2005
Margaret Russell Ewalt '92 (Wake Forest University)
"Father Gumilla: Crocodile Hunter? The Function of Wonder in Eighteenth Century Natural Histories"
Inkaswasi.
Andean Music of Peru. Workshop and Concert. October 12. Page Commons.
2004
Millennium String Quartet (Venezuela)
Ollantay Velasquez, violin; Miguel Nieves, violin; Richard Urbano, viola; Valmore Nieves, cello. Performing works by Tschaikovsky, Ginastera, and Plaza, April 17.
Father Luis Farinello
"Religion, Poverty, and Politics in Argentina: Forty Years with People."
3rd Walker Symposium
The Crisis of the State in Latin America
2003
Tom Walker (Ohio University)
"Latin America in the Talons of the Eagle
Reflections of a Grumpy Old Academic."
Jeanine Anderson,(SUNY Stony Brook)
"Whatever Became of Latin American Popular Feminism?"
Edward Bonilla Silva
"Racism Without Racists: Kiling Me Softly and the Persistance of Inequality in America."
Quetzil Castaneda
"Beyond Identity - 500 Years of Transculturation and Mestizaje in the Americas."
Roundtable on Brazillian Politics
Timothy Power (Florida International University)
Lucio Renno (University of Pittsburgh)
"The Significance of Lula's Victory in the Brazillian Presidential Election."
Luis Millones, Sr.
"500 Years of Folk Medicine in Peru."
Ana
Maria Shua
"The Book of Memoirs: Fiction, Politics and Being Jewish in Argentina."
2002
Ambassador John O’Leary
"Free Trade in the Americas:
Lessons fron Chile."
The
Second Walker Symposium
Mapping Caribbean Diasporas
John
Ross
"The War Against Oblivion: Zapatista Chronicles."
2001
Maria
Teresa Schnack de Schiavini (Human Rights Activist, Argentina)
"My Struggles for Human Rights:From Buenos Aires to Washington D.C."
Elvia Alvarado (Fair Trade Coffee Grower, Honduras)
"Not just a Cup of Coffee, But a
Just Cup of Coffee"
Latino
Heritage Month
- Showing of the film "Black Orpheus"
- The musical
group "Sol y Canto" performs in Page Commons.
-
Panel discussion "The Long Road to Maine: Latino Migrants Speak"
- Felipe
Rodríguez of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee presents a musical journey
into the diversity of Latino music.
- Luis Gilberto Murillo (former governor of the state of Choco, Colombia, speaks on "Race
and Conflict in Latin America."
Craig
Kielburger (Founder of Free the Children)
"Child Labor, Child Poverty, and Child Soldiers"
Susana Reisz (CUNY Graduate School)
"Autoras de 'best-sellers' y narradoras
'refractarias': ¿dos caras del feminismo en Hispanoamérica?"
Father Roy Bourgeois (Founder of SOA Watch)
"School of the Americas: A School
for Assassins"
Nivia Montenegro (University of Kentucky & Pomona College)
"Rituals of the Word: Lydia Cabrera's
Place in the Construction of Cuban Culture"
Rut
Diamint (Universidad Tortuaco Di Tella)
"Latin American Militiaries: New Forms of Power"
Joseph
Tulchin (The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
"Theory and Policy: Convergence and Divergence between Academics
and Latin American Public Policy"
2000
Manuel
Hernández Aguilar (Chiapas Community Leader)
"Social and Political Struggles in Chiapas, Mexico"
1999
David
Scott Palmer (Boston University)
"Democracy in the Andes and its Challenges"
Enrique Mayer (Yale University)
"Ugly Stories of Peruvian Agrarian
Reform: Memories and Testimonies of Land Expropriations, Land Occupations,
and Land Appropriations"
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