Tuesday, February 23, 2016

February 22-28, 2016



CLACS Newsletter – Week January 25-29

ANNOUNCEMENTS
LECTURES
FELLOWSHIPS / OPPORTUNITIES
CONFERENCES / CALL FOR PAPERS
IN THE MARKET
OUTREACH / IN THE COMMUNITY
IN THE NEWS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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    •  NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO ROSETTA STONE

The University Library now has a subscription to Rosetta Stone Foundations which features 30 languages and advanced levels for many of them. To access the database, use the following links:

Direct link:
https://www-s.library.illinois.edu/rosetta/
Alternative link:
http://sfx.carli.illinois.edu/sfxuiu?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/sfxit.com:kbmanager&sfx.ignore_date_threshold=1&rft.object_id=63750000000000407
If you have trouble entering the database and signing up for an account, contact Paula Carns at pcarns@illinois.edu. If you have difficulties once you set up your account, please use the "Contact Support" option at Rosetta Stone (linked off of the entry page).




 



STUDY ABROAD IN CUBA SUMMER 2016


Havana, June 6-26

The course will be taught in Spanish, so 4 semesters of college level Spanish (or equivalent) is a pre-requesite for participation. The attached flyer has some additional information. Interested students should also visit the study abroad website for information and application procedures: 

https://app.studyabroad.illinois.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=11152



  • PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN STUDIES OPEN HOUSE
     
  • ·         STUDY ABROAD IN CHILE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
    EPS 590 SAX:  EDUCATIONAL REFORM, STUDENT MOVEMENTS AND PUBLIC EDUCATION IN CHILE


  • ·         FIELD SCHOOL IN BELIZE


  • ·         EPS 199: UNDERSTANDING EDUCATION AND ENGLISH LEARNING IN A GLOBAL ERA: A STUDY ABROAD EXPERIENCE IN CHILE




LECTURES

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LEMANN INSTITUTE FOR BRAZILIAN STUDIES

Presents
KEILA GRINGBERG, Associate Prof. History, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

THE TWO ENSLAVEMENTS OF RUFINA: ILLEGAL ENSLAVEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF BRAZIL IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23
2pm
101 International Studies Building




  • LEMANN INSTITUTE FOR BRAZILIAN STUDIES
    Presents
    ARMANDO DALLA COSTA, Universidade Federal do Parana

    BUNGE AND IT’S FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY IN BRAZIL: THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ECONOMIC GROUP, 1905-1955

    WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24
    2pm
    101 International Studies Building

    TALK WILL BE IN PORTUGUESE

  • THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES
    Presents
    JOHN KARAM, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, UIUC
    MANIFOLD DESTINY: ARABS AT A SOUTH AMERICAN BORDER REMAKING THE HEMISPHERE
    THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25
    12PM
    101 International Studies Building


  • CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDY
    MillerComm2016

    HEALING THE SOULD OF BLACK FOLKS: TRANSFORMATIONAL FRAMEWORKS FOR THE AFRICAN DIASPORA 
    KIM BUTLER
    Department of History, Rutgers University


    Thursday, February 25, 2016
    4:00pm
    Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
    600 South Gregory, Urbana

    In the narrative of black empowerment in the Afro-Atlantic diaspora, the concept of healing is transformational. The questions of coping, which W.E.B. DuBois wrestled with in his 1903 work, The Souls of Black Folk, are disturbingly familiar today. Examining African migration to Brazil and the Caribbean, Kim Butler explores the ways young people create a powerful language of healing through Carnival, Mandinga, and hoodoo bag, and how they grapple with white supremacy, dwindling educational opportunity, police violence, poor housing, and income disparities.
    W.E.B. DuBois Lecture
    Hosted by: Center for African Studies, Department of African American Studies
    In conjunction with: Center for Global Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Women and Gender in Global Perspectives, Department of History, Department of Sociology, European Union Center, Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies, Spurlock Museum


  • LEMANN INSTITUTE FOR BRAZILIAN STUDIES

    Presents
    RENATO VIEIRA, PhD. Student. Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics

