The Center for the Americas sponsors a yearly Americas Forum.
The theme of the forum reflects the Center's commitment to
interdisciplinary and hemispheric studies.
Spectral Histories,
Depraved Economics and the Poetics of Predation
I Swear I Saw That
Michael Taussig, Columbia University
A Modern Witch Hunt: Violence, Money & the Curse of
the Past in a Suriname Maroon Society
Bonno Thoden van Velzen, Amsterdam School for Social
Science Research
A More Powerful Socerer: Conversion, Capital and
Haitian Transnational Migration
Karen Richman Ph.D. Institute for Latino Studies, University
of Notre Dame
Organizer: Kenneth Routon, 2007-2008 Andrew W. Mellon
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Americas, Wesleyan
University
Moderator: Elizabeth McAlister, Professor of
Religion, Wesleyan University
2:30 PM, April 18, 2008
Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies
Reception to follow