miércoles, 26 de febrero de 2014

FW: Updates for Lectures/workshops and films from 02-26-2014 to 03-04-2014

Updates for Lectures/Workshops and Films

from 02-26-2014 to 03-04-2014

 

 

Las Martas

Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Doors open at 6pm

On Wednesday, February 26, Ellis will host a screening of the documentary film Las Martas, which issues of race, class, history, and gender roles for Mexican-American girls and young women living in Laredo, Texas.

The film screening is part of a collaboration by Ellis, WQED, and The Girls Coalition of Southwestern Pennsylvania. http://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-cinema-las-marthas-tickets-9895760486?aff=eorg

The annual debutante ball in Laredo, Texas is unlike any other in the country. The festival lasts an entire month and coincides with George Washington's birthday. For more than a century the city's coming-out celebrations have involved intricate paeans to America's colonial past.

In 1939, the Society of Martha Washington was founded to usher each year's debutantes (called "Marthas") into proper society at the Colonial Pageant and Ball. The girls' attendants also dress as figures from America's colonial history and participate in traditional ceremonies.

The Ellis School

6425 Fifth Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15206 

 

Body and Community Mapping Workshop

Date: Friday, February 28, 2014

Time 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Location: 3800 Posvar

For more information: Marcela González Rivas: marcela@gspia.pitt.edu

Space is limited—RSVP to ras167@pitt.edu

Professor Elizabeth Sweet of Temple University will be leading the workshop. Her research uses these approaches as a methodology in women's focus groups for issues of gender violence in Latin America and in immigrant communities. Community mapping is a commonly used participatory methodology to assess a neighborhood or a community created by the community itself. Body mapping is the process of creating maps of the human body using art techniques with the goal of representing people's social experiences.

Sponsored by the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

Readings from the Forthcoming Book on the Death of Roque Dalton

By Horacio Castellanos Moya (Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa)

Date: March 3, 2014

12:30 pm.

139 in the Cathedral of Learning

 

Note: As you know, Horacio Castellanos Moya will be reading from his work about the death of Roque Dalton, and asks that attendees look at the portions of this project that he has published so far in the online journal he helps edit at the University of Iowa:               http://thestudio.uiowa.edu/iowa-literaria/?p=2119

For more information: lud3@pitt.edu

Sponsored by the Department Hispanic Languages and Literatures and the Center for Latin American Studies.

 

 

Subjects or Citizens: West Indian Migration to Cuba

By Graciela Chailloux

University of Havana

Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2014

12:00 p.m.

History Department Lounge

3702 Posvar Hall

Contact person: Professor Larry Glasco, History Department.

Email: LAG1@pitt.edu

 

The University of Pittsburgh’s Department of History, Sociology Department, Hispanic Department and the Center for Latin American Studies

 

For other events please visit http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/calendars and “click” on the February Calendar.

 

Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)

University Center for International Studies

University of Pittsburgh

4200 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Pittsburgh, PA  15260

Office: 412-648-7392

Fax: 412-648-2199

clas@pitt.edu

 

 

martes, 25 de febrero de 2014

Identity, Authenticity & Expertise: Lecture Feb. 26 at CMU

Guest Lecture
Feb 26, 2014
4:30pm in Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall
Identity, authenticity and expertise: Quechua literacy regimes in the Peruvian Andes
Virginia Zavala Pontificia, Universidad Católica del Perú


Based on ethnographic research about a language regime favoring Quechua in Apurímac in the southern Peruvian Andes, this paper will address the disconnect between how the region is being imagined as a community of apurimeños at the level of official documents and how power relationships emerge when social actors interpret them. In this talk, I will analyze the way Quechua literacy is implicated in the construction of hierarchical relationships and in the formation of exclusive identities and subjectivities within the Quechua-speaking population itself. Using a social practice perspective of literacy, the field of language ideologies, and a view of bilingualism (and biliteracy) as ideology and practice, I will analyze three tactics of intersubjectivity (Bucholtz 2003) or three different types of identity work done by a community of practice of Quechua “experts”. First, they construct an ethnic division within the region based on relations of similarity and difference and they extrapolate this to a distinction made between two types of Quechua alphabets. Second, they construct their authority based on their “grammaticalized”
expertise with Quechua writing in order to differentiate themselves from other Quechua speakers. And third, they construct Quechua literacy as an ancestral emblem of identity, through which people can “remember” endangered cultural practices, a tactic that also excludes the “impure” and more urbanized Quechua speaking people and positions the rural speaker as the authentic and genuine.


lunes, 24 de febrero de 2014

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED-Latin American & Caribbean Festival. CLAS

Dear CLAS friends,

 

 

It’s that time of year again!  The Center for Latin American Studies is diligently working to organize The 34th Annual Latin American and Caribbean Festival.  Last year, the event was a great success, largely due to the fact that many of you volunteered to help.