    EFFICIENCY AND DISTRIBUTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TRANSIT FARE SUBSIDIES IN THE CITY OF SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL

    TUESDAY, MARCH 1st
    2pm
    101 International Studies Building

  • THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES AND THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR U.S. STUDIES (IFUSS)

    Present
    GUILLERMO IBARRA, Universidad de Sinaloa, Mexico

    ESCAPING FROM THE PROMISED LAND?: THE RETURN MIGARTION FROM THE U.S. TO MEXICO

    THURSDAY, MARCH 3
    12pm
    101 International Studies Building



  • THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES AND THE PROGRAM OF ART HISTORY

    Present
    JEFFREY SCHRADER, Associate Professor of Art History;  University of Colorado

    THE VIRGIN MARY HAILS FROM SPAIN: STATUE PAINTINGS OF COLONIAL BOLIVIA

    Thursday 3 March
    5:30 pm
    Krannert Art Museum Auditorium  (Room 62)




FELLOWSHIPS / OPPORTUNITIES

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  •       IPRH PRIZES FOR RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES, 2015-16
IPRH has recognized outstanding humanities research in numerous ways since its inception. The IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities allow us to celebrate excellence in humanities scholarship, and we are pleased to solicit submissions and nominations for the 2015–16 academic year. These prizes recognize outstanding humanities research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with awards given at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels. The awards will be presented at a reception on May 2, 2016.
 Eligibility: The awards are open to all full-time Urbana campus students and tenured and tenure-track faculty.
 Application deadline: March 15, 2016 by 5:00 p.m.
 Submission procedures: All submissions must be accompanied by a completed nomination form, which can be downloaded from the IPRH website. The submissions must contain NO references to the applicant’s name or other identifying details. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines will be disqualified from consideration.
Please email the submission and the nomination form as two separate attached pdf documents to iprh@illinois.edu. Please note that scans of journals or book pages are not acceptable. Submissions should be in manuscript form, double-spaced, with all identifying details removed, and conform to the length limitations. For specific funding information and application guidelines for each application category, please consult the IPRH website.
Selection: The applications will be read by a selection committee comprised of members of the IPRH Advisory Committee, one or two invited members of the faculty, and the IPRH Director and Associate Director (both of whom serve on the committee in an ex officio capacity). Submissions will be judged in a blind review process; names and other identifying details must not be included in the essay itself. The essays will be evaluated on their scholarly merit, the intellectual rigor of the questions being posed, and the quality of the writing.
 Questions about these awards and the nomination procedures should be addressed to Nancy Castro at ncastro@illinois.edu.


  •       SPRING 2016 CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANT FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
The Graduate College is pleased to be able to provide Spring 2016 Conference Travel Funds, not to exceed $350, for eligible graduate students.  All information is collected electronically via the online submission form.  Only those who have an active role as a Conference Travel Award Submitter in the Graduate College-Role Access Management (GC-RAM) system will be allowed to submit nominations.  Your status as a submitter can be checked at https://www.grad.illinois.edu/contacts/.

Please refer to the Conference Travel Award information for full details: www.grad.illinois.edu/general/travelaward.

The submission deadline to the Graduate College is 5:00 p.m. February 29, 2016.   Funds will be available by March 28, 2016.

If you have any questions, please contact me at fgomez@illinois.edu, or (217) 333-9390.

  •       TINKER PRE-DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS IN LATIN AMERICA

Are you interested in exploring a research project in Latin America during the summer  of 2016?
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies offers summer fellowships for graduate students (from any nationality) in any discipline who haven’t pass their prelims or qualifying exams yet
Information and requirements about the fellowship: http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/academics/fellowships/tinker.aspx
Deadline: MONDAY February 29, 2015
Any questions contact Angelina Cotler, Associate Director. cotler@illinois.edu

