Keep your study abroad plans alive!

 

Planning to study abroad? Join us to learn more! This spring semester we'll be hosting an Online Forum Series with our onsite staff and SSA alumni every Tuesday and Wednesday for students and faculty to learn more about our locations and programs as well as updates and changes due to Covid. See below for our schedule of upcoming sessions and register today! Tues. 2/2 at 12pm ET (9am PT): Chat with experts - studying in Barcelona Join Resident Director, Adriana Pajares, and Emily Lais (graduate of St. Mary's University of Minnesota) to discuss studying abroad in Barcelona. This is open to all majors or minors with coursework available in English & Spanish. Semester, academic year and summer programs are offered. Wed. 2/3 at 3pm ET (12pm PT): Language Programs in Spain Director of Academic Affairs and Seville Resident Director, Dr. Michelle Durán, will share details on language programs in Seville and Alicante. This session is recommended for Spanish majors and minors as well as heritage speakers. All types of terms are offered. Tues. 2/9 at 12pm ET (9am PT): Chat with the experts - studying in Alicante, Spain Join Resident Director Pepa Vives and Susquehanna University student Jillian Michaels to discuss the types of programs offered in Alicante, Spain. This is open to all majors and minors. Terms offered include semester, academic year, J-Term, May Term and summer programs. Wed. 2/10 at 3pm ET (12pm PT): Chat with the experts - studying in Seville Director of Academic Affairs and Seville Resident Director, Dr. Michelle Durán, will discuss the multitude of programs offered in Seville for all majors and minors. Terms include semester, academic year, quarter programs, J-Term, May Term, summer terms, Practicum in Education and more. Tues. 2/16 at 12pm ET (9am PT): Language Programs in Latin America Director of Academic Affairs, Dr. Michelle Durán, will provide an overview on our three Latin American locations for study abroad: Argentina, Cuba and Puerto Rico. Semester programs are recommended for Spanish majors and minors as well as heritage speakers. Beginner language programs are offered in the Summer in Argentina and Puerto Rico. Register now Explore Online Spanish Courses Copyright (C) 2021 Spanish Studies Abroad. All rights reserved. in the past regarding our study abroad programming. Spanish Studies Abroad 446 Main Street Amherst, Massachusetts 01002

Study Abroad event - please share!

Hello students –

 

We are pleased to announce our upcoming International Education Week (IEW), January 25-29^th! 

 

We hope you will participate in this interactive week of events, which features the Office of International Education’s wide range of services, including Study Abroad, International Student Services, our Virtual Neighbors program and more!

 

We are hosting our IEW as part of the larger CMU Winter Welcome, a three-week series of collaborative and celebratory events designed to connect students to each other and the campus community. 

 

Some highlights throughout IEW include:

• Study Abroad Instagram Takeovers
• Study Abroad Information Session
• Virtual Neighbors/Host Family Info Session
• Student Panel: Study Abroad Perspectives (Thursday, 1.28)
• Student Panel: International Student Perspectives (Friday, 1.29)
• International Exchange Partner Day

 

We look forward to keeping in touch as the semester begins!

 

Best regards,

 

Christine Menand, Erin Swift, and Jaycie King

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Study Abroad | Office of International Education | Carnegie Mellon University

5000 Forbes Avenue | Cyert Hall Suite 101 | Pittsburgh, PA  15213

P: 412.268.5231 | F: 412.268.7832 | www.cmu.edu/studyabroad

 

Schedule an appointment - Meetings and appointments will take place via phone or zoom, as OIE staff are currently working remotely.

