Addressing Poverty in Peru’s Highlands
Miguel Tinker Salas – October 5, 2011
(Lecture “Venezuela: From Model Democracy to Bolivarian Republic”, 7:00 – 9:30 p.m., Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom)
Miguel Tinker Salas is one of the nation's foremost authorities on political and social issues confronting Latin America. He is the author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Citizenship in Venezuela (Duke University Press, 2009); co-editor with Steve Ellner of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez and the Decline of an Exceptional Democracy, (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007); co editor with Jan Rus of Mexico 2006-2012: neoliberalism, movimientos sociales y politica electoral, (Miguel Angel Porrua and Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, 2006) and author of Under the Shadow of the Eagles, The Border and the Transformation of Sonora During the Porfiriato, University of California Press 1997.
His expertise includes: contemporary Latin America, society and politics in Venezuela and Mexico, oil, culture and politics in Venezuela, the drug war in Mexico, Mexican border society, Chicanos/as and Latinos/as in the United States, and Latin American immigration.
Miguel Tinker Salas is currently a Professor of Latin American History and Chicano/a Latino/a Studies at Pomona College in Claremont, California. (From www.migueltinkersalas.com)
(This program is being sponsored by the departments of History and Latin American Studies)
The Cimarrón Project - October 14 & 15
Concert – Friday, October 14, 7:30 p.m., Stuzinski Hall
Music Workshop – Friday, October 14, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m., Gibson 101
Dance Workshop – Saturday, October 15, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Memorial 601
The Cimarrón Project is an ensemble interested in representing the diversity of Afro-Cuban music and dance in its most traditional form. The Project’s repertoire includes rumba, son, pilón, changüí, and other deeper forms belonging to the various Afro-descendant religious practices in Cuba such as Regla de Ocha batá drumming. The members of the Cimarron Project are: Román Díaz (musical director), Junior Terry, Mauricio Herrera, Onel Mulet, Abraham Rodríguez and other guest artists.
Cimarrón Project will be offering a workshop in which attendees can learn to play and sing Afro-Cuban drumming, workshop focusing on the associated dance, and a concert. All members of the Bowdoin community are welcome to participate in any or all of these events free of charge.
Building Stronger Communities with Fair and Affordable Housing:
(Panel discussion, open to the public, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m., Moulton Union, Lancaster Lounge)
Ben Beach ’97, Elise Selinger ’10, and Ian Yaffe ’09; Moderator, Professor Craig McEwen, Sociology
October 17, 2011
Using the example of a low-income Latino immigrant neighborhood in Los Angeles where he worked for nearly a decade, Ben Beach ’97, attorney and Director of the Community Benefits Law Center, illuminates the power of campaigns for “community benefits,” including efforts to win standards that create affordable housing as a part of local economic development. Elise Selinger ’10, Project Associate at the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB) in New York City, illustrates how this organization preserves affordable housing and promotes self-sufficiency through a system in which low-income residents collectively own and democratically govern limited-equity housing cooperatives. Ian Yaffe '09, Executive Director of Mano en Mano/Hand in Hand (a nonprofit in Milbridge, Maine) highlights the importance of partnerships and community relations - especially in controversial projects - and the challenges of serving sub-sectors of the general population where the majority of residents can't afford basic rent.
Ben Beach ’97 is the Director of the Community Benefits Law Center, a nonprofit legal organization that works with community, labor and environmental groups on their campaigns to improve local economies for low-income communities. Previously, he was a Staff Attorney at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, and taught the Community Economic Development clinic at UCLA School of Law. Much of his work has involved campaigns for “community benefits,” including affordable housing, at major development projects in cities across the U.S., and efforts to win standards that create affordable housing as a part of local economic development. He has represented groups in negotiating Community Benefits Agreements with developers, advocating for inclusionary housing measures in cities, and defending those measures in court. Using the example of a low-income Latino immigrant neighborhood in Los Angeles where he worked for nearly a decade, Ben will talk about the challenges of revitalizing urban low-income communities while ensuring that existing residents enjoy the benefits.
