Fall 2009 Events
Faculty-Graduate Student Workshop
"Shifting Subjectivities: Racialization and Otherness in Modern Costa Rica
Date: Wednesday, December 9
Presenter: Erica Townsend-Bell, Political Science
Commentator: Laura Gotkowitz
"The Power of Writing and Power Over Writing in an Andean Village/ El poder de la escritura y el poder sobre ella en un pueblo andino
Date: Spring 2009/TBA
Presenter: Mercedes Niño-Murcia, Spanish and Portuguese
Commentator: TBA
"Rafael Trujillo's Feminist: Minerva Bernardino, the Inter-American Commission of Women, and the Founding of UN Women's Human Rights Activism"
Date: Spring 2010/TBA
Presenter: Jo Butterfield, History
Commentator: TBA
Anyone interested in reading the paper and participating in the workshop should contact laura-gotkowitz@uiowa.edu for additional information.
Past Fall 2009 Events
"Creating the Hemispheric Citizen: The OAS, Cultural Policy, and the Visual Arts, 1945-1968"
Date: Wednesday, October 7
Presenter: Claire Fox, English
Commentator: Kathleen Newman, Cinema and Comparative Literature


