domingo, 29 de noviembre de 2015

Día de las velitas - sábado 5 de diciembre, 6:00 pm

FYI, Una gentil invitación de nuestros amigos de CeP.

 

Hola a todos!

 

El próximo sábado cinco de diciembre celebraremos el día de las velitas y queremos invitarlos especialmente!

 

Diciembre 5, 2015

6:00 - 8:30 pm

St. Regis Parish
3235 Parkview Ave
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213

Amablemente les pedimos completen este formulario para confirmar su asistencia. Muchas gracias!

 

Los esperamos!

 

Colombia en Pittsburgh

sábado, 21 de noviembre de 2015

Thanksgiving Dinner and next GBM

Thanksgiving Dinner:

We will be having a thanksgiving dinner tomorrow Saturday November 21st, 6:00-8:30pm in Pake room in the CUC. SALSA will be providing some food, but we encourage everyone to bring a dish as well in order to add more variety to the meal! If you plan to attend please fill out the form below! This event is open to everyone, so feel free to invite friends! On the form please indicate how many people will be coming with you, so everyone can have a rough estimate of how much food to bring.

 

 

 

GBM:

The next general body meeting will be taking place on Monday November 23. 

Time: 6pm 

Location: DH 1209

 

 

 

--

Spanish And Latin Student Association
Carnegie Mellon University
UC 303

miércoles, 18 de noviembre de 2015

Postponed: Rep. Acosta

Hello to all,

 

We have been preparing for our visit by State Representative Acosta (scheduled for Friday, Nov 20), but unfortunately she has had to postpone her visit to Pitt, due to the budget negotiations in Harrisburg.  We hope to reschedule her visit for January.

 

Of course we will send a new message when we confirm the alternative date to discuss the very important issue of the proposed English-only bill, and other issues related to Latinos in Pennsylvania.

 

Sincerely,

Center for Latin American Studies 

 

lunes, 16 de noviembre de 2015

Correction Of Thanksgiving Dinner Date

My apologies! The Thanksgiving dinner will be taking place Saturday November 21st, not the 22nd. 

 

Below is the previous email with the correct dates:


We have some updates regarding future events!

 

Thanksgiving Dinner:

At the last GBM we mentioned having a thanksgiving dinner Saturday November 21st. As we explained SALSA will be providing some food, but we encourage everyone to bring a dish as well in order to add more variety to the meal! If you plan to attend please fill out the form below! 

 

 

Waving of The Flags:

Also, please remember that the waving of the flags events takes place this Friday November 20th. Several members signed up to participate but have not maintained contact with us. If you signed up or are now interested in participating please reach out to Gisell Pardo. We need responses ASAP.

 

Bowling Social:

At the GBM we also discussed having a bowling social with the other organizations. We are considering Forwards Lanes bowling alley on Friday December 4th. They have an all you can bowl special, on Fridays form 6-8pm! We will let you know more about this event early next week!

 

Study Session:

We are planning on hosting a study session on Wednesday December 16th, which is reading day! We will provide snacks and homemade Hot Chocolate! We will send out more details regarding time and location early next week! 

 

Healthcare in Latin American countries Interview:

A fellow student has asked if it would be possible for her to interview a SALSA member about healthcare in Latin America. If any member has knowledge on this topic and would be available for an interview please let us know!

 

GBM:

We will be having a general body meeting on Monday November 23. We will send out the details regarding time and location by the end of the week!

 

Enjoy your week! We hope to see you all at these events

--

Spanish And Latin Student Association
Carnegie Mellon University
UC 303


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Thanksgiving Dinner and Other Events!

Hello!

 

We have some updates regarding future events!

 

Thanksgiving Dinner:

At the last GBM we mentioned having a thanksgiving dinner Saturday November 22. As we explained SALSA will be providing some food, but we encourage everyone to bring a dish as well in order to add more variety to the meal! If you plan to attend please fill out the form below! 

 

 

Waving of The Flags:

Also, please remember that the waving of the flags events takes place this Friday November 20th. Several members signed up to participate but have not maintained contact with us. If you signed up or are now interested in participating please reach out to Gisell Pardo. We need responses ASAP.

 

Bowling Social:

At the GBM we also discussed having a bowling social with the other organizations. We are considering Forwards Lanes bowling alley on Friday December 4th. They have an all you can bowl special, on Fridays form 6-8pm! We will let you know more about this event early next week!

