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A reminder that the DFC has special hours during the holidays:
Friday, 12/23 - open at 9:00am
Saturday, 12/24 - open at 9:00am and closing at 1:00pm
Sunday, 12/25 - closed all day
Monday, 12/26 - open at 9:00am
Friday, 12/30 - open at 9:00am
Saturday, 12/31 - open at 9:00am and closing at 1:00pm
Sunday, 1/1 - closed all day
Monday, 1/2 - open at 9:00am
Congratulations to Professor Jie Liu, who was named as co-Editor-in-Chief for North America of Nanoscale, a peer-reviewed RCS journal publishing experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nano science and nanotechnology.
Julie Reynolds has been elected Vice President for Education and Human Resources for the Ecological Society of America. Her term will begin in August 2012. The ESA was founded in 1915 and has some 10,000 members worldwide. It offers professional certification, publishes several scientific journals, runs educational programs and provides scientific information to Congress, the media and the public. [more]
The American Academy for the Advancement of Science has chosen Xinnian Dong as a Fellow for her "meritorious efforts to advance science." She is one of 142 biologists so honored in 2011. AAAS is the premier scientific society in the United States. [more]
The American Academy for the Advancement of Science has named Xinnian Dong a AAAS Fellow. This year 142 Fellows were selected in the Biological Sciences. AAAS is the premier scientific society in the United States and its flagship journal Science is one of the 2 most prestigious journals in the sciences. [more]
Graduate students are invited to apply for one-semester graduate fellowships at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, an NSF-sponsored collaboration between Duke, UNC and NC State dedicated to synthetic research in evolutionary science. Previous NESCent graduate fellows include Duke biograd Paul Durst and UNC graduate student Sarah Seiter. The next deadline is January 1. [more]
Dan Kiehart has been chosen by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science as a AAAS Fellow, in honor of his "distinguished contributions to developmental biology, particularly for the elucidation of the physical forces that drive morphogenetic movements of cells and tissues during embryogenesis.” The new class of Fellows will be inducted in February 2012. AAAS is the premier scientific society in the United States and its flagship journal Science is one of the 2 most prestigious journals in the sciences.
Zylinski, a postdoc in the Johnsen lab, published in Current Biology (11/22/2011)on the amazing ability of certain cephalopods to switch from transparent to dark pigment and back almost instantaneously, depending on surrounding light conditions. This helps them evade predators which hunt in different ways, making a dual camouflage scheme necessary. [more, alt.]
Congratulations to Prof. Patrick Charbonneau, who has been named a winner of the highly competitive ACS HP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for 2012. Prof. Charbonneau will be recognized at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego this spring, at which he will make a research presentation.
In an article that has just appeared in the Journal of Chemical Education, Professor MacPhail, recent Duke Ph.D. Dr. Claire Siburt Parker, and Dr. Ahrash Bissell report on a new model for general chemistry recitations aimed at enhancing metacognitive and problem solving skills through the deliberate manipulation of chemistry problems. Student response has been overwhelmingly favorable to this model, which has been employed at Duke in CHEM 22L, CHEM 31L, and CHEM 20D. For more information see:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed100891s
introductory chemistry course has recently received news coverage:
have recently developed a technique to organize copper atoms in water to form long, thin, non-clumped nanowires. The results were published in Advanced Materials, and covered in Duke Today. Another article appears in the November 16 issue of The Atlantic.
have made significant progress on the glass problem by examining its dimensional dependence. Read more in their recent Physical Review Letters and at Duke Research.
Through a six year, $13.6M grant, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research has recently established a multi-university center in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina to investigate aspects and applications of programmable assembly of soft matter. Profs. Wiley and Charbonneau from the Department of Chemistry are founding members of the new Triangle MRSEC.
"Solar Fuels: Science Engineering and Policy" is open.
This event is free for Duke Chemistry Faculty, Post-Docs and Graduate Students - Just select the "Pre-Paid Registrant" category.
On January 11-12, 2012, Duke University and the Solar Energy Research Center (SERC) at UNC-Chapel Hill will co-host a scientific meeting at the R. David Thomas Executive Conference Center at Duke University.
This year’s conference will feature keynote addresses from Michael Grätzel and Louis Brus, as well as sixteen other distinguished speakers in sessions on Foundational Issues, Theory, Catalysis and Bioinspiration, and Directing Charge and Spin with Light. There will also be a roundtable discussion on policy and funding, and a Wednesday evening banquet.
Parking is convenient and free, and lunches and breaks are provided.
Due to the poor weather conditions today, the Science Under the Stars event will be held on Thursday, October 20 in the French Science Center (first floor) beginning at 6.00pm. This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are not required.
Free parking will be available in the Chemistry Lot located off of Circuit Drive near the corner of Circuit and Towerview Drives.
The event this year will be different from those in the past. We will have a science festival atmosphere. From 6:00 to 7:30 PM, numerous stations will be available for the audience to participate in hands-on/interactive activities presented by Duke Students representing Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Engineering, the Genome Group, Environmental Science, FEMMES, Microbiology and Immunology, and Molecular Genetics. Following, a short demonstration extravaganza will be staged for all the attendees. The presentations will be appropriate for all ages.
For more information contact Kenneth Lyle, PhD at kenneth.lyle@duke.edu
Congratulations to Professor James Bonk, who received the University Medal for Distinguished Meritorious Service during the Founder's Day Convocation on September 22 at 4.30 pm in the Duke Chapel. The University Medal is one of the University's highest awards - this is a fabulous way for the University to recognize all of Professor Bonk's achievements and contributions to not only the Department but the University as a whole. Congratulations to Professor Bonk on receiving the University Medal and we thank him for his 50+ years of dedication to undergraduate education!!!
Buchler is one of four Duke scientists to receive the award, which recognizes researchers at the start of their career, when they may not yet have the preliminary data required to receive traditional NIH funding. He will use his award to develop computer simulations and lab experiments in yeast to understand the extent to which the single-celled organisms' gene networks can "learn" and predict the statistical regularities of their environment. [more]
An international team led by Bob Reed, formerly a postdoc in the Nijhout lab, reports in Science (26 August 2011) on the discovery of the first gene that controls mimicry in butterflies (Heliconius). This gene, called Optix, has a polymorphic regulatory region that controls multiple alternative mimicry patterns. [more]
The rain continues to linger, so we've made the decision to postpone the Family Campout until October 1st! Even if you can't (or don't want to) stay the whole night, you are welcome to come for any or all of the cookout, the campfire, the sparklers, or the smores. The cost is $3/person ($5 per non-member guest) and we ask that your RSVP to the office (684-6672) by next Friday so we're sure to have enough provisions.
Due to the unseasonably cool and wet temperatures, we'll not be opening the main and wading pools today. The lap pool, however, remains on its normal schedule. Tomorrow looks to be clear and sunny, however, so it looks like we'll finish out the season on a high note.
Show your DFC pride with a t-shirt, or new for the fall season, a hooded sweatshirt! T-shirts are for sale in the front office for $12. Sweatshirts are for sale for $25 and will be ordered in mid-September. If you would like to order a sweatshirt, contact the office by September 18th. Gray and dark blue sweatshirts in any size are available.
Grad student Carl Rothfels is a co-author of "Recently Formed Polyploid Plants Diversify at Lower Rates" published in Science (DOI:10.1126/science.1207205). A far-flung group of researchers analyzed a variety of vascular plants to corroborate the hypothesis that polyploidy is an evolutionary dead end. [more]
How caterpillars know when to molt is answered in a new article by grad student Viviane Callier and Fred Nijhout (PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1106556108; also featured in ScienceShots). The caterpillar's trachea does not grow along with the other parts of the body and eventually becomes inadequate. Oxygen starvation tells the insect it's time for a new exoskeleton. [more, alt.]
In 2010, Pedro Lasch (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke) began to work with the artist run platform of AND AND AND, the director and staff of dOCUMENTA(13), and the organization of Twin Towers Go Global (TTGG), to issue a series of three special 9/11 anniversary reports (2010, 2011, 2012). Like all other projects in the AND AND AND series, these reports are part of dOCUMENTA(13). The Second Report is now up on the dOCUMENTA(13) website: http://d13.documenta.de/#press/news-archive/press-single-view/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=110&cHash=a93408273d42fd7deae93586bc500d10. Issued yesterday in Kassel, Germany, the current report focuses on the TTGG's recent “Open Call”, a competition where people were invited to imagine the Twin Towers rebuilt around the world. Almost sixty proposals were submitted between July 31 and September 2, 2011. Five winners were selected by a specialized jury, and another five through an international public vote. The ten finalists were announced in private at the opening reception of Lasch's 'Phantom Limbs' exhibition in New York (Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, September 7 – October 9, 2011). The winning proposals are featured with images and other details in the ten-page online PDF publication available through the link below: http://d13.documenta.de/fileadmin/newsletter/2011/AND_AND_AND_Event9/AND-Lasch-TTGG-Report-2all.pdf. All other information, as well as any future updates will be available at: http://www.twintowersgoglobal.org/wtc/documenta-13-and-and-and// as well as: http://www.andandand.org/events.htm . For those of you who may still want to see the New York exhibition of 'Phantom Limbs,' here is the direct link: http://www.stephanstoyanovgallery.com/
Festival Flamenco October 5-9, 2011 - Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana’s Ensemble presents Festival Flamenco. This free festival will serve Durham residents and friends with workshops, classes and performances. http://danceprogram.duke.edu/news/archive/2011/08/31/festival-flamenco-october-5-9-2011
Additionally, the company will be visiting some Duke Dance Program Classes:
-Wednesday, October 5: Open demonstration and masterclass during African Dance Technique II, 6-7:30 at The Ark
-Company members will be part of Dance 128/Flamenco lecture class October 7, 1:15-2:45pm. Location TBA
Congratulations to Prof. Weitao Yang, who has been awarded the 2012 ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research. This prestigious award, given annually, recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of the use of computers in the chemical and biological sciences, and consists of a cash prize and a certificate.
Presented by the Department of African & African American Studies, the Program in Latino/a Studies, and the Center for Multicultural Affairs, the hit romantic comedy performance, "Platanos Y Collard Greens," is coming to Duke on September 29th (7pm, Reynolds Theater)! Check out the website www.platanosandcollardgreens.com/ and plan to arrive to Reynolds a few minutes early - tickets are free at the door to first 600 attendees. Follow-up panel discussion will take place Tuesday, Oct 4th at 7pm. You don't want to miss this performance and discussion!
Co-sponsored by: Black Student Alliance, Center for African and African American Research, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Center for Race Relations, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Duke Latino/a Graduate Student Association, DukeEngage, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc, Latino Medical Student Association, Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, Mi Gente, Office for Institutional Equity, Omega Phi Beta Sorority Inc, Program in Latina/o Studies at UNC - Chapel Hill, Spanish Service-Learning, The Carolina Latina/o Collaborative, The Program in Literature, Theater Studies, Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority Inc, and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.
Artistic and Visual Responses to 9/11 and Other Disasters: A conversation with Jonathan Hyman, Pedro Lasch, and Gennifer Weisenfeld
September 9, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., John Hope Franklin Center (Room 240), 2204 Erwin Road
contact: r.sikorski@duke.edu
The Duke Community Service Center is looking to hire Duke students to tutor in Durham Public Schools with the America Reads and America Counts program. To be hired, you must be eligible for Federal Work Study, and we pay $13.25/hr to undergrads and $16.25/hr to graduate tutors. If you are interested in tutoring, please check out our website at http://csc.civic.duke.edu/
REPORT ON MIGRATION IN MEXICO: ROOTS, REALITIES AND RESISTANCE- 5pm Sunday, September 11, 2011 at the Chapel Hill Church of the Reconciliation
On June 11, 2011 19 delegates ranging in age from 18 to 73 from over 10 US States participated in the joint Witness for Peace/Chicle Language Institute MIGRATION IN MEXICO: ROOTS, REALITIES, AND RESISTANCE delegation to Oaxaca, Mexico. The delegates viewed both the realities of desperate conditions and some positive tactics of economic survival that are working for communities. The trip was organized by local community members, Sharon Mujica and Jane Stein and the the briefings and travels of this national delegation were planned by Tony Macias and other Witness for Peace staff in Oaxaca. On Sunday, September 11 at 5pm at the Chapel Hill Church of the Reconciliation many of the North Carolina delegates will be in Chapel Hill to present their findings and give ideas for a more humane economic and immigration policy. A discussion will follow the presentation. Please join us to share this briefing and exchange of ideas. Witness for Peace trips seek to equip both travelers and their audiences to press for sensible and humane economic and immigration policy.
Works from Jonathan Hyman's Archive of 9/11 Vernacular Memorials
Exhibit curated by Pedro Lasch on view through October 16, 2011, in the Special Collections Gallery library.duke.edu > exhibits
Julie Reynolds, Rob Jackson and nine other leaders within the Ecological Society of America issued a call-to-action this summer to promote Earth Stewardship. The paper, “Earth Stewardship: science for action to sustain the human-earth system” (Chapin et al 2011), was published in the open-access journal Ecosphere. [more]
David Rasmussen received the 2011 E.C. Pielou prize (best grad student presentation in statistical ecology)for "Inferring the population dynamics of multi-strain pathogens from genealogies," based on Rasmussen, Ratmann, & Koelle, PLoS Computational Biology 7(8) e1002136.
Stacy Scholle was awarded the 2011 Alfred J. Lotka prize (best grad student poster in theoretical ecology) for "The effect of epidemiological dynamics on viral evolutionary rates." [more]
Haiti: History Embedded in Amber- Opening Reception with Artist Edouard Duval-Carrie Friday, September 9, 2011 5:00 - 6:30 pm at the FHI Garage, C105, 1st floor, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse on the Duke campus
A celebration of the installation of Haiti: History Embedded in Amber with artist Edouard Duval-Carrie. He will speak briefly about the piece, and there will be music by renowned Haitian singer Erol Josue, along with Caribbean food and drink. Sponsored by the Haiti Lab/Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke. Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke. For more information about the event, go to http://www.fhi.duke.edu/
For directions to the Smith Warehouse, go to http://www.fhi.duke.edu/about/
EK POWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEEDS YOUR HELP!
EK Powe Elementary School (located near Duke's East Campus) is looking for Spanish speakers to assist with interpretation and translation work throughout the school year.
On SEPTEMBER 15, EK Powe needs about 6 students to sign up for interpretation and translation work in the evening (5:30-7) for a classroom event. Free pizza will be served.
Students who are interested in putting their name on a contact list for translation/interpretation on an "as needed" basis OR if you want to sign up for the September 15 event, please contact Alice Anne Kern at EK Powe(onlya2@frontier.com).
TOROS Y SALSA FESTIVAL
9pm at Motorco Musical Hall 723 Rigsbee Avenue Durham, NC 27701
General Admission: $10
Festival lineup: Pibo Marquez y su Descarga Criolla, Cesar "Albondiga" Monge, Elio Pacheco, Rodrigo Mendoza, Bio Ritmo, Frankie Vazquez, Marcial Isturiz, Bloque 53, Diabloson, La familia Quintero de venezuela (Nene, Luis, Rafael, Luisito y Roberto) [more]
The National Science Foundation has awarded Prof. Wright a 4-year grant to set up an experimental network along a latitudinal gradient across the Eastern US to determine the relative importance of climate, soils, and evolutionary history in controlling succession in abandoned agricultural fields. Prof. Wright also has a 4-year grant from the Army Corps of Engineers to develop a trait-based framework for predicting community and ecosystem responses to changes in fire frequency.
A reminder to come by the DFC tailgate this Saturday before heading over to cheer on the Devils in their season opener against Richmond. The weather looks to be fantastic for this weekend's festivities so we expect to have a large crowd. To help us prepare for the rush we ask that you do the following:
No RSVP this year
Instead of taking RSVPs for 400 people (as we did last year), we're just going to order a large amount of food and assume that there will be enough people to eat it all! The food will be ready at 4:00pm at the picnic shelter.
Parking
As we do for all football games, we'll have a parking lot attendant checking for current stickers. If you have guests that will be arriving in a non-DFC vehicle (no stickers), you'll need to call the office and let us know. Since space will be at a premium, we will turn away any cars without stickers that are not on our guest list.
We historically fill our parking lot by the early afternoon. There are little to no overflow options on football Saturdays, so please plan your arrival accordingly. Carpooling, if possible, is always great option.
Guests
Although there is no cost to members for the Saturday tailgate, we are modifying the guest fees accordingly:
For guests that arrive in your vehicle and just head over to the game: No charge
For guests that just join you at the pool, fitness center, tennis, etc: $5 adult/$3 child (normal charge)
For guests that also join you at the pig pickin' : $10 adult/$5 child
Saturday's Schedule
1:00pm - 4:00pm - Pool Games
2:00-3:30pm - Tennis Social
2:00-3:00pm - Face Painting
4:00pm - BBQ, chicken, fixin's and drinks available in the shelter
5:00pm - Punt, Pass, & Kick Competition for kids on the basketball courts
7:00pm - Football game begins
Due to the wind, rain, and general unpleasantness of the day we have decided to close the main and wading pools. The lap pool will remain open (barring no thunder/lightening), as will the fitness room and group fitness classes.
Thankfully the storm is passing though and tomorrow looks to be a spectacular day!
Bolivar Blvd: Simon Bolivar's Journey in the United States -1807- Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:00-1:00 pm
Room 240 Franklin Center at Duke, 2204 Erwin Road, Durham
A talk by Miguel Chirinos, historian and collector, and organizer of the exhibition Bolivar Blvd which is on display at the Fredric Jameson Gallery, Friedl Building, Duke East Campus. This is the first talk in this year's Wednesdays at the Center series. A light lunch will be served. Co-sponsored by Latino/a Studies in the Global South and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, both at Duke.
La Fiesta del Pueblo takes place this year on Sunday, Sept 18th from 12noon to 8pm in downtown Raleigh. Students from UNC and Duke may be organizing to travel togethter. Duke students should check out Mi Gente's Facebook Group if you are interested in carpooling to attend this festival celebrating the NC Latino community with food, music, dance, and fun! See http://www.elpueblo.org/eng/culture/lafiesta2011/lafiesta2011.shtml for more info.
Alta Gracia needs self-driven students who are fired up about workers' rights, well-connected to the campus community, and interested in building their ability to do community organizing and education. Work involves developing educational events, collaborating with community groups, supporting local businesses and more, and meeting (virtually and over the phone) and sharing with a network of other student organizers on college campuses. Here are some details:
Fall Semester, begins September 5th depending on school, flexible start date to be arranged
Flexible hours (10 – 20 per week), flexible work schedule
Credit and limited compensation opportunities can be arranged
The internship will take place on your campus in your community, with meetings with workers, fellow students, and stakeholders from the industry sharing their experiences in online meetings using Skype and GoTo Meeting.
Help us build a nation-wide network for social justice for workers in the garment industry!
Contact Rachel Taber at Alta Gracia at taberrachel@gmail.com, or call 202.297.0971 for more information.
Suenos Americanos/American Dreams: The Art of Cornelio Campos, an exhibit which runs August 1 - October 15 at the FedEx Global Education Center (301 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill) is hosting a Public Reception on September 8, 2011 at 7:00 PM.
Modern yet traditional, and deeply personal, the paintings of Cornelio Campos illustrate complex realities of migrant life that are often concealed. A Mexican-born artist now residing in the US, Campos shares emotions and explores contemporary political issues, such as immigration, the U.S.-Mexico border and cultural identity. Other works in this exhibition highlight earlier experiences of the history and culture of his indigenous roots using a folkloric art style. These paintings represent everyday scenes of Mexican life, such as selling handmade crafts, connecting with family and celebrating religious traditions. Through vibrant colors and layer-upon-layer of symbolism, the work of Cornelio Campos challenges viewers to contemplate the American dreams of many, including their own.
This exhibition is hosted by UNC Global, the UNC Department of Geography and the North Carolina State University Interdisciplinary Studies Department.
Contact Laura Griest lauragriest@unc.edu for more information.
The Mexico Solidarity Network presents
On the Edge of Reason: Border dynamics and the spread of violence
with Macrina Cardenas Alarcon
Alarcon will speak about connections between violence on the Mesican border and ther Merida Initiatve, FBI and DEA participation, free trade agreements, and maquiladoras. Alarcon was formerly the Mexico Solidarity Network's Legislative Coordinator in DC and has spent the past 5 yeras aiding deportees and doing grassroots organizing in Tijuana with La Casa del Migrante.
Tuesday, Sept 27 at 6:30pm in Soc Sci 139
Sponsored by Romance Studies Department, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, the Women's Center, BorderWorks humanities lab, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Further information to be posted soon!
