Announcements
CLAS 40th Anniversary and MA Thesis Conference, November 7-8
This fall, CLAS will celebrate its 40th anniversary with "Reflections on Latin American Studies: 1968-2008," a talk with CLAS Director Dain Borges, John Coatsworth, and Friedrich Katz on the legacies and futures of Latin American Studies. This event will be held on November 7, at 6pm in the Quadrangle Club Library Room. To RSVP for this event, please email CLAS Associate Director Josh Beck.
On November 8, please join us for the conference of MA Thesis presentations and CLAS Alumni Career Panel.
The Center for Latin American Studies
MA Alumni Conference
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Kelly Hall room 114
9:30-10:45am Panel 1: Latin American Culture (Material and Otherwise)
Jessica Lester (MA expected '09) Thesis: "Home Bodies: Recognition of Difference in Racially Ambiguous Households in Costa Rica" Advisor: Kesha Fikes
Clare Buttry (MA '08) Thesis: "Evo soy yo: Multinationalism in Bolivian Politics and Cinema" Advisor: Alan Kolata
Molly O'Toole (MA '08) Thesis: "The Craft of National Romance: The Role of the Decorative Arts in the Post-Revolutionary Construction of the Mexican National Persona" Advisor: Emilio Kourí
11:00am-12:15pm Panel 2: (Latin) American Dreams
Lindsey McKay (MA '08) Thesis: "Dairy and Development in the Dominican Republic" Advisor: Emilio Kourí
Martin Madera (MA '08) Thesis: "Mexican Guestworker Programs and US Immigration Policy: Reexamining the Bracero Program" Advisor: Emilio Kourí
Alexandra Price (MA '08) Thesis: "Building a Better Future for Migrants: Chicago-based Mexican Hometown Associations and Illinois State Immigrant Integration Policy" Advisor: Susan Gzesh
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Panel 3: Life after Chicago-A Roundtable
Sarah Osten (MA '04) & Amanda Hughes on transitioning to PhD programs
Chris Gamble (MA '02) & Willis Niederfrank (MA expected '09) on careers as Chicago Public School teachers
CLAS welcomes Tinker Visiting Professors for Fall 2008
Through the Tinker Visiting Professorship, CLAS hosts distinguished professors, practitioners, activists, and/or journalists from Latin America and Iberia for brief research and teaching residencies. This fall, CLAS is proud to welcome three Tinker Visiting Professors to the center.
Mexican journalist and acclaimed memoirist Alma Guillermoprieto will teach Looking for History: Chronicles of Contemporary Latin America, a course on journalism and the Latin American metropolis that will explore how chroniclers of contemporary Latin American history produce this particular genre. Texts will give an overview of the contemporary history of Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
Chilean diplomat and novelist Jorge Edwards teach My Personal History of the "Boom," reflecting on his personal experience regarding the genesis of the "boom" period in the Latin American novel with a close view of the authors that Edwards knew during the 1970s, among them Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, and Jose Lezama Lima.
The Mexican economist and policy expert Fausto Hernández-Trillo will teach a course at the Harris School of Public Policy which will examine different economic public policies recently undertaken in Mexico that intend to address poverty alleviation, and fiscal and financial policies, among others.
Hemi-Chicago: The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
Board Meeting and Mini-Encuentro
The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics is a collaborative, multilingual, and interdisciplinary consortium of institutions, artists, scholars, and activists throughout the Americas. Working at the intersection of scholarship, artistic expression, and politics, the organization explores embodied practice-performance-as a vehicle for the creation of new meaning and the transmission of cultural values, memory, and identity.
Events will be held at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Northwestern University. Click here for a full schedule of events.
Welcome to our new website!
In our growing effort to prioritize electronic media as our chief source of communication, our once quarterly newsletter will soon become an annual publication. Of course, more frequent updates on CLAS news and events can always be found on our website, or in our weekly e-newsletter, clas-boletin. Click here to be added to our mailing list.
