March

03/16/2007

Gilberto Gil Concert in Ann Arbor, Michigan - USA

Friday, March 16, 8:00pm, Hill Auditorium (N. University St.)

Only Midwest Appearance: Gilberto Gil in Concert. Not many government ministers wear their hair in dreadlocks, but not many are also world-renowned music stars like Brazil's Gilberto Gil, who received "Man of the Year" honors at the 2003 Latin Grammy Awards.

Along with Caetano Veloso, guitarist and singer/songwriter Gilberto Gil was a leader in the Tropicalia movement in Brazil in the late 1960s, a response to the military regime’s censorship of songs and lyrics — and its persecution of musicians who were critical of it. Tropicalismo blended native Brazilian folk music such as bossa nova and samba with rock influences, creating what is now commonly referred to as “world music.” This musical fusion was so revolutionary that it frightened the country’s military dictatorship into arresting him and placing Gil (along with Veloso) in solitary confinement.

Exiled to England, he spent three years working with groups like Pink Floyd, Yes, and Rod Stewart’s band before returning to Brazil in 1972. Over the years, his political and environmental activism gained prominence alongside his musical career and reached new heights when he was appointed Brazil’s Minister of Culture in 2002.

With four decades of performing and over five million recordings sold, Gil is a pioneer of the world music movement and continues to play a key role in modernizing Brazilian popular music and culture throughout the world.

To see LACS events online: http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/lacs/events/events.html

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03/23/2007

The Atlantic Studies Initiative - Incomplete utopias

Colloquium Series, What Is the Atlantic?

Friday, 23 March 2007, 4:00-6:30pm
The Dahlmann Campus Inn, Huron Ballroom (2d floor), 615 E. Huron Street, Ann Arbor
RSVP: ii.asi@umich.edu

Incomplete utopias: Exploring inequalities embedded in Brazilian modern architecture
Fernando Lara
Assistant Professor of Architecture, UM Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Modern architecture has always had a complex relationship with its utopian roots. From Marinetti’s proclamation in 1918 that war is the most beautiful choreography to Le Corbusier’s famous last book sentence from 1923: “Architecture can avoid revolution; the attempt to build a better world through architecture has constantly been tainted by skewed definitions of what exactly this new world should be.” In Brazil it could not be more different. The architecture of the 1930s - 1940s was much more successful in promoting a national image of modernization than in addressing modernization's ground roots. Traditional gender roles abide in modern housing design, which sadly have also absorbed class (and racial) inequalities in its spatial organization. This lecture departs from the origins of modern architecture in Brazil in order to discuss the extent to which certain inequalities were so imbedded in Brazilian society that they were even incorporated into a utopian discourse about modernity that is still very much present.
Fernando Lara’s teaching and research interests focus on housing, modernist spatiality, and architectural design methods. Fernando Lara is also a practicing architect in Brazil, where he is registered.

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April

04/07/2007

BSAG at the Public Sexualities and Social Change Conference in Chicago

The Midwest Sociology
http://www.themss.org/

Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile - Chicago,Illinois, EUA
Sessão 279 Houston, 5º andar
Horário: 8:30–10:15 am

Public Sexualities and Social Change

Transnational Sexual Citizenship?
Framing Teenage Homosexuality in South Korean Print Media, 1990-2005
Hae Yeon Choo, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Carnival Rio:
Delights, Tensions, and Conflicts
Leila Barbosa, Baixo Santa do Alto Glória, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Gendered, Racialized, and (Hetero)Sexualized Public Space in Cuba's Alternative Music Scene
Tanya Saunders, University of Michigan

Is Being Out Best? The Classroom, (In)Visibility and the Politics of Public Sexualities
Betsy Lucal, Indiana University South Bend, and Andrea Miller, Webster University

Discussant and Presider: Ashley Currier, University of Pittsburgh


Public Sexualities and Social Change
Organizers: Ashley Currier and Tanya Saunders
(Currier) University of Pittsburgh
Department of Sociology
2400 WWPH
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: 412-648-7580 FAX: 412-648-2799
Email: ashley.currier@gmail.com
(Saunders) University of Michigan
Department of Sociology
Room 3001 LSA Building
500 South State
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382
Phone: 734-764-6324 FAX: 734-763-6887
Email: tanyasau@umich.edu
Public Sexualities and Social Change

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04/14/2007 and 04/15/2007

Insider Stories/Peripheral Visions - Performance Art Installation Event

The performance art installation event: “Insider Stories/Peripheral Visions” will be presented as a part of the Spring Art Fling at the River Side Arts Center in Ypsilanti. This event brings together visual and performing artists in a multi-cultural happening with performances and installations inspired by powerful stories and creative artistic vision.

This event is free to the public. Performances will be held on Saturday, April 14, 5-10pm and Sunday, April 15, 1-5pm in the DTE Annex building of the River Side Arts Center. 64 North Huron Street, Ypsilanti

 

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