Spring 2025 Lunchtime Lecture Series

Tuesdays, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

We will be offering lectures both live (206 Ingraham Hall) and virtual (via Zoom) this spring. If you miss a lecture, you will be able to view many of them later on our programming archive page HERE.

Please see the details for each event, and if a lecture is scheduled to be given by Zoom, please pre-register for the link.

Dr. Charles Walker
Dr. Charles Walker

FEBRUARY 4:  “The Assault of the Ayacucho Prison, March 2-3, 1982. The Night that Changed Peru”Presented by Dr. Charles Walker | 206 Ingraham Hall and via Zoom | VIDEO RECORDING

FEBRUARY 11: “Exploring ways to address migrant kidnapping in Mexico and extortion in the US” | Presented by Joy Olson | 206 Ingraham Hall and via Zoom | VIDEO RECORDING

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Regional and International Studies National Resource Center.

 

Dr. Vishala Parmasad
Dr. Vishala Parmasad

FEBRUARY 18: “Godna/Tattoo: The rearticulation of Indian traditions in Post-Indentured Trinidad” | Presented by Dr. Vishala Parmasad | 206 Ingraham and via Zoom | VIDEO RECORDING

FEBRUARY 25: Guided Tour: “You Belong Here” Art Exhibit, Chazen Art Museum  | PLEASE NOTE: This event will take place at the Chazen Museum of Art 

Co-sponsored by the Latine Cultural Center.

Dr. Adriana Angel
Dr. Adriana Angel

MARCH 4:  “Women’s Voices in Climate Change Activism in Colombia’s Public Sphere” | Presented by Tinker Visiting Professor, Dr. Adriana Angel Botero | 206 Ingraham and via Zoom | VIDEO RECORDING

Dr. Benjamin Barson
Dr. Benjamin Barson

MARCH 11:  Book Launch: “Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons” | Presented by Dr. Benjamin Barson | 206 Ingraham and via Zoom | VIDEO RECORDING

Dr. Federico Subervi Vélez

MARCH 18: “Media, Politics, and Emergency Communication in Puerto Rico” | Presented by Dr. Federico Subervi | 206 Ingraham and via Zoom | VIDEO RECORDING

Rafael Ramírez Mendoza
Rafael Ramírez Mendoza

APRIL 1: “New Images of Indigeneity in Contemporary Peruvian Cinema” | Presented by Rafael Ramirez Mendoza | 206 Ingraham and via Zoom

Dr. Raquel Paraiso

APRIL 8:  “Place, Time, and Space in Huasteca Music” | Presented by Dr. Raquel Paraiso | 206 Ingraham and via Zoom | VIDEO RECORDING

David Kiefer, M.D.
David Kiefer, M.D.
Aída Inuca
MATILDE CACHIGUAGO

APRIL 22: “Yierbas Medicinales Andinas y Como Se Incorpora a la Medicina Occidental / Andean Medicinal Plants and How Traditional Medicine Can Blend with Western Medicine” | Presented by Matilde Cachiguango Muenala, Aida Inuca, and David Kiefer, M.D. | 206 Ingraham and via Zoom | VIDEO RECORDING

Andrés Pertierra
Andrés Pertierra

MAY 6: “The Iron under the Feet of Clay: Cuban-Spanish relations and Cuban Regime durability, 1975-1999” | Presented by Andres Sebastian Pertierra | 206 Ingraham and via Zoom |