GEO Rally on March 4th

" Last semester we saw first-hand how
willingly the administration will listen if enough of us come
together with a message. As GEO members it might seem like we got
everything that we wanted, but there are still obvious systemic
problems on our campus and on campuses across the country. Despite
our contract gains the campus climate is threatening our positions
at this university. On March 4th we're joining in a national
movement to defend public education. The GEO is not alone in this movement at UIUC; we are joining with a coalition comprised of the Campus Faculty Association and the Undergraduate-Graduate Alliance, which is a conglomerate of
undergraduate RSOs. We are assembling at the Alma Mater on March
4th at noon. From there we will march forth to Swanlund for a
rally. "


Sent by Pamela Cappas Toro and Sally Perret

Great workshops: Thanks!

SIPGO would like to thank all faculty and students involved in the preparation of the SIP Professional Workshop for Graduate Student Publishing, which took place yesterday at Lucy Ellis lounge. Many thanks especially to Lily Martinez and Professor Luisa-Elena Delgado for putting all this together so excellently. Many thanks also to Professor Luciano Tosta, Professor Mellisa Bowles, Professor Javier Irigoyen, Professor Dara Goldman, Professor Jose Ignacio Hualde, Professor Silvina Montrul, and Professor Luisa-Elena Delgado for their excellent presentations. These were all very informational, practical and useful to all students.



SIP graduate students really appreciate your efforts to organize this kind of extracurricular activities for our academic benefit.

Thanks!

Your feedback on SIP's website

SIPGO’s representatives have been meeting with Professor Javier Irigoyen to work together on the new SIP webpage. As you might know, this space not only represents SIP’s webface to the world, but should also be a main information source and a tool for all of us. If you have any suggestions, ideas and/or requests for the new website please leave your comments. We will be glad to let him know.
Thanks!

SIPGO’s Bohemia @ D’ Vineyard: Proposal

Please read the following information and vote (polls are located on the right side of the blog).

Note that there are two questions

Let us know what you think. You can also leave comments at the end of this posting.

I. Proposal:

A. What? Bohemian night and potluck: open microphone for music, poetry & arts in general (even performances, photography and plastic arts expositions, you name it), end of the semester “get together,” and free wine tasting!

B. The idea is to have a great time in a fun, stress-free and friendly environment outside of our regular academic environment. Just bring something to eat (potluck).

C. When? Saturday April 24^th

6:00 p.m.— 11:00 p.m.

D. Where? Sleepy Creek Vineyard –Yes, an actual Illinois vineyard!

http://www.sleepycreekvineyards.com/

Please see website for details and directions.

II. Other information:

A. SIPGO would:

1. Rent the place: $35 per hour= approximately $175 total

2. Buy all non-alcoholic beverages.

B. Sleepy Creek’s rent fee includes:

1. Set up and clean up (before, during and after the event), tables and chairs, bar service, sound equipment and installation, and complementary wine tasting.

C. @ d’ vineyard they have for SALE:

1. Wine (glass, bottle or case). Please see website for details:

http://www.sleepycreekvineyards.com/Our_Wines.html

2. Beer

3. Coffee

III. How to get there if you do not have a car?

A. We would organize carpooling for the event.

*Please remember to vote.

Brazilian rhythm: Forro, Bossa Nova and Samba

Next Brazilian event: SAMBA E SANFONA


Friday, February 26th
at cowboy Monkey
6 Taylor St.
Downtown Champaign, 61820
6:00 p.m. – 11:00 pm


Samba Soul band opens the event with the classic sounds of Bossa Nova and Samba.

After that, you will enjoy and learn how to dance the infectious rhythms emerging from the sanfona (accordion), the zabumba (a type of bass drum), and the triangle.

&

Forró
Universitário

For those who don't already know, forró is the hip- swiveling, dance floor-filling … a contagious Brazilian rhythm!
Cover $ 4 (6:00-7:00 p.m.); after 7 p.m. cover $ 6


RESERVE A TABLE $5 (all tables for four people ): reservemytickets@gmail.com

Contact person: Vivian Felicio felicio2@illinois.edu

CRISES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN LATIN AMERICA

The Latin American Studies Program at the University of California Riverside

is organizing the interdisciplinary conference:



CRISES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN LATIN AMERICA



April 23-24, 2010



Keynote Speakers:



Román de la Campa - University of Pennsylvania;

Carolyn Dean - University of California Santa Cruz;

Ana Maria Ochoa - Colombia University;

Jonh A. Zemko - Center for International Enterprise



The conference site is at:

http://sites.google.com/site/ucrlasconference/




We invite papers from across the social sciences, arts, and the humanities to examine the cultural, economic, and political reconfigurations produced by local or global transformations in Latin America and the Caribbean.“Crises and Opportunities in Latin America,” is an interdisciplinary conference to reflect on unsettling conditions in Latin America produced by historical, political, cultural or economic changes, the types of new conceptualizations and claims these have produced, and the potential transformations and opportunities they imply for the present and future.



The conference will have both invited and contributed papers. Researchers from all disciplines are invited to share their research, views, and experiences.



You may choose to propose a panel of 4 speakers or send your paper individually. We invite you to submit an abstract/paper or a panel by

February 28th, by e-mail to: Jorge M. Aguero at Jorge.aguero@ucr.edu



including the following information:

- authors’ name and affiliations

- authors' detailed contact information

- Keywords (at least 4)

- Discipline

- Please write LAS CONFERENCE in the subject



Decision about the papers will be made by March 8th, 2010.



The Latin American Studies Program will award a prize of US$ 500 for the best paper presented by a graduate student. Graduate students' electronic submissions should be followed up by a letter from a professor certifying that the submitter is a graduate student in good standing in the professor's department. This letter should be sent via mail or email to the address below. If you send by email, please write LAS CONFERENCE in the subject.



c/o Marcelle Chauvet

Latin American Studies Program

3111 Interdisciplinary Building South

University of California Riverside

Riverside, CA 92521

or

email: jorge.aguero@ucr.edu

VIA CLACS- Angelina Cotler
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Nuevo Tesoro Lexicográfico del Español

"I am sure many of you are just excited by the Nuevo tesoro lexicográfico del español as I am. I have ordered a copy for Modern Languages and Linguistics Reference collection and it should arrive in a few weeks.

Best,
Paula

Description:
Nuevo Tesoro Lexicográfico del Español (s. xiv-1726) is the result of years of research with the objective of realizing a definitive corpus glossariorum of the Spanish language. The NTLE analyzes the history of Spanish words through dictionaries, glossaries and other texts appearing from the 14th century to 1726. This timeframe was chosen based on historical reasons: before the Vocabulario de romance en latín de Antonio de Nebrija (1495?), often regarded as the first Spanish dictionary, 7 other repertories on Spanish language had, in fact, already been published, among which 3 medieval glossaries, representing the rise of Spanish lexicography; in 1726, publication of the Diccionario de Autoridades, the first academic dictionary, opens a new era in the history of Spanish lexicography. The NTLE, with 10,000 pages and over 600,000 references comprises 11 volumes and contains 145 directories. Lidio Nieto Jimenez is member of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas at the Instituto de la Lengua Española. Manuel Alvar Ezquerra is Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and member of the Real Academia Española."

A message from our great librarian Paula Mae Carns.

For more info:http://www.ucm.es/info/otri/cult_cient/infocientifica/noti_jun_09_06.htm




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