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 […]
Mergenthaler 426 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, the department of Political Science & the Center for Africana Studies, are pleased to welcome Juan Francisco Martínez Peria (History, Universidad Nacional de San Martín) for a conversation about his book Book Presentation - George Padmore. The Black Radical Tradition and the Liberation of […]
“EL CASO PADILLA” Pavel Giroud / Cuba, Spain / 2022 / 78 min https://pragda.com/film/the-padilla-affair Spanish with English subtitles In the spring of 1971 in Havana, poet Heberto Padilla is released from prison and attends a Cuban writers’ guild meeting. During the gathering, he delivers what he describes as a “heartfelt self-criticism,” admitting to being a […]
Macaulay 101 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies & the Program in International Studies, are pleased to present Matías Vernengo, Full Professor at Bucknell University, for his talk LA ARGENTINA DE JAVIER MILEI: 10 MONTHS LATER Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina last November, and was inaugurated later in December, facing […]
Mergenthaler 526 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, and the Arrighi Center for Global Studies, are pleased to welcome Felipe Antunes de Oliveira (School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London), for a conversation about his recent book DEPENDENCY CRISIS IN BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA. A CRITIQUE OF MARKET AND […]
Levering Conference Room A Webinar zoom ID: 9869927 9108 Join us for presentations by the 2024 LACLxS student research grantees! Featuring: 9:30-9:50 am Rhiannon Clarke, Spanish & Portuguese: “Lorca and the Mexico That Might Have Been” 10:00 -10:20 am Jaclyn Dyson, International Health: “Process Evaluation of Maternal-Child Health Interventions in Guatemala” 10:30 -10:50 am Grant […]