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2009 Events

 

End of Year Celebration!

Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms 9204/9205

Bahian Cultural Heritage

Speaker: Prof. Stephen Selka, Indiana University
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms C201/C202

Narradoras Cubanas: Identidades al borde del ataque de nervios

Speaker: Mirta Yáñez, Cuban author, poet, narrator
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 6:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms 9206/9207

Urban Crime in Brazil

Speaker: Claudio Beato, Minas Gerais Federal University / Harvard University
Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Segal Theatre

Zapatismo and Globalization

Panel: John Ochoa, Mehmet Kucuzoker, and Christopher Gunderson
Date: Friday, November 20, 2009, 4:00PM

Location:The Graduate Center, Skylight Room

Brazil Colloquium

The Brazilian State: Paths and Prospects of Dirigisme and Liberalization

Date: Monday, November 9 - Tuesday, November 10
Location:
The Graduate Center, Rooms 9204-9206

        365 Fifth Avenue (@ 34th Street)

Rethinking Cuban History: 'Cubanidad' in the Context of the Américas

Speaker: Prof. Eduardo Torres-Cuevas, University of Havana

Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms 9206/9207

New Perspectives on Cuban Studies

Panel: Raul Rubio, John Devereux, Katrin Hansing
Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 5:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Segal Theatre

Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington

Speaker: Ann Louise Bardach
Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 5:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Segal Theatre

 

First Stop in the New World
Mexico City: The Capital of the 21st Century

Speaker: David Lida, Author, Journalist, and Blogger
Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms 9206/9207

South American Intervention in Haiti:
The Challenges of Comparative Advantages

Speaker: Prof. Monica Hirst, Professor, Torcuato Di Tello University

Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Political Science Student Lounge (5th Floor)
*Cosponsored by the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
and the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

Brazil's Amazon: Biofuels, Beef, and Biodiversity

Speaker: David Cleary, Director, Conservation Strategies, Latin America,
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, The Science Center (Room 4102)

*Cosponsored by the Office of the Vice President of Research and Sponsored Programs and the Doctoral Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences*

The War Against Flu: Who Loses?

Speaker: Philip Alcabes, Associate Professor, Hunter College
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 5:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms C204/C205

HAVANA: Old and New Perspectives

Speaker: Dr. Mario Coyula, Cuban Architect, Planner, and Author
Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 4:30PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Segal Theatre

Honduras: Coup and Democracy

Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9206/9207

The Cubans of Union City: Immigrants and Exiles in a New Jersey Community

The Cubans of Union City:

Immigrants and Exiles in a New Jersey Community

Date: Thursday, June 25, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms 9204/9205

WORKSHOP on U.S. Global Policy: U.S. Embargo on Cuba

Date: Friday, June 19, 4:00-6:00 PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms 9204-9206


Is Strategic Partnership Possible between the United States and Mexico?

Date: Friday, May 8, 4:30PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Segal Theatre

 

Brazil's Interface with the Global Crisis, 2008-2009

Date: Thursday, May 7, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Science Center, Room 4102

 

Recent Crime Trends in Brazil:
Possible Causes and Policy Solutions

Date: Friday, May 1, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms C202/C203


From Squatter Cities to Zones of Special Interest:
The Changing Logic of Urban Informality in Rio de Janeiro

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, History Department Lounge

Co-sponsored with the Doctoral Program in History

The Catholic Church and Political Confrontation in Cuba

Date: Thursday, April 23, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Science Center, Room 4102

 


US-Cuba Relations and the Summit

Date: Wednesday, April 22, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms C201/C202

 

Cultures of Narcotrafficking in Mexico:
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Date: Monday, April 20, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms 9206/9207

Toward the New Agenda for the Western Hemisphere:
The V Summit of the Americas

Date: Wednesday, April 15, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Segal Theatre

Murder in the Public Sphere in Contemporary Mexico

Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms 9206/9207

Obama and Cuba: Constraints and Opportunities

Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms 9206/9207

Studying Cuba: Historical and Theoretical Challenges and Opportunities  

Date:  Thursday, March 19, 2009, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room C204/C205

Contemporary Mexican Literature 

Date:  Friday, March 13, 2009, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room C204/C205

In the Name of El Pueblo: Poetry, Prophecy and History in Yucatán

Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 4PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms C202/C203 

Party and Democracy in Brazil

Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 4PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms C203/C204 

The Impact of Plan Colombia in Putumayo:

an Ethnography of U.S. Anti-drug Policy

Date:Tuesday, February 10, 4PM

Location:  The Graduate Center, Rooms 9206/9207

 

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