April 2011 Calendar
Center for Latin American Studies
Internet: www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas
E-mail: clas@pitt.edu
CLAS 18th Annual Honors Day
Join CLAS students, faculty, and staff to recognize honors received and goals achieved. Keynote Address by Alejandro Meter (Director, Latin American Studies Program and Associate Professor, Spanish,
Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Location: Lower Lounge, William Pitt Union,
Reception to follow
For more information: contact the Center for Latin American Studies, 412-648-7392, clas@pitt.edu
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Lectures, Etc.
Public Lectures with Pipino Cuevas Velázquez (National Leader, Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas [SME])
The Mexican government has launched a vicious attack against the independent labor movement in
Pipino Cuevas Velázquez will be joined by local leaders of public sector unions from around the
Date: Monday, April 4, 2011
Downtown
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: USW Headquarters, 5 Gateway Center, Downtown
(This lunch program will follow a noon march and rally)
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Room 107,
For more information: contact UE at 412-471-8919 or international@ranknfile-ue.org
Sponsored by: Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh; Global Studies Program, Carnegie Mellon University; Mon-Valley Unemployed Committee; Pittsburgh United; SEIU Healthcare PA; United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE); United Steelworkers (USW)
Aliens with Extraordinary Skills—A Performative Lecture by Prize-Winning Playwright and Performer Saviana Stanescu
Join us for a fun evening in the company of this internationally renowned New York-based playwright and performer. Stanescu will explore the experiences of immigrants to
Saviana Stanescu is a playwright, poet, screenwriter, performer, teacher, activist, journalist, and curator. She was born in
Date: Friday, April 8, 2011
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Location: 324 Cathedral of Learning, University of
For more information: Alex Lefter, avl9@pitt.edu
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The 10th Annual Brazilian Festival
Join us and bring your friends for a night of food, fun and Brazilian culture! Featuring performances by Lilly Abreu, Kenia, Timbeleza, Brazil Nuts Dance Group, Grupo Unçao Capoeira…..and many more!
Date: Friday, April 8, 2011
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Location: Assembly Room, William Pitt Union,
Cost: $2 Suggested Donation
Sponsored by The Brazil Nuts Portuguese Club
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2011 Asian and Latin American Studies (ALAS) Symposium—Postcolonial Feminisms and the Ethic of Care: South-to-South Dialogues
Dates: April 8-9, 2011
Location: A425 Parran Hall, Graduate
Friday, April 8, 2011 (Open to the public)
Registration: 9:00 a.m.
Opening Remarks: 9:30 a.m.
Panel I: 10:00 to 11:40 a.m.
“The Women Question: Gender, Modernity, Nationalism” Keynote Speaker: Dr. Tani Barlow, Discussants: Dr. Elora Chowdhury, Dr. Michelle Rowley
Break and Lunch
Panel II: 12:40 to 2:20 p.m.
“Beyond Victims and Guardian Angels: Postcolonial Feminisms and Development” Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kiran Asher; Discussants: Dr. Sasha Su-Ling Welland, Dr. Isis Nusair
Panel III: 2:40 to 4:20 p.m.
“Specters and Images: Borders, Identities, and Locations” Keynote Speaker: Dr. Prajna Parasher; Discussants: Dr. Bernardita Llanos, Dr. Young Rae Oum
Conclusion: 4:20 to 4:45 p.m.
Film Screening: “Motherland”, 7:30 p.m. in 4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Speaker: Dr. Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, Director, Introduction by Dr. Prajna Parasher
Saturday, April 9, 2011 (Closed to the public)
Workshop sessions by invitation only
For more information, please visit: www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc/conference/alas/2011/ or contact Jennifer Murawski at jennm@pitt.edu
Sponsored by:
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Amigos del Cine Latinoamericano Spring 2011 Film Series
“Globalization and Power through Latin America Cinema”
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Films will be presented on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. at the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
As usual, we will give a short introduction of the film and after the presentation you are welcome to stay for a discussion.
Some films are adult in nature and may not be appropriate for young audiences.
