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| Title | Date & Time | Location | Description | Additional Info | Sponsor |
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| Brazil Gender, Sexuality, Violence, and the Racial State | April 24-25, 2008 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | JES A232 | On April 24-25, 2008, the University of Texas at Austin's Center for African and African American Studies will host a symposium exploring the intersections of gender, sexuality, and violence as they are experienced and perpetrated with relation to (and often extrapolating) the Brazilian nation-state. The symposium will bring together key Afro-Brazilian and United States intellectuals, activists, and artists to discuss the political challenges facing and possibilities for Black communities during the Lula administration and beyond. Speakers include former Minister for Racial Equality Matilde Ribeiro, acclaimed filmmaker Joel Zito Araujo, CRIOLA (Rio de Janeiro) director Lucia Xavier, and CEAFRO (Salvador) director Vilma Reis. Thursday afternoon's session will end with a screening of the latest film by Joel Zito Araújo (Denying Brazil, Daughters of the Wind), a documentary about sex workers in Brazil. On Friday, M. Jacqui Alexander and Joy James will provide points of reflection and dialogue at the final roundtable. | Center for African and African American Studies | |
| From Virus Genomes to Human mtDNA Inferences of Recent and Ancient Human Population History Drew Kitchen University of Florida | April 21, 2008 10:00 AM-11:00 AM | MBB 2.304 | Drew Kitchen is being considered for a postdoctoral position in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. | ||
| What's Left of the Latin American Left Commemorating 40 Years of the Latin American Left | April 28-29, 2008 90:0 AM-5:00 PM | Avaya Auditorium, ACES 2.302 | The University of Texas at Austin will host the conference What's Left of the Latin American Left? April 28-29, 2008. This interdisciplinary event was organized to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the events of 1968. The global upheavals of that spring triggered a new era of revolutionary violence in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Guatemala. Specialists in music, history, literary criticism, and art history will explore what remains of those movements, how they evolved, disappeared, or became neutralized, and what legacy, if any, remains of them in Latin America today. They will discuss topics including protest music in socialist Cuba, the new policies and politics of the Brazilian PT, and the current face of the Frente Sandinista. | Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese | |
| The Evolution of Cooperation: Mechanisms for Collective Action in Chimpanzees Rebecca Lewis, PhD. Department of Anthropology,University of Texas | April 17, 2008 5:00 PM-6:00 PM | EPS 1.128 | |||
| The Earliest Hominoids and the Ancestor of Extant Hominoidea Amy Hallberg Department of Anthropology, University of Texas | April 23, 2008 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | EPS 1.128 | |||
| New Directions in Anthropology: A Graduate Symposium Keisha-Khan Perry, PhD. Africana Studies, Brown University | April 25-26, 2008 6:30 PM-7:30 PM | ACES 2.302 | For more information contact newdirectionsanthropology@gmail.com | ||
| Reflections: Book Party at BookPeople Shannon Speed, PhD., Kathleen Stewart, PhD., and Laurie Green, PhD. Department of Anthropology, University of Texas | April 18, 2008 7:00 PM | BookPeople | Please join us in celebrating select publications of faculty this year! Refreshments will be provided. | Center for Women's and Gender Studies | |
| New Directions in Anthropology AGSA Graduate Research Symposium | April 25-26, 2008 | ACES and JGB | This spring the Anthropology Department and the Anthropology Graduate Student Association with be holding its first student conference as part of an effort to create community among students and to share our research with one another. The conference will be held April 25-26 and will feature panel presentations, a poster session and a special keynote by Dr. Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, a graduate of UT’s anthropology program and currently a professor at Brown University. | Conference Website | |
| Image, Memory, and the Paradox of Peace: Fifteen Years After the El Salvador Peace Accords (1992-2007) | April 17, 2008 | Harry Ransom Center | Harry Ransom Center and Eidman Courtroom. A gathering of key photojournalists, academics, and activists past and present to discuss the Salvadoran civil war, not merely as an episode in history, but also as a legacy whose effects linger in the country to this day. | ||
| 'Niñez migrante repatriada no acompañada en la frontera norte de Mexico'' Gudelia Rangel, PhD. Colegio de la Frontera Norte | April 2, 2008 12:00 PM | Hackett Room, LLILAS 1.313 | An examination of the plight of migrant children and teens from Mexico who have been deported from the U.S. without their parents to Mexican northern border cities. Lecture and discussion presented in Spanish. For more info., contact Gail Sanders at 512.232.2423. | ||
| Making Europe/Making Europeans: The Ethnographic and the Everyday Center for European Studies Conference | April 10-11, 2008 | UT Main Building | Making Europe/Making Europeans focuses on Europe and European citizenship as a performance and as a process in the making. We want to present the diverse European realities from a “grassroots” level, based on empirical studies and reflections on the level of face-to-face contacts and everyday activities. | Conference Website | Center for European Studies |