 

This year the festival will be held on Saturday, March 29, 2014 in the Wesley W. Posvar Hall – Galleria, from noon to 10:00 pm, and will feature children’s activities, information, craft and food booths, and performances by local artists.

 

http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/festival

 

 

Help will be needed in setting up, assisting vendors/participants, children activities, and with CLAS’ booths.  To volunteer, please respond to this email stating the times of the day (between 12:00 pm to 10::00 p.m.) that you will be available.  Please enclose your phone number and email address.  I will send you more details and a volunteer working schedule closer to the time of the Festival.

 

 

 

 

Your help is very much appreciated!

 

 

I look forward to your response. 

 

 

Thank you,

Diana

 

 

 

Diana M. Shemenski

Academic Affairs & Outreach Assistant

 

4200 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

230 South Bouquet Street

Pittsburgh, PA, 15260

412-648-7394, Fax 412-648-2199

E-mail: dms180@pitt.edu

www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas

 

viernes, 21 de febrero de 2014

CANCELLED TODAY! "Readings from the Forthcoming Book on the Death of Roque Dalton"

Dear CLAS Friends,

 

Unfortunately, the lecture is cancelled, we apologize if someone was interested in attending the lecture.

 

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CANCELLED!!

 

“Readings from the Forthcoming Book on the Death of Roque Dalton”

By Horacio Castellanos Moya (Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa)

Date: Friday, February 21, 2014

Time: 2:00 p.m.

Location: 602 CL

Sponsored by the Department Hispanic Languages and Literatures and the Center for Latin American Studies

 

 

 

 

 

jueves, 20 de febrero de 2014

Opportunity to volunteer working with Hispanic/Latin@ children at CMU

Hola,

Below you will find information on an opportunity to volunteer to help Hispanic/Latin@ children from the Pittsburgh region. An orientation meeting for individuals interested in volunteering will take place at CMU on Friday, Feb. 21, 4:30-5:00 pm in the MLRC, Porter Hall 225C.Please fill out the interest form (https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/voluntariadoCirculo) prior to attending the meeting if you are interested in participating as a volunteer this term.

If you cannot attend, but would still like to volunteer, fill out the form and indicate so. Also, please feel free to share this information with anyone else who might be interested in participating.

Thank you.

 

El Circulo Juvenil de Cultura is a volunteer-based not-for-profit community enterprise working with Hispanic/Latin@ children in Pittsburgh in order to assist in the preservation and development of their Spanish skills and cultural knowledge.  We do this each term through workshops held on Sunday afternoons at CMU. 

El Circulo's Fall workshop will take place on Sunday afternoons, March 2 – April 27, 2:00 - 4:00 pm., under the theme of "Bailemos". Volunteers are typically native or hereditary Spanish speakers, or have an intermediate to advanced command of the Spanish Language. Experience working with children ages 6-12 is a plus, but not necessary. Volunteers will commit to be available for as many of the sessions as they can, and should have or be able to obtain Child Abuse and Criminal Clearances. (CMU's Gelfand Center will assist in the process and cover the cost for CMU students).

Volunteers will devote the 16 hours of the workshop to assisting the instructors/facilitators with the children. Other opportunities to volunteer "behind the scenes" for El Circulo include website/blog developer/writer, grant-writer, logistics/events coordinator, photographer/videographer, community liaison, etc.

Internship and academic credits are available for volunteers who are majors/minors in the Hispanic Studies program at CMU.

