Ayotzinapa International Day of Protest

Bolivian Night this Saturday!!

Hello!

Please, join us for the Harmony of the Andes Bolivian Night and support a dinner for 500 hundred disadvantaged families in Bolivia.

 

As you know, Harmony of the Andes is focused on helping disadvantaged children. We are committed to discovering ways to help these children improve their lives through the creation of educational health programs.

On December 20th, we, along with two churches in La Paz, are organizing a holiday dinner for 500 economically disadvantaged families in La Paz, Bolivia. We will provide meals, a package of food for each family that will last a month, and a blanket for each family. To provide the funds necessary for this endeavor, we are organizing the Harmony of the Andes Bolivian Night. This is a fundraising event on November 22 where we will have delicious Latin American food, live performances from Musuhallpa and Coro Latinoamericano, and we will show videos and pictures of our work in Bolivia.

You can also learn more about Harmony of the Andes and the event here.
The cover is $20. For students, we are offering a 50% discount which reduces the price to $10. People can also make donations through Eventbrite and over the Facebook page as well. We are also selling tickets in person or you can email us if you are attending and we will find a day/time to provide you with a ticket.
Our capacity is limited, so please ensure your participation by buying your ticket beforehand! 

I will look forward to hearing from you, and I hope you can make it! It will be a pleasure to see you there sharing a dinner with us.
And don't forget to invite your friends! There is a flyer attached below with the information.
I hope to see you all!

Thanks again,

Alexis
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Alexis Vargas

Graduate Student-School of Public and International Affairs.

University of Pittsburgh

Founder-Harmony of the Andes

Pittsburgh, Pa

Center for Latin American Studies UPDATES

Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)

UPDATES

 

 

For more events and information, please visit our calendar website at: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/sites/www.ucis.pitt.edu.clas/files/november14_calendar.pdf#pagemode=bookmarks or http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/calendars (November 2014).

 

 

PANORAMAS LATIN AMERICAN ROUNDTABLE

The Challenges and Hopes of Rebuilding Haiti's Healthcare System

by Marisol Wandiga (Global Links)

Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Time: Noon

Location: 4130 Posvar Hall

For more information contact: bravo@pitt.edu or lavst12@pitt.edu

 

January 12, 2015 will mark 5 years since the massive earthquake hit Haiti. Join Global Links for a discussion on the challenges that still remain to help rebuild Haiti's Healthcare System and learn about extraordinary projects, some led by Pittsburghers that are changing the face of healthcare in Haiti.

 

Marisol Wandiga Valentin is the Program Officer for the Caribbean Region for Global Links, a medical relief and development organization dedicated since 1989 to environmental stewardship and improving health in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is responsible for Global Links’ health projects in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Guyana.

 

Lunch will be provided.

 

For updates visit:

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

Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh.

 

 

Defense of the Living Land: A Comparison of Native Religious Discourse in Amazonia and North America

by

Tod Swanson (Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University)

Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Time: 4:00pm

Location: 4130 Posvar Hall

For more information contact: Luz Amanda Hank at lavst12@pitt.edu

 

This presentation will first lay out similarities in Amazonian and North American Indian beliefs surrounding the “living forest.” It will then contrast how the language expressing these beliefs functions legally and politically within the historically Protestant North American and Catholic Andean contexts.

 

Tod Swanson, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, specializes in Quichua language and indigenous approaches to nature in the Andean/Amazonian region.

Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh. 

 

 

The University of Pittsburgh Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Programs

presents
“Being a Man in a Transnational World: The Masculinity and Sexuality of Migration”

by

Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila

Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Time: 6:00 p.m.

Location: 324 Cathedral of Learning

For more information: gsws.pitt.edu  

 

Dr. Vasquez del Aguila is an anthropologist with experience in Masculinity, Sexuality, Global Health, and Migration. He has published on sexual and reproductive health; sexual minorities; equality; gender and masculinity; sexuality; and migration. His latest book is entitled Being a Man in a Transnational World: The Masculinity and Sexuality of Migration (Routledge 2014).

