| Course Code | Title/Instructor | Meets |
| LALC 101-01 | Introduction to Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Instructor: Santiago Anria Course Description: A multi-disciplinary, introductory course designed to familiarize students with the regions through a study of their history, economics, politics, literature, and culture in transnational and comparative perspective. The purpose of the course is to provide a framework that will prepare students for more specialized courses in particular disciplines and specific areas of LALC studies. Required of all LALC majors. |
0900:TR DENNY 211 |
| LALC 200-01
POSC 290-01 |
Social Movements in Latin America Instructor: Santiago Anria Course Description: Cross-listed with POSC 290-01. Social movements have long played an important role in Latin American politics. This course provides an overview of historical and contemporary social movements, exploring the conditions that facilitate (or inhibit) collective action, the construction of collective identities, the dynamics of social protest, and the political impact of social movements, including their connection with political parties. Readings will cover different theoretical perspectives, different historical periods, and a wide array of old and new social movements, including, among others, indigenous peoples movements, womens movements, and movements representing unemployed workers and the urban poor. Special attention will be given to the impact of democratization, market liberalization, and the regions Left turn on diverse types of social actors. |
1330:TF DENNY 203 |
| LALC 200-02
FMST 210-03 SPAN 231-04 |
Framing the Marginal I/Eye Instructor: Amaury Sosa Course Description: Cross-listed with SPAN 231-04 and FMST 210-03. How is the marginal I/Eye fashioned and embodied in its encounter with power and other individuals? In what ways does the I/Eye serve as an organizing principle around which tactics and strategies of resistance, revolt, and social justice are mobilized? In this course, we will explore the different ways individuals go about occupying that I/Eye, how they maintain and/or challenge it, and how they are compelled and/or inspired to present it to themselves and those around them. Our primary objects of study will be texts produced in Spain, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and the visual reproductions carried out by film directors from these regions as well as from the United States. On one hand, our conversations will center on the historical, cultural, political space marginal writers, artists, activists occupied and the I-texts they composed. On the other, our discussions will assess the cinematic eye each director crafted in their adaptation and appropriation of the marginal I. Throughout, we will address and unpack the ethical and aesthetic negotiations present in packaging these subject/visual positions. |
1330:MR BOSLER 305 |
| LALC 200-03
SPAN 231-05 |
Contemporary Satire in Latin America Instructor: Shawn Stein Course Description: Cross-listed with SPAN 231-05. The objective of this course is to analyze the use of the satiric mode through contemporary cultural production (short stories, films, comics, songs, essays) from different countries in Latin America. Students will acquire appropriate technical and analytical vocabulary to begin reading, writing and discussing elements of the satiric mode (for example, irony, parody and the grotesque) and understanding the satiric tradition in Latin America. We will explore the ways in which historical, social and political topics (democracy, equality, liberty, justice, censorship, prejudice, taboos, stereotypes and identity) inform different cultural productions with satiric impulses. |
1500:TF BOSLER 313 |
| LALC 231-01
HIST 131-01 |
Modern Latin American History since 1800 Instructor: Marcelo Borges Course Description: Cross-listed with HIST 131-01. Introduction to Latin American history since independence and the consolidation of national states to the recent past. Students explore social, economic, and political developments from a regional perspective as well as specific national examples. This course is cross-listed as HIST 131. |
0900:TR DENNY 110 |
| LALC 272-01
AFST 220-02 HIST 272-01 |
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1850 Instructor: Jeremy Ball Course Description: Cross-listed with HIST 272-01 and AFST 220-02. During several centuries of European colonization in the New World, a thriving slave trade forced the emigration of millions of Africans across the Atlantic-an immigration far larger than the simultaneous immigration of Europeans to the same regions. We will address not only the workings of the slave trade on both sides (and in the middle) of the Atlantic, but also the cultural communities of West and West-Central Africa and encounters and exchanges in the new slave societies of North and South America. Through examination of work processes, social orders, cultural strategies and influences, and ideas about race and geography, across time and in several regions, we will explore the crucial roles of Africans in the making of the Atlantic world. This course is cross-listed as HIST 272. Offered every two years. |
1030:TR DENNY 313 |
| LALC 300-01
PORT 380-01 SPAN 380-01 |
