This week ...

Wednesday

OBAMA and LATIN AMERICA
Cuba, Drugs and Oil in the next 4 years

Wednesday, February 4, 2009
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Hamilton 517


A panel discussion featuring:
Anthony DePalma, New York Times correspondent
Douglas Chalmers, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science
Albert Fishlow, Professor Emeritus, Department of International Affairs


Thursday

Glass House Rocks 2009: The Time Machine
Thursday, February 5th
9pm-1am
Lerner Hall
Hosted by CCSC, ESC, GSSC, & SGA

Columbia's biggest party...
Complete Lerner takeover...
Tens of student groups...
Dancing on the ramps...
Inflatables...
Live DJ....
FREE T-SHIRTS...
FREE FOOD...

Plus: Chicano Caucus will be having Lotería with many of us dressing up as cards :)


Friday

Machine Politics Vs. Free Enterprise Politics: Explaining the Political Mobilization of Mexican Immigrants in American Cities?

Speaker: Dr. Gustavo Cano,
Director, Transnationalism Research Project, Mexico-North Research Network

Friday, February 6, 2009
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 707


Bio:
Gustavo Cano is the Director of the Transnationalism Research Project
at the Mexico-North Research Network (Washington D.C.). He is also
the Co-Coordinator of the Working Group on Immigration and U.S.
Politics at the American Political Science Association for the period
2008-2010. He specializes in the political mobilization and
organization of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. and his research has
been published in Great Britain, U.S., Mexico and India. He obtained
his Ph.D. at Columbia University in the City of New York.
Dr. Cano's website: https://sites.google.com/site/immigrationresearchnow/