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M. Francille Bergquist, Professor CLAS and Nashville Public Library Premiere of Spanish, Emerita, Retires Francille Bergquist, acclaimed teacher, of Popol Wuj Puppet Show administrator, and colleague, retired in May. She joined the faculty of the LAS and the Nashville Public Library present a new marionette show, Te Amazing College of Arts and Science in 1977, and Twins: Ancient Maya Tales from the Popol Wuj, this fall. Te project, which will in 1983 she was named the associate have great impact for CLAS’ Outreach and Curriculum Development Program, is dean of academic affairs. She was at Cthe culmination of several years of collaboration between CLAS faculty and staf and the the heart of the A&S experience for Nashville Public Library. Te campus premiere, co-sponsored by the Jean and Alexander generations of students, responsible for pre-major advising and monitoring Heard Library, took place at Vanderbilt on Tursday, students’ academic progress. She also September 26, with a wide audience of campus and directed summer academic orientation, community of all ages. Te show will be presented trained faculty to be pre-major advisers,

at other local community venues this fall, and will and chaired numerous administrative become a permanent part of the Nashville Public he W committees. She was instrumental in the creation of McTyeire International Library’s renowned marionette series, traveling to Zi Ng House, Vanderbilt’s international living/ hundreds of schools throughout the region. learning community, and taught in the Te Popol Wuj is one of the most important Department of Spanish and Portuguese, indigenous texts of the New World. Written in the ANCIENT MAYA TALES FROM where her course on translation and Western Highlands of Guatemala around 1550, and THE POPOL WUJ interpretation was a student favorite. Thursday, September 26  5:30 p.m. Jean and Alexander Heard Library She has received several honors translated into Spanish in the eighteenth century Community Room, 4th Floor

Join us for a unique puppet show, created by Vanderbilt’s including the Chancellor’s Cup and the Center for Latin American Studies and the renowned by the Friar Francisco Ximénez, it is a collection of puppeteers of the Nashville Public Library, that follows the adventures of twin gods Junajpu and X’balanke. The Alumni Education Award. She will be triumphs of these heroes against powerful forces and myths, legends, and histories written by the K’iche’ gods make way for the creation of man from corn. greatly missed for her expertise, infnite Written in the Western Highlands of Guatemala around 1550, and translated into Spanish in the 18th century by Maya, who dominated the Western Highlands at the Friar Francisco Ximénez, the Popol Wuj is one of the most patience, and calm nature. important indigenous texts of the New World. This collection of myths and legends was most likely written by the K’iche’ time of the Spanish conquest. Maya, who dominated the Western Highlands at the time of the Spanish conquest. Te puppet show presents a mythological version This free event is for all ages and open to the public. VIGH News of the creation of the world as told in the Popol Wuj, Produced by Vanderbilt University Creative Services and Vanderbilt Printing Services, 2013. This publication is recyclable. Please recycle it. The Vanderbilt Vaccine Center and following the adventures of twin gods Hunahp and Fundacin INFANT are partnering to Xbalanqué in ancient times before the creation of offer an international feld experience man. Te triumphs of these heroes against powerful involving clinical research training and forces and gods make way for the creation of man from corn. Te show introduces the insight regarding the health care system audience to the K’iche’ Mayan language through its partially bilingual soundtrack featur- in Buenos Aires, . Open to Vanderbilt undergraduates, School of ing Vanderbilt K’iche’ Mayan instructors Manuela Tahay and Mareike Sattler. Medicine students and residents, this CLAS staf and faculty and the Nashville Public Library’s Bringing Books to Life pro- program will provide participants with gram have created curriculum resources for K–12 teachers to be used in conjunction with the opportunity to conduct biomedical the marionette show. Tese resources are available to educators online and through CLAS research or pediatric rotations at hospi- workshops and other venues such as the MNPS Intercession when teachers and students tals and medical centers in Buenos Aires. from Wright Middle School will see and study the puppet show. Cheekwood Museum and The program will embed participants in a fully bilingual team of both local and U.S.- Botanical Gardens plans two performances at the annual Día de los Muertos festival on trained researchers and physicians. Saturday, November 2.

One of the regional foci of CLAS is the Maya area of southern and Guatemala. CLAS awarded $75,000 to Since 2006, the center has ofered study of the K’iche’ language on campus during the aca- graduate, professional, and under- demic year and through an intensive summer immersion program in Guatemala. CLAS graduate students for research and coordinates a number of other projects in Guatemala in conjunction with the Vanderbilt language study in summer 2013. Children’s Hospital, the School of Medicine, the School of Engineering, and Vanderbilt’s More information on CLAS summer funding is available here: vanderbilt. Institute for Global Health. Please see vanderbilt.edu/clas/guatemala-mayan for more. edu/clas/funding-opportunities/ summer-travel-and-research dIREctoR’S coRNER: EdwaRd F. FIScHER

few weeks ago there were no lines our subsidies anymore, and we are working to in Rand, no wait at the library or strengthen K’iche’ Maya instruction; we now at SATCO, no jostling for position work with faculty in every school and college 230 Buttrick Hall on the paths around campus. Despite the of the university, and our faculty’s accom- PMB 351806 A 2301 Vanderbilt Place little inconveniences the food of new and plishments are truly remarkable; through the Nashville, TN 37235-1806 returning students now presents, I love the hard work of Paula Covington, our library’s Tel: 615-322-2527 rhythms of the academic calendar, the clear specialized LAS holdings continue to grow. Fax: 615-322-2305 and symbolic marking of our seasons. And You should be proud. Tat is all to say that we Web: vanderbilt.edu/clas fall is our spring, a time of planting new seeds are well positioned for the next NRC compe- Director: Edward F. Fischer Executive Director: Avery Dickins de Girn and of renewal, of great energy, and new tition, which promises to be especially tough Assistant Director for Outreach: beginnings. in these lean economic times. One never Claire P. González Tis year is the center’s eighth as a knows, and serendipity and the luck of the Administrative Assistant: National Resource Center (NRC), the Depart- draw with review committees can determine Alma Paz-Sanmiguel ment of Education designation that provides our fate in such a tight competition, but Associate Director, FLAS Coordinator and the vast majority of CLAS’ funding. In spring building on your strengths, we are confdent Certifcate: Helena Simonett Associate Director, Graduate and Under- 2014 we will apply for a third round of NRC in our ability. graduate Advisor: Frank Robinson funding, assuming no dramatic changes in While writing the NRC grant, we are LAS Bibliographer: Paula Covington terms of congressional allocations (a big scheduling slightly fewer public events this assumption, I know). We have done a great year. We may call on you for more informa- national Advisory Board Nora England, University of at Austin job over the last three years, and we do far tion for the exhaustive proposal, and we wel- Franklin Knight, Johns Hopkins University more with far less than our peer institutions. come any ideas on strategic priorities for the Tom Reese, Tulane University Our summer awards and FLAS fellowships next four years. Beyond that, you may best Tom Trebat, Columbia University have had a signifcant impact on graduate show your support by attending a couple of Steering Committee 2013–14 education; our outreach program touches events this year—perhaps on subjects outside Jose Cárdenas thousands every year, and our linkages with of your specialty, things you might normally William Fowler HBCUs and universities in the region are skip—and take part in the interdisciplinary Mike Newton Mariano Sana strong and growing; Portuguese hardly needs conversations that follow. Mavis Schorn Edward Wright-Rios Elizabeth Zechmeister