Cultures of Soccer (Futebol/Fútbol) in Latin America Instructor: Shawn Stein Course Description: Cross-listed with PORT 380-01 and SPAN 380-01. With billions of fans, soccer (Brazilian futebol, Spanish American ftbol or European football) is the world’s most popular sport. In order to gain a greater understanding of the phenomenon that takes place in stadiums, fields, and homes across the planet, this course examines cultural production (literature, film and art) of soccer from Latin America and scholarship on sport and society, with a focus on fair play and the impact that both the beautiful and ugly elements of the game have on individual and collective identities (nation/region, sex/gender, ethnicity, class and religion). This course will be taught in English with FLIC option for PORT or SPAN credit. |
1330:TF BOSLER 313 |
| LALC 385-01
SPAN 385-01 |
Self and the City: Latinx Literature, Film, Popular Culture Instructor: Amaury Sosa Course Description: Cross-listed with SPAN 385-01. How have Latinx individuals and communities crafted their identities, how have they represented their differences? How have they made sense of their past, and what futures have they imagined? What terrains have they navigated, shaped, and/or redefined in understanding, creating, and narrating their diverse experiences, and how have these spaces aided and/or challenged their Latinx subjectivities? In this course, we will focus on the spatial politics of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, nationality, and language as we study, interrogate, and relate the identity and place accorded to and set by Latinxs individuals and communities. Throughout, we will turn to a variety of texts from the early modern to the contemporary, from the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Spain: poetry, spoken word, short story, music, novel, performance art, essay, and film, in order to investigate the ways in which Latinxs have elaborated a sense of self and place. |
1030:TR ALTHSE 07 |
| LALC 390-01
SPAN 410-01 |
Building Meaningful Spaces from the 19th Century: A Case Study of Chile Instructor: Angela DeLutis-Eichenberger Course Description: Cross-listed with SPAN 410-01. For a period of over seven months in 2011, Chilean students dissatisfied with their countrys education system inherited from Augusto Pinochets dictatorship territorialized public spaces to express their discontent and to clamor for change. They not only participated in highly coordinated marches, flash mobs (to include Michael Jacksons Thriller), among other theatrical activities; they also occupied education and public buildings, and marked historical monuments of national importance with graffiti and props. Almost 170 years after the University of Chile’s opening, the meaningful actions and writings offered in the contemporary context of the protests resignified the University’s walls, the iconic monument of the institution’s founding father (Andrs Bello) and, arguably, the Universitys inaugural address that he offered in 1843. This course examines the signification of a series of “spaces” (physical, ideological, etc.) rooted in the 19th century, to discuss their plausible signification for the building of the Chilean nation following independence and, many times, beyond. Several “spaces” to be studied may include: Philadelphia and Ecuador (in the work of Camilo Henrquez); Argentina, and Chile as a place of exile (Esteban Echeverra; Domingo Faustino Sarmiento); the Church of La Compaa (Bello, Sarmiento, Mercedes Marn de Solar, Jos Antonio Soffia, and the more contemporary work of Englishman, Canon Keith Evans); mines (Jotabeche, Baldomero Lillo, and materials from the 2010 Copiap mining accident); and other centers and peripheries in the context of the 19th century (Daniel Barros Grez and Jotabeche (Santiago and the provincias); and Alberto Blest Gana (Santiago and the provincias, again, the space of mining towns, France in Chile; and the contested territory of the mapuches). |
1330:W BOSLER 314 |
| LALC 490-01 | Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies Senior Research Seminar Instructor: Marcelo Borges Course Description: Research into a topic concerning Latin America directed by two or more faculty representing at least two disciplines. Students must successfully defend their research paper to obtain course credit. The paper is researched and written in the fall semester for one-half course credit and then defended and revised in the spring semester for the other half credit. Prerequisite: senior majors. |
1500:M WESTC 1 |
| LALC 500-01 | Rural Social Movements in Latin America Instructor: Marcelo Borges Course Description: |
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| LALC 550-01 | Public Art and Resistance in Latin America Instructor: Marcelo Borges Course Description: |
LALC hosted its first Café with majors, administrative assistant, faculty, and prospective majors on Thursday, October 26. We enjoyed tacos, quesadillas, and casual conversation while drinking beverages from Latin America. It was a great opportunity to interact with each other outside the classroom. Majors got to know each other and were able to meet professors with whom they had not taken a course. We are hosting our next LALC Café on Thursday, November 30th in Hartman House 5 to 6:30pm.
