Olmec writing studies have finally come of age with the discovery of an inscribed serpentinite block in the town of Cascajal, Veracruz, Mexico. In his presentation, David Mora-Marin will sketch an account of the structural traits of the text, including its reading format and direction, and the iconographic motivation of the signs, prerequisites both to any attempts at decipherment. These steps should take us a bit closer to finally giving the Olmecs a voice and their due, in the genealogy of Mesoamerican scripts. All faculty, staff, and students are invited.Sponsored by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Scholarly Communication Working Group. FREE Please Contact: The Scholarly Communication Working Group www.unc.edu./schol-com for more information. 
Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 5:00-7:00pm FedEx GEC, Room 4003, UNC-CH
"Mapuche Shamanic Memory and Historical Conciousness: The Making of Francisca Colipi and her Mapuche Community in Chile"
Talk by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo. Based on ethnographic and archival material collected between 1991 and 2008, Bacigalupo's talk will explore the story of a Mapuche shaman in her community in Southern Chile and illuminate the way particular marginalized groups see themselves in time. Francisca Colipi's unique position as both an anomalous, liminal outsider and a powerful mediator between internal community factions and ethnicities makes her biography a productive way from which to view Millali's conflicted history. Francisca’s experiences in her community shows the way Mapuche shamanic historical consciousness is produced and mobilized, the way shamanic narratives of the past construct the present and rewrite local history, and the way change and its agents are conceived of in shamanic practice. An analysis of Mapuche shamanic historical consciousness through Francisca’s life, death, and rebirth offers a new understanding of the relationship between indigenous agency and national history, remembering and disremembering, and individual and collective memory. Dr. Ana Mariella Bacigalupo is currently an Associate Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Buffalo. She has worked with Mapuche shamans in southern Chile for sixteen years. Her books include Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power and Healing Among the Chilean Mapuche (University of Texas Press, 2007); The Voice of the Drum in Modernity: Tradition and Change in the Practice of Seven Mapuche Shamans (Universidad Católica de Chile press, 2001); and Modernization and Wisdom in Mapuche Land (San Pablo Press, 1995). She is currently working on a new book titled Shamanic Memory and Historical Consciousness: The Making of Francisca Colipe and her Mapuche Community in Chile (under contract with the University of Texas Press). Dr. Bacigalupo has garnered numerous fellowships to support her research including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, a Bellagio Fellowship, an American Association of University Women Fellowship, a School of Advanced Research FREE Please Contact: Emilio del Valle Escalante 919-962-2059 for more information. Friday, February 12, 2010, 7:30pm Christ United Methodist Church, 410 North Holden Ave., Greensboro
"Never Too Tango"
Concert presented by the Red Clay Saxophone Quartet and tango duo of Lorena Guillen(voice) and Alejandro Rutty(piano), will explore traditional and modern Argentine tango in instrumental and vocal arrangements from Cobian to Piazzolla. The artists will present two educational concerts that same morning at the church; encourage your school to inquire about this. Children and parents attending that morning (9:30 or 10:30am) will receive free comp tickets for the evening full concert. Concert organized by Music for a Great Space. For those with children, Music for Great Space offers free child care during the concert! Just call 48 hrs ahead to 336-638-7624, or email to execdirector@musicforagreatspace.org $18 for adults, $15 for seniors, $5 for students Please Contact: www.musicforagreatspace.org link "Red Clay Sax" for more information. Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 5:30pm Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, UNC-CH
"A Conversation with Marisela Orta"
An interview of Marisela Orta by UNC Assistant Professor of Dramatic Art Ashley Lucas. Poet and Playwright Marisela Treviño Orta received an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. While studying at USF, Marisela became the Resident Poet of El Teatro Jornalero!, a theatre company comprised of Latino immigrants. Marisela’s first play Braided Sorrow received workshop readings at the 2005 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the 2006 [Inside] the Ford Summer Reading Series. Braided Sorrow won the 2006 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize in Drama, received its world premiere at Su Teatro in Denver, CO., in 2008 and most recently won the 2009 Pen Center USA Literary Award in Drama. Her other plays include: American Triage (commissioned by Marin Theatre Company, 2007 MTC Nu Werkz new play reading series, 2008 MTC workshop production); Ghost Limb (Just Theatre 2007 New Play Lab); Woman on Fire (2006 Primer Pasos: Un Festival de Latino Plays, 2007 full-length commission by the Latino Playwrights Initiative, 2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival BASH, and 2008 Playwrights Foundation’s In The Rough reading series). Marisela is a Resident Playwright at the Playwrights Foundation in San Francisco and member of the 2009-2010 Playground writer’s pool. Currently she is working on two new plays: Heart Shaped Nebula and Wolf at the Door. Marisela is also one of the founding editors of Switchback, the official literary journal of the University of San Francisco’s MFA in Writing program. Her poetry has appeared in BorderSenses, Double Room, 26: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics and Traverse. Marisela also writes a literary blog: Variations on a Theme (http://www.xanga.com/mtorta).