Ian Yaffe '09 is Executive Director of Mano en Mano | Hand in Hand, a nonprofit in Milbridge, Maine working with farmworkers and Latino immigrants in the areas of education, access to social services, advocacy, and affordable housing. After a long five years of planning, controversy, and construction, Mano en Mano opened Maine's first affordable housing project for farmworkers, Hand in Hand Apartments, on June 27. The building is now home to six families who work in agriculture and aquaculture fields, cornerstones of the Downeast Maine economy. Despite the success of this project, it was not without significant legal challenges as a small, but vocal group of residents moved to create a moratorium on construction based on perceptions that it would serve immigrants and not pay local property taxes. Ian will talk about the importance of partnerships and community relations, especially when it comes to controversial projects in isolated locations, and the challenges of serving sub-sectors of the general population an area when the majority of all residents can't afford basic rent.
Elise Selinger ’10 is a Project Associate at the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB), a nonprofit organization that develops, supports, and preserves affordable housing throughout the City of New York through a resident-led model of self-sufficiency. Since 1973, UHAB has assisted in the preservation of over 1,700 buildings and created home ownership opportunities for over 30,000 households. At UHAB, she works with homeowners who collectively own and democratically govern limited-equity housing cooperatives. In this capacity she provides technical assistance and need-to-know management skills to potential and current co-op homeowners for effective building maintenance, governance, and financial management. Elise will talk about the history of the limited-equity co-op in New York City and the challenges that co-ops face in ensuring that they remain permanently affordable to current low-income shareholders and future generations.
(This event is being sponsored by the following departments: McKeen Center for the Common Good, Latin American Studies, Environmental Studies, Economics, Sociology, Government, and Career Planning)
An Evening with Mary Jo McConahay - October 19
(Reading, open to the public, 7:00 p.m., Searles 315)
Journalist Mary Jo McConahay, author of Maya Roads: One Woman's Journey Among the People of the Rainforest, covered Central America as a war correspondent and lived in Mexico and Central America for fifteen years. Her award-winning work has appeared
in more than thirty magazines and periodicals and is collected in a half-dozen books, including True to Life Adventure Stories by Women and Best Travel Writing 2011. She co-produced the PBS documentary Discovering Dominga, which was awarded the Cine Golden Eagle and numerous other film honors, and is widely used in college classrooms.
Mary Jo will visit us for a reading and discussion, including: the classic Maya world and contemporary Maya, Zapatistas, violence and justice, 2012, the rainforest and the 'drug war.'
For more information on Mary Jo McConahay, visit her website, maryjomcconahay.com
Mark Schuller - November 3
(Movie screening, Open to the Public, Kresge Auditorium) 7 p.m.
Professor Schuller will visit us for a screening of the movie and a forum to take place the evening of Thursday, November 3 in Kresge Auditorium.
Told through compelling lives of five courageous Haitian women workers, Poto Mitan gives the global economy a human face. Each woman’s personal story explains neoliberal globalization, how it is gendered, and how it impacts Haiti: inhumane working/living conditions, violence, poverty, lack of education, and poor health care. While Poto Mitan offers in-depth understanding of Haiti, its focus on women’s subjugation, worker exploitation, poverty, and resistance demonstrates these are global struggles. Finally, through their collective activism, these women demonstrate that despite monumental obstacles in a poor country like Haiti, collective action makes change possible.
The women’s own astute analyses are supported by interviews with Haitian NGOactivists, government ministers, and scholars providing global, economic,and political context. The women’s struggles to unionize and images of their deplorable working conditions (captured by spy cameras) are juxtaposed with contradictory interviews of factory owners. Ultimately, these resilient women’s hardships are offset with positive images of them organizing and uniting their communities.
Throughout the film, the women’s stories are woven together by close-upshots of a mother’s hands braiding her daughter’s hair, while acclaimed novelist Edwidge Danticat narrates a “krik krak”, traditional folklore.This poetic story demonstrates Haitian women’s historical depth of struggle and resistance, while providing an homage to Haiti’s oral storytelling culture. The krik-krak grows and weaves with the film, until finally the two resolve together, with hope and resilience. In addition to these beautiful spoken words, Poto Mitan showcases a range of contemporary Haitian music by Emeline Michel, Boukman Eksperyans, Brothers Posse, Manze Dayila and the Nago Nation, and Awozam, along with empowerment songs by the women in the film.
