miércoles, 28 de enero de 2015

The University of Pittsburgh invites you to the screening of the award-winning LGBT documentary Mala Mala on February 6, 4pm, at Posvar Hall 1500.  Celebrated by critics as a "landmark" achievement and "must-see" entertainment, Mala Mala is the first feature film ever to tell the story of the transsexual community in Puerto Rico.     The movie will be followed by a discussion with Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini, co-directors of the film. 

martes, 27 de enero de 2015

UPDATES--Center for Latin American Studies @ Pitt

Center for Latin American Studies

Updates

For other information and events, please visit our calendar at http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/calendars (January 2015 Calendar).

 

UPDATES

 

The Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh

presents

A Symposium: "Mere" Comparisons: Theory and Methodology from a Global Perspective

Lectures by

Joseph Slaughter (Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)

with response by Molly Warsh (Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh

 

Date: Thursday, February 5, 2015

            Time: 4:00 p.m.

            Location: Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning

 

Natalie Melas (Associate Professor of Comparative Literatures, Cornell University)

with response by Diego Holstein (Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh)

 

            Date: Thursday, February 5, 2015

            Time: 5:45 p.m.

            Location: Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning

 

The “global turn” of recent years has brought to the fore theoretical and methodological questions about the implications of working across regions in both the humanities and social sciences. A broadening of scope necessitates comparison, and comparison--as has been amply argued--is never ideologically neutral. These questions are germane not just to fields centered on comparison, as in Comparative Literature, but also to the wide range of disciplines that have sought to respond to critical models that foreground the “global” (particularly in response to globalization), “world” (whether world systems or World Literature), or “transnational” (as in Paul Gilroy’s model of the Black Atlantic, Indian Ocean Studies, and transoceanic frameworks). In literary studies, scholars generally take one of two approaches: the interrogation of comparison itself, or, the examination of the comparability of two or more regions or bodies of literature. This symposium will juxtapose these two strategies in order to interrogate the philosophical underpinnings of comparison as well as explore its utility when working across the often-marginalized areas of the globe.

 

Organized by Magalí Armillas-Tyseyra (Humanities Center 2014-2015 Early Career Fellow) and Gayle Rogers (Associate Professor of English)

 

For more information contact: humctr@pitt.edu

This symposium is co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, boundary 2, the World History Center, the Global Studies Center, the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, and the departments of Hispanic Languages & Literatures, French & Italian Languages & Literatures, History of Art & Architecture, History, and English.

 

 

 

Film Screening and Discussion: Mala Mala

with Co-Directors Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini

 

Date: Friday, February 6, 2015

Time: 4:00 p.m.

Location: 1500 Posvar Hall

For more information contact: kcperez@pitt.edu

Free and open to the public.

 

Celebrated by critics as a “landmark” achievement and “must-see” entertainment, Mala Mala is the first feature film ever to tell the story of the transsexual community in Puerto Rico. The movie will be followed by a discussion with Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini, co-directors of the film.

 

Sponsored by The Department of Hispanic Language and Literatures, Professor John Beverley, Professor Dan Balderston, Center for Latin American Studies, Humanities Center, Film Studies, Center for Global Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

 

 

A Night of Tango with Puerto Sur Trio

Date: Friday, February 6, 2015

Time: 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Location: Frick Fine Arts Auditorium- University of Pittsburgh.

            For more information: Diana Shemenski, dms180@pitt.edu or visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/419927414843071/  

Free and open to the public!

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

 

 

 

 

Save the date

35th Annual Latin American & Caribbean Festival

            Date: Saturday, March 21, 2015

            Time: Noon to 10:00 p.m.

            Location: 1st Floor—Galleria—Posvar Hall

            Free and open to the public!

For registration and more information: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/festival or contact: Diana Shemenski at dms180@pitt.edu

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

 

 

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  

 

viernes, 23 de enero de 2015

Latin America: The Unnoticed Giant South of the Border

This lecture, sponsored by Carnegie Mellon's University Lecture Series and the Dietrich College, may be of interest to the CAS community.

