2012 Spring Seminar Series

Comparative Law in the Caribbean

Presenter: Steven Dow, Associate Professor, Criminal Justice

Region: Caribbean
Slave Uprisings on Haiti in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries

Presenter: Marshall Olds, Professor and Chair, Romance and Classical Studies

Region:
Jazz and Identity in Cuba: Bobby Carcasses's Fifty-Year Music Career

Presenter: Roberto Carcasses, legendary Cuban musician

Region: Central America
BRICS: a Reality or Fantasy? The Efforts and Conflicts between Foreign Policies of Brazil and the other BRICS

Presenter: João Martins Tude, Fulbright Fellow from Brazil

Region: Global
Emotional Creolizations: National Identity in Dominican Narratives of Migration in Puerto Rico

Presenter: Danny Mendez, Assistant Professor, Romance and Classical Studies

Region: North America
In the Shadow of the Forest: Visual Anthropology in the Amazon

Presenter: Hilton Pereira da Silva, Artist and Professor, Universidade Federal do Para, Belem, Brazil

Region: South America
Mayan Resistance through Performance: Indigenous Women Theater in Chiapas

Presenter: Elvira Sanchez-Blake, Associate Professor, Romance and Classical Studies

Region: Central America