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ev++; eventList[ev] = 'TBA/|Misplaced Objects: Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas|Professor Silvia Spitta, Darmouth College||TBA|EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS|Latin Americanisms Working Group/LALS||114|';
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ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Oct 10, 2006/4:30 pm|Identity and Dislocation|Achy Obejas University of Chicago||Carriage House (3907 Spruce St)||Romance Language Department, Co-sponsored by: the Latin America and Latino Studies Program||5|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Oct 17, 2006/5:15pm|Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba (Music of the African Diaspora)|Robin D. Moore||Music Building, 201 S. 34th St, Room 302||||6|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Sep 20, 2006/ - Dec 31 2006|Tesoros/Treasures/Tesouros: the Arts in Latin America, 1492-1821|||Philadelphia Museum of Art|For more info: http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/special/109.html|||1|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Sep 20, 2006/12pm|Transnational Life among Children of Immigrants|Robert Smith, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), Associate Professor, Sociology, Immigration Studies and Public Affairs||3401 Walnut St Suite 331A||The Latin American and Latino Studies Program||2|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Sep 23, 2006/Feb 26|Under European Eyes: Conquistadors and Indigenous Arts of Latin America|||University of Pennsylvania Museum|For more info: http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/exhibits_looking.shtml|||4|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Apr 18, 2007/12 pm|The Genres of Ambivalence: Revolution, Assimilation, and the Cold War in Luis Perez\'s <i>El Coyote, the Rebel</i>|Amparo Yolanda Padilla, University of Pennsylvania, English Department||3401 Walnut St Suite 331A||The Latin American and Latino Studies Program||16|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Dec 04, 2007/4pm|Research Presentation|Tamara Walker, Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of History||3401 Walnut St, Suite 330A|For elite men in eighteenth-century Lima, elegant clothing provided   a language for expressing their wealth, status, and honor. By outfitting   their wives and children in impressive finery, elite men showcased their   patriarchal authority over all the goods and people in their households.   Their authority extended in many cases to servants and slaves, who formed   part of the public pageantry that was in service to these masculine ideals.   By mapping the study of material culture onto the study of slavery, this   paper brings into relief the social meanings clothing contained for slaves   and the individuals who sought to control them, and highlights the possibilities  urban life contained for the creation of social identities that fell outside the   social lines and color lines drawn by the colonial state.|||19|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Dec 05, 2007/4:30 pm Reception: 5:30 p.m.|Cave, City and Eagle\'s Nest: An Interpretive Journey Through the Rediscovered Mexican Codex-Mapa de Cuauhtinchan|David Carrasco, Harvard Divinity School|Hosted by DuBois College House and the Office of the Chaplain|Rainey Auditorium||||20|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Feb 21, 2007/|Latin America Aurality and the Lettered City|Ana Maria Ochoa, New York University, Associate Professor of Music||3401 Walnut St Suite 331A||The Latin American and Latino Studies Program||12|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Jan 17, 2007/|<b>LUNCH BOX SERIES 2006-2007</b> Jan 17 - Apr 18 2007|||||||11|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Jan 17, 2007/noon|Learning from the Challenges: Latino Youth and Education in the Philadelphia Area|Johny Irizarry - Lighthouse, Maria Mills-Torres - Department of Education, Stanton Wortham - University of Pennsylvania||3401 Walnut St Suite 331A||The Latin American and Latino Studies Program||10|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Mar 23, 2007/12 noon|Transing the Standard: The Case of Puerto Rican Spanish|Gloria D. Prosper-Sanchez. University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras||Carriage House, 3907 Spruce St||Department of Romance Lamguages, Penn\'s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center, Festival Latino, La Casa Latina, QPenn, the Linguistic Consortium and The Latin American and Latino Studies Program||13|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Mar 26, 2007/10 am|Democratic Processes, Activism, and Civil Society in Mexico|Dr. Raphael Reygadas, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City||100 Arch Building||The Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium and The Latin American and Latino Studies Program||14|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Nov 16, 2007/12 noon|Coco Fusco|Coco Fusco||College Hall 209|Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer.  