Spring 2012

Spring events at Center for Latino Arts & Culture (CLAC)

2011-12 Technologies Without Borders:  Technologies Across Borders

Reimagining Antillean Diasporas / Reimagining las Diasporas Antillanas
Rutgers Newark-New Brunswick Caribbean Studies Dialogues

All events held in Rutgers-Newark, Conklin Hall, Room 455 (175 University Avenue, Newark, NJ)

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April 19, 2012, 4pm
Aviva Chomsky Visit
Present & discuss her book, as part of Spring semester Topics Seminar in Latino / Caribbean Studies:  Latin American Workers, South and North
Organized by:  Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies

Fri April 13, 2012, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Public Forum on the State of Hispanic New Jersey
Multipurpose Room AB, Cook Campus Center, New Brunswick, NJ
Organized by:  Hall Institute of Public Policy-New Jersey

Thursday, April 12, 2012, 4:30 p.m. (4 p.m. reception)
"Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation"
Institute for Research on Women Distinguished Lecture Series (De) Generations: Reimaging Communities
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus

César Braga-Pinto, Northwestern University

Focusing on the cases of Brazil and the U.S., this presentation proposes to articulate the role played by gender representations in debates around miscegenation in the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Generation, understood in its vertical, genealogical, reproductive aspect is one of the most contested issues in the late 19th century both in Brazil and the U.S., and it is always haunted by miscegenation and the threat of degeneration. This paper aims to understand how horizontal calls for the formation of a new generation (in the sense of brotherhood, nationality, contemporaneity and intellectual-literary communities) in the beginning of the 20th century struggles to resolve the pessimism associated with mixed-race subjects and communities.

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March 5, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
Roundtable Discussion, with Sonia Alvarez, University of Massachusetts and Rutgers faculty "Collective Action and Political Change"
Teleconference Lecture Hall, 4th Floor Alexander Library 
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Thursday, February 23, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
Spring Program Organized by Grupo Interdisciplinario de Estudios Latinoamericanos
"The border between Mexico and the U.S."
Guests: Yuri Herrera (writer, author of Trabajos del reino and Señales que precederán al fin del mundo)
Douglass Student Center, 2nd Floor, Room A
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