The spring speaker series I put together at Dickinson is winding down, w/ two final speakers who will focus on the Andes.
On April 9th, Cynthia McClintock will speak on “US-Peru Relations: Free Trade, the Drug War, and Fujimori.” McClintock directs the Latin America & Hemispheric Studies institute at George Washington University & is a giant in Latin American comparative political studies (she’s a former president of the international Latin American Studies Association). The lecture is at 7pm in Memorial Hall. I’m hoping for a great turnout for what is, in a sense, our keynote event.
On April 15th, Jeff Himpele will speak on “Screening Bolivia: A Century of Indigenous Representation in Film & Television.” Himpele’s recent book on the subject (Circuts of Culture: Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes) is one of the required readings for the introduction to Latin American Studies class. He’s going to also speak to my students in class, before his 5pm lecture. Then, we’ll have pizza & pop while he discusses “indigenous representation” in film—and now their more recent “self-representations” as more indigenous filmmakers emerge—across Bolivia’s 20th century. He’s bringing film & video clips to show the audience.
