Latin American Studies

Latin American Studies LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Aviv Chomsky Lecture

7:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Latin American Studies

A lecture by Aviv Chomsky, Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies, Salem State College. She is the author of A History of the Cuban Revolution (2010) and Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class (2008). Sponsored by Latin American Studies Program.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Just Words? Language and Imagining Justice in Maya Experiences of Guatemalan and U.S. Courts

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Linguistics, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, and Luso-Hispanic Studies

A talk by Maria Luz Garcia, Associate Professor
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Crimonology, Eastern Michigan University.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Closed to the Public

The Short Arm of the Law: The Post-Dictatorship Crime Film as a Barometer for Justice in Argentina

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Film & Media Culture, Latin American Studies, and Luso-Hispanic Studies

Jennifer Alpert (Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in History & Literature at Harvard University) is a film scholar interested in portrayals of marginalized groups in the popular cinemas of the Americas as it pertains to race, gender identity, sexuality, class, and political ideology among others, and with a focus on human rights in Latin America.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

“Tres veces apátrida”: Redefining World Literature through the Work of Contemporary Asian/Latin American Writers

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Museum of Art, East Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Luso-Hispanic Studies

Paula Park, Associate Professor of Spanish at Wesleyan University

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Venezuela: The Failure of a Petro-state under Chavez and Maduro

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Economics, Political Science, and Latin American Studies

This event has been canceled

Open to the Public

Threading Lines, Pieces, and Selves: A Poetry Reading

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Portuguese, Spanish Department, Latin American Studies, and Jewish Studies

A bilingual poetry reading/presentation (in Spanish and English) by young Uruguayan poet and academic Laura Cesarco Eglin, an up-and-coming Latin American writer living in the United States (http://laucesarco.blogspot.com/).

Axinn Center 229

Free
Open to the Public

Sample of Short Films by Cuban Filmmakers

12:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Film & Media Culture, Spanish Department, Latin American Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies

Presented by Marisol Rodríguez Rosabel, former director of the Office of Artistic Creation and Director of the Muestra Joven (Young Directors Film Festival) and the development program for emerging filmmakers at ICAIC. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center, and the departments of Spanish and Portuguese, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Film and Media Culture, and Latin American Studies. Spanish with English subtitles Q and A after screening

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220

Free
Open to the Public

Normalizing US-Cuban Relations: The Obama Legacy

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Int'l Politics & Economics, Political Science, Spanish Department, and Latin American Studies

Lecture “Normalizing US-Cuban Relations: The Obama Legacy” by Peter Kornbluh, Senior Analyst at the National Security Archives. Kornbluh currently directs the Archive’s Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects, and formerly was co-director of the Iran-contra documentation project and director of the Archive’s project on U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. From 1990-1999, he taught at Columbia University. He has authored numerous articles and four books, including his latest —”Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana” (UNC Press, 2014).

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Clínica de migrantes, Screening and Lecture

7:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Alianza Latinoamericana Y Caribeña, Sociology/Anthropology, Spanish Department, Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, Latin American Studies, and Juntos

Screening of a documentary, Clínica de migrantes, accompanied by a presentation by the subject of the film, Dr. Steve Larson.

(Private)

Open to the Public

A Fresh Start in Latin America? Drug War Policy Reform and Cuba-US Relations

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Int'l Politics & Economics, Portuguese, Political Science, and Latin American Studies

Panel “A Fresh Start in Latin America? Drug War Policy Reform and Cuba-US Relations” by Adam Schaffer ’12, program officer for drug policy at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), and Dan Egol ’13, chief of staff at Ross Cook, Inc.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public