Dear LAS Students,
If you have not already taken LAS 100 now is your chance! If you know someone who might be interested, please direct them to this site!
LAS 100 Introduction to Latin American Studies
This is a pass/fail, one-credit class, which meets every other week during the fall semester, starting Aug. 30. Different faculty members of the Latin American Studies Program offer presentations and lectures about their research and important research questions in their fields of study, ranging from literature to politics to history to music, dance, and conservation issues.
LAS 100 Fall 2012 Schedule
August 30
Jo-Marie Burt, Power and Resistance in Latin America
Sept 13
1. Joan Bristol, Colonial Latin America: The Inquisition and Slavery (half session)
2. Matt Karush, Imperialism & Ambivalence: Latin America & the US (half session)
Sept 27
Jim Lepore & Greg Robinson, Afro-Cuban Music and Dance
Oct 11
Michael Gilmore, Biocultural Conservation in the Amazon Basin
Oct 25
Antonio Carreño, Sport and the Cultural Politics of Identity in Latin America
Nov 8
1. Margaret Yocom, Days of the Dead & La Llorona (half session)
2. Carrie Meyer, Economy & Society in Latin America (half session)
Nov 29
Lisa Rabin & Ricardo Vivancos-Pérez, Latin American & Latin@Literary & Cultural Practices