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 YouTube Channel.
Please see the details for each event, and if a lecture is scheduled to be given by Zoom, please pre-register for the link.
JANUARY 27: “Argentina and the U.S: The dynamics of a new economic relationship” | Presented by George McReddie, retired Executive Director, Morgan Stanley, UW alum (Political Science and Ibero-American Studies) | 206 Ingraham Hall and via Zoom | VIDEO RECORDING
FEBRUARY 3: “State Governance Under Rebel Rule: Extraction, Subtraction and Immobilization” | Presented by Dr. Diana Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies, UW-Madison
FEBRUARY 10: “Reconfiguring Precarity: Race and Work in Brazil” | Presented by Nave Visiting Scholar, Dr. Ruy Braga, Sociology Department, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil | 206 Ingraham & Virtual | ZOOM RECORDING
Co-sponsored by the Havens Wright Center.
FEBRUARY 17: “The Making of Black Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century Lima” | Presented by Dr. Marcella Hayes | 206 Ingraham & Virtual
FEBRUARY 24: “The Science of Latin America’s Weather and Climate and the History that’s Barred its People from Contributing to It” | Presented by Ángel F. Adames Corraliza, MacArthur Fellow, UW-Madison | 206 Ingraham & Virtual | VIDEO RECORDING
MARCH 3: “Polarization helps mobilize Latin American voters, but does it provide an ideological or a winner advantage?” | Presented by Dr. Hernando Rojas, Diego Mazorra, Elohim Monard, Maria Pettit, UW-Madison, and Sandro Macassi, Pontificia Universidad Catolica (Peru) | 206 Ingraham & Virtual | VIDEO RECORDING
MARCH 10: “Living with vampire bats: rethinking rabies control through vaccination in Mexico” | Presented by Elsa M. Cardenas-Canales | 206 Ingraham & Virtual | VIDEO RECORDING | NEWS ARTICLE: Living with Vampire Bats
Co-sponsored by CALS Global, the Global Health Institute, and the UW School of Veterinary Medicine.
MARCH 17: “Writing the “Homeland” and Its Borders: of Meaningless Passwords, Poetic Transparencies, and Photosynthesis in Latin American Eco-poetics” | Presented (in Spanish) by Sarli Mercado | 206 Ingraham & Virtual | VIDEO RECORDING | Sarli_Mercado Collaborative Project Presentation
APRIL 7: “Good for the Poor, Good for the Forest? Formalizing smallholder land rights in the Peruvian Amazon” | Presented by Dr. Lisa Naughton, Nelson Institute, UW-Madison | 206 Ingraham & Virtual | VIDEO RECORDING
APRIL 14: “Whose State is it Anyway? Bandits, Barrio Bureaucrats, and the New State in Mexico’s Southern Borderlands” | Presented by Will Baynard, Cultural Anthropology PhD Candidate, UW-Madison | 206 Ingraham & Virtual
APRIL 21: “Un Títere de Sangre Zapoteco”| Presented by Carolyn Kallenborn and Alejandro Jiminez Molina | 206 Ingraham & Virtual | VIDEO RECORDING