Calendar of Events
Wednesday, November 18, 11:30-12:55 , Pols House Seminar Room
Thursday, November 19, 11:30-12:55, Peucinian Room, Sills Hall
In support of students’ off-campus study planning, the Latin American Studies Program is pleased to host two brown-bag luncheons with students who spent a year or a semester in Latin America last year. These returning students will share their experiences and will be happy to entertain any questions students may have about their programs. Faculty from our program will also be there to moderate the event and respond other questions students may have about the intersections between off-campus study and Latin American Studies. Attendees should bring a brown bag lunch; cookies will be served.
We hope you can join us for one or both of these lunches, which have proven to be quite fruitful, entertaining and informative in previous years.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Dr. Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique
The anthropologist and professor at Université d'Etat d'Haiti will give a lecture on Haitian vaudou titled Haitian Vodou World View and the New Global Order.
Lancaster Lounge, 6:00 pm
Sponsored by Latin American Studies, Lectures and Concerts, Africana Studies, African Alliance, and the Department of Romance Languages.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Gonzalo Justiniano, Chilean film director.
Students are welcome to join us for dinner 5-6:20pm at the President’s Room in Thorne.
Justiniano will present his film B-Happy in Druckenmiller 004, 6:30pm, and engage in a Question-Answer session after the film, until 9:00pm. The film is in Spanish with English subtitles, the discussion will be in English.
Gonzalo Justiniano is a film director, productor and screeplay writer.
Born in Chile (1955), Justiniano studied in the University of Paris and at the Louis Lumiere Film School. His films explore socially and economically marginalized characters as well as various political debates. He has received several distinctions in the film festivals of Trieste, Damasco, La Habana, Montevideo, Bruselas, New York, Berlin and Cartagena.
Filmography:
Hijos de la guerra fría (1985)
Sussi (1988)
Caluga o menta (1990)
Amnesia (1994) – Public Prize in Berlin, Best Movie in Gramado
Tuve un sueño contigo (1999) – Best Ibero-American film in San Sebastián
El Leyton (2002)
B-Happy (2003) - Kathy, a working-class rural teenager, faces the challenges of growing up in a fractured family. 100 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Lokas (2008)
Sponsored by Latin American Studies. Co-sponsored by the Gender and Women’s Studies Program, the Film Studies Program, and the Department of Romance Languages.
Recent Events
"Reinaldo Arenas' Mona: Leonardo Da Vinci in the Age of AIDS." Jorge Olivares, Allen Family Professor of Latin American Literature, Colby College. Sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Studies Program. April 16, 2009.
"The New Amazon Map: Social Change, Climate Change and Globalization in the New World Tropics." Susanna Hecht, Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA. April 13, 2009.
Three LAS seminars (Wells' Mexican Revolution, Wolfenzon's War of the Latin American Worlds, and Yepes' Reading Images) traveled to Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH for a tour of José Clemente Orozco's murals at the Butleeer Library. Art Historian Mary Coffee, from Dartmouth, spoke about the making of the mural and its significance. April 3, 2009.
"Race, Racism & Revolution: Lessons from Cuba." Isaac Saney, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. March 30, 2009.
"Nature's Bounty? Coffee as a Commodity from Africa to the Middle East to Latin America, 1400-1900." Steve Topik, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine. March 26, 2009.
"Children of the Revolution: Constructing the Mexican Citizen, 1920-1940." Elena Jackson Albarrán '98, Assistant Professor of History, Miami University (Ohio). November 6, 2008.
"The United States and Latin America after the Cold War." Russell Crandall, '94 and MacArthur Associate Professor of Political Science, Davidson College. October 2, 2008.
"Incorporating Southwestern America: The Hispanic Southwest Meets United States History." David Weber, Robert and Nancy Dedham Chair of History, Southern Methodist University. April 22, 2008
Allen Wells' Cuban Revolution seminar traveled to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to view a retrospective of Cuban art, "Cuba: Art and History from 1868 to Today." April 16, 2008.
"Havana's Past: Looking towards the Present and Future." Dick Cluster, Author of The History of Havana, Associate Director of the Honors Program, UMass Boston. March 5, 2008.
Festival for Cultural Exchange Symposium, organized by LAM majors, Naomi Sturm, '08 and Juan Angarita, '09. February 5-12, 2008:
- Lecture by Juan Pérez Febles from the Maine Department of Labor on "Migrant Labor in Maine," February 7, 2008.
- Afro-Peruvian Jazz Ensemble concert, February 10, 2008.
A lunchtime discussion with Kazia Jankowski '04 about her work in Peru, writing a guidebook and launching a Pica Peru Culinary Vacation business. October, 2007.
A Poetry Reading with Puerto Rican poet Kevin González. November 16, 2006.
"Andidan Lawonn-la", Performance by the Siyaj Theater Company from Guadeloupe and Martinique. Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
"America Confronts the Pink Tide: Our Misguided Policies in Latin America." Lawrence Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. April 24, 2006.
A lunchtime discussion with Michael Lettieri '05 on his work at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. April 24, 2006
"Why are Europeans and North Americans Obsessed with Magic Realism?" Gustavo Pellón, Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia. March 6, 2006
"Enhancing Latino Presence on Campuses" Antonio Flores, President of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. March 8, 2006
"U.S. Policy towards Cuba: The Enduring Perfect Failure." Wayne Smith, Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C. and Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University. March 8, 2006.
"Summoning The Spirits: The Saints of Santería In Cuban Art" Cuban Artist Elio Vilva Art Show. Moulton Union January and February, 2006. Details | Interview with the artist
Haitian Writer Jan J. Dominique - Author of three novels related to her life in Haiti during Duvalier's dictatorship and in Canada where she emigrated. She spoke after the showing of the film The Agronomist, which presents the history of the Haitian people during the last fifteen years while portraying the life of Jean Leopold Dominique, Jan's father, a radio broadcaster and human rights activist who was assassinated in 2000. November, 2005.
"Moko Jumbies and Carnival in Trinidad."A talk and visual presentation by Mexican Artist Laura Anderson Barbata. October, 2005.
The 36th annual meeting of the New England Council of Latin American Studies was held on Saturday, October 1, 2005 at Bowdoin College.
"Che Guevara's Revolutionary Legacy", a teach-in sponsored by Students for Democratic Socialism, Latin American Student Organization, and Latin American Studies, April 27, 2005:
- "Before He Became a Myth: Che's Revolutionary Odyssey." By Jonah Gabry, '07 and Cassandro Joseney, '07
- "Hasta Siempre: Re-inventing Che as a Cultural Icon." By Enrique Yepes, Latin American Studies Program Director
- "What Would Che Say? The Central American Free Trade Agreements and the New Face of Resistance." By Rebecca Fontaine, '05.
Discussant: Allen Wells, Roger Howell, Jr. Professor of History and Chair, History Department.
"Dispatches From Rebel Mexico and Bolivia" Award-winning filmmaker Greg Berger presented excerpts from his numerous films on grassroots struggles for democracy, autonomy and social justice in contemporary Mexico and Bolivia. The evening also featured a live cell phone round table discussion between students and activists in Mexico. March, 2005.
"Contested Forests: Community, Industry, and the State in Mexican Woodlands, 1885-2005." Christopher Boyer, Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago. February, 2005.
"Insularity and Integration: Recent Trends in Caribbean Scholarship." Students in the Latin American Studies 350 seminar titled "Caribbeans" participated in a symposium with distinguished academics. This program was made possible by the Rusack Coastal Studies Fund. December 2-3, 2004. Event Poster.