Film Schedule:
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Film: They Killed Sister Dorothy (Director Daniel Junge)
Description: “They Killed Sister Dorothy” chronicles the legal proceedings that followed the execution-style murder of a Catholic nun and activist. At age 73, Sister Dorothy Stang had lived in
Archival footage featuring the so-called “Angel of the Amazon” supplements interviews with her brother and best friend, who are seeking justice in the case. But when Colorado-based filmmaker Daniel Junge and his crew gain access to the courtroom proceedings, it is the shockingly candid encounters they have with the men who confessed, the ranchers accused of hiring them, the defense lawyers and a federal prosecutor that really shed light on the circumstances of Sister Dorothy's death - as well as on the struggle over the future of the rainforest within a dangerously corrupt system often compared to the Wild West.
The director's credits include numerous award-winning PBS-aired documentaries like “Chiefs,” which follows
For more information: amigoscinelatinoamericano@gmail.com or visit http://amigosdelcinelatinoamericano.blogspot.com/p/spring-series-2010_11.html
Sponsored by: the Center for Latin American Studies, Department of Hispanic Languages & Literatures, and Eduardo Lozano Latin American Library Collection
http://amigosdelcinelatinoamericano.blogspot.com/p/spring-series-2010_11.html
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Celebrate Japan Benefit Concert featuring Lilly Abreu
Celebrate
Date: Saturday, April 2, 2011
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Location:
Cost: Suggested donations, Concert: $15 for adults and $5 for students, Reception: $5 for adults and students.
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UNC Webinar - Country Briefing:
“A Country Overview and Introduction to Marketing Management Practices” with Dr. Nick Didow (Associate Professor of Marketing,
This session of the webinar series “Best Practices in Global Business Education” will provide a basic introductory briefing about the context of and current issues for doing business in
The webinar is designed for the novice who has minimal knowledge or experience in
We will use Adobe Connect (free access to participants). Participants will need Internet access and a computer with speakers or headphones. It is important that you download and install the most recent version of Adobe’s Flash player prior to the start of the webinar.
Registration is free, but there is a limited number of spots on the webinar. Register by Friday, April 15th, 2011.
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Time: 4:30-5:45 p.m.
For more information: go to http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/KI/ciber/bestPractices/
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Student Club Activities
Save the Date
CLASA
Date: Saturday, April 16, 2011
Spanish Club
Conversation Tables/Mesas de Conversación
Spanish Conversation Tables for all levels It's a great way to practice Spanish with native speakers and students alike - and you can have a coffee or tea on us!
Dates & Times: Every Monday at 4:00 p.m. & Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.
Location: Panera Bread,
Brazil Nuts Portuguese Club
Bate-Papo
Bate-Papo is our “Conversation Tables” where you can speak about various topics and meet people who are interested in the same things as you, everyone learning to or just enjoying speaking in Portuguese. And the most important thing to remember is that people of any level can come to talk—the only requirement is that you want to have fun and chat! You can speak about anything you wish! See you at Bate-Papo!
Date & Time: Every Wednesday at 4:00 p.m.
Location: Lower Lounge couch area, William Pitt Union,
Grupo Axé Capoeira
Grupo Axé Capoeira Pittsburgh offers classes in Brazilian martial arts, music, and dance each week on the
For more information, please visit: www.axecapoeirapittsburgh.com, or email capoeirapittsburgh@gmail.com
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Call for Papers
The Bolivian Studies Journal (BSJ)
The Bolivian Studies Journal is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access publication published at the
We accept contributions throughout the year; however, materials received by July 29th, 2011 will automatically be considered for the next issue, scheduled for release in the fall 2011. If you are interested in contributing to the journal you can send your potential contribution either by e-mail at: bsj@mail.pitt.edu or using the journal’s online submission system at: http://bsj.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/bsj/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions
For further guidelines and other questions contact us at: bsj@mail.pitt.edu
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Conferences
The
Keynote Speakers: Patricia Lunn, Michigan State University, whose talk will address “Simplicity Revisited”; Don Winford, The Ohio State University, who will discuss “Hispanic Linguistics in the Context of Contact Linguistics”; and Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza, The Ohio State University, who will focus on “Voicing Assimilation and Prosodic Structure in Spanish”
Dates: April 8-9, 2011
Location: The
For more information, please visit: http://sppo.osu.edu/newsOutreach/yr2010-11/symposium/default.cfm
American Ethnological Society (AES) and the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) Spring Conference
After more than three decades of neoliberal policies that largely redistributed wealth from poor to rich, and from south to north, the current Great Global Recession is both reinforcing existing social, cultural, and political inequalities, such as those of race, class and gender, and creating new forms of marginality and domains of power. These fault lines have been thrown into sharp relief by a string of environmental disasters (so-called natural disasters, and more purely technological disasters), each with catastrophic human, ecological, and social consequences, just as they have been intensified by warfare and state responses to and discourses about “security.” Increasingly, close relationships between governments and corporations lead to privatized, militarized and corporatized responses, which often produce a “second disaster.” These processes create new forms of difference—fragmentation, inequality, marginality, identity, cultural particularism. At the same time, they create the conditions for new forms of connection--solidarity, alliance, and political engagement--that may bridge lines of demarcation and imagine alternative political, economic, and cultural futures.
