- CLACS AND THE LEMANN INSTITUTE FOR BRAZILIAN STUDIES WELCOME
Elis Gomes Artz, is the Lemann Program Coordinator and manages Institute programs and projects under the direction of the Faculty Program Director. She is from the northeast of Brazil where she received her professional degree in Psychology.
- · LIST OF ALL LECTURES AND EVENTS FOR THE FALL 2014 http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/news/lectures.aspx
- LIST OF APPROVED COURSES FOR FALL 2014 LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES DEGREES AND FLAS STUDENTS http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/academics/courses.aspx
- NEW COURSES FALL 2014
- ARTH 491: 20th Art from Latin America
This class presents a thematically organized survey of the early
to mid-20th century art of Latin America. The works to be studied in the class
come from a diverse range of media including architecture, painting, muralism,
and conceptual art. We will discuss issues of identity, race, gender,
nationalism, and politics among other things. This course is not meant to be a
comprehensive survey of the region or period. Rather, it will introduce
students to a variety of concepts related to art from Latin America. The course
is designed to provide a foundation for further engagement with art by
constructing a broad framework for understanding the art of this period and
region, and by developing skills of visual analysis and the ability to talk and
write about art.
- DID YOU MISS ANY LECTURE DURING SPRING 13? WATCH ALL OUR VIDEOS http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/videos/default.aspx
- GRADUATE MINOR IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
The
graduate minor in Latin American Studies will require the student to complete
12 graduate hours; 8 of the hours must be at the 500-level.
- Area Coursework: A minimum of 8 graduate hours at the 400/500-level from courses in two different departments approved by CLACS every semester. The Center updates and posts approved courses in our website and announce them through our listserv. Our Center has approximately 104 faculty affiliated from different departments in campus, and we approve their courses as part of our curriculum. The Center will record the approved courses on a master list to be kept in the unit that will be used to certify that students took approved courses during their studies in the minor.
- Language Component: At least 4 hours in language coursework taken in any Latin American language (Portuguese, Spanish or Native American Language or Haitian Creole) while enrolled in the Graduate Minor program.
- In the case that not enough or advance language courses are offered, The Center also accepts as equivalent area courses taught in these languages, i.e. literature class taught in Portuguese or Spanish.
- If the chosen language course is at the 400-or 500 level it may count towards the required 12 hours for Graduate Minor. We anticipate that students registering in the Minor already have knowledge of Latin American language.
- If the Student's Master's thesis or doctoral dissertation deals with a country from Latin America and the Caribbean, we advise students in this minor to speak with their advisor about including a committee member from the minor area.
- We recommend that the courses taken for the minor not be applied to course requirements in the students' Master's or PhD program
http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/academics/graduate/minor/default.aspx
<http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/academics/graduate/minor/default.aspx
- NEW WEBSITE OF THE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES COLLECTION http://www.library.illinois.edu/ias/lat/index.html
- CONSULT WITH THE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES LIBRARIAN
Antonio Sotomayor,
Latin American Studies Librarian, will be holding special office hours in CLACS
every Thursday this semester from 3:00pm to 4:00pm in room 200, ISB. If you
have any questions about the research process, finding sources, literature
review, exploring a potential research topic, starting a paper, or anything
else involving research, the library, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies,
please stop by the International Studies Building room 200 on a Thursday,
3:00-4:00pm. If these hours doesn’t work for you, just send me an e-mail and
we’ll find another time to meet.
- New Certificate in International Development Studies offered by LAS Global Studies to undergraduates from all majors and colleges at the University of Illinois. http://www.globalstudies.illinois.edu/academics/certificate/
· THE CENTER FOR
LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES AND THE LEMANN INSTITUTE FOR BRAZILIAN
STUDIES 2014 PARTY RECEPTION:
Friday
September 12, 5-8pm
101
International Studies Building
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LEMANN INSTITUTE FOR BRAZILIAN STUDIES
Lecture
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3rd
Room 101 ISB, 1-2:30
Prof. DAIN BORGES,
Department of History, University of Chicago
NOVELS OF UPWARD
MOBILITY IN A POST-EMANCIPATION METROPOLIS: LIMA BARRETO AND MACHADO DE ASSIS
The writers Machado de Assis and Lima
Barreto are often contrasted as evidence of the scope and limits of social
mobility under Brazilian racial conditions: one rising gracefully from poverty,
the other frustrated in his middle class aspirations. Their writings from
different stances show a surprising amount of agreement about ambitions and
opportunities in the city of Rio de Janeiro in the Empire and the early
Republic.
