This page is a selection of lectures considered to be of special interest to LAS students, but are not exclusive. For last-minute changes, please check with the respective events coordinators. January 2007 | February 2007 | March 2007 | April 2007
(last updated by Carolann Davis on 2/8/2007)
JANUARY 2007
FEBRUARY 2007
Tuesday, February 13th
4:30-6:30 p.m., Middlebury Congregational Church, Fellowship Hall.
A Forum on Immigration Issues
Free and open to the public. Light snacks and refreshments served.
Anticipated panelists include:
• Marisela Ramos (a history professor from Middlebury College whose parents were Mexican Immigrants)
• Chris Urban (the Migrant Education teacher, reading stories and poems that his students have written)
• Cheryl Connor (a dairy farmer and nurse)
• A speaker from the Mexican Consulate
• A speaker reporting on the migrant health needs assessment.
Contact: Cheryl Mitchell at Cheryl.Mitchell@uvm.edu or 802-989-8141
Thursday, February 15
7:00p.m., Isley Middlebury Public Library, Meeting Room
Otter Creek Audubon Society and Middlebury Natural Foods Co-Op Lecture:
“Corn Across Borders: The Rise and Fall of the Tortilla King,”
by Marisela Ramos, Visiting Scholar, Middlebury College
MARCH 2007
Tuesday, March 6
4:30 p.m., Warner Hemicycle
Panel discussion: "The 'Other' Latinas: Brasileiras in the U.S."
"In the Shadow of Carmen Miranda and the Carnival: Brazilian Immigrant Women in Los Angeles" by Bernadete Beserra, Associate Professor at the School of Education, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil.
"Travelers of the Twentieth Century: Brazilian Women in the Boston Area" by Helo Galvão, community activist and director of Mulher Brasileira, Boston.
Tuesday, March 20
4:30 PM, RAJ CON: Lecture, "Women in the Conquest of the Americas," by Juan Maura, Department of Romance Languages, University of Vermont
APRIL 2007
Monday, April 23
4:30 p.m., Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
"El indigenismo y sus invenciones: el relato de lo andino en la cultura peruana" by Peter Elmore, University of Colorado at Boulder.