Watch our video for the Tinker Workshop 2014: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8MuR-9YrVzta3pPNXFjRTVqX2s/view
BY APPLYING TO THE TINKER APPLICATION STUDENTS WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY CONSIDERED TO COMPETE TO THE DOROTHEA S. AND NORMAN E. WHITTEN ENDOWMENT FUND WHICH SUPPORTS PRE-DISSERTATION SUMMER RESEARCH FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS WORKING IN SPANISH LATIN AMERICA (with priority in the Andean Region)


  •        MARIANNE AND PETER KILBY AND THE DR. JOSEPH L.LOVE, Sr. and VIRGINIA ELLIS LOVE FELLOWSHIPS
Thanks to the generous support of Professors Joseph Love (History-Emeritus) and Werner Baer (Economics), the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies announces the competition for TWO fellowships to graduate students working in Latin America.
WHO CAN APPLY: Any graduate student who is enrolled in a Ph.D. program and is already ABD or has pass their prelims or qualifying exams , from any department, from any nationality.
REQUIREMENTS: Research for at least minimum 4 weeks either on summer or during the academic year.
REPORT: Students should report the donors within a month of their return from Latin America. If the students are going to the field for the first time, they should participate in the Tinker workshop held in late October every year.
RESTRICTIONS: Grant money cannot be used for conference or course registration, or for intensive language workshops or field schools. The subject of investigation may be related to dissertation research
It is acceptable to use other grants in conjunction with this grant.
EVALUATION: The following criteria apply:
  • Scholarly excellence: The applicant must be a student of high academic standing making clear progress toward degree. Each applicant must supply a current transcript, curriculum vitae, and two letters of recommendation, one of which must be from the applicant's academic advisor.
  • Viability of research: A competitive proposal is one that demonstrates the following:
The research site chosen is suitable for the study, and that appropriate facilities or conditions for the proposed research exist there. The research problem is germane to historic, political, economic, sociocultural and/or ecological characteristics of the specific locale chosen. The research problem is relevant to current concerns in the applicant's field of study. The research methods proposed and the time allowed (normally four or more weeks) are adequate to achieve substantial progress, as demonstrated by a schedule of proposed activities. Technical competence: The applicant must demonstrate, through transcripts and/or letters of recommendation, a level of language competence adequate to the research task, and sufficient grounding in all other technical skills required in the proposed research.
HOW TO APPLY:
      • Submit 1 PDF electronically to Angelina Cotler (cotler@illinois.edu)
      • Write in the subject Line: Love & Kilby Fellowships
      • Deadline: MONDAY, MARCH 7th, 2016
Requirements and documents http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/academics/fellowships/lovekilby.aspx


  •        GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS UIUC
Nelle M. Signor Graduate Scholarship in International Relations
The Nelle M. Signor Graduate Scholarships in International Relations are awarded to outstanding University of Illinois doctoral students conducting dissertation research abroad. Preference is given to students studying international relations, although students of all disciplines are encouraged to apply, provided that their research includes an international dimension. These $2,000 scholarships enable doctoral students to conduct field research outside of the U.S. Funds are administered to the recipient's student account through the Office of Financial Aid and may be used for travel and other research-related expenses. The scholarships are funded through a generous gift from the late Nelle M. Signor.

Students must apply by Friday, March 4, 2016 for funding consideration for research conducted in Summer 2016 or at any time during the 2016-2017 Academic Year. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/NelleMSignor or contact Caroline Ewing at caewing@illinois.edu

  •     INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM SUMMER INTERNISHIP- CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH (CEPR)
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) are once again looking for qualified candidates for our International Program Summer Internship, based here in Washington, D.C.

Much of the work that our interns do is focused on Latin American economic and political developments. If you know of students or recent graduates that you think might be interested in this position, we'd appreciate if you could pass this on to them or send them this link: http://cepr.net/about-us/jobs/internships/job-announcement-summer-2016-international-program-intern.

The deadline for applications is March 25, 2016.