Muchas gracias,

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
El Circulo Juvenil de Cultura
Hispanic Studies Outreach Program
Carnegie Mellon University
http://circulocmu.blogspot.com/
http://ml.hss.cmu.edu/ml/outreach.html

 

lunes, 17 de febrero de 2014

Community Cinema presents "Las Marthas"

What: Free Screening of Las Marthas<http://www.wqed.org/community/cinema.php?elq=88c9796a8e514f32a124b2762dfee0cb&elqCampaignId=126>,

Upcoming Black History Month Events

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Multicultural Panel

When: Feb 19th, 5pm

Where: Mudge Reading Room

 

A great panel with multicultural organizations on campus will be discussing issues of diversity on and off campus. There will be panelist of student leaders from NSBE, SHPE, SALSA, MAPS, ASCE, Israel on Campus, and many more. Join us for a good conversation and light refreshments!
https://www.facebook.com/events/221900498002752/

 

2. SOUL: A Talent Show

When: Feb 22nd, 8pm

Where: Mellon Institute

 

SOUL showcases the rich talents within the our community. The night will include vocal performances, spoken word, dancing, and more.

Doors Open at 7:30pm
Show Begins at 8:00pm

Ticketing Information:
$5 Pre-Sale (Tickets will be on sale in the UC this week)
$7 at the door

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/352044124936527/

 

 


Full List of Events at can be found at:
http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/dean/multicultural/festival/blackhistory.html

 

CAS event - TODAY, 4:30pm

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CAS-Members mailing list
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“Allá in the Mix: Listening Like a Sonidero”

Josh Kun, Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism, USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

This talk will join conversations taking place in the Center for the Arts in Society’s “Listening Spaces” project by exploring contemporary musical practices of mobile Mexican DJ sound systems, or sonidos. Operating on both sides of the US-Mexico border, sonidos use the DJ mix as a form of musical communication and community that both moves between the US and Mexico and plays a role in shaping cross-border migrant politics and activism

Monday, February 17
4:30PM, Porter Hall 100

 

 

jueves, 13 de febrero de 2014

Allá in the Mix: Listening Like a Sonidero

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Monday, February 17, 2014     |     4:30pm, Porter Hall 100

Center for the Arts in Society Lecture

Allá in the Mix: Listening Like a Sonidero

Josh Kun, USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

 

This talk will join conversations taking place in the Center for the Arts in Society’s “Listening Spaces” project by exploring contemporary musical practices of mobile Mexican DJ sound systems, or sonidos. Operating on both sides of the US-Mexico border, sonidos use the DJ mix as a form of musical communication and community that both moves between the US and Mexico and plays a role in shaping cross-border migrant politics and activism.

 

 

lunes, 10 de febrero de 2014

CAS - February events

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The Center for the Arts in Society
February event

 

“Allá in the Mix: Listening Like a Sonidero”

Josh Kun, Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism, USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

This talk will join conversations taking place in the Center for the Arts in Society’s “Listening Spaces” project by exploring contemporary musical practices of mobile Mexican DJ sound systems, or sonidos. Operating on both sides of the US-Mexico border, sonidos use the DJ mix as a form of musical communication and community that both moves between the US and Mexico and plays a role in shaping cross-border migrant politics and activism

Monday, February 17
4:30PM, Porter Hall 100

 

 

WEEKLY UPDATES 02/10/2014 ~02/28/2014--Center for Latin American Studies at Pitt

CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (CLAS)

UPDATES for 02/10/14 to 02/28/14

 

 

LOCAL EVENTS

"Sleep Dealer": Film Screening & Discussion with Director Alex Rivera

Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Time:  5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

Location: Frick Arts Building, Room 125 (Auditorium)

For more information: Armando Garcia arg93@pitt.edu<mailto:arg93@pitt.edu

This event is free and open to the public

Sleep Dealer is set in a future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, where three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology. Please join us for a film screening with a Q&A with the director, Alex Rivera.

Sponsored by Professor John Beverley, the University Honors College, the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, the Film Studies Program, and the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

Body and Community Mapping Workshop

Date: Friday, February 14, 2014

Time: 1 to 4 p.m.

Location: 3911 Posvar Hall

For more information: Marcela González Rivas: marcela@gspia.pitt.edu

Space is limited—RSVP to ras167@pitt.edu

Professor Elizabeth Sweet of Temple University will be leading the workshop. Her research uses these approaches as a methodology in women's focus groups for issues of gender violence in Latin America and in immigrant communities. Community mapping is a commonly used participatory methodology to assess a neighborhood or a community created by the community itself. Body mapping is the process of creating maps of the human body using art techniques with the goal of representing people's social experiences.

