1. HOLIDAY WEEKEND HOURS
2. FILM POSTER EXHIBIT RECEPTION, JANUARY 22, 3-6PM
3. BOOKS BY VISITING SPEAKERS
4. SUMMER TRAVEL GRANTS
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1. HOLIDAY WEEKEND HOURS
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Please note that because of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, we will be on a special schedule this weekend.
Sunday 1/17: CLOSED
Monday 1/18: OPEN from 3PM to 7PM
Please see other schedules at: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ps/hours/
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2. FILM POSTER EXHIBIT OPENING, JANUARY 22, 3-6 PM
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The exhibit opening reception for the Efraín Barradas Collection of Mexican and Cuban Film Posters will be one week from today, at 3pm, Smathers Library, 2nd floor.
This is a beautiful collection of posters, given to UF by Dr. Ramón Figueroa. All of them can be seen in digital format at http://web1.dloc.com/ufdc/?s=filmp&m=hitfilmabout .
The exhibit opened today, and will run through February 28, but be sure to come by for the celebration next Friday!
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3. BOOKS BY VISITING SPEAKERS
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UF is receiving a number of visiting speakers on Latin American topics this month and next.
Here are a few selections of works written or edited by our visitors, and held in the LAC.
Please note that these selections may or may not be on the topics of their lectures here.
Anthony Aveni (was Jan. 12)
The end of time : the Maya mystery of 2012
Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2009.
QB638.8 .A94 2009
Rachel A. May (Jan. 21)
Terror in the countryside : campesino responses to political violence in Guatemala, 1954-1985
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2001.
HN150.Z9V543 2001
Karen Peña (Jan. 21)
Poetry and the realm of the public intellectual : the alternative destinies of Gabriela Mistral, Cecília Meireles, and Rosario Castellanos
Leeds, UK : Legenda, 2007.
PQ7082.P7 P45 2007
Mary Allegretti (Jan. 28)
Biodiversidade : conservação, uso sustentável e responsabilidade corporativa
São Paulo: Natura, [2008].
QH77.B7 B55 2008
Anthony Bebbington (Jan. 29)
Minería, movimientos sociales y respuestas campesinas : una ecología política de transformaciones territoriales
Lima : IEP, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos : CEPES, Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales, 2007.
HD9506.L292M56 2007
Suzana Machado Padua (Jan. 30)
Educação ambiental : caminhos trilhados no Brasil
Brasília : IPÊ, Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas, c1997
GE90.B6E342 1997
Virginia Garrard-Burnett (Feb. 12)
On earth as it is in heaven : religion in modern Latin America
Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 2000.
BR600.O6 2000
For more information, please see http://www.latam.ufl.edu/News/index.stm for the Center's Events Calendar and http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/tcd/agenda.htm for the Tentative Conference Agenda.
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4. SUMMER TRAVEL GRANTS
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UF scholars may be interested to know about institutions offering grants for short-term summer library research on Latin America. These include:
Harvard U. - http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/scholars/library
U. Illinois/U. Chicago - http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/fellowships/facultytravel/
U. Miami - http://www.library.miami.edu/chc/services/fellowships/index.html
U. New Mexico - http://laii.unm.edu/funding/richard-e-greenleaf-visiting-library-scholar/
UF's program to bring scholars to use the Latin American Collection here is described online at http://www.latam.ufl.edu/Funding/travel.stm and the deadline is March 2.
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Latin American American Collection, 400 Smathers Library, University of Florida
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/lac (352) 273-2745
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