Latin America
Community Lecture Series
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Three UM faculty members will discuss the history, art and economic
development of Latin America during the second annual Community Lecture Series starting
Tuesday, Feb. 8, at the University. The six-part series titled "Latin America:
Continuity and Change" will take place on consecutive Tuesday evenings at 7 p.m. in
the newly constructed North Lecture Hall, an underground facility adjacent to the Urey
Lecture Hall.
To register, call the UM Alumni Association at (406) 243-5211. The fee is $15.
Participants are encouraged to register early as seating is limited to 250 people.
Participants also are requested to attend all six lectures.
Associate Provost and history Professor John F. Schwaller will open the series with
lectures on the historic development of Latin America, including the history of the church
in society. His lectures are titled "From Conquest to Revolution: The Historic
Development of Latin America" and "Church and Society in Latin America: From the
Conquest to Independence." A noted scholar of Nahuatl, the Aztec language, Schwaller
has published four books on the Catholic Church in Colonial Mexico.
Art Associate Professor Rafael Chacon will follow with two lectures on "The Quest
for Identity in Modern Latin American Art." Chacon received the School of Fine Arts
Distinguished Faculty Award in 1999.
The series will close with lectures on economic development and emerging democracies in
the region by political science Associate Professor Paul Haber. In his lectures he will
explore "The Transition from State-led Capitalism (1930-1980) to the New
Market-oriented Capitalism of Today: Who Wins, Who Loses and Why" and "Clashing
Ideas and Practices: Authoritarianism and Democracy in Contemporary Latin American
Politics."
Regents Professor Paul Lauren of UM's history department will moderate the series.
Lauren lectured on human rights and the world today in the inaugural Community Lecture
Series last year.
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