Fall 2008
September 26 - David Smilde,
University of Georgia. Participation and Politics: Emerging Fragments of Venezuela’s
Bolivarian Democracy
October 24 - Alison McLetchie, University of South Carolina. The Parasitic
Oligarchy: Political Elites in Trinidad & Tobago
November 7 - Ann Mische, Rutgers University. Partisan Performance:
Stylistic Enactment and Suppression in Brazilian Youth Activist Publics
(Cosponsored by the University of Georgia’s Willson
Center for Humanities and Arts, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute
and the Department of Sociology Colloquium Series)
November 14 - Daniel Shank, University
of Georgia. Perceived Justice in Social
Exchange: The Effects of Computer Identity and Gender