 

Study Session:

We are planning on hosting a study session on Wednesday December 16th, which is reading day! We will provide snacks and homemade Hot Chocolate! We will send out more details regarding time and location early next week! 

 

Healthcare in Latin American countries Interview:

A fellow student has asked if it would be possible for her to interview a SALSA member about healthcare in Latin America. If any member has knowledge on this topic and would be available for an interview please let us know!

 

GBM:

We will be having a general body meeting on Monday 11/23. We will send out the details regarding time and location by the end of the week!

 

Enjoy your week! We hope to see you all at these events!

--

Spanish And Latin Student Association
Carnegie Mellon University
UC 303



Speaker on English-Only Legislation, Penn Rep: Leslie Acosta (Please invite students)

This Friday (Nov 20) at 2:00 p.m. we will be hosting Pennsylvania State Representative Leslie Acosta (Teplitz Court Room in the Pitt Law School).

Rep. Acosta became nationally known for her stance against the proposed English-only legislation.  She gained national attention after she tried to question the “white nationalist” witness at the legislative hearing, but the committee chair turned off her microphone. 

CLAS would be much appreciative if you could spread the word about her talk to your students and colleagues.We published an interview with the Representative on Panoramas, which you can read here:

http://www.panoramas.pitt.edu/content/exclusive-interview-representative-leslie-acosta-english-only-bills-are-%E2%80%9Cxenophobic%E2%80%9D

Panoramas: http://www.panoramas.pitt.edu/

 

We hope to see you and your students at this important event.

RSVPto event: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/acosta_RSVP

 

domingo, 15 de noviembre de 2015

Andres Webster Henestrosa (MAM-MSPPM '97) Cultural Attaché, Consulate of Mexico in Los Angeles

The Master of Arts Management Speaker Series presents Andres Webster Henestrosa (MAM-MSPPM '97) Cultural Attaché, Consulate of Mexico in Los Angeles. 12 - 1 p.m., Hamburg Hall 1001. New approaches in governmental cultural policy are exploring the potential for economic and social development for society and breaking from past focuses on preservation and artistic education. Henestrosa will talk about the cultural policy model he designed, based on the cultural contributions of culture in the local GDP, as Secretary of Culture in Oaxaca, Mexico. Additionally, he will discuss the strategies he currently pursues with the Consulate General of Mexico in LA to support community and enhance diplomacy through culture and education. Find out more.

martes, 10 de noviembre de 2015

Events for this week and next week--CLAS @ PITT

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

 

20th Latin American Social and Public Policy (LASPP) Conference

The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at the University of Pittsburgh, in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University's Latino Graduate Student Association, welcomes everyone in the community to the 20th Latin American Social and Public Policy (LASPP) Conference. The conference will be held on Friday, November 13 and Saturday, November 14, 2015.

 

The LASPP conference is a student-organized event where undergraduate, graduate students, and faculty members can present their scholarly work involving social and public policy in Latin America. This year's presentations will be organized around the following four topics: a) Public Policy and Development; b) Democratic Stability and Governance; c) IT and Public Policy, Open Government and Transparency; and d) Humanities. In addition to the panels, we will have several guest speakers to make opening and closing remarks. Please RSVP at: http://lasppconference.com/?q=node/6  

For program information: http://lasppconference.com/ 

 

 

El impacto traumático de la guerra de castas en la novelística indígena contemporánea

by

Arturo Arias (Tomás Rivera Regents Professor-University of Texas at Austin)

Date: Monday, November 9, 2015

Time: 4:30 p.m.

Location: Humanities Center--602 Cathedral of Learning

For more information: taa45@pitt.edu

Arturo Arias is a well-known expert on Central American literature, with a special emphasis on indigenous literature, as well as critical theory, race, gender and sexuality in postcolonial studies. Among his many publications are his books Taking their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America (2007) and The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy (2000). In 2001-2003, he was President of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Professor Arias co-wrote the film El Norte (1984), and has published six novels in Spanish. Twice winner of the Casa de las Américas Award for his fiction, and he was given the Miguel Ángel Asturias National Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature in 2008.

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

 

Institute for International Studies in Education--2015 Symposium Series

Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 12:00–1:30p.m.