CONFERENCES / CALL FOR PAPERS

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  •       CITIES AND CITIZENSHIP IN  CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN

June16-17, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

The Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NALACS), in cooperation with the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the Delft University of Technology, is pleased to announce the joint conference, ‘Cities and Citizenship in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean,’ which will be held on 16-17 June 2016 in Delft, the Netherlands.
The 2-day conference will embrace a wide range of topics related to urban development and citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean. In their pioneering collection of essays Cities and Citizenship, Holston and Appadurai (1999) as well as other prominent scholars stressed the importance of cities in the making of modern citizens. At the end of the twentieth century, they demonstrated that urban environments are salient sites for examining the renegotiations of citizenship, democracy, and national belonging. This is arguably particularly the case in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, where cities seem to embody the aspirations of citizens and to showcase the best and the worse of their respective societies. It is here that we can observe major opportunities and threats to development, security and human rights, as well as major struggles for rights, inclusion and democracy
For this conference, we invite individual papers as well as panels proposal that look at the relationship between urban development and practices of citizenship. Conference panels will be organized along four tracks:
 Track 1. Cities and Violence 
Cities as salient sites where violence and conflict develop and affect the lives of citizens.

Track 2. Cities and sustainable development

Cities as salient sites where (spatial) planning and (sustainable) development ideas are applied, and where grassroots and governments alternatingly clash or collaborate in order to simultaneously build cities and structures of citizenship.

Track 3. Cities and identity

Cities as salient sites where citizen’s identities and resistances are expressed and repressed.

Track 4. Open for suggestions

Cities as salient sites for other themes related to urban life and urban development.

Individual Paper Proposal Requirements:

Contact information (name, e-mail address, and academic affiliation of the applicant; Individual proposals featuring more than one author (joint proposals) must include contact information and biographical statements for all authors;
·         Track to which the proposal corresponds;
·         Paper abstract (up to 500 words) with the title of the paper, references and no more than five keywords;
·         Biographical statement (up to 100 words) in narrative form.

Panel Proposal Requirements:

·         Contact information for all panelists (names, e-mail addresses, and academic affiliations; a standard panel format consists of a chair and three or four presenters, with a maximum of five presenters);
·         Track to which the proposal corresponds;
·         Title and short description of the panel theme;
·         Abstract (up to 500 words) for each paper;
·         Biographical statement (up to 100 words) for each panelist in narrative form.
Please send your individual paper and panel proposals to info@nalacs.nl no later than Thursday March 31th, 2016. Notifications of acceptance will be sent before May 1st, 2016.


  •          RESOURCE ENTANGLEMENTS: DISPARATE NARRATIVES ON NATURAL RESOURCE EXTRACTION IN LATIN AMERICA

20 May 2016
Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London
Proposal deadline: 1 March 2016
Contact information: 
Amy Penfield (amy.penfield@sas.ac.uk) and Ainhoa Montoya (ainhoa.montoya@sas.ac.uk)

  • IAMCR PRE-CONFERENCE: MEDIA AND GOVERNANCE IN LATIN AMERICA
25 and 26 July 2016
School of Media and Communications of the University of Leeds

This conference will explore the connections between the media and models of governance in the region, from both a comparative and an interdisciplinary perspective, paying particular attention to changes in the communication patterns of governments, interest groups, journalists and news organizations, NGOs and civil society. We are interested in paper presentations exploring empirical, theoretical and methodological issues connected to research on media and communications in the region, rising issues about how Latin American scholarly traditions, approaches and cases can better dialogue and inform academic debates of global relevance.

Drawing upon these questions, we welcome paper submission in the following areas of inquiry:
Political communication, public relations and propaganda: the mediatisation and personalisation of politics in Latin America and the Caribbean; relationships between political and media populism; professionalization of political communication, digital media and political mobilisation; old and new forms of clientelism in the media.
Comparative media systems: comparing public media services; comparing media markets; comparing journalistic cultures; and comparing regulatory frameworks.
Media and the governance agenda: media representations of policy processes; investigative journalism; media accountability; censorship and freedom of the press; state surveillance and privacy, communication and global change.
ICTs, democracy and development: role of media technologies in fostering modernisation and development; opportunities and risks associated to the uses of new technologies for the purpose of empowering communities and marginalized groups; how are audiences/publics emerging and changing as a result of the spread of social media.

