Tartan Salsa March 31st - On the Cut!

Hello salseros and bachateros! Here's some info for you: Classes on the Cut! FAQs Online Join us on Discord Find us on Instagram 1 – Class Outside Tonight! We wil be dancing on the Cut today! Join us in the grass right outside the CUC! Salsa @ 6PM Kizomba @ 7PM   2 – FAQs Online Have any questions? Please check online at tartansalsa.com for answers to our most common inquiries, from class location to dress code. If your question remains unanswered, feel free to ask via email or in class.   3 – Join us on Discord  Join us on Discord to enjoy the full benefits of your Tartan Salsa membership! Get the latest scoop on social events, share your favorite dance videos, connect with other members... and contribute to the community with some random posts of your own! Discord link: https://discord.gg/ZCUxjquRDc   4 – Find us on Instagram Follow us on Instagram @tartansalsa for updates and reels from class! Your dancing could be featured next! Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/tartansalsa/?hl=en   See you next week!

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A Deep Dive into Life in Spain!

¡Hola Felipe!   I hope your spring semester is going smoothly- we wanted to send a quick reminder for our upcoming webinar, Bringing the World to You: A Deep Dive into Life in Spain! In this webinar, we will walk you through what it's really like to live in Spain! If you're interested you can join here on  April 14, 2026 at 12pm PST / 1pm CST / 2pm EST. We've also shared this information below!  Bringing the World to you: Tips and Tricks for First-Time Travelers with SSA Date, Time  Google meet Link - no RSVP necessary  We hope to see you there! ­ Click here to discover more ­ Can't wait to see you in the webinar! ­ SSA Education Abroad ­ ­ ­ ­ 433 West Street, Suite 8 Amherst MA 01002 USA Tel: (413) 256-0011 Fax: (413) 256-1968 info@ssabroad.org

Join us for CMIST Professor Ignacio Arana Araya's Book Launch

Presidential Personalities and Constitutional Power Grabs in Latin America, 1945-2021

Date: Thursday, April 16, 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. ET (Doors open at 4:30 p.m.) Place: Grand Room, Posner Hall (340), CMU 4980 Margaret Morrison Street, Pittsburgh Register Now Why do presidents attempt to change their countries' constitutions to overstay in office or expand their powers? Join the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology (CMIST) as we celebrate the release of Ignacio Arana Araya's new book, Presidential Personalities and Constitutional Power Grabs in Latin America, 1945-2021. While most research on democratic backsliding focuses on institutions or structural factors, Arana argues that the personalities of leaders also play a crucial role. Drawing on an original dataset of 228 Western Hemisphere presidents from 1945 to 2021, Arana shows that dominant and politically inexperienced presidents are more likely to challenge their term limits, while risk-taking and assertive leaders are more inclined to expand their powers. This talk explores why studying the individual differences of national leaders is essential for understanding democratic backsliding. About our Speaker: Ignacio Arana Araya, an assistant professor at the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST), is a comparativist specializing in elite behavior by analyzing how the personality traits and other individual differences of national leaders impact executive governance. He also studies the consequences of variation in political institutions across countries, with an emphasis on Latin America. Arana examines executive-legislative relations, informal institutions, gender and politics, and judicial politics.  His first book, Presidential Personalities and Constitutional Power Grabs in Latin America, 1945-2021, was recently published by Oxford University Press, and he is currently writing his second book, The Psychology of Presidents, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. He has also published in numerous academic journals and contributed book chapters to several books.  * Seating in the Grand Room is reserved for registered guests on a first-come, first-served basis. This event is in-person only and will not be recorded and released to the public at a later date Interested in more CMIST engagements? Check out our Events Calendar. Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email

Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology | Posner Hall 386 5000 Forbes Avenue | Pittsburgh, PA 15213 US

Sábado 28 de Marzo en el August Wilson Center downtown.

