![[IMAGE]](celacpi1.jpg)
Murals, Hormigueros, Puerto Rico ![[IMAGE]](celacpi2.jpg)
Murals, Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
The Center for Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies (CELAC), and the Institute for Research on Women (IROW) at the University at Albany, SUNY, the Centro de Investigación en Estudios de la Mujer (CIEM) at the University of Costa Rica, and the LASA Feminist and Gender Studies Section are cosponsoring a one-day Feminist Encuentro on Gender and Globalization in the Americas to be held at the University of Costa Rica on Tuesday, April 1, 2003. The interdisciplinary Encuentro will focus on how globalization is changing the lives of Latin American women at the workplace and in the household. The event also includes a meeting of invited U.S. and Latin American feminist scholars and journal editors to discuss strategies for scholarly collaboration. Please note that those interested in attending should seek support from their own institutions for travel and lodging expenses since no funding is available for this purpose. This event is made possible by a LASA/Ford Foundation small grant and is being coordinated by Edna Acosta-Belen and Christine E. Bose (University at Albany, SUNY), and Ana Cecilia Escalante (University of Costa Rica).
One Day Conference Program (April 1, 2003): Dr. June Nash, Professor
Emeritus at CUNY and renowned feminist anthropologist of Latin America
will be the keynote speaker. She will give a lecture on “Women as Mediators
in Global Transformations.”
Several other scholars from the University of Costa Rica will also
be making presentations. Invited Journal Editors include: Dr. Christine
E. Bose (Gender & Society), Myriam Chancy (Meridians), Claudia de Lima
Costa (Estudos feministas), Sandra Harding (Signs), and others.
For lodging reservations contact: Hotel Boutique Jade in San José,
Costa Rica. Tel (506) 224-2455; Fax (506) 224-2166. Rates: $65/night (single
room); $72/night (double) with breakfast. Those attending the Encuentro
are expected to make their own travel arrangements to Costa Rica.
"Workers and Globalization in the Americas: Shifting Productive
Structures, Social Identification, and Labor Strategies",Friday,
October 5, 2001, University at Albany, SUNY. Conference Chair: Dr. Fernando
Leiva. For further information please contact Dr. Leiva at: fleiva@albany.edu
Encuentro feminista: Defining a Research and Teaching Agenda for the 21st Century. An invitational conference held at the Inter American University in San Germán, Puerto Rico (April 22-24, 1998). Conference Chair: Dr. Edna Acosta-Belén.
Gender Research in Global Perspective (June 1997). Conference Co-Chair: Iris Berger and Gwen Moore.
Transnationalism and the Construction of Identities in the Americas (1996). Conference Chair: Dr. Liliana Goldin.
Gender in International Perspective: Crosscultural Approaches to Research and Teaching (In collaboration with IROW and the Center for the Arts and Humanities, 1996). Conference Chair: Dr. Francine Frank.
La guagua aérea: Un simposio sobre la migración entre Puerto Rico y los Estados Unidos (Held in Puerto Rico in collaboration with the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, 1994). Conference Chair: Dr. Jorge Duany.
Rediscovering the Puerto Rican People: The U.S. Experience (1993). Conference Chair: Dr. Edna Acosta-Belén.
Women in the Building of the Americas (1992). Conference Chair: Dr. Edna Acosta-Belén.
Integrating Gender, Race, and Class into the Curriculum and Research (In collaboration with IROW, 1991). Conference Co-Chairs: Dr. Christine E. Bose and Dr. Edna Acosta-Belén.
Women's Studies Lecture Series (Held in Puerto Rico with the collaboration of the Proyecto de Estudios de la Mujer at Cayey College and the Centro de Estudios, Recursos y Servicios a la Mujer, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, 1992).
Restructuring the World Economy: U.S. and Central American Perspectives (Held in Costa Rica and sponsored by the Center for Legislative Development).
Women and Development in the Third World: Focus on Latin America and Africa (1989). Conference Co-Chairs: Dr. Edna Acosta-Belén and Dr. Christine Bose.
Megacities of the Americas (cosponsored by the Lewis Mumford Center for Regional Planning, 1989). Conference Chair: Dr. Ray Bromley.
Two Superpower Satellites: Puerto Rico and Cuba (1988). Conference Chair: Dr. Colbert I. Nepaulsingh.
Educational Policy Seminar (Held in Costa Rica with the collaboration of the University of Costa Rica and the National University of Costa Rica at Heredia, 1987).
Cultural Pluralism in Central America and the United States (1986). Conference Chair: Dr. Robert Carmack.
Women's Studies Seminar (Held in Costa Rica with the collaboration of the University of Costa Rica, 1985).
The Changing Hispanic Community in the United States (1985). Conference Chair: Dr. Edna Acosta-Belén.
Economy into Culture: Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1980s (1984). Conference Chair: Dr. James Wessman.
The Caribbean and Central America: Crisis and Revolt (1983). Conference Co-Chairs: Dr. Gary H. Gossen and Dr. Edna Acosta-Belén.