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Seth Godin: Stop Stealing Dreams Stop Stealing Dreams, a free ebook manifesto I gave away early this year, has been downloaded millions of times, translated into a few languages and turned into an audiobook. But I'm hoping for an even wider audience, so when Lisa Daniels gave me the chance to do a TEDx talk about it, I took it. Doing a talk for the first and only time is a risky thing, and a lot of work, but I hope you'll find it worth 17 minutes of your time--and share it if you can. Find the video and the ebook at the Stop Stealing Dreams page.
Correction, the
presentation by Cuban Guest Composer Maureen Reyes Lavastida is scheduled for
Wednesday, November 14 (not Nov. 28) at 3:30, room 201 International Center.
Please see correction below.
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Wednesday, November 14
“The Instituto Superior de Artes (ISA) and the State of
College-level Music Education in Cuba”
Presenter: Maureen Reyes Lavastida, Cuban Guest Composer,
sponsored by the College of Music
Room 201 International Center, 3:30-4:30 (note special time)
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Center for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Bulletin
- October 22, 2012
In this bulletin:
1. Latin American & Caribbean
Studies Seminar Series
2. Sustainable Energy for All
Conference, Oct. 22-23
3. Global Opportunities Fair,
Oct. 24
4. Don Juan Week, Nov. 1-2
5. MSU Learning Abroad Conference, Nov. 2
6. Entre la tierra y el
ciberespacio/Between the Earth and Cyberspace (Grand Valley Univ.), Nov. 8-10
7. MSU Global Festival 2012,
Nov. 11
8. Refashioning Blackness:
Contesting Racism in the Afro-Americas (Univ. Texas-Austin), Feb 20-22
9. Study Abroad Information Meetings
9. Study Abroad Information Meetings
10. Spring
break service-learning in Mexico
11. Boren Scholarships and
Fellowships
12. Congratulations to Helene
Weldt-Basson
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UPCOMING EVENTS &
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Latin American &
Caribbean Studies Seminar Series
http://latinamerica.isp.msu.edu/events/fall%202012%20seminar%20series.pdf
http://latinamerica.isp.msu.edu/events/fall%202012%20seminar%20series.pdf
Wednesday, October 24
“Xocén
is Your Home: An Ancient World in Modern Perspective”
Presenter: Joshua Lieto, Senior, Spanish, College of Arts and
Letters
Room 201 International Center,
3:00-4:30 pm
Wednesday, November 7
“Documenting Nepantla: Decolonial
Knowledge and Chicana Subjectivity in the Films of Lourdes Portillo” Presenter:
Nohemy Solórzano-Thompson, Associate Professor
of Spanish, Whitman College
Room 201 International Center,
3:00-4:30 pm
Wednesday, November 14
“The Instituto Superior de
Artes (ISA) and the State of College-level Music Education in Cuba”
Presenter: Maureen Reyes
Lavastida, Cuban Guest Composer, sponsored by the College of Music
Room 201 International Center,
3:30-4:30 (note special time)
Wednesday, November 28
“The Why, What and How of
Proficiency-oriented Instruction in Spanish”
Presenter: Bill VanPatten,
Professor of Spanish and Second Language Studies and Director of Romance
Language Instruction, College of Arts and Letters
Room 201 International Center,
4:00-4:50 pm (note special time)
Wednesday, December 5
“Tinker Field Research Grant
Graduate Panel”
Presenters: Jennifer Kelly
(Costa Rica), Wiliams Castro (Brazil), Amy Michael (Belize), Ellen Holste
(Costa Rica), Kamahra Ewing (Brazil)
Room 201 International Center,
3:30-4:30 pm (note special time)
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2. Sustainable Energy for All Conference
October 22-23, MSU Union, Gold
Rooms
The gathering is part of the
United Nations General Assembly’s designation of 2012 as the International Year
of Sustainable Energy for All. It is cosponsored by the United Nations
Association of Greater Lansing and Michigan State University. More information:
http://www.canr.msu.edu/faculty_staff/canr_conferences/sus
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3. Global Opportunities Fair
October 24, 2012, 10 am – 3 pm,
2nd floor MSU Union
Featured presentation in the
Gold Room during the fair:
12:00 pm
U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID)
1:00 pm
Peace
Corps
For more information and a
detailed list of vendors, please visit: http://studyabroad.isp.msu.edu/gofair
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4. Don Juan Week
November 1-2, Michigan State
University
Nov. 1 – Plenary Talk by Carlos
Morton, Mexican American Playwright (7:00-9:00 PM, RCAH Auditorium/Snyder Hall)
Nov. 2 – Roundtable discussion
of Chicano/Latino Theater with Carlos Morton (12:00-1:00 PM, B-342 Wells Hall,
lunch served); Academic Symposium (2:00-5:30 PM, MSU Gold Room) –“The Legacy of
Don Juan” by Clint Goodson, Valentina Denzel, Joseba Gabilondo with Carlos
Morton (reception following)
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5. MSU Learning Abroad Conference