CLAS-Affliated faculty Theron Corse, Tennessee State University Norma Antilln Award (History) n May, CLAS awarded the frst Norma Gregory Hammond, Austin Peay State University (History) Antilln Award to Ashley Larson. Te Larry Harrington, Chief Deputy, Attorney award honors the frst-year student who General, State of Tennessee best exemplifes the can-do spirit and energy Michael LaRosa, Rhodes College (History) I Jana Morgan, University of Tennessee of longtime CLAS Program Manager Norma (Political Science) Antilln. Ashley’s name is engraved on a Stephen Morris, Middle Tennessee State plaque at CLAS and she received a monetary University (Political Science) award for the recognition. Norma joined CLAS Richard Pace, Middle Tennessee State University (Anthropology) for the celebration. Gerald Reed, Tennessee Department of State Christoph Rosenmuller, Tennessee State University (History) Brent Savoie, Johns Hopkins University

Teacher Advisory Board 2013–14 Laura Clemmons, Martin Luther King Academic Magnet School Rob Nasatir, Father Ryan High School Holly Zahar, Hillsboro High School Stephanie Knight, Hillsboro High School

2 The CenTer for LATin AmeriCAn STudieS Faculty Publications CLAS Ofers New Mayan Language Institute Celso Thomas Castilho (History), “Performing Abolitionism, Enacting in Guatemala for Summer 2014 Citizenship: The Social Construction of Political Rights in 1880s Recife, he Mayan Language Institute is a local host families. Te frst three weeks of ,” American Historical FLAS-eligible summer immersion both programs will take place in Antigua, Review 93:3 (August, 2013): 377-409. program in Guatemala for the study with students of K’iche’ Mayan spending the earl fitz (Spanish and Portuguese), of K’iche’ Mayan and Kaqchikel Mayan. latter three weeks in the town of Nahualá. T “Native American Literature and Its More than 1.5 million people speak K’iche’ Summer 2014 dates are June 14—July 27. Place in the Inter-American Project” and Kaqchikel, placing them among the Te institute is a collaboration among Comparative American Studies: An most widely spoken indigenous languages the universities of Vanderbilt, Tulane, New International Journal 11:2 (2013): in . Te goal of the institute Mexico, Texas, and Chicago. Te program 124–147. is to help students develop and advance is open to graduate and undergraduate Peter James hudson (History), “The profciency in their chosen language and to students from all universities, with pref- National City Bank of New York and gain a better understanding of the cultural erence given to students from partner Haiti, 1909–1922,” Radical History Review 115 (2013): 91-114. and political contexts that have afected the universities. For more information about historical development and preservation of applying to the program, visit vanderbilt. Christina Karageorgou (Spanish the language. Eforts to protect these lan- edu/clas/guatamala-mayan. CLAS ofers and Portuguese), Creacin y destruc- cin del Imperio: Nombrar en Tirano guages are playing a pivotal role in the Maya FLAS funding to attend the program. Te Banderas de Valle-Inclán. : struggle to regain control over their politi- call for applications for FLAS awards goes Ediciones Clásicas, 2013. Poetics cal and cultural destiny. Te institute is an out in December, with applications due in of Hispanism. Introduction and intensive six-week session in which students February. Find additional information at Edition with Cathy L. Jrade. Madrid: study with U.S. faculty and native speak- vanderbilt.edu/clas/funding-opportunities/ Iberoamericana Vervuert. 2013. “Vil- laurrutia’s Poetics of the Flesh.” Ed. ers. In addition to language study, students summer-travel-and-research. Segre, Erica. Ghosts of the Mexican participate in cultural activities and live with Revolution. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013. 94-117. Jane Landers (History),“The African Landscape of 17th Century Cartagena and its Hinterlands,” The Black Urban and Brazilian Culture Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade (The Early Modern ), ed. Summer Program in São Paulo Jorge Caizares-Ezguerra, James Sid- bury and Matt D. Childs (University of his intensive academic program in Brazilian Portu- Pennsylvania Press, 2013). “Founding guese is organized by Tulane University, Vanderbilt Mothers: Female Rebels in Colonial University, and Emory University with the Pontifícia New Granada and ,” Journal TUniversidade Catlica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). São Paulo, the of African American History, 98:1 largest metropolis in South America, is an exciting center for (Winter 2013): 7-23. fne arts, theater, music, and cultural life. Tis city is a medley marzia milazzo (English), “White of Brazilians from the country’s 26 states and from multiple Supremacy, White Knowledge, and ethnic groups, which makes for an exciting mix of traditions Anti-West Indian Discourse in Panama: Olmedo Alfaro’s El peligro antillano en and fabulous food on every street. Most students stay with la América Central” in Interoceanic host families in São Paulo for a total Portuguese immersion Diasporas and the Panama Canal’s experience. Te program is open to graduates and under- Centennial: The Global South (2012). graduates, and students with Summer FLAS Fellowships are Edited by Claudia Milian and Ifeoma eligible. Students have the opportunity to earn 6–7 credits Kiddoe Nwankwo (English). and will take one Portuguese language course (two levels are frank robinson (History), “Panama ofered) taught by PUC-SP faculty and a Brazilian culture for the Panamanians: The Populism course taught by Tulane/Vanderbilt and/or Emory faculty. of Arnulfo Arias Madrid,” in Michael L. Conniff, ed., Populism in Latin America 2nd ed. Tuscaloosa: Univer- sity of Alabama Press, 2012.

