The Institute for the Study of the Americas invites you to the following events in March:
01/03/2006 14:00 : Symposium (We regret to inform that this event is fully booked)
Beyond the Multiculturalism Debate: Immigrant incorporation in the US and Britain
Main speaker: Mary C. Waters, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
Panel and Commentary:
Sarah Spencer, Commissioner on Britain’s Commission for Racial Equality, and Director of COMPAS (Centre on Migration, Policy and Society) at University of Oxford.
Steven Vertovec, Professor of Anthropology and Director of COMPAS at University of Oxford.
Miri Song, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Kent
Seminar Room 12, Institute for the Study of the Americas
http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php?id=777
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01/03/2006 17:00 : Research Seminar on Latin America & the Caribbean
Class and Mass in the Origins of Peronism
Samuel E. Amaral, Academia Nacional de Historia y Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina
Old Library Room, Institute for the Study of the Americas
http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php?id=870
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02/03/2006 17:00 : Caribbean Societies in Regional Context Seminar
Are We British Subjects or British Objects? British West Indians in Cuba, 1900-1960
Robert Whitney, University of New Brunswick (co-author with Graciella Chailloux Laffita, University of Havana)
Convenors: Mary Turner, Institute of Commonwealth Studies & Kate Quinn, Institute for the Study of the Americas
Menzies Room, Institute of Commonwealth Studies
http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php?id=778
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07/03/2006 17:00 : United States Seminar
West Side Storys: Perspectives on an American Musical
Elizabeth A. Wells, Mount Allison University
Old Library Room, Institute for the Study of the Americas
http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php?id=871
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07/03/2006 17:00 : Comparative Seminar / Informal Talk
Literature from the US-Mexico Border
Cristina Rivera Garza (Poet and historian) Eduardo Antonio Parra (Essay writer) and Sergio González Rodríguez (Writer and journalist)
Round Table
In collaboration with the Mexican Embassy
Seminar Room 12, Institute for the Study of the Americas
http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php?id=1178
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08/03/2006 17:00 - 19:00 : Research Seminar on Latin America & the Caribbean
Democratic Disenchantment and Political Institutions in Contemporary Latin America
Jonathan Hartlyn, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Seminar Room 12, Institute for the Study of the Americas
http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php?id=86
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09/03/2006 17:00 : Canada Seminar
Acceptance: Relations Between Immigrants and the Long-Settled in Winnipeg 1940-1990
Gerry Friesen, University of Manitoba
Convenors: Philip Buckner, Institute of Commonwealth Studies & Christopher Dummitt, Institute for the Study of the Americas
Seminar Room 12, Institute for the Study of the Americas
http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php?id=872
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09/03/2006 17:30 : Seminar / Informal Talk
Unfree Labour After Emancipation: Anomaly or Necessity? Louisiana's Sugar Workforce
Richard Follett, University of Sussex
The Pollard Room, Institute of Historical Research
http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php?id=1170
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13/03/2006 17:30 : Harry Allen Memorial Lecture
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis as Civil War Presidents: A Comparison
Richard Carwardine, Oxford University
Convenor: Iwan Morgan, Institute for the Study of the Americas
Lecture Theatre, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php?id=87
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15/03/2006 17:00 : Research Seminar on Latin America & the Caribbean
Roads to Development? Uneven Modernities, the Politics of Knowledge, and Road Building in Contemporary Peru
Penelope Harvey, University of Manchester
Old Library Room, Institute for the Study of the Americas
http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php?id=88
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23/03/2006 17:30 : Seminar / Informal Talk
The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines
Paul A. Kramer, Johns Hopkins University
The Pollard Room, Institute of Historical Research
http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php?id=1171
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CANCELLED
24/03/2006 17:00 : Caribbean Societies in Regional Context Seminar
Debate on Haiti - The Downfall of Aristide: Implications & Aftermath
Caribbean Societies in Regional Context Seminar
Convenors: Mary Turner, Institute of Commonwealth Studies & Kate Quinn, Institute for the Study of the Americas
Seminar Room 12, ISA
http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php?id=89
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30/03/2006 17:00 : Seminar / Informal Talk
Looking at the Quebec Act (1774) in a Family Way
Brian Young, McGill University
Institute of Commonwealth Studies - Russell Square
http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php?id=873
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31/03/06 - 1/04/06 Special invitation to conference organised by Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
The Transnational in Iberian and Latin American cinemas
Organised by Peter W. Evans (QMUL), Chris Perriam (Manchester) and Isabel Santaolalla (Roehampton). http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/events_sas.php?id=793
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