Dates: April 17-21, 2011
Location:
For more information, please visit: http://www.aesonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=20&Itemid=14
2nd International Symposium of the Research Network for
The Research Network for Latin America is a cooperation of historical, ethnological and sociological institutes of the German Universities of
**Accommodation for the speakers in
Dates: September 12-14, 2011
Location:
For more information, please visit: http://www.kompetenzla.uni-koeln.de/cologne2011.html
Symposium on Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages of
The 2011 Symposium on Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages of Latin America (STLILLA 2011) will bring together instructors, practitioners, activists, indigenous leaders, scholars and learners of indigenous languages. The symposium will focus on research and pedagogy related to the diverse languages and cultures of indigenous populations in Latin America and the
This second symposium will build on the accomplishments of the 2008 Symposium on Teaching Indigenous Languages of Latin America (STILLA), the first initiative of this scope in the world, which resulted in the formation of the Association for Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages of Latin America (ATLILLA).
Dates: October 30 - November 2, 2011
For more information, please visit: http://kellogg.nd.edu/projects/quechua/STLILLA/
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Scholarship/Fellowship/Grant Opportunities
UCLA Latin American Institute Library Research Grants 2011
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, these grants are designed to allow researchers from other
The UCLA Latin American Institute will award the grants based on relevance of the proposal to the holdings of the UCLA libraries, the merits and significance of the project, and the qualifications of the applicant. Grants are to be used between June 1 and August 14, 2011.
Applicants will be required to submit a Research Proposal, CV, and a budget.
Applications deadline is Monday, May 2, 2011.
Open to non-UCLA faculty and graduate students from institutions of higher learning who do not have access to substantial Latin American research resources.
For more information, please visit: http://apply.international.ucla.edu/?lai
The 2012-2013 Fulbright
The Fulbright Competition is underway and is currently welcoming applications from scholars interested in teaching, teaching/research or research awards in Latin America and the
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The application deadline for 2012-2013 Fulbright
Visit www.cies.org for detailed award announcements, application and guidelines. For more information contact Katrin DeWindt at kdewindt@iie.org or 202-686-6254, Jennifer Fox at jfox@iie.org or 202-686-6239, Caitlin McNamara at cmcnamara@iie.org or 202-686-6237, Jake Silva at jsilva@iie.org or 202-686-4018
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Study Abroad
Ethnographic
Location:
Dates: June 28—Aug 9, 2011 (one day on-campus, six weeks abroad)
Based in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, this six-week program (6 undergraduate credits in anthropology ) will provide students with a comprehensive overview of Mayan indigenous life in Guatemala, past and present, including opportunities for individual and group research through participant observation, attendance at cultural events, lectures on selected topics, and excursions to museums and major archaeological sites, dating from the earliest days of the Olmec/Maya transition to the contact-era capitals that were toppled by the Spanish conquistadors. Students will gain practical experience in a variety of ethnographic research techniques as well as the ethical dimension of anthropological fieldwork while exploring historical continuities and transformations in Mayan culture and religious practice, especially in response to economic globalization and tourism. Students live with Guatemalan families. Course instruction is in English, but incorporates two weeks of individualized one-on-one tutoring in Spanish. The program is especially well suited to students in anthropology, international studies, history, and religious studies. Interethnic relations between the Maya and their non-indigenous Ladino neighbors will be a special focus of the program.
Registration Deadline: April 15, 2011
Program Director: Dr. Maury Hutcheson mhutcheson@vcu.edu
Program cost: $2,175 (includes roundtrip airfare) plus applicable VCU tuition. Transfer credits are available for non-VCU students. Out-of-state students who participate in faculty-led VCU Study Abroad programs are eligible for a 40% discount on the regular out-of-state tuition costs.
Personal expenses (not included in the program fee) are estimated at $500.
