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PAST
EVENTS
2008
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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