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LANIC Etext Collection: LLILAS Calendar ArchiveYou are viewing an archived resource that was originally developed by staff of the Institute of Latin American Studies (now the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies) at the University of Texas at Austin. Back issues of the Calendar are preserved here by LANIC for archival and research purposes. Please be aware that many of the links in these archived files no longer function. In addition, most email addresses have been removed, disabled, or modified to reduce spam. If you are interested in current LLILAS events, please visit the LLILAS Calendar. |
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ILAS Faculty Research
Program Grant
Application deadline: Friday, Feb. 7
Late applications will not be considered.
Complete application guidelines are found in the Research and Grant Opportunity Manual. If you cannot find the answer to your questions there, please contact Joanne Gully at 471-5551.
Second Annual UT-Austin
Brazil Week
Monday-Friday, February 3-7
Carnaval Celebrations
Films, Music, Capoeira
Presentations on Cinema, Literature, Social Policy, Media, Afro-Brazilian Cultural Expression, Race, Political Economy, 19th C. Travel, Environment
For info., contact the Brazil Center,
471-5551; brazctr[email address removed to reduce spam]; http://lanic.utexas.edu/ilas/brazctr
Tuesday, Jan. 28
México al Mediodía: Corrido, identidad y memoria colectiva. Presentation by Catherine Héau, C. B. Smith Visiting Scholar/INAH, 1996-97. 12:15-1:30 p.m., Hackett Room, SRH 1.313. Sponsored by the Mexican Center of ILAS. For more info., call Lindalee F. Valdivieso-Synakov, 471-5551.
Thursday, Jan. 30
México al Mediodía: La guerra contrainsurgente en Guanajuato: juntas de arbitrios y fuerzas realistas. Presentation by José Antonio Serrano Ortega, C. B. Smith Visiting Scholar/COLMEX, 1996-97. 12:15-1:30 p.m., Hackett Room, SRH 1.313. Sponsored by the Mexican Center of ILAS. For more info., call Lindalee F. Valdivieso-Synakov, 471-5551.
Fiesta! Second ILASSA Conference Fundraising Party. Club Palmeras, 217 Congress Ave., 9:00 p.m.-2:00 a.m. Cover charge $5.00. Sponsored by the ILASSA Conference Committees. For info., contact Liza Rodríguez, 471-5551.
Job Opportunity
Economic Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. U.S. operations of most Latin American banks are supervised and regulated by the FRB-Atlanta. This position involves analyzing the major macroeconomic indicators that bear on country risk, as well as assessing the relative importance of such qualitative factors as political or social events. Candidates should possess a thorough knowledge of international economics and Latin American political and economic systems, and must have analytical writing skills and an ability to communicate effectively in Spanish. Send transcript, résumé, and writing sample to: Michael Chriszt, Coordinator, Latin American Research Group, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 104 Marietta Street, NW, Atlanta, GA 30303-2713. Fax: 404/521-8956.
Exhibit
Re-Aligning Vision: South American Drawing, 1960-1990. Consists of drawings by 45 artists; selections drawn from the Huntington Art Gallery's extensive collection of Latin American art as well as major South American public and private collections. The exhibition runs Jan. 17-March 2. Admission is free. Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, The Fine Arts Museum of UT-Austin. For more info., call 471-7324.
Conference
Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS), Austin, TX, Feb. 20-22. Held at the Omni Hotel. Registration is $45; $20 for students. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade. For more info., contact John Wineland, 475-8679; jwineland[email address removed to reduce spam]. Conference program is online at: <http://lanic.utexas.edu/cswht/scolas.html;
Calls for Papers
Call for papers. 10th Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education, Orlando, FL, May 29-June 2, 1997. Latino issues addressed include a keynote address by Dolores Huerta and sessions on such topics as: diversifying science and engineering at the crossroads: an elusive goal?; socio-cultural factors affecting retention of Latinos in higher education; survival for communities of color in the 21st century through entrepreneurship; higher education in the aftermath of the California Civil Rights Initiative; nativism and anti-immigrant bashing at the end of the 20th century. Complete proposals due by Feb. 3, 1997. For info., application, and submission: Dr. Maggie Abudu, Executive Director, Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies, University of Oklahoma, 555 E. Constitution, Suite 209, Norman, OK 73072-7820; 405/325-3936.
Call for papers. Third Conference on Political Behavior in Brazil and Latin America, Florianópolis, Brazil, June 11-13, 1997. The Laboratory of Studies of Political Behavior, in a joint program with the Dept. of Psychology and the Center for Human Sciences of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, is sponsoring this conference, which is open to students, scholars, and professional practitioners in the area of social and political behavior, public opinion, and public policy, with an interest in Latin American politics. Topics include: continuities and changes in political culture and socialization; cognitive dynamics and the subjective construction of the political world; mass-elite notions of citizenship, representation, and participation; the politics of social cleavages: linkages between gender, age cohort, race, religion, and region, and attitudes towards politics; democratic theory, democratization, and the role of public opinion. Papers may be in Portuguese, Spanish or English. Abstracts due by March 21. For more info., contact: Prof. Fabian Echegaray, LabComp, CFH-UFSC, P.O. Box 476 (88010-970), Florianópolis, S.C., Brazil; Fax: 55/48/231-9751; ; .
For electronic access to Calendar: http://lanic.utexas.edu/ilas/calendar.html
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