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WordsUW Havens Center seminar series, "Reframing Topics in Mexican American History," with Univ. of Notre Dame Prof. Marc Rodriguez, 4/14-15, at various campus locations (see www.havenscenter.org for times/venues). Free; public welcome. 262-0854When: 04/14/09Call: 262-0854Web: www.havenscenter.orgEmail: pbarrett@ssc.wisc.eduMore Information: THE HAVENS CENTER SPRING 2009 VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM www.havenscenter.org Presents LATINO POLITICS & HISTORY Co-sponsored by the UW Global Studies Program, the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, and the Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies Program GARY SEGURA Political Science, Stanford University RECONFIGURING THE AMERICAN POLITY THROUGH LATINO INCORPORATION "Latino Political Incorporation and an Emerging Democratic Majority? Latinos in the 2008 Presidential Election" Tuesday, March 24, 4pm, 206 Ingraham "Immigration and Its Discontents: Evaluating the Cultural, Political, and Economic Arguments about Latin American Immigration on Their (De) Merits" Wednesday, March 25, 4pm, 8417 Social Science Open Seminar Thursday, March 26, 12:20pm, 8108 Social Science GARY M. SEGURA is Professor of American Politics and Chair of Chicano/a Studies at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. His work focuses on issues of political representation, and currently is focusing on the accessibility of government and politics to America's growing Latino minority, as well as a book-length project on the links between casualties in international conflict and domestic politics. He is the author of Making It Home: Latino Lives in America and over 40 articles and book chapters, and co-editor of Diversity In Democracy: Minority Representation in the United States. JORGE DUANY Sociology and Anthropology, University of Puerto Rico TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION FROM THE HISPANIC CARIBBEAN The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Changing Settlement Patterns and Cultural Identities Tuesday, April 7, 4 pm, 206 Ingraham The Dominican Diaspora: A Transnational Perspective Wednesday, April 8, 4 pm, 8417 Social Science Open Seminar Thursday, April 9, 12:20 pm, 8108 Social Science JORGE DUANY is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. He has published extensively on Caribbean migration, ethnicity, race, nationalism, and transnationalism in academic journals and professional books in the Caribbean, North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Professor Duany's most recent book is The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States (2002). He is the coauthor of Puerto Ricans in Orlando and Central Florida (2006), Cubans in Puerto Rico: Ethnic Economy and Cultural Identity (1997), and El Barrio Gandul: Economia subterranea y migracion indocumentada en Puerto Rico (1995). He is also the author of Quisqueya on the Hudson: The Transnational Identity of Dominicans in Washington Heights (1994). MARC RODRIGUEZ History and Law, University of Notre Dame REFRAMING TOPICS IN MEXICAN AMERICAN HISTORY "The Tejano Diaspora in Action: Texas, Wisconsin and the Civil and Labor Rights Movement of the 1960s" Tuesday, April 14, 4 pm, 206 Ingraham Open Seminar Wednesday, April 15, 11 am, 5243 Humanities "The Jury Right in Comparative Context: Reconsidering Hernandez v. Texas" Wednesday, April 15, 4 pm, Lubar Commons (7200 Law School) Co-sponsored by the Institute for Legal Studies MARC RODRIGUEZ is Assistant Professor of History and Law at the University of Notre Dame. Working within the fields of Mexican American and American legal history, Professor Rodriguez focuses on the relationship between migration, ethnicity, youth politics, state reform, and labor after 1945. He recently completed two edited volumes dealing with international and North American migration in comparative context. Rodriguez is currently completing his first book, tentatively titled Mexican Americanism: The Tejano Diaspora and Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin after 1950 (forthcoming, University of North Carolina Press). His new research project is an examination of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments with an emphasis on the struggle for jury representation for Mexican Americans, African Americans, and women. RAQUEL Z. RIVERA Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College FROM BOMBA TO REGGAETON: THE SOCIO-SONIC CIRCUITRY OF CARIBBEAN LATINO MUSIC Reggaeton's Socio-Sonic Circuitry: From Jamaica and New York, to Panama, Puerto Rico and Beyond Tuesday, April 21, 4pm, 206 Ingraham New York Bomba: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and a Bridge Called Haiti Wednesday, April 22, 4 pm, 8417 Social Science Open Seminar Thursday, April 23, 12:20 pm, 8108 Social Science RAQUEL Z. RIVERA is a Researcher at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College. Her areas of scholarly interest are popular music and culture, race and ethnicity, nation and diaspora, and the intersections between Latino and Africana studies. Author of New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and numerous articles on popular music and culture, she is co-editor of the anthology Reggaeton with Wayne Marshall and Deborah Pacini Hernandez (Duke University Press, 2009). A freelance journalist, her articles have been published in various magazines and newspapers, among these: Vibe, One World, Urban Latino, El Diario/La Prensa, El Nuevo Dia and The San Juan Star. A singer-songwriter, she is a member of Puerto Rican bomba group Alma Moyo, and a founding and former member of Boricua roots music group Yerbabuena and the women's musical collective Yaya. JUAN FLORES Latino Studies, New York University THE DIASPORA STRIKES BACK: CULTURAL CHALLENGES OF TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES Coming Home to Roost: Rethinking Diaspora and Cultural Remittances Tuesday, April 28, 4 pm, 206 Ingraham Hall Caribeno Counterstream: Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban Diasporas on the Move Wednesday, April 29, 4 pm, 8417 Social Science Open Seminar Thursday, April 30, 12:20 pm, 8108 Social Science JUAN FLORES is Professor of Latino Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. His interests include Puerto Rican and Latina/o culture, diaspora and transnational communities, and the sociology of popular culture. He is the author of Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity, Poetry in East Germany, The Insular Vision, La venganza de Cortijo, and From Bomba To Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity. He is the translator of Memoirs of Bernardo Vega and Cortijo's Wake by Edgardo RodrÃÂguez Julia, and co-editor of On Edge: The Crisis of Latin American Culture. His current projects include: Companion to Latino Studies (co-edited with Renato Rosaldo), Boogaloo y otros guisos, and The Diaspora Strikes Back: Cultural Challenges of Transnational Communities. All events are free and open to the public. Students can earn 1-3 credits by attending lectures and seminars. Contact Patrick Barrett at 262-0854 or pbarrett@ssc.wisc.edu or write to info@havenscenter.org. More information about each scholar and audio recordings are available at www.havenscenter.org. READINGS are available online at www.havenscenter.org LISTEN ONLINE: Most Havens Center lectures are archived in mp3 format on our website. You can listen to them online at www.havenscenter.org/audio/archives, or if you have iTunes, you can subscribe to them here: http://tinyurl.com/28tqmzWhen: Apr 14, 2009 12:00:00 AM to Apr 14, 2009 12:00:00 AM Where: UW Ingraham Hall in Madison,Wisconsin Cost:
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