 

ABSTRACT

Dr. Vasquez del Aguila will analyze the intersections of masculinity, sexuality, and migration. The lecture will focus on the complex processes of becoming a man and the strategies used by men to reconcile par-adoxes and contradictions that coexist between multiple masculinities and contradictory models of being a man. A number of conceptual contributions will be discussed, including the notion of “masculine capital,” male friendship; social representations of being a man: the winner, the failed, and the good enough man, as well as transnational romances, and male sexual intimacy. Dr. Vasquez del Aguila will discuss his latest book based on ethnographic research undertaken over more than four years in New York and Lima, Peru. He will analyze heterosexual as well as gay masculinities, race and class relations, the role of the Internet and transnational romances, and the ways in which migration can create new opportunities for male sexual intimacy, while for others, it creates loneliness and isolation.

 

Cosponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

 

TENDEDEROS DE AYOTZINAPA – International Protest

 

Date: Thursday, November 20, 2014

Location: William Pitt Union

Time: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

For more information: Estefania Sepulveda at sefancy@yahoo.com

 

Art Instalation: T-shirts of students from Iguala, Mexico

On September 26, 2014, 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers' College of Ayotzinapa went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. According to official reports, they had travelled to Iguala that day to hold a protest against what they considered to be discriminatory hiring and funding practices by the Mexican government. During the journey, local police intercepted them and a confrontation ensued. Details of what happened during and after the clash remain unclear, but the official investigation concluded that once the students were in custody, they were handed over to a local Guerreros Unidos crime syndicate and presumably killed.

Mexican authorities believe that Iguala's mayor, José Luis Abarca Velázquez, and his wife, María de los Ángeles Pineda Villa, were the probable masterminds of the abduction. Both of them fled after the incident, along with the town's police chief, Felipe Flores Velásquez. The couple were arrested about a month later in Mexico City. On November 20, 2014 there will be a national strike in Mexico to call attention to the tragedy and ask the Mexican government to fully investigate the fate of the students and bring any responsible parties to justice. Groups of supporters all over the world will be joining in the Mexican action in different ways.

The Center for Latin American Studies and the Study Abroad Office at the University of Pittsburgh will demonstrate solidarity with the Mexican students by hanging T-shirts with their images on clotheslines and making information about them available

Please come and support human rights in Mexico!

 

 

ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SERIES

presents

Biocultural Hope: Reforestation in Costa Rica's Highlands

by

Dr. Eben Kirksey (Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities & Languages, University of New South Wales, Australia)

 

Date: Friday, November 21, 2014

Time: 3:00 p.m.

Location: 3106 Posvar Hall

For more information: http://www.anthropology.pitt.edu/content/dr-eben-kirksey

 

Milton Brenes—who is a Costa Rican farmer, an organic intellectual, and a bricoleur—is recreating a forest in collaboration with a multitude of plants, animals, and students on eleven hectares of derelict pasture near the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve.  Rather than focus his efforts on preserving rare species, Milton has cultivated alliances with hearty trees that are helping him generate convivial assemblages.   Milton is multiplying his forces with other species of entrepreneurial agents, generating an ever expanding project of interessement, of enlistment.  Using found objects and organisms—gleanings from the detritus of industrial food production and the litter of leaves in the forest—he is fostering an ecosystem that will endure many possible futures.  As many potential catastrophes loom on future horizons—predicted extinction events, climate change possible volcanic eruptions, and reports of economic disaster in distant lands—this project is grounding modest hopes.

 

Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.

 

 

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH—INTERNATIONAL WEEK

Dates: November 17 - 21, 2014

What is International Week?

At universities and colleges across the United States, for one week every year, students celebrate and experience the benefits of international education and exchange. Pitt gladly participates in this joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education. International Education Week is just one of the many ways that Pitt prepares students to become global citizens empowered with international knowledge, skills and experiences. 

