Invita a toda la comunidad a sus charlas, exposiciones y conferencias, para promover la historia,
cultura y sociedad de los paises latinoamericanos.
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Friday, November 7, 2008
"Food for Thought: Mexican Migrant Workers and the Cycle of Life and Death"
Alumni Hall, Victoria College, 91 Charles St. West (Museum Subway Station)
Time: 5.30-7.00 pm.
Carlos Monsiváis. "Mexican Migration: a Cultural Perspective"
Claudio Lomnitz. "Death and the Origin of Mexican Popular Culture"
**Carlos Monsiváis is Mexico's leading cultural critic, and Mexico City's greatest living chronicler. He has written extensively and in evocative journalistic detail about Mexican history, culture and politics. He has published more than 40 books, among which Días de guardar (1970) chronicled the 1968 student movement in Mexico; Amor perdido (1977) treated Mexican popular culture, famous communists, high society, the Mexican hippie movement; Escenas de pudor y liviandad (1981), about Mexican romantic life, won the
Jorge Cuesta Literary Award. Also, he wrote about the organization of Mexican society
in Entrada libre (1987), and on consumerism in Mexico City in Los rituales del caos (1995). Aires de familia: Cultura y sociedad en América Latina (2000) that deals with Hollywood, TV, mythology and folklore in Latin America won the Anagrama Award for Essay Writing.
** Anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz is the Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University, USA. He works on the history, politics and culture of Latin America, and particularly of Mexico. His first book, Evolución de una sociedad rural (1982) was a study of politics and cultural change in Tepoztlán, Mexico. He developed an interest in conceptualizing the nation-state as a kind of cultural region, a theme that culminated in Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in Mexican National Space (1992). He also wrote Modernidad Indiana (1999), Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism (2001), and Death and the Idea of Mexico (2005). He is currently working on the historical anthropology of crisis. He serves as editor of the journal Public Culture and writes a weekly column in Excelsior, a paper in Mexico City.
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Saturday, November 8, 2008
"Food for Thought: Mexican Agricultural Workers in Canada." A roundtable
discussion inviting audience participation”
Place: Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen's Park (Museum subway Station)
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
Co-sponsored with the Gardiner Museum, and the Consulate of Mexico
in Toronto.
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Sunday, November 12, 2008
“A Project in Global Health in Peru”
Madelaine Cahuas (U of Toronto): "." At Munk Centre (1 Devonshire Place, room 108N). Luncheon
Series, 12:00 pm. -2:00 pm.
Madeleine Cahuas is a U of Toronto student who is majoring in
psychology and human biology. Last summer she was granted an
internship placement through the World University Service of Canada
(WUSC) and was awarded a CIDA travel bursary. She worked as a nursing
assistant in the low income community Viña Alta, Perú, for
four
months. She plans to pursue graduate studies in the area
of Health
Promotion and Global Health.
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Monday, November 13, 2008
Lives Through Things
William A. Christian Jr. (independent scholar): A Wisconsin Family and What They Saved.? Co-sponsored
by History, Religion Studies, Anthropology, CSUS.
Place: Munk Centre (1 Devonshire Place, room 108N) 6:00 pm -8:00 pm.
William A. Christian Jr. writes mainly about Catholicism in Spain and
southern
Europe, combining approaches from history, anthropology, and
sociology. His
central concern has been the relationship of individuals and
groups with the
saints, Mary and God. His studies -- which have proved
seminal for students of
an expansive Catholic Christian world, very much
including Latin America --
involve fieldwork in contemporary communities and
archival work covering the
medieval and early-modern periods. His books
include Person and God in a
Spanish Valley, Local Religion in
Sixteenth-Century Spain, Apparitions in Late
Medieval and Renaissance Spain,
and Visionaries: The Spanish Republic and the
Reign of Christ. In addition
to his ongoing work on the Wisconsin project which
in Toronto, William Christian is currently gathering
texts of visions by
pilgrims from Spain and Central Europe at a Spanish shrine
in the 1920s.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Miguel González (York University) Governing Multiethnic
Societies in Latin America: Emerging Debates on Territorial Autonomy?
Place: Munk Centre (1 Devonshire Place, room 108N).
Luncheon Series, 12:00 pm. -2:00 pm.
**Miguel Gonzalez is a researcher interested on indigenous rights,
local development, democracy, and the state. From 1996-2000 Miguel
worked as Vice Rector of the University of the Autonomous Regions of
the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. He is the author of "Pluriethnic
Governments: The Constitution of Autonomous Regions in Nicaragua",
1997; and "Human Development in the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua",
2001. Though the focus of his doctoral thesis (York University)has
been on political institutions and democratic development, he has
studied the institutions of regional autonomy with regard to their
performance on a variety of policy initiatives, including
socioeconomic development strategies and the regulation of the
exploitation of natural resources.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Ana Maria Lozano (Colombian curator and art critic):
"The Best of Contemporary Photograph and The Colombian Conflict."
Place: Room 108N, Munk Centre, 1 Devonshire Place. 12:00 pm. -2:00 pm.
Ana Maria Lozano Lives and works in Bogotá City as curator, professor and art critic. She is Art Historian and Art History and Visual Arts Professor at the National University of Bogotá, Universidad De Los Andes, and Universidad Javeriana of Colombia. She has served as international juror and curator of numerous Colombian Video Art
exhibitions throughout Europe and Latin America. She has received several grants and awards. She has acted as advisor and consultant to many art institutions focused on photography, film, electronic and video art.
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