Dain Borges is Associate Professor in the
Departments of History and Romance Languages and Literatures, at the University
of Chicago. He is the author of The Family in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1945,
the editor of the Oxford translation of Machado de Assis, Esau and Jacob, and
author of articles on Lima Barreto.
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- SEPHARAD AS IMAGINED COMMUNITY LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND RELIGION FROM THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD TO THE 21st CENTURY
Organized by Mahir Şaul (Anthropology, UIUC) and José I. Hualde
(Spanish, Italian and Portuguese & Linguistics, UIUC)
SEPTEMBER 2-3, 2014
Illini Union, Room 210
This
conference will examine the formation and development of Judeo-Spanish in the
Eastern Mediterranean lands
of
the Ottoman Empire and the varied cultural and identity-related roles that
several oral and written manifestations of
this
language played for centuries and continue to play in the present for its
speakers. The conference is focused in its topic,
Judeo-Spanish,
but broad in the spectrum of disciplinary perspectives on the themes that we
would like to bring together,
including
perspectives from diverse fields such as Linguistics, History, Anthropology,
Sociology, Literary and
Cultural
Studies and Religious Studies.
For
more information, including the full program, click here http://www.sip.illinois.edu/sepharad/index.html
This
conference is co-sponsored by
Illinois
Program for Research in the Humanities
Center
for Advanced Study
The
Program in Jewish Culture and Society
College
of Letters, Arts and Sciences
School
of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics
Department
of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
Department
of Anthropology
Department
of Linguistics
Department
of Religious Studies
UIUC
Library
European
Union Center
Center
for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Russian,
East European and Eurasian Center
Amadeo Preziosi, Hakham and Widow. Cemetery of Pera, Constantinople, 1865
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THE 8TH
ANNUAL LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
IS BACK
September
19-25th, 2014
Art
Theater, Co-op
MORE
INFORMATION SOON
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- LASA2015 / Precariedades, exclusiones, emergencias
XXXIII
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association
May 27 – 30,
2015, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Caribe Hilton
Caribe Hilton
Many of us, from
our different locations and disciplines, have been thinking about
precariousness and emergent practices a good deal lately, focusing on three
large and very different realms: social and labor issues in Latin America; the
academic workplace and education; and modalities of knowledge exchange (how our
work and networks are evolving). Precariousness is often associated with
exclusions of class, gender, race, age, and sexual identity and yet, in these
times of permanent crisis and emergency, we also see some of the most exciting
flowerings of emergent practices.
These are large questions that have a bearing on many forms of human and social expression. For example, the recent mobilization of millions of citizens in Brazil, the massive student manifestations of the past years in Chile or Puerto Rico, the growing environmental crisis and its effects on local communities across countries and regions, or the plight of 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States are events that strike to the heart of how we think of democracy in a neoliberal hemispheric context. All of them also speak all at once on the three concepts that we would like to engage in the 2015 LASA Congress.
While the conditions of the academic workplace vary tremendously throughout the Americas, one of the huge shifts in higher education in the United States and many countries in Latin America has been to move away from the tenure system towards a system of contingent, contract labor. The recently released Delphi Project report, for example, confirms that approximately 70% of all instructors in U.S. colleges and universities are now contingent faculty. The squeeze on tenure line positions and their replacement by short-term contracts has made the job market very challenging for many of our young colleagues, who can now look forward to little more than poverty-level income with no benefits. Even more precarious is the status of students from Latin America, who increasingly find green card or citizenship requirements as the bar they must meet for consideration. Likewise, in Latin America the structural reforms and the flexibilization of labor have affected the working conditions in academia. According to reports from members of the Federación de Colegios del Personal Académico de la UNAM, in the higher education system in Mexico, approximately 70% of the teaching is now under the responsibility of professors in part-time positions and under temporary contracts. “Tenured positions” (plazas con definitividad) are being substituted by temporary positions under partial contracts, leaving the new generations of Latin American academicians without any labor security. In the midst of these critical realities, academic communities seem to be facing not only their own internal issues but also a pressing need to imagine and establish other modes of linking the university to public life and scholarship to social service.
