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Scheherazade's Sisters: A Conversation with Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat

Sponsored by:
History, Academic Affairs, Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, and Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
This event brings together two important and internationally recognized contemporary female voices to talk about a variety of issues ranging from the art and power of story telling, human ‘w/righting’ cross culturally and trans-nationally, feminism, their friendship and dialogue, and their collaboration in organizations such as Border of Lights.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

The Deaf do not Beg

Sponsored by:
Language Schools, History, American Studies, Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, Linguistics, and Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
This public presentation explores the anti-peddling campaigns undertaken by a group of elite American deaf people during the late nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century. As historian Octavian Robinson demonstrates, whiteness, class, masculinity, disability and nondisability converged with language politics in this campaign to influence American public policy governing the presence of disabled bodies in public spaces.

Axinn Center 229

Open to the Public

Brazilian/Latin American Spring Film Festival

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History
Pixote (Hector Babenco, 1981): Subtitled “The Law of the Weak” and influenced by neorealism, this film portrays the life of a young boy on the streets of São Paulo. Although Pixote becomes involved in petty crime and prostitution, he also craves the attention, affection and a sense of belonging. In Portuguese with English subtitles.
Open to the Public

Brazilian/Latin American Spring Film Festival

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History
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Cao Humbruger, 2008): This film gives us a glimpse into the life of 12-year-old Mauro, who moves to the São Paulo neighborhood of Bom Retiro when his parents flee the country during the military dictatorship. He longs to see Brazil win its third World Cup, but must also make sense of his new world. In Portuguese with English subtitles.

Axinn Center 232

Open to the Public

Brazilian/Latin American Spring Film Festival

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History
Black Orpheus (Camus,1958): This film transports the myth of Orpheus to the hills of Rio de Janeiro. Camus celebrates an age of innocence in Brazil with the music and poetry of Vinicius de Morais and Tom Jobim. In Portuguese with English subtitles.

Axinn Center 232

Open to the Public

Brazilian/Latin American Spring Film Festival

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History
Olga (Jayme Monjardim 2004).  141 minutes. Portuguese with English subtitles.

Olga chronicles the story of Olga Benario Prestes’ (1908-1942), a German Jew married to one of the most important Brazilian communist leaders in Brazil in the 1930s.  The film recreates the tensions of the Getúlio Vargas regime in Brazil and highlights arrest and deportation of the pregnant Olga to Nazi Germany.

Axinn Center 232

Open to the Public