Location: 5604 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

For more information: http://www.iise.pitt.edu/

Higher Education and the Labor Market in Ethiopia: A Tracer Study of Graduate Employment in Engineering from Addis Ababa and Bahir Dar Universities

by

Jerusalem Yibeltal Yizengaw

(IISE Visiting ScholarDoctoral CandidateAddis Ababa University, Ethiopia)

 

Pre-Service Teachers and Their Out-of-School Literacy Practices as a Source for L2 Instruction

by

Mauricio Jose Viloria Berrio

(IISE Visiting ScholarUndergraduate Student in English Literature University of Cordoba, Colombia)

 

Indigenous Higher Education Development in Taiwan: The Case of National Dong Hwa University

by

Hao-Wei HU

(IISE Visiting ScholarMA StudentNational Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)

Cosponsored by: University Center for International Studies, the Global Studies Center, the African Studies Program, the Asian Studies Center, and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

Accidental Latin@ Archives: From Movimiento to YouTube

Lecture and performance by

Urayoán Noel (poet, critic, performer, translator, and professor of English and Spanish at New York University)

            Date: Thursday, November 12, 2015

            Time: 5:00 p.m.

            Location: Gold Room

     University Club, 2nd Floor

                             123 University Place

           For more information: kcperez@pitt.edu.

Urayoán Noel is a poet, critic, performer, translator, and professor of English and Spanish at New York University. He is the author of the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa Press, 2014), winner of the Latina/o Studies Book Prize from the Latin American Studies Association, and several books of poetry in English and Spanish, the most recent of which is Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (University of Arizona Press, 2015). Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Urayoán Noel lives in the Bronx and recently completed a bilingual edition of the poetry of Pablo de Rokha for Shearsman Books.

 

The first part of the presentation explores the work of two experimental 1960s and 1970s art collectives, the Royal Chicano Air Force and El Puerto Rican Embassy, as part of an alternative genealogy of Latin@ social movement politics that foregrounds the politics of remediation in and against the politics of representation. Bridging two very different conceptualizations of the "accidental" archive, (Sauer, Burgess and Green), the presentation further considers how these art collectives paradoxically function as eccentric (counter-) archives in the context of their online circulation, allowing for a critical revision of print-centric Latin@ canons. The second part of the presentation consists of a brief poetry reading/artist talk that performs the accidental archive, incorporating YouTube, mobile apps, and references to these alternative Latin@ genealogies.

Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the Department of English, the Humanities Center, the Year in the Humanities Initiative, John Beverley, and the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

 

Fernando de Szyszlo and the Conceptual Turn in Cultural Policy

By

Claire Fox (University of Iowa)

Date: Tuesday, 17 November, 2015

Time: 12:30-2:00 pm

Location: Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning

For more information: Daniel.Balderston@pitt.edu 

 

Claire Fox is the author of two major books, The Fence and the River: Culture and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border (Minnesota, 1999) and Making Art Panamerican: Cultural Policy and the Cold War (Minnesota, 2013).

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

 

 

PANORAMAS LATIN AMERICAN ROUNDTABLE

A Discussion of Current Latino Issues in Pennsylvania with Representative Leslie Acosta

              Date:  Friday, November 20, 2015

              Time: 2:00 p.m.                                                                   

  Location: Teplitz Memorial Moot Courtroom—Law School Building

                                         University of Pittsburgh Campus

                               Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 

 

Representative Acosta will talk about the current state of Latino issues and organizations in Pennsylvania.  She will also address the state's currently much debated English-only bill.

Biography:

Raised in North Philadelphia, State Representative Leslie Acosta graduated from Mastbaum High School and from Cairn University in 1996 with bachelor degrees in social work and theology, and earned an M.B.A. from Phoenix University. Rep. Acosta is a former social worker who previously served as child advocate with the Philadelphia Public Defender's Office, and a former vice president of the board of directors of the Bucks County Mental Health Clinic. Elected to the House in 2014, Rep. Acosta has a wide range of work experience in various sectors, including nonprofit and federal government agencies, and in academia as an adjunct professor at         Esperanza College of Eastern University, serving the Hispanic and local communities.

 

RSVP event: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/acosta_RSVP

Read the exclusive interview with Representative Acosta by Ignacio Arana: http://www.panoramas.pitt.edu/content/exclusive-interview-representative-leslie-acosta-english-only-bills-are-%E2%80%9Cxenophobic%E2%80%9D  

For more information about the event email: bravo@pitt.edu 

Visit Panoramas at: http://www.panoramas.pitt.edu/  

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

 

 

Student opportunity!!