w w w.vAn derBiLT.edu/CL AS 3 helena Simonett (Blair School of Music, Latin American Studies), The Vanderbilt’s Institute for Cofee Studies Accordion in the Americas: Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco, and More! Champaign: University of Illinois Examines Economic Prospects for Cofee Press, 2012. Farmers in Guatemala cLaS Faculty News conomic prospects altitude beans. Tey found robert Barsky (Department of improved for small that economic prospects French and Italian) has been named mountain farmers in improved for small mountain by the Dutch Royal Academy as a Vis- EGuatemala when consumers farmers in Guatemala when iting Scholar to the Free University of developed a taste for cofee consumers developed a taste Amsterdam School of Law, 2013–14. brewed with beans grown at for cofee brewed with beans His affliation is with the Migration and Diversity Division, where he is high altitude, according to a grown at high altitude. Te consulting with other professors and new study from the Vanderbilt next question for study is presenting work from his forthcoming Institute for Cofee Studies. A how these newer cofee grow- book on undocumented immigrants passion for sipping the “Strictly Hard Bean” ers will weather economic tests, such as the in the U.S. brew grown above 4,500 feet has led to spreading cofee rust disease that threatens Tom Bogenschild (Latin American improvements in the modest living condi- the crops, and how such threats will impact Studies, Global Education Offce) tions of these indigenous Maya growers, the cost and demand for high-end cofee was awarded a Fulbright to attend Vanderbilt researchers Edward F. Fischer and Te Vanderbilt Institute for Cofee Stud- a two-week seminar in Germany in October, for educators focusing on Bart Victor found. ies was established in 1999 in the Depart- international higher education issues. Fischer and Victor, through the Institute ment of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University He will present a paper at an upcom- for Cofee Studies, recently published a study Medical Center. Te institute moved to ing CIEE conference in Minneapolis published in Latin America Research Review, CLAS in 2007 to expand its mission beyond in a roundtable entitled “Credit Wars: which was co-funded by Anacafé, the Guate- the biomedical aspects of cofee to include Institutional Politics and Core Cur- malan national cofee producers association. historical, literary, sociological, and eco- riculae in International Education.” Te paper sought to examine how the desire nomic importance. dan Cornfeld (Sociology) spoke in for a better future steered small producers June 2013 at the Congresso Latino- Americano de Estudos do Trabalho toward the newly emerging market for high in São Paulo on “Creating Artist Communities in an Enterprising Age.” The talk was based on his study of the careers of Nashville music Mexican Studies Group professionals. n spring 2013, the Mexican Studies Group Group speakers included Lance Ingwersen Tom dillehay (Anthropology) has invited Roderic Camp (Claremont McK- (Vanderbilt), Chris Boyer (University of received the 2013 Joe B. Wyatt enna College) to give a talk, “Can Pea Illinois at Chicago), and Silke Hensel (Uni- Distinguished University Professor Nieto Change Mexico’s Future? A Discussion versity of Mnster, Germany). In September Award. The Wyatt Award is Vander- I bilt’s top research award and recog- on ‘Te Pact for Mexico.’” Since Pea Nieto’s 2013, the Mexican Studies group sponsored nizes accomplishments that generate recent election, great attention has been given a lunch talk with sociologist Arturo Santa- signifcant new knowledge spanning to the return to power of the Institutional maria Gmez (Universidad Autnoma de multiple academic disciplines. Revolutionary Party (PRI). Te PRI famously Sinaloa, Mazatlán) entitled “Ftbol y Patria: earl fitz (Spanish and Portuguese) held power in Mexico for 70 years prior to La Nueva Identidad Mexicana.” has been named chair of the Modern being ousted in 2000, leaving behind a con- Te Mexican Studies Group brings Language Association’s Aldo and troversial legacy. As a representative of the together faculty and graduate students from Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Transla- PRI, Pea Nieto has vowed to reduce political history, political science, literature, sociol- tion of a Scholarly Study of Literature Selection Committee for 2013. Two infghting and work for the Mexican people. ogy, art, anthropology, music, pedagogy, of his articles originally published in Whether he will be successful is a topic of and Latin American Studies, with the aim the U.S., one on Clarice Lispector and debate and was the focus of Camp’s lecture. of raising the profle of research related to one on Machado de Assis, have been Other spring 2013 Mexican Studies Mexico on Vanderbilt’s campus. reprinted in Brazil. At Texas Tech University, Fitz delivered a keynote address on “Frontiers and Borders: Life on the Fringe of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds and Beyond.”

4 The CenTer for LATin AmeriCAn STudieS cLaS Faculty News cont. At Northwestern University, he gave an invited lecture on “Soccer: The ‘Jogo Bonito’ as Motif in Brazilian Lit- erature,” and at the annual meeting of the American Portuguese Studies Association hosted by the University of Iowa, he read a paper on “Portugal, Brazil, and Inter-American Studies.” Carol etherington (Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health), received the Martin Luther King Jr. Award, presented annually to a Vanderbilt faculty or staff member of the School of Medicine, School of Nursing, or Vanderbilt University Medical Center who emulates King’s principles through his or her work. CLAS and Music City Present ruth hill (Spanish and Portuguese), who was recently named Mellon “Hacemos Fiesta: Let’s Celebrate” Professor of Span- n May, CLAS partnered with Nashville’s program consisting of liturgical music and ish, is working on professional historical ensemble Music the latter half dominated by secular vil- two monographs. One deals with City Baroque to present a concert of early lancicos and dances with gut-string violins, the coeval inven- Imusic from the Spanish New World titled, valveless horns, deer-hoof rattles, and turtle tions of prehistory, “Hacemos Fiesta: Let’s Celebrate. Baroque shell drums. Tese instruments were on archaeology, and Music from the New World.” Te Benton display following the concert. Te perfor- the Aryan in Western Europe and the Chapel lobby was transformed into a town mance was well attended by the general Americas from 1830 to 2005. This festival scene, featuring colorful papel picado public, local educators, and Vanderbilt transatlantic and trans-American project traces the development of and gigantes to greet the concert-goers. Te faculty, students, and staf. Murray Somer- Aryanism through print and digital cul- performance featured a variety of works, ville, Music City Baroque’s artistic director tures, and represents her long-stand- including choral, instrumental, sacred and emeritus, returned to Nashville to conduct ing interest in critical race studies and secular pieces. the performance. hemispheric American studies. The Mareike Sattler (Department of Anthro- Read more about the Music City Baroque other monograph examines the plant and animal breeding cultures of early pology) explained to the audience how the Concert at artsnash.com/classicalmusic/ modern , Great Britain, and the concert was structured like a traditional mcb-new-world. Americas, and the racial taxonomies Mexican festa, with the frst half of the and whitening equations derived from them. Hill argues that the origins of human whitening protocols, in both colonial British America and colonial CLAS Announces Brazilian Studies Minor Spanish America, are to be found in horse breeding at plantations such he Center for Latin American Studies now ofers a minor in Brazilian studies. as the Belle Meade Plantation and in Students must complete 15 hours of approved courses with Brazilian content sheep breeding and horse breeding including LAS 202 and Portuguese 102. In addition, students must complete three at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Tadditional courses from the areas of study listed below: one course in Area I, one course in Jane Landers (History) has been Area II, and one course in Area II or III. Individualized standardized testing may also be named a fellow of the 2013 John used to demonstrate knowledge in lieu of Portuguese 102. Te undergraduate adviser of the Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Landers plans to Center for Latin American Studies must approve course selections. Other elective courses, complete a book on the evolution of including special topics courses, may be approved by the CLAS undergraduate adviser communities of African descent in as well. Find more information on the Brazilian studies minor here: vanderbilt.edu/clas/ the Iberian Atlantic from their earliest undergraduate-program/minor-in-brazilian-studies formulations as autonomous king- doms in the wilderness through their last vestiges as formally recognized free black towns in the eighteenth century. Landers was also awarded w w w.vAn derBiLT.edu/CL AS 5 cLaS Faculty News cont. Fa c u Lt y P R o F IL E an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for 2013–14. The award will help fund her project “African Kingdoms, Black Republics and Free Black Towns in Tom Bogenschild the Iberian Atlantic.” Landers served ince arriving at Vanderbilt in 2011 from as a historical consultant for The the University of , Tom African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, a PBS documentary series Bogenschild has directed Vanderbilt’s by Skip Gates and Kunhardt McGee SGlobal Education Ofce, overseeing Vander- Productions. The series premiered in bilt’s student travel abroad programs and Washington D.C. on October 9, 2013, advising students interested in international at the National Press Club and in New careers. Bogenshield also holds a faculty York City on October 16, 2013. appointment in Latin American Studies, and marzia milazzo (English) exam- in spring 2013 he taught the core LAS 201 ines the rhetorical contours of course. CLAS and Bogenschild are working colorblindness and its implications for contemporary literatures in together to increase the numbers of students her current research project, “The studying abroad. Master’s Colorblind Tools: Hegemonic Bogenschild’s research interests span Racial Discourse and the Decolonial world politics, Central America, and the Imaginaries of Contemporary Afro- intellectual history of the late nineteenth Panamanian, Black South African, and and early twentieth centuries. Bogenschild Chicana/o Literatures.” has studied Latin America, Europe, and the José medina (Philosophy) The infuence of Rome on Latin America, and he Epistemology of Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2012) was awarded hopes to develop a course that would trace the 2013 North American Society for the Latin roots of Latin America. Social Philosophy Book Award. The He serves on the executive committee for book offers a new study of iconic fg- the Association of International Education ures of resistance in Latina feminism Administrators (AIEA) and is a member of Curriculae in International Education” at an and the civil rights movement: Sor the NAFSA: Association of International upcoming CIEE conference in Minneapolis. Juana Inés de la Cruz and Rosa Parks. Educators. Recently, he was awarded a Bogenschild received his M.A. in doug morgan (Medicine) has Fulbright to attend a two-week seminar for cultural anthropology and a doctorate in received several grants from the educators focusing on international higher Latin American Studies from University of NIH and National Cancer Institute to study H. pylori and gastric cancer in education issues in Germany in October. Berkeley. His favorite destinations Honduras and Nicaragua. His ongoing He will also present a paper entitled “Credit in Latin America include Mexico, Western research on H. pylori infection in Cen- Wars: Institutional Politics and Core Guatemala, and Salvador, Brazil. tral America was presented in recent articles, including “Risk of recurrent Helicobacter pylori infection one year after initial eradication therapy in LaS FacuLty REcIPIENtS oF dIScoVERy GRaNtS seven Latin American communities.” JAMA 2013; 309(6): 578-586. Steve wernke (Anthropology) received a VIO Collaborative Grant to work with researchers from Peru and Japan to develop a database of information on early colonial settlements in highland Peru. Patricia netherly (Anthropology) has been named to a one-year, postdoc- The Discovery Grant program was initiated in 1998 by the Offce of the Provost and occurs toral faculty appointment working annually. The program specifcally focuses on providing seed funding for research to increase with Tom Dillehay as a research its potential to attract external funding. Recent recipients include: associate professor. • Bill fowler (Anthropology): “Archeology of the Early Church at Ciudad Vieja, El Salvador” frank robinson (History) was elected • (Anthropology and Medicine, Health and Society): “Prosequencing Facility: president of SECOLAS (Southeastern Amy non A Resource for Epigenetic Analyses at Vanderbilt” Latin American Studies Conference) and will serve through 2014. • Ted fischer (Anthropology) and Bart Victor (Owen Graduate School of Management): “Coffee and Capabilities” helena Simonett (Blair School of Music, LAS) was named the co-editor of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Studies in Latin American Music book project.

