Brown Bag Lunch Lecture with Chris Loperena
When:
Thursday, October 04, 2012 12:15 PM
-
1:30 PM
Where:
Kalmanovitz 167
Description:
Center for Latino
Studies in the Americas (CELASA) and
Masters of Arts in
International Studies (MAIS)
Brown Bag Lunch Lecture with Chris Loperena
October 4, 2012, 12:15-1:30pm, Kalmanovitz 167
In this talk, Loperena will analyze Garifuna women's political
agency and their role in resisting land privatization in Triunfo
de la Cruz, a Garifuna community destined to assume a position on
the margins of major tourist enclave in Tela Bay.
Christopher Loperena received his Ph.D. from the African
Diaspora Program in Social Anthropology at the University of Texas
at Austin. He holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the
University of Texas- Austin and a B.A. in International Studies
from the University of Chicago. His scholarship investigates
struggles over land and cultural resources against the backdrop of
neoliberal tourism development on the north coast of Honduras, the
native territory of the Afro-indigenous Garifuna people. He has
collaborated on numerous studies with OFRANEH (Organización
Fraternal Negra Hondureña) and CCARC (Caribbean and Central
America Research Council) in support of Garifuna territorial
rights in Honduras. He was the César Chávez Fellow in Latin
American, Latino and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College before
assuming his position at the University of San Francisco. He has
also received research support from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation and the Inter-American Foundation.