Center for Latin American Studies School Visit Internship Opportunity for Spring 2016

Do you have a passion for Spanish or Latin American studies?

Are you interested in education?

Do you like kids?

WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!

 

The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at the University of Pittsburgh is currently recruiting two (2) undergraduate students for its school visit internship course ARTSCI 1900 (3 credits) which may apply toward the CLAS certificate in Latin American Studies. Students develop lessons on topics relating to Latin America for K-12 classrooms in the Pittsburgh area. Although not required, competency in Spanish, Portuguese or Quechua is recommended. Scheduling is done according to the student's availability, but most school visits occur between 8:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Interns complete a final reflection paper summarizing the topics researched and containing lesson plans and resources.

This internship is a great opportunity to:

q         Gain experience teaching in real classrooms

q         Learn to design and teach lesson plans based

q         Acquire leadership skills by working closely with teachers, CLAS staff and students

q         Improve your language skills and explore new topics of Latin American cultures

q         Have FUN and use your creativity with a wide variety of children

 

Apply by November 30, 2015. Send the following to kgoldman@pitt.edu:

 

ü         A statement in English of no more than 350 words explaining why you are interested in the internship and indicating your level of Spanish, Portuguese or Quechua.

ü         A tentative schedule of your classes for the spring semester

ü         An unofficial copy of your transcript

 

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

 

Student opportunity!!

Three Rivers Re-Entry Conference Happening in Pittsburgh

            Date: Saturday, November 14, 2015

Time: 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Location: University of Pittsburgh – O'Hara Student Center

                             4024 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

For more information about the event visit: http://www.lessonsfromabroad.org/three-rivers/

 

Registration is FREE for all students – but space is limited!

Please register early via the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lessons-from-abroad-three-rivers-re-entry-conference-tickets-16901227025

 

Welcome to Lessons from Abroad!

Just returned from studying abroad? Trying to figure out what's next?   Use your Study Abroad experience to launch your career! Learn how to give your resume and job interviews a competitive edge Network with professionals in internationally-focused jobs Discover how you can work, teach, volunteer, or study abroad after graduation   Lessons From Abroad is an annual conference for returning Study Abroad students, with branches in SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, the Rocky Mountain Region, Nebraska, Washington, Central Texas, Missouri Valley, Oklahoma, Georgia, Chicago, Virginia, Iowa, Three Rivers area, Washington DC, and Baltimore. Click on a specific region for more information!

 

 

Community event!!

Café con Leche:

For more information on events visit: http://www.cafeconlechepgh.com/ or email: CafeConLechePGH@gmail.com

Café Con Leche uses food to build community. It is a place for the Pittsburgh Latino community to connect, promote Latino culture in Pittsburgh and be a safe space for dialogue and creative problem solving. The name, Café con Leche (coffee with milk in Spanish) refers to the Puerto Rican tradition of serving coffee to household guests.

 

ALPFA Pittsburgh, Cafe Con Leche and AlphaLab are partnering on an event "Taller Latino", focusing on Latinos living in Pittsburgh who work in tech and media. In Spanish, the word "Taller" (pronounced Tie-yer) means "workshop". (Taller Latino = Workshop Latino).

The panelists for the panel discussion, Latinos in Tech & Media, have been announced! You can see the details of the event on the Facebook invite as well as the showclix link.

           Wednesday, November 11th from 5:30-8pm at AlphaLab in East Liberty. It's a FREE event!

            For more information: https://www.showclix.com/event/taller-latino

 

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  

 

lunes, 9 de noviembre de 2015

LASPP conference'15

We are happy to announce that the LASPP Conference is finally happening this Friday and Saturday! We are very exited about this and we would like to know if you could share the attached images.

You are invited to come to the Conference any of the days, but specially invited for Ariel Armony’s lecture at the Giant Eagle Auditorium at 4.30pm and the following reception at 6pm at the auditorium lobby. We will have empanadas and sweets!

 

We have posted the schedule and conference details on http://www.lasppconference.com/

 

Thank you in advance, hope to see you there.