As part of this process, we experience the precariousness of our conventional concepts of knowledge production and sharing--the book, the academic article, the conference— as well as the challenge to old understandings of intellectual practice that are suggested by new forms of expression, often finding their homes on the vast world we call the internet. The new media—as well as broader material, technological, and ecological changes—have suggested to us new and unexpected forms of exchange, opening up exciting possibilities for the future. Moreover, new technologies have become central to linguistic, cultural, social, political, and economic subjects as tools to challenge existing exclusions, exercise new horizons of knowledge, and forge creative forms of emergence, visibility, and empowerment.
These are large questions that have a bearing on many forms of human and social expression. For example, the recent mobilization of millions of citizens in Brazil, the massive student manifestations of the past years in Chile or Puerto Rico, the growing environmental crisis and its effects on local communities across countries and regions, or the plight of 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States are events that strike to the heart of how we think of democracy in a neoliberal hemispheric context. All of them also speak all at once on the three concepts that we would like to engage in the 2015 LASA Congress.
While the conditions of the academic workplace vary tremendously throughout the Americas, one of the huge shifts in higher education in the United States and many countries in Latin America has been to move away from the tenure system towards a system of contingent, contract labor. The recently released Delphi Project report, for example, confirms that approximately 70% of all instructors in U.S. colleges and universities are now contingent faculty. The squeeze on tenure line positions and their replacement by short-term contracts has made the job market very challenging for many of our young colleagues, who can now look forward to little more than poverty-level income with no benefits. Even more precarious is the status of students from Latin America, who increasingly find green card or citizenship requirements as the bar they must meet for consideration. Likewise, in Latin America the structural reforms and the flexibilization of labor have affected the working conditions in academia. According to reports from members of the Federación de Colegios del Personal Académico de la UNAM, in the higher education system in Mexico, approximately 70% of the teaching is now under the responsibility of professors in part-time positions and under temporary contracts. “Tenured positions” (plazas con definitividad) are being substituted by temporary positions under partial contracts, leaving the new generations of Latin American academicians without any labor security. In the midst of these critical realities, academic communities seem to be facing not only their own internal issues but also a pressing need to imagine and establish other modes of linking the university to public life and scholarship to social service.
As part of this process, we experience the precariousness of our conventional concepts of knowledge production and sharing--the book, the academic article, the conference— as well as the challenge to old understandings of intellectual practice that are suggested by new forms of expression, often finding their homes on the vast world we call the internet. The new media—as well as broader material, technological, and ecological changes—have suggested to us new and unexpected forms of exchange, opening up exciting possibilities for the future. Moreover, new technologies have become central to linguistic, cultural, social, political, and economic subjects as tools to challenge existing exclusions, exercise new horizons of knowledge, and forge creative forms of emergence, visibility, and empowerment.
· September 8, 2014
Deadline to renew your LASA membership to be able to submit proposals and travel funding requests.
Deadline to renew your LASA membership to be able to submit proposals and travel funding requests.
Guidelines to
submit proposals and renew subscription: http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng/index.asp
- · CALL FOR PAPERS: LASA 2015 PUERTO RICO
“Clases medias y mediadas.
Identidades emergentes y respuestas múltiples a la crisis argentina del 2001”
Varias disciplinas han
examinado tanto empírica como teóricamente los impactos que tuvo la
crisis económico-institucional de diciembre del año 2001 en Argentina respecto
a las posibilidades de ampliación política de la clase media y los alcances y
continuidades del estado neoliberal argentino, entre otras variables. Sin
embargo, pocos estudios han tenido en cuenta la multiplicidad de respuestas
políticas, sociales y culturales de la clase media a estos procesos.
