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In House Talent Series 2008-2009

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12-1pm
SSH 5214

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Wed, Oct 29
Ken Verosub (Geology, UC Davis)
“The 1600 Huaynaputina Volcano and its Global Consequences”




Wed, Jan. 21
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (Universidad Mayor de San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia)
”Cocaleros: Culture and Politics"

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a contemporary Aymara sociologist, historian, activist and public intellectual from Bolivia.  She advises President Evo Morales' govenrment on coca issues and has taught throughout the Americas, most recently at the University of Pittsburgh.  Her best known work, considered a classic in Bolivian studies, is Oppressed But Not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Quechua in Bolivia, 1900-1980

Professor Rivera Cusicanqui draws upon anarchist theory as well as Quechua and Aymara cosmologies.  She is the previous director and longtime member of the Taller de Historia Oral Andina (Workshop on Andean Oral History).



Wed, February 11
 Jesus de Loera
(Math, UC Davis)
"The Development of Science in Mexico: Some Remarks”




Wed, April 22
Carlos Puente
(Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis)
“An Ancient Call to Peace via Modern Science”



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Wed, May 13
Zoila Mendoza (Native American Studies, UC Davis)
"Pilgrimage and Performance in Quechua Society"
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