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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