Si bien la clase media
argentina constituye un grupo de actores contraído, complejo y muy heterogéneo,
entendemos que como constructo social ha moldeado profundamente los procesos políticos
y económicos de las ultimas décadas en el país, tanto de manera progresista
como reactiva.
Este panel propone examinar,
debatir y teorizar acerca de las identidades emergentes a partir de la última
crisis, a través de distintas disciplinas que incluyen, entre otras,
antropología, ciencias políticas, literatura, cine, historia, sociología y
geografía.
En particular, nos interesa
reunir un grupo interdisciplinario para indagar acerca de las diversidad de
respuestas u orientaciones sociales, políticas y culturales de la clase media
urbana . En este sentido, nos interesan trabajos que interroguen y analicen la
crisis y las consecuencias de la misma, desde los discursos elaborados por este
grupo como también las representaciones que se han hecho del mismo.
Invitamos entonces a todos
aquellos interesados a presentar sus trabajos examinando estos procesos, de
manera empírica, teórica o por qué no, especulativa.
Los interesados pueden enviar
su abstract a Luján Stasevicius (stasevi1@illinois.edu)
y/o Carolina Sternberg (csternb1@depaul.edu)
hasta el 7 de septiembre.
Agradecemos enormemente su
participación y estaremos en contacto nuevamente cuando se acerque la fecha de
la conferencia.
- LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN SECTION (LACS) OF THES SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
November 11-14,
2015
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas
LACS accepts papers and panels on all aspects of Latin American and Caribbean history, including the fields of borderlands and the Atlantic World. Submissions should include a 250-word abstract for each paper and a brief curriculum vitae for each presenter. We encourage faculty as well as advanced graduate students to submit panels and papers. Graduate students are eligible for the Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. Prize, awarded each year for the best graduate student paper. Please note that the program committee may revise proposed panels. All panelists are required to be members of LACS. For information about membership, please visit the website at: http://www.tnstate.edu//lacs/ or contact Tamara Spike of the University of North Georgia tamara.spike@ung.edu. For more information about the Southern Historical Association, visit the website: http://www.uga.edu/~sha/ Submit conference panels and papers to Peter Szok, Department of History and Geography, TCU at p.szok@tcu.edu.
Proposal deadline: October 1, 2014
- BORDER ENCOUNTERS IN THE AMERICAS
LAGO Graduate Student Conference
February 13-15th, 2014
New Orleans, LA
Deadline for Submissions: October 25th, 2013
At
Tulane University’s Latin American Graduate Organization’s (LAGO) 2014 graduate
conference, meet graduate scholars, faculty, and community leaders interested
in Latin America across disciplines and experience the unique Mardi Gras season
in New Orleans with the famous Krewe du Vieux parade
set to roll on Saturday evening!
Latin
America and the Caribbean are rich with cultural, linguistic, and geographic
diversity which has historically made and continues to make the region an
object of prolific scholarly study across disciplines. Produced within this
diversity are the boundaries—both physical and abstract—between nations,
languages, ethnic and racial identities, ecologies, and geographies. Figurative
and literal borders are confronted each day as people move across regions, navigate
between cultures, and communicate with others around the world; global capital
crosses national borders, redefines local economies, and produces labor
migrations; geographical landscapes shift as land becomes deforested or
designated as protected. These various “border encounters” highlight the ways
in which borders can both restrain and liberate the objects, people, or ideas
that face them, a distinction that is often bound up with power and politics.
With
this broad theme in mind, LAGO invites graduate scholars across disciplines to
submit abstracts exploring the notion of borders—their strictures, leniencies,
and significance—in Latin America and the Caribbean for LAGO’s 2014 graduate
student conference. LAGO encourages participants to interpret this theme as
they see fit. We invite submissions in the English and other languages of Latin
America and the Caribbean regions.
Submit your abstract here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xhzn9mE1rhQ8XnOMWofDFYxoUKhflgfCyCXlC-9AfSA/viewform by
Friday, October 25th, 2013.
- · 23rd INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CENTRAL AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (CILCA)
Tulane/Loyola Universities
March 11-13, 2015.