 

 

For many Americans, the perception of Latin America has been heavily influenced by the 400-year rivalry between England and Spain. Venezuelan-born Luis Ball, a Carnegie Mellon University trustee and business leader, will discuss how popular views of Latin America, its history and even its scholarly writing start with pre-conceived ideas based on myth, not reality.

 

In "Latin America: The Unnoticed Giant South of the Border," Ball will discuss the history of the region in the context of U.S. history, colonial laws regarding native tribes and peoples, and the Catholic Church and the wars of independence. He will discuss the developments in the post-colonial period that shaped Latin America and its attitudes vis-a-vis the U.S. Additionally, he'll examine the revolutions and dictatorships, economic underdevelopment and Latin America today.

 

Ball's lecture will be held at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 29 in Porter Hall 100. Admission is free and open to the public. 

 

"Luis is not only a successful businessman and a generous trustee of Carnegie Mellon, but he has also worked hard through the media to provide an informed view of Latin America to North Americans, who generally get very little information about events in South and Central America," said Richard Scheines, dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. "Luis publishes PanAm Post, an incredibly rich online site that covers news and offers excellent analyses of all regions in the Americas."  

 

Ball, who received a bachelor's degree in managerial economics from Carnegie Mellon, is the chairman and chief executive office of GroupCiencia and Allegheny Medical Systems, both Boca Raton, Fla.-based companies that distribute high-tech medical devices in a dozen Latin American countries.

 

In addition to serving as a CMU trustee, Ball is a member of the Latin American Business Council (CEAL), a director of the Nucorpa ad agency in Caracas, Venezuela, and of Telares de Palo Grande, a textile company listed in the Caracas exchange. He is a member of the board of trustees of Choate Rosemary Hall, the prestigious secondary school in Connecticut and the World's Presidents Organization (WPO), and was a 20-year member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO).

 

Carnegie Mellon's University Lecture Series and the Dietrich College are sponsoring the event.

 

For more information, visit http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2015/january/latin-america-lecture.html

 

 

jueves, 22 de enero de 2015

Latin America: The Unnoticed Giant South of the Border by Luis Ball at Carnegie Mellon University

Latin America: The Unnoticed Giant South of the Border

by

Luis Ball (Carnegie Mellon Trustee and Business Leader)

Date: Thursday, January 29, 2015

Time: 4:30 p.m.

Location: Porter Hall, Carnegie Mellon

For more information: Shilo Rea at shilo@cmu.edu or 412-268-6094

Admission is free and open to the public. 


For many Americans, the perception of Latin America has been heavily influenced by the 400-year rivalry between England and Spain. Venezuelan-born Luis Ball, a Carnegie Mellon University trustee and business leader, will discuss how popular views of Latin America, its history and even its scholarly writing start with pre-conceived ideas based on myth, not reality.

In "Latin America: The Unnoticed Giant South of the Border," Ball will discuss the history of the region in the context of U.S. history, colonial laws regarding native tribes and peoples, and the Catholic Church and the wars of independence. He will discuss the developments in the post-colonial period that shaped Latin America and its attitudes vis-a-vis the U.S. Additionally, he'll examine the revolutions and dictatorships, economic underdevelopment and Latin America today.

"Luis is not only a successful businessman and a generous trustee of Carnegie Mellon, but he has also worked hard through the media to provide an informed view of Latin America to North Americans, who generally get very little information about events in South and Central America," said Richard Scheines, dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. "Luis publishes PanAm Post, an incredibly rich online site that covers news and offers excellent analyses of all regions in the Americas."  

Ball, who received a bachelor's degree in managerial economics from Carnegie Mellon, is the chairman and chief executive office of GroupCiencia and Allegheny Medical Systems, both Boca Raton, Fla.-based companies that distribute high-tech medical devices in a dozen Latin American countries.

