anthropology at 504.865.5336.

The Poetics of Silence: Octavio Paz and John Cage in Dialogue
Friday, October 18, 2002, 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel
Mario J. Valdés is one of the most prominent and best known critics and theoreticians in the Hispanic world. He is Emeritus Professor of Spanish and Comparative literature from the University of Toronto, and Visiting Professor at Tulane University during Fall 2002. Professor Valdés has authored and edited over twenty books on Spanish and Spanish American literature, hermeneutics and literary theory. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call Claudia St. Marie at 865.5518.

Public Corruption and Private Enterprise
Friday, October 04, 2002, 09:00 AM - 10:30 PM
Dixon Hall Tulane University
Moderator: Arthur P. Brief, Ph.D. Panelists Tyler Bridges, reporter, the Miami Herald; Joel S. Hellman, Ph.D., Lead Specialist on Governance, Europe and Central Asia The World Bank, Washington D.C.; Andrew C. Lourie, Chief, Public Integrity Section, U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Washington D.C. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail A. B. Freeman School of Business at 504.865.5666 or artbrief@tulane.edu respectively.

Globalizing Justice!
Wednesday, October 02, 2002, 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Loyola Law School, Room 112 (Ground Floor) 526 Pine Street
Wednesday, October 02, 2002, 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Hunt Anderson Room, University Center
Guatemalan human rights worker Carlos Humberto Muralles will speak on the struggle to stop Plan Puebla Panama, promote sustainable development, and protect food security. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Maureen Shea at 504.865.5518 or mshea@tulane.edu respectively.

Rethinking Armed Struggle in Brazil - An Ethnic Perspective
Friday, September 27, 2002, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall
Visiting Speaker: Jeffrey Lesser (Emory University)
Jeffrey Lesser, Professor of History, Emory University, will speak on and
discuss Prof. Lesser's work is based on research with Japanese-Brazilians and their engagement with the anti-dictatorship guerrilla movements in Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s. Copies of Professor Lesser's paper are available at the Center for Latin American Studies. Because Professor Lesser has provided us with a paper in advance, we anticipate a thoughtful and engaging discussion. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Justin Wolfe at 504.865.8630 or jwolfe@tulane.edu respectively.

Becoming Brazilian: Ethnicity and National Identity
Thursday, September 26, 2002, 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall
Visiting Speaker: Jeffrey Lesser (Emory University)
Jeffrey Lesser, Professor of History, Emory University, will speak on
Professor Lesser has worked on immigration and nationalism in Brazil for more than a decade and in especially interested in Jewish-Brazilian and Japanese-Brazilian identities. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public.  For more information, call or e-mail Justin Wolfe at 504.865-8630 or
jwolfe@tulane.edu respectively.

Jorge Silvetti Lecture
Monday, September 23, 2002, 07:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Thomson Hall, Richardson Memorial, Room 201
Argentine architect Jorge Silvetti, Principal, Machado and Silvetti, Associates, and Nelson Robinson, Jr., Professor of Architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design will lecture on his recent work. Among his current projects are a master plan and additions for the J. Paul Getty Villa in Malibu, California, a residential college for Rice University, graduate student housing for Harvard University, a studio art building for the University of Virginia, museum planning for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Snite Museum at the University of Notre Dame, a master plan for the American University in Beirut, and mixed-use developments in Boston, New York, and Santander, Spain. A reception will follow the lecture. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Carol McMichael Reese at 504.314.2328 or creese1@tulane.edu respectively.

Diplomacy in the Age of Terrorism
Thursday, September 19, 2002, 06:00 PM - 12:00 PM
University Center, President's A&B
The World Affairs Council of New Orleans invites you to a presentation on "Diplomacy in the Age of Terrorism" by Ambassador Diego Asencio. Ambassador Asencio served as the United States ambassador to Brazil from 1983 to 1986, when he retired from the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of career minister. He also served as ambassador to Colombia and assistant secretary of state for Consular Affairs. He was born in Nijar, Almeria, Spain, raised in Newark, New Jersey, and graduated from Georgetown University. He joined the United States Foreign Service in 1957. Ambassador Asencio's address is sponsored by the World Affairs Council of New Orleans with a grant from the Una Chapman Cox Foundation. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call David Clinton at 504.865.5166.

