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Our program includes the following brown bag discussions for
instructors and students, which will all take place 12:00-1:30
p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays:
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January 23
and 24:
Jo-Marie Burt, a professor of Government at GMU, on the civil war in
Guatemala (Robinson A447)
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February 20: Clara Beaulieu, a professor of Spanish at GMU, on Testimonial
Literature (JC Room G)
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February 21:
Silvia Kurlat, a professor of Spanish at GMU, on Testimonial Literature
(JC Room G)
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March 27: Jorge Rogachevsky, a
professor of Spanish at St. Mary's College of Maryland, on David Stoll's
book Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of all Poor Guatemalans,
and the controversy it generated on the authenticity of IRM (Robinson
A447)
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March
28: Martha Francescato, a professor of Spanish at GMU, and Miriam
Enríquez, a GMU History major and Latin American Studies minor,
on teaching and learning from the controversy (Robinson A447)
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Text
and Community Film Series:
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Please
invite your students and colleagues!
We will show two films relevant to our program in SUB II Rooms
3-4
from 12-2pm on the following dates.
February 22 : The Houses Are Full of Smoke; A documentary
on the "Scorched Earth" campaign against the highland Maya in 1980's
Guatemala. Includes interviews with indigenous and religious activists,
the military, victims, and governmental elites.
March 14: Men With Guns (John Sayles, 1992)
A fictional account of an affluent, apolitical doctor nearing retirement
in an unnamed Latin American nation, who suddenly has his consciousness
raised about the violence in the countryside.
For more information, see http://www.spe.sony.com/classics/menwithguns/
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The capstone of our
program is a panel on the controversy, to be held on
April 25 at 3:00 p.m., which will include David Stoll, a professor of
Anthropology at Middlebury College and William Mitchell, a professor
of Anthropology at Monmouth University, Roger Lancaster, a professor
of Anthropology at George Mason University, and Linda Seligmann, a professor
of Anthropology at George Mason University. For more information, please
contact Lisa Rabin, Associate Professor of Spanish and Director, Study
of the Americas Program (lrabin@gmu.edu,
(703) 993-1350).
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