She has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the world since 1988.   She is the author of <i>English is Broken Here, The Bodies That Were Not Ours and   Other Writings</i> and the editor of <i>Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas</i>   and <i>Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self</i>. Fusco is a recipient  of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. She is an associate professor in the   Visual Arts Division of Columbia University\'s School of the Arts.||Coco_Fusco_100px.jpg|18|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Sep 14, 2007/12 noon|Casting a Shadow|Darice Polo, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Drawing Program at Kent State University||College Hall 209|Darice Polo will speak about her recent  paintings and drawings as well as chronicle her development as an artist.   Her current work is based on a collection of black-and-white family  photographs that document the years following her ancestors move from Puerto Rico to New York in 1927.  She will talk about growing up hispanic  and how it has affected her professional development and life.|the History Department||17|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Apr 04, 2008/12 noon|Domesticating the Pachuca|Catherine Ramirez, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies,   University of California, Santa Cruz||3401 Walnut St-Suite 330A|Drawing from archival sources and oral history, this paper explores   the myriad meanings that Mexican-American women have ascribed to the figures   of the pachuca and pachuco (female and male zoot-suiter). It also offers evidence   of the participation of Mexican-American girls and women in the Sleepy Lagoon   incident and trial, Zoot Suit Riots, and World War II-era zoot subculture.   As it renarrates the familiar tales of these important events, it removes   Mexican-American women from the margins of Chicano historiography and foregrounds   their redefinitions of contested cultural categories.|||23|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Apr 11, 2008/12 noon|Anthropological Collaborations in Colombia|Joanne Rappaport, Georgetown University||Graduate School of Education-Room 203||Educational Linguistics Forum and the Center for Native American Studies||24|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Apr 18, 2008/12pm|Puerto Ricans and the Problem of Recognition|Dr. Lorrin Thomas, Rutgers University||3401 Walnut St Suite 330A|Lorrin Thomas is writing a book called <i>Puerto Rican Citizen</i>, which examines  Puerto Ricans political identities and political projects in the United States in  the twentieth century. In this talk she will explore some of the ways that recent  debates in history and political theory might be used to illuminate Puerto Ricans  exceptional position as forced citizens of the United States.|||25|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Apr 25, 2008/1:30pm-3:30pm|With Our Bodies and Our Souls: Thinking Feminism from the Andes|Julieta Paredes||Fireside Room (2nd floor of the Arch Building at 3601 Locust Walk)|There has been a long debate about the politics of feminisms and the tensions within this movement spanning issues of race, class and colonial legacies. Between and within these movements, indigenous women have often been spoken for/about, but seldom our bodies, our voices, our struggles, our thoughts, our hopes have been taken into account. In my presentation I want to discuss our efforts to  decolonize our bodies, and share our experiences of how we are working towards forging progressive feminist agendas in Bolivia. These experiences are taking place in the context of the hopes and promises for radical change since the election of the first indigenous president of Bolivia. We see this as an opportunity to forge critical alliances across borders in a manner that we can learn from our differences and our desires.|||26|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Dec 01, 2008/12 noon.|Title: TBA|Alicia Schmidt Camacho<br>Sarai Ribicoff, Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University||Location: TBA||||36|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Feb 05, 2008/12 noon|Liliana Angulo|Liliana Angulo||3401 Walnut St - Suite 330A|Liliana Angulo is a Colombian-born photographer whose works were   recently shown for the first time in the United States at Brookline\'s GASP Gallery.|The Romance Language Department, Women\'s Studies Program, Penn Visual Studies, and the Du Bois College House.