 

International Week is a collaborative effort among many people and programs including:

African Studies Program, Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Russian & East European Studies, Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies, English Language Institute European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence, Global Studies Center, Student Services, Office of Cross Cultural and Leadership Development, Office of International Services, Nationality Rooms Program, Pitt Dining Services, Pitt Study Abroad, Sodexo, University Center for International Studies. As well as Pitt’s many international and multicultural student-run clubs and organizations.

http://www.internationalweek.pitt.edu/ 

 

 

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 ACTIVITIES

You are invited to the Harmony of the Andes Bolivian Night!

On November 22, you can enjoy an evening of Bolivian delicacies and Andean music (performed by Musuhallpa) as we raise money to feed 500 families a dinner in La Paz, Bolivia.

Date: Saturday, November 22

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: 120 McKee Place, Pittsburgh, PA  15213

For more information: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Harmony-of-the-Andes/256853641115576

Ticket are $20 and 10$ with student ID

You can buy a ticket on Eventbrite for the $20 regular rate at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harmony-of-the-andes-bolivian-night-tickets-13940950759

For the 10$ student discount contact us at: harmonyoftheandes@gmail.com

 

 

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

www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas

Center for Latin American Studies at Pitt----Lecture on 11/19/2014

Defense of the Living Land: A Comparison of Native Religious Discourse in Amazonia and North America

by

Tod Swanson (Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University)

Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Time: 4:00pm

Location: 4130 Posvar Hall

For more information contact: Luz Amanda Hank at lavst12@pitt.edu

 

This presentation will first lay out similarities in Amazonian and North American Indian beliefs surrounding the “living forest.” It will then contrast how the language expressing these beliefs functions legally and politically within the historically Protestant North American and Catholic Andean contexts.

 

Tod Swanson, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University specializes in Quichua language and indigenous approaches to nature in the Andean/Amazonian region.

 

Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the University of Pittsburgh. 

 

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

www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas

 

Center for Latin American Studies UPDATES (11/10/14 to 11/30/2014)

 

Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)

UPDATES

(11/10-14 to 11/30-14)

 

For more events and information, please visit our calendar website at: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/sites/www.ucis.pitt.edu.clas/files/november14_calendar.pdf#pagemode=bookmarks or http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/calendars (November 2014).

 

 

 

CLAS/PITT EVENTS

Multiforme y comprometido: Neruda después de 1956"

by

Greg Dawes (Distinguished Professor, North Carolina State University)

Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Time: 4.00 PM

Lecture: 501 CL

For more information: pmf23@pitt.edu

Reception: 1309 CL

 

Greg Dawes es profesor distinguido de literaturas y culturas latinoamericanas en la Universidad Estatal de Carolina del Norte y editor de la revista A contracorriente.  Estudioso de la poesía latinoamericana, es autor de los siguientes libros: Aesthetics and Revolution:  Nicaraguan Poetry, 1979-1990; Verses Against the Darkness:  Pablo Neruda's Poetry and Politics; Poetas ante la modernidad:  las ideas estéticas y políticas de Vallejo, Huidobro, Neruda y Paz; y Multiforme y comprometido:  Neruda después de 1956 (de próxima aparición con RIL Editores en Chile).

 

Su charla estará enfocada en la presentación de su última obra, en donde analizará la estética y política del Neruda post-1956. Este libro sostiene que si bien hay una continuidad en la poesía de Pablo Neruda después de 1956 con respecto de su obra anterior, también hay una discontinuidad. La crisis de ese año, debido a las revelaciones de Jruschov en el XX Congreso del PCUS, repercute fuertemente en la vida personal del vate, su cosmovisión, su estética y su obra. El vate busca la manera de enfrentarse con esa crisis y superarla por medio de sus versos, como una suerte de serio ejercicio terapéutico. A base de los poemarios que escribe, empezando con Estravagario y terminando con los libros postreros, se destacan tres cambios fundamentales: lo personal viene a ser la piedra angular de su vida sin desasociarse de la política; su cosmovisión pasa por una metamorfosis a medida que se va desencantando con varios aspectos del “socialismo real” y se va acercando—a la larga—al socialismo democrático encarnado en la Unidad Popular; y su obra se vuelve más diversa, más experimental que antes de 1956.