 

Lucia

 

Lucía Sánchez Madrigal
Tel.: +1 412 996 1024
lucia.smadrigal@gmail.com

 

 

 

Lucía Sánchez Madrigal
GRADUATE STUDENT AT CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
lucia.smadrigal@gmail.com
+1 412 996 1024

 

 

viernes, 6 de noviembre de 2015

Today and Tomorrow--Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic Conference

8th International Cultural Studies Conference of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures

Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic

        Date: November 6-7, 2015

        Location: --University Club--University of Pittsburgh

        For more information: http://www.pitt.edu/~dmundie/Postcolonial/

 

 

Program — November 6th

8:00-9:00: Continental Breakfast

Ballroom A, University Club

9:00-9:30: Welcoming remarks

Daniel Balderston, Chair, Hispanic Languages and Literatures

John Cooper, Dean, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

Jerome Branche, Convenor, Hispanic Languages and Literatures

9:30-11:00: Iberian Peninsula: The Challenges of Dislocation and Emancipation, 1470 to 1970

Ballroom A, University Club. Chair, Benita Sampedro

Carmen Fracchia, Birkbeck College, University of London: “Picturing the Afro-Hispanic struggle for freedom in early modern Spain”

Baltasar Fra Molinero, Bates College: “Black Atlantic Identities and the Spanish Inquisition”

Luis Trindade, Birkbeck College, University of London: “The Lines of Anti-Colonialism: The Circulation of Militant Filmmakers During ‘the long 1960s’”

11:00-11:15: Coffee Break

11:15-12:45: Migration and the Metropole

Chair, John Walsh

Adlai Murdoch, Tufts University: “French Caribbean Departmentalization as Neocolonial Domination: From Anticolonial Resistance to the Representation of Creolized Identities”

Madhu Krishnan, University of Bristol: "(Re)mapping Black Paris: African space in the imperial centre"

Susan Andrade, University of Pittsburgh: Le Ventre de l’Afrique: A New Tendency in African Fiction

12:45-2:15 Lunch

Conference Room B (2nd floor) Blue and Gold Buffet (lunch provided for conference presenters and chairs)

2:15-3:45: Hispanophone African Colonies and the Colonial Legacy

Chair, Magdalena López

Benita Sampedro, Hofstra University: “Health, Raciality and Modernity in Equatorial Guinea”

Luis Madureira, University of Wisconsin: “Adrift between Neoliberalism and the Revolution: Cape Verde and the South Atlantic in Geronimo Almeida’s Eva”

Robert Simon, Kennisaw State University: “A Post-Colonial, National, and Post-National Discourse in Angolan Poetry in the Work of Manuel Rui”

3:45-4:00: Coffee Break

4:00-5:30: Contemporary Afro-Latin America: Confronting the Racial State

Chair, Juan Duchesne

Agustín Lao-Montes, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: “Beyond the Capitalist/Socialist Divide? Afrodescendant Currents and Decolonial Practices of Power/Knowledge in Colombia and Cuba”

Juliet Hooker, University of Texas, Austin: “Gendering Quilombismo: Slavery, Racial Democracy, and Black Genocide”

Tanya K. Hernandez, Fordham University School of Law: “Anani Dzidzienyo: The Embodiment of African/African-diaspora Anti-Colonial Activist Scholar”

7:00-8:00 Dinner

Babcock Room, 40th floor, Cathedral of Learning (dinner provided for conference participants and chairs)


Program — November 7th

8:00-9:00: Continental Breakfast

Ballroom A, University Club

9:00-10:00 Diaspora/Raciality

Chair, Jerome Branche

Linden Lewis, Bucknell University: “Toward a Postcolonial Critique of Caribbean Epistemology”

Myriam J. A. Chancy, Scripps College: “Autochthonomies: A New Model of Indigeneity for Understanding African Diasporic Subjectivity”

10:15-11:00: Keynote Speaker

Ronald Judy, University of Pittsburgh: “‘What Kind Freedom is this?’ From Haiti to Tunisia”

11:00-11:15: Coffee Break

11:15-12:15: Black Emancipation, the State, the Individual

Chair, Linden Lewis

Cary Fraser, Appalachian State University: "Reconstituting Self, Reconstituting Society."

Robert Spencer, Manchester University: Origins and Representations of the Dictatorial State in Postcolonial Africa.

