Announcements

 

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2011 Tinker Field Research Grants for Graduate Students for Research in Latin America and Iberia. Fourteen graduate students received funding for short-term field research. The recipients are:

  • Elizabeth Bennett, Political Science, Travel to Quillabamba, Peru to meet with members of Coordinadora Latinoamericana
  • Paula Dias, Anthropology, Oil Development in Brazil
  • Lachen Chernyha, Political Science, Regional Autonomy in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
  • Ana Leticia Fauri, Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, Literature and History in Atónio de Oliveira Salazar’s Estado Novo
  • Adi Gold, Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, Construction and Reconstruction of Identity in Jewish Brazilian Literature
  • Sandra Haley, History, Gender Roles of Women Domestic Workers in Oaxaca
  • Magnus Pharao Hansen, Anthropology, Indigenous Groups in Central Mexico
  • Peter Klein, Sociology, Development and Environment in the Rural Amazon
  • Heather Randell, Sociology, Impacts of the Belo Monte Dam on the Livelihoods of displaced communities inthe Amazon
  • Stephanie Savell, Anthropology, Investigating Grassroots Civil Society in Everyday urban Violence in a Rio de Janeiro Favela
  • Jazmin Sierra, Political Science, The Role of the State in Brazil’s Rise
  • Daniel Silva, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Cultural and Physical Reshaping of Rio de Janeiro in the Early 20th Century
  • Yana Stainova, Anthropology, To Play and to Fight: The Music of Social Change in Venezuela
  • Ana Maria Tribin, Economics, Natural Born Killers vs Exposure to Violence

 

Coming Up...

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies will host a Tinker "Bank From the Field" graduate workshop on October 20, 2011. The workshop will be from 3PM-7PM in the McKinney Conference Room at the Watson Institute.

Tinker Workshop Schedule

October 20, 2011

 

 

3:00-3:20: Ana Tribin: "Natural Born Killers" vs  Exposure to Violence: the Performance of Colombian Soccer 

3:20-3:40 Paula Dias: Regulating Oil, Creating Expertise: The Politics of Environmental Education Projects in Brazil

3:40-4:00 Daniel Silva: Back to the Past: Researching Rio de Janiero's Social and Cultural Life a Hundred Years Ago

4:00-4:20 Sandra Haley Labor Undone: Toward a Working-Class History of Postrevolutionary Oaxaca

4:20-4:40 Jazmin Sierra: Open Economy Developmentalism: Industrial Policy under the Partido de los Trabalhadores


4:40-5:00 Q&A

5:00-5:20 Adi Gold: Jewish Narrative in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

5:20-5:40 Yana Stainova: The Music of Becoming: The Social Resonance of Classical Music in the Youth Orchestras of Venezuela's "El Sistema"

5:40-6:00 Peter Klein & Heather Randall: Dams in the Amazon: Issues of Development, Democracy, and Displacement

6:00-6:20  Lachen Chernya: The Movement for Autonomy in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

6:20-6:40 Stephanie Savell: The 'Human Security' Paradigm and Brazilian Military Interventions in Poor Urban Neighborhoods

6:40-7:00 break for Q&A