Jackie Amezcua, Gaby Corcoran, and Leo García
If I’ve learned anything from my Mexican culture, it’s that nothing brings us together faster than food. This proved to be true yet again when guest speaker Professor Jeffrey Pilcher of the University of Toronto visited campus in collaboration with the LALC and History departments. Pilcher’s talk explored the topic of beer and food as a focus of cultural study and understanding. Prior to his lecture, however, professors, students, staff, and our guest speaker came together to make a traditional Mexican dish: tamales. Although different forms of tamales are eaten throughout Latin America, Professor Héctor Reyes Zaga revealed his family’s top secret tamale recipe from México. Many Latino and non-Latino students, faculty, and staff came together to enjoy the delicious history told through tamales. There’s nothing quite as gratifying as joining mi gente from all over Latin America to enjoy dishes I’d normally eat during holidays and instead creating new memories, bridging the invisible geographic borders that divide our countries. 3,000 miles away from home, I find community in sharing cultural dishes and joking about who cries first after having eaten a spicy dish. Food brings us together because regardless of whatever language you speak, or wherever you’re from, we can all enjoy a mouthwatering plate of rich food.
By Jacqueline Amezcua (LALC Studies major ’19)
Noted Latin Americanist and food historian Jeffrey Pilcher was in residence at Dickinson on March 30 and 31, 2017. He delivered the annual Pflaum lecture and participated in a Clarke Forum-sponsored salon to discuss his work. Before the lecture, students, faculty, and guests got together for a tamales-making session, supervised by LALC Studies and Spanish Department Professor Héctor Reyes-Zaga.
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- Salsa ingredients
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- Salsas
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- Hojas (corn husks)
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- Prof. Reyes-Zagas tells tamales stories
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- Students and guests making tamales
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- Finished tamales
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- Prof. Pawley making tamales
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- Héctor and Jennifer Reyes
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- Prof. Pilcher making tamales
“La Cucaracha” and Political Satire
Political cartoonist, satirist & television writer, Lalo Alcaraz
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Stern Center, Great Room, 7 p.m.
Alcaraz will present an illustrated lecture on his cartoons, work in political satire, and writing/producing in Hollywood.
Lalo Alcaraz is the creator of the first nationally syndicated, politically themed Latino daily comic strip, “La Cucaracha,” which is read in American newspapers nationwide, including the Los Angeles Times. Lalo’s comics are syndicated by Universal Uclick, home of “Doonesbury” and “The Boondocks.” Lalo produced editorial cartoons for The LA Weekly from 1992-2010 and now creates editorial cartoons in English and Spanish for Universal. Lalo’s books include Latino USA: A Cartoon History (2000 by Basic Books), and Migra Mouse: Political Cartoons On Immigration,(2004). Alcaraz also authored the first collection of his daily comic strips, “La Cucaracha.” (2004, Andrews-McMeel Publishing.) His upcoming book is Imperfect Union: A Contrarian History of the United States (2014 by Basic Books). Lalo taught editorial illustration at Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles in 2013. Alcaraz was a writer and producer of “Bordertown,” the animated TV show on FOX, which
ran for one triumphant 13 episode season before being canceled. Lalo is also consultant on the upcoming 2017 Pixar film, COCO. Alcaraz was a segment producer on Al Madrigal’s (Daily Show) “Half Like Me” comedy special for Fusion/ABC. Lalo is also featured on the upcoming HBO Latino program “Habla y Vota” special along with George Lopez and Jorge Ramos.
Lalo Alcaraz has received five Southern California Journalism Awards for Best Cartoon in Weekly Papers, and numerous other awards and honors.
This program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the Departments of Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies, and Spanish & Portuguese.
On Nov. 5 and Nov. 6, 2016, Dickinson College successfully hosted Posada Conference 2016: Mocking the Status Quo: Sociopolitical Humor and Satire in Latin America, a two-day conference sponsored by The Central Pennsylvania Consortium, as well as Franklin & Marshall College and Gettysburg College. This international conference provided a forum to address the various and manifold developments in the fields of humor and politics in Latin America.
The conference keynote speaker is William Beezley (University of Arizona), noted historian of Mexico and Latin America and author and editor of numerous books, including Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico(1987), Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction (Linda Curcio-Nagy, 2000), and A Companion to Mexican History and Culture (2011).
Access to the whole speech can be found here.
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On Nov. 5 and Nov. 6, 2016, Dickinson College successfully hosted Posada Conference 2016: Mocking the Status Quo: Sociopolitical Humor and Satire in Latin America, a two-day conference sponsored by The Central Pennsylvania Consortium, as well as Franklin & Marshall College and Gettysburg College. This international conference provided a forum to address the various and manifold developments in the fields of humor and politics in Latin America.
EXHIBIT
The Trout Gallery – the art museum at Dickinson College – has been presenting José Guadalupe Posada and the Broadside in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico since Oct. 28, 2016. For more information, visit The Trout Gallerie Exhibition Website here.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, November 4th
5pm – Altar Offerings. Waidner-Spahr Library
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- Altar Offerings
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- Students from Franklin and Marshall College
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- Students and Faculty Members from Gettysburg College
6pm – Keynote Speaker. Althouse 106
Professor William Beezley, University of Arizona, “Laughter and Hope: Humor in Everyday Life in Mexico”
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- Prof. Marcelo Borges, Chair of the LALC Studies Department at Dickinson College, gave a Welcome Introduction
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- Prof. William Beezley – the Keynote Speaker
7pm – Reception. Weiss Center
7-9pm – Sugar Skull-Making Workshop.