The Department of African & African American Studies, the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, and the Center for Multicultural Affairs will present a follow-up discussion to the Platanos Y Collard Greens performance (see Sept 29 listing) on Tuesday, October 4th at 7:00pm in Room 136 of the Social Science Bldg on Duke West Campsus. A panel of faculty, staff, and student scholars will give comments and take part in audience q/a.
Further details to follow soon.
Student Action with Farmworkers' Student Organizing School was developed for college-aged youth who have a passion for improving farmworker conditions through campus organizing. Student Action with Farmworkers envisions a world in which farmworkers earn fair wages, are safe on the job, and have access to higher education. Students who are bilingual and/or from farmworker families are encouraged to apply!
Benefits: A 7-month program from September 2011-April 2012; A $100 stipend per semester; Mentorship and support; Room & Board and Travel reimbursements for three overnight training retreats. Apply for the Student Organizing School by September 9, 2011!
Organize your peers in support of: The Access to Education for All Campaign; The Harvest of Dignity Campaign; or The Reynolds Tobacco Campaign. Organizers will raise awareness about farmworker issues by conducting presentations, writing articles, participating in a community service project, fundraising, engaging their peers, and coordinating an event for National Farmworker Awareness Week.
*For more information on our campaigns:
www.adelantenc.org, www.ncfan.org, & www.supportfloc.org
For more information, contact: Nadeen Bir, Advocacy and Organizing Director, (919) 660 - 3652 nadeen.bir@duke.edu, www.saf-unite.org
is the nationally-elected 2011-2012 Program Chair for the American Chemical Society Division of Biological Chemistry (BIOL). His responsibilities include organizing and chairing the BIOL Division program for the ACS conference held Sunday August 28 through Thursday September 1, 2011 in Denver, Colorado.
BIGGEST OUTDOOR ZUMBATHON IS BACK SEPT 17!
Get up and get active, in support of El Centro Hispano
The 2.5 hr outdoor zumbathon will take place 4:30 to 7:00pm at Durham Central Park, 501 Foster Street.
See for more info: www.elcentronc.org
El Centro Hispano (ECH) a grassroots community based organization dedicated to strengthening the Latino community and improving the quality of life of Latino residents in Durham, Carrboro, Chapel Hill and surrounding areas. We accomplish our mission through service, education and community organizing.
The Future is Mestizo: Sept 16-17 at Duke Divinity School. Registration is now open for the fifth annual Reconcilers Weekend Conference, Sept. 16-17, 2011, at
The Durham News section of the Aug. 10 N & O featured Prof. Wilson's work in urban ecology. The article described both his recent book, "Constructed Climates: A Primer On Urban Environments" and his work advising the Durham City-County Planning Department's "Urban Open Space" project. Prof. Wilson hopes to educate local government and neighborhood groups about the health and environmental value of green spaces in the city. [more]
Be sure to check out the GREAT LATINO STUDIES CLASSES both at DUKE AND UNC-CH that are being offered this fall. Among others, seats remain for the following: UNDERGRADS, don't miss out on LSGS 181S/SPAN 181S/ICS 131 GS/ LIT 162ZS: Reading Latino and Latino History through Literature. Examining the imaginative act of writing -e.g., fiction, poetry, and playwriting - this course is a study of the literary portrayals of historical subjects, facts, events, and the social knowledge of the past, and how these means question the positioning of Latinas and Latinos within the American cultural terrain. Specific attention is given to how non-fiction is fictionally processed in contemporary works by U.S. Latinas and Latinos. Taught MW 2:50-4:05 in Languages 208 with Prof Claudia Milian.
At UNC-CH: graduate-level courseEnglish 864: Medicalizing latinidades with Professor Laura Halperin, taught @@ Mondays 2:00-5:00 in Greenlaw 318. Building on Vilma Santiago-Irizarry's ethnographic study about the medicalization of ethnicity, this interdisciplinary and intersectional graduate seminar will focus on the medicalization of latinidades. Through an examination of texts across genres such as novels, memoirs, plays, poetry, vignettes, films and/or documentaries, medical anthropologies, literary analyses, environmental and social justice studies, and psychological studies this course will explore the medicalized construction of latinidades, with particular attention to the roles race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality play in these constructions. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Professor Laura Halperin at lhalperi@email.unc.edu.
See http://latino.aas.duke.edu/academics/Fallcourses2011.php for all Fall course offerings
VOLUNTEER TRANSLATION SUPPORT NEEDED
The
On August 23rd and 24th the center will be hosting program orientation sessions for the upcoming academic year. Volunteer translation support is needed on both evenings, dinner will be provided.
Tuesday, August 23rd, 5:30-7:30pm
Translators should be fluent Spanish speakers and be comfortable simultaneously translating
Wednesday, August 24th, 6-8pm
Translators should be fluent Spanish speakers and be comfortable simultaneously translating to small groups of 2-3 individuals.
Please contact contact Girija Mahajan by email: gmahajan@emilyk.org or by phone: (919)-680-0308 ext. 1003 if you have any questions or are interested in volunteering.
Congratulations to Al Crumbliss, the Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of Chemistry, who has been recognized as an ACS Fellow by the American Chemical Society. The fellows program began in 2009 as a way to recognize and honor ACS members from academe, industry, and government for outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession, and ACS.
September 15th at 6:00pm in the Friedl Gallery
The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South and Mi Gente Association of Latino/a Students will launch the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month with a public reception for BOLIVAR BLVD in the Fredric Jameson Gallery (Friedl Bldg, East Campus) from 6-8pm. Join us for great conversation, food, and dancing!
Exhibit information at: http://bolivarblvd.wordpress.com/
Exhibit coordinated by the NC Arts Council and the following Duke University units: Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South; Spanish Service-Learning; Romance Studies Department; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Office of Durham & Regional Affairs; and Department of Cultural Anthropology.
Durham Parks and Recreation hosts Latino Festival 2011 on Sat, Aug 6 from 1-6pm at Rock Quarry Park, 701 Stadium Drive, Durham. Free admission. More info at www.dprplaymore.org.
"Celebrate the culture and traditions of Durham's Latino community- enjoy music, food, children's activities and more!"
Screen/Society presents "Waste Land" at 7pm! (free screening of Brazilian documentary at the Nasher Museum of Art)
The Nasher Museum of Art, Sustainable Duke, and Screen/Society present the next installment in the "Summer Days, Nasher Nights" film series. Art-themed films, shown on the 4th Thursday of the month. Screenings are at 7pm in the Nasher Museum of Art Lecture Hall and are free and open to the general public.
An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2011 Academy Awards! Winner of the Amnesty International Film Prize at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival and the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival! Sponsored by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the First Citizens Bank, the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image, and Sustainable Duke.
"Prochelators triggered by hydrogen peroxide provide hexadentate iron coordination to impede oxidative stress." (J Inorg Biochem 2011 Jun 12) has been selected and evaluated by the Faculty of 1000 (F1000), a post-publication peer review site that evaluates the top published articles in biology and medicine.
and Duke University Medical Center Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Professor Raphael Valdivia have discovered a new way to block the damaging actions of chlamydia, the bacteria responsible for the largest number of sexually transmitted infections in the United States. The team designed a molecule that takes away the bacteria's self-defense mechanisms. The therapies that could come from this discovery mark a new type of antimicrobial approach. Instead of directly killing the bacteria, they will disarm a central weapon of chlamydia, and let the body take care of the rest. Work from Duke graduate students Ine Jorgensen (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) and Maria Bednar (Chemistry) is featured in this paper.
Their paper appears in the July 21st 2011 issue of Cell Host and Microbe. A figure from their research paper appears on the cover of this issue of the journal. Read more here....
The Dean of the Nicholas School has given the Award for Outstanding PhD Student Manuscript to recent graduate Meredith Barrett (Yoder Lab).
Dean Bill Chameides awarded Meredith first place for her entry: "Modeling the effects of illicit rosewood logging in Madagascar: A call for CITES designation" which was published in Science, Vol. 328. She will receive a $3,000 prize. [more]
scientific photography by Felice Frankel on Wednesday, July 20. The lecture, "Visual Strategies for Scientists and Engineers: Improving Your Graphics for Articles, Posters and Presentations", will be held in French Science 2231 at 9.00am. Frankel and her work have been profiled in the New York Times, Wired, LIFE Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, Science Friday, the Christian Science Monitor and various european publications. For more information on Ms. Frankel's work, please visit her personal website. [PDF]
Student Action with Farmworkers is recruiting college students for our Student Organizing School Program 2011-2012 Academic year. The deadline is September 9, 2011. If you are a college-aged dreamer, please consider applying as well!
"As student organizers we should and will put just as much effort in ensuring that the injustices faced by farmworkers today will not continue for future generations. With this in mind, I feel as if I not only have the tools, but also the motivation to be a strong force in this movement." -Christine Contreras, 2010-2011 SAF Student Organizer.
SAF trains, mentors, and supports a small group of college students in NC to be leaders in the farmworker movement. Through an orientation, retreats, and farm labor camp visits, student organizers learn about the history of the farm labor movement, current farm labor campaigns, and popular education and organizing. Through campus organizing, the students support current policy and organizing campaigns to improve farm labor conditions.
Please check out our SOS applicant information for program details, eligibility, program timeline, and information about how to apply.
To learn more about the Student Organizing School contact: Nadeen Bir at 919-660-3652
[more]
Do you want to be a change agent and impact the lives of many Hispanic entrepreneurs that want to improve their businesses? Accion Emprendedora has a proven track record with more than 3.000 entrepreneurs trained in Chile with many of them having very successful results in their incomes and stability. And now we are bringing our model to Durham to support Hispanic entrepreneurs here in the road to success.
When: July 21st from 6 to 7pm
Where: Bull City Forward 101 W. Main Street, Durham, NC 27701 View map
RSVP and/or send questions to: asanchez@accionemprendedora.org
BOLIVAR BLVD: Simon Bolivar's Footprint in the United States
Currently on display through September 29, 2011
Duke University presents BOLIVAR BLVD; a collaborative exhibition project mapping the footprint of Simon Bolivar, one of the most influential political leaders in South American history, in the past and present United States. The exhibit looks at the tribute paid to Simon Bolivar from New York to Missouri to North Carolina through monuments and names of places and products. Known as the "The Liberator," Simon Bolivar was a central figure in the 19th century wars of independence of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Panama. We join in this year's bicentennial celebration of independence in Venezuela.
Location: Fredric Jameson Gallery, 1316 Campus Drive. Friedl Building, Duke University, East Campus. Durham, NC. 27705.
Exhibit dates: July 9 to September 22, 2011.
Gallery hours: Mon. - Thurs. 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (except during special events); Friday and weekends by request; see website for further details. http://bolivarblvd.wordpress.com
The primary exhibit items are part of a larger collection by Miguel Chirinos, a local historian and native of Venezuela who has studied and written about Bolivar. The exhibition has been organized and curated by Miguel Rojas-Sotelo assisted by Marlon Torres.
For more information about BOLIVAR BLVD please contact: bolivarblvd@gmail.com. By phone: (919) 699-4036; (919)-681-3883.
This exhibition has been coordinated with the assistance of the N.C. Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Cultural Resources and the following Duke University units: Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South; Spanish Service-Learning; Romance Studies Department; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Department of Cultural Anthropology, and Office of Durham & Regional Affairs. Special thanks to Rafael Osuba, quickcolorprints.com
You are invited to the BOLIVAR BLVD Exhibition Opening, Saturday July 9th at 3:00pm Fredric Jameson Gallery, East Campus, Duke University.
BOLIVAR BLVD: Simon Bolivar's Footprint in the United States
July 9 to September 22, 2011
OPENING: SATURDAY JULY 9th at 3:00PM (FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
Duke University presents BOLIVAR BLVD; a collaborative exhibition project mapping the footprint of Simon Bolivar, one of the most influential political leaders in South American history, in the past and present United States. The exhibit looks at the tribute paid to Simon Bolivar from New York to Missouri to North Carolina through monuments and names of places and products. Known as the "The Liberator," Simon Bolivar was a central figure in the 19th century wars of independence of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Panama. We join in this year's bicentennial celebration of independence in Venezuela.
Location: Fredric Jameson Gallery, 1316 Campus Drive. Friedl Building, Duke University, East Campus. Durham, NC. 27705.
Exhibit dates: July 9 to September 22, 2011.
Gallery hours: Mon. - Thurs. 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (except during special events); Friday and weekends by request; see website for further details. http://bolivarblvd.wordpress.com
The primary exhibit items are part of a larger collection by Miguel Chirinos, a local historian and native of Venezuela who has studied and written about Bolivar. The exhibition has been organized and curated by Miguel Rojas-Sotelo assisted by Marlon Torres.
For more information about BOLIVAR BLVD please contact: bolivarblvd@gmail.com. By phone: (919) 699-4036; (919)-681-3883.
This exhibition has been coordinated with the assistance of the N.C. Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Cultural Resources and the following Duke University units: Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South; Spanish Service-Learning; Romance Studies Department; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Department of Cultural Anthropology, and Office of Durham & Regional Affairs. Special thanks to Rafael Osuba, quickcolorprints.com
The Perry prize is awarded in honor of Prof. Harold Perry (Botany Dept. 1932-1970) for the most deserving dissertation in plant science. Robin Hopkins won the prize for her research on the process of species formation and the role of insect pollinators. Robin's research has "experimentally demonstrated the genetic basis of flower color and how shifts in petal color translate into changes in pollinator behavior, and ultimately to speciation."
Emeritus Professor Nicholas Gillham's latest book is Genes, Chromosomes and Disease: From Simple Traits, to Complex Traits, to Personalized Medicine (FT Press, 2011). "This readable overview covers the rise of medical genetics through the past century, and the eugenic impulses it has inspired. Nicholas Gillham reviews the linkages between genes and disease; ethnic groups’ differential susceptibility to genetic traits and disorders; personalized medicine; and crucial social and ethical issues arising from the field’s progress." [more]
Dr. Dave Des Marais, an alumnus of the Rausher Lab, has won a USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative fellowship to study the ecophysiology of adaptation and adaptive plasticity in the grass/Brachypodium distachyon. He is carrying out his research at the University of Texas.
Julie Reynolds has published a paper on methods for improving undergraduate writing about science (co-authored by Prof. Robert Thompson, Life Sciences Education 10:209-215). The paper reports on Duke Biology honors theses from 2005-2008, and shows that enrolling in the Writing in Science course significantly improved a student's chance of earning higher or highest honors. [more]
Brasil 2014: The Ugly Face of the Beautiful Game, talk by: Christopher Gaffney-- Visiting Professor, School of Architecture and Urbanism-Universidade Federal Fluminense Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22ND- Noon to 1p.m. (a light lunch will be served) at Haiti Laboratory, Franklin Humanities Institute--Bay 4, SMITH WAREHOUSE, Duke University Dr. Gaffney's work on the World Cup has recently been quoted in Al Jazeera, The New York Times, the Guardian, Reuters, the Associated Press, ESPN, and multiple Brazilian media outlets. His first book, Temples of the Earthbound Gods (University of Texas Press 2006), examined the history and culture of soccer stadiums in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. Gaffney was a lecturer in the Departments of Geography and International Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill from 2006-2008, covered the Carolina RailHawks for the Independent Weekly and frequented the Triangle's pick up soccer games. His website, www.geostadia.com, analyzes the shifting political, economic, urban, and social dimensions of Brazil's current mega-event cycle. He lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. All are welcome. Parking is available next to Smith Warehouse along Buchanan Blvd.
PLAY MORE WITH DPR: Third Friday Latin Concert Friday, June 17 (6 p.m. - 8 p.m.) Durham Centre Plaza (top of the parking deck) 300 W. Morgan St. across from the Carolina Theatre--The Guillo Carias Trio's upbeat Latin rhythms will make you want to tap your feet or even get up and dance. Join us for an evening of fun, fellowship and entertainment. This event is free and will be held rain or shine. To learn more about Durham Parks and Recreation, visit www.DPRPlayMore.org or call (919) 560-4355. [more] -- Durham Parks and Recreation
LATINO GALA GRADUATION. Commencement speech by ARIEL DORFMAN. The "Latino Gala Graduation", will take place June 21st., 7pm-9:30pm at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The event will honor the 2011 graduates of El Centro Hispano's Adult Literacy Program "Plaza Comunitaria", and will give guests the opportunity to see firsthand the result of this education program. Everyone is invited! During this event, El Centro Hispano will also describe the work they currently do and seek support for their programs, which benefit the Triangle's Hispanic/Latino community. Your support will make it possible for El Centro to continue the education, health, community organizing and direct service programming to vulnerable community members. Thank you for your support of El Centro Hispano and for those in need in our community. [more] -- El Centro Hispano
Profs. Philip Benfey and Xinnian Dong are among 15 plant scientists selected to become Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigators. HHMI says that they are among "the nation's most innovative plant scientists" and hopes that "flexible funding" will allow them to "move their research in creative new directions." The plant science program will provide about $75 million to an under-funded field over the next five years. Congratulations, Philip and Xinnian! [more]
Dylan Burge(Manos Lab)has received a 2-year International Research Fellowship from the NSF, one of 30 awarded in 2010. He will study nickel accumulation in the genus Stackhousia, a family of small flowering herbs., at the University of Sydney. [more]
The Nowicki Lab recently published a paper on cognition in song sparrows in Animal Behavior Vol. 81, pp. 1209-1216: "Song repertoire size in male song sparrows correlates with detour reaching, but not with other cognitive measures." Male sparrows with large song repertoires are preferred by females, but did not necessarily do better on all cognition tests. [more]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. --Alabama schools will soon have to check if students are in the country legally and people stopped for any reason could be arrested on suspicion of immigration violations under a sweeping law being called the nation's most restrictive against illegal immigration. Advocacy groups promised to challenge the sweeping measure signed by Gov. Robert Bentley on Thursday, which they call even more severe than the one in Arizona that is being challenged in court. In addition, it requires all businesses to check the legal status of workers using a federal system called E-Verify and makes it a crime to knowingly give an illegal immigrant a ride. "It is clearly unconstitutional. It's mean-spirited, racist, and we think a court will enjoin it," said Mary Bauer, legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center. It takes effect Sept. 1. [more] -- Associated Press
Will Wilson talks about his new book "Constructed Climates" at the Regulator Booksthop at 7:00 PM this Wednesday, June 8th. Wilson’s book identifies the crucially important role that urban greenness—trees, parks, gardens, parkways—plays in our well-being and in the qualities of our lives. [more] -- http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/william-g-wilson
We've streamlined the registration process for our private swim lessons in order to make it easier and smoother for members. You can now view the availability calendar online so that you can be prepared with your requested day/time when you call or stop by the office to register. Check it out here: Private Swim Lessons.
The Sherwood Lab has a new article in the current issue of Nature-Cell Biology: "Basement membrane sliding and targeted adhesion remodels tissue boundaries during uterine-vulval attachment in C. elegans" (Advanced online publication, Nature Cell Biology). Sherwood and colleagues use live-cell imaging to show that basement membrane sliding enlarges the opening of the uterus during Caenorhabditis elegans development and that integrins-based adhesion negatively regulates this sliding. [more]
Chuck Pell and Hugh Crenshaw, former colleagues of Steve Wainwright, have invented a new and improved rib spreader for thoracic surgery (NY Times May 18, 2011, Science section). The article gives a detailed account of their research careers in biomechanics and previous inventions inspired by the motion of living organisms. [more]
on the iron transport mechanism in mycobacteria has been published as this month's cover article for
Metallomics. [Cover Article] [Metallomics Article]
for his receipt of the Robert B. Cox Arts and Science Teaching and Service Award! This award recognizes faculty members for teaching excellence and their ability to encourage intellectual excitement, inspire the discovery of knowledge, and foster critical inquiry in the classroom.
The Consulate General of Mexico in Raleigh, North Carolina, in partnership with Rafael Osuba, is organizing a Literary Gathering with the Mexican writer Jorge F. Hernandez. Hernandez will be reading part of his work and signing his books. A mixer will follow for a more informal conversation with the author. The event will take place at the main facilities of the Consulate General of Mexico on Thursday, June 9th from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the general public. Space is limited so please send your rsvp to rsvp@consulraleigh.com or register at www.crecelatino.com
Jorge F. Hernandez is a PhD in History from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and has taught in prestigious universities in Mexico City. His career as a writer includes essays, short stories, articles and novels. His novels "La Emperatriz de Lavapies" (The Empress of Lavapies) (Alfaguara, 1999) and "Requiem para un Angel" (Requiem for an Angel) (Alfaguara, 2009) have become very popular among the Spanish speaking public in Iberoamerica and the United States.
