Year 2011 Archive
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- Category: Faculty Work-in-Progress Series
- Category: Graduate Student Work-in-Progress Series
- Category: Other Event
- Category: Other PLAS Event
- Category: PLAS Book Presentation
- Category: PLAS Conference
- Category: PLAS Distinguished Speaker
- Category: PLAS Film Screening and Discussion
- Category: PLAS Lecture
- 12/14/11
Martín Caparrós (Argentinean writer) on "Gigantium humeris? Un recorrido por la narrative latinoamericana tristemente actual"
- 12/13/11
Nadya Guimarães (Universidad de São Paulo) on "Care and Care work in Brazil, France, and Japan"
- 12/08/11
Antonio Sérgio Guimarães (Universidad de São Paulo) on "Race, Skin Color, and Color - U.S., European, and Brazilian Ways of Racial Classification"
- 11/23/11
Antonio Jose Ponte (Cuban writer) on "José Lezama Lima en 1937: Madrid-La Habana-Moscú"
- 11/22/11
**CANCELLED** Sarah Hirschman (Founder, People and Stories/Gente y Cuentos) on "Conversations Between Literary and Community Voices"
- 11/16/11
Gustavo Pérez Firmat (Columbia University) on "The Havana Habit"
- 11/15/11
Kelly Baum (Art Museum) on "Toughs of the Tender Left: Militancy, Masculinity, and the Situationist International"
- 11/09/11
Ruth Behar '80 *83 (University of Michigan) on "The Freedom to Travel Anywhere in the World: Stories from Cuba"
- 11/08/11
Roberto González Echevarría (Yale University) on "Alegoría e historia en De donde son los cantantes"
- 10/26/11
Fabrizio Mejia Madrid (Mexican writer and journalist) on "Utopía, violencia y éxtasis. Owen, Bierce y Burroughs en México"
- 10/19/11
John Hemming (explorer and scholar) on "Monuments of the Incas"
- 10/04/11
John Mraz (PLAS visiting fellow) on "Historicizing Photographs"
- 09/27/11
Juan Villoro (PLAS visiting fellow) on "Letanías del polvo"
- 05/27/11
Edward E. Telles (Sociology) presents the PLAS 2011 Reunions Event: "Race in Latin America"
- 05/03/11
Celi Regina Jardim Pinto (Universidad Federal de Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)) on "Brazil 'Taking Off' and the Challenges of a Female President"
- 04/29/11
Fernando López-Alves (University of California, Santa Barbara) on "The Nation in Post-Neoliberal Urban Centers: Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Lima"
- 04/22/11
Christopher Dunn (Tulane University) on "Maluco Beleza: Counterculture and Authoritarian Modernization in Brazil, 1968-1974"
- 04/12/11
"Friends in High Places"
- 04/07/11
"Thinking Global and the Birth of the Global Sphere in the Iberian Worlds"
- 04/05/11
"Escrituras privadas: las correspondencias de Onetti, Cortázar y Puig"
- 04/04/11
"El derecho de nacer. Legitimidad, historia y literatura en Cuba. 1952–1976."
- 03/29/11
"Ramón Mercader: el hombre que amaba a los perros"
- 03/24/11
"King and Clown: Mimesis in Pre-Columbian Maya Art"
- 03/08/11
‘Voz humana’, una novela sobre canto y tecnología
- 03/01/11
"If You Want to Truly Understand Something, Try Changing It"
- 03/01/11
"Native History for Natives: The colonial-era evolution of Mexican indigenous annals"
- 02/28/11
"Separate and Unequal: Immigrants in the Shadows"
- 02/16/11
"Mexico: Human Rights and Failed Law"
- 02/15/11
"Técnicas de conversación con los difuntos"
- 02/09/11
"Los Bostonians, Yucatán y los primeros pasos de la arqueología estadounidense 1875-1910"
- 02/09/11
A Lecture by Tania Bruguera (Cuban Artist)
- 02/09/11
"When Politicians Become Artists"
- 02/08/11
'Voz humana’, una novela sobre canto y tecnología
- 02/03/11
"Artist's Talk"
- Category: PLAS Roundtable/Conversation
- Category: PLAS Workshop