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- Photo Courtesy of Liam Stenson ’19
Saturday, November 5th
8:30am Coffee – Althouse Lounge (first floor)
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- Morning Coffee @ Althouse Lounge
9:00am Panel #1 – Althouse 106
1. Gabriel Antúnez de Mayolo Kou, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Boogie, el “americano”: el uso de parámetros globales en la adaptación cinematográfica animada de la tira cómica Boogie, el aceitoso de Fontanarrosa”
2. Lloyd Anglin, Universidad Veritas: Costa Rica, “Humor gráfico en Costa Rica: identidad y otredad 1917-1948”
10:00am Break – Althouse Lounge (first floor)
10:15am Panel # 2 – Althouse 106
1. Jason A. Bartles, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, “El Gaucho Jodón: Mocking Nationalism in Juan Filloy’s Ochoa Family Saga”
2. Brian Bockelman, Ripon College, “‘Poor Palms’ and Petty Politicos: The Role and Forms of Satire in the Argentine Plaza Palms Crisis of 1883”
3. María del Pilar Aja Pérez, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, “Goya’s and Goitia’s Hanged Men: Ironic and Grotesque Sociopolitical Criticism at War Periods.”
11:30am Tour of Exhibit “José Guadalupe Posada and the Mexican Penny Press” – Trout Gallery (Weiss Center)
Trout Gallery Director and Associate Professor of Art History Phillip Earenfight
12:30pm Lunch and Student Poster Presentation. HUB
2:00pm Panel # 3 – Althouse 106
1. Ana Yolanda Contreras, United States Naval Academy, “Memes humorísticos, irreverencia y crítica sociopolítica contra los ex-mandatarios guatemaltecos”
2. Elizabeth Cooper, Gettysburg College, “Correa’s #CaricaturaCrackdown: Social Media, Satire, and Free Speech in Ecuador”
3. Michele Nascimento-Kettner, Montclair State University, “‘Rir para não Chorar’: Why Laughing Matters in Brazil’s Current Political Debates?
4. José Alfredo Contreras, University of Maryland, College Park, “Current Events and Culture as Laughing Matter in Hernández and Helguera’s Monosapiens”
3:20pm Break – Althouse Lounge (first floor)
3:35pm Panel # 4 – Althouse 106
1. Jacqueline Avila, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “El espectáculo on Stage and Screen: Evocations of the teatro de revistas in cine mexicano”
2. Marina Fleites, Gettysburg College, “Pushing the Critical Limits in Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s La Muerte de un Burócrata (1966) and Guantanamera (1994)”
4:40pm Closing Reception
Carol May ’18, Abroad Columnist
September 22, 2016
Filed under Life and Style
Photo Courtesy of Carol May ’18/ The Dickinsonian
Before leaving for my abroad experience in South America, I asked everyone I knew for advice as to how to make the most out of being abroad. Above all else, I was told to always say “yes” when asked to try something new. Little did I know, this one piece of advice would help me make friends with people in class, explore the local sights, and eat some of the best meals I’ve ever had.
My first “yes” occurred in my Political Sociology class here at UNCuyo (our university in Mendoza). Being the only exchange student in the class and still fumbling my way through the Argentine Spanish filled with “vos” and “che” made for a very nerve-wracking experience. But as I was sitting in class, a girl next to me asked if I wanted some Mate, a bitter tea that Argentines consume constantly. I heard the advice of others running through my head, and said “yes”. From there, I got to know the girl and other people in my class simply by sharing Mate. This first “yes” has given me a network of people to help me with my classwork and with anything else I may need while in Argentina.
The second “yes” came when my host sister asked if I wanted to go to Portreillos with her and some friends. Having no clue what that even was, I just immediately said “yes” and I am so glad I did. Despite having to wake up relatively early to get there, I have no regrets about this “yes”. My host sister and I drove over an hour outside of Mendoza and arrived at the foothills of the Andes near a huge lake. Other than the incredible scenery, we shared asado, the sacred art of grilling meats in Argentina, and I met a whole group of her friends. Despite being overwhelmed by having fifteen people talking in crazy fast Spanish all at once, I felt like I was truly experiencing the culture here in Argentina.