He recently published a compilation of short stories that has been translated into English entitled "Sun, Stone and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories", represents a sample of the best Mexican short stories published during the first half of the 20th century featuring some of the most important writers of Hispanic literature. This masterpiece brings together stories written by well known authors such as the 1990 Literary Nobel Prize Winner Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Jose Arreola and Rosario Castellanos. It has been increasingly selected by Universities to teach Hispanic Literature.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Latina/o Collaborative (CLC) - http://clc.unc.edu/ -is seeking submissions for two one-artist shows, one in the fall of 2011 and another in the spring of 2012. The CLC seeks 2D media work addressing Latinidades in compelling, refreshing, and unexpected ways.
The CLC, a multiuse space with a gallery, classrooms, offices, social spaces, and a patio, is located in the Seminar Wing of Craige North Residence Hall on UNC campus.
Please note: the artist must cover all shipping and framing costs. Also, the work to be displayed will not be insured by UNC-Chapel Hill.
Please submit via email: 3-5 jpegs of examples of your work, a brief statement about how your work addresses Latinidades, a 1-2 page resume, and an acknowledgement that you are willing to cover shipping costs.
DEADLINE for submission is June 15.
Please email all of the required materials to: unc-clc@unc.edu
El Centro Hispano invites the Triangle community to join the biggest Zumbathon Fundraiser May 28th at the Pavilion at Durham Central Park. 5:20pm-7:30pm (Free demo at 5pm). Purchase tickets at elcentronc.org or call 919-687-4635, ext. 46. Start the summer off right: Get UP get ACTIVE and get with the FAMILY
FITNESS PARTY. Have a BLAST; Join the PARTY, and RAISE money for a
FANTASTIC cause!
Together NC is a broad and diverse collection of 120+ non-profit organizations, service providers, and professional associations who have come together to promote wise choices for shared prosperity for all North Carolinians. To apply:
Email a cover letter outlining why you’re interested in this internship and what you hope to gain from it along with aresume to: Clayton Brooks, clayton@togethernc.org.
Applications will be accepted immediately and considered on a rolling basis. To learn more about Together NC, visit www.togethernc.org
Now more than ever, in the
face of severe economic recession, we must speak with one voice about
the need to maintain and build upon the public investments - education, transportation, public safety, health care - that support the fabric of our community.
Internship Description: Together NC is seeking a full-time (40 hours/week) summer intern to assist with the implementation of key communications and organizing tactics across
the state. The intern will be an instrumental part of the Together NC
team, which includes two coordinators based out of the NC Justice
Center and the Covenant with North Carolina’s Children and an
organizer. The internship will provide a unique opportunity to be on the frontlines of a fast-moving state policy campaign that’s focused on building the public will for progressive solutions to the state’s budget shortfall. The intern will come
away with a tangible sense of how state policy change is driven and the
day-to-day workings of a non-profit advocacy organization.
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Collecting budget impact stories from Together NC partners
- Discovering likely allies in key communities
- Organizing and implementing phonebanks to contact state legislators
- Managing and organizing the Together NC database
- Supporting the administrative duties of Together NC
Position is based in downtown Raleigh, NC at the offices of the NC Justice Center at 224 S. Dawson Street. The duration of this internship will be for the 2011 summer, specific start and end dates contingent on in the intern’s schedule. Unfortunately, we do not have funding so the internship is unpaid, though we will reimburse work-related expenses.
Hispanics in Philanthropy's (HIP) mission is to build the capacity of Latino nonprofits, while strengthening the participation and leadership of Latino professionals in philanthropy. HIP seeks to increase investments in the Latino nonprofit sector through creative, cutting-edge grantmaking and as the leading transnational network of grantmakers, HIP is consistently at the front line of innovative philanthropy. More information is available on our website: www.hiponline.org
Position Decription:
This position will work with the North Carolina regional office of HIP. Although the NC office is based in Asheville, Fellows can work remotely from anywhere in North Carolina.
HIP Fellowships are carefully tailored to match each Fellow’s interests with a broad range of organizational areas, including Membership & Special Events, Programs, Communications, Finance, and Development. HIP Fellows are given a high degree of flexibility in defining their range of work and are expected to take charge of projects in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment. All fellowships are unpaid, educational opportunities lasting a minimum of one semester. HIP seeks Fellows at the graduate level, but will consider students in their last years of undergraduate work and in other stages of professional development. Further information can be found on-line or by contacting Althea Gonzalez, althea@hiponline.org.
SOA Watch is looking to hire a full time Operations and Development Coordinator and a summer intern. Applications for the full time position are due by May 1. Applications for the intership positions will be accepted on a rolling basis.
1.) FULL TIME OPERATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR POSITION (salaried position based in Washington, DC @ SOA Watch National Office)
School of the Americas Watch is hiring an Development & Operations Coordinator to be based in Washington, DC. The position is full-time with health benefits, paid vacation and holiday time, and there are opportunities for skills development.
Please send a resume, a cover letter explaining what qualities you
would bring to this job, your salary requirements and three references
to Hendrik Voss at hvoss@soaw.org.
Applications will be reviewed upon receipt, this position is open as of May 1st, 2011.
2.) INTERN WITH SOA WATCH IN WASHINGTON, DC
Currently, SOA Watch is seeking full-time organizing interns available for at least a 6-month pearion starting at teh end of May, 2011. Internships available: Organizing Intern, Research and Legislative Intern , Communications Intern, Fundraising Intern. To Apply: Please send your resume, list of three references, and a cover letter indicating:
1. Why you would like to intern at SOA Watch.
2. What strengths you would bring to the staff collective.
3. Whether you are applying for a half-time or full-time position, and that you acknowledge this position to be unpaid.
4. What types of projects are you most interested in. Describe what you would like to do in an internship at SOA Watch.
Please submit your application by mail to SOA Watch, PO Box 4566, Washington, DC 20017, or e-mail to nico@soaw.org
We are accepting applications for these internships on a rolling basis.
Sunday, May 1, 3:00 pm
at Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (ERUUF)
4907 Garrett Road, Durham, NC
$18 in advance/ $20 at the door; $15 Educators; $5 Students w/ valid ID
Purchase tickets: www.mallarmemusic.org or (919) 560-2788
ABOUT MALLARME CHAMBER PLAYERS | The Mallarme Chamber Players is a flexible ensemble of professional musicians based in Durham, North Carolina, whose mission is to enrich the lives of their community through outstanding chamber music. The ensemble distinguishes itself by its innovative educational programs, its commitment to creative collaboration with other organizations, its creation of significant new work and its dedication to serve a diverse population.
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) seeks a detailed-oriented Communications/Development Assistant to provide administrative support for the Communications and Development offices. S/he will have initiative, excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to communicate effectively, and a passion for new media. WOLA has a full-time staff of sixteen, seven interns, and six senior fellows.
For more information about WOLA, please visit www.wola.org
SALARY: $33,000, full health, dental, vision, and
life insurance; three weeks annual vacation.
TIME COMMITMENT: Two year commitment, subject to a
favorable evaluation after the first three months.
START DATE: Immediately
TO APPLY: Please submit the following via email
to employment@wola.org:
1. Cover letter
2. Resume
3. Two page writing sample
4. The names of two references (with email
addresses and daytime telephone numbers)
5. Optional: If you would like us to see your
online work, such as video pieces, photo
slide-shows, or interactive graphics, please send
us your links in the body of your application
email.
The anthropology department at Tulane University invites applications for one-year visiting assistant professor position in sociocultural anthropology, beginning July 1, 2011. Please send letter of application, curriculum vitae, and names and
contact information for three references to Susan Chevalier, Executive
Secretary, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, 101 Dinwiddie
Hall, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 .
We seek candidates with a specialization in Latin America with a strong urban anthropology research component and/or teaching capacity. The successful candidate will be asked to teach at least two courses with an urban Latin American focus at the intermediate undergraduate level in addition to two undergraduate introductory courses in sociocultural anthropology.
Youthful Futures: Africa & the Caribbean
Hosted by the Center for African and African American Research at Duke University
Friday 4/29 & Saturday 4/30, Friedl Building Room 225, East Campus. Please contact leigh.campoamor@duke.edu
for a more detailed schedule of speakers.
Seven out of ten
Africans south of the Sahara are under thirty, and four out of
ten under the age of fifteen. What comparisons might be drawn
with the Caribbean, a region that is transitioning from youthful
to aging if it is not yet graying (along with the rest of the
world)? The Center for African and African-American Research at
Duke University invites you to join us to discuss the
significance of population age structure in sub-Saharan Africa -
the only part of the world which will continue to grow younger
over the next two decades - and in the Caribbean, and to explore
the broad social, cultural and political implications of youth
demographics.
The Youthful
Futures conference will address these issues during five
sessions on Friday, April 29, and on Saturday morning, April 30.
Each session will feature speakers (30 minutes) with a
round-table discussion (1 hour) to follow. The number of
participants has been purposely restricted to permit direct and
lively exchanges. The singularity of this conference consists in
bringing together academics, policy makers, NGO field workers
and journalists. Its aim is to overcome the balkanization of the
youth question and, ultimately, to explore ways of keeping this
new and broader conversation going.
The American Society for Horticultural Science has announced that Greenhouse Manager Michael Barnes has fulfilled the requirements to be an ASHS Certified Professional Horticulturist (ASHS Newsletter 27/3, March 2011). Certification requires a BS or MS, documented work experience, references and passing an examination. It must be maintained through continuing education courses and re-examination every 3 years. [more]
has been awarded the 2010 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad given by the China Scholarship Council (CSC). This award is given to Chinese graduate students in all disciplines who have shown outstanding academic progress. For 2010, there were three Duke recipients, out of 500 worldwide. Kai is the third student from our department to receive this award after Dr. Zhibin Zhang (2007) and Dr. Senli Guo (2008).
Students, join us on Friday 4/29 for a break from studying! Stop by the Latino/a Studies Resource Room, Friedl 124, between 1-4pm to unwind before finals start. We will have delicious
tapas, including tamales, pupusas, and hojaldras. If you have any questions, email Michelle Bradshaw (mbb18@duke.edu). See you there!
Please join us for the unveiling of the Duke FHI Haiti Lab digital mapping project on 19th century Caribbean Cholera.3-4pm Bay 4, Smith Warehouse, Duke University
Who: Deborah Jenson, Victoria Szabo, and the Haiti Lab Student Research Team (Erin Cloninger, Matthew Hoyle, Alston Neville, Sedlin Mirtil, James Ivker, Dhrusti Patel, Edward Jernigan, Alfredo Rivera)
This is a collaborative project exploring both qualitative and quantitative data sources to deepen our understanding of cholera outbreaks in the Caribbean, especially as it allows us to understand the current Haitian epidemic.
WAS THERE EVER EPIDEMIC CHOLERA IN HAITI BEFORE 2010?
HOW LONG DID EPIDEMICS OF CHOLERA LAST IN THE CARIBBEAN IN THE 19TH CENTURY?
WERE THERE SEASONAL CORRELATIONS FOR 19TH CENTURY CARIBBEAN CHOLERA EPIDEMICS?
HOW DID SLAVERY AND COLONIAL/ANTICOLONIAL MILITARY CONFLICT CATALYZE CHOLERA EPIDEMICS?
WHAT CAN WE EXPECT OF CHOLERA IN HAITI IN 2011?
Thursday, 4/28 at 5:30pm FedEx Global Education Center Room 2008.Please direct questions to Ali Stoyan, Dept. of Political Science, UNC-CH at stoyana@unc.edu.
Claudio Fuentes is Professor of Political
Science at the Universidad Diego Portales in Chile, and the Luksic
Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
at Harvard University. He
will present a talk entitled "A Matter of the Few: Political
Dynamics of Constitutional Reforms, Chile 1990-2010." The attached paper gives some background on
this topic; it is part of an ongoing book project entitled "Concertacion governments in Chile 1990-2010. Politics,
Economics and Social Policy under the Rainbow."
Sponsored by the Political Science Department at UNC-CH & the Duke-UNC Consortium Working Group on Social Policy, Labor, and the Informal Sector in Latin America.
Staying on campus over the summer? Interested in tutoring English or childcare? Then help out and volunteer with GANO! GANO is Gente Aprendiendo para Nuevas
Oportunidades (People Learning in order to have Better Opportunities), an ESL-tutoring organization that provides one-on-one English language tutoring for Latinos in Durham. We will be holding weekly sessions this summer, time & location TBD. Tutors
should be comfortable speaking basic Spanish, although fluency is not necessary. GANO is also in need of volunteers to provide childcare for parents during lessons. If
interested, please contact Shaoli Chaudhuri (shaoli.chaudhuri@duke.edu) or Elle Nelson (danielle.nelson@duke.edu).
El Centro Hispano is looking for enthusiastic and energetic counselors for the 2011 ENLACES summer camps. CONTACT: Channa Pickett - channa.pickett@duke.edu or 919.684.6296
June 16, 17, 18 (60 children - ages 8-10)
June 23, 24, 25 (40 youth - ages 11-13) Thursday & Friday 8:00am-2:00pm Saturday 10:00 am - 2:00 PM with all the parents and kids (at West Point on the Eno park)
Volunteer Requirements: Volunteers must be 17 years old or older Volunteers must attend an orientation meeting on Monday, June 13 Bilingual (Spanish/English) skills are preferred but not required Reliable transportation is preferred Volunteers must want to have fun and make camp GREAT for the kids!
Volunteer responsibilities and duties: Be the primary person responsible for a group of 5 - 10 children Lead groups through ice breaker activities, relay races, etc. Help with lunch time and bathroom breaks Take pictures or video Decorate picnic shelter and welcome families Have fun with the kids!!
Durham Crisis Response Center needs volunteers 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month Work with kids ages 9months to 15 years old this summer with the Latina Domestic Violence Support Group. CONTACT: Angela Martinez at 919-710-9431 or by email at angie_angie67@hotmail.com
Volunteers are needed from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month this summer. Play games, give snacks, develop fun outdoor and indoor activities for a wide variety of age ranges. Kids are well behaved and energetic. Bilingual volunteers preferred, but not necessary.
THE ANNUAL WORKSHOP OF THE CENTER FOR GLOBAL STUDIES AND THE HUMANITIES. For more information please contact: tracy.carhart@duke.edu or visit http://trinity.duke.edu/
Workshop:
Wednesday, May 4: Brodie Duke Hall, The King's Daughters Inn 12:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Thursday, May 5: Room 225 Friedl Building, East Campus 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday, May 6: Room 225 Friedl Building, East Campus 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Exhibit:
Opening Reception Wednesday, May 4: Fredric Jameson Gallery, Friedl Building, East Campus 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Musical Performance by Ricardo Lambuley
Social Performance: The Nasher Museum of Art: Thursday, May 5: 6:45 PM - 8:00 PM Nomad Dream: Experimental interactive documentary and social performance by Raul Ferrera Balanquet with Ricardo Lambuley & Miguel Rojas-Sotelo
CO-SPONSORED BY At Duke: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Romances Studies Duke in the Andes the Program in Literature Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South From Abroad: Academia Superior de Artes de Bogota The Institute of Philosophy of ZRC SAZU Ljubljana, Slovenia The Roosevelt Academy (The Netherlands)
Duke's Latino/a Graduate Student Association invites you to join us on Monday, April 25th at 7pm in Friedl 225 for the final LGSA meeting of the year. The main item on the agenda is to promote new coordinators for next year, so we especially encourage those of you interested in taking a leadership role to attend. We will also discuss ideas for next year's events and activities. If you have any questions, please e-mail dukelgsa@gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you on Monday!
Thursday April 14, 2011 at 11pm
Cristopolis, Latino hip hop artist will be performing in Devil's Den.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=214098188606902
Friday April 15th, 2011 at 7:00pm
The Rho Chapter of La Unidad Latino Fraternity Inc. will be hosting Noche Dorada, its annual banquet at the Wa.Duke Inn. Tickets will be sold in the Plaza this week.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=212414128768945
Saturday, April 16th, 2011 at 2:00pm
Join Mi Gente at its annual multicultural show, MEZCLA. Performers such as the Pitchforks and Sabrosura will be competing for cash prizes to donate to charity in the Main Quad.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155807124478525
Saturday, April 16th 8:00pm
Mingle with pfrosh while partaking in various fun, interactive games at the LGBT Center. Cookout milkshakes will be provided.
Wednesday, April 20, 5:30-8:00PM in Perkins Library 217
Come watch the internationally acclaimed film, ENTRE NOS, which will begin at 5:30PM and will be followed by a discussion with Paola Mendoza, the film's lead actor, co-director, co-producer, and writer. If you have already seen it, please do join us for the discussion with Mendoza which starts at 7PM. As the final part of UCC, Political Affairs Committee brings Paola Mendoza, filmmaker, actor, and activist. ENTRE NOS is a film inspired by her mother's struggles upon her arrival in the United States, her family's commitment to survival and their relentless hope. Attendants will have the opportunity to openly discuss with Mendoza activism through art, immigration reform, immigrant family health and well-being, issues among immigrant women and mothers, children's roles, and the Moms for Family Unity campaign. A reception with refreshments will follow. She says of her work, "This is what I'm supposed to be doing. I wake up every morning, I breathe, live, dream about stories and how to get people's stories out there."
Sponsored by Mi Gente, Women's Housing Option, the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke Wellness Center, and the Spanish Service-Learning Program.
Contact Stephanie Kenick stephanie.kenick@duke.edu for more information.
Congratulations to Ashley Black, who has received a prestigious SMART scholarship from the Department of Defense. The award will support Ashley's work to develop new classes of self-healing and self-strengthening polymers.
Congratulations to Prof. Ben Wiley, who has been award a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. The award, given to junior faculty at Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) member institutions, provides seed money for new research ventures and aims to enrich the researchers' professional development. More details about the award and Prof. Wiley's research plans can be found here.
for his receipt of the Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Award! This award acknowledges Dr. Lyle's longstanding commitment to bringing service-learning into the chemistry curriculum. Ken's enthusiastic demonstrations at numerous public schools and events show "Chemistry is cool!" to the surrounding community.
The NSF has been a long-term supporter of the Lemur Center, and with this award continues its investment in the growing research programs of this unique facility. Research at the Lemur Center spans diverse biological disciplines, including genomics, virology, cognition, biomechanics, physiology, behavior, and ecology. Bio Professor Anne Yoder is the Director of the Lemure Center. [more]
Sunday, April 17, 5:00pm
CHICLE Language Institute offices, chicle@chi-cle.com, 919 933-0398
Open to anyone interested in joining the delegation or learning about Witness for Peace.
Witness for Peace and CHICLE are planning a trip to Oaxaca from June 11-19. The trip will be led by CHICLE's Sharon S. Mujica and Jane Stein. Today's program will be an information session about the trip, discussion, and a viewing of Witness for Peace's video The Roots of Migration. Community leader, Irene Godiniz and other past participants in Witness for Peace delegations to Mexico will be present to comment on their experiences on similar trips organized by Witness for Peace.
Witness for Peace is a politically independent, nationwide grassroots organization of people committed to nonviolence and led by faith and conscience. WFP's mission is to support peace, justice and sustainable economies in the Americas by changing U.S. policies and practices which contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America.
The knowledgeable Witness for Peace Mexico Team in Oaxaca has extensive connections to people, organizations, and communities who will tell us the real story of migration in Mexico.
This trip is co-sponsored by the CHICLE Language Institute in Carrboro, NC.
*NOTE THAT OUR PROGRAM COULD HELP WITH CONFERENCE TRAVEL FUNDS FOR DUKE STUDENTS OR FACULTY TO PRESENT AT THIS CONFERENCE IN AUGUST; CONTACT JENNYSW@DUKE.EDU FOR MORE INFO ON CONFERENCE ASSISTANCE.
The 2011 MALCS Site Committee at the California State University, Los Angeles invites academics, educators, students, professionals, activists, "artivists," and community members of all disciplines and fields of interest in Chicana, Latina and Native American/Indigenous Women's Studies to submit proposals for individual papers, panel sessions, roundtables, workshops, performances, conversations or alternative formats. Proposals are to be submitted electronically by May 15, 2011. All abstracts and panel proposals should contain title of paper, affiliation, email and street addresses, and contact number. Participants may submit proposals electronically by May 15, 2011 to: malcscsula2011@gmail.com.
See http://www.malcs.org/2011/04/malcs-2011-los-angeles-call-for-papers/ for full information
Against Fear and Terror: Una Nueva Conciencia Sin Fronteras
MALCS is a "national organization of Chicanas/Latinas and Native
American women working in academia and in community settings with a
common goal: to work toward the support, education and dissemination of
Chicana/Latina and Native American women's issues." The theme this
year aims to foreground the academic and activist endeavors contesting
the current framing of citizenship and belonging through binaries such
as immigrant/non-immigrant that ignore lived relationship, histories
and transformative practices in rights-based struggles.
In the past decade, our communities have confronted multiple forms of
boundary making processes, greater surveillance, policing and
restrictionist policies. In many ways, these developments ignore
longstanding economic and cultural relationships and emphasize
conflict, fear and exclusion. The erasure of our histories, the
denial of our rights and even the criminalization of our right to
livelihood, rights to education and rights to family life, in all its
diverse formations, push academics and activists to explore these
processes as they manifest in institutions, communities and
neighborhoods within and outside the state, within our very bodies.
We are interested in how our work negotiates -through our diverse
locations of class, sexuality, nation and generation, our stories,
music, poetry, visual art and foodways, etc. -the negative portrayals
and marginalization of our communities to (re)affirm our humanity and
our rights. We seek a variety of work that explores the pursuit of a
socially just and inclusive society beyond borders: "Against Fear and
Terror: Una Nueva Conciencia Sin Fronteras."
Suggested Topics May Include
.2001 Patriot Act/Homeland Security
.Unprecedented Detention and deportation
.AZ SB1070 and racialization, illegality
.Chicana/Latina/Native American women's resistance and activism
.Social Justice/Popular Movements/Poder Popular
.civil disobedience, popular democracy
.DREAMERs, 2006 Marches
.budget cuts, neoliberalism
.reproductive justice, the right to marry/love
Invitation to participate in evaluating some potential electronic acquisitions for the library: We are currently considering the purchase of several databases that are relevant to Latino/a Studies. Feel free to test any of the products listed at http://library.duke.edu/apps/dbtrials/ Please direct question to Dr. Holly Ackerman,
Librarian for Latin America & Iberia holly.ackerman@duke.edu
Free access to these databases is available for a limited time. It is especially helpful to receive feedback from faculty and students who are the potential users of the various databases. Your advocacy for purchase of databases that support your research and teaching is also important since we can't afford to buy all the products that are available.
The products that seem particularly pertinent are:
-The Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection: Series1 Series 1 is a digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture.
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-Filmakers Library Online contains award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum.
-Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Series 1- Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes documents and images from the United States and Europe, as well as other parts of the world including books, newspapers and pamphlets. Our own Laurent Dubois is on the Editorial Board.
-Two additional databases should be available for trial soon, one contains a broad range of primary and secondary materials for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the other for Latino/a literary studies. I will let you know when those trails are available.
Thanks for your review.
The
Latino Medical Student Association would like to extend an invitation to the
Duke community. We will
be hosting a Cultural Competency presentation given by Dr. Enrique
Caballero, on April 29th at 12pm Duke South Amphitheater Room 0916. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about cultural
competency issues in medicine and to network with the leading diabetes
researcher in the Latino community. Also, food will be provided! http://www.joslin.org/care/
Racial and ethnic minorities in the United States suffer from type 2 diabetes and its complications at alarming high rates, according to A. Enrique Caballero, M.D. The rapidly increasing number of people from culturally diverse populations, the high rates of type 2 diabetes in these groups and the existence of diabetes care disparities between these groups and the White population contribute to a particular challenge in our current health care system--and these aspects form the basis for much of Dr. Caballero’s work at Joslin Diabetes Center.
Funded by the Multicultural Resource Center and the Department of Medicine.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Named Human Rights Defender 2006 by Human Rights Watch, Sanchez has worked for 15 years to advance and defend women's reproductive rights in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. Join us as she talks about the work of Centro Las Libres fighting the criminalization of reproductive rights and the future of women's health in Mexico.
Sponsored by the Women's Center, International House, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, and the Baldwin Scholars.
11pm Devil's Den, Central Campus
This concert is *Free* so come out and enjoy some great music with friends!
Cristopolis is a Latino Hip Hop artist based in Washington, D.C. He is a trilingual emcee who performs in English, Spanish and French.
This will be his second performance at Duke and everyone who was there last year can tell you that this a concert you don't want to miss!
Sponsored by Mi Gente, SOFC and the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
You can read more about Cristopolis and listen to his music at his website: www.cristopolis.com
The conference is from 8:30am-5pm. Stop by for the The Latino/a Studies panel at 11:00am. Room 240 John Hope Franklin Center. Lunch at 12pm will be catered by Foster's Market.
11:00 AM Borders, Bodies, and Beats: Questioning the Latino Construction in Popular Culture
Moderator: Claudia Milian
Michelle Crow-Updating Borders: Anzaldua and Papa Papa
Rebecca Feinglos-The 'Girl Power' Latina: Does 'Dora the Explorer' reflect a changing image of Latina femininity in popular Culture?
Camilla Vignaud- "Colonized through Beats."
Dominique Villegas-The Bombshell from Macondo: Exploring the Unintelligible Otherness of Modern Family's Gloria Delgado-Pritchett
As part of Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW), Mi Gente is organizing MEZCLA, our annual multicultural showcase! Join us Saturday April 16th, 2011 on the Main Quad from 2-5pm. Performing groups on campus will be competing for CASH prizes to donate to charity and YOU get to choose the winner! Come out and support Duke's talent and diversity and cheer on your favorite performer ! Bulkogi and Klausie's Pizza will be selling food during the event on food points/flex. Let's show prospective students what Duke is all about! Check out the
Facebook Event
HACU (Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities) is teaming up with Southwest airlines to offer roundtrip tickets to students and/or parents to fly home/ to their university. This seems particularly helpful given how close it is to graduation. The aren't many eligibility requirements.
http://www.hacu.net/hacu/Lanzate_EN.asp
Monday April 11 at 6pm. Social Psych 130
Candidates will be making speeches (5 minutes for Executive Board positions, 2 minutes for all other positions) at the elections. You are eligible to vote if you are an Active Member of Mi Gente, which means you have attended either 3 or 25% of Mi Gente events this semester. If you are unable to attend the elections, you may request an absentee ballot.
Thursday April 7th, at 7pm. Location TBD Email Catherine Castillo with questions
catherine.castillo@duke.edu.
At the previous Latino Open Forums this semester a variety of issues were discussed such as the new housing model, the lack of visible minority faculty/administration/leaders, the ineffective recruitment of students for low-income neighborhoods and the lack of space for Latino students (such as the BSA office in OSAF).
We invite you to come share your thoughts on these issues or whatever you feel needs to be addressed to better serve the needs of Latino students on campus. In order to ensure that our voice is heard, it is also necessary for us to come up with a concrete plan of action to seek our demands. This last open forum will focus specifically on the steps we need to take to acquire our own space on campus and to increase the number of Latino faculty and administration who can serve as mentors for students.
Bring your dinner, invite your friends, and come ready to discuss!
Join us at The ArtsCenter: for a set of shows celebrating the richness of Mexico's varied regional "sons", or music and dance styles
11:00 a.m. Fiesta Mexicana a SuperFun Family Show
Tickets: $7 (kids 2 and under free)
7:30 p.m. Sones de Mexico Concert
Tickets: $12 in advance/$14 day of show/$30 pack of 3
Call The ArtsCenter Box Office at 919-929-2787 ext 201 or purchase online by clicking the links above.
Sones de Mexico performs
Fiesta Mexicana in a morning family-focused show, and takes
the stage again in the evening to present a concert of original
interpretations of Mexican traditional music. The band's members play a
wide array of instruments - guitars in a variety of sizes; percussion
made from donkey bones, tortoise shells, and deer antlers; and a wooden
box called the "tarima" played with hard heeled dancing shoes. This
Grammy-nominated group is known for bringing rock-n-roll energy to
their performances. Viva Mexico!
Congratulations to Amanda Grusz, Carl Rothfels, and Erin Sigel for their success in this year's NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) competition! These awards run from $10,000 to $15,000 and enable students to attend meetings, conduct research in specialized facilities and the field, and expand the scope of their research.
for winning the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship to support her work on understanding structure-property relationships of bimetallic catalysts. The fellowship provides a stipend of $30,000 a year for a period of three years.
co-organized by David Beratan on "20 Years of Tunneling Pathways." The symposium explored progress since Beratan's group developed the first practical model to describe protein-mediated electron transfer via a superexchange mechanism. See the video.
Please join the MIDP fellows for a panel discussion:
Innovative Ideas for the International Development Challenge
Thursday April 14th 2011, 11:30am - 2:00pm
Rhodes Conference Room, Sanford Building
Lunch hosted by DCID
A film screening and discussion with Laura Carlsen, Director of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy. From 12:00-1:30pm at the FedEx Global Education Education Center.
Thursday, April 7, 4:00 p.m. at Hamilton Hall, Room 271 (UNC-CH). Presentation by Ken Light, Graduate School of Journalism University of California - Berkeley.
Saturday, April 9th from 10:00-11:00 am at the Carolina Latina/o Collaborative, Seminar Wing, Craige North Residence Hall.
The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Dr. Qiu Wang will join the department August 1, 2011 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Wang comes to Duke from a post-doctoral research position with Professor Stuart Schreiber at Harvard University. Dr. Wang's research interests include the development of small molecule-based probes that will be used to explore the cause of disease, and the identification of potential therapeutic agents towards cancer and neurodegenerative disease.
The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South has funds available to help up to 2 undergrads to attend a conference in Michigan. The Chicano/Latino Studies Program at Michigan State University is holding "From the Fields to the Academy: A Migrant Symposium" from April 15-17, 2011. If you are interested in receiving funding, please contact Executive Director Jenny Snead Williams at jennysw@duke.edu. For more information on the conference itself, go to fromthefieldstotheacademy.wordpress.com.
The Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP), with the financial
support of the United States Agency for International Development
(USAID), is pleased to announce a call for proposals for small grants
for research on discrimination, marginality, gender, and democracy in
Latin America.The application deadline is May 1, 2011. Detailed award descriptions, eligibility requirements, and application
forms in both English and Spanish are available at
www.AmericasBarometer.org. Please contact Amy Erica Smith for further
information at amy.e.smith@vanderbilt.edu.
Eligible applicants are faculty members, researchers, and graduate
students in any country whose work is related to democratization in
Latin America and who are conducting research projects in recognized
academic or research institutions. The project must use as its basis
data from the LAPOP AmericasBarometer.
Wednesday, March 30th at 5:30pm.
Room 4003, FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-CH Questions:
Please contact Ali Stoyan, Dept. of Political Science, UNC-CH at stoyana@unc.edu
Manuel Alcantara is Vice-Rector and Professor of Political Science and administration at the Universidad de Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain. His research focuses on parliamentary elites, political parties and legislative powers in Latin America, as well as on electoral behavior and public opinion in Castilla y Leon. He will present a talk entitled: "Elections and Democracy in Latin America, 2009-2010."
Sponsored by:
The Political Science Department at UNC-CH & the Duke-UNC Consortium Working Group on Social Policy, Labor, and the Informal Sector in Latin America
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) announces the fourth annual WOLA-Duke Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. The award honors the best current, non-fiction book published in English on human rights, democracy, and social justice in contemporary Latin America. The author of the winning book will receive a $1,000 cash prize. The deadline for entries is May 6, 2011. For more information, contact: Colin Smith at
csmith@wola.org or 202-797-2171
Judges will be looking for books that offer important contributions to research on Latin America while also enriching the general public's understanding of the region. The winning book will reflect the standards of originality, high-quality research, and clear writing to which WOLA aspires in its own publications. In the case of two or more authors, the prize money will be distributed equally among them.
The award will be given in the fall of 2011 by WOLA and Duke University. Both scholarly and popular books are eligible, either edited or authored. To be eligible, books must meet the following criteria:
- An original, non-fiction book related to issues of human rights, the rule of law, social and/or economic justice, or democracy, as they are broadly understood, in contemporary Latin America. Books should pertain to events that took place in roughly the past 25 years.
- Published in English by a commercial, university, or non-profit publisher. Books written originally in other languages and translated into English are eligible. Self-published books are not eligible.
- Books published in 2010 and 2011 will be eligible for the 2011 prize. Books published before 2010 are not eligible.
There is no entry form. Publishers, authors, or readers may send nominations to:
Book Award
Washington Office on Latin America
1666 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20009
The notice or letter should contain a short description of the book and publishing details; no supporting materials or reviews are necessary. Nominators may also send one copy of the book, although this is not required for nomination. For books due to be published in 2011 but after the entry deadline, nominators may send a pre-publication copy, indicating the publication date.
Judges are drawn from WOLA's staff and its academic advisory board, Duke University, and the academic community at large.
The winner of the WOLA-Duke Book Award will be announced in the fall of 2011. He or she will be invited to give a reading later at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Please join us on Thursday, April 7 at 4 pm in Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall, UNC. Refreshments will be served as always. For more information please visit the Furst Forum website (http://englishcomplit.unc.edu/complit/furst) or contact via email (rgaronzi@email.unc.edu or smriley@email.unc.edu).
Our final Furst Forum talk of the semester will feature Allison Bigelow, PhD. Candidate in English and Comparative Literature.
Allison will be presenting “hallandome como me hallo yndefensa: The Translation of Gender into the Colonial Sciences of the Americas.”
in the Fitzgerald Lab, who was recognized with a 2011 Poster Award at the 7th Annual Meeting of the US Human Proteome Organization (US-HUPO) held in Raleigh, NC March 20-23, 2011. Her poster presentation was entitled, “Development of a Proteomic Technology for the Large-Scale Thermodynamic Analysis of Protein Folding and Ligand Binding”.
You're invited to attend the Latino/a Graduate Student Association and the Latino/a Medical Student Association Mixer! We're joining forces to bring Duke's graduate and professional Latino community together! Come join us for wine, beer, snacks and community!! Sunday, March 27th at 7pm
in Friedl Buidling Room 115, Jameson Gallery Supported by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University.
No need to RSVP. We hope to see you there!
If you have questions, please contact Duke LGSA at dukelgsa@gmail.com
Please join SAF, Mi Gente and Duke Students for Humane Borders for a dinner and screening of Harvest of Dignity, a brand new film by Minnow Media. This will take place at the Refectory Cafe Duke Divinity School
March 28th, 2011, 7-9pm with guest speakers. Tickets are $15 for the screening & a delicious meal from the Refectory Cafe. For more information, email saf-unite@duke.edu
Harvest of Dignity uses documentary photos and interviews done by SAF interns, film footage with North Carolina farmworkers, legislators and educators, and clips from the original Harvest of Shame documentary, made 50 years ago, and explores the conditions migrant and seasonal farmworkers still face in the United States today.
The Refectory Cafe is hosting the event and will have a meal of local meat pasta or dal & rice, garden salad, rolls & butter, freshly brewed unsweet tea, coffee, and a petite sweets platter, all for $15 (Duke Students can use food points).
A panel discussion will follow the film where you can learn more about the Harvest of Dignity Campaign and how you can be involved.
The 2012-2013 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Competition is underway and is currently welcoming applications from scholars interested in teaching, teaching/research or research awards in Latin America and the Caribbean. Proposals will be considered from junior as well as senior scholars and awards are offered in a wide variety of disciplines. The application deadline for 2012-2013 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Competition
is August 1, 2011.
Visit www.cies.org/ for detailed award announcements, application and guidelines. For more information contact Katrin DeWindt at kdewindt@iie.org or 202-686-6254, Jennifer Fox at jfox@iie.org or 202-686-6239, Caitlin McNamara at cmcnamara@iie.org or 202-686-6237, Jake Silva at jsilva@iie.org or 202-686-4018
Duke's Office of Durham and Regional Affairs is seeking an energetic,
hard-working and mature individual with a demonstrated interest in
education to serve as program coordinator for our four-week Stepping
Stones summer program for rising kindergarten students at Y.E. Smith
Elementary School. If you are interested, please send your resume via email to jennifer.carolina@duke.edu.
The coordinator would be responsible for organizing
the program with assistance from the Office's Senior Program
Coordinator and from Y.E. Smith Staff. The program itself will run from
June 27-July 21, but the coordinator would work in our downtown office
to prepare for the program for the two weeks prior. (6 weeks total
commitment). It is ideal that the coordinator be fluent in both English
and Spanish. The program coordinator would work 20-30 hours M-F (with a
flexible schedule) the weeks of June 13th and 20th, and then from 7:45 or 8:00am to about 4:00pm, M-T during the four weeks of the program, (June 27-July 21).
Open and free to the public. Friday April 1st 7-9pm in the Ark Dance Studio on East Campus. For more information contact Katya Wesolowski at kw87@duke.edu / (919) 660-7087
Open and free to the public. Friday, April 1st 4:25-6pm in the Ark Dance Studio on East Campus. For more information contact Katya Wesolowski at kw87@duke.edu / (919) 660-7087
Capoeira is a dynamic Afro-Brazilian fighting art that incorporates dance, self-defense, acrobatics and music.
Please join awarding-winning Brazilian capoeira performer and teacher, Mestranda Marcia Treidler of ABADA-CAPOEIRA, students from the Duke Capoeira Class, students from Walltown Children's Theatre and other special guests in a celebration of capoeira!
Open and free to the public. Wednesday, March 30th 4:25-6pm in the Hull St. Dance Studio For more information contact Katya Wesolowski at kw87@duke.edu / (919) 660-7087
Capoeira is a dynamic Afro-Brazilian fighting art that incorporates
dance, self-defense, acrobatics and music.
Please join awarding-winning Brazilian capoeira performer and teacher, Mestranda Marcia Treidler of ABADA-CAPOEIRA, students from the Duke Capoeira Class, students from
Walltown Children's Theatre and other special guests
in a celebration of capoeira!
Please join us for the North Carolina premiere of Jogo de Cena, the second film in the Brazilian Documentary Film Series, introduced by Aaron Lorenz, Post-Doctoral Associate for Brazilian Studies. Wednesday, March 23rd from 7-9pm in the Richard White Lecture Hall. For the complete schedule, please click here, and for more information, please contact Aaron Lorenz (aaron.lorenz@duke.edu), Post-Doctoral Associate in Luso-Brazilian Studies.
In this self-reflexive documentary, veteran filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho interviews 23 women who responded to a newspaper advertisement he placed that asked them to narrate an important moment in their lives. Mixing their interviews with improvised reenactments of the interviews by actresses, Coutinho calls attention to the performative quality of interpretation and confounds the audience's ability to distinguish between reality and fiction.
The documentary also calls attention to the profound depth and beauty of personal experience.
-- Winner of the APCA Trophy for Best Film at the 2008 Sao Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards, and the Jury Awards for Best Documentary & Best Documentary Director at the 2008 Premio Contigo Cinema, Brazil!
(Eduardo Coutinho, 2007, 105 min, Brazil, Portuguese w/ English Subtitles, Color, DVD)
Sponsored by Romance Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image.
As a part of Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW), Mi Gente is organizing MEZCLA, their annual multicultural showcase. Saturday April 16th, 2011 on the Main Quad from 2-5pm. Performing groups on campus will be competing for cash prizes to donate to charity. Come out and support Duke's talent and diversity!
6:00-7:30 pm in the Marketplace, Second Floor, Room 207. Sponsored by: Romance Studies Practica del espanol con musica, comida y amigos! For more information, please contact Bethzaida Fernandez, Spanish Language Program Cultural Advisor, bfv67@duke.edu.
Susan Alberts and Bill Morris et al. have published "Aging in the Natural World" in the March 11 issue of Science. It is available on line at DOI: 10.1126/science.1201571. The study found that comparison of aging patterns in humans with our closest relatives - primates - indicates the pace of human aging may not be as unusual as was thought, and that humans age like other primates. It also demonstrates how important long-term studies in the wild are. [more]
The NY Times has an article on the just-released report by the IACHR referenced above, Immigrant Detentions Draw International Fire http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/us/18detain-1.html?ref=todayspaper
You can link to the 162-page report if you are interested—and if you do, you will note that in several places, the Commission relies on the companion reports on 287(g) in NC by the UNC School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Policy Clinic and the UNC Institute of the America’s Latino Migration Project.
Join us on Friday, March 25th at the Kenan Music Building for a great time and support scholarships for students in the Scholars' Latino Initiative. Salsa dance lessons will be offered at 6pm, so you can dance like a pro when the band starts. Tickets will also be sold at the door. $7 for a single ticket or $10 for two tickets (bring friends, a date, family, (seriously) anyone!).
The acclaimed Charanga Carolina and Pavlid Castaneda are partnering
with the Scholars' Latino Initiative to provide a night of great music,
dancing and fun for UNC's campus and the greater Chapel Hill community.
