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CISA Archives

Although still a relatively young institution, CISA already has a solid record of courses, symposia, colloquia, lectures and seminars. The CISA Archives provide a home for this record.

• CISA-Sponsored Courses:
  
  
  
  • Rethinking the Americas
    

    Prof. Jana Braziel
    

    Umass Amherst, Spring 2003

  • Global Markets, Global Culture?:
    

    Profs. Calas
    

    UMass Amherst, Fall 2002
    
    

  • Rethinking the Americas

    Profs. Schwartzwald, Nash, Candelario, Risech, Stephens, Maira and Peterson
    

    UMass Amherst, Spring 2001

  • Global Markets, Global Culture?:
    

    Profs. Calas, Marentes, and Schwartzwald
    

    UMass Amherst, Fall 2000

  • Citizenship in a Media Culture:
    

    Prof. Henderson and Prof. O'Connell
    

    Amherst College, Spring 2000

  • Citizenship, Migrations and Diasporas:
    

    Prof. Roth
    

    Mt. Holyoke College, Spring 2000

• CISA-Related Courses:
  
  
  
  • Spring 2002

  • Fall 2001

  • Spring 2001

  • Fall 2000

  • Spring 2000

  • Fall 1999

• Student Symposia:

  • Fifth Annual Student Symposum: Spring 2002

  • Fourth Annual Student Symposium: Spring 2001

  • Third Annual Student Symposium: Spring 2000

  • Second Annual Student Symposium: Spring 1999

  • First Annual Student Symposium: Spring 1998

• Faculty Seminar Series:
  
  
  
  • Fall 2002

  • Spring 2000

  • Fall 1999

  • Spring 1999

• CISA Visiting Faculty
  
  
  
  • 2002-2003: Jana Evans Braziel

  • 2001-2002: Lara Nielsen

  • 1999 - 2000: Sanda Lwin

  • 1998 - 1999: Josh Kun

• Public Events:
  

  • Nov 21st, 2002
    "'The Cry of Mad Birds' -- Haitian Diaporic Literatures, the War Machine and State Terror in a Transnational Context"

    Public Lecture by Jana Evans Braziel
    4:30 pm. Fayerweather 113, Amherst College
    
    

  • March 6-7, 2003
    "Trans-American Crossroads: Haiti and the Making of the Americas"

    Interdisciplinary Colloquium organized by Jana Evans Braziel.
    Cole Assembly Room, Amherst College
    
    

  • CISA Sixth Annual Student Symposium: Spring 2003
    
    • Call For Papers: March 25th
    
    
  • "Latinos and Major League Baseball: Sport, Globalization and the Poetry of Justice"
    

    A Symposium with Lara Nielsen, Samuel O. Regalado, Arturo Marcano, Martin Espada, Luke Salisbury and Mario Diaz
    

    April 26, 2002

  • "'Baseball is Also a Place of Struggle': Major League Baseball, Globalization and the Poetics of Pelotero Performances"
    

    Lecture by Prof. Lara Nielsen
    

    November 13, 2001

  • Lecture: "Robert F. William: Afro-Orientalism and the 'World Black Revolution'"
    

    by Prof. Bill Mullen
    

    Hampshire College
    

    Feb 22. 2001

  • Lecture on Siberian and North American Indigenous Cultures
    

    by Dr. Aleksander Vaschenko (Moscow State University)
    

    Amherst College Russian Center
    

    March 29, 2001

  • "Forum on Race, Politics and National Belonging"
    

    Friday March 31 and Saturday April 1, 2000

  • "Yo! Havana Raps: The Rap Scene in Contemporary Cuba"
    

    with Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Reebee Garofalo

  • "Queer Theory, Queer Performance: Luis Alfar's Memory Performance"
    

    with José Muñoz

  • "'Mexperimental Cinema': Avant-Garde Media Arts from Mexico"
    

    with Josh Kun and Jesse Lerner