Spring 2023 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 to determine how it will be given (and to pre-register). 

Christian Fidel Revilla Arizaca

February 7: “The Endless Crisis: An Analysis of the Socio-Political Situation of Peru” | Presented by Christian Fidel Revilla Arizaca, Universidad Nacional de San Agustin de Arequipa | VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM | *Please note that this lecture will be given virtually via Zoom; however, we will be livestreaming it in 206 Ingraham if you would like to watch it with us there.* | VIDEO RECORDING

Oscar Useche

February 14: Book Presentation/Lecture: “Fundidores del progreso: imaginación industrial y la forja de la nación moderna en España/Founders of the Future: The Science and Industry of Spanish Modernization” | Presented (in Spanish, with live interpretation to English) by Dr. Oscar Ivan Useche, Lecturer, Department of English, UW-Madison | HYBRID: 206 INGRAHAM HALL or VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM | VIDEO RECORDING

Professor Glauco Arbix

February 21: “The future of the Lula government and the uncertainties of Brazilian democracy” | Presented by Professor Glauco Arbix, University of Sao Paolo. Brazil | VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM | VIDEO RECORDING

Dr. Armando Muyolema
Dr. Fernando Garces Velasquez

February 28: Book Presentation/Lecture: “Oralidades y escrituras kichwas”| Presented by Dr. Armando Muyolema, Senior Lecturer, UW-Madison, and Dr. Fernando Garces, Professor, Salesian Polytechnic Institute, Ecuador |  HYBRID: 206 INGRAHAM HALL or VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM | VIDEO RECORDING

March 7: “Mother Nature’s Secret Conversations: Wayñu Songs from the Indigenous Communities of the Highlands of Peru” | Presented by Natalia Armacanqui, Artist and dancer, and Richard Hildner Armacanqui, musician | HYBRID: 206 INGRAHAM HALL or VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM | VIDEO RECORDING

 

Anika Rice

March 21: “Economic Solidarity and Feminist Agroecologies in Guatemala during Covid-19” | Presented by Anika Rice | VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM | *Please note that this lecture will be given virtually via Zoom; however, we will be livestreaming it in 206 Ingraham if you would like to watch it with us there.*| VIDEO RECORDING

Provided by Martina Kunovic

March 28: “Opportunity and Inequality in Cuba’s Changing Economy: Examining Havana’s Highly Stratified Residential Real-Estate Market” | Presented by Martina Kunovic, Sociology Faculty Member, Madison College, PhD, UW-Madison| HYBRID:  206 INGRAHAM HALL and VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM | VIDEO RECORDING

Dr. Adela Cedillo

April 4: “A Comparative Perspective on the Dirty Wars of Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina” | Presented by Dr. Adela Cedillo, Assistant Professor of Modern Mexican History, University of Houston | HYBRID: 206 INGRAHAM HALL and VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM | VIDEO RECORDING

Dr. Raquel Paraiso

April 11: “Indigenous Music Traditions from the Huasteca region, Mexico” | Presented by Raquel Gonzalez Paraiso, researcher, musician, and educator | HYBRID: 206 INGRAHAM HALL and VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM | VIDEO RECORDING

Rossana Díaz

April 18: Film Discussion/Presentation: “A World for Julius” | Presented by the film’s writer and director, Rossana Diaz Costa  | HYBRID: 206 INGRAHAM HALL and VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM | Co-sponsored by the WI Film Festival, The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UW-Milwaukee, and the UW-Madison Cinematheque | *The film “A World for Julius” will be screened the same evening as part of the WI Film Festival on April 18th and 5:15 p.m.* | VIDEO RECORDING

Dr. David Pacifico

April 25: “Ritualizing Redistribution? Late Prehispanic Settlements in the Middle Sechin Valley, Peru” | Presented by Dr. David Pacifico, Director, Mathis Gallery, and Assistant Professor, Latin American Art, UW-Milwaukee | HYBRID: 206 INGRAHAM HALL and VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM | VIDEO RECORDING

 

May 2: Book Presentation/Lecture: “Musical Entrepreneurs and the Cultural Politics of Inequality in Northeastern Brazil” | Presented by Dr. Falina Enriquez,  Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, and LACIS Faculty Affiliate, UW-Madison | HYBRID: 206 INGRAHAM HALL and VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM | VIDEO RECORDING