SPRING 2012   May 17 4:30 PM, Olson 53A Mabel Moraña 'El ojo que llora': Bio-politica, nudos de la memoria y arte publico en el Peru de hoy Dr. Mabel Moraña is the William H. Gass Professor in Arts and Sciences and Director of the Latin American Program at Washington University. St. Louis.  Professor Moraña is the author of Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America (Iberoamericana 2010), La escritura del límite (Iberoamericana 2010), Crítica impura (Madrid, 2004), Políticas de la escritura en América Latina (Caracas, 1997), Ideologies of Hispanism (Vanderbilt 2005) and Viaje al silencio. Exploraciones del discurso barroco (México, 1998). She has edited and co-edited a number of essay collections, including Coloniality at Large. Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate with Enrique Dussel and Carlos Jáuregui (Duke 2008), El lenguaje de las emociones: Afecto y cultura en América Latina with Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Iberoamericana 2012); El salto de Minerva. Género, intelectuales y poder en América Latina with María Rosa Olivera-Williams (Madrid, 2006); Ideologías y Literatura. Homenaje a Hernán Vidal with Javier Campos (Pittsburgh, 2006); and El arte de la ironía: Carlos Monsiváis ante la crítica with Ignacio Sánchez Prado (México, 2007)    May 22 5pm, Olson 250 Michael Lazzara: Hacia una memoria crítica de la violencia en América Latina: una entrevista con Pilar Calveiro Michael Lazzara (Spanish Professor, UC Davis) As part of a seminar that will bring UC Davis graduate students into dialogue with their peers from the Masters in Cultural Studies Program at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia, we present a public interview with Pilar Calveiro, a survivor a political violence from Argentina and now a distinguished author and professor of Political Science in Mexico. Calveiro has written two definitive books, one a revisionist history of the revolutionary era in Argentina, and the other an assessment of the dynamics of concentration camps as they functioned during the Argentine dictatorship. Professor Michael Lazzara will interview Calveiro in a round table format with the help of two colleagues, María Rosa Olivera Williams (University of Notre Dame) and Mónica Szurmuk (University of Buenos Aires). This event is sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of Comparative Literature, Graduate Group in Cultural Studies, The Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, Program in Human Rights, Latin@american Studies Research Cluster For more information please contact: mjlazzara@ucdavis.edu (Space is limited, so please RSVP to Michael Lazzara if you plan to attend.)   May 22 (to be confirmed) Noon and 2 - 2:40, UC Davis Quad The Carpetbag Brigade Physical Theater Company and Teatro Taller de Colombia Coming to us from San Francisco, California and Bogotá, Colombia, where these street theater groups will be participating in San Francisco's International Arts Festival, HIA brings two different performances to the UC Davis Quad.  See here for more on this unique open air performance. Flyer for more details.   May 29 Noon, Olson 250 Ricardo Kaliman Candomblé, milonga y samba. Canción y nación en el repertorio de Alfredo Zitarrosa Ricardo Kaliman (Professor, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman) May 29 Noon, 1271 Social Science and Humanities Building Adrienne Pine The Obama Administration and Honduras Adrienne Pine (Professor, American University, Washington D.C.) Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped and flown to Costa Rica in a June 2009 coup by U.S.-trained soldiers—with a refueling stop at a U.S. air force base in Honduras.  Since then, the Obama administration's policy has continued to support the increasing militarization of that country, where there has been no real resolution to the coup. But the various menaces used to justify increased U.S. financial support and training of the Honduran military and militarized police—drug trafficking, police corruption, gang violence and "terrorism"—don't hold up to critical ethnographic scrutiny. Pine will discuss the real reasons behind increased U.S. military occupation and involvement in Honduran governance in the period since the coup, and the impact that these U.S. policies are having in Honduras.   Click Here for flyer May 29 4 PM, 1271 SSH Paulo Drinot White Slaves and Modern Girls: Gendered Modernities and Sexual Anxiety in 1920s Peru Paulo Drinot examines two phenomena that came to be seen as intimately linked: the traffic of women tricked by unscrupulous pimps and forced to prostitute themselves and the supposed challenge to traditional gender roles represented by new fashions. Drinot will discuss the  debates about both white slavery and the modern girl and how they served to articulate growing anxieties in early twentieth century Peru about changing gender roles, above all, the sexual behavior of women. Paulo Drinot (DPhil, University of Oxford, 2000) is Senior Lecturer in Latin American History at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London. May 29 5PM, Olson 250 Roundtable- Robert Irwin Please join us for a round table discussion on ethnographic research and the field of cultural studies. Participants inlcude Robert Irwin (UC Davis), Soledad Falabella (University of Chile), Marta Cabrera (Universidad Javeriana, Colombia), and Marcela Valdata (University of Rosario, Argentina). This event is sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of Comparative Literature, Graduate Group in Cultural Studies, The Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, Program in Human Rights, Latin@american Studies Research Cluster For more information please contact: Michael Lazzara, mjlazzara@ucdavis.edu (Space is limited, so please RSVP to Michael Lazzara if you plan to attend.) Latin American Studies Conference (Davis) May 17 - May 29 UC Davis & San Francisco