6 The CenTer for LATin AmeriCAn STudieS New cLaS Faculty VU Ofers New Study Abroad Programs in Carwil r. Bjork-James Chile and Brazil (Anthropology) is a cultural anthro- he Global Education Ofce has the debate concerning truth, justice, and pologist whose announced the approval of eight new reconciliation in the context of the human work focuses study abroad programs, including rights violations during the Pinochet regime. on strategies of Ttwo programs in Chile and one in Brazil. Te program is based in the seaport city of grassroots auton- Students enrolled in Chile: Comparative Valparaíso and neighboring Via del Mar. omy and disruptive protest in Latin America. His primary research project Education and Social Change will focus on Vanderbilt partners with the School for encompasses the takeover and use educational systems in urban in rural areas International Training to ofer students a of urban space by grassroots social of Chile and Argentina. By learning from new interdisciplinary program of study in movements in Bolivia, particularly in cross-sections of experts from both coun- Brazil. Students enrolled in Brazil: Social the city of Cochabamba. Using both tries, students will gain understanding of the Justice and Sustainable Development will anthropological and historical meth- forces afecting those countries’ educational examine critical issues of social justice and ods, he explores how pivotal public events generate political legitimacy, policies and will consider the application of sustainable development in northeastern contribute to major—sometimes popular education as a tool for social change. Brazil, including issues related to emanci- revolutionary—transformations in Another program, Chile: Cultural Identity, pation struggles of diferent populations, the balance of power, and provide Social Justice and Community Develop- economic and social issues, gender and race models for future political action. The ment, examines the challenges facing Chile’s issues, and human rights. Based in Fortaleza ethnographic evidence collected about these events—of social life as indigenous peoples from the perspectives of in northeastern Brazil, the program includes experienced through the human body, indigenous communities and explores links excursions to other areas within the state of the meanings attached to places, and between international images of a success- Ceara to provide a more complete picture of social movement practices—explains ful economic model and the deep social the country. how grassroots movements exert inequalities expressed in class, gender, and For more information on GEO programs leverage upon the state through racial discrimination. Students learn frst- in Latin America, go to webapp.mis.vander- protest. Bjork-James received his Ph.D. from the City University of New hand about local community responses to bilt.edu/studioabroad York in 2013. Chile’s socio-economic changes and witness marzia milazzo (English) received her Ph.D. in com- parative literature, CLAS Hosts Bioethics and with a doctoral emphasis in global Health Disparities Panel and international studies, from the n spring 2013, CLAS, Tuskegee University, and University of California, Santa Barbara, Meharry Medical College hosted a panel in and her M.A. in English and Spanish, Nashville on bioethics and health disparities to along with a secondary education discuss the links between the syphilis studies in the teaching degree, from the University I of Freiburg, Germany. Her research is U.S. and Guatemala. Dr. Reuben Warren (Tuskegee broadly concerned with the relation National Center for Bioethics in Research and between the poetics and politics of Health Care) spoke about the lapse in bioethics in racial disavowal and antiracism across the context of the Alabama syphilis experiments, national borders and literary traditions. and Dr. Elizabeth Heitman (Vanderbilt School of Her teaching and study areas include twentieth and twenty-frst century Medicine) discussed the recently revealed syphilis African American, Afro-Latin Ameri- studies in Guatemala and the subjects of those studies. Te panel was moderated by Profes- can, Chicana/o, Latina/o, inter-Amer- sor Amy Non (Vanderbilt Department of Anthropology and Medicine, Health, and Society) ican, and South African literatures; and was attended by Meharry and Vanderbilt students and faculty. black radical thought, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, sociology of race and ethnic relations, and white supremacy; antiracist, feminist, and indigenous epistemologies.