 

Sponsored by the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Center for Latin American Studies, at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

 

 

Symposium on the Latin American "Pink Tide": Its Achievements, Its Failures, Its Legacy and the Ensuing Critiques

Dates: November 14 (9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.) – 15 (10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.), 2014

Location: Humanities Center, 601 Cathedral of learning

 

Program

Friday, November 14

9:30 a.m. Welcome and Introduction – Juan Duchesne Winter (University of Pittsburgh. Director of Revista Iberoamericana. Author of La guerrilla narrada: acción, acontecimiento, sujeto [2010])

 

Panel I

10:00 a.m. – noon      

Argentina: Ricardo Forster (Universidad de Buenos Aires. Head of the Office of Strategic Planning for National and Latin American Thought. Author of La anomalía argentina [2010])

Venezuela: Margarita López Maya (Center for Development Studies (CENDES), Universidad Central de Venezuela. Wilson Center Fellow [2013])

Moderator: Juan Duchesne Winter

 

Panel II View from the North

2:00 – 3:45 p.m.

(This session is in English Only) 

John Beverley (University of Pittsburgh. Co-founder of the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group. Author of Latinamericanism After 9/11)

Mike González (University of Glasgow. British historian and literary critic. Columnist to The Guardian. Author of Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the 21^st Century [2014])

Aníbal Pérez-Liñán (University of Pittsburgh. Author of Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America [2007])

Moderator: Scott Morgenstern (University of Pittsburgh. Director of the Center for Latin American Studies. Author of Pathways to Power [2008])

                            

Panel III

4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Chile: Sergio Villalobos (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Author of Soberanías en suspenso. Imaginación y violencia en América Latina [2013])

Brazil: Idelber Avelar (Tulane University. Cultural theorist currently working on biopolitics and ecology. Author of Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship [2011])

Bolivia: Pablo Stefanoni (Argentina. Independent economist, political analyst, and journalist; editor of Nueva Sociedad. Co-author, with Hervé do Alto, of La revolución de Evo Morales [2006])

Moderator: Gabriel Chouhy (University of Pittsburgh. Graduate Student in Sociology: Trajectory of Leftist Parties in the Southern Cone)

                            

6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Reception

 

Saturday, November 15

Panel Discussion

10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m

Ricardo Forster, John Beverley, Mike González, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Pablo Stefanoni, Sergio Villalobos, Idelber Avelar, and Gabriel Chouhy

Moderator: Juan Duchesne Winter

 

Sponsored by the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Center for Latin American Studies, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Office of Graduate Studies, Office of the Provost, and John Beverley Research Fund at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

Part of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures 50th Anniversary Celebration—for updates please visit: http://www.hispanic.pitt.edu/

 

 

 

Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels—US Premiere of a Documentary Film at the Three Rivers Film Festival

by

Tony Buba and Marcus Rediker

Date: Saturday, November 15, 2014

Time: 4:15 p.m.

Location: Regent Square Theater

For tickets and other information: http://www.showclix.com/event/3894735

 

This film, made by Tony Buba, is based on Marcus Rediker's book about the famous slave revolt of 1839, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin, 2012) and is follows a trip made by historians and a film crew to Sierra Leone in May 2013. All of the Amistad rebels were from southern and eastern Sierra Leone, so the filmmakers went to their villages of origin to interview elders about surviving local memory of the case. They also searched for the long lost ruins of Lomboko, the slave trading factory where the Amistad Africans were loaded onto a slave ship bound for the New World. This hour-long documentary chronicles a quest for a lost history from below.

 

 

PANORAMAS LATIN AMERICAN ROUNDTABLE

The Challenges and Hopes of Rebuilding Haiti's Healthcare System

by Marisol Wandiga (Global Links)

Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Time: Noon

Location: 4130 Posvar Hall

For more information contact: bravo@pitt.edu or lavst12@pitt.edu

 

January 12, 2015 will mark 5 years since the massive earthquake hit Haiti. Join Global Links for a discussion on the challenges that still remain to help rebuild Haiti's Healthcare System and learn about extraordinary projects, some led by Pittsburghers that are changing the face of healthcare in Haiti.

