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PAST
EVENTS
SPRING
2009 FILM SERIES
"GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN LATIN AMERICA"
All screenings
are at 7:00 p.m. at 100 Willamette Hall, 1371 East 13th Avenue,
unless otherwise indicated
Wednesday,
April 8
The Crime
of Father Amaro
(México, 2002). A young Catholic priest in a small Mexican
town is torn between human desire and faith and confronts a world
of corruption and power struggles.
Discussant: Pedro García-Caro (Romance Languages)
Wednesday,
April 15
Madeinusa (Peru, 2006). A young Indigenous
woman in Peru confronts the ominous reality of her communitys
cultural traditions.
Discussant: Gabriela Martínez (School of Journalism and
Communication)
Wednesday,
April 22
Love Sickness (Puerto Rico, 2007). A bittersweet
movie about the vicissitudes of love among couples of different
social groups and ages.
Discussant: Cecilia Enjuto Rangel (Romance Languages)
SPECIAL EVENT
WITH FILMMAKER LOURDES PORTILLO
Thursday,
April 30 182
Lillis Hall, 990 East 13th Avenue
Missing Young
Woman (USA, 2001).
The search for truth in the hundreds of cases of murdered young
women in Ciudad Juárez, México.
Question-and-answer session with the film director, Lourdes Portillo
Wednesday,
May 6
Lesbians in
Buenos Aires
(Argentina, 2002). A movie that shows the diversity and the challenges
of the Buenos Aires lesbian community.
Discussant: Irmary Reyes-Santos (Ethnic Studies)
Wednesday,
May 13
Olga (Brazil, 2004). The tragic story
of politics and love between Olga Benario, a German Jewish communist,
and Brazilian revolutionary leader Luis Carlos Prestes.
Discussant: Monique Balbuena (Robert D. Clark Honors College)
Wednesday,
May 20
Before Night
Falls (USA, 2001).
A film about the life of Cuban gay dissident writer Reynaldo
Arenas. Discussant: Pedro García-Caro (Romance Languages)
Wednesday,
May 27
Princesses (Spain, 2006). A story of friendship
between a Spanish and a Dominican woman in the world of prostitution
in contemporary Spain.
Discussant: Lisa Di Giovanni (Romance Languages)
These screenings
are free and open to the public. For further information or accommodation
requests, please contact us at las@uoregon.edu.
This series is
organized by the Latin American Studies Program in collaboration
with the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the School
of Journalism and Communication, and the proposed Center for
Latino/a and Latin American Studies.
November 17-23, 2008
Festival of New Spanish Cinema
University of Oregon
Click HERE for more information and the schedule
of films
November 17, 2008, 3:30 -
5:00 p.m.
330 Hendricks Hall, University
of Oregon
CLLAS Grantee Presentation:
"Psychosocial Stress, Health and Lifestyle Change
Among Latino Immigrant Farmworkers in Oregon"
Presenters: Heather McClure
(Oregon Social Learning Center--Latino Research Team) and OSLC
interns from the University of Oregon: Keshia Baker (psychology
major) and Sarah Epstein (anthropology major); Laura Isiordia
(Farmworker Housing Development Corporation); Josh Snodgrass
(anthropology, University of Oregon)
Sponsored by the proposed
Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies
2008
June-October 2008, Adell McMillan
Gallery, Erb Memorial Union, 2nd floor
Mesoamerican Textiles: Text, Subtext, & Context / Textiles
mesoamericanos: texto, subtexto, y contexto
This exhibit of textiles from Guatemala and Mexico, with photographs
by Jeffrey Jay Foxx, explores the intellectual dimension of textile
designs, embedded ethnic and gendered identity, and the importance
of context, such as conquest and colonization, counterinsurgency
wars, and the global economy.
Curatorial team: Stephanie Wood, Blanca Aranda, Aaron Seagraves,
and Jinny Ralls. Consultants: Arturo Arias and Emiliana Aguilar.
With loaned and donated garments from Katarina Digman, Nancy
Hughes, Jinny Ralls, Elke Richers, Esther Celis, and Reyna Santiago,
among others.
Friday, October 3, 6:00
p.m., Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Free Opening Reception
Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary
Art from The Farber Collection
Featuring the music of Jessie Marquez with Mike Denny.
Friday, October 10, noon,
Humanities Center
Work-in-progress talk by Michelle
McKinley, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Hybridity
and Racial Identity in Colonial Lima."
