LACLxS Fall 2024 Events

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The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies presents its Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Events scheduled for the Fall of 2024. We look forward to seeing you in person or virtually in the coming weeks!

LACLxS Film Festival: MONEY EXCHANGE (2022, Argentina)´ Sept 5, 5-8 pm, Shriver Hall 001

Non-literary Fiction: Art of the Americas Under Neoliberalism Esther Gabara, Romance Languages, Duke University. Sept 18, 5:30-7:30 pm, Gilman 479

LACLxS Film Festival: CARAJITA (2021, Dominican Republic) Sept 19, 5-8 pm, Shriver Hall 001

RELIGION, CAPTIVITY, AND FREEDOM: A POST/COLONIAL DISAVOWAL OF ALONSO DE SANDOVAL’S DE AETHIOPUM SALUTE (1627) AND EQUATORIAL GUINEAN LITERATURE IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY IBERIAN BLACK ATLANTIC Benita Sampedro Vizcaya, Romance Languages and Literatures, Hofstra University & Jerome Branche, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh Sept 25, 5:30-7:30 pm, Gilman 479

SILENCING THE PRESS IN CRIMINAL WARS: WHY THE WAR ON DRUGS TURNED MEXICO INTO THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS COUNTRY FOR JOURNALISTS Guillermo Trejo, Political Science, University of Notre Dame Oct 1, 12-1:30 pm, SNF Agora Institute Conference Room

LACLxS Film Festival: EMA (2019, Chile) Oct 3, 5-8 pm, Shriver Hall 001

Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border Ieva Jusionyte, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University in conversation with Nicole Fabricant, Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice, Towson University. Oct 8, 7 pm, Red Emma’s

Puerto Rico: A National History Jorell Melendez Badillo, History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, in conversation with Jessica Marie Johnson, History, JHU Oct 9, 7 pm, Red Emma’s

In Search of the Intended Reader: Historical Reading Practices in Sixteenth-Century Mexico Jose Montelongo, The Maury A. Bromsen Curator of Latin American Book, John Carter Brown Library Oct 15, 5:15 pm, Macksey Seminar Room 2043 (BLC)

George Padmore: La tradición radical negra y la liberación del Sur Global. Juan Francisco Martínez Pería, History, University of Buenos Aires Oct 23, 4:30 pm, TBD

LACLxS Film Festival: EL CASO PADILLA (2022, Cuba & Spain) Oct 24, 5-8 pm, Shriver Hall 001

LA ARGENTINA DE JAVIER MILEI: 10 MONTHS LATER Matías Vernengo, Bucknell University Oct 31, 3-4:30 pm, Macaulay 101

DEPENDENCY CRISIS IN BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA. A CRITIQUE OF MARKET AND STATE UTOPIAS Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London. Nov 1, 1:30-3:30 pm, Mergenthaler 526

LACLxS Summer Research Graduate Workshop Nov 8, 9:30-5 pm, Levering Conference Room A

LACLxS Film Festival: 8 STORIES ABOUT MY HEARING LOSS (2021, Argentina & Uruguay) Nov 14, 5-8 pm, Shriver Hall 001

Indigenous Sovereignty and the Construction of Citizenship during Peru’s Post-Independence Period Arturo Chang, Political Science, University of Toronto in conversation with Alonso Burgos, Sociology, JHU Dec 5, 12 pm, Mergenthaler 366

LACLxS Film Festival: BAD HOMBRES (2023, Netherlands) Dec 5, 5-8 pm, Shriver Hall 001

The World that Latin America Created Margarita Fajardo, History, Sarah Lawrence College Dec 6, 1:30-3:30 pm, Mergenthaler 526