Spring Events '09
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April 15, 9am – 3pm CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE AMERICAS Keynote speaker: Walter Vergara, World Bank Lead Engineer on Environment in Latin America Andrews Conference Room, SS&H, 2nd floor, History April 22, noon CARLOS PUENTE (Land, Air and Water Resources, UCD) “An ancient call to peace via modern science" SSH 5214 May 6, noon ALFONSO VALENZUELA AGUILERA (Urban Planning, State University of Morelos, Mexico) "The Electronic Eyes of Justice: Surveillance, Territory and the Rule of Law in Mexico City" SSH 5214 May 13, noon ZOILA MENDOZA (Native American Studies, UCD) "Pilgrimage and Performance in Quechua Society" SSH 5214 May 20, noon GREGORY WIGMORE (History, UCD) "Canadian Slavery, American Freedom: Fugitives, the Border, and the State in Early North America" SSH 5214 May 21, 4-6 pm DIANA TAYLOR (Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, NYU) "Trauma as Durational Performance: A Walk Through Villa Grimaldi" 126 Voorhies (Villa Grimaldi was a country estate in the outskirts of Santiago that was turned into a covert prison and torture center during the Pinochet dictatorship. The property, mostly leveled, was rescued as something of a museum of memory al fresco in recent years.) Diana Taylor (PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Washington) is University Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at NYU, where she is the Founding Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. She is author of /The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas/ (book awards from MLA and Association of Theater in Higher Education), /Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's "Dirty War"/ and Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America, and coeditor of /Stages of Conflict: A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theater and Performance/, Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform, among others. |