Wednesday, October 15, 6 p.m.
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
"Self-portrait of the
Artist as an Organic Intellectual", by Tonel
Tonel, an independent artist
and art critic whose work is on view in Cuba Avant-Garde, will
discuss his career as a visual artist over the past twenty-five
years. Starting with drawings and magazine illustrations begun
in Cuba during the early 1980s, he will introduce pieces made
using a variety of media from ink on paper and painting
on canvas to mixed media sculpture and installation art.
Thursday, October 23, 2008,
3:30 5:30 p.m., Walnut Room, EMU
Rosaura Sánchez (Department
of Literature, UCSD) and Beatrice Pita (Department of Literature,
UCSD). CLLAS Public seminar and discussion followed by a reception
as part of CLLAS series, Putting Latino/a Studies and Latin
American Studies in Conversation.
Reading for discussion: Sánchez
and Pita, "Theses on the Latino Bloc: A Critical Perspective,
Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 31(2): 25-52, fall
2006.
Wednesday, October 29, 6 p.m.
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
"What's Political?"
by Rachel Weiss
Dr. Rachel Weiss, professor of arts administration
and policy, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, discusses
new Cuban art, which is well-known for its political and critical
nature. In its most stereotypical form, this is understood to
caricature Fidel Castro and other national symbols. In this talk,
Weiss will present selected works from the 1980s and 1990s to
explore some of those dimensions of the political in Cuban art.
Friday, October 31, 2008,
10:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
Latin American Studies Symposium:
"From Che to Ramona to Evo: Leftist Political Cultures in
Latin America, 1960s-2000s".
Participants: Jean Franco,
Edelberto Torres-Rivas, Nancy Postero, Eric Zolov, Marisol de
la Cadena, Neil Harvey, and Pablo Marimán.
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008,
4:00-5:30 pm, Browsing Room, Knight Library
Grant Silva (Philosophy Department, UO). CLLAS
Grantee Presentation, (Political) Being and Authenticity:
The Philosophy of Race and the Possible Foundations for a Hispanic
Citizenship?
Tuesday, November 11 (4 pm,
282 Lillis Hall)
Lecture by Matthew Restall, Professor of Colonial Latin
American History at Penn State University, and author of numerous
books, including Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (Oxford
University Press, 2003).
Wednesday, November 12, 6
p.m. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Tania Triana, "Re-writing the Revolution:
The Special Period in the Cuban Imagination"
Dr. Tania Triana, Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department
of Romance Languages, will discuss how artists on the island
and in the Cuban diaspora depict the social and economic transformations
taking place in post-Soviet Cuba (1990-present) through literature,
film, and music.
April 10, 3:30 5 PM, McKenzie 229
Charles R. Hale, Professor of Anthropology, University
of Texas at Austin; Past President of the Latin American Studies
Association (LASA), "Take the Money and Run? NGOs, Afro-Indigenous
Politics, and the Return of the Left in Latin America" (Sponsored
by the Department of Anthropology and CLLAS)
April 15, 4 pm, 30 Pacific Hall
Hiber Conteris, Uruguayan scholar, writer and former political
prisoner, "The Revolutionary 60's in Latin America: State
Terrorism and Guerrilla Warfare" (Sponsored by LAS and Romance
Languages)
April 16, 3:30 pm, 112 Lillis Hall
Hiber Conteris, "Literature at the Limit: Writing
as a Survival Strategy" (Sponsored by LAS and Romance Languages).
April 17, 7 pm, 182 Lillis Hall
Kick-off of Spring Film Series: Haunting Memories: State Terror
in Latin America and Spain (Sponsored by LAS) [Click HERE for a PDF copy of the Film Series
poster]
Tlatelolco: The Keys of
the Massacre (Mexico,
2003). This documentary unveils the truth about the October 2,
1968 massacre of students in Mexico City. Discussant: Pedro
García-Caro (Department of Romance Languages).
April 18-19, Browsing Room, Knight Library, "Philosophy
of Liberation: Thinking with Enrique Dussel", a Conference
featuring Enrique Dussel, Eduardo Mendieta, and Nelson Maldonado-Torres
(Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Latin American
Philosophy Group)
April 24, 4:00 pm, Fir Room EMU
Margaret Randall/Ben Linder Commemoration. Highly acclaimed
poet, author and activist will present reading from recent book
"Stones Witness". 5:30 pm, Reception/Booksigning in
Ben Linder Room
April 24, 7 pm, 182 Lillis, Film Series, The
Feast of the Goat (Dominican Republic, 2005). Based on the
novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, this film offers an intimate portrait
of Trujillos dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. Discussant:
Carlos Aguirre (Department of History).
