The Distinguished Panel:
• Bolivia
Nancy Postero, UC San Diego

• Venezuela
Nelson Altamirano, National University

•Chile
James Cooper, California Western School of Law

•Perú
Rodrigo Montoya, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima,
Visiting Professor, UC San Diego

•Argentina
Panel Chair: Carlos Waisman, UC San Diego

When: Thursday, May 11, 2006 from 3:30-5:00pm
Where: Deutz Room, Copley International Conference Center, IOA Complex, UCSD Print this Flyer (PDF)

Janet Esser, Professor Emerita, Latin American Art History, San Diego State University
Arte culto, arte popular: Reciprocity in Modern Latin American Art
This talk will examine the interface between so-called fine art, folk art, and pre-European art in selected examples of Latin American art from the modern period. Motivation leading to artistic choices will also be discussed.

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Elizabeth Newsome, Department of Visual Arts, UC San Diego
Arte Popular in Ancient Mexico:
Understanding the Substrate of Indigenous Arts in Mexico Today
One of the particularly ambiguous areas of study concerns Mesoamerican arts of everyday life--the assemblages of objects made for popular consumption and domestic ritual that are most commonly objectified as archaeological artifacts and given slight attention by art historians, whose studies tend to privilege art produced under official patronage. This presentation examines this problem in Mesoamerican studies, and the intersection of "popular" and "elite" arts in the Precolumbian past.

When: Thursday, May 25, 2006 from 3:30-5:00pm
Where: Deutz Room, Copley International Conference Center, IOA Complex, UCSD Print this Flyer (PDF)

Transculturating Teatro: The Confluences of Latin American and Chicano Theatre
Jorge Huerta, Department of Theater & Dance, UC San Diego
Prof. Huerta will discuss the Chicano Theatre Movement and the influences of Latin American theatre on the Chicana/os as well as the influences of the Chicano Teatros on Latin American companies and artists. Who influenced whom? He will focus on the 1974 "Festival de los Teatros Chicanos, Primer Encuentro Latinoamericano," that took place over two weeks in Mexico City and Xalapa, Veracruz.

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Lazos de solidaridad: U.S. Latinos and Latin America in the 1960s
Jorge Mariscal, Department of History, UC San Diego
Prof. Mariscal will present an historical survey of Chicano and Mexican American internationalism with a focus on solidarity projects within the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Special attention will be given to Chicano/a solidarity with revolutionary Cuba and other Latin American movements.

When: Thursday, June 8, 2006 from 3:30-5:00pm
Where: Deutz Room, Copley International Conference Center, IOA Complex, UCSD Print this Flyer (PDF)

Value, the Object of Migrant Remittances in Contemporary El Salvador
David Pedersen, Department of Anthropology, UC San Diego
This presentation examines the rise of migrant remittances as a dominant feature of everyday life in contemporary El Salvador. The talk draws on ethnographic and historical research conducted in the country as well as some recent debates regarding money, value and the action of signs.

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Suicides, Mutilations, and Truncated Subjectivities: The Aesthetic of Cynicism in Contemporary Central American Literature
Beatriz Cortez, Central American Studies, California State University, Northridge

The cynicism that characterizes the contemporary period of the Central American postwar can be interpreted as positive because it allows us to face the norms that the Central American societies place on the individual with irreverence, and to empower ourselves and obtain access to the realm of desire. Nevertheless, cynicism has its limitations: while it allows us to laugh at our own imperfections, fears, and desires, in the end, this same cynical project leads the individuals to his or her self destruction. Suicide, as an extreme way of escaping social normativity, becomes the maximum act of cynicism, the culminant act of irreverence against society and against oneself.

PREVIOUS LECTURES:

Thinking Brazil: ó maior do mundo!

Brazil Lecture Series
When: April 13, 2006 from 3:00 - 5:00pm
Where: Deutz Room, Copley International Conf. Center, IOA Complex , UCSD Campus

A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH:

Isabel Carvalho, Visiting Scholar with Dept. of Ethnic Studies and CILAS, UC San Diego
The ecological self: The meanings and the trajectories of environmental educators in Brazil

Gabriela Dos Reis Sampaio, Visiting Professor, CILAS & Dept. of History, UC San Diego
The Story of the Spiritual Black Healer Juca Rosa: Culture, Race and Society in 19thCentury Brazil

Paul Sneed, Director of Luso-Brazilian Studies, San Diego State University
Amigos dos Amigos: The ADA Criminal Faction in the Funk Music
of a Brazilian Favela

Carlos Steil, Visiting Scholar with Dept. of Anthropology and CILAS, UC San Diego
Brazil: The Most Catholic Country in the World?

Moderator: Christine Hunefeldt, Director of CILAS

CILAS lectures are free and open to the public.