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 community’s 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

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 Trujillo’s 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, Pan’s 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

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

"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"

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

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"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.