Spring 2023 Events
"Resistance, Language Use, and Identity in Dutch Caribbean Schools"
Keisha Wiel
April 17, 2023, 4 pm EST, Zoom
"Blackness in Mexico"
Anthony Russell Jerry
Monday, March 27th, 6pm, Gannett
Professor Jerry visits our campus to discuss his new book Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican
Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica (University of Florida
Press - May 23'). Professor Anthony Russell Jerry will join Professor Bernardo Ramirez
Rios in a sit-down conversation exploring the history, culture, and experiences of
black communities in Mexico.
Professor Anthony Russell Jerry is a professor of anthropology at the University of
California Riverside (UCR). He has worked in the Costa Chica Region of Mexico for
over a decade. His primary research interests are in theorizing the relationships
between race and citizenship and investigating the influence that regional discourses
of race and racism have on citizenship practices and overall access to citizenship.
He is the recipient of several awards, including the Fulbright Garcia Robles Fellowship,
a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and a University of California Chancellor’s
Postdoctoral Fellowship.
“Latin American Literature: A History of Resistance and Violence”
Pablo Baisotti
Monday, March 6, 6-7 pm ET, Zoom
Dr. Pablo A. Baisotti’s work is truly interdisciplinary. He received his PhD in Politics,
Institutions, and History from the University of Bologna School of Political Science
in 2015. Before that he received an M.Phil. in International Relations Europe-Latin
America from the University of Bologna in 2008 and an M.A. in Law and Economic Integration
from the University Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and the University del Salvador in 2007.
He is Associate Researcher in the Department of Latin American Studies, University
of Brasilia; Collaborating Professor of the Doctorate in Security and Defense at National
Academy of Political and Strategic Studies (ANEPE), Fellow Researcher at the SWJ-El
Centro, and an Academic Visitor at the Latin American Centre of the Oxford School
of Global and Area Studies. As an author and editor, he has published more than 20
books on Latin American history, politics, literature, and economic policy, including
The Routledge Handbook of Violence in Latin American Literature (Routledge, 2022).
Exploremore 2023
Monday, February 27, 4:30-5:30 pm, Murray-Aikins Dining Hall
Festival of Mexican Music and Dance
Tuesday, February 21, 7 pm, Filene Auditorium