w w w.vAn derBiLT.edu/CL AS 7 New affliated Faculty aLu M N I SP o t L IG H t Gregory ham- mond (Ph.D, History, University of Texas at Austin) Carolyn Naifeh (M.A.1984) is an assistant fter completing her M.A., Carolyn then worked as a consultant for a variety professor of history at Austin worked for 13 years in Washington, of nonprofts, from the Telonious Monk Peay State Uni- D.C., in international broadcasting at Institute of Jazz, to the Pearson Foundation, versity’s Department of History and AVoice of America—initially on VOA’s broad- NEA Foundation, and the National Hispanic Philosophy. His book, The Women’s casts in Spanish, Portuguese, and Creole, Foundation for the Arts. Suffrage Movement and Feminism then as a Latin America regional editor and We are pleased that in April 2013, she in Argentina from Roca to Pern, examines how and why women assignments editor in the central newsroom, moved back to Nashville to open an ofce for won voting rights when they did to later helping set up a business development the Pujols Family Foundation. Albert Pujols, in Argentina. Hammond’s present ofce, and fnally as the executive assistant to of the Dominican Republic, played major research explores the same issue for the director of VOA. Troughout her time at league baseball for the Cardinals for 10 years Peru. Professor Hammond is active VOA, she was able to put her LAS degree to and is now with the Angels. in the Sister City program between work, covering news conferences in Spanish, He is one of the best players in the game: a Nashville and Mendoza. In fall 2013, he will be teaching at the Soto Cano interviewing most Latin American heads nine-time all-star, two-time World Series Airbase in Honduras. of state, and working on documentaries in champion, three-time MVP, and a recipient Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, and of the treasured Roberto Clemente Award. affliated Faculty Brazil addressing issues including environ- Te Pujols Foundation promotes awareness, New Publication ment, economics, drugs, political violence, provides hope, and meets tangible needs for and AIDS. families and children who live with Down She worked for a year at the Annenberg syndrome. Te foundation also strives to School for Communication at the University improve the standard of living and quality of of Southern California, and then helped set life for impoverished children in the Domini- up the international arm of Best Doctors. can Republic through education, medical From 1999–2005, she served as the direc- relief, and tangible goods. tor of development at Ford’s Teatre, and

LatIN aMERIcaN StudIES FIELd RESEaRcH GRaNtS

Awards are for approximately $2,000 each and are intended primarily to support travel expenses related to feld research for graduate students conducting pre-dissertation research in Latin America. Any Vanderbilt graduate student in the College of Arts and Science with Latin American- related interests is eligible to apply, although preference will be given to doctoral students. The award is NOT intended for advanced dissertation research, but rather to support initial hands-on feld research and the development of independent research projects.

SIMoN coLLIER tRaVEL awaRdS

A historian of Chile with an expertise in Argentine tango, Simon Collier served as a former direc- hinote, Brian P. and Pace, richard tor of Vanderbilt CLAS and was chair of the Department of History. Simon Collier Travel Awards (CLAS Affliated Faculty). Amazon fund student research in Chile and Argentina, as well as other projects on cultural arts elsewhere Town TV: An Audience Ethnography in in Latin America. Ranging from $500 to $2,000, these awards are available to both undergraduate Gurupá, Brazil. May 2013. University and graduate students enrolled at Vanderbilt. of Texas Press. This pioneering study examines television’s impact on an Amazonian river town from the frst FoREIGN LaNGuaGE aNd aREa StudIES FELLowSHIPS broadcasts in Gurupá in 1983 to the present. The Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University has been awarded funding from the Department of Education to support FLAS (Foreign Language Area Studies) Awards for Inten- sive Studies of Portuguese or Latin American indigenous languages in the summer of 2013. Any graduate or undergraduate student with Luso-Brazilian or indigenous language-related interests who is a U.S. citizen or permanent U.S. resident is eligible to apply.

8 The CenTer for LATin AmeriCAn STudieS M . a . L at I N a M E R I c a N S t u d I E S N E w S t u d E N t P R o F I L E cLaS alumni News Patrick Aucoin (M.A. 2012) is living in Brooklyn, New York, where he Jessica Edwards received an academic year works as an analyst focusing on Latin FLAS fellowship from CLAS for 2013–14 America for Selerity, a real-time fnan- to study Portuguese. Since 2013, Jessica has cial information and media company. been pursuing a master’s in international Kevin Carlucci (M.A. 2006) lives in education policy and management at Pea- Austin, Texas, where he works for body College with a focus on Latin America. Climate Change & Urban Service. Her specifc interests include development Kevin’s role in the organization has and economics as well as race and gender transitioned from proposal writing to feldwork focused on decision-making disparities in education. Jessica studied methods for adaptation to climate abroad in Havana, , which prompted change. He is working on a proposal her to serve in the U.S. Peace Corps in the now for the World Wildlife Fund. Dominican Republic. As an education and Jared howard (M.A. 2012) is in literacy specialist, Jessica worked alongside Washington, D.C. working at the the Ministry of Education, local founda- Defense Intelligence Agency as a tions, and community members to create specialist in Latin American political- and manage a literacy program for youth and adults. In her tenure at Vanderbilt, Jessica has military issues. He and his family plan on staying in D.C. through 2015, served as a graduate teaching assistant in the HOD International Leadership and Develop- when he hopes to have an assign- ment track at Peabody and worked as the evaluation intern for CLAS. Tis past summer, ment in South America. Jessica served as the on-site coordinator for the Ofce of Active Citizenship and Service’s Ty west (M.A. 2010) has been Maymester service program to Ecuador (see Graduate Student News). She then traveled to appointed to a one-year position Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, under a summer FLAS fellowship from CLAS to study Portuguese at Notre Dame in the Romance and conduct research on the dynamics of poverty and race. Languages Department.

Grad Student News undergrad News Jennifer Zovar was awarded the isaiah Jeremy marcano (Class of 2014) is Beyond the realm of administrative procedures, Department of Anthropology 2012 completing an interdisciplinary major at Vanderbilt I have also come to appreciate chimarrão, a Award for Excellence in Anthropo- entitled “Brazil in International Context (O Brasil Gacho pastime. Sunday strolls through Porto logical Scholarship. She received a no contexto internacional).” He traveled to Brazil Alegre’s Parque da Redenção (Redemption monetary award and her name was this summer on a summer FLAS fellowship and Park)—a local favorite for its Sunday fairs and engraved on the wall plaque in the is currently on the FIPSE exchange program, One central location—taught me early on that porto- department offce. Nation Out of Many: Multiculturalism in Brazil and alegrenses truly relish this traditional tea. Locals Jessica edwards traveled in May to the , with the Universidade Federal sunbathing with a hollow gourd packed with tea Quito as a site leader for Vanderbilt’s do Rio Grande do Sul, University of Florida, and leaves beside them is a common sight. Finally, Offce of Active Citizenship and Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Isaiah my stay in Porto Alegre has pulled me into a local Service’s Ecuador Experience. The refects on his experiences in the following soccer rivalry between the two largest teams in Ecuador Experience sends graduate excerpt: the state—Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense and and undergraduate students to per- SC Internacional. To my host mother’s dismay “Xerox. Chimarrão. SC Internacional. My frst form service work in various organiza- and reasons that seem beyond my control, I two weeks in Porto Alegre cannot be summed tions primarily focused on education looked away from the tricolor of Grêmio and up better. As a FIPSE student at the Federal Uni- and public health around Quito. On became a Colorado (SC Internacional) fan. It versity of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), I quickly the weekends the students explored looks as if I will be forming a part of the Nação learned the importance of making copies of different regions of the country such Vermelha (Red Nation) for the long run. offcial documents. With passport and visa cop- as the Amazon jungle and Cotapaxi. ies, proof of residency, a personal identifcation Christopher Ammerman, Charles winfred Prior to travel, Jessica assisted the number (CPF), and proof of enrollment in hand, Billingsley, and matthew nostro studied in São OACS team in organizing sessions I registered for three classes—two international Paulo, Brazil on a Vanderbilt University-approved on Ecuadorian politics and history relations courses and one advanced Portuguese program In spring 2013. by Diana Orces, a Vanderbilt alumna language course, applied for a student metro who is on the staff of LAPOP (Latin pass, and activated a local cell phone number. I American Public Opinion Project). also secured a slot in a paid independent project Others in the Vanderbilt community with the UFRGS College of Letters and its team spoke to students on topics that of Portuguese-English translators. were directed toward service and development abroad.