Surviving Peru's Campaign of Coercive Sterilizations

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Book Talk: Dr. Ñusta Carranza Ko, "Together We Fight: Surviving Peru's Campaign of Coercive Sterilizations" When: April 2 (4:00 p.m.) Where: 2432 Posvar Hall (Sociology Colloquium Room) Dr. Ñusta Carranza Ko will present her new book in the Sociology Department. Disguised as a family planning program during Peru's internal armed conflict, a campaign was launched by the government of Alberto Fujumori that resulted in the forced sterilization of thousands of women of poor, rural, and Indigenous-language-speaking backgrounds. Together We Fight explores Indigenous and non-Indigenous women's brutal experiences of forced sterilizations and their subsequent activism for reproductive rights and justice. Drawing on a vast trove of first-person testimony, Dr. Ñusta Carranza Ko highlights the understudied voices of victim-survivors, unpacking their ideas of justice and examining the work of allies that have accompanied them in their activism. Focusing on the stories, struggles, and lived experiences of victim-survivors, Dr. Ñusta Carranza Ko argues that the campaign was genocidal.  Sponsored by: Center for Latin American Studies; Department of Sociology; Latin American Graduate Organization of Students

Tartan Salsa March 24th - NO CLASS

Hello salseros and bachateros! Here's some info for you: No Classes Tonight! FAQs Online Join us on Discord Find us on Instagram 1 – No Class Tonight! We do not have the Studio Theater and it's a bit too chilly to dance outside; no class today. Classes will be back next week! Find us at socials this week at the Greer Cabaret (Wednesday), Crossbody Dance + Movement (Thursday) and Apasionado Dance (Saturday).   2 – FAQs Online Have any questions? Please check online at tartansalsa.com for answers to our most common inquiries, from class location to dress code. If your question remains unanswered, feel free to ask via email or in class.   3 – Join us on Discord  Join us on Discord to enjoy the full benefits of your Tartan Salsa membership! Get the latest scoop on social events, share your favorite dance videos, connect with other members... and contribute to the community with some random posts of your own! Discord link: https://discord.gg/ZCUxjquRDc   4 – Find us on Instagram Follow us on Instagram @tartansalsa for updates and reels from class! Your dancing could be featured next! Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/tartansalsa/?hl=en   See you next week!

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At Heinz tomorrow!!

Join us for Latin American Film Nights at LACC

Latin American Cultural Center 4338 Bigelow Blvd Pittsburgh, PA 15213 T. +1 (610) 492-2790 F. +1 (610) 492-2791 lacc@lasaweb.org

Pulitzer Prize Winner Cristina Rivera Garza in conversation with Anderson Tepper

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Pulitzer Prize–Winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer, Cristina Rivera Garza, shares latest work Cristina Rivera Garza's "Autobiography of Cotton" Tuesday, March 24 @ 7:00 PM This March, City of Asylum is delighted to welcome Pulitzer Prize winner Cristina Rivera Garza as she shares her latest novel, Autobiography of Cotton. The novel is a work of autofiction inspired by her grandparents and Mexican writer and activist José Revueltas, which speaks to agricultural colonization, labor activism, environmental degradation, and cross-border migration.   In an interview with Literary Hub, when asked about what inspired this new work, Cristina shared, "When discussions about immigration and the US-Mexico border became increasingly vicious, I almost instinctively turned to my own history as heir to entire generations of working-class migrants in the United States...I knew—and had lived through—a radically different experience of the border but realized, and quite painfully so, that I did not know enough...What began as a curiosity at first, and then became a raw desire to honor the lives of the people that had made space for me in this country, catapulted me into years of research and writing. We turn to the past when the present is unbearable. We turn to the past, dashing through the dark, carrying questions that flare like messages set on fire."   Cristina will be joined in conversation by moderator Anderson Tepper. There will be a public reception following the program for participating artists and attendees, complete with light refreshments. INFO + FREE TICKETS Buy the Book Follow City of Asylum City of Asylum Pittsburgh, 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, United States, 4124351110