Public Events
Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 12 noon, ICC 662:
Professor Ruben Hernandez-Leon, UC Los Angeles, will present "The Migration Industry: Brokering Mobility in the Mexido-US Migratory System".
Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 4pm in Intercultural Center 462:
The Institute for Global Studies, Americas Initiative Program, and African Studies Program presents Dr. Ray Kea, Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside,
"Hidden Histories and the Atlantic World: Perspectives from the West African Gold Coast in the Era of Atlantic Slaving."
Ray Kea is the author of Settlements, Trade and Politics in the Seventeenth Century Gold Coast (Johns Hopkins, 1982) and his massive new A Cultural and Social History of Ghana from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century: The Gold Coast in the Era of the Slave Trade is about to appear with Mellon Press.
Light refreshments will be served.
September 12, 2011
The Americas Initiative and Georgetown College Present:
The Catholic Church at a Crossroads
A conversation between Jason Berry, author of
Render unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church
and Chester Gillis,Professor of Theology and Dean, Georgetown College.
Jason Berry is a Georgetown graduate and an award-winning journalist. He pioneered investigative reporting on the sexual abuse scandal in the Church in Lead Us Not into Temptation (1992), numerous journalistic contributions, and the documentary film Vows of Silence. His new book, Render unto Rome (2011), links the hierarchy's slow response to the scandal to pervasive financial concerns.
Chester Gillis is a leading scholar of Catholicism and the Catholic Church in America. He is author of Roman Catholicism in America (1999) and Catholic Faith in America (2003), and editor of The Political Papacy (2005).
Friday September 25, 4:00-5:30 in New North Auditorium
The Americas Initiative and the Department of Performing Arts present:
"New Orleans Music after Katrina," a talk with Jason Berry.
Jason Berry, New Orleans' award-winning journalist and author, will discuss the newly revised edition of his acclaimed book, Up From the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II, co-authored with Jonathan Foose and Tad Jones. Berry will also show an original documentary on jazz funerals and offer his unique perspective on the enduring spirit of music in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Friday April 3rd 2009, 4pm in New North 311,
The Americas Initiative Presents a Panel of Three Speakers:
—"Whiteness and the Cuban Diaspora," a talk by Professor Antonio López from the Department of English at George Washington University.
—"Lost in the Wasteland: How the Chicano Movement Was (and Wasn't) Covered by the Network News," a talk by Professor Randy Ontiveros from the Department of English at the University of Maryland.
—"Making Space Sacred in a Multiethnic Chicago Neighborhood," a talk by Professor of American Studies Elaine Peña from George Washington University.
Tuesday March 24th 2009, 4pm in Reiss 103
"Dividing the Isthmus: Bananas, Canals, and Race Construction in Central American Transnational Literature."
A talk by Professor Ana Patricia Prodríguez from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Maryland.
Friday February 20th 2009, 4pm in New North 311, The Americas Initiative Presents
"Boricua Insurgencies, Puerto Rico, Imperial Science, and the American 1898," a talk by Professor Lázaro Lima from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Bryn Mawr College.
April 8 – April 15, 2008
“Spirit Fires of Voudou: Haiti on Stage” - The world premiere performance by the Baka Roklo Company (April 11) plus workshops
March 17, 2008
The Americas Initiative Presents "Transnationalism Contested: On Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, or Puro Cuento," a talk with José David Saldívar, Professor of English and Literature & Director, Latino/a Studies, Duke University.
Thursday, October 18 2007, 4pm in McShain Large Auditorium in McCarthy Hall
The Americas Initiative of Georgetown College Presents:
"Hispanic Self-Fashioning: The Making of a Mexican-American Middle Class Identity"
A talk with Dr. José Limón, Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