April 25, Community/University film and discussion.
Film: "Letters from the Other Side" (7 pm, Cesar Chavez
School). (Sponsored by CLLAS and the Gender, Family, and Immigration
Project of CSWS).
May 1, 4 PM, 115 Lawrence
Lincoln Cushing, Art historian, "Cuban Poster Art
and the Spirit of Revolution" (Sponsored by LAS, Romance
Languages, and the History Department)
May 1, 7 pm, 182 Lillis, Film Series, Death in El Valle
(US/Spain, 2005). A filmmaker searches for the truth about the
murder of her grandfather in 1948 during the Franco dictatorship.
Discussant: Gina Herrmann (Department of Romance Languages).
Mar 2, 3:00-4:30pm, 375 McKenzie Hall. CLLAS reception
to publicly announce the projects and research funded by CLLAS
Faculty/Community Seed Grants and Graduate Student Research Grants.
May 8, 7 pm, 182 Lillis. Film Series, Salvador (Spain,
2006). A gripping account of the life and death of a Catalan
militant in the anti-Franco resistance. Discussants: Lisa
Di Giovanni (Department of Romance Languages) and Anuncia
Escala (Oregon State University).
May 13, 2 pm, 150 Columbia Hall
Arturo Arias, Visiting Professor (University of Texas,
Austin) will begin a series of four public lectures in Spanish
(Sponsored by LAS, Romance Languages, and the Savage Endowment
for International Relations and Peace)
"Luis de Lión y El tiempo principia en Xibalbá:
el inicio de la novelística maya contemporánea"
May 15, 7 pm, 182 Lillis. Film Series, Chronicle
of an Escape (Argentina, 2006). Four prisoners managed to
escape from one of the detention and torture centers in Argentina
during the Dirty War.
Discussant: Gabriela Martínez (School of Journalism
and Communication).
May 20, 2 pm, 150 Columbia Hall, Arturo
Arias, "Gaspar Pedro González y La otra cara:
el rostro maya del quincentenario"
May 22, 7 pm, 182 Lillis, Film Series, The
Year My Parents Went On Vacation (Brazil, 2006). The story
of a Brazilian boy caught between his passion for soccer and
the reality of a brutal dictatorship. Discussant: Monique
Balbuena (Clark Honors College).
May 22-23, Conference on Gender, Families,
and Latin American Immigration in Oregon. Sponsored by CSWS and
co-sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics,
the Office of the Provost, CAS, the Law School, and the Office
of the Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity. This
conference will bring together academics and Oregon community
leaders.
May 27, 2 pm, 150 Columbia Hall, Arturo
Arias, "Víctor Montejo y Las aventuras de Mr.
Puttison entre los mayas: el contradiscurso ético"
May 29, 5.00 pm, Knight Browsing Room, Arturo
Arias, Constructing Ethnic Bodies and Identities in
Miguel Ángel Asturias and Rigoberta Menchú.
Followed by a Q&A session and a light reception. This lecture
is part of the series "Colonial Skins, Independent Acts.
(Post) Colonial Literatures in the Romance World", Sponsored
by Romance Languages and several other units. [Click HERE for a PDF copy of the series poster]
May 29, 7 pm, 182 Lillis, Film Series, Pans
Labyrinth (Spain, 2006). In fascist Spain, a young girl escapes
the brutal reality of political repression that her stepfather
is part of, and enters into a captivating world of fantasy. Discussant:
Cecilia Enjuto Rangel (Department of Romance Languages).