||21|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Feb 27, 2008/7 pm|Whenever Wednesday|Carlos Motta & Ann Farnsworth-Alvear||Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S.36th St. Philadelphia, Tel: 215.898.7108|Historian Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Director of Penn\'s Program in Latin American & Latino Studies, and artist Carlos Motta discuss  their respective explorations of Latin American history and politics.|Latin American & Latino Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.|2008-02-27.jpg|22|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Nov 03, 2008/4:30pm|Title: TBA|Dr. Nathan Wachtel, Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology, College de France||Location: TBA||||34|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Nov 13, 2008/12 noon|Comparing Migrant Transnationalism in Mexico and El Salvador|Katrina Burgess, Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy - Tufts University||303 Lauder-Fischer||The Lauder Institute and Penn Lauder CIBER||35|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Oct 02, 2008/5-7pm|Scholarly Roundtable on the African Presence in Mexico|Panelists include: Joan Bristol and Herman Bennett/Chaired by Tamara Walker||The African American Museum, 701 Arch St/Philadelphia, PA|Free Admission, For more information: www.aampmuseum.org|||30|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Oct 27, 2008/Time: TBA|Title: TBA|Denise Oliver-Velez, Former Black Panther & Young Lords, Professor of Cultural Anthropology SUNY<br>Bobby Seale, Former Co-founder of the Black Panther Party<br>Alex Hsing, Former Red Guard Member||John M. Huntsman Hall||||33|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Sep 15, 2008/12 noon|Latino Catholics, Protestants, and the 2008 Election|Gaston Espinosa, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Claremont McKenna College||3401 Walnut St-Suite 330A||||27|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Sep 18, 2008/12 noon|Brazilian Education at the Crossroads|Simon Schwartzman, Ph.D., Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade in Rio de Janeiro||303 Lauder-Fischer|Brazilian education expanded in the 1990s, and today most children are able to get to school and remain there for several years. Illiteracy is also falling, and is mostly restricted now to the poorer and older population. However, a large number of youngsters leave school at ages 13-15, secondary education has stagnated, and the quality of basic education, as measured by national and international assessments such as PISA, is very low, and many students remain functionally illiterate in spite of years of schooling. Several policies have been tried in the last several years to deal with this situation, but none seems to be working. In the presentation, some of these policies will be discussed, and some better approaches will be suggested.|||28|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Sep 18, 2008/12 noon|Brazilian Education at the Crossroads|Simon Schwartzman, Ph.D., Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade in Rio de Janeiro||303 Lauder-Fischer||||29|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'January 29th, 2010/12:00 noon|Transplanted Genealogies:  Re-Imagining the Nation|Norma Klahn||3401 Walnut Street   Suite 330A||Co-sponsored by the The Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality||113|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'January 29th/12:00 noon|Transplanted Genealogies: Re-Imagining the Nation|Norma Klahn||3401 Walnut Street     Suite 330A||Co-sponsored by the The Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality.  ||112|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Friday, October 30th/12:00-1:30pm|The Search for Truth and the Fight for Justice: The Jesuit Professors of the UCA 1989|Rodolfo Cardenal Chamorro, S.J.||Rodin Rooftop Lounge|On Nov. 16, 1989, the Salvadoran army raided the Jesuit residence at UCA (Universidad Centroamericana, located in the capital, San Salvador) murdering the priests, their housekeeper and her daughter: an act of violence resulting from contention for social and economic power in El Salvador. As professor of history and Provost of UCA at the time of the slayings, Fr. Cardenal may have been murdered along with his brother Jesuits, had he not moved from the University’s campus just months before the attack. Fr. Cardenal will share his personal reflections on the 1989 killings and how they are relevant today, remembering his friends and colleagues: Ignacio Ellacuria, S.J., Ignacio Martin-Baro S.J., Segundo Montes, S J., Amando Lopez, S.J., Juan Ramon Moreno, S.J., Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, S.J., Julia Elba Ramos and her daughter, Celina Mariset Ramos. Fr. Cardenal is currently a professor of history at the University of Central America in his native Managua, Nicaragua where his family has been active in National politics for generations.