 

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FYI> LatinX & Proud! Reading Series featuring féi hernandez

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LatinX & Proud! Reading Series With féi hernandez, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo,  Rodney Gomez, and Sarah A. Chavez.  This event is in proud partnership with Sundress Publications.    Tuesday, January 26 7:00 PM Streamed Online  via City of Asylum @ Home FREE! Register now for free   This installment of the Latinx & Proud! Reading Series features féi hernandez, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Rodney Gomez, and Sarah A. Chavez—all Sundress Publications authors. As we enter a new year, we are so excited to continue the work of celebrating Latinx artists, and empowering the local and national Latinx community. This event is in proud partnership with Sundress Publications.  ¡Ven a celebrar con nosotros! (Come celebrate with us!)   Check out our featured poet, féi hernandez.   Register now for free     féi hernandez (they/them) was born in Chihuahua, México and raised in Inglewood, CA. They are a trans non-binary visual artist, writer, and healer. féi is the author of Hood Criatura, published by Sundress Publications, 2020. Their writing has been featured in Poetry, Oxford Review of Books, Frontier, NPR's Code Switch, Immigrant Report, Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity (Columbia University Press, 2019), Hayden's Ferry Review Issue 64, BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNEXT, and PANK Magazine. They were a femmetor for the 2019-2020 Seeds of Liberación (SOL) leadership development program for young transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex (TGI) people in Los Angeles. féi is a certified Reiki and Akashic Records practitioner who utilizes a decolonial approach to ancestral energetic healing. They collect Pokémon plushies. féi is the President of Gender Justice Los Angeles and is a Co-Founder of the ING Fellowship.  Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and the author of Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications 2016). A former Steinbeck Fellow, Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange winner, and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grantee, she's received residencies from Hedgebrook, Ragdale, National Parks Arts Foundation, and Poetry Foundation. She has work published in Acentos Review, CALYX, crazyhorse, [Pank], and American Poetry Review among others. Most recently her poem, "Battlegrounds" was featured at Poets.org's Poem-A-Day as part of a Latinx series. A dramatization of her poem "Our Lady of the Water Gallons," directed by Jesús Salvador Treviño, can be viewed at latinopia.com. She is a member of Miresa Collective and director of Women Who Submit. Rodney Gomez serves as the Poet Laureate of McAllen, Texas. His poetry collections include Geographic Tongue (Pleiades Press, 2020). His work appears in Poetry, New England Review, The Gettysburg Review, North American Review, Verse Daily, and other journals. His chapbook Mouth Filled Night was awarded the Drinking Gourd Prize from Northwestern University's Poetry and Poetics Colloquium. In 2020 he was awarded an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship. Rigoberto González has called Gomez a poet with a "remarkable vision" whose work "celebrates the borderlands, its strangeness and its stark beauty". A member of the Macondo Writers Workshop, Gomez holds a BA from Yale and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Texas Pan American. Sarah A. Chavez, a mestiza born and raised in the California Central Valley, is the author of the poetry collections, Hands That Break & Scar (Sundress Publications, 2017) and All Day, Talking (dancing girl press, 2014). Her new project, Halfbreed Helene Navigates the Whole received a 2019-2020 Tacoma Artists Initiative Award. Chavez teaches creative writing and Latinx/Chicanx-focused courses at the University of Washington Tacoma, serves as the poetry coordinator for Best of the Net Anthology, and is a proud member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. Recent work can be found or is forthcoming in Xicanx: Mexican American Writers of the 21st Century, Diode, & Hotel Amerika. Her micro chap, like everything else we loved, is forthcoming from Porkbelly Press in 2021.      Register now for free   Sundress Publications is a non-profit literary press collective founded in 2000, and is entirely volunteer-run. Sundress publishes chapbooks and full-length works in both print and digital formats, and hosts a variety of online journals. Their mission is to champion great work—especially by persons under-represented in literary publishing—and welcome writers and artists regardless of race, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, religion, class, veteran status, and educational background. They are firm believers in fostering artists whose work is worthy of recognition. Sundress Publications envisions the manuscripts they publish as concept albums, not merely as collections of hot singles.      Our mailing address is: City of Asylum 40 W. North Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15212

Online Forums for Spanish Programs Abroad

 

 

 