 

Marisol Wandiga Valentin is the Program Officer for the Caribbean Region for Global Links, a medical relief and development organization dedicated since 1989 to environmental stewardship and improving health in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is responsible for Global Links’ health projects in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Guyana.

 

Lunch will be provided.

 

For updates visit:

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

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

 

 

The University of Pittsburgh Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Programs

presents
“BEING A MAN IN A TRANSNATIONAL WORLD: THE MASCULINITY AND SEXUALITY OF MIGRATION”

by

Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila

Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Time: 6:00 p.m.

Location: 324 Cathedral of Learning

For more information: gsws.pitt.edu  

 

Dr. Vasquez del Aguila is an anthropologist with experience in Masculinity, Sexuality, Global Health, and Migration. He has published on sexual and reproductive health; sexual minorities; equality; gender and masculinity; sexuality; and migration. His latest book is entitled Being a Man in a Transnational World: The Masculinity and Sexuality of Migration (Routledge 2014).

 

ABSTRACT

Dr. Vasquez del Aguila will analyze the intersections of masculinity, sexuality, and migration. The lecture will focus on the complex processes of becoming a man and the strategies used by men to reconcile par-adoxes and contradictions that coexist between multiple masculinities and contradictory models of being a man. A number of conceptual contributions will be discussed, including the notion of “masculine capital,” male friendship; social representations of being a man: the winner, the failed, and the good enough man, as well as transnational romances, and male sexual intimacy. Dr. Vasquez del Aguila will discuss his latest book based on ethnographic research undertaken over more than four years in New York and Lima, Peru. He will analyze heterosexual as well as gay masculinities, race and class relations, the role of the Internet and transnational romances, and the ways in which migration can create new opportunities for male sexual intimacy, while for others, it creates loneliness and isolation.

 

Cosponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

 

 

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH—INTERNATIONAL WEEK

Dates: November 17 - 21, 2014

What is International Week?

At universities and colleges across the United States, for one week every year, students celebrate and experience the benefits of international education and exchange. Pitt gladly participates in this joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education. International Education Week is just one of the many ways that Pitt prepares students to become global citizens empowered with international knowledge, skills and experiences. 

 

International Week is a collaborative effort among many people and programs including:

African Studies Program, Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Russian & East European Studies, Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies, English Language Institute European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence, Global Studies Center, Student Services, Office of Cross Cultural and Leadership Development, Office of International Services, Nationality Rooms Program, Pitt Dining Services, Pitt Study Abroad, Sodexo, University Center for International Studies. As well as Pitt’s many international and multicultural student-run clubs and organizations.

http://www.internationalweek.pitt.edu/ 

 

 

RESEARCH/TRAVEL AWARDS/SCHOLARPHIPS

2014-15 Brazilian Initiation Scholarship

The Brazilian Initiation Scholarship (BIS) is a key component of BRASA’s agenda to expand Brazilian Studies in the United States. BRASA invites applications from graduate and undergraduate students for a one-time $1,500 travel scholarship to do exploratory research in Brazil. This scholarship targets aspiring Brazilianists with relatively little or no experience in Brazil. It seeks to contribute to the student’s initial trip (for a period from six weeks to three months) to heighten the student’s interest in Brazil and deepen his/her commitment to Brazilian studies in the United States. For detailed information and to apply, visit: http://www.brasa.org/

Deadline for application: November 15, 2014.