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Distinguished Visitors & Special Events

Celebrating Authors in Latin American Studies
April 23, 2003 at 5:00 p.m.
100A Jones Hall - Greenleaf Conference Room
Reception
The Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University is proud to announce a celebration of faculty associated with Latin American Studies who have published monographs or edited volumes between fall of 2000 to present. The Stone Center invites those who are interested in meeting the authors and celebrating their accomplishments to join us on Wednesday, April 23 at 5:00 p.m. in the Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall on Tulane University's campus. The following is a list of the authors and their books.

The Current Issues in the Field Luncheon
Wednesday, April 19, 2003, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Kendall Cram, University Center
During the lunch, professors Laura Bass, Jean Dangler, Robert Irwin, Marilyn Miller, and Maureen Shea will present their current projects. Lunch provided. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Margarita Perez or Brooke Barbera at 504.865.5795 or mperez1@tulane.edu or bbarber@tulane.edu respectively. The event is being hosted by: Latin American Studies, and is sponsored by: Newcomb Student Programs.

Pachanga
Friday, April 11, 2003, 4:00-4:15 PM
Jones Hall Patio
Latin American Music Ensemble. Come hear your peers perform Latin American arrangements they have been learning this semester under the direction of Dr. Javier Leon (who will teach a Caribbean Music course next semester). The performance will be brief showcasing of the musical talents of our undergraduate students -- your friends...

Following the Latin American Music Ensemble's performance, the Pachanga en el Patio moves to the UC Quad. Chiko & Rogerio and their ensemble (from Brazil) play at Tulane before the Jazz Fest gig on opening day. You might have class when they're scheduled to play at the 'Fest, so come hear them right on campus as part of the "TUCP All-Nighter"

 

Violence, Crime and Socio-Economic Interactions: With Applications to Latin America
Tulane University Diboll Conference Complex
Friday, April 04, 2003, 8:00 AM - 2:30 PM
This conference's main objective is to gather important qualitative and quantitative information about crime, corruption and violence in Brazil and other Latin American countries. The conference papers will provide sound theoretical foundations and empirical applications for the making of effective public policy. Papers are drawn from economics, political science and sociology. They cover topics such as: domestic violence in Chile and Nicaragua; violence in Brasilia; relationships between crime and race; relationships between lack of property rights and violence in Brasil; relationships between (un)democratic systems and violence in Latin America; relationships between crime and income inequality, terrorism; and relationships between corruption and the state, corruption and economic growth and corruption and crime.

 

Participants include:

Christopher Ellis, University of Oregon
João Faria, University of Texas, Dallas
Herman Freudenberger, Tulane University
Martha Huggins, Union College and Tulane University
Paulo Loureiro, Universidade Católica de Brasília
Andrew Morrison, Inter-American Development Bank
Bernardo Mueller, Universidade de Brasília
Anthony Pereira, Tulane University
André Rossi, Universidade de Brasília
Adolfo Sachsida, Universidade Católica de Brasília
Emilson Silva, Tulane University
Kevin Siqueira, Clarkson University

 

Tulane International Business Society Debate
Wednesday, November 20, 2002, 05:15 PM - 06:15 PM
Room 100
Dr. John M. Trapani III will moderate the debate on: "Whether the International perception of American Business is positive or negative."  Come prepared to give and support your points of view. Refreshments and pizza will be provided. Admission is free of charge. This event is open to the public. For more information, call or e-mail Mario Chavez-Galas at 504.891.5690 or mchavezg@tulane.edu respectively.

Stone Center for Latin American Studies Faculty Luncheon
Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
President's A&B, University Center
Final Luncheon for Fall 2002. Spring 2003 Dates are January 21, 2003, February 17, 2003, March 25, 2003 and April 21, 2003 Admission is free of charge. Attendance is by invitation only. For more information, call or e-mail Luci Calzada Moore at 504.865.5164 or rtsclas@tulane.edu respectively.