w w w.vAn derBiLT.edu/CL AS 9 Grad Student news cont. felipe Girn received the 2012 Vanderbilt Guatemalan Field Station Department of Anthropology Out- standing Teaching Assistant Award. New Interdisciplinary Hub He received a monetary award and his name was engraved on the wall ast spring, with signifcant support plaque in the department offce. from the Center for Latin American Katie Angell, Charlie Gibson, Studies, Vanderbilt expanded its and rebecca Keng, 2013 M.A. Lcommitment to research and sustainable LAS graduates In April, are to be development in Guatemala by opening a congratulated on their accomplish- feld station that is home to 13 projects. Te ments. Katie Angell is now a special feld station, located at the Moore Pediatric projects paralegal in at Surgery Center, provides support for diverse an international law frm that works on cases in Europe, , and Latin programs ranging from pediatric surgery to America. Charlie Gibson is working in the study of Mayan languages and to small- arts education at the Global Educa- scale cofee production. tion Center in Nashville. Rebecca Bringing together the 13 initiatives, Keng, who presented her thesis which share a common vision for sustain- on Japanese emigration to Brazil, “Mirror, Mirror: Four Generations of able improvements in everyday life in the Japanese Diaspora in Brazil and Guatemala, complements the “one univer- the United States,” is working as a sity” model espoused by Vanderbilt’s senior marketing intern at Keng’s Firearms leadership. By building on collaborations Specialty, Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia. among departments, programs, and schools, Courtney Campbell (History) is the initiative avoids the tendency of units project director of a recently awarded in some universities to operate in isolation. • Te Vanderbilt Library’s focus on Guate- grant through the British Library’s Current VU initiatives in Guatemala include: malan anthropology and archaeology as Endangered Archives Programme: part of a national cooperative collection “Digitizing Endangered Seventeenth • Moore Surgery Center in Guatemala City to Nineteenth Century Secular and development efort • An intensive summer program for the Ecclesiastical Sources in João Pessoa • An international component to the and São João do Carirí, Paraíba, Bra- study of the K’iche’ Mayan language in Nurse-Midwifery Program in the Vander- zil.” The team recently conducted a Nahualá, Guatemala bilt School of Nursing • Primeros Pasos, a rural health clinic in Quetzaltenango founded by Vanderbilt • Vanderbilt Cancuén Archaeology Park, alumnus Brent Savoie directed by Vanderbilt professor Arthur Demarest, which integrates local devel- • Latin American Public Opinion Project opment, health projects, and eco-tourism (LAPOP), which surveys opinions regard- ing democracy and security in Guatemala • Vanderbilt’s Alternative Spring Break and elsewhere program • Service-learning course taught by Cyn- • A year-long Vanderbilt Initiative for Scholarship and Global Engagement two-week course for students in João thia Paschal, associate dean and associate (VISAGE) course, which is ofered by the Pessoa at the Universidade Federal professor of biomedical engineering da Paraíba that included workshops Center for Medicine, Health, and Society • Manna Project, with one of three perma- on document handling and preserva- and the Center for Latin American tion by Maria da Vitria Barbosa and nent sites in Guatemala Studies on digitization by Courtney Campbell • Vanderbilt Institute for Cofee Studies and David LaFevor. They traveled to • Maní+, a childhood nutrition project São João do Carirí to start work on • Project Pyramid, led by Bart Victor, the started by CLAS Director Ted Fischer the oldest ecclesiastical record in the Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leader- with support from the Vanderbilt Insti- area—a book of baptismal, marriage, ship at the Owen Graduate School of tute for Global Health and the Shalom and death records for enslaved Management Foundation Africans dating from 1752—at the Parquia da Nossa Senhora dos Milagres in the sertão of Paraíba. The students will continue work in that church, as well as at the Instituto Histrico e Geográfco Paraibano

10 The CenTer for LATin AmeriCAn STudieS Américas Award THE CONSORTIUM OF LATIN AMERICAN he Américas Award for Children’s STUDIES PROGRAMS and Young Adult Literature is sponsored by the Consortium of TLatin American Studies Programs and co-coordinated by Vanderbilt CLAS and Tulane SCLAS. Up to two awards are given each year to authors who produce qual- ity children’s and young adult books that Américas portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the U.S. and provide teachers with Award recommendations for K–12 classroom use. Americas Award winning books are judged for their distinctive literary quality, cultural Winner contextualization, exceptional integration of text, illustration and design, and potential for classroom use. 2013 Each year, the award is presented at the Library of Congress during Hispanic Heri- tage Month; this year’s ceremony took place 2013 americas award Commended Titles: on Monday, September 23. As part of CLAS’s The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano In Darkness by Nick Lake; Drummer regional outreach initiative, Vanderbilt by Sonia Manzano Boy of John John by Mark Greenwood, partnered with Georgetown University and illustrations by Frane Lessac Tulane to ofer a teacher workshop entitled honorable mention: Aristotle and Dante Discover Secrets of “Exploring Latino and Latin American Martin de Porres: the Rose in the Desert the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz Children’s Literature in the K–12 Classroom” by Gary Schmidt and David Díaz for teachers in the Washington, D.C. area.

SALSA Conference ighty-fve Amazonia specialists and dancing with Trio Ginga, a Nashville from thirteen countries gathered band led by percussionist Dan Sherrill, in Buttrick Hall March 7–10, ALS with lead singer, Kenya. E2013, for the international conference S 2013 A Following the SALSA conference, of the Society for the Anthropology of NASHVILLE geographer Brent Millikan, Amazon Lowland South America (SALSA), hosted program director for the research and by President Beth Conklin, chair of the advocacy organization International Department of Anthropology. Scholars ethnographer Curt Nimuendaju, from a Rivers, led a two-day workshop on Ama- presented papers in nine panels that 1927 expedition to indigenous communi- zonian environmental issues. On March examined topics ranging from shaman- ties in the Rio Negro region of northern 12, Millikan presented a campus lecture, ism and cosmology to climate change, Brazil. Anthony Seeger, professor “Damming Amazonia: People, Rivers, and forest conservation policies, and state- emeritus of ethnomusicology at UCLA Resistance.” sponsored extractivism. Renato Athias, and former director of the Smithsonian CLAS, the Department of Anthropol- coordinator of the Museums of the Joa- Institution’s Folkways Recordings, gave ogy, College of Arts and Science, Divinity quim Nabuco Foundation based in Recife, the keynote address. His lecture and School, Program in African-American Brazil, and professor of anthropology at musical performance, titled “Speech, and Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt Insti- the Federal University of Pernambuco, Music, and Place: From the Grand Old tute for Energy and Environment, and presented a special exhibit of newly redis- Opry to the Grander, Older Amazon and the Climate Change Research Network covered photographs by the renowned Orinoco,” was followed by Brazilian music sponsored the conference.

w w w.vAn derBiLT.edu/CL AS 11 Grad Student news cont. and the Arquivo Histrico Waldemar Bispo Duarte. Co-directors of the project are Marshall Eakin (History) and Solange Rocha (Universidade Federal da Paraiba).

