SOLAS Brown Bag Lecture Schedule
Spring 2002
(All lectures are at the LAII from 12-1pm on Fridays, unless otherwise noted.)
 | January 25th: Help/advisement session for FRG applications. |
| February 1st: Celia Lopez-Chavez. "Capitalists of the 18th century: Jesuits, Money, and Power in Colonial Latin America (a case study)." |
| February 8th: Pedro Cajas Salvatierra, Eco-Tourism Coordinator in the Central Cloud Forest of Peru. "The Development of Eco-Tourism Projects." |
| Tuesday, February 19th: beginning of the SOLAS Latin American Film Series |
| March 22nd: Jeff Deneman, Graduate LAS Student. "Chico Science & Nação Zumbi and the Mangue Movement of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil." |
| March 29th: Patraick Staib, Ph.D. student in Anthropology. "Organic Coffee Production in Nicaragua." |
| April 12th: Osmany Salas, Director of the Belize Audobon Society. "The Evolutionof conservation in Central America and Belize: Co-management Efforts in Brazil." |
| April 19th: Susana Jonas, Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "Latino Immigrant Rights Organizing and Legalization Strategies in a Time of War (i.e. post 9/11) and 'Anti-Terrorism'." |
| April 26th: Dr. Luis Macas, Ecuadorian Indigenous leader and President of CONAIE. "El Proceso Politico de los Pueblos Indigenas del Ecuador: (In Spanish with English Translation) |
Other Upcoming Events
| Friday, March 29th: SOLAS Happy Hour (Time and Location to be announced) |
| April 5th: All day conference "Integration in the Americas: Where do we go from here?" Moot Court Room of the UNM Law School |
| April 1st: Deadline for Short-Term Study Abroad applications to Spain and Mexico for the Summer 2002 session. |
| Sunday, April 7th, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.: Concierto de Esperanza, A Benefit Concert for the Children of Brazil. |
| Monday, April 8th, 6:30 p.m.: SOLAS meeting at the SOLAS pod. |
| Thursday,April 11th (tentative date): Women in Juarz Benefit Event (Date will be confirmed, time and location to be announced) |
| April 16th: deadline for submissions to Las Noticias Estudiantiles summer 2002 issue. |
| Thursday, April 18th, 12:00 - 1:00 at University House: Latin American Studies Career Development Workshop. |
| Thursday, May 2nd, 7:00 p.m., location to be announced: "Interdisciplinary Forum on the Current Crisis in Argentina." Panelists: Steven Levitski. Political Scientist at Harvard; Enrique Peruzzotti, Sociologist at la Universidad Torcuato di Tella and Fulbright Research Scholar at Columbia University; Mark Alan Healy, Historian at New York University; Donald Coes, Economist at the University of New Mexico. |