November 2,
2nd and 3rd floors International Center, 2:00-6:00 pm
For faculty and academic staff,
registration available at: http://fod.msu.edu/opportunities/registration/learning-abroad-conference-student-voices-and-study-abroad-programming
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6. Entre la tierra y el
ciberespacio/Between the Earth and Cyberspace Symposium
November 8-10, Grand Valley
University, Grand Rapids, MI
Asociación Internacional
de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica Annual Congress
Website: www.gvsu.edu/congreso_lit_fem
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7. MSU Global Festival 2012
November 11, MSU Union,
noon-4:00 pm
More information: http://cvip.isp.msu.edu/globalfestival/gfinfo.htm
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8. Refashioning Blackness:
Contesting Racism in the Afro-Americas
February 20-22, 2013, University of Texas at Austin
February 20-22, 2013, University of Texas at Austin
Convened by the Teresa Lozano
Long Institute of Latin American Studies and the John L. Warfield Center for
African and African-American Studies
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9. Study Abroad
Information Meetings
PERU: Community Engagement & Interdisciplinary Study in the
Peruvian Andes, Summer 2013
Monday, October 22, 5:30 pm -
221 Natural Resources Building
COSTA RICA: Ethics of Tourism and Sustainable Development, Summer 2013
Tuesday, October 23, 5:00 pm -
C210 Snyder Hall
COSTA RICA: Ecological Engineering in the Tropics, Winter Break
2012-13
Wednesday, October 24, 5:00 pm
- 118 Farrall Hall & 7:00 pm - 119 Farrall Hall
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10.
Spring break service-learning in Mexico
The MSU International
Engagement in Mexico (IEM) Study Aboard program is looking for students who are
interested in a service-learning (volunteer) experience in Mexico during spring
break 2013. This program immerses students in Mexican culture. Join 140
other students as we engage in communities in Mexico through service-learning.
We will be volunteering at designated nonprofit agencies that work with
children & youth, senior citizens, youth with disabilities and more.
Students choose one of four vibrant city locations in Mexico: Puebla, Campeche, Oaxaca, Merida. All
cities are safe and full of cultural opportunities. Archaeological
sites are part of the experience too. For more details, please contact
Carlos Fuentes at Fuentes@msu.edu or at 517-353-1671.
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11. Boren Scholarships and
Fellowships
The applications for the
2013-2014 David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are now available atwww.borenawards.org.
Boren Awards provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and
graduate students to study in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe,
Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where they can add important
international and language components to their educations. Boren Scholars and
Fellows represent a variety of academic backgrounds, but all are interested in
studying less commonly taught languages, including but not limited to Arabic,
Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Swahili. As part of the African
Languages Initiative, Boren Award applicants have the opportunity to further
their study of Akan/Twi, Hausa, Portuguese, Swahili, Wolof, Yoruba, or Zulu.
For a complete list of languages, visit our website. Undergraduate
students can receive up to $20,000 for an academic year’s study abroad and
graduate students up to $30,000 for language study and international research.
In exchange for funding, recipients commit to working in the federal government
for a minimum of one year.
National Application
Deadlines
Boren Fellowship: January 31,
2013
Boren Scholarship: February 13,
2013*
*Many institutions have an
earlier on-campus deadline. Visit our website for information about your campus
deadline and Boren campus representative. For more information about the Boren
Awards, to register for one of our upcoming webinars, and to access the on-line
application, please visit www.borenawards.org. You
can also contact the Boren Awards staff at boren@iie.org or
1-800-618-NSEP with questions.
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12. Congratulations to Helene
Weldt-Basson, Spanish professor and
CLACS core faculty member
Helene was recently awarded an honorary Doctorate degree from the Universidad del Norte, Asunción in recognition of her scholarship on Paraguayan author Augusto Roa Bastos.
Helene was recently awarded an honorary Doctorate degree from the Universidad del Norte, Asunción in recognition of her scholarship on Paraguayan author Augusto Roa Bastos.
Please send announcements and
events to be shared in the next bulletin to: kristin@msu.edu
For more information visit: www.LatinAmerica.isp.msu.edu
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