Latin American and Caribbean Studies
"Memories of Underdevelopment" (Cuba)
Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Film Series
THURS, APRIL 28 | 6:00PM | G64 Goldwin Smith Hall, Kaufmann Auditorium
Open to members of the Cornell community only.
Memories of Underdevelopment (Cuba), LACS Film Series
In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Sergio (Sergio Corrieri), an affluent writer, chooses to stay behind in Cuba while his wife and family escape to neighboring Miami. Sergio is pessimistic about the revolution's promise to bring sweeping change to his country, and he squanders his days prowling the streets of Havana looking for female companionship. Trouble erupts when his fling with chaste Elena (Daysi Granados) nearly ruins him after her family accuses Sergio of rape.
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US, Cuba Talk About Accepting More Deportees
Maria Cristina García, LACS
“You’ll recall that after the Mariel Boatlift of 1980, thousands of Cubans were detained indefinitely, across the United States, because Cuba refused to take them back. It wasn’t until the early 1990s that the Castro regime began accepting a small number of these Cuban detainees,” says Maria Cristina García, professor of history.
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White House Puts Out a Playbook to Help Rural Areas get Infrastructure Funding
Mildred Warner, IES/LACS
Mildred Warner, professor of global development and city & regional planning, says that local governments will need help from state governments to get federal infrastructure money. “What’s been happening in the last - I don’t know - 20 years is this cooperative federalism has become a little less cooperative. And I would call that an uncooperative federalism.”
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- Development, Law, and Economics
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How The Global Food Shortage Helps US Farmers
Chris Barrett, IAD/SEAP
“It will be interesting to see what happens in the real wheat belt in North Dakota and Minnesota,” says Chris Barrett, professor of applied economics and policy. “They still have some time to decide what to plant. A deciding factor might be wheat prices shooting up.”
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- Development, Law, and Economics
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The Campaign for 'Bird-Friendly Beef'
Amanda Rodewald, LACS
Amanda Rodewald, professor of natural resources, says, “We can turn the dial and improve practices in ways that provide meaningful benefits to birds, but we also have to be realistic and not allow perfect to become the enemy of good.”
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Chicana Artist Sandy Rodriguez in Conversation with Mary Jo Dudley
April 21, 2022
12:00 pm
Chicana artist Sandy Rodriguez’s Codex Rodriguez Mondragón (2017—) records the ecological and political crises of our time by engaging contemporary realities of BIPOC and migrant peoples. Several of her maps and illustrations mark, record, & illuminate the farmworker communities of the U.S. and Mexico border regions.
Sandy now comes to New York State to share and learn with Cornell Farmworker Program Director Mary Jo Dudley, who will offer: the role of building partnerships with farmworkers through collaborative research, videos on farmworker-identified critical topics, and maps of the region. They will discuss contributions and challenges among farmers in New York State.
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Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Hodinǫhsǫ:ni: and Indigenous Language and Culture Dialogue
April 14, 2022
4:00 pm
Physical Sciences Building, 401
Centering BIPOC voices and creative knowledge of the natural and built environments of the Americas, this discussion will include the multiple migrations of humans, animals, plants, and other beings that have storied or narrativized this land, building on the place-based knowledge of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ (Cayuga Nation) and their traditional homelands.
Bringing together artist-in-residence, Sandy Rodriguez (Chicana) in dialogue with Rafael Aponte (Afro-Puerto Rican) “Rocky Acres” farmer, Soledad Chango (Quechua) linguist, Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel (Kanien’kehá:ka / Mohawk Nation) filmmaker and activist, Spencer Lyons (Onoñda’gegá’/Onondaga) knowledge holder, Wayva Waterman Lyons (Onoñda’gegá’/Onondaga) AIISP, Jane Mt. Pleasant (Skarù·ręʔ / Tuscarora) scientist and David and Evelyn George-Shongo (Onöndowa’ga:’ / Seneca) traditionalists.
Please direct any questions to Jolene Rickard jkr33@cornell.edu.
Nyàwę / Thank you.
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Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene: Conceptualizing the Climate Crisis
April 22, 2022
1:30 pm
Join Wendy Wolford and Jason W. Moore for a critical conversation on our contemporary planetary predicament and how different ways of conceptualizing it might entail different strategies for transformative change.
A presentation of the Polson Institute for Global Development
Wendy Wolford is the Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development and Vice Provost for International Affairs at Cornell University. Her research includes work on international development, agrarian social mobilization, and critical ethnography. A prolific author, her most article, “The Plantationocene: A Lusotropical Contribution to the Theory,” Annals of the American Association of Geographers (2021), served to frame the international conference on the Plantationocene at Cornell in April 2021.Jason W. Moore is Professor of sociology at Binghamton University and author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015) and co-author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (2017).Moderator: Fouad Makki, Associate Professor of Global Development and Director of the Polson Institute.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Paul Friedland
Professor, History
Paul Friedland is a historian of France, specializing in the Revolutionary period, but is broadly interested in European culture, politics, and ideas over the span of the long 18th century and in the interplay of ideas and culture between the metropole and the Caribbean colonies. His research and writing have been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and by visiting fellowships from the Davis Center for Historical Studies (Princeton University) and the
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Natalie Melas
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature; Institute of Comparative Modernities; Literatures in English
Natalie Melas' interests range across Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean literature and thought, modern Greek, modern French and modern English poetry, comparison, modernism and colonialism, modern reconfigurations of antiquity, Homer, Césaire, Cavafy, philosophies of time, decadence, barbarism, alexandrianism, comparative modernities, world literature in world history, postcolonial or decolonial studies, aesthetics and politics, critical theory.