Sponsored by the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

Brazil Nuts' Valentine's Day Bake Sale

Come out and support Brazil Nuts!

Selling Brigadeiros and Beijinhos—typical Brazilian desserts!

Date: February 14, 2014

Time: noon to 2:00 p.m.

Location: Lower Level, William Pitt Union

For more information: brazil@pitt.edu

 

"Readings from the Forthcoming Book on the Death of Roque Dalton"

by Horacio Castellanos Moya (Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa)

Date: Friday, February 21, 2014

Time: 2:00 p.m.

Location: 602 CL

For more information: lud3@pitt.edu

Sponsored by the Department Hispanic Languages and Literatures and the Center for Latin American Studies.

 

"Brazil Today Mini-Course"

Date: February 21-23, 2014

Location: 2400 Sennott Square, University of Pittsburgh

To meet student interests and time constraints, the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University collaborate to offer intensive courses on topics of interest, taught by expert faculty, with lectures from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon, followed by a research paper. The courses are 1 credit hour or 3 units for CMU students, with about 14 hours of lectures and an expected 30 hours of work for the paper.

These courses are also open and free to the K-12 teaching community, business and community members.

The courses have focused on countries with emerging economies: Brazil, India, China, Russia, and South Africa (BRICS) and, in February 2014, "Brazil Today" will be offered.

You can register for "Brazil Today" as you would for any other course. The course number for Pitt students is ECON 1903-1010 (10554). For additional information or questions, please contact Veronica Dristas at dristas@pitt.edu. Registered students are required to complete specified follow up assignments to receive full credit.

 

"Identity, Authenticity and Expertise: Quechua Literacy Regimes in the Peruvian Andes"

by Virginia Zavala (Professor of Linguistics and Director of the MA Program, Departamento de Humanidades, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)

Date: February 26

Time: 4:30 p.m.

Location: Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A51, Carnegie Mellon University

For more information: Mariana Achugar machugar@andrew.cmu.edu

Based on ethnographic research about a language regime favoring Quechua in Apurímac in the southern Peruvian Andes, this paper will address the disconnect between how the region is being imagined as a community of apurimeños at the level of official documents and how power relationships emerge when social actors interpret them.

Sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University's Dietrich College Office of the Dean, Modern Languages, and Global Studies and the Language and the Literacy and Culture Program, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh.

 

SAVE THE DATE

"The General and the Music Teacher: Tracing Orality in the Dirty War Archives of Chile"

by Steven J. Stern (Vice-Provost for Faculty and Staff and Alberto Flores Galindo Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Date: March 20, 2014

Time: (to be determined, but in the afternoon)

Location: Room 2500, Posvar Hall

For more information contact: Laura Gotkowitz lgotkowi@pitt.edu or Luz Amanda Hank lavst12@pitt.edu

Professor Stern's work spans the Andes, Mexico, and Chile from colonial times to the present. His most recent books are: Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London, 1998 (2004), which received an honorable mention for the Bryce Wood Award of the Latin American Studies Association; Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988 (2006), which was awarded the 2007 Bolton-Johnson Prize of the Conference on Latin American History; and Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile (2010).

Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

2014 Latin American Social and Public Policy (LASPP) Conference—University of Pittsburgh

Dates: March 21 – 22, 2014

For more information: Bravo@pitt.edu

Also check out our Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/PittLASPP

Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh

 

The 10th Undergraduate Research Symposium on Latin America and the Caribbean

Call for papers

Date: Friday, March 28, 2014

Location: University of Pittsburgh main campus—Room TBA

For more information: contact Gonzalo Lamana (lamana@pitt.edu)

Present your research with other undergraduate students on any topic related to Latin American and Caribbean societies and cultures, past and present. Presentations can be made in Spain, English, or Portuguese.

Submit a 150-200 word abstract to Lucy DiStazio at lud3@pitt.edu; deadline for submissions: March 15th, 2014.

Sponsored by the Department Hispanic Languages and Literatures and the Center for Latin American Studies.

