Book Presentation: Exit Wounds

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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 […]

Lecture – José Montelongo

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 […]

Book Presentation – George Padmore

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 […]

2024 Latin American Film Festival – “The Padilla Affair” (Cuba, Spain)

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“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 […]

Lecture – La Argentina de Javier Milei: 10 Months Later

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 […]

Book Presentation – Dependency Crisis in Brazil and Argentina

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 […]

LACLxS Research Grantees Symposium

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 […]

2024 Latin American Film Festival – “8 Stories About My Hearing Loss” (Argentina, Uruguay)

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“8 HISTORIAS SOBRE MI HIPOACUSIA” Charo Mato / Argentina, Uruguay / 2021 / 86 min https://pragda.com/film/8-stories-about-my-hearing-loss Spanish with English subtitles Comments by prof. Marcelo Nogueira, Spanish & Portuguese, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Charo Mato’s autobiographical documentary is a poignant exploration of her life journey. Diagnosed with bilateral sensorineural progressive hearing loss in first […]

Book Presentation – Puerto Rico: A National History

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Red Emma's Bookstore (3128 Greenmount Ave) The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies is pleased to welcome Jorell Meléndez Badillo (History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) for a conversation about his book PUERTO RICO: A NATIONAL HISTORY (Princeton University Press, 2024) Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped […]

Lecture – Arturo Chang

Mergenthaler 366 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies & the Department of Political Science present INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY ANND THE CONSTRUCTION OF CITIZENSHIP DURING PERU'S POST-INDEPENDENCE PERIOD A lecture by Dr. Arturo Chang, Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto in conversation with Alonso […]

2024 Latin American Film Festival – “Bad Hombres” (Netherlands)

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“BAD HOMBRES” Stef Biemans / Netherlands / 2020 / 54 min https://pragda.com/film/bad-hombres Spanish with English subtitles Bad Hombres explores the most heavily used migration route on Earth. Dutch journalist Stef Biemans travels between Guatemala and the U.S. during the first months of the Trump Administration, to see what the so-called ‘bad hombres’ hope to find in […]

Lecture – The World That Latin America Created

Mergenthaler 526 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies & the Arrighi Center for Global Studies, are pleased to present Margarita Fajardo (History, Sarah Lawrence College), for a conversation on THE WORLD THAT LATIN AMERICA CREATED: THE UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA IN THE DEVELOPMENT ERA (Harvard University Press, 2022) How […]