CLAS Summer Awards Programs CLAS administers several summer awards available to graduate and undergraduate students pursuing research projects in Latin America. The call for applications is posted on the CLAS website (vanderbilt.edu/ clas) each December and applications are due in early February.

Library News In April and May, LAS Bibliographer Paula Covington made three book purchasing trips to Latin America (Guatemala, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru). She was able to review and purchase portions of a special collec- tion in Bolivia of retrospective Andean Yeu-Matchuc Brings Native Dance Celebration materials. Most purchases on these trips were new and older materials to Nashville relating to the library’s Guatemalan and Andean interests in anthropology, ed by Associate Director Helena Te campus performance was a sacred history, and archaeology. Simonett, CLAS collaborated with ceremony held on World Environment Day. The library has been digitizing a the Tennessee Arts Commission to Special guest Albert Bender of the Native portion of the Manuel Zapata Olivella Linvite a group of indigenous Yoreme danc- American Indian Association of Tennes- collection called the Voz de los Abue- ers from Sinaloa, Mexico, for two public see welcomed the Yoreme on behalf of the los Project. It includes transcriptions performances in Nashville in June 2013. Cherokee nation. Te event was free and of Colombian oral history interviews Te Yeu-Matchuc group performed ancient open to the public and attended by over 90 covering ethnographic, anthropologi- cal, and cultural information. Eventu- songs and dances on Vanderbilt University’s members of the community. In addition ally the website will contain the Library Lawn. Te highlight of the perfor- to CLAS, other event co-sponsors were interviews, transcriptions, tapes, and mance was the ancient deer dance, through the Tennessee Arts Council, Curb Center, photographs. which the dancers transform into deer to Blair School of Music, Robert Penn Warren The library is now hosting the website reassert their ties to Earth. Te opportunity Center for the Humanities, Department of LAPTOC, a searchable database of to witness ceremonial music from Mexico Anthropology, Universidad Autnoma de tables of contents of more than 900 is rare, not only because many indigenous Sinaloa, Instituto Sinaloense de Cultura, and journals from 1994–2009 from 29 groups keep their spiritual life and expres- the Mexican Studies Group. countries that includes references sions under wraps, but also because much In addition to the performance at to over 340,000 journal articles. This collaborative effort was intended to of it has been mixed over the years with Vanderbilt, Yeu-Matchuc performed at Casa provide awareness of Latin American Mestizo elements. Simonett has collaborated Azafrán Community Center in Nashville. journals not widely held in the U.S. with Bernardo Esquer Lpez, the artistic One hour prior to the performance at Casa and can be found at: laptoc.library. leader of Yeu Matchuc, in the publication of Azafrán, there was an introduction to Yor- vanderbilt.edu/query/basic_search.jsp a bilingual (Yoreme-Spanish) children’s book eme culture and cosmology by Simonett and The library has instituted a new Dean’s Ca’anáriam, Hombre Que No Hizo Fuego on Lpez and a discussion of their children’s Fellows internship program that we Yoreme culture. book project. hope will result in greater digital worldwide access to the library’s unique Colombian collections, espe- cially the Zapata Olivella and Helguera collections.

12 The CenTer for LATin AmeriCAn STudieS News

very two years LAPOP conducts the most extensive survey of public opinion throught the Americas. Te resulting LAPOP AmericasBarometer gives incredible Einsights into individuals’ experiences of democracy, security, and other topics across the region. In 2012, the project’s spe- cial focus was on marginalized groups, and LAPOP analyses have formed the foundation of numerous presentations and reports, including the 2012 comparative and country reports and a number of Insights reports (all are available at lapopsurveys.org). In a recent Topical Brief Insights report, Fernanda Boidi examined same-sex marriage approval in , while putting the region into a comparative perspective on this issue. Te chart shows average levels of support for gay marriage as seen in the 2012 LAPOP surveys. It is noteworthy that the countries at the top of the chart have laws allowing same-sex marriage at either the national (Canada, Uruguay, and Argen- tina) or subnational level (United States, Brazil, and Mexico). At the other end of the chart, we fnd a number of Caribbean countries (i.e., Haiti and Jamaica) with extremely low support for same-sex marriage.

C anada 67.2 Uruguay 67.1 Argentina 55.4 United S tates 52.0 B razil 49.8 Mexic o 45.4 C hile 45.1 C olombia 36.7 Ecuador 26.1 B olivia 24.7 Peru 23.0 S uriname 22.5 C osta R ic a 22.3 22.2 Dom. R ep. 21.4 Panama 19.5 Nicaragua 19.3 Trinidad & Tobago 17.6 16.1 Guatemala 16.1 Honduras 15.0 E l S alvador 10.0 Guyana 8.8 B elize 8.4 Haiti 6.4 Figure shows averages expressed on J amaica 5.1 a scale from 0-100, where 0 = strongly disapproves and 100 = strongly approves.

0 20 40 60 80 Approval of Same-Sex Couples Having the Right to Marry 95% Confidence Interval (Design-Effects Based) Source: ©AmericasBarometer by LAPOP, 2012; v50

www.vAnderBiLT.edu/CLAS 13 Frist workshops c L a S ou t RE ac H Annabeth headrick visit In April 2013, CLAS invited Annabeth Headrick (University of Denver) to Nashville to give a lecture at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts as a part of our collaboration on the Frist’s “Exploring Art of Ancient America” exhibit. Headrick’s public lecture was titled “Fighting for Water: War and Agriculture in Mesoamerica,” and she led two engaging K–12 teacher workshops at the Frist.

Symphony workshop: A musical Journey through the indigenous Festa Junina Cultures of mexico: Carlos Chavez’s Sinfonía India n March, students from Fisk and Vanderbilt donned traditional Brazilian costumes to celebrate Festa Junina. Te annual celebration, also known as Festa de São João, has In April, CLAS collaborated with the Nashville Symphony to present historically been related to the European Midsummer that takes place in the beginning a workshop focused on Mexican Iof the Brazilian winter. It is celebrated in many parts of Brazil, but is particularly associated composer Carlos Chavez’s Sinfonía with Northeastern Brazil. India. Written in 1934–35, the piece is Organized by Vanderbilt’s Marcio Bahia (Department of Portuguese) and Fisk University’s a musical travelogue through the diver- Fulbright Scholar Karina Oliveira de Paula, the celebration was held at Vanderbilt’s Black sity of sounds of Mexico’s indigenous cultures. Led by CLAS ethnomusicolo- Cultural Center. Even though wintry weather forced the celebration indoors, it did not dampen gist Helena Simonett and Nashville the spirits of its festive participants. Students from Fisk, Vanderbilt, and Belmont performed Symphony percussionist Sam Bacco, traditional quadrilha (square dance), an integral part of the Festa Junina, as the leaders called teachers attended a dress rehearsal out the dances in Portuguese. Faculty, students, and others packed the BCC supporting the of Sinfonía India, explored indigenous dancers and sharing pipoca (popcorn), cachorros-quentes (Brazilian hot dogs), and Portuguese musical themes, and had a hands-on conversation. Te event was a testament to the collaborative spirit between CLAS, Fisk, and demonstration of the percussion instruments used in the piece. Belmont as well as the dedication Bahia brings to the Portuguese program.

