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FALL 2010 

Venezuela Today: Critical Perspectives Within Chavismo

Date: December 16, 2010, 4:00 PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9204/9205

Cuban Americans: How they are Changing the US and their Homeland
Date: Monday, December 13, 2010, 4:00 PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9204/9205

Venezuela Hoy: Pespectivas Críticas desde el Chavismo

Date: Monday, December 6, 2010, 4:00 PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9204/9205

Raul Castro's New Economic Strategy:

Context, Viability and Prospects

Date: Monday, November 29, 2010, 4:00 PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9204/9205

Elite and Popular Consumption Practices in Mexico

Date: Monday, November 15, 2010, 4:00 PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9206/9207

Healthcare in Brazil: The Subnational Dimension

Date: Friday, November 12, 2010, 4:00 PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9205

SPECIAL EVENT

Contemporary Cuban Art, 2000-2010 with Sandra Ramos

Date: Friday, November 5, 2010, 12:30 PM

Location: The Graduate Center, The Segal Theater

Neoliberalism's Economic Success: Market or State-Engineering?

Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 4:00 PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9204

Beyond the Map: Transatlantic Ties between Cuba and the Canary Islands

Date: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 4:00 PM

Location: The Graduate Center, The Segal Theater

Historical Perspectives on Rio de Janeiro

Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 12:30 PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9204

Book Presentation

Cultura y Letras Cubanas en el siglo XXI

Date: Friday, September 24, 2010, 4PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Skylight Conference Room (9100)

 

Regional Development in Mexico

Date: Thursday, September 23, 2010, 4PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room C198 (Concourse Level)

 

Opportunities for Academic Collaboration with Brazilian Universities

Date: Monday, September 20, 2010 12:30

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9204

SUMMER 2010 

Cuban Film Series

Habana Blues

Date: Friday, June 25, 2010, 6PM-9PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall  

Cuban Film Series

The Sugar Curtain (El Telón de Azúcar)

Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 6PM-9PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Segal Theatre  

Cuban Film Series

Barrio Cuba

Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 6PM-9PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Segal Theatre  

SPRING 2010

Spanish Fiction & American Popular Culture

Panel: Juan Gómez-Jurado, Eduardo Mendoza, Antonio Muñoz Molina

Moderator: Jerry Carlson, The City College of New York and CUNY-TV

Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 5PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9206/9207

Cosponsored with the Spanish Consulate of New York

Cubans in Miami and Havana: A Transnational Community?
Speaker: Alfredo Prieto, Editor, Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC) and Corresponding Editor, Journal of Socialism and Democracy

Date: Monday, May 17, 2010, 4PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9206/9207

La novela policíaca mexicana

Los minutos negros: una conversación con Martín Solares

Panel: Martín Solares, Editor and Narrator; Horacio Castellanos Moya, Author and Journalist; Professor Oswaldo Zavala, College of Staten Island, CUNY

Date: Monday, May 3, 2010, 4PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9204 

Lucha Libre, Superheroes, and Mexican Identity
Speaker: Carlos Aguasaco, City College of New York and Heather Levi, Temple University

Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 4PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9206/9207

The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay

Speaker: Dr. Michael Strauss, Centre d'Etudes Diplomatiques et Stratégiques (Paris)
Date: Monday, April 26, 2010, 4PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9204/9205

Brazilian Abolitionism: The Role of Joaquim Nabuco

Speaker: Prof. Angela Alonso, University of São Paulo; Guggenheim Fellow; and Visiting Fellow at Yale University
Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 4PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room C201/C202

La Situacion Actual de la Economia Cubana

Speaker: Omar Everleny Perez Villanueva, Universidad de la Habana
Date: Friday, April 16, 2010, 5:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room C-202  

Note: Presentation in Spanish

Cuba and Spain:
From Colonizers to Immigrants: Spaniards in 20th Century Cuba

Speaker: Consuelo Naranjo Orovio, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain)

Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9206  

Cosponsored with Barnard College's Forum on Migration

Language Restrictive Policies and

the Education of English Language Learners in Boston Public Schools

Speaker: Miren Uriarte, McCormack School of Policy Studies, UMass Boston
Date:
Monday, April 12, 2010, 6:30-8:30 PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room C-198  

CANCELLED!

La Noche Mexicana: The Invention of National Cultural Stereotypes

Speaker: Ricardo Pérez Montfort, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS); and O'Gorman Scholar, Columbia University
Date:
Monday, March 22, 2010, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms 9206/9207  

Across the Windward Passage: Three Perspectives on Cuba and Haiti

Panel: Prof. Elzbieta Sklodowska (Washington University, St. Louis), Prof. Ada Ferrer (New York University), Prof. Sibylle M. Fischer (New York University)
Date:
Friday, March 5, 2010, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room C198 

NEW Seminar Series: The New Caribbean

Business Opportunities in Cuba:

Implications for Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and the Caribbean

Panel: Prof. Gerardo González, Universidad Interamericana (Puerto Rico)
Date:
Monday, March 1, 2010, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms 9204/9205  

Mexico and Mexican Migrants in New York

Speaker: Prof. Judy Hellman, York University (Toronto)
Date:
Friday, February 19, 2010, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 9204/9205 

Unveiling Inequality: A World-Historical Perspective

Speaker: Prof. Timothy Moran, Stony Brook University
Date:
Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room C198 

CANCELLED due to inclement weather.

Latinos in the US: Assimilation or Transnationalism?

Speaker: Prof. Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan
Date:
Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 4:15PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Room 4202

Cosponsored with the Ph.D. Programs in Urban Education, Sociology, Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, and the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies.

NEW Seminar Series: Brazil: 25 Years of Democracy
Unraveling Brazil's Surprising Success

Speakers: Dr. Mauricio Font, The Bildner Center and the Graduate Center;

Prof. Peter Kingstone, University of Connecticut
Date:
Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:00PM

Location: The Graduate Center, Rooms 9204/9205 

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