Mark Schuller is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology at York College (CUNY). He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on globalization, NGOs, civil society and development in Haiti. His insights have been published in public media,including: Huffington Post, Counterpunch, Common Dreams, and the Center for International Policy, and media interviews, including the BBC, Al Jazeera, and Democracy Now! He is co-director / co-producer of documentary Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy (Documentary Educational Resources, 2009). He also co-edited Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction (Alta Mira, 2008) and Homing Devices: the Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice (Lexington, 2006). He chairs the Society for Applied Anthropology’s Human Rights and Social Justice Committee and is active in many grassroots efforts, including earthquake response.
José Ovejero – November 9 4:30 p.m.
Lecture, “The Ethics of Cruelty”
Spanish author, José Ovejero, will be on campus on November 9. He will be giving a campus lecture called "The Ethics of Cruelty". Ovejero's writings deal, among other things, with the presence of the Latin American immigrants in present day Spain. This is the subject of his novel "Nunca pasa nada".
Born 1958 in Madrid, José Ovejero graduated in Geography and History. He lived for several years in Germany and now lives between Brussels and Madrid.
He has published novels, collections of short stories, travel books, poetry and drama. He has been awarded the Ciudad de Irún prize for his poetry book Biografía del explorador, the Grandes Viajeros prize for China para hipondríacos and the Primavera prize for Las vidas ajenas.
His articles and short stories have been published in many journals and reviews in Spain and abroad.
He has given lectures and directed creative writing workshops in universities and cultural institutions in Spain, Italy, USA, Belgium, France, Argentine, Mexico, Ecuador, etc.
He is a member of the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cine Españoles Siglo XXI (Alces XXI). (From www.ovejero.info)
José Moya, Professor of History, Barnard College, Columbia University – May 6
Kemp Symposium Keynote address Beam Classroom - VAC 5:00 PM
"Anarchism: The Working-Class Movement that wanted to Emancipate Humanity"
Keynote speaker Jose Moya received his Ph. D. from Rutgers University and is a professor at Barnard College, Columbia University. His book Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires , 1850-1930 (1998) received five awards and the journal Historical Methods 34 (2001) devoted a forum to its theoretical and methodological contributions to migration studies. He is currently editing Latin American Historiography (Oxford UP, forthcoming) and working on the socio-cultural history of anarchism in belle époque Buenos Aires and the Atlantic world.
Tino Villanueva, internationally acclaimed poet, artists, and scholar – April 18
(Public lecture, 7-9 p.m., Beam Classroom, VAC)
Internationally acclaimed Chicano poet, artist, and scholar Tino Villanueva is the author of several poetry collections, including Scene from the Movie Giant (1993), which won the 1994 American Book Award. Born in Texas to a family of migrant workers, Dr. Villanueva now teaches at Boston University. He edited the seminal literary anthology on the Mexican American literary tradition Chicanos: Antología histórica y literaria (1980), and has published a number of articles on poetry. His poems address a wide range of experiences, from backbreaking migrant struggles and language politics to space, love, and the nature of creativity.
Dr. Villanueva's talk on April 18th will include a reading of his poetry and its connection to the Chicano experience.
(Made possible with the generous support of the Blythe Bickel Edwards Fund. Co-sponsored by Latin American Studies, The Departments of English and Romance Languages, The McKeen Center for the Common Good, and LASO, the Latin American Student Organization.)
Liza Bakewell, linguistic anthropologist and author – April 12
(Classroom visit for "Language, Identity, and Power")
Liza Bakewell is a linguistic anthropologist at Brown University and will be reading from and discussing her book, Madre, in Professor Van Vleet's;course. "Leaping off the page with energy, insight, and attitude, Liza Bakewell's exploration of language is anything but "just semantics." Why does me vale madre mean worthless, while que padre! means fabulous, she asks? And why do one hundred madres disappear when one padre enters the room, converting the group from madres to padres? Thus begins a journey through Mexican culture in all its color: weddings, dinner parties, an artist's studio, heart-stopping taxi rides, angry journalists, corrupt politicians, Blessed Virgins, and mothers both sacred and profane. Along the way, a reader discovers not only an invaluable lexicon of Mexican slang (to be used with caution or not at all) but also thought-provoking reflections on the evolution of language; its winding path through culture, religion, and politics; and, not least, what it means--and what it threatens--to be a creative female, a madre.