|||93|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'October, 06, 2009/8:00pm|Lecture and Discussion: Mexico City, the World\'s Most Misunderstood City|David Lida|Organized by Mex@Penn|Huntsman Hall Room G65||La Casa Latina, SPEC Connaissance, SPEC-TRUM||85|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'October, 13, 2009/4pm|Writer Daniel Alarcón|Writer Daniel Alarcón|Ana María López Gómez, Raquel Albarrán|Fireside Lounge at The Arch, 36th and Locust||Critical Writing Program and the Latin Americanisms Working Group/LALS||111|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Tuesday, November 17th, 2009/Reception: 5:15 – 6:15pm;  Lecture: 6:15 – 7:30pm|With Limited Commercial Interruption:  Fidel Castro, Commercial Television and the Selling of a Revolution, 1959-1960|Yeidy Rivero, Associate Professor in the Program in American Culture and Screen Arts and Culture at the University of Michigan||Room 109, The Annenberg School for Communication,  3620 Walnut Street  Philadelphia, PA 19104|More than radio or film, television emerged as the medium of the Cuban Revolution in 1959. Beginning with the broadcast of Fidel Castro and the army’s triumphant entrance into Havana and continuing with Castro’s appearances and televised speeches, television merged revolutionary imagery and political performance. Live television represented an ideal media outlet for Castro’s intelligence, wit, improvisational skills, energy and political persona. On television, the perception of unpredictability associated with live broadcasting provided the public with a sense of watching the ‘real’ Fidel Castro. Relying on Guy Debord’s concept of spectacle, Rivero analyzes the interconnection between commercial television and the revolutionary government by examining how panel shows, televised speeches and public affairs programming mediated and narrated Fidel Castro and the revolution. She argues that from 1959 to early 1960 commercial television became the primary media space for the representation of a revolutionary iconography and for the staging of political performances, converting the commercial medium to a government-run system.|||97|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'October/|Hispanic American History Month|||||||71|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = '10/13/7:00 pm|CHAMPETA|||||||54|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = '12/32/2009/|TEST|||||||82|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = '10/13/2009/7pm|Champeta Singer Louis Towers and PALENKE|||The Rotunda||Ethnohistory Program, the Center for Africana Studies, and the Departments of Music and Romance Languages||65|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = '10/13/2009/7pm|Champeta Singer Louis Towers and PALENKE|Louis Towers|LALS|The Rotunda|x|Ethnohistory Program, the Center for Africana Studies, and the Departments of Music and Romance Languages||66|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Dec 06 2006/noon|Chencha\'s Gait: Latin Popular Music and Normativity in Mirta Silva|Licia Fiol - Matta, Associate Professor, Department of Latin American & Puerto Rican Studies, Lehman College New York||3401 Walnut St Suite 331A|Lunch Box Series|The Latin American and Latino Studies Program||50|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Nov 09 2006/- Nov 11, 2006|Power of Images Symposium|||Location: TBA||the History Department||47|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Nov 15 2006/noon|Celebrating the State: Sephardim and the uses of <i>lo Argentino</i> in intra-community politics|Adriana Brodsky, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Assistant Professor of History|LALS|3401 Walnut St Suite 331A|Lunch Box Series|The Latin American and Latino Studies Program||41|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Oct 17 2006/5pm|Slaves and the Creation of Legal Rights in Cuba: Coartación and Papel|Alejandro de la Fuente, University of Pittsburgh||Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk||the Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies||49|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Sep 22 2006/12 noon|Colonialism and Economic Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective.|James Mahoney, Northwestern University||Stiteler Hall Forum, 208 S. 37th St|James Mahoney is a comparative-historical researcher with interests in national development, qualitative methodology, and macro theory.|Comparative Politics Workshop||45|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Apr 03 2007/7 pm|Scars of Memory (Cicatriz de la Memoria)|||Class of 55 Conference Room, Van Pelt Library|Film screening|the History Department||46|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Oct 21 2008/5 p.m.|The Polemics of Possession in Spain and America|Rolena Adorno, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University||Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, www.mceas.org, 3355 Woodland Walk, (34th and Sansom Sts)|A free buffet supper at 6:30 p.m.