CERLAC Update - June 2010

Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean at York University

An update on CERLAC news & recent & up-coming activities

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News of Fellows & Associates

1. Shin Imai honored for excellence in teaching

2. Deborah Barndt receives new Dean's Teaching Award

3. Carlota McAllister researches dam conflict in Chilean Patagonia

4. Carlos Larrea helps "keep oil in the soil" in the Ecuadorean Amazon

5. Pablo Andrade directs MA program in Ecuador

6. Paul Lovejoy receives Distinguished Africanist Award

7. Late CERLAC Fellow Elinor Melville memorialized: nominations sought for Latin American Environmental History book prize

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Publications

8. New book by CERLAC Director Eduardo Canel: Barrio Democracy in Latin America

9. New book by CERLAC Research Associate Andrea Pacheco Pacifico: The Social Capital of Refugees [in Brazil & Canada]: Cultural Background and Public Policy

10. CERLAC / EIRG-edited CJDS issue on Extractive Industries now available

11. CERLAC Fellows contribute to latest NACLA issue on "Canada in the Americas"

12. CERLAC Fellow Louis Lefeber's review of Edgar J. Dosman's book entitled The Life and Times of Raúl Prebisch, 1901-1986 is forthcoming in the July 2010 issue of the journal Economic Development and Cultural Change.

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Project news & updates

13. IDRC supports second year of Gender & Reparations in Guatemala project

14. Academics, activists gather in Colombia for closing conference of human rights project

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Other CERLAC activities

15. 2010 Mundo Canuck essay prize-winners selected - & celebrated on TLN

16. CERLAC organizes two sessions on "Canada and the Americas" for 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

17. CERLAC Fellows and Associates well represented in CALACS 2010

18. Fellows on organizing committee, heading two panels for LASA 2010

19. CERLAC recruiting volunteers for LASA 2010

20. CERLAC seeks Graduate Assistants for 2010-2011

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Read the April 2010 CERLAC Update