The Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London
May 2006 Events
For venue information and further details about events, please visit http://www.americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php
Thursday 4 May, 5:00 pm
Memories of the Cuban Revolution
Elizabeth Dore, University of Southampton
Caribbean Societies in Regional Context Seminar
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Friday 5 May, 2:00 pm
The rise of China, American interests, and the prospects for regional stability
Robert Ross, Boston College
US Politics Seminar
Friday 5 May, 5:30 pm
Book launch of Right On? Political change and continuity in George W Bush's America
edited by Iwan Morgan and Philip Davies
Room 273, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN
RSVP to Olga Jimenez at [log in to unmask] / tel. 020 7862 8870
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Saturday 6 May, 10:30 - 6:00 pm
Latin American Music Seminar
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Monday 8 - Tuesday 9 May, 10:00 - 18:00 pm
America's Americans: The Populations of the United States
William Frey, Univesity of Michigan Population Studies Center and Rhodes Cook, leader in US political opinion polling
Conference / Workshop & Symposium
Registration Form & Programme http://www.americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php
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Thursday 11 May, 5:00 pm
Making Treaty 1: The politics of kinship and resistance
Jean Friesen, University of Manitoba
Associated event:
Thursday 11 May, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Book launch of Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua
By Elizabeth Dore
The Brunei Gallery Cafe
SOAS, Russell Square, LONDON WC1H
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CANCELLED
Saturday 13 May
South American Archaeology seminar
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Thursday 18 May, 5:00 pm
Discriminating urban spaces and messy multiculturalism? Case studies from Jamaica and the Dominican Republic
David Howard, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh
Caribbean Societies in Regional Context Seminar
Thursday 18 May, 5:00 pm
Recreators of American Pasts and Inventors of Literary Futures: The Parallel Lives of Bret Harte in California and Ricardo Palma in Peru (1860-1896)
Efrain Kristal, University of California
Thursday 18 May, 5:00 pm
Canadian Origins of the Rhodes Scholarships
David Torrance, Mount Allison University
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Friday 19 May, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Rethinking Cultural History in the Era of Globalisation
Jean Franco, University of Columbia
The Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR) 25th Anniversary Event
Panel on Latin American Issues followed by a Lecture at 5:30 pm
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Friday 26 May, 5:00 pm
Panel on Francisco de Miranda
Followed by book launch of Francisco de Miranda: Exile and Enlightenment
edited by John Maher
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