|Latin American and Latino Studies Program||43|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Oct 27 2008/12 noon.|TBA|Rafael Perez Torres, Professor of English at UCLA||Center for Africana Studies, 3401 Walnut St, Room 330A||La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity||44|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Apr 01 2009/12pm|No Country for Old Mexicans: Colonial and Cinematic Representations of the Southwest|Maria Josefina Saldaña, New York University.||3401 Walnut Street-Suite 330A||||63|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Feb 27 2009/12pm-2pm|How to Unmake Racism? Comparative Views from Brazil and Colombia|Claudia Mosquera Rosero, Universidad Nacional de Colombia<br>Dra. Maria Ines Barbosa,Program Coordinator of the United Nations Development Fund for Women|Tukufu Zuberi, Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, University of Pennsylvania|Stiteler Hall, 208 South 3rd St||Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium and the Center for Africana Studies||51|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Jan 29 2009/4:30 pm|Cuba Roundtable|Roman de la Campa, University of Pennsylvania<br>Maria de los Angeles Torres, University of Illinois||Stiteler Hall, 208 South 3rd St||||59|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Oct 13 2009/7pm|Champeta Singer Louis Towers and PALENKE|||The Rotunda||Ethnohistory Program, the Center for Africana Studies, and the Departments of Music and Romance Languages||68|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Sept. 25th, 2009/6 p.m.|La Casa Latina: Gran Fiesta para celebrar los 10 años de la Casa||La Casa Latina |Houston Hall, Bodek Lounge||||73|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'oct 15/6 am|dad|||||||61|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Oct 13th/7:00|Champeta Singer Louis Towers|||||||57|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'November 17th, 2009/6:15pm-7:30pm|With Limited Commercial Interruption: Fidel Castro, Commercial Television and the Selling of a Revolution, 1959-1960|Yeidy M. Rivero           Associate Professor University of Michigan|The Annenberg School for Communication|3620 Walnut Street  Room 109||RSVP by November 10th (eplowman@asc.upenn.edu)||94|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'November 17th, 2009/6:15pm-7:30pm|With Limited Commercial Interruption: Fidel Castro, Commercial Television, and the Selling of a Revolution, 1959-1960|Yeidy M . Rivero                   Associate Professor    University of Michigan|The Annenberg School for Communication|3620 Walnut Stree   Room 109|RSVP by November 10th  (eplowman@asc.upenn.edu)|||95|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'November 17th, 2009/6:15pm-7:30pm|With Limited Commercial Interruption: Fidel Castro, Commercial Television and the Selling of a Revolution, 1959-1960|Yeidy M. Rivero|The Annenberg School for Communication|3620 Walnut Street  Suite 109||RSVP by November 10th (eplowman@asc.upenn.edu)||96|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'November, 16, 2009/noon|Matilde Ribeiro|Former Minister of Brazil\'s Special Department for Racial Equality Promotion Policies (2003-08)||3401 Walnut Street-Suite 330A||Latin Americanisms Working Group/LALS|http://sapatariadf.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/mribeiro1.jpg|92|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'November, 17, 2009/with reception from 5:15–6:15pm and lecture from 6:15–7:30pm|With Limited Commercial Interruption: Fidel Castro, Commercial Television and the Selling of a Revolution, 1959 – 1960|Yeidi Rivero, Associate Professor, University of Michigan||Room 109, The Annenberg School for Communication, 3620 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 |More than radio or film, television emerged as the medium of the Cuban Revolution in 1959. She argues that from 1959 to early 1960 commercial television became the primary media space for the representation of a revolutionary iconography and for the staging of political performances, converting the commercial medium to a government-run system. If you would like to attend this event, please send your RSVP by Tuesday, November 10th to eplowman@asc.upenn.edu.|||107|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'November, 19, 2009/4:30pm|Christian-Indigenous Art in Sixteenth Century New Spain|Professor Pablo Escalante Gonzablo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México|Ethnohistory Program|History Lounge-209 College Hall|To download the pre-circulated paper and see the images that we will discuss, visit  http://www.history.upenn.edu/ethno/Escalante_Gonzalbo.html  The paper is password protected. Reception to follow.|Co-sponsored by Latin Americanisms Working Group/LALS||109|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Nov. 1st, 2009/5pm|lecture |||||||62|';
ev++; eventList[ev] = 'Oct. 13th/7 pm|Louis Towers|and Palenke||The Rotunda||||77|';