Professional Development Workshops for Educators
PIER- Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies

We, You, & the Other: Talking About Race in Latin America

November 5, 2005
Yale University

You are invited to participate in a workshop addressing in three sessions the topic of race and class in Latin America.  Is there racism in Latin America? How do social class and race relate in socio-economic and cultural contexts in Latin America? How is race constructed through language and in our daily lives? You will be introduced to conceptions of race and ethnicity in Latin America, with the opportunity to discuss and compare such ideas with a panel of scholars representing various world regions at the end of the day.

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Registration

9:30-12:00 a.m.
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
Natalia Sobrevilla, Yale University

12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Documentary & Discussion: Afro-Argentines

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Panel: “How do we talk about race in this world? What are the implications?” A comparative perspective
Natalia Sobrevilla, Yale University; International Affairs Council

Jean-Frederic Schaub, EHESS – Visiting Professor, Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies

Robert Blake Gilpin, Yale University, History Department

Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will be awarded for this 6 hrs. workshop(s)/ (.6 CEUs); CEU’s will be submitted when the Professional Development Workshops for Fall 2005 come to an end in December.

Location:
Yale Center for International and Area Studies
Luce Hall, Room 202
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520

Sponsored by the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the U.S. Department of Education through a Title VI National Resource Grant & The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition.

For more information & registration please contact PIER-CLAIS Outreach Director, Carolina Belalcázar at carolina.belalcazar@yale.edu, 203-432-5605 or 230-432-3422.