Spring Quarter 2004-05 News
Spring Fiesta
This year's Spring Fiesta was held on cinco de mayo. Students, faculty, and friends of Bolívar House gathered in the garden to watch Stanford's Grupo Folklorico "Los Decanos" perform a variety of Latin American dances. Susan Cashion who is the artistic director of the group introduced the dances. She described the history of contemporary and more traditional Brazilian, Cuban, and Mexican performances. Guests also had a chance to participate. They were invited on stage to show off their moves to merengue and salsa music.
There was plenty of delicious Mexican food. CLAS Director Herb Klein observed that the fact that all the food was gone was evidence that a lot of starving Stanford students attended.
CLAS welcomes its spring quarter dissertation write-up fellows
Maria Helena Rueda was born in Bogotá, Colombia, where she grew up and completed her undergraduate studies. Since September 1998 she has been at Stanford, as a PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her specialization is Latin American culture since Independence, literature and film in particular. In her dissertation she studies the representation of violence in Colombian literature from the 20th century. After graduating from Stanford, she will travel to Massachusetts to work as an assistant professor at Smith College.
Alberto Simpser studies the political economy of development. His dissertation focuses on the causes and consequences of electoral corruption in Mexico and other developing democracies. He is working toward a PhD in political science and an MA in economics at Stanford. Mr. Simpser will spend next year as a post-doctoral fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School. After that, he will take a position as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. Mr. Simpser was born and raised in Mexico City.
Applications for summer and fall dissertation write-up fellowships are due by May 31.
CLAS Photo Exhibit, 04.15.05 - 06.15.05
Witnesses from the Grave: The Work of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team
A new exhibit of 17 photographs depicting the work of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team in Argentina, Bolivia, El Salvador, and Guatemala will be on display from Monday, April 18 through June 15, 2005 in the seminar and resource rooms at Bolívar House. Eric Stover will introduce the exhibit in his lecture, "Witnesses from the Grave," at Bolívar House on Wednesday, April 20. He is director of the Human Rights Center at the University of California at Berkeley.
CLAS's 2005-06 Tinker Visiting Professors
Fall and Spring Quarters, 2005-06
Professor Emeritus Margo Glantz, Universidad Nacional de Mexico, DF, Mexico, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, is sponsored by Professor Gordon Brotherston, Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Professor Glantz will teach a graduate course in fall, "Gender Violence: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, María de Zayas, Nellie Campobello, Elena Garro," and an undergraduate course in spring, "The Mexican Novel and the Cinema," for Spanish & Portuguese (SPANLIT) and Latin American Studies. Professor Glantz is one of Mexico's most eminent novelists.
Winter Quarter, 2005-06
Professor Marcos Cueto, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, in Lima, Peru. Professor Cueto is being sponsored by Professors Herbert Klein and Paula Findlen in the Department of History and will be teaching a course in History and Latin American Studies on "Health, Medicine and Society in Latin American History."
Winter and Spring Quarters, 2005-06
Professor Ruy de Queiroz, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. He is sponsored by Professors Grigori Mints and Solomon Feferman and will teach in his field of logic in the Department of Philosophy.
Spring Quarter, 2005-06
Professor Gustavo Carlos Buscaglia, Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Cuyo National University in Mendoza, Argentina. He is sponsored by Professor Adrian J. Lew of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and will be teaching a course on "Engineering Functional Analysis and Finite Elements."