Check out Charanga Carolina's facebook page by clicking here:
UNC's Charanga Carolina.
VENGAN AL CINE
Our next Cine Club showing will be Friday, March 18, at the
Centro Hispano in Carrboro at 6:00 pm. We will be showing a Chilean feature
film set at the time of the 1973 military coup. Childcare is available
during the film at El Centro. To reserve a place for your child, please
call Rosanna Zetina at 919 945-0144.
For more information on the film call 919 933-0398 or email at
chicle@chi-cle.com
Free and open to the public
Centro Hispano
Carrboro Plaza
104 Highway 54W, Unit FFF
Carrboro NC
This edited volume aims to examine the experiences of immigrants and
mixed status families in terms of work and education, raids,
deportations, and detention, and resistance toward anti-immigrant
sentiment. Submission Process: Proposals for academic papers or testimonies, no longer than three pages, should be emailed to Jodie Lawston at jlawston@csusm.edu by Wednesday June 15, 2011. Contact Jodie Lawston (jlawston@csusm.edu with any questions or concerns about the submission process. DEADLINE for all proposals: June 15, 2011 to Jodie Lawston at jlawston@csum.edu
We welcome and encourage work that examines not just the experiences of immigrants in the U.S., but the experiences of immigrants around the globe.
The following topical areas broadly outline the subject matter that we see as most relevant to this volume. These can be used as starting points for papers, but authors are not restricted to them:
*The effects of detention on immigrant families, particularly in separating those families* The impact of family reunification * The intersection of work and immigration status * The effects of immigration status on students * The effects of raids and/or deportations on families
* Changes in laws and resulting effects on immigrants’ lives * Immigrant justice work * Comparative studies of issues related to immigration in different parts of the world * The intersections of race, class, gender, and with immigration status
We are interested in both academic papers and testimonies from immigrant women on the above topics.
BorderWork(s) (project starting Fall 2011) draws together critical perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, and policy studies to explore the acts of division and demarcation — cartographic and representational, material and physical, political and economic, social and cultural — that have parceled up the inhabited world into bounded communities. For more information, see http://fhi.duke.edu/labs/borderworks
BorderWork(s) is led by Claudia Koonz (History), Philip Stern (History) and Erika Weinthal (Nicholas School), with additional core faculty, including Robin Kirk (Duke Human Rights Center/International Comparative Studies), Ralph Litzinger (Cultural Anthropology) and Sumathi Ramaswamy (History). The Lab will also include other faculty with related interests as well as graduate and undergraduates.
Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW) is organized by the Admissions Office in collaboration with Mi Gente. This year LSRW is taking place April 14th-17th. The purpose of the weekend is to show prospective Latino students the variety of academic and non-academic opportunities that are available at Duke and allow them to explore campus life. Prospective students are hosted by current Duke Students and they attend a series of events throughout the weekend.
This year the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South will host two academic talks and co-sponsor a hip-hop performance that prospectives are invited to join (see events on this page) and will host an information session specifically for prospective students from 12:45 to 1:30pm in Sanford 223 on Friday. Professors and staff from the Program as well as Latino faculty members and alumni will also participate in various receptions, panels and discussions taking place during the weekend.
Mi Gente works with Admissions to provide the prospective students with an enjoyable experience, and wants to show students that despite being small in numbers, Latinos at Duke can develop a strong sense of community and have an active presence on campus academically,culturally, and socially.
The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, with support from Mi Gente and SOFC, presents Latino artist Cristopolis. Cristopolis will be discussing "Reggaeton vs. Hip Hop" on April 14th at 10:05am in Friedl 225. His presentation will be on the relationship between Reggaeton and Latin Hip-Hop within the Urban Latino genre and culture. Light breakfast will be provided. For more information on Cristopolis, see http://www.cristopolis.com/html/slideshow.php
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED, DUE TO FAMILY ILLNESS - The Sociology Department's Race and Ethnicity Workshop is delighted to bring Dr. Aida Hurtado to campus with the support of the Program in Latina/o Studies in the Global South at Duke and the Latino/a Graduate Student Association. Her talk will be from 12-1:30pm on March 22nd in Soc/Psych Room 329. Lunch will be provided. Her presentation will focus on her forthcoming book entitled "Understanding the Disenfranchisement of Latino Men and Boys: Invisible No More." Dr. Hurtado is the Luis Leal Endowed Chair of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara.
This one-hour informal lunchtime talk will focus on basic tips and strategies for preparing for graduate school and pursuing academia. Friedl 225 at noon. Lunch provided - Please RSVP to jennysw@duke.edu.
Topics will include describing your research interests for personal statements, networking with professors, and choosing a graduate program. Geared towards students in the Social Sciences and Humanities but all students are welcome.
Presented by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
From July 4th to July 19th 2011, Roosevelt Academy (Middelburg, Netherlands) will host a summer course called Coloniality, Slavery and the Holocaust: Introducing the Decolonial Option. The deadline for registration to the course is the 1st of May, you can register at the Utrecht Summer School Website:
http://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/index.php?type=courses&code=S21
For more information please visit: http://www.roac.nl/roac/?p=news&i=429
The course will be taught by Walter Mignolo (director the Center for
Global Studies and the Humanities, Duke University), Rolando Vázquez
(Roosevelt Academy) and guest faculty.
Mi Gente is hosting its second "Latino Open
Forum" this Thursday at 7:30 pm in the Center for Multicultural Affairs in
the Bryan Center. All are welcome. Contact
Catherine Castillo (catherine.castillo@duke.edu) for more information.
The Duke in Los Angeles spring 2012 semester program on
Thursday, March 17 (tomorrow), in Languages 211, starting at 5:00pm.
This will be a good opportunity for students to learn more about Duke in LA
and to speak with Jim Thompson and students currently enrolled in the program.
During this information meeting, the locally-based program director, Jim
Thompson - making a special visit to Duke this week- will be on hand to discuss
the program, along with a Duke student or two who are currently enrolled in the
program and will be in Durham for their spring break.
Jennifer Valentyn and Paul Paparella will also be attending this meeting representing the
Duke Global Education Office to answer any questions related to the office's policies and procedures
for domestic programs.
Don't forget that you can also go to the Duke Global Education website (http://global.duke.edu/geo)
for additional details on our domestic programs, including dates and fees,
student accommodations, etc.
Please note that some of the information for spring
2012 is still being updated on our website.
Basic Salsa Lessons
every Friday! Lessons will be from 6:30-7:30pm and then an open dancing salsa social from 7:30-8pm. Von Canon in the Bryan Center (West Campus)
$10/person/lesson CASH ONLY (part of proceeds go to Progressive Health Partnership).You can RSVP to the Facebook event Bring your friends! (in order to keep guy/girl ratio, bringing a partner highly encouraged)
A joint program between Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill funded by Rotary International, the Rotary Center houses mid-career professionals working toward a master’s degree in the area of peace and conflict resolution with an emphasis on more sustainable economic, political, and human development.
Graduating Rotary Peace Fellows will present their research on peace and development during the conference. Open to the public. Lunch is provided for registered participants. Register online by April 1 by clicking "more" below.
For more information about the program, including bios of current fellows and alumni visit the Duke-UNC Rotary Center website by clicking "alt" below. [more, alt.]
Thursday, March 24th. 130 John Hope Franklin Center. 2204 Erwin Road, Duke University. 4.00pm. Event organized by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke University and the Working Group on Political Imaginaries (LAPI). More information: las@duke.edu - (919) 681 3883.
The Ecuadorian people and much of the world seem to be celebrating post-extractive and "anti-imperialist" development (because of the Yasuni-ITT and the recent ruling on the Chevron-Texaco case) in the Ecuadorian Amazon Region. Yet, the purpose of this talk is two-fold.
-It asks if these post-extractive actions in the Amazon are anything more than a dis(ex)traction from the ways that the Ecuadorian state continues violent and extractive CO2lonial processes within the Afro-descendant and Indigenous territories of the Pacific Region? -It underscores the agro-ecological and cultural life practices and the inter-ethnic networks through which the ancestral peoples of Northwest Pacific Region construct and sustain "geographies of hope" amid landscapes characterized by fallen forests, poisoned rivers, social conflicts, and a sea of oil palms.
By Julianne Hazlewood, Geography Department, National University of Ireland, Galway
Preparatory talk for the Workshop: "Territory, Life, and Freedom in the Pacific Rain Forest Region of Colombia and Ecuador," UNC-CH March 25-27, 2011.
Remaking Citizenship: Latina Immigrants and New American Politics.
Kathleen Coll, Stanford University. March 23, 2011 at the Global Education Center, Room 4003
5:30 - 7:00 pm.
Weaving the stories of Mexican and Central American women with history and analysis of the anti-immigrant upsurge in 1990s California, Kathleen Coll will discuss the impact of reform legislation on individual women's lives and their engagement in grassroots political organizing. Drawing on Latina immigrants' accounts of personal and political transformation, Coll argues for a reformulation of our definitions of citizenship and politics.
Sponsored by the Curriculum in Women's Studies, the Diversity Incentive Fund, the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies.
This documentary explores the H2A Guest Worker program from both sides of the border, raising questions about labor and immigration policies, the agriculture system, and human rights. "The Guestworker" is the story of a North Carolina farm and Candelario, a Mexican agricultural laborer who strives to "work harder than all the others."
The film is being shown in connection with Public Policy 264S course "Narratives of Development: Stories of Poverty." Following the screening, two students will interview Dr. Charles Thompson, the director and producer of the film. A third student, who is not connected with the course, is being sought for this exchange. If you would like to volunteer, please be in touch with Prof. Catherine Admay at admay@duke.edu or with Tori Wilmarth at vaw@duke.edu
This screening is free and open to the public.
Learn more about the film at: http://theguestworker.com/
Call for Submissions: Latin American Studies Association, Annual Meetings 2012. May 23-26 San Francisco, CA. Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words (include word count) to organizers by Friday, March 25.
Please reply to: "Mendez, Jennifer B" <jbmend@wm.edu>
Proposed Panel:
Organizers: Jennifer Bickham Mendez (jbmend@wm.edu) and Lise Nelson (lise@uoregon.edu)
New Borderlands in Las Américas: The Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Recent Sites of Migrant Reception
Recent changes in the global economy, the long-term effects of neoliberal political-economic policies (eg free trade agreements), and the increased militarization and enforcement of geographic borders have spurred shifts in international migration flows within the Americas. Patterns of migration have become more diffuse, extending to include changing geographical sites of origin, destination and transit. As a result of thesechanging patterns, communities that have not heretofore experienced migration processes contend with the influx of culturally distinct newcomers, who may settle for extended periods of time or travel through on their way to final destinations. These localities have become sites of socioeconomic and cultural struggle in which migrants, "native" residents and various institutional actors define, enforce, and challenge the parameters [borders] of social membership. As such, they can be theorized as "new borderlands," crosscut by social and cultural boundaries that divide, marginalize and generate conflict, but are also challenged and transcended.
We are seeking submissions for a panel that addresses broad questions regarding the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion within “new borderlands” in the Americas. For example, how do processes of "othering' in recently constituted “borderlands” give rise to new forms of exclusion and patterns of state and civil violence? In what ways do these processes build on or exacerbate pre-existing social cleavages? How do migrants and "native" residents alike understand, confront, and challenge these divisions? Papers that draw on a variety of theoretical, methodological and analytical perspectives will be considered. Comparative analyses are especially welcomed.
Mark your calendars to join us on April 1-2 for this year's Latin American Labor History Conference on military labor in Latin America and the Caribbean. Please see the schedule below for details or check out our website: http://clacs.aas.duke.edu/program//conferences/2011LALHC.php
Beyond the Battlefield:
The Labor of Military Service in Latin America and the Caribbean
Duke University
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
1-2 April 2011. All papers are pre-circulated. For copies, please contact Liz Shesko at ems19@duke.edu
Friday April 1
3:00-4:45: Session One
Paper One: Barry Gaspar, Duke University. “With ‘the Aid of a Compulsive Law’: Recruiting Slave Labor at St. Kitts for the British Invasion of Martinique (1762)”
Paper Two: Dalea Bean, University of the West Indies, Mona. “‘Doing their little bit’: Jamaican Women's Non-military Work in World War I”
Commentary: Lara Putnam, University of Pittsburgh; Marjoleine Kars, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
5:00-6:15: Keynote followed by reception
Peter Beattie, Michigan State University. “The Troop Trade: Reframing Soldiers as Workers by Way of a Brazilian Penal Colony, 1830-1898”
Saturday, April 2
9:30-11:15: Session Two
Paper One: Matthew Barton, University of Chicago. “The Military's Bread and Butter: Food Production in Minas Gerais, Brazil during the Paraguayan War”
Mike Huner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Men and Women of Burden: Military Labor in 19th-Century Paraguay, 1850-1870”
Commentary: Thomas Whigham, University of Georgia; John D. French, Duke University.
11:30-12:15: Roundtable with military historians
12:45: Lunch
1:00-2:45: Session Three
Paper One: Robert Smale, University of Missouri at Columbia. “Conscription, Class, and Ethnicity in Oruro, Bolivia before the Chaco War”
Paper Two: Bridget Chesterton, Buffalo State College. “General Juan Belaieff and Scientific Labor on the Chaco Frontier”
Comment: Rene Harder Horst, Appalachian State University; Gabrielle Kuenzli, University of South Carolina
3:00-4:45: Session Four
Paper One: Harry Franqui-Rivera, Marist College. “Soldiers of Modernization: Military Institutions and the Drive Towards a Modern Industrial Puerto Rico”
Paper Two: Lourdes Hurtado, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Notre Dame. “Literacy, Military Service, and Nationalism in Peru (1960s-1970s)”
Commentary: Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University; Brian Selmeski, USAF Culture and Language Center
The accompanying multimedia exhibit by Liz Shesko, “Boots, Guns, and Tractors: United States Civic Action Programs in 1960s Latin America,” can be viewed at the LINK in Duke’s Perkins Library from 7-8 am, 1-2 pm, and 7-8 pm during the months of March and April. For an updated schedule see, https://wiki.duke.edu/display/LMW/Current+Exhibits
We gratefully acknowledge support from the Trent Foundation, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, and Duke University’s Graduate School, Program in American Grand Strategy, History Department, and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Parking:
Those who plan to attend the first panel on Friday should park in the hospital garages (Clinic Parking Garage on Trent Dr. or Hospital Parking Garage on Erwin Rd).
Limited parking vouchers will be available; please see Liz Shesko or Reena Goldthree. For those arriving after 4:00 on Friday and those attending Saturday sessions, free parking is available in the Pickens Lot, across from the John Hope Franklin Center on Trent Dr.
HIV in Guatemala: Social, Structural, and Behavioral Factors, Dr. Clare Barrington, Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education Department, 12:00-1:00pm, Room 1301, McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC.
Don't miss this Friday's Cimarron Latin Night! Expect 2 awesome DJs on 2 awesome dance floors a the the Marvell Event Center! Free salsa lesson at 9:30pm led by Paso Salsa Studio Instructors! Dancing from 10-2am. Proceeds benefit El Kilombo nonprofit community center!
3rd Fridays of the month.
We're not bringing just any DJ for the Reggaeton/Merengue/Bachata/House floor! We're bringing "Dj Travieso El Mas Rankiiao," probably one of the best urban Djs in the Triangle! Combine that with DJ Salsa Mike on the top floor, playing the finest mix of salsa for all you salsero/as out there.
www.clubcimarron.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.
http://www.facebook.com/group.
Reflections on Collaborative Feminist Research on Citizenship. Kathleen Coll and Kia Caldwell. March 24, 2011 at 4pm at the Global Education Center, Room 3009.
Kathleen Coll and Kia Caldwell will discuss their involvement in the Inter-University Working Group on Gender and Cultural Citizenship and the dynamics of collaborative feminist research. Coll and Caldwell are co-editors of Gendered Citizenships: Transnational Perspectives on Culture, Activism, and Knowledge Production (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Militarized Masculinities, US Imperialism & Transpacific Encounters: Puerto Rican Soldiers in the Korean War, 1950-1953 by Junyoung Veronica Kim, The City University of New York. Thursday, March 31, 5:30 pm at the FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009
In August of 1950, two months after the outbreak of the Korean War, the 65th Infantry Regiment – an all-volunteer Puerto Rican regiment of the United States Army – was dispatched to fight in what will be (dis)remembered as the “forgotten war.” It was precisely in this war, which would set the tone for US Cold War policy in the Pacific, that “The Borinqueneers” (a nickname for the 65th Infantry Regiment) became recognized as brave and loyal American soldiers. Consequentially, in its preceding wars overseas, the US military would rely heavily on its colonial subjects turned national soldiers. How did the Korean War provide the necessary geopolitical condition for the transformation of suspect colonial subjects into brave patriotic national soldiers? What is the relation between US neoimperial policy in South Korea and its colonial rule of Puerto Rico? This talk will address these questions by focusing on the multivalent relationship between military labor and masculine sexuality in the overlapping contexts of class/racial stratification, the urbanization and primitive accumulation of Puerto Rico under the guise of modernization, the rising transnational anticommunism, and the neocolonizing capitalist logic of US policy in Asia. The first part of the talk will analyze the US state’s role in the mobilization of colonial working-class male sexuality as military labor, and the second part, will explore Emilio Diaz Valcarcel’s literary representations of Puerto Rican military labor in the Korean War, in particular his short stories “El soldado Damian Sanchez” and “Proceso en diciembre”.
Sponsored by UNC-CH’s Latina/o Studies Speakers Series and the Institute for the Study of the Americas
Join Duke Students for Humane Borders and the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South for the Screening of the Award-Winning Documentary, "389 Miles: Living the Border" + a Q&A with the Arizona-based filmmaker, LuisCarlos Davis. Tuesday March 22 at 6pm in (tentative) Social Sciences Building 136. Dinner will be provided.
"389 Miles" is a highly acclaimed documentary that tracks border native LuisCarlos's journey along the 389 miles that make up the Arizona-Mexico border. The film is filled with the voices of the border, from the migrants, men, women, and unaccompanied children who have attempted the dangerous desert journey; to the border enforcement; to the political figures--and for the first time on film, to a one-on-one interview with a coyote, the human smuggler paid thousands to guide immigrants through the Sonora desert. Davis takes a novel approach to the immigrant story with the film, one that will draw in anyone interested in Latino Studies, immigration, women's issues, human rights, border concerns, or the broader struggles that characterize life on both sides of the border.
About the filmmaker: Born and raised in the border town of Nogales, Davis produced "389 Miles" as his thesis project, with just a film camera in hand. Consequently, the film has shown at several festivals and won multiple audience awards. Davis was named "Man of the Year" by the Arizona Daily Star for his film and work with at-risk youth in border area.
Watch the trailer: http://www.389miles.com/trailer.html
The Biology Department is deeply saddened by the passing of Emeritus Professor Donald E. Stone. Prof. Stone came to Duke in 1963 and served as Director of the Organization for Tropical Studies from 1976 to 1996. He also served as Chairman of the Department of Botany from 1997 to 2000. Our condolences go to his family and friends. [more]
The UNC Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series presents:
The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Cultural Identity
Lorraine M. Lopez from Vanderbilt University. 6 PM, Monday, March 28, 2011 at the Institute for the Arts & Humanities, University Room of Hyde Hall, UNC - Chapel Hill. Q & A and book-signing to follow.
Lorraine M. Lopez's first book Soy la Avon Lady and Other Stories won the inaugural Miguel Marmol Prize. Her second book Call Me Henri was awarded the Paterson Prize, and her novel The Gifted Gabaldon Sisters was a Borders/Las Comadres Selection. Lopez's Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories was a Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize. She has edited a collection of essays titled An Angle of Vision: Women Writers on Their Poor or Working-Class Roots (University of Michigan Press, 2009). Her forthcoming works include a novel, "The Realm of Hungry Spirits" and an edited collection of essays, "The Other Latin@." Sponsored by the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies, the Institute for the Arts & Humanities, and the Carolina Latina/o Collaborative
Congratulations to Prof. Tuan Vo-Dinh, who has been selected to receive the 2011 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Spectrochemical Analysis. Prof. Vo-Dinh was selected in recognition of his pioneering contributions in a wide range of areas, including biophotonics, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, field environmental instrumentation, fiberoptics sensors, nanosensors, biosensors and biochips for the protection of the environment and the improvement of human health.