mnPS externship: La Camioneta On June 5–6, four teachers from Hills- boro High School participated in the MAESTRA Academies of Nashville Teacher Team n February, CLAS invited flm direc- At Vanderbilt, Murphy led two lunch Externship program at the Center for Latin American Studies. For the tor Catherine Murphy to Vanderbilt discussions, one on the LGBT movement in externship, the teachers developed and Tuskegee universities for a series Cuba and another on the literacy campaign, curriculum around the documentary Iof events surrounding her documentary for students in LAS, education, and women’s La Camioneta: The Journey of One Maestra. Te flm presents background and and gender studies. Murphy led a teacher American School Bus, directed by testimonials from the 1961 Cuban Literacy workshop on the Cuban Literacy Campaign LAS alum Mark Kendall and sup- ported by CLAS. While on campus, Campaign initiated by newly governing Fidel for local educators and presented the docu- the teachers met with faculty in the Castro with the goal of eradicating illiteracy mentary at the International Lens screening Department of Anthropology (Ted in Cuba. at Sarratt Cinema. Fischer) and Peabody College of Over 250,000 volunteers enlisted to par- Continuing our collaboration with Education (Andrew Hostettler) as well ticipate—over half of which were women and Tuskegee University, Assistant Director for as offcampus CLAS partners Belcourt 100,000 under the age of 18. Te campaign Outreach Claire González and Director Ted Cinema and Conexin Américas. The externship teacher team created successfully educated over 700,000 individu- Fischer traveled with Murphy for a screening and presented a unit to their col- als within the short span of one year, setting of the flm and a teacher workshop on Tuske- leagues entitled “The Story of Stuff.” a standard for Cuban literacy that exists to gee’s campus. Led by Murphy, González, and The goals of the unit are to guide this day. Murphy’s flm is both powerful and Tuskegee Professor of English Rhonda Collier, students in an investigation of the engaging, shedding light on this historic event the workshop was attended by Macon County consequences of our actions locally, nationally, and internationally, to through the lives of the volunteers and the educators who returned to their classrooms develop a sensitivity to other cultures country that enlisted them. with new perspectives on Cuba, education, and how we impact each other, and and women’s rights.

14 The CenTer for LATin AmeriCAn STudieS to build confdence in responding CLAS Summer Institute at UG-Athens on to local, national, and international issues. This and other externships are among some of the most important Exploring Brazil: A Window into the Language ways CLAS makes a deep impact on teaching and learning about Latin and Culture of a Country on the Rise America. ortuguese is currently the seventh Welcome Center of Cobb County Schools La Camioneta continues to garner most widely spoken language in the gave insight into the scope and needs of the signifcant attention. The flm traces the story of a decommissioned school world, and due to the growth of the Brazilian community in the greater Atlanta bus taken from the United States to PBrazilian economy, the demand for Portu- area and an overview of services provided to Guatemala, exploring the lives and guese speakers has risen. Preparations for students and families by the center. Teachers work of the people involved in this the World Cup and Olympics have put Brazil were also treated to capoeira demonstrations process. The flm was chosen in the on the world stage. In an efort to encourage and a tour of the Latin American ethno- New York Times Critics’ Pick (May 30, 2013) and has been shown at Portuguese instruction at the secondary botanical garden at UGA-Athens to learn theaters in New York, Los Angeles, level, CLAS ofered K–16 educators the about plants native to Brazil. and Albuquerque, at numerous flm opportunity to attend a summer institute Fernanda Guida (UGA) shared ideas festivals (see lacamionetaflm.com at the University of Georgia-Athens in about innovative ways to teach language in for a full list), and at the New York partnership with Tulane University. Twenty- her presentation, “Telecollaborative Learn- Association for Pupil Transport confer- three educators from Tennessee, Kentucky, ing and Other Multimedia Strategies in ence in July 2013. The flm has had a great impact on the general public Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama attended the Foreign Language Classroom.” During nationally, but CLAS has worked the institute and represented various subject the week, institute participants developed to ensure that it especially impacts areas, including Spanish, French, English, interdisciplinary units to present on the K–12 educators by collaborating journalism, landscape architecture, and K–8 fnal day of the institute for all to take back closely with Kendall, Peabody faculty education. Te world language coordinator to their schools. On the last night, teachers and students, and local teachers to produce a set of cross-disciplinary from Fulton County, Georgia, and the K–8 celebrated at CineAthens with a Brazilian K–12 curriculum materials for the flm. representative from the American Associa- meal of feíjoada and danced to the music of These resources were introduced tion of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese the Brazilian band Quiabo de Chapéu from to educators in January and are now also participated. Atlanta. Te institute was a collaborative available online. This story was fea- Over the course of fve days, lead instruc- efort of Tulane, Vanderbilt, and UGA- tured in the International and Foreign tors John Maddox (Vanderbilt) and Elise Diet- Athens, which is home to the Portuguese Language Education newsletter in June 2013. rich (Tulane) introduced participants to the Flagship Program. Portuguese language, major Brazilian literary Nashville teachers have continued their fgures, and screened Brazilian flms. Tatiana engagement by studying the Portuguese Fall 2013 teacher Watson (North Cobb County High School, language via teletandem conversation groups workshops which currently ofers Portuguese) presented led locally by Stephen Wenz with K–12 teach- Saturday, September 14 “Bringing Portuguese to Your School—Chal- ers in São Paulo through UNESP Assis. Tree lenges and Opportunities” and conducted teachers will deliver a presentation on Brazil- Live, Laugh and Love to a sample beginning Portuguese class for ian language and culture at the Kentucky Learn Languages: Great ideas for Your elementary world the teachers. Staf from the International World Language Conference in fall 2013. Language Classroom Vanderbilt Campus • 9 a.m.–Noon

Monday, September 23 Américas Award Teacher workshop Georgetown University 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Américas Award Ceremony Library of Congress • 3:30 p.m.

Fri, october 4 or Sat, october 5 Tapetes, Sugar Skulls, and Barriletes: exploring the Symbolism of día de los muertos Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum • 9 a.m.–3 p.m. w w w.vAn derBiLT.edu/CL AS 15 otHER cLaS EVENtS

September 4 September 26 International Lens Presents Wasteland. CLAS and the Nashville Public Library Presented by Mel Ziegler. present “The Amazing Twins: Ancient Maya Tales from the Popol Wuj” September 13 Puppet Show Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Arturo Santamaría Gmez october 4 (Professor of Sociology, Universidad CLAS Alumni Reunion Autnoma de Sinaloa, Mazatlán), September 23–27 “Futbol y patria: y la nueva BrAZiL weeK Saturday, october 5 identidad mexicana.” Monday: Sarau: A Night of Poetry Celebrate Nashville in Centennial Park Sponsored by the Mexican Studies Group and Music (CLAS and Warren Center). Saturday, november 2 Tuesday: Panel Discussion on Recent Día de los Muertos Festival at Cheekwood Protests in Brazil; Brazilian Dinner Museum and Botanical Gardens Wednesday: Capoeira Performance Friday: Brazil Week Student Luncheon

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