Announcements! 3/30/18 Social!!!

Hola a todos,

Happy Friday! You made it! We hope you're having a nice end to your week and an even better start to your weekend. We have a few important annoucements. We will also be hosing a social so you can see people from SALSA, University of Pittsburgh's Latino Student Association (LSA), and Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)! Keep reading to know all the important details.

Today, I thought it might be appropriate to have a quote from MLK. Enjoy.

"Darkness cannot drive out the darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King Jr.

SALSA Social with SHPE and LSA!: TODAY, March 30, 2018 we will be having a social with SHPE and Pitt LSA. Please see the groupme for details. It will start at 9:00pm and will be hosted at the usual place of 9 Unger Ln (by Beeler). Hope to see you all there! :) If you have trouble finding it just give a shout out to the groupme.

We will also be having a GBM Monday April 2 5:00 pm, room TBA

Celebration OF Diversity Weekend: Admitted students are coming to campus! This is a wonderful opportunity to get to know members of the incoming class and show them why CMU would be a great place for their next 4-5 years! To host a prospective students  Log in to CMU SIO > Click Campus Life > Choose Admission Overnight Ambassador from dropdown. COD Weekend will take place from April 14 –16. SALSA will also be hosting an event for prospective students on Saturday April 14 at 8pm. We will send more details in a later email. 

Spirit Fashion Show: The Spirit Fashion Show is almost here! The longest running fashion show on CMU’s campus will take place on April 7, 2018 at 7:00 pm. Be sure to get your tickets soon! 

Rhetorical Inquiry: Audrey Strohm is a graduate student studying Rhetoric in Dietrich College. She is a first generation graduate student, and has found it difficult to balance learning both learning her discipline and meeting the expectations of mastery. She's also interested in hearing your stories and how the collective experiences, with notions of expertise might enrich conversations about the first generation experience as it relates specifically to graduate students. If you are open to sharing your story, find time to meet up! In this 20 minute conversation, she will ask you to reflect on your experience as a first generation graduate student. For more information or to set up a time to meet, you can reach her at astrohm@andrew.cmu.edu.

Alive You Took Them: Graphic Narrative on Mexico's Dissapeared: Please see the attached posters for more details. It will take place on Monday, April 2 at 4:30pm in Porter Hall 100 here at CMU.

For scholarship information, please refer to our previous emails, or ask us if you have questions or other opportunities you would like to make us aware of. Thanks!

Saludos,

Hannah

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Spanish And Latin Student Association
Carnegie Mellon University

salsa.cmu@gmail.com

Latin American Status

Wednesday March 14-April 15, 2018
Show title: LAS (Latin American Status)
Organized by Natalia Arbelaez
Presented by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA)

Opening Reception and Artist Talk information TBA

Participating artists: Natalia Arbelaez, April Felipe, Salvador Jiménez-Flores, Morel Doucet, Christina Erives, Renata Cassiano

Description: A collection of Latin American artists encompassing the Caribbean, Central, and South America have come together to share their stories of immigration, culture, and inclusion.

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Wednesday, Thursday: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Friday, Saturday: 11:00am - 8:00pm
Sunday: 11:00am - 5:00pm

 

 

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Felipe Gómez G., Ph. D.
Associate Teaching Professor
Co-advisor for the Minor
Hispanic Studies
Department of Modern Languages
BH 160
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
(412) 268-5149
FAX (412) 268-1328

Evelio Rosero y los ciclos de la creacion literaria

La estela de Caicedo: Miradas críticas

 

 

CLAS/UCIS@Pitt--Mark your calendars--Events for today and tomorrow!

Poems, Politics and Litigation against the U.S. Government

03/29/2018 @ Noon—Barco Law Building, Room 113
For more information on lecture, visit: http://law.pitt.edu/events/new-event/poems-politics-and-litigation-against-us-government

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Panoramas Round Table: A New ‘Indigenismo’? The Revival of Indigenous Culture & Pride in Latin America

03/29/2018 @ 4pm—CLAS Reception Area (4200 Posvar Hall)

To read article related to discussion, visit: http://www.panoramas.pitt.edu/art-and-culture/new-indigenismo-revival-indigenous-culture-and-pride-latin-america

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JOHN BEVERLEY AND THE URGENCY OF LATIN AMERICANISM IN TIMES OF CONFLICTING GLOBALIZATION".
03/29 and 03/30 @ University of Pittsburgh – University Club
For event information and program, visit: http://www.johnbeverleyinternationalsymposium.site/

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Soldiers and Kings:Violence, Representation, and Photoethnographic Practice in the Context of Human Smuggling Across Mexico
03/30/2018 @ 3:00pm---4130 Posvar Hall
For more information on lecture, visit: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/events/soldiers-and-kings

