9487: Fw: CONF: Two Talks by Michelle Wucker at Adelphi University (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: LeGrace Benson <legrace@twcny.rr.com>


Dear Friends of H-Atlantic,
This may be a one day event of interest to some of you living near to the
New York area. Adelphi University (www.adelphi.edu) is easily reachable
through the Long Island Rail Road, stopping at the Nassau BLVD station.
(http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/lirr/html/ttn/nassaubo.htm) We are thinking about
taping and/or recording it.


ADELPHI UNIVERSITY

AFRICAN AMERICAN AND ETHNIC STUDIES PROGRAM
HISTORY DEPARTMENT
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
LATINO STUDENTS UNITED
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES COMMITTEE

Presents on November 7

Michelle Wucker
Will lecture on "Cruel Cane: Migration, Poverty and Health in the Dominican
Republic and Haiti"
Blodgett 201, from 9:00 to 10:00

Will lecture on "Massacre and memory: The 1937 Ethnic Cleansings on the
Dominican-Haitian Border"
Business 101, from 4:15 to 5:30

Michelle Wucker, a senior fellow at the New School University's World Policy
Institute in New York City, is a journalist and expert on Latin America,
immigration and global financial issues. She is the author of the acclaim
book Why The Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle for
Hispanola (Hill and Wang, 1999) and of Latin American Health and Care
Reform: a Guide to the Era of Market Opening (Latin American Information
Services, 1998). A graduate of Rice University and of Columbia University's
School of International and Public Affaris, Michelle Wucker has written for
many U.S. and Latin American publications, including Newsday, American
Economia, Tikkun Civilization, The Washington Post, International Financing
Review, and Intellectual Capital. Com.



Place: Blodgett 201, from 9:00 to 10:00.
        Business 101, from 4:15 to 5:30
Date: Wednesday, November 7

For more information call:      Professor Raysa Amador X4054
                        Or              Professor Hidalgo X4787


Dennis R. Hidalgo, Assistant Professor
History Department, Blodgett Hall
Adelphi University
1 South Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
(516) 877-4787