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1 - Naunihal Singh (CANCELED)

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3 - Marifeli Pérez-Stable

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8 - Rev. Robert Dowd, CSC

Juan Méndez

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10 - Marta Peixoto

Caribbean Diasporas, Film Series

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15 - Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

16 - Archbishop Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga

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18 - Conference: Africa in Portuguese, the Portuguese in Africa: An International Research Conference

19 - Conference: Africa in Portuguese, the Portuguese in Africa: An International Research Conference

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22 - Simanti Lahiri

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24 - Valerie Bunce

Caribbean Diasporas, Film Series

25 - Akintunde E. Akinade

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29 - Gary Marx/ Cecilia Vaisman

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April 3, 2008

Marifeli Pérez-Stable

Professor of Sociology, FIU and Vice President for Democratic Governance, IAD

"Raúl's Cuba: Domestic and International Challenges"

Thursday, April 3, 2008
4:15 pm - C103 Hesburgh Center

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April 8, 2008

Rev. Robert Dowd, CSC

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Kellogg Faculty Fellow

"The Religious Factor in African Politics: Christians, Muslims and Political Culture in Nigeria, Uganda and Senegal"

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
12:30 pm - C103 Hesburgh Center

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April 8, 2008

Juan Méndez

President, International Center for Transitional Justice

"Transitional Justice and Iraq"

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
4:45 pm - Law School Room #121

Cosponsored by the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Center for Civil and Human Rights, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

For more information please visit: http://law.nd.edu/center-for-civil-and-human-rights

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April 10, 2008

Marta Peixoto

Associate Professor, Dept of Spanish & Portuguese Language & Literature
New York University

"Urban Crisis and the Politics of Representation in Recent Brazilian Film"

Thursday, April 10, 2008
4:15 pm - C103 Hesburgh Center

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April 10, 2008

Caribbean Diasporas, Film Series

My American Girls
Guest Speaker: Karen Richman, Professor

Directed by Aaron Matthews, this 2000 documentary film captures the joys and struggles over a year in the lives of the Ortiz family, first generation immigrants from the Dominican Republic.

Thursday, April 10, 2008
7:00-9:00 pm - 126 DeBartolo Hall

Cosponsored by the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Gender Studies, American Studies, Romance Languages and Literature, John A. Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning

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April 15, 2008

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

Assistant Professor, Department of History and Program in American Culture, University of Michigan

"A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950"

Directed by Aaron Matthews, this 2000 documentary film captures the joys and struggles over a year in the lives of the Ortiz family, first generation immigrants from the Dominican Republic.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
2:00 pm - C100 - Hesburgh Center Auditorium

Cosponsors are the Institute for Latino Studies, the History Department, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working Group on Migration.

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April 16, 2008

Archbishop Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga

Archbishop of Tunja, and President, Conferencia Episcopal de Colombia, Bogota

"Colombia: The Church as Peacebuilder"

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
12:30 pm - C100 Hesburgh Center Auditorium (preceded by a lunch buffet at 12:00 pm, Hesburgh Center Great Hall)

Cosponsored with the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

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April 18-19, 2008

CONFERENCE: Africa in Portuguese, the Portuguese in Africa: An International Research Conference

Friday, April 18 - Saturday, April 19, 2008

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April 22, 2008

Simanti Lahiri

Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow

"Consumed by Commitment: Suicide Protest in the Contentious Politics of South Asia"

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
12:30 pm - C103 Hesburgh Center

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April 24, 2008

Valerie Bunce

Aaron Binkenkorb Professor of International Studies, Professor of Government, and Chair of the Government Department, Cornell University

"The Diffusion of Democratizing Elections in Postcommunist Europe and Eurasia, 1996-2005"

Thursday, April 24, 2008
4:15 pm - C103 Hesburgh Center

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April 24, 2008

Caribbean Diasporas, Film Series

Mi Puerto Rico
Guest Speaker: Marisel Moreno, Professor

A 1997 documentary film directed by Sharon Simon about Puerto Rico’s history and colonization explored through one family’s legacy.

Thursday, Aptil 24, 2008
7:00-9:00 pm - 126 DeBartolo Hall

Cosponsored by the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Gender Studies, American Studies, Romance Languages and Literature, John A. Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning

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April 25, 2008

Akintunde E. Akinade

Department of Religion, High Point University

"Global Faith: African Christian in the United States"

Friday, April 25, 2008
1:30 pm - C102 Hesburgh Center

Sponsored by the Africa Working Group of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies

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April 29, 2008

Gary Marx & Cecilia Vaisman

"Cuba Chronicle: The experience of an American family living five years in Havana and what it says about Cuba today"

Gary Marx is the Latin America correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow

Cecilia Vaisman is a Freelance Journalist

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
12:30 pm - C103 Hesburgh Center

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