 

The vibrancy and vitality of Cuba's art scene

 

Cub'Art Project Tuesday, April 10 8 p.m.  City of Asylum @ Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue FREE!   Click Here for Free Tickets Join us for a discussion panel with 3 Cuban artists—Duhamel Xolot, Yamiliany Ferras Morales, and Jesus Gastell—coming to Pittsburgh from Cuba. The discussion will confront the art and political scene in Cuba, as well as each artist's experience as creators in Cuba today. Each artist will also present their artwork and engage in Q & A  with the public. This conversation will be held in Spanish with simultaneous translation. Audience members are encouraged to bring a charged smartphone and earbuds so that they may listen to the simulcast on their phone.    Click Here for Free Tickets   Guest Artists: Duhamel Xolot Núñez was born in Havana City in 1971. Having grown up in a family of artists he started drawing and painting since his early childhood. Applying the digital tools for sketching opened a new way of a narrative and more experimental artwork and conceptual art began to develop. His most recent artwork combines graphic design, humor, and contemporary art in constant research and investigation. In 2015 he cofounded Studio O'208 as an alternative art space in the days of the 12th Havana Biennial. The Studio proved to be a vibrant and successful art venue shared by three artists. A permanent art gallery and workshop was established where his paintings are shown all year long in the heart of Old Havana.   Yamiliany Morales Ferras, was born on February 2, 1974, in  San Antonio de los Baños, in the province of Havana. When she finished her Baccalaureate studies, she decided to study Visual Arts. She  was admitted to the prestigious  National Academy of Fine Arts for 3 years. Later on  she joined the Higher Institute of Art of Havana (ISA), to pursue her Art career. During her  five years of study, she  specialized in the techniques of engraving, in which she made her graduation thesis. She is currently living in Spain, where she settled with her family for fifteen years. She is  influenced by the current environment, and she has incorporated new themes to her work, before more intimate and now of a social nature.   JESÚS GASTELL is a mid-career artist who lives and works in Cuba. Gastell earned a BFA from Escuela Nacional de Artes (ENA 1983) and graduated from the prestigious Instituto Superior de Artes (ISA 1988) in Havana with a degree in Drawing and Painting.Instead of only establishing himself as a master of representation, Jesus Gastell uses his extraordinary abilities to reveal the hidden connections between "the real" and our cultural perception of it. His artwork operates as a continuous exercise of questioning models, assuming the nature of intellectual pleasure as an illuminating experience.     At City of Asylum, we want our events to be welcoming and accessible to all people.  All floors of Alphabet City are wheelchair accessible and there is a reserved parking spot.  Thanks to the generous support of RAD, we also have hearing assistive systems available for all programs, by advance request.  If you have questions or are in need of accommodations, please contact us.     Click here to contact us about accessibility accommodations     Visit AlphabetCity.org for our full line-up of FREE events!      Copyright © 2018 City of Asylum, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: City of Asylum 40 W. North Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa 15212

Margaret Randall special event, Thursday @ noon

Dear all,

 

Related to the activism of 1968 that the UCIS centers are highlighting this spring, please take note of a very special event that the Center for Latin American Studies is co-sponsoring, along with the Center for International Legal Education (CILE) and the Pitt Law School. 

 

 Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, photographer and social activist. She has published over 100 books, and has taught at several U.S. universities and colleges.

After living for extended periods of time living in Seville, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua (and for a short time in Vietnam), Margaret came home to the United States in 1984.  The U.S. government, however, judging opinions expressed in some of her books to be "against the good order and happiness of the United States," ordered her deported, The Center for Constitutional Rights defended her, and many writers and others joined in an almost five-year battle for reinstatement of citizenship, which she won in 1989. In 1990 she was awarded the Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett grant for writers victimized by political repression; and in 2004 was the first recipient of PEN New Mexico’s Dorothy Doyle Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing and Human Rights Activism. "The Unapologetic Life of Margaret Randall" is an hour-long documentary produced in 2002.

The event will feature a conversation between Ms. Randall and Prof. Jules Lobel of the Law School, who was part of the CCR legal team that defended her.  The event will take place Thursday, 3/29, 12-1 PM in  the Barco Law Building, Room 113.

In addition to this event, Randall will be speaking at the conference at the Hispanic Languages has organized to honor retiring professor John Beverly.   The Conference is entitled:  John Beverley And The Urgency Of Latin Americanism In Times Of Conflicting Globalization."

 

Posters for both of these events are available at the CLAS events website.

