Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Jessica Marie Johnson, Associate Professor, History, JHU, to present: Disaster. Tabitha Laurent & Francisco Pérez Marsilla, Alumn & PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures, JHU, to present: Karayib. The second in a two-semester graduate sequence, this […]
Red Emma's Bookstore (3128 Greenmount Ave) The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies is pleased to welcome journalist Raúl Zibechi for a conversation about his forthcoming book, Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America (AK Press, 2024). Translated by George Ygarza Quispe. A new collection from one of […]
Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Mariangela Ugarelli, PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures, JHU: "Revenge of the Condor: Fear and Gothic in the Andes," and Rhiannon Clarke, PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures, to present: "La palma […]
University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies is pleased to co-sponsor the conference Caste, Class & Race: Reflections on the Life and Work of Oliver Cromwell Cox
“CAMBIO, CAMBIO” Lautaro García Candela / Argentina / 2022 / 89 min https://pragda.com/film/money-exchange Spanish with English subtitles An extended sequence of newsreel footage about Argentina’s spiraling inflation since 2019 sets the stage for Pablo, who works on Peatonal Florida, Buenos Aires’ economic and tourist epicenter, trying to survive in a precarious and exhausting working world. […]
Gilman 479 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies is pleased to present Esther Gabara, Romance Languages, Duke University, for a conversation about her book: Non-literary Fiction: Art of the Americas under Neoliberalism University of Chicago Press, 2022 With Non-Literary Fiction, Esther Gabara examines how contemporary art produced across the Americas has reacted to […]
“CARAJITA” Silvina Schnicer, Ulises Porra / Argentina, Dominican Republic / 2021 / 89 min https://pragda.com/film/carajita Spanish with English subtitles Featuring striking cinematography and outstanding performances, Carajita (which means annoying child) explores the tenuous relationship that exists between race, class, and family. Sarah, the pampered daughter of a corrupt oligarch whose family recently relocated to Las […]
Gilman 479 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, with the support of the Center for Africana Studies, are pleased to present 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 […]
SNF Agora Institute Conference Room The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies & the Department of Political Science are pleased to present Guillermo Trejo (Political Science, University of Notre Dame), for his lecture on: SILENCING THE PRESS IN CRIMINAL WARS: WHY THE WAR ON DRUGS TURNED MEXICO INTO THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS COUNTRY […]
“EMA” Pablo Larraín / Chile / 2019 / 102 min https://pragda.com/film/ema Spanish with English subtitles Adoptive parents Ema (Variety’s 10 Latinxs To Watch 2020’s Mariana Di Girolamo) and Gastón (Gael García Bernal) are artistic free spirits in a contemporary dance troupe whose lives are thrown into chaos when their adopted son Polo is involved in […]
Red Emma's Bookstore (3128 Greenmount Ave) The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies & the Center for Gun Solutions are pleased to welcome Ieva Jusionyte (Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University) for a conversation about her book EXIT WOUNDS: HOW AMERICA'S GUNS FUEL VIOLENCE ACROSS THE BORDER An account that […]
BLC Macksey Seminar Room 2043 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies & the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance, are pleased to welcome José Montelongo, the Maury A. Bromsen Curator of Latin American Books at John Carter Brown Library, for a lecture: IN SEARCH OF THE […]