Free Please Contact: Ashley Lucas (919) 962-2496 for more information. Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm John Hope Franklin Center 240. Duke University.
Notes on Citizenship and Belonging: Afro-Cubans in the U.S. Discuss Race in Las Americas.
Monika Gosin, Postdoctoral Associate, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, Duke University. Wednesdays at the Center. Vouchers to cover parking costs in the Duke Medical Center parking decks (#2 and #3 in this map) are provided. Free. Lunch Included. Please Contact: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/contact/ for more information. Thursday, February 18, 2010, 4:00 - 5:30 pm 225 Friedl Building, Duke East Campus
Sex and the Citizen: Reading the Caribbean in an Age of Globalization
A talk by Faith Smith, Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies, English, and American Literature at Brandeis University. Organized by the UNC-Duke Working Group on Caribbean Studies in a Globalized Era, with co-sponsorship from the UNC-Duke Working Group on AFro-Latin American Perspectives, African and African American Studies at Duke, and Sexuality Studies at Duke. Please Contact: Michaeline Crichlow crichlow@duke.edu for more information. Thursday, February 18, 2010, 7:30pm Gerrard Hall, UNC-CH campus on Cameron Avenue
The Art and Culture of the DJ
Featuring DJ Radar, composer Raúl Yañez and UNC’s Charanga Ensemble led by assistant professor of music David Garcia. This work for turntables and Latin ensemble will be part of the Digital Arts and Humanities Festival at UNC focused on the theme of Collaborations: Humanities, Arts and Technology (CHAT). Free Please Contact: Joseph Megel (919) 843-7067 megel@email.unc.edu for more information. Friday, February 19, 2010, 8:00pm Gerrard Hall, UNC-CH campus on Cameron Avenue
The Art and Culture of the DJ
Featuring DJ Radar, composer Raúl Yañez and UNC’s Charanga Ensemble led by assistant professor of music David Garcia. This work for turntables and Latin ensemble will be part of the Digital Arts and Humanities Festival at UNC focused on the theme of Collaborations: Humanities, Arts and Technology (CHAT). Free Please Contact: Joseph Megel (919) 843-7067 megel@email.unc.edu for more information. Sunday, February 21, 2010, 5:00pm 101 East Weaver Street, Suite G1, Carrboro, NC 27510
"Narrative Story Telling and the Latin American Immigrant Experience" by Hannah Gill, UNC-CH
Dr. Hannah Gill is an applied anthropologist with a specialization in Latin American/Caribbean migration studies. She co-authored the book, Going to Carolina de Norte, Narrating Mexican Migrant Experiences which will be coming out in a new edition in the fall of 2010. Dr. Gill's course, Latin American Immigrant Perspectives: Ethnography and Action involves a spring break trip to Guanajuato, Mexico each year. Also at 7:00 at CHICLE there will be a
SURPRISE FILM SHOWING - One of the newest award winning feature films on immigration will be presented as a part of this event. This is a unique opportunity.
FREE Please Contact: Chicle 919-933-0398 chicle@chi-cle.com for more information. Monday, February 22, 2010, 4:00 Franklin Center 240 - Duke
Presentation by Tanya K. Hernandez, Fordham University Law School
"Latinos and Blacks in the Workplace and Judicial Misperceptions of Inter-Ethnic Discrimination"Organized by the Carolina/Duke Working Group on Afro-Latin Issues and Perspectives. Co-sponsored by the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies and the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University Free Please Contact: Monika Gosin monika.gosin@duke.edu for more information. Monday, February 22, 2010, 4:00pm Franklin Center, Room 240, Duke University
"Latinos and Blacks in the Workplace and Judicial Misperceptions of Inter-Ethnic Discrimination" by Professor Tanya K. Hernandez
Afro-Latin Studies presentation. Sponsored by the Carolina/Duke Working Group on Afro-Latin Issues and Perspectives. Co-sponsored by the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies and the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University.
