CESR Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 4: November 2024

CESR Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 4: November 2024

CESR Newsletter: November 2024 FREE movie screening & discussion with award-winning director and producer TOMORROW! BORDERLAND: The Line Within  "An epic work... a masterpiece," says Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! The Pittsburgh Premier of a vital new documentary Friday, November 8, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. University of Pittsburgh Frick Fine Arts Building, Auditorium Room 125 650 Schenley Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Screening followed by a discussion with award-winning director, Pamela Yates, and award-winning producer, Paco de Onis, facilitated by Roger Rouse. This event is free, everyone is welcome. Sponsored by: University of Pittsburgh Global Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Ethnic Studies Research, and The Global Switchboard CESR Fall Speaker Series:  Professor madison moore When: November 11, 2024; lunch at 11:30 a.m.; lecture 12:00-1:30 p.m.  Where: 4303 Posvar Hall (CUE Commons Room) We are proud to welcome Professor madison moore (madison/any pronouns): PhD, artist-scholar, DJ and Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University Interests/Research: the aesthetic, sonic and spatial strategies queer and trans people of color use to both survive and thrive in the five alarm fire of everyday life Lecture: NIGHT FEVER Queer dance floors have long thrived at the edges of imagination, a place to invent new ways of gathering, a place to imagine other ways of bending space and time, a way to exist at the borders and edges of feeling. Broken into ten fragments, or samples, this talk underscores queer nightlife as a site of imagination and as a method of living in and through the violence and five-alarm fire of Black queer life.  CESR thanks Dr. David Tenorio Gonzalez for their assistance with this Speaker Series and dedication to excellence.  This speaker series is aligned with CESR's mission to advance innovative and collaborative ethnic studies research. This Speaker Series seeks to foster cross-disciplinary dialogues with experts and scholars in Chicana/o Latinx Studies, Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies, Native American Studies, African American and Afrodiasporic Studies. These speakers range from established to emerging scholars, and were selected to reflect the diversity that is critical to Ethnic Studies.  madison moore, PhD, artist-scholar, DJ and Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University The Center for Ethnic Studies Research (CESR) advances innovative, multidisciplinary, and collaborative research addressing core communities central to Ethnic Studies—Chicana/o Latinx, Asian American, Native American, African American/U.S. African diasporas—from local, regional, comparative, and transnational perspectives.   Copyright © 2024 University of Pittsburgh Our mailing address is: 230 South Bouquet St. Wesley W. Posvar Hall, Suite 4400 Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Two upcoming events

Baila con ALPFA!

Hi all,

Just a reminder that Baila Con ALPFA is this Friday! If you'd like a discount code, please send me a direct email. Hope to see you all there!

Best,

Yazmin

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A CMU Employee Resource Group

The mission of the Latine Faculty and Staff Alliance is to serve as a support system and encourage a sense of belonging within Carnegie Mellon University. The group will focus on community building, multicultural awareness, and programming designed to promote diversity, equity and inclusion at Carnegie Mellon University.

Baila con ALPFA!

¡Baila Con ALPFA! is just around the corner, and we can't wait to welcome you to the ALPFAmilia for an unforgettable night of dance and celebration! We're thrilled to partner with the Latin American Cultural Center, offering you a chance to experience their Haiti exhibition. Join us for live music with returning band Hugo Cruz and Caminos, and enjoy dance lessons led by Silvino Reyes Farina, Sophia Robert, & Julia Conti.

Date: Friday, November 8th, 2024
Time: 6 PM to 10 PM (doors will open at 5:45 PM)
Catering will be provided

Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/baila-con-alpfa-tickets-1047442226897?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl  
ALPFA Portal: https://membership.alpfaplus.org/event/1f9041ef-dadd-4f2e-a8c5-2aebcf22d7df

Best,

Yazmin

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A CMU Employee Resource Group

The mission of the Latine Faculty and Staff Alliance is to serve as a support system and encourage a sense of belonging within Carnegie Mellon University. The group will focus on community building, multicultural awareness, and programming designed to promote diversity, equity and inclusion at Carnegie Mellon University.

🎄 Join the Magic: A Community Christmas Tree Light-Up Celebration!

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

Tartan Salsa October 29nd - Studio Theater

Hello salseros and bachateros! Here's some info for you: Classes Tonight Poster to Share FAQs Online Join us on Discord Find us on Instagram 1 – Classes Tonight Join us for dancing tonight in the CUC Studio Theater at 6PM! We will be hosting casino-style salsa lessons at 6PM and kizomba with DJ D'Aço at 7PM. No experience required- bring your friends!   2 – Flyer to Share Want to spread the Tartan Salsa word? Our flyer is attached! Please feel free to print and post it!   3 – 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.   4 – 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/UQjH47SX   5 – 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 tonight!

Tartan Salsa

CESR Events This Week!

CESR Speaker Series: Professor Perla Guerrero; Presence and Resistance in Queer Mexico Performance Series

This Week! TOMORROW! Free and Open to the Public! CESR Speaker Series: Professor Perla Guerrero A Southern Take on Deportation: How Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Education Policies Displaced Migrants to Mexico  CESR is proud to present our next lecturer in the CESR Speaker Series: Perla Guerrero, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park Lecture Title: A Southern Take on Deportation: How Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Education Policies Displaced Migrants to Mexico When: Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from 2:30-4:00 p.m. Where: Posvar 4303 (CUE Commons Room) Lecture Description: This talk seeks to understand how local, state, and national laws shape deportation and coerced return for Mexicans at the turn of the twenty-first century. I argue that two types of laws were particularly devastating to undocumented communities—education-related legislation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agreements. My research shows that regional US differences in policing and immigration detention, paired with local policies and state laws, dramatically affect who is deported and who is coerced to return to their birth country. Thus, Latinx Southerners are disproportionately represented by the US deportation regime.  This lecture is part of the 2024 Center for Ethnic Studies Research Speaker Series, co-sponsored with the Center for Latin American Studies. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Refreshments will be provided.   Wednesday and Thursday! Free and Open to the Public! Presence and Resistance in Queer Mexico Presence and Resistance in Queer Mexico "The Taste of Sweetness" (performance) When: Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from 3:00-4:15 p.m. Where: Global Hub, 1st floor, Wesley W. Posvar Hall "Make Your Skin Crawl: To Be The Other" (In-class conversations) When: Thursday, October 31, 2024 from 2:30-3:45 p.m. Where: Cathedral of Learning, Room 321  This performance series is an open and public conversation to collectively reflect on the political power of sweetness in contexts of war and pain through the trans body. The artist will embody on intergenerational and transtemporal dialogue to become "the voices of sweentess" and thus create strategies that intervene in contexts torn apart by violence and war, like in Mexico's "War on Drugs." Lia Garcia (Mexico City, 1991) is a transdisciplinary artist, activist, and educator whose work has been featured at the Annual Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Politics and Performance at NYU, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Harvard University, and the University of Texas at Austin. Her performances grabble with issues of personal memory, sexual becoming, radical pedagogies, and transfeminism.  Co-sponsored by: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Center for Ethnic Studies, and Center for Latin American Studies, and the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Studies Copyright © 2024 All rights reserved. CESR@pitt.edu Our mailing address is: Center for Ethnic Studies Research 230 S. Bouquet St. Wesley W. Posvar Hall, Room 4400 Pittsburgh, PA 15260