Finally, saying “yes” to a dinner out with my host mom and her friend, led me to one of the best meals I’ve had in my life. Even though it was a Friday night and I planned on going out with my friends, I opted instead to eat with my host mom. We went to one of the best restaurants in the city where we shared steak, pasta, empanadas, and of course a wine tasting. While the food was incredible, I also was able to talk with the two women about everyday life in Argentina and share aspects of my culture with them.
As much as being abroad is enjoying your time in a specific place, it is equally about cultural exchange. I love being able to share my experiences from Dickinson and the United States with people here almost as much as I love learning about the culture here. By saying “yes”, I have stepped out of my comfort zone in so many ways and cannot wait to see where other “yes[’s]” take me. ¡Hasta luego!
Source: http://thedickinsonian.com/life-style/2016/09/22/say-yes-to-argentina/
POSADA CONFERENCE NOVEMBER 4TH, 2016:
MOCKING THE STATUS QUO: SOCIOPOLITICAL HUMOR AND SATIRE IN LATIN AMERICA
CONFERENCE
Sociopolitical humor and satire have a long tradition in Latin America. Since the 19th century, a variety of artists and writers have contributed to its development. Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada (1851-1913), whose satirical broadsides and calaveras, or “skulls,” provided a critical portrayal of social, cultural and political tensions in Mexico during the Porfiriato and the beginning of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, is considered one of the founding figures of this tradition. Many other figures took this tradition in different directions up to the present. The growth in newspaper circulation and popular media during the 20th century created new outlets for social and political humor and satire, especially in the form of political and comic cartoons. Published in newspapers and in popular graphic publications such as Tia Vicentaand Humor Registrado in Argentina, O Pasquim in Brazil, and Monos y Monadas in Peru, among others, graphic humor became the vehicle of commentary of dominant social conventions and it provided a space to challenge and subvert political structures. In addition to graphic humorists, radio and TV performers have also contributed to the genre. The list of artists, writers and performers who have followed in Posada’s footsteps is long and rich in discursive perspectives, media choices and aesthetic representations – as varied as Quino’s Mafalda, the controversial cartoons of Bonil (Javier Bonilla), the sketches of the long-running Venezuelan show Radio Rochela, and the international TV phenomenon CQC or Caiga quien caiga/Caia quem caia. Publication and performance outlets have increased and audiences have diversified with new media and digital content.
Dickinson College will host a two-day conference on Nov. 5 and 6 sponsored by The Central Pennsylvania Consortium, as well as Franklin & Marshall College and Gettysburg College. This two-day international conference provides a forum to address the various and manifold developments in the fields of humor and politics in Latin America. The conference will provide an important opportunity to attend the inauguration of José Guadalupe Posada’s exhibit and aims to bring together academics working across interdisciplinary fields.
EXHIBIT
The Trout Gallery – the art museum at Dickinson College – will present José Guadalupe Posada and the Broadside in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico. This exhibition features over sixty works of graphic art by Posada and his contemporaries, including many of his best-known images of calaveras, sensationalistic crimes, natural disasters, political prints, curious phenomena, chap books, devotional images and game boards. It considers the meaning and importance of Posada’s imagery in turn-of-the century Mexico and its role in society. The exhibition is complemented by an extensive catalogue by curator Diane Miliotes as well as educational programs and a mobile application. For additional information on the exhibition see: www.troutgallery.org. The exhibit will open on Oct. 28, 2016.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
The conference keynote speaker will be William Beezley (University of Arizona), noted historian of Mexico and Latin America and author and editor of numerous books, including Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico(1987), Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction (Linda Curcio-Nagy, 2000), and A Companion to Mexican History and Culture (2011).
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, November 4th
5pm – Altar Offerings. Waidner-Spahr Library
6pm – Keynote Speaker Prof. William Beezley. Althouse 106
7pm – Reception. Weiss Center
7-9pm – Sugar Skull-Making Workshop. Open Arts Lab (Weiss Center). Stop by 20-30 minutes
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Saturday, November 5th
8:30am Coffee – Althouse Lounge (first floor)
9:00am Panel #1 – Althouse 106
10:00am Break – Althouse Lounge (first floor)
10:15am Panel # 2 – Althouse 106
11:30am Tour of Exhibit “José Guadalupe Posada and the Mexican Penny Press” – Trout Gallery (Weiss Center)
12:30pm Lunch and Student Poster Presentation. HUB
2:00pm Panel # 3 – Althouse 106
3:10pm Break – Althouse Lounge (first floor)
3:30pm Panel # 4 – Althouse 106
REGISTRATION
Registration is free of charge, but if you want to attend the conference and you are not presenting a paper, please, fill out this form: