LACAS Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Events
P.U.L.S.E. 2nd Annual Women Educating and Empowering Conference
SUNY-Binghamton
December 1, 2012
“Latin American Student Union Banquet”
November 3, 2012
Program attendance at the Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference
University of Albany, NY
October 24-28, 2012
Afro-Diasporic Cuban Faith: The Role of Women in Osha
Speaker: María Isabel Berbes Ribeaux
October 9, 2012
First Latin American, Caribbean, Latin@ and Indigenous Studies Undergraduate Student Conference and Banquet
April 21, 2012
Obama and Beyond: Civil Right and Social Change in the 21st Century
Speaker: Mary Frances Berry
April 19, 2012
Dorothea Smartt reading from her poetry
March 13, 2012
Program attendance at the 27th Annual Symposium on African American Culture and Philosophy (West Lafayette, Indiana)
December 3, 2011
Latin American Student Union Banquet
November 5, 2011
Dialogues with Pachamama. Andean Conceptions of "Luck" and "Plenty"
Speaker: Lucila Bugallo
October 12, 2011
El fruto y su corazón: saber, dignidad, y persistencia en los pueblos surandinos de Jujuy, Argentina
Speaker: Mario Vilka
October 7, 2011
Humanizing the Dehumanized in Writing "Their Dogs Came with Them"
Helena María Viramontes
May 13, 2011
We're not Dogs! Humanizing the Dehumanized in Writing "Their Dogs Came with Them"
Helena María Viramontes
May 12, 2011
LACAS Open House
April 22, 2011
Reading from The Origin of Species and Other Poems
Speaker: Ernesto Cardenal
April 14, 2011
Instant Collectors, Collecionistas de Instantes
Speaker: Saia Vergara Jaime
March 31, 2011
Black and Gay Struggles in Cuba
Speaker: Tomás Fernández Robaina
March 9, 2011
A Mother/Daughter Writing against State Terrorism: From The Little School to The Strange House
Speakers: Alicia Partnoy and Ruth Irupé Sanabria
March 3, 2011
Faith and Religion in Argentine Prison Writing
Speaker: Alicia Partnoy
March 2, 2011
Looking Beyond the Crown: Latin@ and African-American Street Organizations and Communities
November 18, 2010
Latin American Student Union Banquet
November 6, 2010
Program attendance at the Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference
Hartford, CT
October 21-23, 2010
Student Activism at the University of Puerto Rico
Speakers: Alberto Rodríguez Rivera, Alicia Gerena Petru, Hedy Nieves-Crespo,
October 5, 2010
The University as a Contested Space
Speakers: Alberto Rodríguez Rivera, Alicia Gerena Petru, Hedy Nieves-Crespo, Roberto Morales López
October 4, 2010
“Return Our Ancestors: American Indians and NAGPRA - Voices from the Haudenosaunee"
Speakers: G. Peter Jemison, Doug George-Kanentiio, Joanne Shenandoah
May 6, 2010
“Caribbean Geographies: Tourism, Environment and Puerto Rico”
Speaker: Roberto R. Morales López
April 21, 2010
“Activism and Media Making”
Speaker: Esther Figueroa
March 3, 2010
“Screening and Discussion of Jamaica for Sale”
Speaker: Esther Figueroa
March 2, 2010
Program Participation at the 39th Annual African-American and Puerto Rican Congressional Caucus
Albany, NY
February 12-14, 2010
Crossroads Conference
SUNY-Binghamton
November 21, 2009
Altarities/Alterities
Speaker: Dr. Laura Elisa Pérez
May 7, 2009
“Afro-Caribbean Rhythms”
Speaker: Tito Sandoval
April 23, 2009
“Reading of Writings by Lesbians of Color”
April 22, 2009
“Students to help Nicaragua’s needy”
Facilitator: Nelson Lopez
April 4-12, 2009
LACAS OPEN HOUSE
March 10, 2009
“A Reading of the Play Beckett and Godot”
Speaker: Juan Radrigan
February 3, 2009
Speaker: Veronica Leyva
October 23, 2008
“Gender and Women’s Experiences in the Arts” (In Haiti)
Speaker: Lc. Mireille P. Jérôme
October 20, 2008
LACAS Open House
May 8, 2008
Bolivia: Current Political Trends
Speaker: Julieta Paredes
April 29, 2008
Program Attendance at Somos el Futuro Legislative Conference
Albany, NY
April 25-27, 2008
"Racism in the Judicial System"
May 6, 2006
"Confined Lives in Neo-Colonial Peru: Race, Class, and Imprisonment in Lima"
Speaker: Prof. Carlos Aguirre, University of Oregon
May 5, 2006
"The Importance of Marronage in Diaspora Studies"
Speakers: Prof. William Fred Santiago-Valles, Western Michigan University
April 27, 2006
"Violent Acts: Cultures, Structures, and Retraditionalization"
Speaker: Prof. Kumkum Sangari, University of Wisconsin
April 18, 2006
"The Sexual Other in Brazilian Television: Social and Institutional Constraints on Representations"
Speaker: Prof. Antonio C. La Pastina, Texas A&M University
April 7, 2006
"Viewing Brazil: Local Audiences and the Interpretation of the Nation"
Speaker: Prof. Antonio C. La Pastina, Texas A&M University
April 6, 2006
"Píntame a Dangerous Mujer: Poesía and Prose"
Speaker: Tatiana de la Tierra, SUNY-Buffalo
March 2, 2006
"Candomblé and Umbanda: Syncretism, Afro-traditions and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Brazilian Religious Practices"
Speaker: Prof. Ricardo J. Santos, Nassau Community College, SUNY
February 16, 2006
"Talking the Talk: The School of the Americas and Human Rights"
Speaker: Dr. Lesley Gill, Department of Anthropology, American University
April 26, 2005
AFROARGENTINES Film screening
Discussion Leader: Prof. Miriam Victoria Gomes, Universidad de Buenos Aires Argentina
February 25, 2005
"A Memorial Teach-in: Dedicado a Pedro Pietri y Richie Pérez"
May 7, 2004
"Juan Sánchez: art and politics"
Speaker: Juan Sánchez
May 2004
"Latinos in the U.S. Criminal Justice System"
Speaker: Dr. Juanita Díaz-Cotto, SUNY-Binghamton
March 2004
"Are You Not Receiving Enough Financial Aid? When Should You File a FAFSA? How Can You Afford Graduate School?"
Facilitator: Shevonne McKenzie, Financial Aid Counselor
AMarch 18, 2004
"Birthing the Nation in Color, Black, and White: Afro-Cuban Perspectives on Race and Nation in 19th Century Cuba"
Speaker: Dr. Fannie T. Rushing, Benedictine University
March 16, 2004
Past Joint Academic Activities:
The Upstate New York Consortium for Latin American Studies
The Upstate New York Consortium was established to: expand linkages among Cornell University, Syracuse University and the State University of New York at Binghamton to enrich connections among academic disciplines; connections between academic disciplines and the professions; and connections between academic and non-academic publics.
All members collaborated on:
- language instruction, to provide students with the skills that allowed them to connect effectively to Latin America and the Caribbean;
- interdisciplinary area studies, to connect the approaches of different disciplines and professions in ways that effectively address pressing public concerns;
- outreach, to foster informed connections between the region and communities in the United States, including students in K-12 and in post-secondary institutions.
In addition, the members sought to foster more effective collaboration among their libraries and between the Consortium and other colleges and university in Upstate New York.