"Madre is a sui generis marvel. Using memoir, travelogue, e-mail epistolaries, and the lapidary ear of a linguistic anthropologist, Liza Bakewell brilliantly weaves a story that peels away layers of hidden meanings of the most fraught word of Mexico's maternal cultura, revealing secrets many natives dare not speak. Along the way, femininity is de-mystified, macho masculinity upended. This is a book that will get tongues wagging." (John Phillip Santos, author of The Farthest Home is in an Empire of Fire)
(Prof. Bakewell's visit is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.)
Cuba Week, Brunswick celebrates her Sister City – April 8-17
(Various events listed below)
BRUNSWICK, ME – Cuba Week, the annual celebration of Brunswick's sister city with Trinidad, Cuba takes place Friday April 8 to Sunday April 17. In its 9th year, Cuba Week features films, music and dance, food, and an art show to celebrate the ongoing friendship and cultural exchange with Trinidad and to enrich our understanding about Cuba through lively, engaging events.
Presented by The Brunswick-Trinidad Sister City Association (BTSCA) with generous support from the Frontier Café, Cuba Week begins with an art show opening from 5-6:30 pm at Frontier Café on Monday, April 11, featuring the Orisha paintings of Elio Vilva. Elio is an artist from Trinidad, Cuba. A gallery talk on Santeria by Pilar Tirado, PhD will be held at 5:30 pm. The event is free and open to all ages. These paintings, as well as the photographs of Carl Elsaesser taken during his semester in Cuba last year will be on display from March 21 through May 5.
On Wednesday, April 13, the film East of Havana on the emerging hip-hop scene in Cuba will be shown at the Frontier Café at 5 and 7 pm. Donations are welcome.
On Thursday, April 14, Cuban food will be served and a Cuban film will be shown at Brunswick High School, for students and staff only.
On Friday, April 15, the Frontier Café will host a Cuban Dance featuring live music by the band 'Olas' starting at 7:30 pm. $10 admission.
On Saturday, April 16, Bowdoin Professor Michael Quintero and Dylan Blanchard will conduct an Afro-Cuban Drumming Workshop from 3-5 pm. at Cram Alumni House, 83 Federal St. Free admission. Participation is limited to 20 but all are welcome to observe. We suggest that participants be at least 12 years old.
During the entire week of April 8-17 Cuban books will be on display at the Curtis Memorial Library and area restaurants and cafes will feature special Cuban dishes and refreshments on their menus. Participating businesses include: Frontier Café, Henry & Marty, Wild Oats Bakery, Back Street Bistro, Broadway Deli, Flip Side, Big Top Deli, bacari, Benchwarmers, Scarlet Begonias, Little Dog Coffee Shop, Gelato Fiasco, Wildflours, El Camino, Provisions, Lillee's, 10 Water St, and Pedro O'Hara's.
Dates, times, and locations of events are subject to change. For more detailed information on Cuba Week events, to volunteer, or to learn more about BTSCA, visit www.brunswicktrinidad.org.
The vision of the Brunswick Trinidad Sister City Association is to foster a spirit of friendship and cooperation between the citizens of Trinidad, Cuba and the Brunswick area, and to promote creative and constructive interactions with the people of our sister community in Cuba. The Association is non-political. We share our cultures with each other, recognizing and appreciating both the differences and similarities.
Luis Rodríquez Cedillo, Maya Daykeeper - March 3
(Public Lecture, 6:30-8 p.m., Beam Classroom, VAC)
Luis Rodríquez Cedillo is founder and president of Kalpulli Izkalli of Guadalajara, Mexico, which sponsors the conservation, promotion and practice of ancestral Mexican culture and values. He will give a lecture on "Ceremonies and Traditions from the Past, Still in Use Today in Mexico." He describes his talk in the following way, "Most of us have the belief that the original cultures in the Americas are dead, that those who built the pyramids are gone. But in fact we're alive, and for hundreds of years in Mexico and in other countries many people in many communities have been keeping the languages, traditions, ceremonies and our way of life. These are stories of survival and love." (Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program and the Department of Art).