FREE Please Contact: Kia Lilly Caldwell 919-962-0539 for more information. Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 12:30-2:00pm School of Social Work, Tate Turner Kuralt Auditorium, UNC-CH
"Immigration Policy in North Carolina: Legal and Ethical Considerations for Social Workers"
As Congress prepares to debate comprehensive immigration reform in 2010, what lessons can we learn from programs that empower local and state police to enforce immigration
laws? Learn about the impacts of the 287 (g) ICE ACCESS Program in North Carolina counties. How have these programs impacted public safety, domestic violence
protections, child welfare placements, and racial profiling?
SPEAKERS
Deborah Weissman, Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law; Director of Clinical
Programs, UNC Chapel Hill
Hannah Gill, Assistant Director, Institute for the Study of the Americas; Research
Associate, The Center for Global Initiatives, UNC Chapel Hill
Ilana Dubester, Immigrants? rights advocate and former Interim Execu tive Director of
El Centro Latino in Carrboro
FREE Please Contact: Hannah Gill hgill@email.unc.edu for more information.March
Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 4:00 Global Education Center 4003, UNC
Presentation by Kimberly Simmons, University of South Carolina
"Stirring the Sancocho and Seeing Africa: The Emergence of Afro-Dominican Identities in the Dominican Republic." Organized by the Carolina/Duke Working Group on Afro-Latin Issues and Perspectives Free Please Contact: Kia Caldwell klcaldwe@email.unc.edu for more information. Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 5:30pm Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, UNC-CH
A talk by Migdalia Cruz, "This Journey on My Father's Back at My Mother's Side"
Migdalia Cruz is an award-winning playwright who has written over forty plays, operas, screenplays, and musicals including: Fur, Miriam’s Flowers, and Another Part of the House, produced in venues as diverse as National Theater of Greece/Athens, Old Red Lion/London, Houston Grand Opera, Ateneo Puertoriqueño, & Latino Chicago Theater Company (where she was writer-in-residence from 1991 to 1998). She is an alumna of New Dramatists, was mentored by Maria Irene Fornés at INTAR, and her latest play, El Grito Del Bronx, was seen at NYU (4/08), at Milagro Theater (4/09, Portland, OR), and opened in Chicago at the Goodman Theater in a co-production of Teatro Vista and Collaboraction this July. Her play Telling Tales will be produced by the University of Puerto Rico (11/09) at the Bellas Artes in Santurce where she will teach a master class in playwriting.
FREE Please Contact: Ashley Lucas (919) 962-2496 for more information. Thursday, March 25, 2010, 7:30 pm Tate-Turner-Kuralt Auditorium, 325 Pittsboro Street
Gender and Empire - Comparative Perspectives
Catherine Hall (University College London) Organizers: Karen Hagemann, Chad Bryant (both UNC, Department of History), Emily Burrill (UNC, Curriculum in Women’s Studies) and the UNC Graduate Working Group on Gender History
Gender and Empire – Comparative Perspectives
Literature, art and movies often represent colonization and the formation of empires as male adventure stories. Maleness certainly was constitutive of the imperial enterprise, but as gender historians have long emphasized, imperial maleness needed constant confirmation and substantiation. Historians of empire have observed the same characteristics for colonial rule, which too constantly needed to be confirmed and legitimated, because of the permanent fear that colonial and racial prestige—and power—might be undermined. Colonial discourses on gender seems to be one of the spaces were the instability of the empires and its power structures is most visible. Competing concepts of masculinity and femininity were central to colonial order, but they cannot be understood in isolation. Rather, they need to be historicized and contextualized. They were constructed in close interplay with other categories of difference like race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and religion and created sexual, racial, and national hierarchies, which challenged or stabilized imperial rule during the nineteenth and twentieth century. They also challenge historians to think comparatively about empires and to ask what constitutes an empire.
