WELCOME TO THE HEMISPHERIC INSTITUTE ON THE AMERICAS
HIA is an interdisciplinary group of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students at the University of California Davis that focuses on transnational aproaches in the American Hemisphere and the connections throughout the social, cultural, and economic landscape of the Western Hemisphere. HIA also offers the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies minor to undergraduate students.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Latin American Film Series Winter 2012
February 3
WELLMAN 26 @ 7pm
The Judge and the General
Tinker application guidelines: 2012 guidelines
February 1
Noon, SSH 1271 (HIA Conf. room)
Book presentation by
Robert Newcomb (Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Department UC Davis)
"Nossa and Nuestra America: Inter-American Dialogues" (Purdue University Press, 2011)
Professor Newcomb will present his latest book, Nossa and Nuestra América: Inter-American Dialogues (Purdue University Press, 2011). By analyzing the writings of four preeminent Latin American essayists, Newcomb's book engages in an ongoing debate concerning whether Brazil is part of Latin America. Newcomb argues for Brazil's vital role in the region, and for more vibrant cross-border dialogue between Brazilian and Spanish-speaking Latin American literary intellectuals.
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February 29
Noon, SSH 1271 (HIA Conf. room)
Book presentation byMiroslava Chávez-García (Associate Professor and Chair of Chicana/o Studies Department, UC Davis)
"States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California's Juvenile Justice System" (University of California Press, 2012)
Chavez–Garcia’s States of Delinquency (University of California Press, 2012), is the first book to study the experiences of young Mexican Americans, African Americans, and ethnic Euro-Americans in California correctional facilities including Whittier State School for Boys and the Preston School of Industry. Miroslava Chávez-García examines the beliefs and practices used by state institutions as they began to replace families and communities in punishing youth, and investigates the application of science and pseudo-scientific research in the disproportionate classification of youths of color as degenerate.
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