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Newsletter of the Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program at Lehman College, City University of New York |
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Fall 2000
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Project to Establish a CUNY-wide academic Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center For the past year an interdisciplinary committee of faculty specialists chaired by Prof. Laird W. Bergad of Lehman’s Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies has worked with the CUNY Graduate Center’s administration to establish an academic Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies. This proposed center will bring together the numerous faculty specialists scattered throughout CUNY’s senior and community colleges to focus on the development of graduate-level courses in these disciplines and the recruitment of students for the Ph.D. programs housed at the Graduate Center. The support of Lehman President Ricardo Fernández, a number of notable local political leaders such as the Honorable Guillermo Linares city councilman, and the New York City philanthropist Albert Bildner has been crucial in persuading the CUNY Chancellor Mathew Goldstein and Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Louise Mirrer, that this is a worthwhile project. The project to create this center has also benefitted from the support of the Dominican Institute of City College, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, housed at Hunter, and the Bildner Center for Western Hemispheric Studies of the Graduate Center. Despite having a distinguished faculty which specializes on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino communities in the United States, CUNY is not recognized nationally or internationally as a major center for the study of the region and its descendants in the U.S. While such private universities such as Columbia and New York University have been successful at attracting funds from the U.S. Department of Education to finance graduate study in these areas, CUNY has never submitted an application to become designated as a National Resource Center by the Department of Education for the study of Latin America and the Caribbean. This is the key to securing funding for graduate fellowships. A primary reason has been the absence of an over arching academic center which focuses faculty and students on a coherent program of study. The establishment of this center will be the first step in changing this situation. This center will work to establish fellowships for graduate study and a particular goal is to encourage CUNY’s students of Hispanic origin to pursue doctoral study at the Graduate Center. As the following statistical table indicates, while over 25% of all CUNY undergraduates were of Hispanic origin according to data for the Fall 1998 semester, only 6.5% of the Graduate Center’s students were. The establishment of this center is in the process of being approved by the Graduate Center’s Center and Institute Review Committee, and will be on the agenda of the January 2001 meeting of the CUNY Board of Trustees. There is every expectation that it will be approved and will be inaugurated during the Fall 2001 semester. For information on graduate study at the CUNY Graduate Center see Prof. Bergad, 282 Carman, 718-960-77 |
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Faculty NewsCésar Ayala has recently completed an article “Del latifundio azucarero al latifundio militar: las expropiaciones de la Marina de Guerra en la década de 1940 en Vieques,Puerto Rico” which will be published in the Revista de Ciencias Sociales (San Juan, Puerto Rico): (New Series) No. 10, January 2001. Spanish and English language versions of this paper are located at the following URL: http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/depts/latinampuertorican/vieques/index.htm Lectures on this project were presented at the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, October 6, 2000, an at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies of Hunter College on November 6, 2000. Prof. Ayala has also won a PSC-CUNY Grant, "Vieques, Puerto Rico: the Social Structure of the Navy's Expropriations During World War II." (July 1, 2000-June 30, 2001, $3,720) and a CUNY Collaborative Grant with Prof. Marithelma Costa of Hunter College for a project titled “Identity Formation and Crisis: Puerto Rico in the 1930s” (Nov 1, 2000- Oct 30, 2002: $22,000) He was also recently appointed to the doctoral faculty of the Ph. D. Program in Sociology at CUNY Graduate Center. Prof. Ayala and Laird W. Bergad, have had a co-authored article “Rural Puerto Rico during the Early Twentieth Century Reconsidered: Land and Society, 1899-1915” accepted for publication in the Latin American Research Review. This article will appear in Vol. 37, No. 2 (Spring 2002). Forrest D. Colburn, Professor and Chair of the Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies Department, has had a