Please contact <mshea@tulane.edu> or <uquesada@loyno.edu>
for more information or visit the website for up-to-date information: http://stonecenter.tulane.edu/go/cilca
Tulane University,
Loyola University New Orleans, y Purdue University Calumet tienen el gusto de
invitar al CONGRESO DE LITERATURA y CULTURA CENTROAMERICANAS (CILCA XXIII) que
se llevará a cabo en la ciudad de New Orleans, Louisiana, del 11 al 13 de marzo
del 2015 en el campus de Tulane
University y Loyola University New Orleans.
Desde el primer
congreso realizado en Nicaragua 1993, CILCA se ha caracterizado por ser un
espacio de intercambio intelectual y de amistad para académicas/os,
escritoras/es y lectoras/es. El congreso se ha efectuado en todos los países
centroamericanos y por primera vez en su historia, CILCA se realizará en los
Estados Unidos. La ciudad escogida es Nueva Orleáns, puerta de entrada hacia el
Caribe y los países de América Central. El intercambio cultural entre Nueva
Orleáns y América Central ha sido intenso por muchísimos años, y la ciudad
alberga una de las comunidades de origen hondureño más grandes de los Estados
Unidos. Tulane University tiene estrechos lazos con la región a través del Stone Center for
Latin American Studies, the Latin American Library, y the Middle American
Research Institute. Loyola University New Orleans se ha distinguido
por el trabajo con las comunidades hispanas que realizan varias de sus unidades
académicas, incluyendo the Law School y el Center for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies.
La organización de
CILCA XXIII la realizan la Dra. Maureen Shea y el Dr. Uriel Quesada, expertos
en literatura y cultura centroamericanas, con el apoyo del Dr. Jorge Román
Lagunas, creador y promotor de CILCA.
La convocatoria
será publicada en agosto 2014.
Tulane University,
Loyola University New Orleans, and Purdue University Calumet invite you to the
Congress on Literature and Culture of Central America (CILCA XXIII) which will
take place in New Orleans, Louisiana March 11-13 2015 on the campuses of Tulane and Loyola New Orleans.
From the first
conference, held in Nicaragua in 1993, CILCA has been a space for intellectual
exchange and friendship for academics and writers. The conference has been held
in all of the Central American countries and for the first time in its history
will be held in the United States. New Orleans, the gateway to the Caribbean
and Central America, has been chosen as the location. New Orleans and Central
America have a longstanding cultural exchange and New Orleans has one of the
largest Honduran communities in the United States. Tulane has long connections
with the region through the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, the Latin American Library,
and the Middle
American Research Institute. Loyola New Orleans works closely with
hispanic communities particularly through the Law school and the Center for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies.
CILCA XXIII is
organized by Drs. Maureen Shea and Uriel Quesada, experts on the literature and
culture of Central America, with the support of Dr. Jorge Román Lagunas,
creator of CILCA.
Call for papers
coming in August 2014.
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IN
THE NEWS
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restrictions on goods in travellers' luggage http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/01/cuba-imposes-restrictions-travellers-luggage
22 Miners Freed in
Nicaragua as Rescue Efforts Continue http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/world/americas/trapped-miners-freed-in-nicaragua-as-rescue-efforts-continue.html?ref=americas&_r=0
Ecuador gives
details of new digital currency http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-28992589
El Gobierno
argentino busca el aval del Senado para el pago local de la deuda http://www.infolatam.com/2014/08/31/el-gobierno-argentino-busca-el-aval-del-senado-para-el-pago-local-de-la-deuda/
Ascending Marina
Silva ties with Dilma and polarizes the 5 October election http://en.mercopress.com/2014/09/01/ascending-marina-silva-ties-with-dilma-and-polarizes-the-5-october-election
Marina Silva on his
way to the promised land http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://infolatam.com/2014/08/31/marina-silva-en-camino-a-la-tierra-prometida/&sl=es&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8
México: Presidente
Peña Nieto rinde este lunes su segundo informe de Gobierno centrado en
reformas http://www.infolatam.com/2014/09/01/pena-nieto-rinde-este-lunes-su-segundo-informe-de-gobierno-centrado-en-reformas/
What Happened To
Progressive Politics In Lima? http://nacla.org/news/2014/8/27/what-happened-progressive-politics-lima
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