FRIDAY, APRIL 9th ~Our 9th Annual Stony Brook LACS Graduate Student Conference, “Two Hundred Years of Post-Colonial Futures: Latin America, 1810-2010” Keynote Speaker: (12-1:30) Fernando Coronil, CUNY Graduate Center 9 am-6 pm at Stony Brook Manhattan (401 Park Ave. South at 28th Street, 2nd Floor) For more information, see: www.stonybrook.edu/lacc The conference, organized by our multi-talented graduate stu-dents from many countries and fields, uses the bicentennial of Latin American independence to debate rupture and continuity across the region’s two centuries of post-coloniality. Refreshments Served TUESDAY, APRIL 20th ~FORUM 2-4 pm at Location TBA "The Stony Brook Community and the Struggle for Latino Immigration Rights" A Workshop with: Margarita Espada, Theater Dept., and Teatro Experimental Yerbabruja Inc, Luis Valenzuela, Immigration Alli-ance, Long Island Wins, Lynda Perdomo-Ayala, Dept. Of Phar-macology and Unión Universitaria Latinoamericano (UUL). A public forum on the role of the university in Long Island immi-gration conflicts, taking off on Espada’s provocative recent (NYT’s lauded) play "What Killed Marcelo Lucero?" Co-Sponsored: Theater Dept., Hispanic Languages & Lit., UUL, History Dept., Latin American Student Organization (LASO)

NYC LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY WORKSHOP(NYCLAHW)

(FRIDAYS, 11am-1pm, New York University, King Juan Carlos Center, Room 607, 53 Washington Square South) Papers under discussion are circulated to the NYCLAHW mailing list one week in advance of the session. To join the mailing list or for more information, contact Julia del Palacio at ajd2128@columbia.edu Jan. 29th, Jocelyn Olcott, Duke/Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University, “Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Sexual Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women’s Year Conference” Feb. 26th, Natasha Lightfoot, Columbia University, “Mashing Ants: Black Resistance and Survival in Antigua’s Post-1846 Sugar Crisis” March 26th, Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Univ. of Pennsylvania, “A Visual Argument: Liliana Angulo’s Photography and Afro-Colombian Cultural History” April 23rd, Ricardo Salvatorre, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, “Worldly Sociology: Edward E. Ross and the Societies South of Panama (1913-1950)”

MONDAY, FEB. 1st ~Conference Paper Proposals DEADLINE for upcoming April 9th LACS Graduate Conference. TUESDAY, FEB. 9th ~Tinker Graduate Fellow Application Workshop 12:30–1:30pm at Social & Behavioral Sciences, Room N-320 LACS Director Paul Gootenberg takes Grad students from all disci-plines and interests through the process of applying for 2010 Tinker summer travel research grants to Latin America and Iberia. THURSDAY, FEB. 18th ~Lecture 12:30– 2pm at Social & Behavioral Sciences, Room N-320 Michael L. Dorn, Temple University; Research Assistant Profes-sor, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Brook School of Medicine; Visiting Assistant Pro-fessor of History "Disability Activism in the Anglophone Caribbean" New perspectives on this relevant emerging field and social move-ment. Co-Sponsored: Occupational Therapy, Dept. of History TUESDAY, FEB. 23rd ~LACS Book Presentation 4-6 pm at Social & Behavioral Sciences, Room N-320 Timothy P. Moran, Sociology Department, Stony Brook Univ. "Inequality and Social Mobility in Three Dimensions: Implications for Latin America" The LACS-affiliated co-author of the important new book Unveil-ing Inequality: A World Historical Perspective (Russell Sage Foun-dation, 2009) broaches its findings for students of Latin America. Co-Sponsored: Initiative in Historical Sociology (IHHS), Sociology Department Refreshments Served

FRIDAY, FEB. 26th ~Lecture 2:30 pm in Melville Library, Room N3060 Benigno Trigo, Dept. Spanish & Portuguese, Vanderbilt Univ. An interpretation of two detective novels by the Puerto Rican au-thor Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá. Co-Sponsored: Latin American & Caribbean Studies Center MONDAY, MARCH 1st ~Application DEADLINE TINKER FIELD RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANT Stony Brook MA and Doctoral students studying in any field of Latin American and Iberian Studies. Detailed information and applications available online: www.stonybrook.edu/lacc

TUESDAY, MARCH 9th ~Workshop 12:50-2 pm at Social & Behavioral Sciences, Room N-320 Pablo Piccato, History and ILAS Director, Columbia University "Murder and Politics in 20th-Century Mexico" An interdisciplinary foray into the timely and often sensational-ized topic of criminality in Mexico. Papers will be posted on the IHSS website: http://www.stonybrook.edu/sociology/ihss/events.shtml Co-Sponsored with the Initiative in Historical Social Sciences (IHSS) and Dept. of History Refreshments Served

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