book accepted for publication by Princeton University Press. The work is titled, “Latin America at the End of Politics” and explores what Latin America is like now that the ideological war between the “left” and the “right” have ended. Professor Colburn has co-authored (with Fernando Sánchez) a book titled, Empresarios centroamericanos y apertura económica. The book is published by the Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana, the press of the consortium of universities in Central America. The book has been well received, leading to many speaking engagements in the five countries of Central America. For example, on September 8, Professor Colburn and his coauthor addressed 350 businessmen from Central America, Panama, Ecuador, and the Caribbean who gathered in Guatemala for the VII Convención de Almacenes Generales de Depósitos de Centro América, Panamá, Ecuador y el Caribe. A second printing is forthcoming. The Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana is also preparing for publication another book written by Forrest Colburn and Fernando Sánchez, a work on the governments of Central America. The book is to be titled, Individuos versus instituciones en las democracias centroamericanas. The New Leader published in its November/December issue an interview Professor Colburn did of the presidential candidate for the “left” in Guatemala, Alvaro Colom. Professor Colburn has been invited to be a visiting professor at New York University (NYU) this spring, where he will teach a graduate class on Latin American politics. Laird W. Bergad’s book on the history of slavery in Minas Gerais, Brazil has been translated into Portuguese as A Escravidão e a História Econômica e Demográfica de Minas Gerais, Brasil, 1720-1888 and will be published by Editora Aguilar of Rio de Janeiro in early 2001. Prof. Bergad projects the beginning of a new research project on the social and economic history of the capitania/province of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the 18th and 19th centuries in June 2001. He also continues to work on, along with Prof. César Ayala, a book length manuscript on rural Puerto Rican history in the early 20th century. Prof. Bergad appeared on CUNY-TV on October 28-29, 2000 as a commentator on the Brazilian movie Xica (upon which the current telenovela is based). This film will be shown at the Lehman College Art Gallery on November 15 at 2:30. José Luis Renique is to be congratulated for winning a prestigious research fellowship from the National Endowment for Humanities to continue his work on the political history of Peru during the 20th century. Prof. Renique was recently appointed to the faculty of the Ph.D. Program in History at the Graduate Center. Xavier Totti is teaching a new course in Latin American and Caribbean Studies during the Fall 2000 semester titled Latino Identities through Film, LAC 360. The course is using an anthropological approach to study Latino identities in the U.S. by examining the content of different Latino experiences as depicted in film. This is an exciting new course which Prof. Totti hopes to develop as part of the College’s regular curriculum, and because of its success, it will be offered in the future. |
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The faculty and staff of the Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies, and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program wishes all readers a happy holiday season. |
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LATIN AMERICAN and CARIBBEAN STUDIES COURSE LISTINGS FOR SPRING 2001 LAC 143 Introduction to Latin American Art A study of the principles of art applied to visual forms with emphasis on modern art of the 19th and 20th centuries in Latin America. XH81 Th 6:00-8:40pm Staff (Meets with ARH 143.XH81 and HUM 255.XH81) LAC 169 Literature of the Caribbean A comparative survey of the Caribbean, of common themes and approaches to literary texts. L01 M 4:30-5:45pm W 4:30-5:45pm Esteves (Meets with PRS 214.L01, this section is taught in Spanish) XM81 M 6:00-8:40pm Esteves (Meets with PRS 214.XM81) LAC 210 Women in Latin America This course explores the relationship between the socioeconomic position of women and their power in domestic and public spheres in different historical contexts, such as in Inca society, as well as contemporary rural and urban settings, making use of historical, ethnographic, and autobiographical sources. G01 M 11:00-11:50AM W 11:00-12:50pm Ricourt (Meets with ANT 210.G01 & WST 210.G01) 01 M 4:00-6:40pm Lagos (Meets with ANT 206 & WST 206.01) LAC 231 Latinos in the United States A comparative study of the social, political, and economic processes affecting Latino groups in the United States. Discussion will focus on the variable adaptations made by Puerto Ricans, Chicanos, Dominicans, Cubans, Colombians, and other Latinos in their migration and settlement within American society. G01E M 11:00-11:50AM W 11:00-12:50pm Totti (ESL permission required) K01 M 3:00-4:15pm W 3:00-4:15pm Ricourt XM81 M 6:00-8:40pm Ricourt LAC 233 Latin American Literature in Translation The poetry, novel and essay of the 19th and 20th centuries. 