Dear Academic Contacts, Spanish Studies Abroad wishes you a happy and healthy new year. We are excited to announce that we will be hosting online forums on our overseas programs throughout the spring semester. This will be a good chance to hear about what daily life abroad is like and to direct your questions to our experts and past alumni who know all about our programs. We will be holding an online forum every Tuesday and Wednesday over the coming months and topics will vary — keep your eyes open for announcements in your inboxes and on our social media. Next week we will be hosting the first two online sessions on our programs in Spain and Latin America, geared towards students with Spanish majors or minors that are considering study abroad programs. We hope that you will encourage potential study abroad students to join and you are welcome to join as well. Full details are provided below along with the links to register (those who register will receive an email): Tuesday, January 26 (noon ET / 11:00 AM CT / 10 AM MT & 9 AM PT) -- "Language Programs in Spain" Register Here Wednesday, January 27 (3 PM ET / 2 PM CT / 1 PM MT / noon PT) -- "Language Programs in Latin America" Register Here Our key speaker will be Dr. Michelle Durán, SSA's Director of Academic Affairs. Dr. Durán is a unique expert as she was raised in the Americas, earned her PhD from Harvard University and is now a resident of Seville, Spain. In addition to an overview, participants will be able to directly consult with Dr. Michelle and a host from SSA. On another note, with some optimism returning on the COVID-19 front we are seeing an increase in inquiries about customized programs / faculty-led tours to Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Argentina. If your department seeks more information, we recommend starting here and then contacting us: https://spanishstudies.org/study-abroad-programs/customized-programs/ We look forward to seeing you in our upcoming sessions and as always, please reach out to us at info@spanishstudies.org if you have any questions. Thank you and best wishes, David Anderson Copyright (C) 2021 Spanish Studies Abroad. All rights reserved. Spanish Studies Abroad 446 Main Street Amherst, Massachusetts 01002

CLAS Film Series - The Fever

 

 

 

Screening Date: Thursday, February 4, 2021

Screening Location: Please register starting 1/3/21 - https://tinyurl.com/yyovtkhm
Runtime: 1h 38m
Filmmaker/Director: Maya DaRin

Fiction / Brazil, France, & Germany / 2019

Justino, a 45 year old Desana native, is a security guard at the Manaus harbor. As his daughter prepares to study medicine in Brasilia, Justino is taken over by a mysterious fever.

– Still Moving

Language: Portuguese

Veganism within Latinx Communities

Veganism within Latinx Communities

Thursday, January 21, 2021
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM EST

Peace Advocacy Network (PAN) and Pittsburgh Vegan Society (PVS) are excited to collaborate for a virtual panel discussion and Q&A on veganism within Latinx communities. Please join us for this program on January 21 at 7:30 PM EST. Login info provided upon registration using the Zoom link in online event section on this page. For more information about PAN, please visit https://peaceadvocacynetwork.org/, and for PVS, please visit: pavegan.org. Thank you and take good care!

To participate click here
https://www.meetup.com/pittsburgh-vegans/events/275299796/

 

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Ivan Cao-Berg

Barrio Latino WRCT 88.3FM

www.barriolatinopgh.org

www.wrct.org

 

 

Daniel Alarcón, ACLU-PA, Sabira Cole Film Festival, and more

 

 

 