For more information, please visit: http://www.global.vcu.edu/abroad/programs/vcu/programdetail/p80.aspx
School of Experimental Language
The
Students learn the conceptual foundation and practices of social based methodologies of language teaching. As well, students begin a process of learning Maya and local cultural traditions as a resource to be used in the teaching English classroom.
Students become Teachers who apply second language acquisition and anthropological theory learned in the classroom to create an English-language program for the residents of Pisté, México. The challenge is for the English teachers to design and employ activities and lessons that valorize Maya language, customs and history in the process of teaching English. Teachers become students of the Maya participants who are learning English.
Students become Ethnographers who use fieldwork methods to assess the ongoing learning process of the classroom. Ethnographer-Teachers use visual and audio-visual methods to document and analyze the transcultural dynamics of bilingual education in second language acquisition.
The SELT Project was initiated in 1997 as a 3 year program. In 2010 OSEA inaugurated a renewed and updated Teaching English Service Learning Program http://www.osea-cite.org/program/selt_overview.php
Summer: 7 week program
Dates: Sunday May 22 to Saturday July 9, 2011. See the OSEA summer calendar.
Start: Start date is day of ARRIVAL on-site in Pisté in time for 2:00 pm orientation meeting.
End: End date is the earliest date of Departure for successful completion of program.
Location: Pisté and Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, México, and surrounding Maya Indian communities.
Credits: 8 credit hours at either undergraduate or graduate level.
Accreditation: Accredited Transcripts by the Universidad Autonóma de Yucatán.
Course Type: Service Learning / Hands-On Interactive Learning; Field Practicum.
Coursework: 60 Contact Hours and 140 Hours of Teaching & Research Practicum.
For more information please visit www.osea-cite.org, or email us at contact@osea-cite.org
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NOTICE
The following list of events is provided as a service to the community by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS),
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Viva las mujeres
We invite all women to celebrate March, women's month, and April, good health month, by attending a talk by Drs. Marcela Bohn-Velez and Zenaida Rosado, medical specialists to help us prevent certain diseases. Women can use this opportunity to get to know each other, help one another and listen to medical advice pertinent to them. This is the first gathering dedicated to Latino Women.
Date: Saturday, April 2, 2011
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Level 0 Auditorium,
Cost and RSVP: This is free and open to the public, but seating is limited so please RSVP by March 26th by calling 412-683-0757 or emailing Patricia Galetto at patriciagaletto@hotmail.com
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Salud para Niños - Birmingham Clinic
Free Pediatric & Flu Immunization Clinics
Children's
Date: Saturday, April 9, 2011
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Salvation Army,
For more information: http://www.chp.edu/spanishclinic, 412-692-6000 (option 8), http://www.chp.edu/saludparaninos
(Appointment and health insurance are NOT required)
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Latin Aerobics with Gloria J. Rodriguez-Ransom
Dates: Every Tuesday & Thursday
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: Creamy Creations,
Cost: $5.00 per class or $30.00 for 6 weeks (both classes), payment due at the beginning of your 6 weeks.
For more information, please visit: www.creamycreationsandmore.com
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Weekly Language Classes/Practice Sessions
Language Classes at Tango Café
All classes are held at Tango Cafe,
*Please ask about monthly prices all level classes
For more information: call 412-421-1390, www.TangoCafePgh.com
Spanish Level I
Spanish instruction for beginners
Dates & Times: Every Friday, 5:45 p.m.
Spanish Level II
Basic grammar, vocabulary and conversation
Dates & Times: Every Thursday, 6:00 p.m.
Spanish Level III
Intermediate grammar, reading and conversation
Dates & Times: Every Tuesday, 10:30 a.m.
Spanish Level IV
Conversation, reading, writing and expressions
Dates & Times: Every Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.
English Practice (for non-native speakers)
Practice English with native speakers
*Minimum purchase of $3.00 from the menu
Dates & Times: Every Friday, 7:00 p.m.
Spanish Conversation “Tertulia”
Open Spanish conversation group
*Minimum purchase of $3.00 from the menu
Dates & Times: Every Saturday, 3:30 p.m.
| ***Deadline*** If you have an announcement related to a Latin American/Caribbean activity taking place during Summer 2011 that you would like to share with others interested in the region, please send details by April 25th to: Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 4200 W.W. Posvar Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; Fax: 412 648 2199; E-mail: clas@pitt.edu Sorry, information will not be accepted over the phone |
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