Post Tagged with: "Latin American Studies"

Mexican Theater Performance of El Merolico, Oct. 19

El merolico will be performed by Efe Tres Teatro on Oct. 19.

The Mexican theater company, Efe Tres Teatro, comes to campus on Oct. 19 to perform El merolico at 7 p.m. in Scripps Hall, room 111. The performance is based on three plays originally published in 1613 by the Spanish writer, Miguel de Cervantes: El viejo celoso (The Jealous Old Man), […]

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October 1, 2018 at 7:30 pmEvents

Dantas Publishes Two Book Chapters

Dr. Mariana Dantas

Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History, recently contributed to two edited volumes based on her ongoing research. “Historical Approaches to Researching the Global Urban,” in Doing Global Urban Research, edited by John Harrison and Michael Hoyler (London: Sage, 2018), 211-224. (Co-authored with Emma Hart) This chapter considers the challenges, the […]

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July 30, 2018 at 5:49 pmResearch Uncategorized

War and Peace | Drugs and Criminal Governance in Latin America, Nov. 1

Eduardo Moncada

The War and Peace theme, Center for Law, Justice and Culture, and Latin American Studies program present Dr. Eduardo Moncada on “Drugs and Criminal Governance in Latin America” on Nov. 1 at 6 p.m. at Grover W123. Moncada is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Barnard College […]

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November 1, 2017 at 11:59 pmEvents

History Faculty Book Talk | Psychedelic Chile: Youth, Countercultre, and Politics on the Road to Socialism and Dictatorship, April 18

History Faculty Book Talk | Psychedelic Chile: Youth, Countercultre, and Politics on the Road to Socialism and Dictatorship, April 18

The History Department, in collaboration with the Contemporary History Institute and Latin American Studies, hosts the first installment of the History Faculty Book Talk series. On Tuesday, April 18, at 3:30 p.m. in Baker Center 231,  Dr. Patrick Barr-Melej, Professor of History at Ohio University, will deliver a lecture based on […]

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April 2, 2017 at 7:45 pmEvents Research

War and Peace | Drugs and Criminal Governance in Latin America, Nov. 18

Eduardo Moncada

The War and Peace theme and Latin American Studies Program present Dr. Eduardo Moncada on “Drugs and Criminal Governance in Latin America” on Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. in Baker Center 231 at Ohio University. Moncada is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Barnard College – Columbia […]

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October 2, 2016 at 12:00 pmEvents

Costa Lecture | How Arabs became Jews and Jews became Japanese: Immigration in Latin America, Oct. 20

Dr. Jeffrey Lesser

The 39th Annual Endowed Costa Lecture features Dr. Jeffrey Lesser discussing “How Arabs became Jews and Jews became Japanese: Immigration and the Invention of National Identities in Latin America” on Thursday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Baker Center Ballroom A. This event is sponsored by the History Department at […]

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October 1, 2016 at 7:15 pmEvents

Dantas Explores Mixed-Race Families in Colonial Brazil

Dr. Mariana Dantas

During the 2016-17 academic year, Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, will be a resident fellow at the National Humanities Center, in North Carolina. She will be working on the manuscript of her second book. The project examines the formation of mixed-race families in colonial Brazil by […]

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September 26, 2016 at 12:04 pmResearch