Fulbright Canada Lecture at American University

The Center for Latin American & Latino Studies at American University is proud to present a public lecture with Dr. Victor Armony, the Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair in Policy Studies at the University of Texas at Austin (Winter 2012) and Fulbright Canada Visiting Professor at American University (Fall 2011).  The lecture, entitled 'Naming the Other in North and Latin America: common and diverging trends in state responses to minority identities', will take place at 3:00 pm on Thursday November 11, 2011 in the Kay Lounge at American University. For more information visit www.american.edu/clals or contact Ashlee Armstrong at aarmstro@american.edu , 202-885-6178. 

Victor Armony is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Observatory of the Americas at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). During 2011-2012, he is the Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair at the University of Texas at Austin and Fulbright Canada Visiting Professor at American University. He was the Editor in Chief of theCanadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies between 2004 and 2011 and is a regular commentator on the Latin American Section of Radio Canada International. He has published and lectured extensively in the field of identity, citizenship, and political discourse. His latest book is Le Québec expliqué aux immigrants (VLB Éditeur, 2007). Most recently, he contributed chapters to New Perspectives on Democracy in Latin America: Actors, Institutions and Practices (2009), The New ISA Handbook of Contemporary Sociology: Conflict, Competition, Cooperation (2009), and Identity Politics in the Public Realm: Bringing Institutions Back (2011). Dr. Armony currently holds a 3-year grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to study the Latino population in Canada.