June 3, 2 pm, 150 Columbia Hall, Arturo
Arias, "Calixta Gabriel Xiquín y Tejiendo los
sucesos del tiempo: La aparición del feminismo maya"
Violence and Reconciliation
in Latin America: Human Rights, Memory, and Democracy
An international conference
(Jan 31-Feb 2, 2008)
Arturo Arias, Hiber Conteris, Juan A. Epple, Arturo Escobar,
Pedro García-Caro, Greg Grandin, Susana Kaiser, Michael
Lazzara, Elizabeth Lira, Brian Loveman, Gabriela Martínez,
Michelle McKinley, Carlos Aguirre, Cynthia Milton, Steve Stern,
Lynn Stephen, Kimberly Theidon, Edelberto Torres-Rivas, Deborah
Weissman
Click here to access the conference web site
Yuyanapaq: To remember. A Photo Exhibit on Political Violence
in Peru, 1980-2000
Adell McMillan Gallery, January
17- February 2, 2008
2007
October 4, 7 PM, Ben Linder Room, Erb Memorial
Union
A Commemoration of the 40th
Anniversary of the Death of Che Guevara. The event featured a
screening of a Che documentary followed by a short discussion
led by Prof. Tania Triana (Romance Languages) and a reception
with refreshments and Cuban music. Sponsored by the Department of Romance
Languages, the Latin American Studies Program, and the Committee
in Solidarity with the Central American People (CISCAP).
April 12, 3:30 p.m., 180 PLC
2007 Bartolomé de las
Casas Lecture
"State Violence and Gender
Violence: Setbacks for the Human Rights of Women in Mexico,"
by Aída Hernández Castillo (CIESAS, Mexico City)
April 13, 12 noon, 111 Lillis Hall
"Economic performance
and legitimacy crisis after the Mexican presidential election,"
by Alejandro Alvarez Béjar (UNAM, Mexico City)
April 17, 7-9 PM, Knight Law Center, Rm. 175
"The Oaxaca Rebellion:
Perspectives from Inside"
Special Guests: Margarita Dalton (CIESAS), Julia Barco (Casa
de la Mujer), and Concepción Núñez ("Sección
22" of the Education Workers Union)
Moderator: Lynn Stephen (Anthropology)
Interpreter: Analisa Taylor (Romance Languages)
[Presented by CSWS]
April 18, 4 pm, Alsea/Coquille Room
"Colombia: A Nation in
Spite of Itself?," by Gregory Lobo (Universidad de los Andes,
Bogotá)
[Presented by the Department of Romance Languages]
April 18, 7-9 PM, Knight Library, Browsing
Room
"Women in Oaxaca"
-- a panel discussion with multimedia
Special Guests: Margarita Dalton (CIESAS), Julia Barco (Casa
de la Mujer), and Concepción Núñez (Sección
22)
Moderator: Gabriela Martínez (Journalism and Communication),
Interpreter: Lynn Stephen (Anthropology)
[Presented by CSWS]
April 19, 6:30-9:30 PM, 129 McKenzie Hall
Film: "Deshilando condenas,
bordando libertades" (with English subtitles), a film about
indigenous women in prison in Oaxaca, with introduction and discussion
Special Guest: Concepción Núñez, filmmaker
Moderator: Stephanie Wood (CSWS)
Interpreter: Analisa Taylor, Romance Languages
[Presented by CSWS]
May 1, 3:30 pm, 282 Lillis Hall
"Why Truth Still Matters:
Historical Clarification, Impunity and Justice in Contemporary
Guatemala," by Victoria Sanford (Lehman College, New York)
Spring 2007 Film Series
2006
"Zapatistas!
Making Another World Possible: Chronicles of Resistance 2000-2006"
John Ross
Wednesday, November 15, 4:00 pm, 166 Lawrence Hall
"Memory
Struggles in Pinochet's Chile: The Silent Making of the Youthful
Protest Generation, 1973-1983"
Professor
Steve J. Stern (U. of Wisconsin, Madison)
Thursday, November
9th, 3:30 pm (Browsing Room, Knight Library)
TRAVESÍAS
The African Roots of Latin American Music
with award-winning
singer
SUSANA
BACA
Tuesday, October
24th, 6:00 pm, 175 Law School
"DREAMS
AND NIGHTMARES: LATIN AMERICA IN THE 21ST CENTURY"
2006
Latin American Film Series
Thursdays, April 20-June
1, 2006 (240A McKenzie Hall, 7 pm)
Schedule
of films
April 20 Gimme Power
(Mexico, 1999). Director: Fernando Sarinana. Discussant: Stephanie
Wood (Center for the Study of Women and Society)
A documentary filmmaker in Mexico City
is constantly harassed and robbed by criminal gangs. Attempting
to take matters into his own hands, he finds that lawlessness
extends to corruption within the police and the local government.
April 27 The Man Who Copied (Brazil, 2003). Director: Jorge Furtado. Discussant:
Monique Balbuena (Honors College)
A gentle but aimless copy-machine operator
spends his evenings drawing comic book art, dreaming of making
money and spying on an 18-year-old next store neighbor. He involves
himself with the neighbor when she encounters trouble, and uses
the photocopier to raise money in order to come to her aid.