The Garage Speaker/Presenter: Wally Kuntsmann. March 31, 2011 from 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM at the Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105. This talk will be in Spanish and will be simultaneously translated into English. For information, see the Duke Human Rights Center, call (919) 668-6511 or email rights@duke.edu
After the 1973 military coup that deposed Chile's democratically-elected president, Salvador Allende, Santiago's National Stadium was converted into a site of detention, torture, and death. Two US citizens - Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi - were among the murdered. Human rights activist Wally Kuntsmann is President of the Santiago-based Metropolitan Organization of Ex Political Prisoners and a member of a group that is creating Estadio Nacional: Memoria Nacional, a public memorial at the National Stadium that promotes human rights by preserving memory. Ms. Kunstmann is a former militant in Chile's communist party and was forced into exile in Maracay, Venezuela. She is the co-founder of the Solidarity Committee with Chile, the Pablo Neruda Cultural Center, and president of the Casa Chile of Maracay. Sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center and cosponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Archives for Human Rights.
The Department is pleased to announce a new NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site: Chemistry and Applications of Smart Molecules and Materials (CASMM). CASMM is devoted to promoting understanding and technical skill development in the principles of chemical research, with a molecule-to-material emphasis in the contemporary, interdisciplinary area of “smart molecules and materials”. Interested undergraduates are encouraged to apply; click here for more information. Completed applications must be received by April 1 in order to guarantee full consideration.
With over half of the exec board graduating this May, we have several open positions! Please email one of the GANO presidents, Michelle (mbb18@duke.edu) or Neha (neha.limaye@duke.edu), for an application. Application deadline: Sunday March 20th at midnight. Please email completed applications to Michelle or Neha.
Being a GANO officer is fun and rewarding. Anyone who has participated in GANO for a smester is elligible to apply. We encourage everyone to apply, even if you're going abroad for a semester next year.
There will be an open exec meeting on Thursday March 17th, at 8pm in Carr 114. We encourage anyone interested in applying to stop by and learn more about how exec works.
For you film buffs...a treat, with visuals..
Thursday, March 31st, 2011 at 5:00 pm in Room 225 Friedl Building, East Campus.
Frances-Anne Solomon is a Trinidadian-Canadian-British film maker, writer, producer and entrepreneur, CEO of Caribbean Tales. Caribbean Tales is a Canada-based multimedia company that produces educational videos, radio programs, audio books, theatre plays, and websites drawn from stories of the Caribbean Diaspora.
Ms. Solomon's best-known work includes /What My Mother Told Me/, a semi-autobiographical story of domestic violence in the context of a middle class Caribbean family: and /Peggy Su!/ produced by BBC Films. Set in a Chinese laundry in Liverpool in the 60's, it remains one of the only British films to depict the lives of the Chinese in Britain. /Lord Have Mercy/ produced with Claire Prieto and Vanz Chapman, was Canada's first multicultural sitcom, and starred Russell Peters alongside Caribbean stars Leonie Forbes and Dennis "Sprangalang" Hall. /A Winter Tale/, CityTV 2007, depicts a Caribbean-Canadian community plagued by gun violence in Toronto. (The Lilly library has a couple of her films, and they're ordering more).
Sponsored by the UNC-Duke Caribbean Studies Working Group in a Global Era and supported by the reading
group, Islands, Images, Imaginaries* and the *Dept. of African and African American Studies* at Duke
"Curriculum 2000 in 2011" A Town Hall Discussion with Dean Lee Baker. Tuesday March 15, at 5pm in the Languages Building, Room 305. Reception to follow. Please direct questions to debsreis@duke.edu.
The ECPR Standing Group is currently inviting applications for the ECPR
Summer School, that will take place at the University of Salamanca from June
29th to July 8th. Application daedline: March 25.
For more information, please consult the webpage at:
http://campus.usal.es/acpa/summerschool or contact us at:
politica@usal.es
The Summer School on Latin American Politics is an
original initiative of the ECPR Standing Group on Latin American Politics,
the aim of which is to improve the academic offer on Latin American
politics to students of political science. The almost two weeks
of lectures and workshops are meant to provide theoretical and conceptual
support for the development of doctoral research through intense work
sessions and debates with other doctoral students and experts on Latin
American Institutions.
Thousands of people will be celebrating Carnival in Rio, on Saturday, March 5th. So, we thought we'd bring a little Brazilian Culture right here to Durham. There will be a party for kids and a party for adults, next Saturday! At 105 W. Corporation St. (corner of N Mangum St. in Downtown Durham)
From 6-8 pm: Bring the family out for our Carnival art night.
At 10 pm
: Samba, Capoeira performance, caipirinhas and much more.
While we're partying, we're raising funds at the door to sustain the Terreiro de Arte e Cultura. The Terreiro is a 100% grassroots, all-volunteer, non-profit Afro-Brazilian cultural arts center. Our work is focused on cultural arts education based on character building, cultural exchange, and community involvement in the artistic process.
We are asking for donations anywhere between $0-$50.
Provost's Lecture Series: Natural Disasters and Human Responses. Monday, April 11, 2011
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Social Sciences Building, Room 139.
Please direct questions about this event to susan.booth@duke.edu
Damien Cave
The New York Times Correspondent, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean
Three years after covering Iraq at the height of its sectarian war, Damien Cave found himself amidst the countless dead of Haiti's disastrous earthquake. He will discuss how reporters tackle the challenges of traumatic stories - how they get to where they need to be, how they choose which stories to tell, and how they are impacted by what they experience.
Damien Cave is a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, based in Mexico City. Along with two other reporters, he covers Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
From 2008 to 2010 he served as the Times' Miami bureau chief. In addition to covering the earthquake in Haiti, his coverage of Florida ranged widely from recession, politics, and veterans to out-of-control bunnies.
His previous assignment was in Baghdad. There, he wrote extensively about the American troop surge and the consequences of violence; and he was among a team of Times reporters who were finalists for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. He also led a smaller group that won the 2008 Overseas Press Club award for best international coverage on the Web.
Prior to Iraq, he covered New York's City Hall and Newark, N.J., where he founded the paper's first political blog, Newark '06, to cover Cory Booker's successful run for mayor. His music, arts and culture coverage has appeared in other sections of the Times, and before joining the paper in 2004, Damien worked as a staff writer and editor at Rolling Stone magazine and at Salon.com - though he started his journalism career in Bolivia as a freelancer.
Born in Oregon and raised in Worcester, Mass., he has a B.A. from Boston College and an M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He is married to Diana Oliva Cave, a video and multimedia journalist who was also a part of The Times's Baghdad bureau, and with whom he often works wherever the news takes them.
You can follow Damien on Twitter @damiencave.
The African and African American Studies (AAAS) Graduate Student Working Group
at Duke University invites you to a talk by graduate student Elizabeth
Hordge-Freeman, "Family bonds and bondage: Pseudo-adoptions and unpaid
servitude in Salvador, Brazil." Wednesday, March 2, at 5pm in Friedl 225.
For more information or to inquire about presenting your research, please
contact Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell at (cgreend@duke.edu) or Anne Phillips (anne.phillips@duke.edu).
Refreshments will be served.
This paper by Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman (doctoral candidate, sociology, Duke) will explore how the legacy of slavery and servitude contribute to the contemporary exploitation of black women within the context of "adoptive" families in Salvador, Bahia. She will explore how notions of family and the informal adoption practice called ""criacao" allow black women to continue to be exploited in slave-like conditions under the guise of adoption. The dynamics that emerge in these family relationships reflect exploitation but because they are also associated with high levels of affection (sentimental ties), these relationships endure. These contradictions are a microcosm of the way that race functions more generally in Brazil.
Tina Radford has received an award to attend the 15th Annual North Carolina Society of Research Administrators Meeting that will be held at the Joseph F. Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, North Carolina on March 14-16, 2011. Please join us in congratulating Tina on this award!
has shown that nonlinear laser microscopy can improve diagnostic accuracy for melanoma. The work was published in the February 23 issue of Science Translational Medicine. (Duke press release)
The National Science Foundation has awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) to Prof. Patrick Charbonneau. Charbonneau will use the projected five-year award to understand the self-assembly of crystallizing proteins and of colloidal microphases.
Congratulations to Faculty Director of Latino/a Studies, Professor Antonio Viego, who has been recognized by the University for his contribution to teaching excellence. Prof Viego received course evaluations among the top 5% of all undergraduate instructors at Duke for the Fall of 2010!
Prof Viego is currently teaching the capstone course for the certificate in Latino/a Studies in the Global South and will teach the Introduction to Latino/a Studies in the Global South in Fall 2011.
Read more about Prof Viego here and about the undergraduate certificate here.
Apopka, Fl- Florida Farm worker/Immigrant Immersion
Participants will spend the week learning about farm workers and the issues that affect them and their families. This is an opening that needs to be filled as soon as possible. If you or someone you know might be interested please contact: Leslie Grinage, Program Coordinator at leslie.grinage@duke.edu or (919)668-4713) They will work in the fields alongside farm workers, harvesting crops that go to a local food bank and will participate in workshops and discussions on topics such as social justice, workers' rights, community organizing, social inequality, and farm workers' rights. Living with farm worker families, participants will be immersed in the Apopka community and will have opportunities to connect with community members through various social and educational outlets.
Cost: $275 *Includes housing, meals, and transportation.
The School of Nursing at UNC-Chapel Hill presents the 2011 Ethnic Minority Visiting Scholar Lecture
"Children of the Road"
presented by
Mary Lou de Leon Siantz, 3-5 pm February 21, 2011
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing
Fox Auditorium,L level of Carrington Hall.
Parking available in the Dogwood Visitors Deck
http://carolinanursingnews.com/category/upcoming-events/ For more information email Dr. Diane Berry at dberry@email.unc.edu
Mary Lou de Leon Siantz is currently the Assistant Dean of Diversity and Cultural Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. In this role, she leads the planning and implementation of the strategic goals in diversity throughout the research, education, and practice missions which are a top priority both for the University and for the School of Nursing partnering with faculty, staff, students, and the healthcare environment. Dr. de Leon Siantz chairs the Advisory Task Force on Diversity and Cultural Competence, the Master Teachers Taskforce for Cultural Competence Education, and is faculty advisor for the Minorities in Nursing (MNO) a student nursing organization that support and represent minorities in the School.
Dr. de Leon Siantz is internationally recognized for her research on risk and resilience with Hispanic migrant/immigrant children and their families funded by the National Institutes of Health as well as the Department of Health and Human Services and recognized by the Texas Migrant Council for her contributions to the mental health of migrant preschool children and families.
Dr. de Leon Siantz has a strong background in service and scholarship. She is a founding member and former President of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses. She is also a former member of the National Academy of Science and Institute of Medicine Committees on the Health Status of Immigrant Children, Patient Safety and the Workforce Environment, as well as a Consultant to the Committee on Workforce diversity in the Health Professions. She is a former member of the Secretary of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality, appointed to serve two terms during the Clinton and Bush Administrations. She has also served on the National Advisory Council of the National Institute for Nursing Research, and has served on the Children and Families Study Section, Center for Scientific Review. She was also awarded a Senior Fellowship by the Fundacion Solaridad Mexicano Americano in Mexico City, 2003. She served on the Research Committee of the California/Mexico Health Initiative and collaborating with the Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente Muniz of Mexico.
A Talk by Tomas Fernandez Robaina. FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003. 5:30 p.m.
Tomas Fernandez Robaina* is a leading authority on Afro-Cuban culture
and author of many studies, including *La prosa de Guillen en defensa
del negro cubano* (1982), *El negro en Cuba (1990)*, *Hablen paleros y
santeros* (2008) and, most recently, a novel based on the life of
Reinaldo Arenas, *Misa para un angel* (2010).
A researcher at la Biblioteca Nacional in Havana, Tomas Fernandez
Robaina is a prolific author on Afro-Cuban issues. Among his many
publications is El negro en Cuba 1902-1958: Apuntes para la historia de
la lucha contra la discriminacion racial (The Blacks in Cuba 1902-1958:
Notes on the history of the struggle against racial discrimination). He
is a member of UNEAC (the Cuban Union of Artists and Writers) and of
the Cuban National Committee on Slave Routes. Over the past two decades
he has toured the United States several times speaking on university
campuses about the role of Afro-Cubans in Cuban Society.
The LASA 2012 XXX International Congress is scheduled for May 23-26, 2012 in San Francisco, California.
The deadline to submit proposals for panels, individual presentations, special events, etc. is April 1, 2011.
Please consult the LASA web site for more details: http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng/congress/important-dates.asp
Postdoc Junqi Song of the Dong lab has published "DNA repair proteins are directly involved in regulation of gene expression during plant immune response" in the Feb. 17, 2011 edition of Cell Host & Microbe (available online). This study shows SSN2 positively regulates defense responses and DNA homologous recombination. [more]
A workshop with Patricia Kim-Rajal, sponsored by the Sociology Department’s Race and Ethnicity Workshop, the Latino/a Graduate Student Association and the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
Friday April 15th at 10:00am in the Social-Psychology Building, Room 329 (McKinney Room). Light breakfast provided!
Patricia Kim-Rajal is a professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Sonoma State University. She specializes in Spanish-language media, Globalization, Latino audiences and Latino images in the media. Her current areas of research are "Ugly Betty", Telenovelas, and Gender and Globalization.
For more information on Patricia Kim-Rajal, view http://www.sonoma.edu/pubs/experts/kim-rajal.shtml
APOLOGIES - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED, DUE TO FAMILY ILLNESS. The Program in Latina/o Studies in the Global South is hosting a dinner discussion with Dr. Aida Hurtado on Monday, March 21st from 6:30-8pm in Friedl 225. The discussion will focus on a chapter from her upcoming book entitled "Where the Boys Are: Explaining Young Latino Men's Educational Achievement." Dinner will be provided, but please RSVP to sarah.mayorga@duke.edu with RSVP in the subject line.
Dr. Hurtado is the Luis Leal Endowed Chair of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara.
Join us for Jose Munoz's discussion of his new book, Cruising Utopia: The Politics and Performance of Queer Futurity, March 21 in the Nelson Music Room from 4:30-6:30pm. Organized by the program in the study of sexualities; co-sponsored by the Women's Studies, Literature, Latino/a Studies, Theater Studies, and the FHI.
Jose Esteban Munoz is Chair of the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He is the author of Cruising Utopia and other works.
Keep an eye out for upcoming Latino/a Studies courses for Spring Registration! Courses include the certificate introduction course, LSGS 100S.
Wednesday, March 23, 12-1:15pm at the John Hope Franklin Center Room 240. Part of the Wednesdays at the Center lunch-time speaker series, sponsored by the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Haiti Lab. A light lunch will be served. Free and open to the public. Please Contact: Natalie Hartman njh@duke.edu for more information.
A Conversation with Scholars, Attorneys, and Human Rights Activists
February 17, 2011 4 p.m., UNC School of Law Room 5046.
Panel Discussion
February 18, 2011, Noon, Room 4003,
Global Education Center, 301 Pittsboro Street
(Reception to follow) Please direct questions to Professor Deborah Weissman weissman@email.unc.edu
Cynthia Berajano Department of Criminal Justice Latin American & Latino Studies, New Mexico State University
Rosa-Linda Fregoso Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Marcela Lagarde* National Autonomous University of Mexico
Hilda Morales Trujillo,* Attorney Guatemala's Network for Non‑Violence Against Women
Deborah Weissman University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill
*two presentation in Spanish.
Violence against women has increased throughout MExico and other Latin American countries. Law enforcement officials have often refused to investifate or prosecute these crimes, creating a climate of impunity for perpetrators and denying victims/survivors of violence and their families access to truth and justice. In 2009, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a judgment against the MExican government for its failure to investigate the feminicides in Mexico. The 167-page decision included evidence of government negligence, coruption, torture and the obstruction of justice. As part of a feminist effort to catetgorise violence rooted in gender power structures as a violation of human rights, this panel will explore the analytical framework and response to the escalation of violence against women in Latin America.
Sponsored by:
UNC School of Law Immigration/ Human Rights Policy Clinic
UNC School of Law
UNC Center for Global Initiatives
Carolina Women's Center
UNC Institute for the STudy of the Americas
UNC School of Law Immigration Law
UNC School of Law Domestic Violence Advocacy Project Association
NC State University "Center Stage" presents Emeline Michel on April 14, 8 pm, in Stewart Theatre. Pre-show discussion with the aforementioned violinist, 7pm, Walnut Room.
Emeline Michel is the reigning queen of Haitian song. She is a captivating performer, versatile vocalist and one of the premier Haitian songwriters of her generation. She combines traditional rhythms with inspiring lyrics, merging native Haitian compas and rara with jazz, pop, bossa nova and samba. Emeline performed on the Center Stage series last season as the vocal soloist for Daniel Bernard Roumain's Darwin's Meditation for the People of Lincoln; rumor has it that her band will be joined by a guest artist with flying dreads and a hot violin. This performance is presented as part of the NC State University Haitian Celebration.
For more information, please see the NCSU Center Stage website (http://www.ncsu.edu/centerstage/currentseason/emelinemichel.html) or Emeline Michel's homepage (http://www.emeline-michel.com/).
UNC-CH students are assisting the Foundation in selling dolls handcrafted by women as part of the cooperative MANOS CREATIVAS ("Creative Hands") in the town of Mineral de Pozos, which is located about 185 miles (300km) north of Mexico City in the northeast corner of the central state of Guanajuato, Mexico. Today, the town is attempting to revitalize its economy through local, entrepreneurial development and cultural tourism. Each doll represents one of thirty-one Mexican states. Their clothes are hand-crafted and sewn by local residents of Mineral de Pozos. The dolls are $40 each. For info about purchasing the dolls, please contact Hannah Gill at hgill@email.unc.edu.
Just a year ago we started the Cineclub at CHICLE Language Institute and we have enjoyed some good films and fun language encounters. However, after a year it seems a good time to try something new which we hope will be beneficial to those who especially want to practice Spanish and/or get to know the local Latino population better. The CHICLE Cineclub will now meet every third Friday at 6pm at the Centro Hispano in Carrboro Plaza.
It is a great space and a wonderful addition to our community! Also, parking is easy and it is a space that can be enjoyed by all of us for cultural programming.
The Board of El Centro and the staff are very excited about this opportunity, so I hope you will consider coming for our first showing on February 18th.
We will still have some Sunday films at our CHICLE offices but not on a regular basis.
Please write Sharon Mujica at sharon@chi-cle.com for any suggestions, ideas or questions you may have about our new format!! VENGAN EL DIA 18.
The Institute for the Study of the Americas and Fellowship of Reconciliation present:
Struggling for Peace amidst War: A courageous experiment in nonviolent resistance
A talk by Colombian Community Leader Jesus Emilio Tuberquia on the experience of the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado
April 4th, 5:30 PM, Global Education Center, UNC, Room 1005
Reception to follow in GEC 1st Floor Lobby.
For the past five decades, a civil war has raged in Colombia, ensnaring civilians into the middle of the violent conflict. In 1997, eight hundred small farmers claimed their territory as a neutral civilian community and refused to cooperate with any armed group of any form (including military or police). Surviving threats, massacres, the disappearances of over 170 community members and food blockades perpetrated by various armed actors, the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado has succeeded in building a nonviolent community in resistance.
This event is co-Sponsored by the Duke-UNC Rotary Center, Center For Global Initiatives, Global Studies, Social Movements Working Group, Latin American Political Imaginaries Working Group and Counter-Cartographies Collective
Trayectos de Papel is a series of works on paper by Carolina Loyola Garcia. The exhibit will run March 1-June 1 2011, Monday-Friday 10am-7pm at the Carolina Latino/a Collaborative. Carolina Loyola Garcia is a Chilean media artist working in the US, whose work reflects upon such issues as biculturalism, language, technology, and post-colonialism, among others. Her work ranges from single-channel videos to video installations or 2D digital prints, and has been exhibited in festivals and art shows nationally and internationally. For more information, please contact unc-clc@unc.edu. Sponsored by the CLC, the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies, and the UNC Art Department.
Third Fridays of the month. This Friday at the Marvell Event Center. Free salsa lesson at 9:30pm led by Paso Salsa Studio Instructors! Dancing from 10-2am with music by DJ Salsa Mike! Proceeds benefit El Kilombo nonprofit community center!
Proceeds support ESL, kids' literacy, adult computer literacy, and other free programs at El Kilombo nonprofit community center. $10 guys, $5 ladies, 18 to party, 21 to drink. Facebook event. Facebook group.
Trayectos de Papel is a series of works on paper by Carolina Loyola Garcia. Join us for the opening reception and the opportunity to speak with the artist herself on March 1, 5-8pm at the The Carolina Latina/o Collaborative. For more information, please contact unc-clc@unc.edu.
