V. Monday, April 28, 2008
7:00 p.m. ­ 9:00 p.m.
“Danger, proximity and difference: Negotiating boundaries in Mexico City's historic center”
Alejandra Leal, Ph.D. Candidate of Anthropology, Columbia University

Discussant: Thomas Abercrombie, Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Associate Professor of Anthropology, New York University

 

 

Working Group on Latin American Migration
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Institute of Latin American Studies, and Teachers College invite you to join us in the Working Group on Latin American Migration.

For further information, please contact the 2007-2008 coordinators:

Lesley Bartlett bartlett@exchange.tc.columbia.edu

Chris Mitchell chris.mitchell@nyu.edu

Regina Cortina cortina@exchange.tc.columbia.edu

If you plan on attending these events, rsvp to: meh70@columbia.edu

 

I. October 11, 2007
Professor Carola Suarez-Orozco presented her upcoming book Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society.

For more information about this book, refer to the following website: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/SUAMOV.html

II. November 1, 2007
Professor Carmen Gómez Granell, Doctor of Psychology at Barcelona University, discussed Latin American immigrant youth in Barcelona
Please refer to the following website for papers by Professor Carmen Gómez Granell:
http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/browse/37357

III. February 7, 2008
Professor Cristina Rodriguez, Associate Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, discussed state and local regulation of immigration.

Please refer to our website for Professor Cristina Rodriguez’s Law Review article "The Significance of the Local in Immigration Regulation": http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.e du/home.php/bro w se/37357

IV. Friday, March 7, 2008
"The Nation in the Diaspora: The Multiple Repercussions of Puerto Rican Emigration."
Professor Jorge Duany from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico.
Location: New York University ’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South , Room 428, 1-3pm

Please refer to our website for Professor Duany’s paper in preparation for our meeting:
http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/browse/37357

V. Saturday, March 15, 2008
The Association of Latin American Students (ALAS) presents its 6th annual Education across the Americas conference titled Educational Equity, Policy, and Transformation in the Americas” at Teachers College, Columbia University .

The Working Group on Latin American Migration is sponsoring the following events:

• Presentation of the documentary De Nadie by Director Tin Dirdamal followed by a session of questions and answers with the Director. De Nadie tells the story of María, an immigrant from Central America, forced by circumstances to abandon her family, searching for the elusive American Dream.
• Art exhibition by Professor Guadalupe Victorica displayed at the conference made up of 11 paintings and 10 pictures of Central American and Mexican migrants and an “Art for Social Change” Workshop.
• Guest lecture by Professor Maria da Gloria Celia Marroni about her more recent work on the impact of migration on transnational households, specifically addressing the migratory movements that exist between Puebla, Mexico and New York City.

Please refer to the following site to register for this FREE conference:
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/students/alas/

VI. Monday, April 7, 2008
“Immigrant Cultural Identity among Dominicans and Colombians and Implications for Public Policy.”
Professor Vivian Louie, Associate Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Location: Teachers College, Columbia University in Grace Dodge Hall, Room 363, 5:00-6:50

VII. Thursday, April 17, 2008
Professor Judith Hellman, professor of social and political science at York University in Canada, will discuss her new book The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place
Location: New York University ’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South , Room 404W, 3-5pm

For more information about this book, refer to the following website:
http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1448

 

Working Group on Perspectives on Urban Brazil
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University invite you to join us in the Working Group on Perspectives on Urban Brazil.

For further information, please contact the 2007-2008 coordinators:

Marta Peixoto marta.peixoto@nyu.edu

Maite Conde mc2768@columbia.edu

I. Thursday, December 6, 2007
Professor Lúcia Sá, Brazilian Cultural Studies, University of Manchester
"Filming the Monstrous City: Sâo Paulo in Recent Cinema"
Columbia University, Casa Hispanica, 612 West 116th Street, Room 301

II. Friday, February 29, 2008
Professor Bryan McCann, Georgetown University
"The Pastoral das Favelas and the Construction of Comunity in 1970's-80's Rio de Janeiro"
Columbia University, Casa Hispanica, 612 West 116th Street, Room 201

III. Friday, March 14, 2008
Professor Nadya Araujo Guimarâes, Visiting Research Scholar at PIIRS, Princeton University
"Unemployment, Trajectories and Perceptions: Sâo Paulo, Paris and Tokyo"
New York University, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, Room 404W

IV. Friday, May 2, 2008
Professor Flora Sussekind
"Title forthcoming"
New York University, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, Room 428E