In the workshop we will explore the complex connections between gender and empire in a comparative perspective. We will contrast the British colonial rule in North America, the Caribbean and India; the French rule in the Caribbean and Africa; the Habsburg rule in Central-Eastern Europe; the Spanish Empire and its rule in Latin America; and the rule of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East during the long nineteenth century. In our comparison we want to study the specific characteristics of the different empires and the function of the gender order for their rule in the colonies. We will discuss the deployment of femininities and masculinities that justified imperial rule and attempted to establish clear lines of demarcation between ruler and ruled. We will analyze the ambiguities and contradictions of colonial relationships across genders and look at colonial policies that regulated these gender relations and how they transformed over time. Finally, we will analyze the ways in which processes of decolonization and nation-building were influenced by the gendered legacies of imperialism. Please Contact: Karen Hagemann 919-962-3960 hagemann@unc.edu for more information. Friday, March 26, 2010, 12:30 pm UNC Institute for Arts and Humanities, Hyde Hall
Gender and Empire - Comparative Perspectives
Organizers: Karen Hagemann, Chad Bryant (both UNC, Department of History), Emily Burrill (UNC, Curriculum in Women’s Studies) and the UNC Graduate Working Group on Gender History
Gender and Empire – Comparative Perspectives
Literature, art and movies often represent colonization and the formation of empires as male adventure stories. Maleness certainly was constitutive of the imperial enterprise, but as gender historians have long emphasized, imperial maleness needed constant confirmation and substantiation. Historians of empire have observed the same characteristics for colonial rule, which too constantly needed to be confirmed and legitimated, because of the permanent fear that colonial and racial prestige—and power—might be undermined. Colonial discourses on gender seems to be one of the spaces were the instability of the empires and its power structures is most visible. Competing concepts of masculinity and femininity were central to colonial order, but they cannot be understood in isolation. Rather, they need to be historicized and contextualized. They were constructed in close interplay with other categories of difference like race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and religion and created sexual, racial, and national hierarchies, which challenged or stabilized imperial rule during the nineteenth and twentieth century. They also challenge historians to think comparatively about empires and to ask what constitutes an empire.
In the workshop we will explore the complex connections between gender and empire in a comparative perspective. We will contrast the British colonial rule in North America, the Caribbean and India; the French rule in the Caribbean and Africa; the Habsburg rule in Central-Eastern Europe; the Spanish Empire and its rule in Latin America; and the rule of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East during the long nineteenth century. In our comparison we want to study the specific characteristics of the different empires and the function of the gender order for their rule in the colonies. We will discuss the deployment of femininities and masculinities that justified imperial rule and attempted to establish clear lines of demarcation between ruler and ruled. We will analyze the ambiguities and contradictions of colonial relationships across genders and look at colonial policies that regulated these gender relations and how they transformed over time. Finally, we will analyze the ways in which processes of decolonization and nation-building were influenced by the gendered legacies of imperialism. Faculty: $ 25.00 and Grad. Students: $ 15.00 Please Contact: Karen Hagemann 919-962-3960 hagemann@unc.edu for more information. Saturday, March 27, 2010, 9:30 am UNC Institute for Arts and Humanities, Hyde Hall
Gender and Empire - Comparative Perspectives
Organizers: Karen Hagemann, Chad Bryant (both UNC, Department of History), Emily Burrill (UNC, Curriculum in Women’s Studies) and the UNC Graduate Working Group on Gender History
Gender and Empire – Comparative Perspectives
Literature, art and movies often represent colonization and the formation of empires as male adventure stories. Maleness certainly was constitutive of the imperial enterprise, but as gender historians have long emphasized, imperial maleness needed constant confirmation and substantiation. Historians of empire have observed the same characteristics for colonial rule, which too constantly needed to be confirmed and legitimated, because of the permanent fear that colonial and racial prestige—and power—might be undermined. Colonial discourses on gender seems to be one of the spaces were the instability of the empires and its power structures is most visible. Competing concepts of masculinity and femininity were central to colonial order, but they cannot be understood in isolation. Rather, they need to be historicized and contextualized. They were constructed in close interplay with other categories of difference like race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and religion and created sexual, racial, and national hierarchies, which challenged or stabilized imperial rule during the nineteenth and twentieth century. They also challenge historians to think comparatively about empires and to ask what constitutes an empire.
In the workshop we will explore the complex connections between gender and empire in a comparative perspective. We will contrast the British colonial rule in North America, the Caribbean and India; the French rule in the Caribbean and Africa; the Habsburg rule in Central-Eastern Europe; the Spanish Empire and its rule in Latin America; and the rule of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East during the long nineteenth century. In our comparison we want to study the specific characteristics of the different empires and the function of the gender order for their rule in the colonies. We will discuss the deployment of femininities and masculinities that justified imperial rule and attempted to establish clear lines of demarcation between ruler and ruled. We will analyze the ambiguities and contradictions of colonial relationships across genders and look at colonial policies that regulated these gender relations and how they transformed over time. Finally, we will analyze the ways in which processes of decolonization and nation-building were influenced by the gendered legacies of imperialism. Faculty: $ 25.00 and Grad. Students: $ 15.00 Please Contact: Karen Hagemann 919-962-3960 hagemann@unc.edu for more information.