 

Scott Morgenstern

Director

Professor of Political Science

 

 

 

 

 

Guest Speaker: Andalusia Knoll-Soloff

The CAS Speakers Series Presents

 

 

ALIVE YOU TOOK THEM

Graphic narratives on Mexico’s Disappeared

 

Monday, April 2

4:30pm • Porter Hall 100 Carnegie Mellon University

 

Andalusia Knoll-Soloff

will speak about comics journalism and the challenges of illustrating a story where reality surpasses fiction.

On September 26, 2014, police kidnapped 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teachers college in southern Mexi­co. To date, their parents still search for them, proclaim­ing, “alive you took them, alive we want them.” For the past three years Andalusia Knoll Soloff, along with a Mexican collective of artists and researchers have been working on a graphic novel that uses first-hand ac­counts to tell the story of these parents’ search to find the students and challenge government impunity.

 

Andalusia Knoll-Soloff is a freelance multimedia jour­nalist based in Mexico City. She is a frequent contribu­tor to VICE News, Al Jazeera, Democracy Now! and TRT World. Her work focuses on gender violence, human rights violations and land struggles in Latin America. She has reported on the Ayotzinapa case for over three years and is part of a collective behind Alive You Took Them: Searching for the Ayotzinapa 43.

 

CLAS@Pitt--Invite--22nd Latin American Social and Public Policy Conference (03/23 & 03/24)

22nd Latin American Social and Public Policy Conference

 

Friday, March 23 and Saturday, March 24, 2018

 

For schedule of events, visit: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/laspp/conference-program

 

Keynote Speaker: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/laspp/keynote-speaker

 

If you have any questions or concerns, please email: clas@pitt.edu

 

 

 

Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)

University Center for International Studies (UCIS)

University of Pittsburgh

4200 Wesley W. Posvar Hal

Pittsburgh, PA  15260

Office: 412-648-7392

Fax: 412-648-2199

 

clas@pitt.edu  

www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas

 

 

 

Invitación de LGSA

Latino/a Graduate Student Association

This Friday, March 23rd at 10pm, we would like to invite you to see a traditional DAY OF THE DEAD ALTAR and try some Mexican food at the McConomy Auditorium.

Afterward, at 11pm, Pixar's COCO movie will be screened. Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNCz4mQzfEI

Hope to see you there!

LCLAA - LAGOS - GSOC Social Hour

 

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Coco at McConomy

Trailer

 

Schedule: bit.ly.films/S18

 

TEMPESTAD March 20

Un documental reciente y muy recomendado…

 

 

 

March 20, 2018 Public Health G-23 Auditorium

FILM SCREENING

 

TEMPESTAD  (English subtitles)
Tatiana Huezo

 

Trailer: https://youtu.be/EPxXzolGr6Q

 

 

Time: 
6:30 p.m. -- pizza
7:00 p.m. – movie

 

Introduction and Q&A by Brenda Sólkez, PhD Student

Department of Hispanic Languages & Literatures

 

 

 

Dean's Office Series on Equity & Justice: Precious Knowledge Film Screening and Discussion with Curtis Acosta, Ph.D.

Please spread the word, this is free and open to the public.

 

Thanks!

 

Curtis Acosta, Ph.D. University of Arizona South   Film Screening of the Documentary Precious Knowledge followed by a discussion with educator-activist Curtis Acosta     Tuesday, March 13 | 4:30-6:30 p.m. O'Hara Student Center Ballroom [MAP] Welcome reception begins at 3:30 p.m.   MORE INFORMATION | RSVP     In Lak'Ech: Honoring, Remembering, and Retelling our personal stories with Ethnic Studies Precious Knowledge screening and discussion with Dr. Curtis Acosta Dr. Acosta was a high school teacher for nearly 20 years in Tucson, where he developed and taught Mexican American and Raza Studies classes for the renowned Mexican American Studies program in the Tucson Unified School District. His work was featured in the documentary Precious Knowledge, a film released in 2011 after the Mexican American Studies program was shut down. Just recently, in August 2017, a federal judge ruled that termination of the program violated students' rights and was motivated by "racial animus." Now an assistant professor at the University of Arizona South, Dr. Acosta will share their reflections and current thoughts given this recent victory for Ethnic Studies and lead a discussion on the role of Ethnic Studies in education. Precious Knowledge interweaves the stories of students in the Mexican American Studies Program at Tucson High School. While 48 percent of Mexican American students currently drop out of high school, Tucson High's Mexican American Studies Program has become a national model of educational success, with 100 percent of enrolled students graduating from high school and 85 percent going on to attend college. The filmmakers spent an entire year in the classroom filming this innovative social-justice curriculum, documenting the transformative impact on students who become engaged, informed, and active in their communities. [MORE]

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