 

Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities

Dates: Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29, 2014

Time: TBA

Location: 4217 Posvar Hall

More information to come!

A Colloquium at The University of Pittsburgh Conversations amongst scholars from the Humanities and the Social Sciences towards a public discourse about the role of fieldwork in humanities scholarship on the global south.

For more information contact: Shalini Puri at spuri@pitt.edu  or Luz Amanda Hank lavst12@pitt.edu

Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Faculty Research and Scholarship Program, Humanities Center, English Department, and the Charles Crow Fund.

 

The 34th Annual Latin American and Caribbean Festival

Date: Saturday, March 29, 2014

Time: Noon to 10:00 p.m.

Location: First floor of Posvar Hall—Galleria

For more information contact: lavst12@pitt.edu or visit: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/festival

Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Med Health Services and Pittsburgh Cardiovascular Institute, and the Latin American Cultural Union.

 

"In the Heights": Stage Production and Research/Practice Symposium

In the Heights—musical-theatre production

Dates: March 27 to April 6, 2014

Location: Charity Randall Theatre, University of Pittsburgh main campus

For times and tickets: http://www.play.pitt.edu/content/heights

 

Research/Practice Symposium—Public Praxis: Performing, Race and History

Dates: April 4 and 5, 2014

For more information: lisajsch@pitt.edu

The symposium will explore critical questions of race, gender, and class through performance research and practice. It will challenge attendees and participants to (re)position "art-makin" (threatre, music, dance and visual art) as "theory-making" (that is: representation, as research, as politics, as experiment…) both historically and in the current moment.

Sponsored by the American Society for Theatre Research and the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Latin American Studies, Cultural Studies Program, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Department of English, Department of Sociology, and Department of Theatre Arts

 

STUDENT CLUB ACTIVITIES

For club activities and events schedule, please contact each group.

 

Club de Español

For more information (or to subscribe to announcements): pittspanishclub@gmail.com

 

Brazil Nuts

For more information about Brazil Nuts events: brazil@pitt.edu or http://www.pitt.edu/~brazil

 

Caribbean and Latin American Student Association (CLASA)

For more information about CLASA events: pittclasa@gmail.com, http://pittclasa.wix.com/clasa or https://www.facebook.com/pittclasa

 

COMMUNITY EVENTS AND CULTURAL EVENTS

NOTICE

The following list of events is provided as a service to the community by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), University of Pittsburgh. CLAS neither recommends nor endorses these events and activities. Please address questions or comments about the events to the contact provided and not to the Center.

 

La Mendocina Valentine's Celebration

Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014

Come and join us for a Celebration of friendship and love. You will taste Argentine Tapas from our menu with an International Dessert Table, enjoy fantastic music from grupo "Besame" and mingle with other Latin professionals in a beautiful atmosphere.
Cash bar/Door prizes
LACU Members: $50.00 Non-members $60.00
Space is limited, so please send your RSVP by 2/10 and payments to:

La Mendocina
1437 Jefferson Heights Rd. Pittsburgh, Pa 15235
Phone: 412-824-9667

 

Brazilian Carnaval—Mardi Gras

Come and dance with Timbeleza, the Pittsburgh Samba Group and DJ Juan Diego!

Date: Saturday, February 21, 2014

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Location: Cavo Price: $15

For more information: lucianabrussi@yahoo.com.br

 

Arrastão da Alegria – a Brazilian Carnaval Party

Live Music by New York's Nation Beat

DJ Carla Canarinho from Brazilian Radio Hour from WRCT 88.3 FM

Timbeleza Percussion Group

Date: Saturday, February 28, 2014

Time: 9:00 p.m.

Location: Roland's Seafood Grill – 2nd floor
At Roland's Seafood Grill – 2nd floor

For more information: loveglobalbeats@gmail.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/571472099607267/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

 

Salud para Niños

For more information: Diego.ChavesGnecco@chp.edu with the Subject: SUBSCRIBE SALUD PARA NINOS UPDATES, NEWS AND FUTURE EVENTS

Or visit www.chp.edu/spanishclinic

 

 

Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)

University Center for International Studies

University of Pittsburgh

4200 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Pittsburgh, PA  15260

Office: 412-648-7392

Fax: 412-648-2199

clas@pitt.edu