lunes, 28 de septiembre de 2015

CLAS @ Pitt--events this week! Mark your calendars!

Panoramas Roundtable

The Situation of Stateless Persons in the Dominican Republic/ La situación de las personas apátridas en la Republica Dominicana (presentation will be in Spanish with English translation)

by

Ricardo Campusano (Lawyer and human rights activist from the Dominican Republic)

Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Time: Noon

Location: 4130 Posvar Hall

For more information: Luis Bravo at bravo@pitt.edu

Mr. Campusano will explain how thousands of persons, mostly of Haitian descent, were made stateless (left without official citizenship in any country) when a 2004 immigration law and the 2010 Dominican constitution did away with birthright citizenship and a 2013 constitutional court ruling made that standard retroactive. Mr. Campusano will describe the legal, social, and economic hardships that these stateless persons face, including the difficulties in obtaining birth and identification documents, and the threat of deportation. Mr. Campusano will also discuss how international and local human rights organizations have responded to the Dominican government's policies. The Power Point-based lecture will be given in Spanish with English translation.

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

 

 

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The Electoral Basis of Ideological Polarization in Latin America

by

Juan Andrés Moraes (Professor of political science at the Universidad de la República in Uruguay)

            Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2015

            Time: 2:00 p.m.

            Location: 4217 Posvar Hall

For more information: Luz Amanda Hank at lavst12@pitt.edu
Juan Andrés Moraes (PhD, University of Notre Dame) is professor of political science at the Universidad de la Republica in Uruguay. His research interests lie in the field of comparative politics, with a special focus on political parties in Latin America. With Daniel Buquet and Daniel Chasquetti, he coauthored Fragmentación Política y Gobierno en Uruguay (1998), and he is the author of articles in edited books and journals such as Comparative Political Studies and Party Politics. A former Kellogg Institute guest scholar, he was previously the recipient of a Kellogg Dissertation Year Fellowship.

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

 

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Colloquium: The Poetry of the Americas from Good Neighbors to Countercultures

by

Harris Feisod (Humanities Center, 2015-2016 Early Career Residential Fellow)

Responses by: Gayle Rodgers (University of Pittsburgh) and Joshua Lund (University of Notre Dame)

Date: Thursday, October 1, 2015
Time: 12:30 p.m.

Location: 602 Cathedral of Learning, Humanities Center

For more information: http://www.humcenter.pitt.edu/event/colloquium-harris-feinsod

Humanities Center Colloquium Events typically involve conversations around a pre-distributed piece of writing. You can download the piece of writing for this event at https://drive.google.com/folderviewid=0Bzh9pdN4lY1bfmhHek5jOFlRQk1WVlBTbUZLbTk4OENkM0w5SUtqS2VJSlZQZ3lMZkpINGM&usp=sharing

Sponsored by the Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

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VENEZUELAN CINEMA/CINEMA VENEZOLANO—PART 1

The Cinema of Venezuela 1995-2015 | El cine que hemos hecho en estos años. 1995 – 2015 

INVITED SPEAKER: Haydeé Chavero González (Chair of the Cinema and Communications Department Universidad Central de Venezuela. Founder Caracas Filminuto and President Fundación Audiovisual FACIL)

 

Panel discussion with Pitt Hispanic Languages and Literature faculty:

John Beverly and Juan Duchesne  

(In Spanish with English translation) 

 

Date: Thursday October 1, 2015

Time: 7:00 PM

Location: Frick Fine Arts Auditorium –UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

For more information: Karen Goldman at kgoldman@pitt.edu

 

For more information about the movies listed below go to: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/ven_cine

NOSTALGIA. Gustavo Rondón / 18 min / Venezuela / 2010 

LA MULA MUERTA | DEAD MULE. Rafael Velásquez / 12 min / Venezuela / 2011

COLMILLO | FANG.  Albi Abreu / 19 min / Venezuela /  2010  

I WANNA SHINE. Prakriti Maduro / 8 min / Venezuela / 2011  

Free and open to the public

Light refreshments provided.

Sponsored by: El Centro Nacional Autónomo de Cinematografía de Venezuela (CNAC).

Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS at the University of Pittsburgh, the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC-Ch and Duke University, and the NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

 


PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS: VENEZUELAN FILM WITH HAYDEE CHAVERO—Part 2

Date: Friday October 2, 2015

Time: 4:30 p.m.

Location: Frick Fine Arts

For more information: Karen Goldman at kgoldman@pitt.edu

 

PAPITA, MANI, TOSTON. Luis Carlos Hueck / 90 min / Venezuela, 2013 | Spanish with English subtitles

Andrés (Jean Pierre Agostini) is a fan of Los Leones del Caracas one of the main baseball teams of Venezuela. Julissa (Juliette Pardau) is a fan of Los Navegantes del Magallanes, the rival team. One day Andrés gets tickets to see the game in Magallanes' VIP Zone. He meets Julissa and her dad who is not only fan but one of the team's managers. Andres and Julissa will fall in love and will have to pretend to be fan of the other's team. But soon trouble will arise.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/U4Gqb2BzI6Y

 

Sponsored by: El Centro Nacional Autónomo de Cinematografía de Venezuela (CNAC).

Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS at the University of Pittsburgh, the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC-Ch and Duke University, and the NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

 

 

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