Americas Initiative Conferences

Each academic year, the Americas Initiative (AI) sponsors at least one conference on a transnational, cross-disciplinary theme.  Most recently, on November 5th, 2009, Americas Initiative sponsored a one-day symposium on "Migration, Labor, and the Family in the Diasporic North America: Literary and Cultural Perspectives." Other past conferences have been on "Urban Transformations in in the Americas: 20th Century Challenges" "Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States" and "Redefining America:  Race, Migration and the Politics of Inclusion".  In addition, AI has co-sponsored "Inside the Corporate Panopticon" with the American Studies Program, CCT Program, and the Department of History, "The Spanish Roots of Modern Liberalism:  A Celebration of the Bicentennial of May 2nd, 1808" with Georgetown's Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (CERES), "Hispanic Self-Fashioning: The Making of a Mexican-American Middle Class Identity" and "We're in God's Hands"Reconstructing Community under Chronic Impunity: The Illusion of Post-War Reconciliation in Guatemala