CLAS @ Pitt Events--March 28 to April 17, 2016

CLAS @ Pitt Events--March 28 to April 17, 2016---See below for posters of events!

 

For more events visit: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/calendars

 

 

Un gran Puente: Hart Crane, Jose Lezama Lima en Habana y Nueva York

Monday, March 28, 2016—1pm—Room 230 Cathedral of Learning

 

Race & the Caribbean—Exploring Black x Latin Lives

Tuesday, March 29, 2016—2:30pm to 4:00pm—Room 4130 Posvar Hall

 

 

Puerto Rico: A Crisis of Debt and Migration

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 12:15pm—Room 4130 Posvar Hall

 

 

New Perspectives on Latin American Documentary Film Symposium

Thursday, March 31—Friday, April 1, 2016

 

For more information and to register visit:
http://www.clasconference.org/documentary_symposium/

 

 

 

Text as Process: Genetic and Textual Criticism in the Digital Age

April 4-6, 2016

 

For more information visit:

http://www.hispanic.pitt.edu/event/text-process-genetic-and-textual-criticism-digital-age

 

 

 

2016 Brazilian Festival

Saturday, April 2, 2016—WPU Assembly Room

 

 

 

 

Global Indigeneity. Abya Yala as an indigenous

Trans-Hemispheric Civilizational Project

Friday, April 8, 2016 at 4:00 p.m.—Room 244B CL

 

 

 

 

 

 

Olympic Symposium

Saturday, April 9, 2016—9:30am—3:00pm---3911 Posvar Hall

 

 

 

US/Cuba Relations—Past, Present, and Future

Tuesday, April 12, 2016—3:00pm—4217 Posvar Hall

 

 

 

CHINA and BRAZIL in Global Resource Geopolitics

Thursday, April 14, 2016—3:00pm—4130 Posvar Hall

 

 

Blood Water Paint

by

Joy McCullough Carranza, directed by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta

 

April 15, 5pm

Humanities Center, 602 CL

*post reading discussion with playwright, and others TBA

 

A retelling of the true story of Artemisia Gentileschi, an Italian Baroque painter now considered one of the most accomplished of her generation.

Gentileschi’s story unfolds through interactions with the women featured in her own most famous paintings and the process of teaching her daughter to paint,

and culminates in her fierce battle to rise above the most devastating event in her life and fight for justice despite horrific consequences.

For more information contact: lisajsch@pitt.edu

 

All readings are free and open to the public.

 

Sponsored by:  Theatre Arts Department at the University of Pittsburgh, The Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh,

The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh Provost’s Year of the Humanities.

 

 

Joyce Moreno and Kenny Werner—Duo CD Release Concert: “Poesia”

Sunday, April 17, 2016—6pm—Kelly Strayhorn Theater

 

 

 

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