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Dr. Andrea Queeley
Dept. of Global and Sociocultural Studies
Florida International University
Monday, April 15, 4pm
Student Building 159
Soul Train, the iconic weekly variety show that debuted the music and dance of Black America during its long run from 1971 through 2006, crossed the confines of the U.S. market into places as close as Guantánamo and distant as Nairobi. Read more...
Rogéda Dorcé Dorcil
Faculté de Linguistique Appliquée
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Thursday, April 18, 5:30pm
Ballantine Hall 332
About the talk: Depuis l’Indépendance, le français a toujours demeuré, de facto, la langue officielle de la République d’Haïti. Langue de l’école, langue de l’administration, le français a toujours été perçu comme langue de la "classe dominante" Read more...
Dr. Claudia Leal
Department of History
Universidad de los Andes
Bogota, Colombia
Thursday, March 21, 4pm
Fine Arts 102
This talk, which covers the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century, will explain why self-manumission prevailed and what freedom came to mean for ex-slaves and their descendants. Read more...
Eric Bindler, Ethnomusicology
Jennifer Boles, History
Friday, Nov. 30
12:00-1:30pm
Woodburn Hall 120
Our fall 2012 Graduate Student Roundtable will focus on students' experience with fieldwork. Eric will be speaking on studying reggae in Costa Rica; and Jennifer on studying underground filmmakers in Mexico. Read more...
Dr. Quetzil Castañeda
Lecturer, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Indiana University
Wednesday, Nov. 28, 6:30 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church
2120 N. Fee Lane
In this presentation Dr. Castañeda demystifies the origins and nature of the current fascination with the Maya, their calendar, and the beliefs about prophecies for the upcoming solstice on December 21, 2012. Read more...
Dr. Luis Carcomo-Huechante
Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
University of Texas
Friday Oct. 19
2pm FA 201
Mapuche radio programs play a pivotal role in the struggles to preserve and revitalize native forms of oral communication as well as in the process of “voicing” indigenous rights in Chile and Argentina. Read more...
Dr. Anna Babel
Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
Ohio State University
Friday Sept. 7
4pm BH 215
What makes a sound “exotic”? In some informal varieties of Andean Spanish, speakers use aspirates and ejectives of Quechua origin, despite their dissimilarity to the canonical Spanish sound system. Read more...
