Franklin & Marshall College

LANCASTER, Pa. –"Latin America in the New Millennium," a speaker series on Latin American and Iberian Studies that will run during the Spring 2009 semester at Franklin & Marshall College.  

The series aims to promote an interest for the Latin American and Iberian region and educate the community about key events facing the region.  All events in the series are free and open to the public.
The series will feature the following events:

February 24, 2009, 7 p.m.
"Puerto Rico in a New Era: Politics and Promise" 
Ricardo Vigoreaux, Puerto Rican politician and media personality
Booth Ferris North, 2nd Floor, Steinman College Center
Sponsored by CLAS, Academic Innovation, and the Public Affairs Lecture Fund

Vigoreaux will discuss current political issues in Puerto Rico, including statehood and Puerto Rican's political participation in electoral politics on the island and the mainland. He is a popular figure in Puerto Rico for his career in the entertainment industry and his more recent political involvement. Once a renowned actor, radio and television host, and musician, Vigoreaux has now added political activism to his repertoire. Vigoreaux served as spokesman for the Popular Democratic Party in Puerto Rico in the mid 1990s and won a seat in the Puerto Rican legislature in 1996. In 2000, he was appointed as President of the Department of Banking and Consumer Affairs, Vice-President of the Commission for Municipal Government, Public Corporations and Urban Affairs, and Secretary of the Commission for International and Federal Affairs. Determined to continue his involvement, Vigoreaux currently works for Puerto Rico's Department of Tourism.  For more information, contact Donna Chambers, Dept. of Spanish & Linguistics (donna.chambers@fandm.edu)

March 9, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
"Gendered Consequences of International Migration"
Katharine Donato, International Women's Week keynote speaker
Stahr Auditorium, Stager Hall
Sponsored by the International Studies Program and The  Alice Drum Women's Center

Donato is Professor of Sociology and Fellow at the Center for Nashville Studies and Center for the Americas. In honor of International Women's Week, Donato will share her knowledge on public health, immigration, and children with the F&M community. Donato has participated in several studies, including a binational project that examines how health and migration affect life and a tri-city project focused on immigrant parent involvement in schools. Donato uses data from these studies to aid in current analyses of federal school data and examine variation in immigrant parent involvement and school outreach programs. For more information, contact Judy L. Pehrson (judy.pehrson@fandm.edu)

April 9, 2009, 5 p.m.
"'He outfitted his family in notable decency': Slavery, Honor and Dress in Eighteenth Century Lima, Peru"
Tamara Walker, Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of History, the University of Pennsylvania
The Forum at the Joseph International Center, 701 College Avenue
Sponsored by CLAS

Walker teaches courses on the study of slavery, material culture, and cultural representation. During her talk, she will discuss her research findings and experience doing fieldwork in South America. She will share her experience as a minority woman conducting research and her work as a historian. Her current work focuses on the relationship between clothing and status in an ethnically diverse, urban slaveholding society, explored more in depth in her doctoral dissertation, "Ladies and Gentlemen, Slaves and Citizens: Dressing the Part in Lima, 1723-1745." Walker awaits the publishing of her article, "'He outfitted his family in notable decency': Slavery, Honor, and Dress in Eighteenth Century Lima, Peru" in September 2009.  For more information, contact Stephanie McNulty (stephanie.mcnulty@fandm.edu)

April 21, 2009, 5 p.m.
"Telling the 'Official Story': The Challenges of Researching, Compiling and Declassifying the Official Record of U.S. Foreign Relations."
Halbert Jones, historian, Middle East and Americas Division of the Office of the Historian of the U.S. Department of State
Stahr Auditorium, Stager Hall
Sponsored by CLAS

Jones will discuss his work with U.S. relations with Latin America during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations. His record will be published as part of the Foreign Relations of the United States series.  For more information, contact Eric Zolov (eric.zolov@fandm.edu)

FOR MORE INFORMATION: MARCY DUBROFF (717) 291-3837
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