In addition to serving as a CMU trustee, Ball is a member of the Latin American Business Council (CEAL), a director of the Nucorpa ad agency in Caracas, Venezuela, and of Telares de Palo Grande, a textile company listed in the Caracas exchange. He is a member of the board of trustees of Choate Rosemary Hall, the prestigious secondary school in Connecticut and the World's Presidents Organization (WPO), and was a 20-year member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO).

Carnegie Mellon's University Lecture Series and the Dietrich College are sponsoring the event.

jueves, 15 de enero de 2015

ULS lecture by trustee Luis Ball

January 29:

Latin America, the Unnoticed Giant South of the Border, a lecture by Luis Ball, CMU trustee and president of Allegheny Medical Systems LLC. 4:30 p.m., Porter Hall. American perception of Latin America has been heavily influenced by the 400 year rivalry between England and Spain. Popular views on the region and its history, and even scholarly writing, start with pre-conceived ideas based on myths and not reality. This lecture will cover the true history of the region in the context of U.S. history and the important aspects for understanding the region today, the colonial laws regarding native tribes and peoples, the Catholic Church and the wars of independence. Ball also will discuss the developments in the post colonial period that shaped Latin America today and its attitudes vis-a-vis the U.S. Additionally, he'll discuss the revolutions and dictatorships, the economic underdevelopment and Latin America today.

lunes, 5 de enero de 2015

Updates--Center for Latin American Studies at Pitt (January 5 to January 9)

*** Deadline ***

If you have an announcement related to a Latin American/Caribbean activity taking place during January 2015 that you would like to share with others interested in the region, please send details by January 9, 2015 to: clas@pitt.edu. Sorry, information will not be accepted over the phone.

 

 

Inequality and Democratization:  An Elite-Competition Approach

by

David Samuels (Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota)

 

Date: Friday, January 9, 2015

Time: 3:00 p.m.

Where: 4130 Posvar Hall

 

Research on the economic origins of democracy and dictatorship has shifted away from the impact of growth and turned toward the question of how different patterns of growth - equal or unequal - shape regime change. In this lecture, Dr. Samuels offers a new theory of the historical relationship between economic modernization and the emergence of democracy on a global scale, focusing on the effects of land and income inequality. Contrary to most mainstream arguments, Ben W. Ansell and David J. Samuels suggest that democracy is more likely to emerge when rising, yet politically disenfranchised, groups demand more influence because they have more to lose, rather than when threats of redistribution to elite interests are low.

 

David Samuels is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego in 1998. He is the author of Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers (with Matthew Shugart) (Cambridge, 2010), Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil (Cambridge, 2003), and the co-editor of Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004), and an introductory undergraduate comparative politics and accompanying country-casebook from Pearson Higher Education. He currently serves as co-editor of Comparative Political Studies.

 

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

 

Sponsored by The Center for Latin American Studies, Department of Political Sciences and Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

 

 

9-Week Brazilian Portuguese Language and Culture Workshop--Beginner

Date: Thursdays (January 8 to March 5, 2015)

Time: 6:00 – 7:30p.m.

Location: University of Pittsburgh, 101 Mervis Hall

For more information: Lilly Abreu at lillyabreu1@gmail.com

 

These are non-credit classes, therefore no University of Pittsburgh credits will apply.

 

Course fee: non-refundable $180 per person (for the 9 sessions)

Book for beginner and intermediate levels: Brasil! Lingua e Cultura by Tom Lathrop, Eduardo M. Dias (Text and Ex-ercise Book). Linguatext Ltd; Third Revised Updated edition (December 2004) ISBN-10: 9780942566437; ISBN-13: 978-0942566437 (available online)

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

 

 

 

Save the date

35th Annual Latin American & Caribbean Festival

        Date: Saturday, March 21, 2015

        Time: Noon to 10:00 p.m.

        Location: 1st Floor—Galleria—Posvar Hall

        Free and open to the public

 

For registration and more information: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/festivalor contact: Diana Shemenski at dms180@pitt.edu.

 

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

 

 

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