Proposal deadline:  Abstracts are due February 28 2016.
Contact information: 
Please find more details about the conference and the CFP here: http://mgla.leeds.ac.uk/call-for-papers/

Please direct any questions and abstracts to this email: conference.mediagovla@gmail.com
Additional information: 
We are delighted to have confirmed the attendance of a superb line-up of guest speakers, including Sallie Hughes (University of Miami), Claudia Mellado (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso) and Carolina Matos (City University London).

Please find more details about the conference and the CFP here: http://mgla.leeds.ac.uk/call-for-papers/

Please direct questions and abstracts to this email: conference.mediagovla@gmail.com

We look forward to welcoming you in Leeds,

Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Ximena Orchard, Sara Garcia Santamaria, Antonio Brambila.

  •         SYMPOSIUM ON INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES OF LATIN AMERICA
October 13-15, 2016
Ohio State University


CALL FOR PROPOSALS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 29, 2016
The Symposium on Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America (ILCLA), organized in conjunction to the third Symposium on Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages of Latin America (STLILLA 2016) brings together instructors, practitioners, activists, indigenous leaders, scholars and learners who study indigenous languages and cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean.
This international symposium engages participants in a hemispheric dialogue and also serves as a permanent forum for networking and exchanging ideas, experiences and research on methodological, theoretical, pedagogical, and practical issues from inter and trans-disciplinary perspectives. This forum will enable professionals from around the world to interact with leading experts in the fields of education, language policy and planning, linguistics, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, anthropology, informatics, and other disciplines. Through different venues such as keynotes presentations, panels, round tables, interactive workshops, poster sessions, and technological tool showcases, this symposium will contribute to the teaching and learning, dissemination and preservation, study and advancement of indigenous languages and cultures of the region. A peer-reviewed selection of the symposium proceedings will be published in alter/nativas, journal of latin american cultural studies.
Confirmed keynote speakers include Luis Cárcamo-Huechante (UT, Austin), and Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino (PUCP, Perú).





IN THE MARKET

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  •      ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SPANISH (14396)-Lehman College, CUNY


Spanish language and literature (prose)
Deadline: Open until filled.
Minimum Requirements: Ph.D. in Spanish required;
Preferred Qualifications:
Expertise in Spanish literature with specialization in transatlantic 19th century narrative strongly preferred. Expertise in 20th century Peninsular Spanish literature. Native proficiency in Spanish and English strongly preferred. Additionally, experience teaching Spanish is preferred. Also required are the ability to teach successfully, demonstrated scholarship or achievement, and ability to cooperate with others for the good of the institution.
Documents Required: Visit http://www.cuny.edu/employment.html
Contact Information:
Prof. Daniel Fernandez at daniel.fernandez1@lehman.cuny.edu

 


IN THE NEWS

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Bolivia: tensions rise as Evo Morales's bid to extend presidency hangs in balance  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/22/bolivia-tensions-rise-as-evo-moraless-bid-to-extend-presidency-hangs-in-balance

El referéndum por la reelección de Evo Morales divide a Bolivia  http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2016/02/22/actualidad/1456112729_930017.html

They will investigate complaint against ex-lover Brazilian president Cardoso  http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://infolatam.com/&sl=es&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8

Venezuela: With the specter of default and the humanitarian crisis  http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://infolatam.com/&sl=es&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8

Colombia Farc: President Santos says talks will not be extended  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35618507

Close runoff seen in Peru election as Fujimori loses ground: poll  http://www.reuters.com/article/us-peru-election-poll-idUSKCN0VU0U8

Macri with The Washington Post “things are not going to change overnight.”  http://en.mercopress.com/2016/02/22/macri-with-the-washington-post-things-are-not-going-to-change-overnight.

2013-2016: polarização e protestos no Brasil  https://www.opendemocracy.net/democraciaabierta/breno-bringel/2013-2016-polariza-o-e-protestos-e-no-brasil



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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies
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