Dear Friends,  Revisit a literary staff favorite. Enjoy live readings from emerging authors. Watch a charming film about a beloved musical tradition. Dance it out with a local favorite band. Learn about immigration through the power of storytelling. Join all-star authors from the Latinx community. Shine a light on our deeply flawed criminal justice system with a film and live discussion. We continue to add to the calendar, so check your inboxes and our channel often. All of the programming is free and streamed online.     THURSDAY, January 7, 7:00 PM Staff Pick Favorite: Daniel Alarcón  Presented by City of Asylum Run time: 50 minutes  A special evening from our archives, selected by staff as a past favorite, Daniel Alarcón reads from his novel The King is Always Above the People.  This program is an intimate opportunity to listen to excerpts from an urgent, essential collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles. Learn more.   Register Now for Free     SUNDAY, January 10, 5:00 PM* Free Association Reading Series  Presented by City of Asylum Run time: 60 minutes, *Please note the special start time  An intimate evening of live readings with exceptional Pittsburgh and beyond writers co-curated by Pat Hart and Marc Nieson of the Free Association Reading Series. Featured Writers: Susan Buttenwieser is the author of the short story collection, We Were Lucky with the Rain (Four Way Books). M. Soledad Caballero is Professor of English at Allegheny College. Her scholarly and interdisciplinary work focuses on British Romanticism, travel writing, post-colonial literatures, WGSS. Sam Pittman is the author of Mostly Water, which won the 2016 Rane Arroyo Chapbook Prize from Seven Kitchens Press. Tony Norman is a columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as well as the PG's book review editor. He's been at the PG since 1988. Learn more.   Register Now for Free     SUNDAY, January 17, 6:00 PM* Calypso Dreams Film Screening Presented by SCFF & Jouvayfest Collective Run time: 120 minutes, *Please note the special start time  This screening is an opportunity to celebrate the uniqueness and unify the African Diaspora, aiming to educate and celebrate the heirloom tradition of Resistance and Resilience. JouvayFest Collective and Sabira Cole Film Festival have joined forces to bring together a special screening of Calypso Dreams, followed by a live panel discussion and audience Q&A with the film's co-producer and collaborators. Learn more.   Register Now for Free     THURSDAY, January 21, 7:00 PM The Olga Watkins Band Presented by City of Asylum  Run time: 90 minutes  Join us for an evening of original music broadcasted The Olga Watkins Band! Support the band by clicking the free registration button! The Olga Watkins Band has been performing together since 2003. Their original music combines influences of blues, funk, soul, jazz, reggae and rock into a truly unique sound. They have been voted the Best Blues/Jazz Band of the year in the Pittsburgh City Paper on multiple occasions. They perform throughout the Pittsburgh and surrounding areas at clubs, events, fundraisers and festivals. Learn more.   Register Now for Free     SUNDAY, January 24, 5:00 PM* Then and Now presented by Sharing Our Story, Casa San Jose and Beechview Historical Society Run time: 60 minutes, *Please note the special start time  Immigration is a common story in Pittsburgh. Beechview is a neighborhood with a rich cultural mix. Nine of these immigration stories have been collected and are ready to share with Pittsburgh and beyond! Join Sharing Our Story, Casa San Jose and the Beechview Historical Society for an evening of multicultural digital storytelling with stories created by longtime and new residents of Beechview. Non-English speakers welcome! (Spanish translations available). Learn more.   Register Now for Free     TUESDAY, January 26, 7:00 PM Latinx & Proud! Reading Series ft. Sundress Publications Run time: 90 minutes  This installment of the Latinx & Proud! Reading Series features féi hernandez, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, and a line-up of all Sundress Publication all-star authors. As we enter a new year, we are so excited to continue the work of celebrating Latinx artists, and empowering the local and national Latinx community. This event is in proud partnership with Sundress Publications. ¡Ven a celebrar con nosotros! (Come celebrate with us!) Learn more.   Register Now for Free     WEDNESDAY, January 27, 7:00 PM Trapped: Cash Bail In America Presented with the ACLU-PA Run time: 90 minutes  Across the commonwealth, thousands of people sit in cages not because they are guilty—but simply because they are too poor to pay bail. Magisterial District Judges, the elected officials responsible for setting bail, consistently set bail in amounts too steep for people to afford. Join us for a discussion on what the ACLU-PA and Bukit Bail Fund have learned on the ground as organizers, lawyers, and activists, as well as how Pennsylvania can end mass incarceration in our backyards. Learn more.   Register Now for Free     Support City of Asylum's free programs today     Copyright © 2021 City of Asylum, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: City of Asylum 40 W. North Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15212