01 T 2:00-4:30pm Picallo (Meets with SPA 233.01) LAC 235 Afro-Caribbean Societies A comparative study of Afro-Caribbean societies and cultures with emphasis on the persistence and change of African cultures, social organizations, racial and cultural patterns, religion, and folklore, literary and artistic forms, and economic and political development. 01 T 10:00-10:50am TH 10:00-11:50pm Jervis (Meets with BLS 235.01) LAC 238 Society and Culture of Latin America Description and analysis of Lain Americas distinctive ecological, economic, sociopolitical, and ideological systems. XW81 W 6:00-8:40pm Lagos (Meets with ANT 238) LAC 266 Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean I Survey of the people and civilizations of the Pre-Columbian America, and of the institutions, economy, history, and culture of Latin America and the Caribbean from the European conquest to the early 19th century (1492-1808). G01 M 11:00-11:50AM W 11:00-12:50PM Renique (Meets with HIS 250.G01) 01 M 2:25-5:15pm Renique (Meets with HIS 250) LAC 267 Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean II Survey of the nations and cultures, history, economy, and politics of Latin America and the Caribbean from the early 19th century to the present. DO1 T 11:00-11:50am Th/F 11:00-11:50am Staff (Meets with His 250.D01) G02 M 11:00-11:50am W 11:00-12:50pm Bergad (Meets with HIS 250.G02) ZL01 S 9:00-11:45am Miller (Meets with HIS 250 ZL01) LAC 312 Family & Gender Relations Comparative study of gender relations and the family among Latinos in the U.S. L01 M 4:30-5:45pm W 4:30-5:45pm Ricourt LAC 317 Early Civilization of South America and Caribbean The Incas and their ancestors; the Arawaks and the Caribs. A region by region treatment of the prehistory of South America and the Caribbean, the course examines the diversity of ancient life in these regions. F01 M 10:00-10:50am W 9:00-10:50am Byland (Meets with ANT 317.F01) LAC 330 From Colonialism to Neo-Colonialism: Latin America 1492-1890 Examination of the Spanish and Portuguese colonial systems in America; the wars of independence; and the emerging Latin American nations of the 19th century. XM81 M 6:00-8:40pm Renique (Meets with HIW 350 and HIS 767) LAC 332 Political Systems in Latin America Domestic institutions and foreign policies of selected Latin American republics. 01 W 2:00-4:40pm Colburn (Meets with POL 332.01) LAC 340 Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean Comparative examination of slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. Emphasis on the Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish (Cuba) systems, with reference to the British, North American, and French systems. 01 W 2:25-5:15pm Bergad (Meets with HIW 340 and HIS 767.01) LAC 352 Escritura Femenina Study of literature written by women in Latin America. XM81 M 6:00-8:40pm Reisz (Meets with SPA 352) LAC 352 Topics in Hispanic Literature ZT81 T 8:00-9:40pm Th 8:00-9:40pm Piña (Meets with SPA 352.ZT81) LAC 360 Latin American and Latino Theatre An exploration of Latin American theatre from the colonial era to today, with attention also given to Latino theatre in the U.S. XH81 Th 6:00-8:40pm Lervold (Meets with PRS 360.XH81; this course is taught in Spanish and English) PUERTO RICAN STUDIES COURSE LISTINGS FOR SPRING 2001 PRS 212 History of Puerto Rico Survey of the history of Puerto Rico from the mid-18th century to the present. 81 M 2:30-5:15pm Bergad XM81 M 6:00-8:40pm StaffPRS 213 Puerto Rican Culture Study of the historical evolution of Puerto Rican culture as compared with other Caribbean cultures. Introduction to the concepts, methods, and theories of cultural studies. F01 M 10:00-10:50am W 9:00-10:50am Totti K01 M 3:00-4:15pm W 3:00-4:15pm Totti XW81 W 6:00-8:40pm Totti PRS 214 Literature of the Caribbean A comparative survey of the Caribbean, of common themes and approaches to literary themes. L01 M 4:30-5:45pm W 4:30-5:45pm Esteves (Meets with LAC 169.L01. This section is taught in Spanish) XM81 M 6:00-8:40pm Esteves (Meets with LAC 169.XM81) PRS 236 Puerto Rican Music A survey of folk, popular, and classical music forms in Puerto Rican culture, and the study of the main composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. K01 M 3:00-4:15pm W 3:00-4:15pm Lervold (This course is taught in Spanish) PRS 311 Migration and the Puerto Rican Community History and development of the Puerto Rican community in the United States: migration, community establishment, institutions, regional patterns of settlement, and issues of class, race and gender. XT81 T 6:00-8:40pm Totti (Meets with SOC 250) LAC 360 Latin American and Latino Theatre An exploration of Latin American theatre from the colonial era to today, with attention also given to Latino theatre in the U.S. XH81 Th 6:00-8:40pm Lervold (Meets with PRS 360.XH81; this course is taught in Spanish and English) |
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