 

 

 

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

           

 

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

www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas

TODAY! TODAY! Reforming Communism: Cuba in Comparative Perspective~~~Pre-conference lectures and keynote speaker--OPEN TO THE PUBLIC --11/6/2014

 

An International Conference on “Reforming Communism: Cuba in Comparative Perspective”

November 6-8, 2014

Pre-Conference Lectures

(OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)

 

“A View from Cuba” (in Spanish with English translation) by:

Lenier González Mederos (editor, Cuba Posible): “Sociedad civil en Cuba: apuntes para el presente”

Roberto Veiga González (editor, Cuba Posible): “La Constitución de nuestra República ante una sociedad que renueva sus imaginarios socio-políticos”

Date: Thursday, November 6, 2014

Time: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Location: University Club, Conference Room A (3^rd floor), 123 University Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

 

Keynote Address (in English) by

Carmelo Mesa-Lago (Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies)

Date: Thursday, November 6, 2014

Time: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Location: University Club, Conference Room A (3^rd floor), 123 University Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

 

Opening Remarks: Scott Morgenstern (Director, Center for Latin American Studies) and Jerome Branche (Associate Professor of Latin American and Cultural Studies, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures)

Introduction: Jorge Pérez – López (International Economist)

Welcoming: Patty Beeson (Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor)

 

Reception to follow 7:00 - 8:15 p.m.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

ATTENTION

To attend the conference on November 7-8, you must register (no registration fee applies). For more information, location, and registration, please visit: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/cuba_conference or email Diana Shemenski at dms180@pitt.edu

 

Sponsored by Center for Latin American Studies, Global Studies Center (Global Academic Partnership), Office of the Provost, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Department of Political Science, and the Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, in collaboration with the Cuba Study Group, Inc.

 

 

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

www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas

 

Overview of Child Exploitation, Computer Forensics, and its impact in Latin America

Friday, November 7, 2014    /    1:30-3:00pm   /    Hamburg Hall 1502, Heinz College

Latin American Lecture Series Fall 2014

Overview of Child Exploitation, Computer Forensics, and its impact in Latin America

Alvaro Flores, SAC Miami Cyber Investigations Group, Homeland Security Investigations (DHS)

Special Agent Flores is currently assigned to the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Miami for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the Department of Homeland Security. During the past twelve (12) years he has conducted investigations related to Narcotics, Conspiracy / Money Laundering, Long Term Financial Investigations, and Child Exploitation / Child Pornography. He is an expert in the field of computer forensics including mobile (cellular and smart phones) and GPS forensics. He has worked as a Computer Forensic Agent and is currently assigned to the Computer Forensics / Investigations group at the SAC Miami. He is currently nominated for two awards, an Attorney General award and a Director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) award. https://www.facebook.com/events/539139592887517/
                                                                                   

 

 

Reforming Communism: Cuba in Comparative Perspective~~~Pre-conference lectures and keynote speaker--OPEN TO THE PUBLIC --11/6/2014

An International Conference on “Reforming Communism: Cuba in Comparative Perspective”

November 6-8, 2014

Pre-Conference Lectures

(OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)

 

“A View from Cuba” (in Spanish with English translation) by:

Lenier González Mederos (editor, Cuba Posible): “Sociedad civil en Cuba: apuntes para el presente”

Roberto Veiga González (editor, Cuba Posible): “La Constitución de nuestra República ante una sociedad que renueva sus imaginarios socio-políticos”

Date: Thursday, November 6, 2014

Time: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Location: University Club, Conference Room A (3^rd floor), 123 University Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

 

Keynote Address (in English) by

Carmelo Mesa-Lago (Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies)

Date: Thursday, November 6, 2014

Time: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Location: University Club, Conference Room A (3^rd floor), 123 University Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

 

Opening Remarks: Scott Morgenstern (Director, Center for Latin American Studies) and Jerome Branche (Associate Professor of Latin American and Cultural Studies, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures)

Introduction: Jorge Pérez – López (International Economist)

Welcoming: Patty Beeson (Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor)

 

Reception to follow 7:00 - 8:15 p.m.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

ATTENTION

To attend the conference on November 7-8, you must register (no registration fee applies). For more information, location, and registration, please visit: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/cuba_conference or email Diana Shemenski at dms180@pitt.edu

 

Sponsored by Center for Latin American Studies, Global Studies Center (Global Academic Partnership), Office of the Provost, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Department of Political Science, and the Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, in collaboration with the Cuba Study Group, Inc.

 

 

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

www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas