"Cuba and Cuba-America" Panel Discussion at UMD, March 27, 2-4 pm

The Latin American Studies Center and U.S. Latina/o Studies Program

present:

Cuba and Cuba-America

panel presentation and discussion

Friday, March 27

2:00pm - 4:00pm

*The Art Gallery, 2202 Art-Sociology Building

University of Maryland

How do the current changes in policy and diplomatic relations impact Cubans in the U.S. and in Cuba? How is “home” defined, returned to, escaped from, protested against, and protected? Panelists will discuss what it means to be Cuban and Cubano in 2015.

Featuring -

Mavis Anderson, Latin America Working Group, Senior Associate

Netfa Freeman, Institute for Policy Studies, Coordinator and Activist

Rafael Lorente, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, Associate Dean, UMD

Nancy Mirabal,  American Studies and U.S. Latina/o Studies, Associate Professor, UMD

Ricardo Ortíz, Department of English, Associate Professor, Georgetown University

Laurie Frederik, Latin American Studies and Performance Studies, Associate Professor, UMD

Call for Papers: Conference on Applying Anthropology

CALL FOR PAPERS AND INVITATION

For whom is anthropology applied and to what ends?

From drug use, to abortion, the environment, disability, religious passion, etc., anthropologists have written both about these matters, and for various kinds of changes in policy.  Many anthropologists are directly working in the institutions researchers also examine, from veterans’ hospitals, to rural development NGOs, family welfare agencies attempting to “indigenize,” among many others. 

Join us at Teachers College, Columbia University for a small, conversation rich conference on the uses of anthropology. We are meeting of February 26, 2015 to discuss the history, current state, and possible futures surrounding various efforts to put to work anthropology on burning issues of the contemporary world, in the United States and around the world. Jean Lave will be the key-note speaker.

We welcome the submission of abstracts for 15-20 minute paper presentations on any of the above topics. Please submit abstracts and any questions to Daniel Souleles and Michael Scroggins at anthroevents@tc.columbia.edu by January 30th, 2015. 

Thursday Event: Brown Bag Lunch with Denise Brennan

Finding Our Inner Neanderthal: Evolutionary Geneticist Svante Pääbo’s DNA Quest A special program complementing the National Museum of Natural History exhibition Genome: Unlocking Life's Code

Evening Lecture

Tuesday, March 25 

7:00 - 8:30 pm

Geneticist Svante Paabo will be speaking at the Smithsonian Tuesday, 25 March 2014 on Neandertal DNA.

In 2010, Svante Pääbo shook the scientific world with the results from a groundbreaking genetic study. Pääbo, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, headed a team whose 5-year investigation concluded that Neanderthals, who disappeared 30,000 years ago, mated with early members of our own species. The legacy of those Neanderthals survives in the DNA of many people today: “Neanderthals are not totally extinct,” says the scientist. “In some of us they live on, a little bit.”

Through extraction of ancient DNA from a variety of sources and geographic locations, Pääbo’s team studied genetic data across time and continents. Pääbo discusses the study’s methods and findings, and later is joined by Rick Potts, director of the Human Origins Program of the Museum of Natural History, for a conversation about how paleogenetics can deepen our understanding of the long history of our species.

More Information: http://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2012FY-Trumba-calend&tmssource=190358&performanceNumber=227687

Anthropology and Migration Studies: The Policy Trajectory

There are few subjects that call out as strongly for interdisciplinary efforts as migration.  The complexity of human movements inevitably eludes efforts that fail to consider the full social and individual contexts of migration, that attempt to isolate particular migration events from long historical antecedents, or that neglect the reverberations of migration throughout the lives of migrants and their descendants. As one beginning point for exploring the intersection of anthropology and interdisciplinary migration studies, this talk focuses specifically on policy issues providing, first, a general discussion of the different ways that anthropologists approach migration policy and, second, considering as a case example the development of multicultural policy in South Korea in response to a surge in immigration.

Overall, the discussion suggests that the anthropological role may be less a unitary disciplinary contribution (whether of method, theory, policy, or practice) than an inherent flexibility in seeing the full human, social, cultural, and political dimensions of human mobility from multiple vantage points, analytic domains, and levels and types of governance. This intersection of anthropology, migration, and policy also suggests the hope of healing the anthropological schisms among academic, applied, and practitioner perspectives. 
 
 
David Haines’s most recent books are Safe Haven? A History of Refugees in America (2010) and Wind over Water: Migration in an East Asian Context(2012, co-edited with Keiko Yamanaka and Shinji Yamashita). He is a professor of anthropology at George Mason University, and will be at the university’s new campus in Korea for the remainder of 2014.

For background on the general issue of anthropology, migration, and policy see the special section on that topic in International Migration 51(2), 2013. Table of contents is at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.2013.51.issue-2/issuetoc

Upcoming Talk: International Populations Network of Prince George's County

17th biannual meeting

Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.

Community Room B, 2nd Floor

Largo Student Center

Prince George’s Community College

Largo MD 20774

Joint Proclamation for International Education Week

& How Immigration is Changing Prince George’s County

•    Welcome

•    Introductions by Dr. Marlene Cohen, Coordinator, International Education Center, Prince George’s Community College

•    County Executive’s and County Council’s Joint Proclamation

     Recognition of International Education Week in Prince George’s County

•    Guest Speaker –The Honorable Donna F. Edwards

U. S. Representative of the fourth district of Maryland

How Immigration is Changing Prince George’s County

•    Dr. Judith Freidenberg

University of Maryland's Anthropology of the Immigrant Life

Course Research Program, Department of Anthropology

Immigrant Experience in Prince George’s County Exhibit

•    Introductions and sharing by all participants

         

•    Reception

RSVP to internationalcenter@pgcc.edu or 301-322-0750

Please share with your colleagues.

Join us for this special evening!