Julio César Montaño, dancer, and choreographer, and activist - Feb. 24
(Public lecture, 4:30 – 6:00pm, Quinby House)
Julio César Montaño will give a lecture about his experiences leveraging traditional Afro-Colombian culture to give a voice in the political domain for Afro-Colombians in the late 1980s. His lecture is entitled "Cultural Activism and the Culture of Currulao."
Julio César is a veteran dancer and choreographer, one of the very few practitioners of Afro-Colombian currulao in the United States. He began his career as a student leader in the 1980s in the Afro-Colombian community of Tumaco during a moment in which local young people began using theater and dance to make political claims and ethnic revindications, and this is reflected in Julio's choreographies. He was a founder of the Festival de Currulao, one of the first important cultural spaces that brought attention to marginalized black Colombian cultural forms and outlined a diasporic understanding of those forms by inviting artists from black populations in other parts of the world. He also founded the Ecos del Pacífico dance troupe and musical group, which was central in transmitting traditional knowledge to younger generations, and partially responsible for the renaissance that traditional Afro-Colombian music is enjoying today. Since arriving in Chicago about 5 years ago, he and his wife have founded a Chicago version of Ecos del Pacífico, which performs Afro-Colombian dance and music and Afro-Latin American poetry, and even a Chicago Festival of Currulao. He is also a painter and crafts traditional Afro-Colombian instruments. His talk explains the creation of the idea of "the culture of Currulao" using both traditional culture and the political necessities of the moment and from his own extensive personal experience as an activist and practitioner of these forms.
On February 24th at 7:00pm in Quinby House Julio César and Martha Montaño will demonstrate both the traditional Afro-Colombian dances of the community of Tumaco and newly-choreographed compositions that formed part of the cultural politics of the Afro-Colombian movement. Featuring Bowdoin's Afro-Colombian Marimba Ensemble (under the direction of Professor Birenbaum Quintero).
(These events are sponsored by the Latin American Student Organization, African-American Society, Department of Music, Department of Theater & Dance, McKeen Center for the Common Good, Africana Studies, Latin American Studies)
Lucia Pulido Trio, Colombian singer – Feb. 19
(Public performance, 7:00pm, Studzinski Recital Hall)
Lucía Pulido is a Colombian singer with one of the richest voices on the international Latin American musical scene today. Lucía's musical compass has been an experimental approach to traditional Colombian rhythms and songs; cumbia and bullerengue from the Atlantic Coast, currulaos from the Pacific Coast as well as joropos from the Colombian Eastern Plains are the point of departure for her musical creativity. The New York Times says that "Ms. Pulido holds on to the rawness of the original melodies while giving them a sophisticated new context." Her New York based trio performs experimental arrangements of Colombian traditional music as well as newly-composed songs.
(Sponsored by Latin American Studies Program and the Department of Music)
Walt Little, cultural anthropologist;– Feb. 16
(Classroom talk for "Contemporary Issues in Anthropology", 1-4 p.m. and Discussion with Latin American Studies Faculty)
Walter Little, a cultural anthropologist who specializes in Kaqchikel Maya handicraft vendors and tourism, willspeak to the students of "Contemporary Issues in Anthropology " (Anth 310) on February 16, 2011.He will then met with Latin American Studies faculty for a dinner and discussion of recent research on markets in Antigua, Guatemala.Professor Little's research focuses on the socio-economic and political lives of Kaqchikel and K'iche' Maya handicraft vendors. Using a theoretical approach that combines political economy and interpretive perspectives, he has analyzed their participation in tourism settings, handicraft marketplaces, and their homes. His more recentethnographic research project explores the politics of Maya spirituality including the increase in participation, visibility, and formalization of Maya spirituality from modern historical, juridical, linguistic, and ethnographic perspectives. This research is done in collaboration with two Kaqchikel Maya ajq'ija' (daykeepers). ProfessorLittle has coeditedMayas in Post War Guatemala:Harvest of Violence Revisited(2009) and writtenMayas in the Marketplace(2004).