The exhibit will run March 1-June 1 2011, Monday-Friday 10am-7pm.
Carolina Loyola Garcia is a Chilean media artist working in the US, whose work reflects upon such issues as biculturalism, language, technology, and post-colonialism, among others. Her work ranges from single-channel videos to video installations or 2D digital prints, and has been exhibited in festivals and art shows nationally and internationally. Formally, she explores the possibilities that digital media offers for layering as a means to communicate various levels of discourse. She studied theatre, film and video in Chile, and received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.
Visit Carolina Loyola Garcia'a website at http://www.
View an artist statement and bio at http://www.art.cfa.cmu.edu/
Sponsored by the CLC, the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies, and the UNC Art Department.
Serdar Tulu, a postdoc in the Kiehart lab, has won first prize for video at Celldance, the American Society for Cell Biology's annual film and image contest. His video "Cellular Recognition" shows two epidermal cell sheets in a fruit fly (Drosphila melanogaster) embryo coming together to form a seamless epidermis. You can watch the video at the ASCB website or on Youtube. [more, alt.]
Join us for our monthly Receso! This month's Receso will take place Thursday February 24th from 3-5pm in the Latino/a Studies' resource room (Friedl 124). In addition to Latino snacks, join us for the reception the for "al margen" exhibit by Petra Barth located in the Frederic Jameson Gallery in the Friedl Building.
Find out what the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South has to offer YOU (including events, an undergrad certificate, cool courses, travel awards, and more)!
Geared toward undergrads.
You Are Invited to The United College Conference, which is a three-part conference that will
explore the various issues of Latino immigration in the United States. Join us for dinner and a movie on February 21, 2010
7:00-9:00pm in room 130 in the Social-Psychology building.
The first part of the conference includes a movie showing of "Entre Nos", a movie based on a true story of an immigrant mother from Colombia (Mariana). In the movie, the mother, who speaks no English and has no money, works with her two children to find success despite the challenging moments in their lives.
After the movie, GANO, WHO, and the Duke Students for Humane Borders will offer their own reflections on what immigration means to them.
Dinner will be served.
A Social History of the African Brazilian Movement:
Twentieth-Century Perspectives.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Global Education Center, Room 4003
UNC-Chapel Hill.
Professor Joselina da Silva,
Department of Sociology,
Federal University of Ceara, Brazil
Sponsored by the Department of African & Afro-American Studies, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black History and Culture, the Institute of African American Research, and The Institute for the Study of the Americas
Shui Wang of the Dong lab has published "Arabidopsis BRCA2 and RAD51 proteins are specifically involved in defense gene transcription during plant immune responses" in the Nov. 2, 2010 edition of PNAS (available online). This study provides the molecular evidence showing that the BRCA2–RAD51 complex plays a direct and specific role in transcription regulation during plant immune responses. [more]
Graduate students Wei Wang and Jinyoung Barnaby, of the Dong lab, have published "Timing of plant immune responses by a central circadian regulator" in the Feb. 3, 2011 edition of Nature (available online). The identification of novel genes involved in R-gene-mediated disease resistance reveals a key functional link between the circadian clock and plant immunity. The New York Times highlighted this research in "To Defend Against Disease, a Plant Checks the Clock" (Feb. 2, 2011). [more, alt.]
Join Mi Gente for our first Open Forum! The forum will take place Thursday, February 10th from 7-10pm at the Multicultural Center Resource Room, in the Bryan Center. Come share your thoughts on Duke's Diversity Policy and how it is or isn't being met. We will be discussing if the university is meeting its promise to provide minority students with adequate resources (including faculty and mentors) to succeed at this institution.
Mi Gente's Latino Open Forums will be a place to discuss topics such as this and to answer more general questions, such as:
Are you a Latino at Duke? What is a Latino? What does that mean to you? What does that mean to others? Are you a closet Latino? Are you a loud and proud Latino? Is our university addressing your needs? Do you have something to say?
This event is intended to provide a space for Latinos at Duke - whether or not you consider yourself a part of Mi Gente - to discuss issues that are important to us.
It's super casual - feel free to bring your dinner, and bring a friend!
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce its fifth interdisciplinary conference on the globalization of the southern United States, focusing on the effects of the 2007- 2008 economic crisis on the region. The conference will take place at the UNC Center for Global Initiatives. For more information, see http://globalsouth.unc.edu/program/ or call +1 919 962 6855
The conference in March 2011 will bring together academics, policy makers, and practitioners from North Carolina, the southern region, and beyond.
A collaboration between the Center for Global Initiatives, the Global Research Institute, and the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC, the goals of the conference are to identify, analyze, and engage the key problems arising from or associated with the crisis, and to further the development of appropriate policy responses.
Thursday, April 14th, 2011 9 am-4:30 pm at the United Church of Chapel Hill. Farmworker advocates across the state will have the opportunity to network, learn,
and update each other on the latest issues that affect North Carolina farmworkers.
Do you want to be a volunteer? Contact April at asimon@mail.nccu.edu
Do you want to be a sponsor? Contact Norma at marti.norma@gmail.com
For general information or if you are interested in leading a workshop, contact Mary Johnson Rockers at Mary.j.rockers@dhhs.nc.gov
More information, including registrations coming on March 1st 2011
www.ncfarmworkers.org
Mezcla is Mi Gente's annual showcase that takes place during Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW). To audition, email mezcla2011@gmail.com by February 13th. Auditions will be held on ThursdayFebruary 17th at 6pm at the Duke Coffeehouse on East Campus.
Can
you dance? Sing? Play an instrument? Mezcla is Mi Gente's biggest event
of the year - a talent show for the ages. Anyone can audition, just
show us what you got! Mezcla takes place in the Main Quad on West every
year during Latino Student Recruitment Weekend and Blue Devil Days, so
if you perform you'll have a crowd of many cheering at your talents.
ANYONE and EVERYONE is invited to audition. http://www.facebook.com/event.
LOVE BOOKS? Join us on Valentine's Day! The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South Presents: Editing, Publishing, and Book Culture: A Discussion with Rachel Kahan. Feb 14th 2:50-4:05pm. Allen Building Room 226.
A senior editor at one of New York's major publishers discusses life with authors, how books "work", and what it means to be a reader, advocate, and consumer of book culture.
Charanga Carolina begins the spring semester with a performance at Talulla's this Saturday, February 5. Doors for dancing open at 10pm. $5 admission.
Charanga Carolina will perform two sets of salsa, merengue, and songo/timba featuring guest artists Nelson Delgado, Jaime Roman, Pako Santiago, Ramon Ortiz and Alberto Carasquillo.
Please join our Facebook page "UNC's Charanga Carolina" Also, please attend our Facebook event and invite your FB friends to do the same.
The summer swim season is quickly approaching and the parent reps, coaches, and DFC have been working hard to prepare for the coming year. The 2010 Aqua Devil season was one of unprecedented growth and successes and we're looking forward to building upon that in 2011.
All information and pertinent details are posted on our website here: Aqua Devils
You'll find information on registration, practice schedules, meet schedules, and the return of the developmental swim team the Little Devils.
The pre-season meeting is scheduled for Saturday, February 26 at 2:00pm
When: Thursday, February 3, 2011 4:30 PM - 6:00 P
Where: Duke School of Nursing Auditorium Room 101
Speaker/Presenter: Russell Porter, USAID Haiti Task Tea
Coordinator
Cost: This event is free and open to the public. Space is limited. Please register. For more information, contact Belinda Wisdom at 919-684-9554 or belinda.wisdom@duke.edu.
Description: Russell Porter leads in the coordination of the Haiti post-earthquake recovery effort in Washington, D.C. Porter will discuss the challenges that still lie ahead for Haiti, the effects on health care and other sectors, and USAID's recovery efforts.
Co-sponsors: School of Nursing, Duke Global Health Institute, Provost's Office and A World Together Initiative
The Duke Theater Studies department, in conjunction with UNC-Chapel Hill, is pleased to present an open seminar with Professor Jorge Huerta. Tuesday, Feb 15th from 9:30-11:30am in Page 106. Please RSVP and request readings from Prof Sean Metzger at sean.metzger@duke.edu
Co-sponsored by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University.
Light breakfast included.
The award is given by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis for outstanding work during the Young Scientists Summer Program and allows the student to return to IIASA for an additional three months. [more]
Scholarships for Latina Women
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund < http://www.hsf.net/> (also for college students)
- Adelante US Education Leadership Fund <http://www.adelantefund.org/
- Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute <http://www.chci.org/> (Congressional Internship)
- First in My Family Scholarship Program <http://www.thesalliemaefund.
- Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement <http://www.hace-usa..org/
- Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities <http://www..hacu.net/hacu/
- Hispanic Internship Program <http://www.hnip.net/>
- La Unidad Latina Foundation <http://foundation.
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund National Association of Hispanic Journalists <http://www.nahj.org/home/
- Salvadoran American Leadership and Education Fund <http://www.salef.org/salef/
- State Farm Hispanic Scholarship Fund <http://www.statefarm.com/
Scholarships for Minority Women
- Actuary Scholarships for Minority Students <http://www.beanactuary.org/>
- American Chemical Society Scholarships <http://www.cnetweb.org/
- American Geological Institute Minority Geosciences Student Scholarship <http://www.agiweb.org/mpp/
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants <http://www.aicpa.org/members/
- American Political Science Association Minority scholarship list <http://www.apsanet.org/
- Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program <http://kff.org/about/
- Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation <https://www.coca-
- Engineering for Minorities <http://www.nacme.org/>
- Gates Millennium Scholars <http://www.gmsp.org/(
- International Education Financial Aid <http://www.iefa.org/>
- The Jackie Robinson Foundation <http://www.jackierobinson.
- Jack Kent Cook Foundation Graduate Scholars Program <http://www.
- John L. Carey Accounting Scholarship <http://www.aicpa.org/members/
- Kaiser Media Internships in Health Reporting <http://kff.org/mediafellows/
- LGBT Scholarships <http://www.leaguefoundation.
- Microsoft Scholarships <http://www.microsoft.com/
- Morris K. Udall Undergraduate Scholarship <http://www.udall.gov/> (for environmental studies)
- National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grant (SMART Grant) <http://studentaid.ed.gov/
- Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education <http://www.naspa.org/
- Students of Color Scholarship <http://www.financialaid4you.
- Unmet Need Scholarship <http://www.thesalliemaefund.
- USA Funds <http://www.usafunds.org/
The first installment of this semester's WGELA speakers series! A Peruvian feast will be held next Tuesday night (Feb. 8) at 6:30 in Levine Science Research Center A158 where Professor Elizabeth Shapiro will be giving a talk on Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), in Latin America.
Professor Shapiro's talk will focus on the social and environmental impacts of Mexican national programs that provide payments to rural communities for hydrological services, biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration and improvement of agroforestry systems.
NOTE: Dr. Shapiro will be reviewing potential opportunities for WGELA members to collaborate with her and her team in Mexico through INTERNSHIPS and MP projects.
On Jan. 21, Duke University, Vietnam National University (VNU) and the GE Foundation signed an agreement to develop a Master’s Degree Program in Public Policy for Environmental Protection. Sanford, DCID, and the Nicholas School are providing faculty training for the new program. [more] -- http://dukealumni.bm23.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=16413&id=629m8mi8szfjz3v8r4tqiu7imalhn&id2=48zh58ewcktx1ij3wmvkbo6vm0c4y&subscriber_id=aegwsxbkrtdxeeyjelxjvcfwtjirbai&delivery_id=bqtlxcuctscyjvjihexxtswqoahqbpm&tid=3.QB0.Bg3C9w.CSxr.Kdt8..LxZC.b..
Tuesday 2/15/11 at 5:15 pm at the Franklin Humanities Institute "Garage" (C105, 1st Floor, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse). Part of the 2010-11 Provost's Lecture Series, "Natural Disasters & Human Responses." For more information, visit http://fhi.duke.edu/events/provosts-lecture-edwidge-danticat. Questions should be directed to susan.booth@duke.edu.
Edwidge Danticat will examine ways in which writers both in Haiti and in the Haitian dyaspora have responded creatively to the earthquake, and will also read excerpts from her own work. Two of Danticat's titles, Brother, I'm Dying and Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work, will be available on site for purchase.
The Duke Center for International Development presents the first Rethinking Development Policy Lecture of the Spring Semester. Light refreshments will be served.
Speaker: Anne Deruyttere
When: Thursday, February 3, 2011
Where: Sanford 03, Sanford School of Public Policy
Time: 5:30pm-7:00pm
Anne Deruyttere has more than 30 years of experience with indigenous peoples, community development and and social safeguards, mostly at the Inter-American Development Bank where she was Chief of the Indigenous Peoples and Community Development Unit. She authored and coordinated the preparation of IDB’s policies on involuntary resettlement and on indigenous peoples and spearheaded innovative projects at the intersection of culture and development. Currently she is one of three members of the Asian Development Bank's independent Compliance Review Panel which investigates potential policy violations by the ADB. She has been consulting with the World Bank, IFC, IFAD, GTZ, private sector companies and several universities. She holds graduate degrees in economics and in anthropology from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and the University of Edinburgh (UK).
To address the declining number of people who aspire to science-related careers, Duke has received funding from the NIH to provide an engaging 2-week summer science course to rising Duke sophomores. The NIH is specifically hoping to target minority populations. Application deadline: February 15, 2011. www.rise.duke.edu/leap.
Using the context of pharmacology (how drugs work), this FREE summer mini-course ties together principles of biology and chemistry in a relevant and engaging manner.
Thursday Feb 3 2011 from 12-1:30pm at the FHI Haiti Lab - C106, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse. The Haiti Lab Working Group & Atlantic Studies Working Group present a lunch discussion with Kate Ramsey, University of Miami Department of History. Note: Participants should read the introduction to Kate Ramsey's forthcoming book to prepare for the discussion. To get a pdf of the introduction, please email Ryan O'Rourke: ryan.orourke@duke.edu.
Prof. Ramsey works on colonial and postcolonial Caribbean histories with a particular focus on Haiti. Her research and teaching interests include the politics of law, religion, and performance in the Caribbean; the genealogy of the concept of "magic" under colonialism; Caribbean intellectual history and social movements; histories of health and healing; and the relationship between anthropology and history. Her forthcoming book, The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in April.
Please join us to welcome our 2010-2011 Mellon Visiting Professor, Catherine Walsh, to Duke and the Triangle on Feb. 1 from 4:30-6:30 at the Franklin Center Room 130/132. *Wine and great hors d' oeuvres will be served. Parking available behind the Franklin Center and across the street in Pickens Family Medical clinic.
Professor Walsh teaches at the Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar in Quito, Ecuador and is offering two courses at Duke this semester. She is also working with scholars such as Arturo Escobar, Walter Mignolo, and Michaeline Crichlow on projects related to black and indigenous social movements, plurinationalism, and affirmative action policy in Ecuador.
http://clacs.aas.duke.edu/
Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles, an advocate of immigration reform, will speak from 5:30-7 p.m. in the FedEx Global Education Center at UNC-CH. Parking available in the McCauley Deck directly underneath the building starting at 5:00 p.m.
Overflow space available for both parking and seating. For more information, call 919-966-1484
Mahony, the highest ranking archbishop in the U.S. Catholic Church to speak about immigration reform, will title his speech "For Goodness Sake: Why America Needs Immigration Reform." He will discuss what he thinks should be done to change U.S. immigration policy - a topic President Barack Obama mentioned Tuesday (Jan. 25) in his State of the Union speech. "Cardinal Mahony has been deeply engaged in immigration issues throughout his ministry," said Jacqueline Hagan, Ph.D., a sociology professor and one of the event organizers. "On the eve of his retirement, he is coming to UNC to discuss his perspective on the importance of immigration reform."
Mahony heads the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, the 5-million member Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which is 70 percent Latino. A consultant to the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Migration, he has been interested in the treatment of immigrants and workers since he was a young priest and close friend of labor organizer Cesar Chavez in the 1960s. "Human dignity and equality are principles deeply held by all Americans," Mahony has said. "If laws reflect our principles, then something is terribly wrong with our laws on immigration. Because of our broken immigration system, millions of individuals and families are regularly exploited, demeaned and dehumanized."
Campus sponsoring units include the College of Arts and Sciences, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Parr Center for Ethics in the philosophy department, Center for Global Initiatives, political science and religious studies departments and the Center for the Study of the American South.
Background: For more information about Mahony, visit http://www.archdiocese.la/archbishop/profile.html or his blog at http://cardinalrogermahonyblogsla.blogspot.com/.
The 2010-2011 Process Series and the Teatro Latina/o Series present Learn to be Latina, a new play by Enrique Urueta, directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela. Friday Feb 4 and Saturday Feb 5 at 8pm at Gerrard Hall, UNC-CH. Free and open to the public. This play contains adult content.
Learn to Be Latina will be presented as the
next Process Series offering, under the direction of world renowned
director, Jose Luis Valenzuela. Learn to Be Latina is a story about
Hanan, a promising young pop singer, who has a record label dying to
record her...until they find out she's Lebanese. Not to worry, they
say: Hanan can still be a star--as long as she learns to be Latina!
Enrique Urueta is
a Columbian-American playwright whose plays have been developed and
produced throughout the country. He is currently the playwright in
residence at the Queer Cultural Center and has won numerous awards and
grants including the Creating Queer Communities grant, The Global Age
Project Award 2007, and the Theater Bay Area New Works Fund Grant 2008.
Jose Luis Valenzuela is
a world distinguished performer and director, as well as a professor of
Drama at UCLA. He has directed at venues including Los Angeles Theater
Center, the Mark Taper Forum, the Jorge Negrete Theatre, and El Teatro
de la Esperanza, where his production of Hijos won Drama-Logue Awards
for Best Direction, Ensemble and Actor.
Learn to Be Latina is
jointly sponsored by Teatro Latina/o Series, the Carolina Latina/o
Collaborative, the UNC Latina/o Speakers Series, and the UNC Latina/o
Gift fund and presented as part of the 2011 Process Series.
are pleased to announce the donation of a new Agilent GC/MS system for use in the undergraduate analytical chemistry laboratory of the Department of Chemistry. This joint effort demonstrates the alignment of Agilent’s strategic directions in analytical chemistry and bio-analytical measurement with Duke’s goals of excellence in education and with the Department of Chemistry’s multi-disciplinary approach to laboratory science. For the approximately 60-70 chemistry majors who take analytical chemistry laboratory each year, access to this new GC/MS system will provide them with a reliable, state-of-the-art tool that is easy to operate and maintain, and that will enhance their learning environment and better prepare them for future careers in the health science, industry and academia.
An opening reception for the "al margen" exhibit will be held on February 24th from 4-6pm at the Frederic Jameson Gallery in the Friedl Building. The reception will include a panel, followed by a reception and gallery tour by Petra Barth. Please direct questions to Karen Glynn (karen.glynn@duke.edu; 919-660-5968).
A
panel of Duke and UNC faculty will discuss issues of poverty,
marginalization, environmental degradation, and responses to disaster
and crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean. Panelists include Dennis
Clements, director of the Center for Latin America and Caribbean
Studies at Duke, who also serves in Duke Children's Primary Care and
the Duke Global Health Institute; Erika Weinthal, associate professor
of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment; and
Sandy Smith-Nonini, adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Please see the full description of the exhibit, artist, organizers, and sponsors under our News page.
January 30th 5pm at the CHICLE Language Institute (3rd floor suite G-1). Dan Whittle and Daylin Munoz-Nunez will discuss current events in Cuba, including economic reforms, Obama policy, and how the environment can serve as a bridge for improved relations. For more info write chicle@chi-cle.com
Free and Open to the Public.
Dan Whittle and Daylin Munoz-Nunez will discuss current events in Cuba, including economic reforms, Obama policy, and how the environment can serve as a bridge for improved relations.
Daniel Whittle is a senior attorney and Director of the Cuba Program with Environmental Defense Fund. Since 2000, Dan has worked with Cuban scientists, lawyers, and policy makers to develop and promote conservation and environmental protection strategies for coral reefs, marine fisheries, sensitive coastal ecosystems and other natural areas in Cuba and the region. He is currently part of a team assessing the environmental implications of energy development in Cuba and the United States, including renewable energy form the ocean.
Daylin Munoz-Nunoz is a marine scientist from Cuba who took a long journey to the U.S. (about 6 years ago) to pursue her career in the marine conservation field. She graduated from Duke's Masters Program in Environmental Management in May 2009. Her interests have evolved from coral reef ecology to the challenging area of marine resources management. For more information, check out the CHICLE Language Institute's website.