May 4 Bolivia
(Argentina, 2001). Director: Adrián Caetano. Discussant:
Leonardo García-Pabón (Romance Languages)
An illegal immigrant from Bolivia tries
his luck in Argentina, where he hopes to build a future. He lands
a job as a cook in a restaurant where the owner is happy to flout
the law in order to secure cheap labor. There, he meets the characters
that will change his life: a Paraguayan waitress, a traveling
salesman, two Buenos Aires taxi drivers and one of the driver's
buddies.
May 11 Habana Blues
(Spain/Cuba, 2004). Director: Benito Zambrano. Discussant: Tania
Triana (Romance Languages)
Two young Cuban musicians share the same
dream: to become famous and leave Havana. While in rehearsals
for their first big concert, they learn that two Spanish producers
are in Cuba looking for new talents. Facing what might be the
chance of a lifetime, they will have to conquer "the Spanish."
May 18 Machuca
(Chile, 2004). Director: Andrés Wood. Discussant: Juan
Epple (Romance Languages)
Chile, 1973. Two children, aged 11, and
from quite different social backgrounds, meet at school thanks
to the initiative of Father MacEnroe, whose aim is to integrate
underprivileged students into the posh Catholic school he directs.
He wants to teach respect and tolerance when the political and
social climate of Chile is about to change for the worse.
May 25 Days of Santiago
(Peru, 2004). Director: Josué Méndez. Discussant:
Carlos Aguirre (History)
Santiago, a 23-year-old former soldier
who has recently returned home after serving in the army and
fighting against subversion, is haunted by his past and filled
with pent-up rage and paranoia. He gets increasingly alienated
from his family and his young wife, and unsure of how to make
his way in the world.
June 1 Nine Queens
(Argentina, 2000). Director: Fabián Bielinsky. Discussant:
Gabriela Martínez (School of Journalism and Communications)
The Nine Queens are printed on a sheet
of valuable stamps. Two crooks -- who might or might not be working
together-- are trying to sell the stamps -- which might or might
not be fake -- to a businessman, who may or may not be ripping
them off in return. The end will surprise even the sharpest and
most alert spectator.
"Alien
to Modernity. The Rationalization of Discrimination"
The Department of History presents the
2006 Stanley and Joan Pierson Lecture featuring
Jean Franco
(Professor Emeritus, Columbia University)
Friday, February 17th, 2006, 3:00-5:00
pm
Browsing Room, Knight Library
A reception will follow
Jean Franco is one of the foremost specialists
in Latin American literature, intellectual history, cultural
studies, and feminist theory. She is the author of numerous books,
including Critical Passions. Selected Essays (Duke University
Press, 1999) and The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City. Latin
America in the Cold War (Harvard University Press, 2002), which
won the 2003 Bolton-Johnson Prize for best book in Latin American
History.
A colloquium with Professor Franco will
take place on Friday, Feb. 17, at 10:30 am, at 375 McKenzie Hall.
"Human
Rights and Indigenous Peoples in Mexico"
by Samuel Ruiz García
(Bishop Emeritus, Chiapas, Mexico)
2005 Bartolomé de las Casas Lecture in Latin American
Studies
October 19, 2005, 2 pm, 100 Willamette Hall.
"Living
with the consequences of US Policy: A Nicaragua Photo/Testimony
Project"
Paul Dix and Pamela
Fitzpatrick
November 17, 2005
EMU, Walnut Room.
"Central
America and the Cold War: Film Series"
Wednesday
evenings, April 6-May 4, 2005
Click
here for more information.
"Smoldering
Ashes: Revisiting The Legacy of the Cold War in Central America"
Thursday/Saturday, May 5-7, 2005
Click here
for more information.
"La
invención de Machu Picchu". A public lecture,
in Spanish, by Peruvian scholar Yazmín López Lenci
(May 16, 2005; location to be announced later).
Dr. Yazmín López Lenci
directs the new MA program in Cultural Studies at the University
of San Marcos (Lima, Peru) and is the author of El Cusco,
paqarina moderna. Cartografía de una modernidad e identidades
en los Andes peruanos (1900-1935) (Lima, 2004).
Click here to
access her article "Machu Picchu del Perú" (Identidades,
81, March 21, 2005) in HTML format, or here
for a PDF version.
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