FEATURE STORY
Performance Activism:
Reverend Billy and the Church
of Stop Shopping
Activist Websites
Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO)
Fair: Media
Activism
Political Activism
Resources
ZNet
NOT IN THE NEWS
Bogota Women Run City for a Night
By WILL WEISSERT
.c The Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Leaving their husbands and boyfriends at home,
Bogota's women danced on tables and in the streets, sang their hearts out
at rock concerts and partied into the wee hours at the city's central park.
Havana Healing: Castro's Minority
Scholarship Plan
The jefe maximo reprimanded the US for failing to take care of its
poor and disadvantaged, and offered to provide six years of free medical
education and training in Cuba for hundreds of low-income minority students
in the US.
WebActive
A website providing news sites offering critical and alternative views
that highlight political issues in the U.S.
http://www.webactive.com/
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CONFERENCES * SYMPOSIUMS *
SUMMER PROGRAMS
Hemispheric
Institute's Annual Conference
Summer 2001, Monterrey, México
"Memory, Atrocity, and Resistance"
Hispanic
Internet Summit:
"The Leadership Forum for Hispanics in the New Economy"
April 26 - 29, 2001
Ecuador
Summer Field School: The Andes and the Amazon
This is a summer program for undergraduates hosted by Arizona State
University. Summer 2001 dates:
1st session - June 6 - 30, 2001
2nd session - July 2 - 25, 2001
This course is a field study of the oral history, literature, art, and
religious life of the Quichua Indian people. It provides immersion in the
Quichua language and practical training in contemporary field work methods.
Members of these communities serve as co-teachers in the courses.
Racial (Trans)Formations:
Latinos and Asians Remaking the United
States
"Eighteenth Century Native
Communities of New England in the Context of Colonial
Change"
Location: Connecticut, United States
Sponsor: The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, Mashantucket,
CT
Museums, Libraries and
Archives: Summer
Institute for Knowledge Sharing
August 6-10, 2001
Sponsored by UCLA's Department of Information Studies in the Graduate
School of
Education and Information Studies.
Popular Culture Association,
October 18-20,2001, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla-Cholula,
Mexico
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NEW PUBLICATIONS * CALL FOR PAPERS
* RESEARCH
WEBSITES
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Teatro: Obras Argentinas Premiadas en New York
Argentores, a union of
writers
in Argentina, and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics,
New York, co-sponsored
a playwriting contest and haved published the chosen plays in this
collection. The plays fall into three categories: under 40 pages; 40-60
pages; and over 60 pages. A female and male writer were chosen from each
category.
Publisher: Fundación Autores, Argentina
ISBN987-98727-0-3
The Hispanic American Historical Review
May 2001
http://www.yale.edu/hahr/
Race
& Class
A Journal for Black and Third World Liberation
CALL FOR PAPERS
Women and Performance: a Journal of
Feminist
Theory
Issue # 25: "The Labor of the Question: Dramaturgy"
"Movimentos
Sociais: História
e
Historiografia" (Social
Movements: History and Historiography)
The "Humanas" Review, a publication of the Humanities Sciences Center
of the
State University of Londrina, invites scholars to publish articles
and reviews in
the next number dedicated to History.
RESEARCH WEBSITES
Latin American Colonial Economic History
This site is dedicated to the study of the Economic History of Colonial
Latin America and the Atlantic World.
American Council of Learned Societies
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