(Professor Little's visit to campus is co-sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.)
Liza Bakewell, linguistic anthropologist and author – November 4
(Public lecture, Longfellow Books, Portland)
Leaping off the page with energy, insight, and attitude, Liza Bakewell's exploration of language is anything but "just semantics." Why does me vale madre mean worthless, while que padre! means fabulous, she asks? And why do one hundred madres disappear when one padre enters the room, converting the group from madres to padres? Thus begins a journey through Mexican culture in all its color: weddings, dinner parties, an artist's studio, heart-stopping taxi rides, angry journalists, corrupt politicians, Blessed Virgins, and mothers both sacred and profane. Along the way, a reader discovers not only an invaluable lexicon of Mexican slang (to be used with caution or not at all) but also thought-provoking reflections on the evolution of language; its winding path through culture, religion, and politics; and, not least, what it means--and what it threatens--to be a creative female, a madre.
"Madre is a sui generis marvel. Using memoir, travelogue, e-mail epistolaries, and the lapidary ear of a linguistic anthropologist, Liza Bakewell brilliantly weaves a story that peels away layers of hidden meanings of the most fraught word of Mexico's maternal cultura, revealing secrets many natives dare not speak. Along the way, femininity is de-mystified, macho masculinity upended. This is a book that will get tongues wagging."
- John Phillip Santos, author of The Farthest Home is in an Empire of Fire
Liza Bakewell is a linguistic anthropologist at Brown University. She Lives with her family on the coast of Maine.
Jauretsi Saizarbitoria, Filmmaker and social commentator – November 4
(Public lecture, 7 p.m., Morrell Meeting Room, Curtis Memorial Library)
Ms Saizarbitoria is a Cuban-American whose sense of cultural awareness is shaped by two countries. She was born of Cuban parents and raised in Miami and is now active in the vibrant social scene of New York dispersing cultural news through her work as a videographer, film director, event planner, deejay, and blogger. She will be giving a public lecture entitled, ";Hip Hop Hits the Screen: Cuban History Through The Lens Of Music." The announcement of the event in the Brunswick Times Record appears below and is sponsored by the Brunswick Trinidad Sister City Association (http://www.brunswicktrinidad.org)..
Ms. Saizarbitoria will share a multi-media presentation titled Cuban History Through the Lens of Music, speaking of the culture of music in Cuba, specifically her impressions of how new genres of music are born in response to political and cultural change.
Saizarbitoria is a co-director of the 2007 non-fiction feature East of Havana of which the New York Times wrote, "So much of American pop thrives on a bratty facsimile of courage that when you see the real deal, it's a revelation. East of Havana is the real deal." Ms. Saizarbitoria spent more than two years working on the project, much of that time in her family's homeland of Cuba. Clips and discussion of the film will be included in her presentation.
April 16, 2010
“1810: Insurgency in Spanish America”
A one-day symposium celebrating Latin American Studies’ tenth anniversary and commemorating the bicentennial of the declarations of independence in several Spanish American countries.
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Monday, April 12, 2010
Professor Jonathan Marks, a bio-ethicist at Penn State, will speak on "Interrogation and Torture in the 'War on Terror;' Law, Ethics, and the Road Ahead."
Co-sponsored with Philosophy and History.
4:00pm in Searles 315.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
“Divided Ranges: Trans-border Ranches and the Creation of National Space along the Western Mexican-US Border”
by Rachel St. John, Harvard University
Monday, February 1, 2010
“Homage to Haiti”
An evening of testimonials, a panel on Haiti’s history and present developments, information on reliable venues for donations toward humanitarian relief, and ocumentary film “Poto mitan: Haitian women, pillars of the global economy”
Searles 315, 7pm.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
“A Tenth Anniversary Dinner”
An evening cookout coordinated by the Latin American Student Organization and Latin American Studies faculty to celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of the LAS Program in 2010. 30 College Street Multicultural House, 7pm.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
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n 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.
"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.
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