Upcoming Events:
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
11:30-1:30
Leadership and Effectiveness of Transnational NGOs: Research Perspectives
On December 1, from 11.30 am to 1.00 pm, Tosca Bruno VanVijfeijken and Hans Peter Schmitz from Syracuse University will lead a seminar on Leadership and Effectiveness of Transnational NGOs: Research Perspectives on Development, Human Rights and Environmental NGOs. The seminar will be held at Weil Town Hall (Belfer L1) at the Harvard Kennedy School; it is hosted by the Humanitarian & Development NGOs domain at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
10:30 am
Student-only discussion with Nancy Lindborg, President of Mercy Corps
Host: Humanitarian and Development NGOs Domain, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Location: Nye A, Taubman 5th floor
Limited seating, RSVP required to Sherine Jayawickrama
Thursday, December 3, 2009
4:30-6:00
Transnational Studies Initiative - Conversations Across Borders
Musical Migrations: Lessons From Latin America
Location: Rm S153 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Mass 02138
Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Tufts University
From Cumbia Colombiana to Cumbia Cosmopolatina: Local roots, transnational routes
Wayne Marshall, Post-Doctoral Fellow, MIT
From Música Negra to Música Urbana: Reggaeton, Race, and Commerce
Deborah Pacini Hernandez is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, and an affiliate with the Latino Studies and American Studies Programs. Her publications include Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music, Temple University Press, 1995; Reggaeton, co-edited with Raquel Rivera and Wayne Marshall (Duke 2009) and Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America, co-edited with Eric Zolov and Hector Fernández L'Hoeste (University of Pittsburgh Press 2004). Her most recent book, Oye Como Va!: Hybridity and Identity in Latin/o Popular Music, is in production with Temple University Press.
Wayne Marshall is an ethnomusicologist, blogger, DJ, and, beginning this year, a Mellon Fellow in Foreign Languages and Literatures at MIT. His research focuses on the production and circulation of popular music, especially across the Americas and in the wider world, and the role that digital technologies are playing in the formation of new notions of community, selfhood, and nationhood. He is the co-editor of Reggaeton (Duke 2009), and has published reviews and articles on hip-hop, reggae, and global dance music in various academic and journalistic publications.