Events
February 2010
| February 8-13 (Monday-Saturday) Various campus locations |
Haitian Awareness Week |
| February 11 (Thursday) 4:30 pm 219 Burr Hall |
PLAS Spring 2010 Lecture Series - Art, Health, History: Latin American Perspectives Millennium Development Goal 5: Improving Maternal Health Ana Langer, M.D. (EngenderHealth) Hosted by Ana Maria Goldani (Sociology, Princeton University) |
| February 11 (Thursday) 4:30 pm 216 Burr Hall |
PIIRS Democracy and Development Seminar Explaining Variation in Wartime Sexual Violence Elisabeth Wood (Yale University) |
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February 19 |
PLAS Lunch Lecture |
| February 22 (Monday) 12 pm 216 Burr Hall |
PLAS Lunch Lecture Peripheries at the Center: History, Politics, & Aesthetics of Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas Bruno Carvalho (Spanish & Portuguese Languages & Cultures) Beatriz Jaguaribe (Visiting, Program in Latin American Studies, & Spanish & Portuguese Languages & Cultures; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) |
| February 22 (Monday) 7:30 pm Whitman College Theater |
PLAS Film Screening Uprooted Discussion follows with director Juan Mejia Botero Hosted by Sebastian Ramírez (Anthropology) Film Information |
| February 25 (Thursday) 4:30 pm 219 Burr Hall |
PLAS Spring 2010 Lecture Series - Art, Health, History: Latin American Perspectives This Is Not My Body: Walking for My Body Work: A journey through images, memories, and anecdotes Regina José Galindo (Guatemalan performance artist) Hosted by Kelly Baum (Princeton University Art Museum) Lecture in Spanish Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Languages & Cultures |
| February 25 (Thursday) 9 pm McCarter Theatre |
Amalia Hernández’ Ballet Folklórico de México Information and tickets |
March 2010
| March 1 (Monday) 12 pm 216 Burr Hall |
PLAS Work-in-Progress Spring 2010 Faculty Lunch Seminar Lima Barreto: The Anxious Thermometer of a Young Republic Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz (Visiting, Program in Latin American Studies & Department of History; Universidade de São Paulo) |
| March 4 (Thursday) 4:30 pm 219 Burr Hall |
PLAS Spring 2010 Lecture Series - Art, Health, History: Latin American Perspectives Symptoms of Another Life: Time, Possibility, and Domestic Relations in Chile’s Credit Economy Clara Han ’97 (Johns Hopkins University) Hosted by João Biehl (Anthropology, Princeton University) Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology |
| March 15 (Monday) 8 pm McCarter Theater |
McCarter Theater Presents McCoy Tyner Trio with special guest Gonzalo Rubalcaba (Cuban pianist) Information and tickets |
| March 24 (Wednesday) 12 pm 216 Aaron Burr Hall |
PLAS Lunch Lecture The Symbolism of Race in Cuba Today Pedro Pérez Sarduy (Cuban poet, writer, journalist, & broadcaster) Introduction by Noriko Manabe (Music) |
| March 25 (Thursday) 4:30 pm 219 Aaron Burr Hall |
Department of Anthropology 2009-10 Lecture Series: Unexpected Properties Toxic Matters: Law, Science, & Risk in an Ecuadorian Lawsuit Against the Chevron Corporation Suzana Sawyer (University of California, Davis) Co-sponsors: Program in Latin American Studies, East Asian Studies, Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Program in Law and Public Affairs |
April 2010
| April 5 (Monday) 12 pm 216 Burr Hall |
PLAS Work-in-Progress Spring 2010 Faculty Lunch Seminar The Politics of Redistribution in Less Developed Democracies: Evidence from Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela Daniela Campello (Woodrow Wilson School) |
| April 8 (Thursday) 4:30 pm 219 Burr Hall |
PLAS Spring 2010 Lecture Series - Art, Health, History: Latin American Perspectives The Clash of the Gods: Building and Painting in Cuzco after the Earthquake of 1650 Thomas Cummins (Harvard University) Hosted by Thomas Da Costa Kaufmann (Art & Archaeology, Princeton University) |
| April 8 (Thursday) 4:30 pm 216 Burr Hall |
Luce Speaker Series on Religion, Democracy, and Conflict Alfred Stepan (Columbia University) |
| April 9 (Friday) 12pm 219 Burr Hall |
Global Health Colloquium The Role of Academic Research in Global Health Initiatives Arachu Castro (Harvard University) |
| April 9 (Friday) 2–5 pm Venue TBA |
Mulatos en tres tiempos José Miguel Wisnik (Universidade de São Paulo) Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz (visiting, Program in Latin American Studies & Universidade de São Paulo) Arcadio Díaz Quiñones (Princeton University) Organizer: Pedro Meira Monteiro (Princeton University) Co-sponsors: Program in Latin American Studies, Spanish & Portuguese Languages & Cultures |
| April 10 (Saturday) 8 pm Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall |
PLAS Music of Latin America Series Edmar Castaneda Quartet: Jazz from Colombia to the World Co-sponsor: Princeton University Concerts and the Davis International Center |
| April 13 (Tuesday) 4:30pm 219 Burr Hall |
PLAS Spring 2010 Lecture Series - Art, Health, History: Latin American Perspectives Rubén Darío: La política de la tristeza Álvaro Enrigue (Writer) Hosted by Humberto Beck (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University) |
| April 19 (Monday) 12 pm 216 Burr Hall |
PLAS Work-in-Progress Spring 2010 Faculty Lunch Seminar Writing the “Cradle of Samba”: Carnival, Race and Urban Reform in Rio de Janeiro (1930-1945) Bruno Carvalho (Spanish & Portuguese Languages & Cultures) |
May 2010
| May 28 (Friday) 12 pm 219 Burr & gallery |
PLAS Reunions Event |
| May 31 (Monday) 1 pm 219 Burr & gallery |
PLAS Class Day |