12:15-1:45 Lunch

College Room, University Club. Blue and Gold Buffet (lunch provided for conference presenters and chairs)

1:45-3:15: Coloniality: Transatlantic Contradictions and Continuities

Chair, Baltasar Fra Molinero

Emmanuelle Santos, University of Warwick: “From Lusotropicalism to Lusophony: Brazil-Angola Cultural Exchanges under the Sign of Coloniality.’

Magdalena López, University of Lisbon: “Post-Utopian Imaginaries in Lusophone Africa and the Hispanic Caribbean: Revolutionary Identities in Crisis”

Anna Mester, University of Michigan: “Iberian Cartographies of Discipline: Incomplete Decolonization Examined through Prisons and Penitentiaries in Equatorial Guinea”

3:15-3:45: Closing Remarks

Jerome Branche, Final Reflections

6:00-7:00: Spoken Word Performance

Roger Robinson, Dub Poet

Ballroom B, University Club.

7:00-9:30: Dinner and Cash Bar

Ballroom B, University Club. For conference attendees and participants.


Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), the Global Studies Center (Global Academic Partnership), the Office of the Provost, the Office of Graduate Studies and Research, the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, and the University Center for International Studies. Special thanks to David Mundie for assistance with the web site.

Contacts:

Jerome Branche, branche@pitt.edu. Jerome is Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh. His teaching and research interest is in racialized modernity and the way creative writers imagine and articulate slavery, freedom, the nation, being, and gender.

 

13 minute interview about the Puerto Rican crisis!!!

Hey all

 

If anyone is interested in the cemplexity of the Puerto Rican crisis.. A 13 minute interview with Prof. Rafael Bernabe by Democracy Now.

Taller Latino: A panel discussion of Latinos in Tech & Media

Hello all!

 

Please join Cafe Con Leche, ALPFA and AlphaLab on Wednesday, Nov. 11th from 5:30-8pm for a panel discussion on Latinos in Tech & Media. This event is free, snacks and refreshments will be served. 

 

you can RSVP here. Please share with your networks!

 

Take care,

Tara

 

 

Check out our website for future events!

3RFF

Abajo les copio información de algunas películas que se estarán proyectando a partir de hoy en el marco del Three Rivers Film Festival y que quizás les puedan interesar. Entre otras, aparecen las entradas al Oscar de Colombia, Guatemala y Brasil.

The Boy and the World

Boldly imaginative, this entirely wordless and dazzlingly colorful animation follows the journey of a young boy, Cuca, whose cozy countryside life is shattered when his father leaves for the city, prompting him to embark on a quest to reunite his family.

Read more

 

Eisenstein in Guanajuato

Peter Greenaway’s film explores the mind of a creative genius, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, facing the desires and fears of love, sex, and death through ten passionate days that helped shape the rest of the career of one of the greatest masters of cinema.

Read more

Oscar Entry, Columbia

Embrace of the Serpent

Tracking two parallel odysseys through the Amazon, this historical epic offers an ethno-botanical adventure, mysticism, and a heart-rending depiction of an indigenous culture ravaged by colonialism.

Read more

 

 

Ixcanul

Inspired by interviews with Mayan people, Jayro Bustamante’s beautiful debut film is a moving drama that shows a world where nature is preeminent and rituals daily life. With an indigenous cast and the power of a classic fable, Ixcanul tells the moving story of a Mayan family living in the shadow of a volcano in the Guatemalan highlands.

Read more

 

 

The Pearl Button

Combining metaphysical speculation with an intimate approach this documentary explores the human connection to water through the indigenous peoples of Chilean Patagonia.

Read more

 

 

The Second Mother

An excitingly fresh take on some classic themes and ideas, The Second Mother centers around Val, a hard-working live-in housekeeper in modern day Sao Paulo.

Read more

                       

lunes, 2 de noviembre de 2015

Reminder: Lingotable Nov 5 (6-7pm) Peter & McKenna

RSVP for the International Student Union at CMU's upcoming Lingotable!

Enjoy a free dinner while you talk about some of life's Big Questions in a language you are learning or already know. Students of all levels are welcome!

When: Thurs, Nov 5th (6-7pm)
Where: CC Peter & McKenna

Siriana Abboud
Carnegie Mellon University, DC '16
B.S. Psychology, Clinical & Counseling Concentration 
B.A. French & Francophone Studies

Alumni Association Board | Highland Ambassador | President's Cabinet