A new photography exhibit entitled "al margen" (or "Living on the Margin") is the result of seven years of work by Petra Barth in South America, Central America and the Caribbean. The exhibit will be on display from 17 January - 1 May 2011. It is composed of 70 gelatin silver prints mounted in two campus venues. Forty prints are on view at the Frederic Jameson Gallery in the Friedl Building on East Campus (open daily 8:00am to 6:00pm), and an additional thirty prints are on exhibit in the Special Collections Gallery (corridor between Dalton-Brand Research Room and Mary Duke Biddle Rare Book Reading Room) in Perkins Library on West Campus (open daily 8:00am to 7:00pm). @@
al margen was
organized by the Archive of Documentary Arts and the Archive for
Human Rights
in Duke's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. The exhibit is sponsored by the Center for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Program in Latino/a
Studies in the
Global South, the Department of Cultural Anthropology,
International
Comparative Studies, and the Duke Human Rights Center.
Barth's photography aims "to tell stories about
the everyday
lives of people living on the margin--their struggles and their
dreams." In her own words:
"I use a spontaneous, intimate approach to photograph the daily life of individuals. I look for quiet, reflective moments when people are unaware of the camera and my presence, and genuine feeling is conveyed. Pieced together, these moments describe, with extraordinary clarity, the living conditions all across Latin America and the Caribbean, from Haiti's streets to the suburbs of Nicaragua and El Salvador, and from the favelas of Rio to the victims of the recent tsunami in Concepcion, Chile.
My photographs reveal moments that are not often depicted because they happen every day. My camera simultaneously captures the unusual in the ordinary and the ordinariness of the unusual. We often see images of devastated landscapes and human suffering in the wake of disastrous events, but that is only one part of life. What happens before, after, and in between these times? Despite struggle, there is also happiness and the ability to move on and create new narratives every day.
Petra Barth was born in Germany in 1964. She
originally
studied design in Milan and worked for many years in the fashion
industry. In
1999, fulfilling a lifetime ambition, she became a full-time
freelance
photographer working primarily in the Caribbean, Latin America,
and Asia. She
studied photography with Joe Cameron, Andy Grundberg, and Bill
Newman at the
Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., where she
currently lives.
Petra Barth's photographs are part of the
Archive of
Documentary Arts, part of Duke's Rare Book, Manuscript, and
Special Collections
Library. The collection can be viewed in the Library's
Dalton-Brand Research
Room.
Come out for our first monthly Receso! Join us for Venezuelan hot chocolate and juices from the Dominican Republic, alongside Honduran and Mexican snacks such as Conchas, Hojaldras, and other sweets!
Find out what the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South has to offer YOU (including events, an undergrad certificate, cool courses, travel awards, and more)!
Location: 124 Friedl Building (East Campus main quad, between Wilson and Aycock).
UNC's Latino Collaborative Center is hosting a showing of "Raising the
Point," a film by Jason Mendez on Thursday, February 17th at the CLC, room
144 in Craige North, Seminar Wing, at 6 PM. There will be a brief talk
after the film.
About Jason Mendez:
Dr. Jason Mendez received his doctorate in education with an emphasis in
Curriculum, Culture & Change from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. His research areas include social foundations of education,
cultural studies, Puerto Rican studies, critical race studies, and Arts
Education/Integration. Dr. Mendez is the founder of the Potentialis Centre,
a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization which combines research and the arts to
produce voices that advocate for social justice in education, health,
environment, and community development. Prior to taking time off to rebuild
and establish Potentialis, Jason taught as an assistant professor in the
Teacher Education department at CUNY's York College. Currently, Dr. Mendez
is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh's Center of Race
and Social Problems. Hunts Point approximately covers 2.1 square miles of
the South Bronx. In addition to 11,000 families, this small area is home to
the Hunts Point Cooperative Market, the new Fulton Fish Market, the
Spofford Juvenile Detention Center, 18 waste transfer stations, 40% of New
York City's sewage, 100% of the Bronx's waste, a sewage treatment plant, a
sewage pelletizing plant, 4 electrical power plants, more than 60,000
trucks per week and a few schools sprinkled in between. A major health
concern in Hunts Point is the number of children diagnosed with asthma.
Educational discourse typically focuses its critique on educational
improvements inside of the classroom. However, there are critical factors
that affect a student's educational experience before they even walk
through the schools door. Since the majority of school absenteeism is
related to asthma, giving a student an enriching educational experience in
a community overcome by heavy truck idling is an injustice that requires
action. Though the Hunts Point community faces many inequities, I focus on
the issue of poor air quality. "Raising the Point!" is a unique grassroots
effort to support Hunts Points mission in revitalizing the community.
EXTENSION: APPLICATIONS ARE DUE ON JANUARY 31, 2011 BY 12PM. Submit applications to uncmexico@gmail.com. Applications and more information are available at http://isa.unc.edu/migration/
This program will run for 7 weeks late May through June in rural Mexico. UNC undergrads with Spanish fluency are eligible. Estimated cost: $1,500 for airfare, room and board.
We are the Bolivia ExciteDevelopment (formerly Engineers Without Borders) team, and this summer we will be traveling to the village of Obrajes, Bolivia working on construction of a new community irrigation system. Travel dates are from late May through early July, so they should not conflict with study abroad or summer session II. If you might be interested in traveling, or have any questions, please
email any of us atjessie.nadler@duke.edu, ben.gagne@duke.edu, or
lily.shepard@duke.edu.
We are still looking for Spanish speakers interested in an awesome travel experience to help with the project this summer. This trip is not just for those studying engineering; rather we are looking for Spanish speakers (you do not have to be fluent!) to help us better communicate with the NGO's, drilling companies, and community members. If you are interested in this trip, your only responsibility this semester would be to apply for travel funding (and we will be more than happy to help you apply). We have had success in the past receiving travel funding from the Career Center and DukeEngage; students will not have to pay for their own travel expenses.
This trip will be a great travel experience, as well as a fantastic opportunity to work in a group, practice (or fine-tune) your language skills, and learn something completely new.
Nicholas Buchler has received a Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Grant from the march of Dimes. This award is designed to support young scientists just embarking on their independent research careers. The March of Dimes funds research on birth defects and infant mortality.
The UNC Latina/o Caucus and the Latino/a Graduate Professional Student Association invite you to their Spring Social on Friday, January 28th from 4:30-6:30pm at the Faculty Lounge, Campus Y. R.S.V.P. by Friday January 21, 2011 to Josmell Perez at josmell@unc.edu
Position opening for bilingual paralegal at Legal Aid of North Carolina. Initial review of applications begins February 15th.
Agency background: Migrant farmworkers are essential to harvest North Carolina’s tobacco, fruits, vegetables, and other plants; they also plant trees and work with livestock and poultry. The Farmworker Unit provides free legal assistance in civil matters to this population statewide. Visit the Legal Aid of North Carolina website for full information on the position opening.
Swain Hall. 9 pm Fri. 1/28, 8 pm Sat 1/29. La Vida Loca, an apolitical in-your-face odyssey of a Mexican immigrant
Written by & starring Carlos Manuel.
La Vida Loca is a monologue stuffed full of life. In a performance
carefully constructed to both heroize and expose the author/performer,
his "crazy" life is revealed through a quilt of memories, fantasies,
dialogues, and excerpts from pop culture.
Duke hosted the 30th Annual Dynamic Days conference January 5th – 8th, 2011. This annual conference covers a variety of topics within nonlinear dynamics. [more]
DATE CHANGE to Feb 9th. The Greenwich Village-born poet, journalist, and chronicler of Mexico's
popular movements will be remembered via a reading and a brief video. The event begins at 7:30 pm
as part of the February meeting of Balance & Accuracy in Journalism at the Community Church of Chapel Hill
Already scheduled for the February 9 program is a report from Witness for Peace co-founder Gail Phares and other participants in the Colombia delegation currently visiting Afro-Colombian communities suffering violent attack in Colombia
February 24-26 2011. The symposium will take place at the National Humanities Center. $35 registration fee includes all sessions and meals.
Graduate students with a valid ID may register for free by contacting Martha Johnson at 919-549-0661 x110.
In recent years, historians, writers, and others have begun to produce a surge of studies of the "black Atlantic" organized around particular life stories. Their approaches build on, and also suggest the limitations of, several waves of scholarship over the last generation. What are the opportunities and limitations of this biographical turn?
This symposium brings together leading scholars in Atlantic, American, American, Caribbean, European, and African history to discuss new works in progress and to consider the theoretical implications, possibilities, and dangers of the "biographical turn" for histories of the early modern and modern Atlantic world.
Free salsa lesson at 9:30pm! Dancing from 10-2am with music by DJ Salsa Mike! Proceeds benefit El Kilombo nonprofit community center!
3rd Fridays of the month
Marvell Event Center
$10 guys, $5 ladies, 18 to party, 21 to drink. Check out the Facebook event and the Facebook group.
The Magwene Lab has published "Outcrossing, mitotic recombination, and life-history trade-offs shape genome evolution in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" in the Jan. 18 edition of PNAS (available online). The study shows that many budding yeast strains have high levels of genomic heterozygosity, providing new insights into the roles that both outcrossing and mitotic recombination play in shaping the genome architecture of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. [more]
The talk by Lewis Taylor (University of Liverpool) will begin at 5:30pm in the FedEx Global Education Center, Room 3024.
During recent years,
a rapid expansion in large-scale mining activity has generated a host
of protests in Peru, as rural people have attempted to defend their
livelihood and environment. This presentation examines the trajectory
of one such mobilization in the province of San Marcos and neighboring
Condebamba Valley, located in the northern Andean department of
Cajamarca. The social movement's internal organization, strategy,
tactics and repertoires of struggle are analyzed. Practices inherited
from the rondas campesinas [nightwatch patrols] are seen to have
exercised an important influence in shaping its modus operandi, which
contrasts in key respects from the behavior of other anti-mining
protests in Peru. An assessment is made of how shifting power relations
within the state might influence the chances of successful collective
action in the countryside. FREE Please Contact: Institute for the Study
of the Americas isa.unc.edu for more information.
GANO: Gente Aprendiendo para Nuevas Oportunidades (People Learning for New Opportunities) is an ESL-tutoring organization that provides one-on-one tutoring for Latinos in Durham. We are looking for tutors to work with adults as well as tutors to assist children with their homework. GANO meets twice a week in Carr 114 (East Campus) on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30-8pm. You can volunteer one of these days or both. Tutors should be comfortable speaking Spanish, although fluency is not necessary. We will be having tutor training sessions on Tuesday 1/18 and Thursday 1/20 at 6:30 in Carr 136.
Steve Nowicki has been elected a one of 503 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for distinguished contributions to the fields of animal behavior and behavioral ecology, particularly for studies of animal signaling mechanisms and the evolution of animal communication. Election as a fellow is an honor bestowed on AAAS members by their peers. [more]
Robin Hopkins, a former graduate student, and Mark Rausher have published a paper in Nature that is the first to identify genes involved in reinforcement, an evolutionary process that directly selects for pre-zygotic isolation. Changes in these genes in Phlox drummondii are responsible for a shift in flower color from light blue to dark red, which decreases the magnitude of interspecific hybridization with a co-occuring congener. [more]
Pearson Education has brought out a new edition of Introductory Biology, retitled Campbell BIOLOGY in honor of the original author Neil Campbell. Rob Jackson is one of five co-authors for this, the best-selling science textbook in the country. [more]
The peatmoss that ate the Northwest? Visiting Scientist Eric Karlin and the Shaw lab report in Molecular Ecology that that all North American populations of the peatmoss Sphagnum subnitens, spanning a range of some 4115 km. from Oregon to the western Aleutian Islands, are a single genetic clone. This is arguably the largest terrestrial plant individual known. [more, alt.]
English-speaking Latino participants desired for "Cell Phone Intervention for You" study. See the website, dukecitystudy.org, email citystudy@notes.duke.edu or call (919)681-CITY for more information.
This is an NIH-sponsored clinical trial for which Laura Svetkey is the PI. They are testing an innovative cell phone app (designed in collaboration with behavioral science colleagues here at Duke and a tech guru at MIT/Northeastern U) that they hope will help young adults lose weight. Comparison groups will get personal coaching or usual care.
Eligibility criteria are age 18-35 yrs, overweight or obese, generally healthy, not diabetic, and regularly using a cell phone. Each participant will be in the study for 24 months. We're enrolling participants now, and will continue to enroll for the next year or so.
Hannah Gill will discuss and sign copies of her book, "The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina: New Roots in the Old North State", at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham at 7pm.
From Independent Weekly:
"North Carolina's grade school textbooks have long noted the influx of
European immigrants, but they may need to be updated for the rising
numbers of Latinos. Hannah Gill's new book, The Latino Migration
Experience in North Carolina: New Roots in the Old North State, looks
at how Latino migration has come to the Southeast, and sheds light on
the arrivals in North Carolina in particular. The book also examines
what this means for globalization and various facets of the culture at
large. Gill knows her stuff: She serves as assistant director of the
Institute for the Study of the Americas and works as a research
associate at UNC's Center for Global Initiatives.
Course Title: Basic Haitian Creole and Culture for Professionals. Registration: Registration can be completed online at http://www.learnmore.duke.edu/weekend/courses/registration.asp edu. For more information, contact the course instructor at jacques.pierre@duke.edu
Course Description: This course is designed for health care workers and community volunteers with little or no knowledge of the language. Participants from similar fields will work together in class to facilitate a deeper understanding of Haitian Creole and culture that is directly related to their particular field. The class will also explore different aspects of Haitian culture through Haitian movies, art, and games and will feature guest speakers who have been working in Haiti in collaboration with Haitian medical teams as well as speakers who are working on such areas as restavek and women rights issues. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to communicate effectively and to use idioms and proverbs appropriately to work with Haitian co-workers on the ground without the need of an interpreter.
Course costs and other specifics are listed online. If you have any problems with registering online, please contact the registration office of Duke Continuing Studies at 1-866-338-3853.
In 2010 at least eight Latin American countries celebrated the bicentennial of their independence. Two hundred years of ideals, struggles, victories, and defeats. Mexico also celebrated the centennial of its 1910 revolution.
The conference opens with a panel that celebrates three decades of human rights work by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). WOLA works closely with civil society organizations and government officials throughout the Americas to promote human rights, democracy, and social and economic justice in Latin America and the Caribbean. The conference will take place February 10-12. All attendees (including panel presenters, moderators, participants, and staff) are required to register by January 31st. There is no registration fee, but an accurate count is needed for all catered meals. Please help not to waste food by registering in advance.
The conference will take place on Thursday, February 10th at 5.00pm in the Rare Book Room, Perkins Library Duke University.
On Friday, February 11th from 8.30am to 4.00pm at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke, the first Community Colleges Forum will enable community college educators to integrate Latin American content into their classrooms. In interconnected sessions, it will explore creative ways to engage student in broad discussions of race, citizenship, and social inclusion using as a framework diverse resources ranging from the Latin American bicentennial of independence to the contemporary migration patterns that are transforming our local landscape. The Forum will be followed by a Keynote address and reception, beginning at 5:00 pm, also at the John Hope Franklin Center.
Finally on Saturday, February 12th from 9.30am to 4.30pm at the FedEx Global Education Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, panelists will deliver presentations from a great array of disciplines and perspectives on the two hundred years of autonomy and the current state of things in the region.
Special keynote speakers and round table discussions, on Friday and Saturday, will focus on topics related to history and the environment in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Additionally, film screenings will complement three days of intense discussion and debate about the region. Films were selected from titles screened during the 2010 NC Latin American Film Festival, these titles have also been added to the Consortium Film Collection.
Fred Nijhout and Laura Grunert have published a paper in Science showing how moths control correct matching of wing size to body size. Body mass can vary over a two-fold range due to variation in nutrition, but the wings do not begin to grow until after the body has stopped growing. How do the wings know how big to grow? [more]
Volunteer with El Kilombo as an ESL teacher or basic computer skills teacher, helping kids with HW, supporting a kids' literacy class and other youth programs, providing childcare during free classes, maintaining our computer lab, assisting with translation/interpretation, or working to promote our monthly Latin dance benefit event. Please email info@elkilombo.org if interested preferably by Wed. Jan. 12.
El
Kilombo Intergalactico (www.elkilombo.org)
is an all-volunteer-run
nonprofit community center in Durham dedicated to bringing together
people
from student, migrant, low-income, and people of color communities to
strengthen our capacities for taking collective decisions on important issues
that affect us and
creating cooperative projects that address concrete needs in the areas
of
learning, health, housing, employment, and more.
VOLUNTEER NEEDS:We are seeking volunteers to assist with various
free programs offered
at our social center. Please see details below. All volunteers must
commit to volunteering at least 3-4 months. Start date can be Jan. 17, Jan.
24, or Jan. 31 (the earlier the better) with a required orientation
scheduled prior. Please email info@elkilombo.org if interested preferably by Wed. Jan. 12. A short application and interview will follow. Thank you for your interest!
English as a Second Language (ESL) Instructors: Volunteer with a unique adult-ESL program with a social-justice focus. Work with Spanish-speaking adults to learn vocabulary and basic
grammar and gain greater spoken proficiency with a curriculum relevant
to daily life concerns. Classes are scheduled twice a week in the
evening. Teachers must be able to commit 4-6 hours per week. Training
and supplies will be provided and no formal experience is necessary. Spanish language skills are not required but are helpful.
Homework Help Tutors:
Provide homework help to one or two consistent elementary, middle, or
high school-age student(s). A minimum 2-hour commitment twice a week
is expected.
Child Care Providers: Provide childcare
while parents are taking classes at the Center on a weekly basis.
Responsibilities include taking care of 3-5 children ranging in age
from 2-10 years old. Volunteer(s) must commit to an agreed upon
semester long regular schedule.
Kids' Literacy and Youth Program Helpers: Do you love working with
kids and helping them to learn to read in a supportive and fun way?
Volunteer to assist with an afterschool kids' literacy class once a
week focused on kids ages 6-10 years old. Or, do you have experience
working with middle school and high school youth? Volunteer to assist
with various youth-centered programs.
Computer Literacy Instructors: We
are looking for Spanish-language and English-language instructors for
beginning computer classes. Areas of instruction may include:
navigating the internet for practical uses like getting news, using
email, chat, paying bills, searching for information, uploading photos,
using social networking sites, office applications like Word, typing,
etc. Familiarity with open source software and/or LINUX/Ubuntu
operating systems a plus but not necessary.
Computer Maintenance Technician: Volunteer(s)
will be responsible for the basic maintenance of 6-10 computers and a
printer and ensuring that the lab is adequately equipped as a community
resource. Volunteer(s) must have familiarity with LINUX/Ubuntu
operating systems and be able to commit 2 hours a week. Additional
responsibilities may include: drafting recommendations for improvement
of the lab, overseeing the expansion and upgrade of computer
facilities, or special projects to meet the organization's other
technology needs.
Spanish/English Translators and Interpreters: Needed
for specific projects and/or as-needed basis. Written translation
includes flyers, handouts, articles, and website content. Interpreters
are needed for health service days and other community workshops or
events.
Dance Benefit Event Organizing Assistant: Help
organize and promote a monthly Latin Dance benefit as a fundraiser for
community programs. Responsibilities can include developing and
implementing marketing strategies (including contacting media outlets,
creating and distributing publicity materials, social networking),
forming partnerships, and assisting onsite during the event with setup
and with the welcome table.
This talk is presented by the Institute for the Study of the Americas.
January 14th, 5:30 PM, Global Education Center, UNC, Room 1005.
Reception to follow in GEC 1st Floor Lobby.
During the last decade Latin America has been
characterized
by a wave of anti-neoliberal movements that implied a rupture
with the direct
command of the global elites. Colectivo Situaciones will analyze
the current
direction and force of these movements and the new playing field
created by the
appearance of "progressive" governments throughout the region,
with a
particular focus on the Argentinean experience.Colectivo Situaciones is a militant research
collective
based out of Buenos Aires, Argentina with a long history ties to
Argentinean
social movements. Their most recent book, Conversations
in the Impasse is a series of conversations with
intellectuals worldwide on
the ambiguous contemporary global political moment. The other
work includes
essays and books, most famously La Hipotesis 891, and Genocide
in the
Neighborhood (soon to appear in English). More of their work can
be accessed on
their website www.situaciones.org.
This event is co-Sponsored by the Latin
American Political
Imaginaries Working Group, The Social Movements Working Group,
the Geo-graphing
Justice Working Group, and the Counter Cartography Collective.
The DFC is back open and ready for business. The parking lot, however, remains slick in many spots, so please use caution when walking to and from your vehicle.
