The Tinker Foundation's Field Research Grants provide graduate students with funds for travel to and within Latin America to conduct pre-dissertation research.  Lunch will be served to all registered attendees.

Tinker Talks #1: Thursday, February 28, 11:30 - 1:00 PM
* Lisa Dieckman: ""More Loved than Read": The Enduring Legacy of the Buenos Aires
Herald"
* Matthew Spearly: "The Commodity Boom and Social Assistance Spending in Latin
America"
* Jeff Gunderson: "Assessing the Dendroclimatological Potential of Polylepis trees in
the Peruvian Andes"
* Tania Espinales Correa: "The Role of Nostalgia in Mexican Songs about Migration"

Tinker Talks #2: Wednesday, March 27, 11:30 - 1:00 PM
* Justin Pinta: "Correntinean Guarani in Argentina: Language Maintenance in the Face
of Ideological Hostility"
* Henry Peller: "Chabil Ixim (Beautiful Maize): Agricultural research-extension with Maya
milpa farmers in southern Belize"
* Jo Kingsbury: "Natural and human mediated disturbance influences
on bird habitats in the Beni Savannas of Northern Bolivia"
* Santiago Gualapuro Gualapuro: "Imbabura Kichwa: Linguistic structure,
language contact and local identity"

When:  Friday, March 1, 2019 (3-5 pm)

Where: 165 Thompson Library

Zara Anishanslin (presenting "Art and the American Revolution") is Associate Professor of History and Art History at the University of Delaware. She has consulted on exhibitions at the Library of Congress, appeared on the Travel Channel, and published Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World (2016). John Lear (presenting "Diego Rivera and 20th Century Mexico") is Professor of History at the University of Puget Sound, where he specializes in Modern Latin America. His books include Workers, Neighbors and Citizens: Revolution in Mexico City (2001) and Picturing the Proletariat: Artists and Labor in Revolutionary Mexico, 1908-1940 (2017).  Byron Hamann (Discussant) is Associate Professor of History of Art at Ohio State and an expert in prehispanic Mesoamerica and the early modern transatlantic world. This event is sponsored in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University Center for Latin American Studies and by the Department of History of Art.

For information on the 2017-2019 CHR program, You Say You Want a Revolution? Revolutions in Historical Perspective, visit http://chr.osu.edu/

When: March 1st, 2019 (2:20-3:20 pm)

Where: Hagerty Hall, Room 255

Professor Alicia Cipria from the University of Alabama will be visiting campus to discuss the futurate reading of the Spanish present progressive.Tradition tells us that, unlike English, the Spanish present progressive (estar +ndo) is never used to express future-like meanings. Cipria's presentation examines the linguistic environments in which a futurate reading arises in attested naturally occurring data and seeks to give a principled explanation of why this reading is possible in the first place.

This event is sponsored in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant
to The Ohio State University Center for Latin American Studies.

Join the Area Studies Centers for a four-part Minority Issues Around the World Global Fellowship Program for K-12 teachers! 

The K-12 Global Fellowship Program will engage K-12 teachers in a series of four guided readings, lectures, and group discussions over the course of the 2018-19 academic year. K-12 teachers will explore minority issues in East Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East under the guidance of a regional expert.

Teachers may opt to attend individual sessions, or the whole series. Each participant will receive a contact hour certificate for each session that they attend. Readings will be sent to registered participants two weeks prior to each discussion date below.

Enarson Classroom Building*, Room 160, 10:00AM-12:00PM on the following Saturdays:

• March 23, Middle East Studies Center presents: "Azerbaijani Minority in Iran: Religion, Culture, and Civic Rights Struggle" by Dr. Ramin Ahmadoghlu, Georgia Gwinnett College

When: 

Feb 23, 2019 4:45 PM 

Widely considered to be the greatest Argentine film of all time, Prisoners of the Earth (Mario Soffici, 1939) was shot on location in the Misiones region and portrays the grim lives of the mensus, indentured workers whose lives are spent harvesting yerba mate for wealthy landowners under grueling conditions. When a rebellious worker and his whip-wielding foreman fall for the same woman, it sets the stage for one of the most brutal acts of vengeance the screen has ever seen. The restoration is part of the foundation's World Cinema Project. (85 mins., 2K DCP).  The restored film will be introduced by Margaret Bodde, Executive Director of The Film Foundation.

General admission: $8

For farmers on the frontlines of climate change, our first line of defense includes social organization, soil health, and biological diversity. Demonstrating this argument in theory and practice is the research focus of Mr. Henry Anton Peller, a PhD student in soil science working with Maya farmers in southern Belize. The Maya grow a majority of their food from small maize ('corn') and bean farms, called 'milpas'. Henry's research examines how the Maya are experiencing new management challenges in their milpas, including soil degradation, grass weed infestations, loss of crop diversity, and climate change. In January of 2018, he began to collaborate with Maya farmers on participatory scientific research with maize and cover crops in order to begin addressing these challenges. They found preliminary evidence for phenotypic differences among local maize cultivars, notably flowering time and pest and disease resistance; and for the performance of individual cover crops and mixes (or 'polycultures') in controlling grass weeds and improving soil fertility. The Tinker foundation and Center for Latin American Studies supported Henry's 2018 fieldwork to pursue his pre-dissertation research, and lay the foundation for seasons to come.

When: April 12-14, 2019

Where: Denison University, Granville, OH

You are invited to the 3rd annual Summit of Ohio Latinx (SOL)! The summit was born in 2015 at Denison University when Latinx students, staff, faculty, and allies began to raise questions about the growing Latinx student population at predominantly white institutions in the Midwest. How can we better mentor and equip this population? What issues are they facing on and off campus that we should be aware of? How is their experience on campus impacting their decisions and the choices they make after college? As a result of these conversations, a committee of passionate individuals was formed. They created SOL in hopes of inviting other institutions to unite and discuss ways to learn from each other and make a positive change for future Latinx students. 

For more information visit: conferences.denison.edu/sol/

Or contact SOL ( sol@denison.edu)