In a new initiative, this year the UBC Latin American Studies program is working with our colleagues at Simon Fraser to present a joint seminar and working paper series.

The full schedule is below. Our first paper will be delivered on September 15 by Ambassador Sergio Florencio (Consul General of Brazil in Vancouver).

The plan is to put the papers up on this website about a week in advance of the talk, to give attendees the opportunity to engage in a meaningful dialogue with our authors.

Everyone is encouraged to join us for this exciting series of events.

Latin American Studies Working Papers Series, 2011-2012
Simon Fraser University and University of British Columbia Latin American Studies Programs

Thursdays, 3pm-5pm.
SFU Harbour Centre, Downtown Vancouver

Fall

September 15: Sergio Florencio (Consul General of Brazil in Vancouver), “Latin American Development Models: A Parallel Between Brazil and Mexico”
Harbour Centre, Room 1600

October 13: Renato Rodrigues da Silva (SFU), “Ferreira
 Gullar’s 
Non‐Object, 
or 
How 
Neoconcrete
 Poetry 
Became 
One 
with 
the 
World”
Harbour Centre, Room 1315

November 3: Katherine Reilly (SFU), “Resilient Development in Central America? Rethinking Progress”
Harbour Centre, Room 1425

November 24: CANCELLED. Gretchen Hernandez (SFU), “Taking Back Development: Social Economy in Indigenous Communities in the Highlands of Bolivia”
Harbour Centre, Room 1500

Spring

January 19: Sara Koopman (UBC), “’Mona, Mona, Mona!’ Whiteness, Tropicality, and International Accompaniment in Colombia”
Harbour Centre, Room 2245

February 9: Vincent Andrisani (SFU), “Aural ethnography and the notion of membership: an exploration of listening culture in Havana”
Harbour Centre, Room 2245

March 1: Onur Bakiner (SFU), TBC
Harbour Centre, Room 2245

March 22: René Bautista (UBC), “Las alegorías del positivismo y la modernidad” and Sergio Villalobos (University of Arkansas), TBA
Harbour Centre, Room 2245

March 29: Danny James (Indiana University), TBC
Harbour Centre, Room 2245

All welcome. Papers will be circulated in advance. Refreshments will be provided.
Discussion will continue in the Railway Club.

Contact jon.beasley-murray@ubc.ca or aldawson@sfu.ca for more details if you have a query.